california firefighters face record-setting temperatures as they battle fast-moving wildfires. we'll get the latest from a fire official. india captures a dubious distinction when it comes to covid-19 cases. we're live in new delhi with the details. novak djokovic is apologizing after an incident that automatically knocked him out of the u.s. open. live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta. welcome to you, our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber and this is "cnn newsroom."

parts of california are dealing with their hottest weekend on record. intensifying, devastating wildfires raging across the state. and the governor has now declared a state of emergency in five counties. los angeles county just west of where the el dorado fire is burning recorded its highest ever temperature on sunday, 121 degrees fahrenheit. that's close to 50 degrees celsius. san bernardino's cal fire unit says law enforcement has determined this fire was caused by smoke generating pyrotechnic device used during a gender reveal party. wildfires have burned more than 2 million acres this year. that's a state record and we're only in september. now, this video is from a lake in central california are authorities there warned people on boats about the dangerous smoke and ash.

and here this satellite imagery shows the smoke emergency facing much of the american west with several major fires still burning on the sun. on sunday. now, the triple threat of heat, smoke and flames is a major challenge for firefighters. cnn's paul vercammen reports from venice, california. horrifying, brutal weekend of fire and heat throughout california. let's begin northeast of fresno, california, the mammoth reservoir was evacuated because of the creek fire encircled campers at this reservoir. many of them were in fear for their lives, ate lot of them were air lifted, more than 200 of them, to safety in nearby fresno. we know at least 20 were treated for injuries such as burns as well as broken bones. one woman recounting to us the moment where she was trying to drive away from walls of flame. >> oh, my god. >> holy [ bleep ].

>> just keep going. >> oh, my god. >> just keep going. >> go, go, go. >> just keep going. >> at the time, i was on a hike with just some hazy air that became, you know, soon ash rain. we were wearing masks, but it was getting, you know, harder to breathe, harder to see. i would say between the time of 1:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m., we could see that, you know, we needed to leave immediately. i think if we had stayed just ten minutes more, we might not have been so lucky. >> reporter: and these fires burning throughout southern california sending up huge pyro cumulus clouds that can have their own weather. in many instances the clouds from let's say the creek fire going way up, 8, 9 miles in the air, and the heat just oppressive in los angeles county. woodland hills to be specific. we set an all-time record high

for an official station 121 degrees fahrenheit. and the concern among the firefighters in their community is that there is just no rest for them. we already broke the record for most acres burned in california and we have the hot months of october and november ahead where the santa ana winds can come whipping through and cause a lot of fire danger. they are looking for some way to get some sort of break and rest from all these flames. reporting from venice, california, i'm paul vercammen. >> well, joining me now over the phone from fresno, california is stacey nolan, she's a public information officer with the frz know county fire protection district. thanks so much for speaking with us on the phone. the scenes we're seeing people trapped, daring escapes through flames. the largest wildfire-related air evacuation in recent memory. tell us what it's like on the ground there for those trying to fight the fires and save lives. >> sure.

kim, thank you very much for having me this evening. yes, we have very, very steep terrains, you know, we have a lot of heavy -- heavy, heavy timber. a lot of, you know, bark beetle area is what's been affected. you know, we've had not a lot of rains, you know, over the past, you know, year and there's a lot of brush and trees that are down. so that adds to, you know, the fuel. and that's why we're getting the increased, you know, fire activity that we do have. >> we heard from the report just -- just minutes ago about the heat. how is that making things worse, both from a fire propagation perspective, but also for the firefighters who are trying to combat this? >> yeah, the area that the fire is in, you know, it's a little higher elevation, so the heat is, you know, is a factor because, you know, it is hotter and dryer, you know, and this weekend we've had the higher,

you know, temperatures, you know, it's been throughout all of, you know, california. and so it does help when we do have those lower -- lower temperatures. >> hmm. a climate researcher at ucla said the state may set a record for the most acres burned in the modern era, maybe by today, in fact. so from your perspective, how bad has this year been and how hard is it to cope with this when it seems like, i mean, every year it seems like we're setting new records. >> yeah, well, actually, that's absolutely true. so this year cal fire and federal land combined, we've already, you know, done 7,514 fires with a total of, you know, a lot more acres than last year. last year we only had 4,569 fires. so, yes, it's more land, you know, obviously. when you do a comparison to the two years. >> so just where you are, you know, we've seen evacuations.

what do you think will come next? will there be more evacuations? how bad is the situation now, in terms of containment and where you go from here? >> absolutely. and i can actually give you a new update. we have this update about an hour and a half ago. we updated it to 73,278 acres with 0% containment. >> wow. >> and as far as evacuations, we have evacuation orders and warnings in place right now. so we have two different sides of the fire that we are, you know, in charge of. we have what we call the fresno county fire side and we also have the madera county fire side. two different sides because the fire did jump the san joaquin river. as of right now, the community of central camp on the madera side, they're in an evacuation area and we have evacuation warnings. fresno county evacuation warning in effect on a couple of our roads. i can give those to you in case

anyone would like those. toll house road from state route 161. >> sorry, maybe i'll interrupt you there because we're on a national broadcast. >> oh, okay. >> the big picture, 0% containment. we're seeing the heat is so extreme, we saw some pictures of people trying to escape and some people, in fact, were told they might have to hide in the water basically. how dangerous is it for the folks out there right now? >> actually, we had our army national guard with one of their sh chinooks do 207 civilian rescues with two injuries. and they were, you know, all taken out, you know, of an area which is on the madera side. and it's called mammoth pools. that's an area, like i said, on the other side of the river that this has affected as well. so, yeah, there is very steep terrain for everyone. weapon asked public to leave.

you know, don't, you know, don't hang out. you know, if we give a warning or an evacuation please, you know, listen to that and follow the orders that are given. >> yeah, with so many people on the long weekend hoping for fun, certainly this isn't what they wanted to see. but hopefully people will listen to those instructions. best of luck to you and the firefighters who are trying to contain this. thank you very much, stacey nolan. appreciate it. we're going to bring in cnn meteorologist pedram javaheri to discuss this further. you know, california burning up in more ways than one, dealing with both the fires and kiln-like heat. take us through this. >> yeah. you know, it's incredible. i've never seen a heatwave quite like this into the month of september. we're talking about potential all-time records now being set. just six miles from the pacific ocean, highs of 120 degrees on sunday afternoon. so, really, an incredible setup here, considering even when you

get close to the waters, even santa cruz island, about 20 miles off the coast of southern california, sitting at about 119 degrees for an afternoon high. you'll notice parts of 13 states with not only red flag warnings, for the fire weather conditions that are in place, but also excessive heat advisories and watches. all of this when you put it together, we're talking about 80 large uncontained fires across the western united states. the creek fire one of the most explosive growths we've seen in fire history as well, climbing up to 600% growth in a 24-hour span. now, look at these forecasts. if i showed you this in the middle of july you would think it was impressive. 120 degrees in palm springs, even if their standards, that's impressive. 122 in death valley. 109 in bakersfield. these are 15 to 20 degrees displays from where it should be this time of year, and then notice the disparity. extreme heat across western portions of the u.s. the jet stream buckling and a

massive change in the forecast with winter weather add vieries into the intermountain west. adds much as 6 inches of snow forecast into denver, colorado. one of the more remarkable seven-day forecasts you'll ever see. denver going from a forecast high on labour day of 94 degrees down to 6 inches of snow on tuesday and 38, a 60-degree drop in temperatures and also among the highest displacement of temperatures in a period of 24 hours. for our international audience, portions across the korean peninsula, the category 1 system make landfall across the korean peninsula. by the way, only happens about once or twice per year, but we've had five in the last 30 days across this region. really an incredible pattern here taking shape and, again, you'll notice winds at one point in the last 24 hours were the equivalent of what would be a category 3 hurricane, about 500,000 customers without power across the ryuku islands and

portions of southern japan, kim, so a lot going on in world weather at this hour. >> yeah, in fact, we're going to get more on that this hour. pedram javaheri, appreciate that. south korea, blackouts reported. paula hancocks live in seoul for us. the last i saw, the storm was headed towards busan, the second largest city on the other side from where you are. what's the latest? >> reporter: well, kim, it was actually landfall made about 9:00 this morning, just north of busan on the southeastern part of south korea, a place called ussa ulsan. at this point, the storm is really skirting the east coast of south korea. now, it is weakening at this point, but still bringing a significant amount of rain. we're in the capital, seoul, on the west coast of south korea, so certainly conditions on the east coast are far worse than

they are here. but it's rainfall that is very unwelcome on the korean peninsula at the moment. we have just seen another typhoon, a matter of days ago, which brought significant flooding to both north and south korea, and now we have this particular typhoon as well. it also follows an historic summer, a man soon season which was far wetter than we are used to seeing here in south korea. so certainly the sheer volume of water that is coming on to the korean peninsula is not going to be, in particular in north korea. i mean, south korea clearly is better set up for trying to withstand this kind of severe weather, but north korea would find it more difficult. now, we did see from state-run media there that the north korean leader kim jong-un had been touring the areas that had been damaged by typhoon haishen ju typhoon maysak just days ago.

no north korea, of course, their concern is agriculture. we're close to the harvest season and they certainly don't want to lose crops in a country where food insecurity is already significant. kim? >> all right, thank you. keep following that story. paula hancocks in seoul. the united states and canada celebrate labor day monday and american health experts fear it will bring a spike in cases just as we've seen after other holiday weekends. new jersey hit hard early on, but numbers have fallen in recent monthlies. state officials want to keep it that way. here is chb mcmorris-santoro. >> reporter: on friday new jersey governor phil murphy noted that this state had had six months since its first coronavirus case. six months where this state went from one of the worst stories of the pandemic to one of the best stories of the pandemic. then came this weekend. the big test of all the gains new jersey has made. murphy loosened rules on restaurants and movie theaters, allowing 25% capacity inside

those places for the first time since the shutdowns back in march. i traveled across the state to see how things were going. at the movie theater, i met people who talked about sitting far apart from each other wearing a mask while watching the movie. they felt safe, but wonder if it was going to continue. here at asbury park, the beach had a strict limit how many people could be on the beach and how long they could be on the beach. on the boardwalk we saw a lot of people not wearing masks. restaurants allowed 25% capacity of indoor dining. i spoke to a manager who said he hopes this works so he can add more and more people and get his business going back again, but murphy says if these experiments fail, if he sees the numbers go back up, new jersey will shut down once again. evan mcmorris-santoro, cnn, asbury park, new jersey.

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the u.s. presidential election is fast approaching. less than two months away. and right now president trump is playing defense against an onslaught of new tell-all books. cnn has obtained a copy of the latest one, michael cohen's "disloyal: a memoir" and the allegations from the former personal attorney of mr. trump are damning, making the president to bet a blatant racist. just one example. after then private citizen president trump's presidential kickoff in 2016, cohen told him, quote, i will never get the hispanic vote. like the blacks, they are too stupid to vote for trump. they are not my people. cohen also says after barack obama's historic victory in 2008, trump ranted, quote, tell me one rucountry run by a black person that isn't an s-hole. they are all f-ing toilets.

a bombshell published in "the atlantic." well, it's not going away. cnn's jeremy diamond explains. >> reporter: well, with less than two months until election day, president trump just can't seem to shake this "atlantic" article that describes the president disparaging fallen service members during world war i during a 2018 trip to france. the president apparently referring to those fallen service members as suckers and losers. and now multiple news outlets, including cnn, have confirmed different parts of that "atlantic" story. a former senior administration official telling cnn that the president did, indeed, refer to those fallen service members in crude and disparaging terms. now, the pushback from the white house has been tremendous, perhaps greater than we have seen for any previous news story, and part of that, of course, is because veterans and the military are an important part of the president's voting block. here is the pushback that we were seeing on sunday from two cabinet members. >> have you ever heard the president disparage u.s. service members or veterans?

>> well, absolutely not. i would be offended, too, if i thought it was true. >> i think this president has enormous respect for the military and for the generals. i've been at the tank at the pentagon with him. i've been at 9/11 at the pentagon with him. this president respects and supports the u.s. military. >> now, the president has, of course, for his part, already denied this story vehemently. but his denials are complicated by some false statements that he has made as he has tried to make those denials. one of them is that he talked to first lady melania trump who he claimed was back in washington, d.c. when, in fact, she was on that trip to france with him in 2018. and then the second part of the president's denial was claiming that he had never referred to the late senator john mccain as a loser. that claim is defied by the video evidence of the president referring to former senator john mccain in exactly those terms. and, of course, more broadly, the president back in 2015 had referred to senator john mccain

as a loser and then went on to say that he liked people who weren't captured, saying that john mccain was not a hero, but, of course, that was also a broader denunciation, it seems, of prisoners of war, not all too dissimilar what we're hearing the president said during that trip to france. jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. a new poll shows former vice president joe biden is holing on to a consistent lead in the race for president. polling from cbs news and ugov reveals the democratic nominee is up ten points. nationwide, 52% say they support vice president biden. who can better handle the economy, they are neck and neck. about half of all likely voters say they believe that joe biden would do a better job handling the coronavirus pandemic. only about 38% say the president would do a better job handling

the outbreak. well, cnn's dana bash sat down with biden's running mate, vice presidential nominee, senator kamala harris, for an exclusive interview. and among the topics they discussed, the use of face masks and whether a biden administration would make them mandatory. here is part of their conversation. >> early on the former vice president, joe biden, appeared to support a federal mask mandate. so it's about a national standard. everyone should wear a mask. and here's the thing about this. none of us likes wearing a mask. nobody likes to wear a mask. admonishing and requesting of

the american people that we all make the sacrifice to wear a mask in the interest of love of our neighbor. in the interest of defeating or at least reducing the health risks and the number of deaths in america. so it's about a national standard. everyone should wear a mask. and here's the thing about this. none of us likes wearing a mask. nobody likes to wear a mask. >> right. but there's a difference between a standard -- >> but it's about sacrifice. >> right. there's a difference between a standard and a mandate. would it be a federal mandate under the biden/harris administration? >> it would be a standard. listen, this is not about -- in terms about the priorities of joe biden and myself, this is not about punishment, it is not about big brother, it is simply about saying what a leader -- what a leader says in times of crisis. and this is -- you look at world war ii. you look at the great depression. where leaders said we each have to sacrifice for the sake of the nation and the collective. and that's what this is about.

>> right, and i get that, but how do you enforce a standard, when especially as you know, there are governors who are in, you know, who just don't agree with that and they're not mandating it on the more local level. how do you enforce that? >> but i think that part of the issue here is that we have a president of the united states who made this a partisan issue and made it a political issue, and he had governors who fell in line with him on his politics. >> you don't think it will still be a partisan issue if you win? >> i hope not. i pray not because this -- the covid -- the virus could care less who you voted for in the last election or who you plan to vote for in the next election, and we need leadership that  appreciates that on certain issues they should not be partisan, and wearing a mask certainly shouldn't be one of them. >> coming up, the pandemic is trending the wrong way in india. coronavirus cases there have surged past every country in the world except the u.s. we'll go live to new delhi just ahead. please stay with us.

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welcome back to you, our viewers in the united states, canada and around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. when it comes to confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide, india is now number two. it reported a staggering number, more than 90,000 in the last 24 hours. this brings its total case count to more than 4.2 million, surpassing brazil and behind only the u.s. meanwhile, the uk reported nearly 3,000 new covid-19 cases in a 24-hour period. according to official government figures, it's their highest daily number since may, and

france now has 7 more covid red zones, bringing the total to 28. these are where authorities have the power to apply specific restrictions like making masks compulsory outdoors and closing bars and restaurants. this comes after coronavirus cases spiked over the weekend. we are covering this story from all the angles. cnn's scott mclean in london. let's start with you, scott, in the uk where you are, just as people are returning to work and school. cases are shooting up and the government's being accused of having lost control of the virus. what's behind this? >> reporter: hey, kim. perhaps this shouldn't be pricing in many places across england, life has gone back to usual. restaurants are open. pubs are open. the schools are back open and the government is trying to encourage businesses to send their employees who have been working from home back to the office to stimulate the economy and to really help out those town centers, which have really

borne the brunt of this coronavirus lockdown. they've seen very little foot traffic over the last several months. yesterday the uk recorded its highest single-day case count since may. the health secretary in this country says he's concerned. listen. >> it's predominately amongst younger people, but, of course, younger people can pass on the disease to their grandparents and we do not want to see that. we've seen a rise in cases in other countries around the world, across europe, often first amongst younger people and then passing on to others. so it's so important that everybody follows that social distancing. >> so a few other things to keep in mind from what the health secretary said there, more testing obviously means they'll find more cases. to put this into context, the uk is doing more than twice as many tests every single day than it was at the first peak of this epidemic. and perhaps because the number of cases or the people infected are skewing much younger, the uk

has not seen its health care system overwhelmed in the same way. for instance, right now at last count there were 69 people across the uk hooked up to ventilators because of the coronavirus. it was 40 times, 40 times higher than -- at the peak of the epidemic, that the uk has also only had two deaths at last count on sunday, but the concern is that that will rise as the health secretary says some of these younger people perhaps start to visit their parents or grandparents. in spain they're starting to see that trend already. they saw their highest number of deaths, almost 200, since may, kim? >> scott, i mentioned france. what other european donees other than spain which you mentioned are of great concern here? >> yeah, so, really across europe, the second spike in coronavirus infections is likely to to easily eclipse the first

one. on friday, spain recorded its highest case count since may. nearly 1/3 of the cases were in madrid. remember, spain had one of the strict lockdowns in europe at times. you could not leave your house without attracting the attention of police unless you were on a direct line between your workplace and the grocery store. one epidemiologist said, locok, lockdowns were effective, but essentially pushed the problem down the ride. their highest single coronavirus case count ever, period. and so france has now put 28 of its districts or classified them as red zones. 28 out of 101 districts. more than a quarter of them. that means local authorities have the power to create special rules, meaning they can close pubs, restaurants, even require masks be worn in any public spaces, even outdoors, kim. >> all right. thank you very much, scott.

we're going turn now to new delhi. as wu mentione mentioned earlie fastest growing infection rate. >> we have surpassed brazil's numbers, second only to the u.s. when it comes to covid-19 cases. i've spoken to a lot of medical experts. firstly, a lot of people have been complacent at this point in time, not wearing masks, not maintaining social distancing, despite the guidelines issued over and over again by the indian government. rural areas in india have been affected. 70% of india's population lives in rural areas. we've seen a surge in cases of covid-19 infections in those areas as well. now, india being such a vast country with a population of 1.36 billion people, different states are seeing a surge at different points in time. right now the western states and a lot of southern states as well. one of the virologists i spoke

with said mixed messaging is going on by the indian government to the people while the cases are going up because a lot of testing is happening. aggressive testing. india is also about to record 50 million samples being tested. so we're very close to that number. at the same time, the indian government comes out talking about how the fatality rate is one of the lowest across the world, currently less than 2%. along with that, they also talk about the recovery rate. the mixed messaging going out according to the virologist i spoke to is all still well. the complacency is among the people stepping out. the metro services are being integrated. delhi himself sees about 1.5 million passengers boarding the trains. stringent guidelines put in place in a graded manner. some metro stalgss remain closed where t where the case numbers are high. that's the latest.

>> thank you very much. we'd like to explore this a little bit more, so we're joined now by the director of the center for disease dynamics, economics and policy, and he also joins us from new delhi. thank you so much for being with us. you wrote back in march that india could only delay the virus, likened it to a train that could be slowed but not stopped. did you expect the country to be where it is right now, the second fastest growing infection rate in the country. >> so, kim, india is a large country, as explained. inevitable a lot of infections here. we're paying aattention to 4 million reported infections. even with expansion in testing, india has one of the lowest rates of testing in the world, and the true numbers of infections that have been detected through these serological surveys indicate that we undercount by a factor of 50 or 100.

so india's already above 100 million true infections, which is what the surveys are pointing out and 20% infected depending on where the survey is held. to some extent, it's inevitable, but at the same time, you know, india did try to do its best through lockdowns to delay the epidemic. it can only delay, i suppose. it can't really stop the epidemic at this point in time. >> the lockdown did work, but as you said, it couldn't be stopped. some critics say that, you know, early on the government focused too much on health care infrastructure. things like building ventilators and intensive care units rather than public health capacity like surveillance, contact tracing, masks, social distancing. things like that. is that fair? >> well, to some extent, that sort of public health infrastructure is hard to put in place in a two-month period. you either did that, you know, years ago or you can't.

things like buying ventilators or oxygen flow cylinders, these are things that can be done in the short term. so the government did whatever is possible to purchase. you can't buy a critical care doctor in two months. you either trained that person 30 years ago or you don't have them today. so i think as much could be done was done under the circumstances, but what india is really paying the price for is decades of neglect of public health infrastructure and that's what's a problem right now. >> well, india and the u.s. seem to share at least one trait in common that's, you know, mixed messaging from the government with many authorities seeming by downpouring the severity of the virus. you know, we heard from venika, testing has played a large part in the rising case count. they always point to the relatively low death rate. i'm wondering if that may be, you know, heavily undercounting the deaths. i know there have been many discrepancies reported there. >> so, deaths are certainly

being undercounted because a lot of people who die without getting a covid test are not counted. a lower mortality rate than other countries in the region. certainly lower than western europe and in the united states. india's death rate as far as the world is concerned is right up there in terms of an average. and you're right. emphasizing the message that covid-19 is not fatal perhaps discourages people from going to get tested. there is a stigma associated with getting covid as well. it could mean your apartment block gets sealed or your neighbors start avoiding you, all of that. so it's the same set of issues for people all around the world. governments want to provide a positive message and a positive spin on what's going on, and the reality is that you've got to get people concerned enough to take precautions, but not so concerned that they go into panic, which is unproductive. >> well, you know, despite all of this increase that we're

talking about, the government continues to take steps to return to normal. is it just that the economic considerations simply outweigh the health outcomes here? >> well, the economic considerations are important because they also reflect on the ability of the government to spend on health. and india could not afford anymore of the big lockdowns that happened between march and june. it posed a huge cost to the economy. the last quarter, gdp went down by 24% on an annualized basis. and a lot of small and medium enterprises in india are just bankrupt at this point in time. another lockdown, which essentially is a lower level kind of response to the pandemic, is unaffordable, and going forward, it will have to be a situation where people understand that they need to wear machbs, they need to socially distance where appropriate and possible, and, you know, essentially watch out for each other is really the only long-term solution. you can't have a cop out there

with a stick enforcing social distancing. >> similar problems here. listen, thank you so much. we appreciate you coming on the program to talk to us. >> thanks for having me. well, calm returns to the streets of rochester after clashes between police and protesters. so just ahead, we'll find out how city officials and civic leaders are responding to demands for change. stay with us. want to brain better? unlike ordinary memory supplements... neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. memory... focus... accuracy... learning and concentration. try it today with our money-back guarantee! i'm a talking dog.

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well, you heard there protesters chanting the name daniel prude. the black man killed in police custody. marching peaceful in rochester, new york. sunday nights demonstrations where a dramatic change from the tensions gripping the city over the past few nights. they've been demanding reforms to their policing in their city.

as cnn's polo sandoval reports, changes could be coming soon. >> reporter: five nights in a row those demonstrations staying rather peaceful. it isn't until the very end that they take a tense and violent turn with some protesters clashing with police. we do know that the mayor of the city as well as the police chief hoping to address some of concerns, specifically those that have to deal with mental health. daniel prude's family initially called authorities after he was experiencing a mental health episode for help to try to track him down. yesterday, authorities announcing initiatives to address mental health issue and police reform, including doubling the availability of mental health professionals and moving the family crisis intervention team from the police department to a separate city department. i can tell you, over the weekend, the new york state attorney general's office announced she plans to empanel a grand jury to take a closer look at this case. authorities here recommending that many people allow the

investigation to run its course. here's what rochester mayor lovely warren had to say over the weekend. >> what truly matters is creating a city that is dedicated to protecting, serving and lifting up the least among us. what will always pain me about the death of mr. daniel prude is our failure to do that. >> reporter: the demonstrations are likely to continue into the week. one of the many reasons why, local faith leaders going to be working with city officials to have church members serve as essentially a peaceful buffer between protesters and police, hoping that the remainder of these demonstrations throughout the week remain peaceful. polo sandoval, cnn, rochester, new york. a crackdown of protests in belarus as more than 130 demonstrators were arrested across the country.

scenes of violence like this one -- belarus has seen weeks of protest after the disputed re-election of longtime president alexander lukashenko. and there were also protests in hong kong, where police arrested nearly 300 demonstrators on sunday. though in this video here, you can see police advancing on protestors. most were arrested for allegedly violating a ban on unlawful assembly. local elections were supposed to be held sunday, but the vote was postponed because of the pandemic. demonstrators say the real reason was that pro-beijing parties wouldn't do well. well, the world's top-ranked tennis player is out of the u.s. open. coming up, we'll show you how a moment of frustration caught novak djokovic a chance at his 18th major title. stay with us. as we move forward,

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a shocker at the u.s. open. now, it wasn't an upset, per se, but novak djokovic is out. the world number one was defaulted after he accidentally hit a line judge with a tennis ball on sunday. djokovic had been heavily favored to win the tournament and his 18th major title. so for more on what happened at

arthur ashe stadium, let's turn to cnn "world sport's" alex thomas joining us from london. alex, i happened to be watching that live and couldn't believe what i was seeing there, that long discussion, should he be kicked out, shouldn't be he kicked out and then he walked? that was just a shock. >> i mean, shocking is the word, isn't it, kim? there's no doubt about it. this is the world number one who came to the u.s. open knowing rafa nadal and roger federer, his great rivals, had chosen not to come to new york and risk coronavirus. would have had him just one behind nadal in the all-time list and two behind federer on 20. playing spain's pablo busta lost to. he had had his serve broken 6-5 down in the opening set when he just knocked a ball away in frustration toward the back of

the court, but it struck a line judge in the throat. she gave an awful strangle cry, which we could hear much more clearly than normal because there's no fans in the stands and she collapsed in a heap on the floor. you could see the shock on djokovic's face. he clearly didn't mean to do it, but this is what happens when you hit a ball in anger. it wasn't a full-throated smash of the ball, that's for sure. he immediately rushed over to the line judge to check she was okay. she is okay, but djokovic was defaulted. it's a rule that no matter what the intention, you do get defaulted for that. and he was out of the tournament. and left flushing meadows pretty quickly without speaking to the media. he later released a statement on instagram. we can show you. i won't read it all out, but pick out the significant points. he starts, this whole situation has left me really sad and empty. i checked on the lines person and the tournament told me thank god she is feeling okay. later in the statement he says, as for the disqualification, i

need to go back within and work on my disappointments and turn this all into a lesson for my growth and evolution as a player and human being. he realized there was no point trying to excuse this behavior. it might not have looked a lot. certainly seen bigger tantrums on the court, but he was in the wrong and he knows it. interestingly, he's someone who knows that better than anybody would have been his next poend, canada's dennis shop love in 2018 as a teenager defaulted for hitting a ball that accidentally struck an umpire in the eye. shapovalov said afterwards his match, i've been in that situation so i know exactly how novak is feeling. of course he had no intentions to go after the lineswoman. thankfully she's okay. it could have ended up very, very bad. the ball could have gone anywhere. it's just super unfortunate. and that's the point, isn't it? it may not have looked much, but it really could have injured someone badly and the line judge

did not look comfortable when it struck her in the throat. >> absolutely. i happened to be watching with my son. that was a good lesson on good sportsmanship there. certainly, thank you so much, alex thomas. we appreciate it. and we have some sad news from the world of baseball. hall of fame player lou brock has died. he played 19 seasons and spent 16 of those with the st. louis cardinals. brock is 1 of 32 players with 3,000 or more hits and has the second highest number of stolen bases. the cardinals paid tribute to brock on twitter saying, hour hearts are broken, lou brock was an amazing person and outstanding player. he was 81 years old. that wraps this hour of "cnn newsroom." i'm kim brunhuber and i will be back in just a moment with more news. you're watching cnn. stay with us. lergy muddlers...

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