♪ the u.s. government is warning of a growing risk from hackers with an ability to disrupt infrastructure and even threaten lives. plus, mixed messaging on masks. california's new guidelines for face coverings at work raise new questions. summer travel uncertainty. uk tourists scramble to get home from portugal before new restrictions go into effect. we go live to london. welcome to all of watching. i'm kim brunhuber, this is "cnn

newsroom." ♪ ransomware attacks are so frequent and the government is warning they could cripple america's infrastructure if they are not stopped. back in april, colonial pipeline was hacked and suddenly millions couldn't get gas. experts say cyberattacks are up 100%% from last year. we get more from cnn's jessica snyder. >> reporter: the biden administration soundsing the alarm of growing threats of cyberattacks. how the fbi approached the

response to terrorism after 9/11. a lot of parallels and a lot of importance and focus on us by disruption and prevention wray said. they are investigating about 100 different types of ransomware and many trace back to hackers in russia. costing businesses and organizations between at least 500,000 and 2.3 billion dollars in 2020. ransomware locks up computer files and hackers demand payment to release the files. >> it shows 300% increase in ransom payments over the prior year. >> it has affected the gas pipeline operated by colonial that led to gas shortages along the east coast to meat production plants being shut down and even individual health

care networks whose systems have been shut down sporadically across the country and around the world. >> at some point we are worried some people will get hurt and especially these that are affecting health care. ireland's health care system went down. >> reporter: the justice department signaling this week it plans to cord nate it. >> they have to work with foreign law enforcement agencies to take these people off the field. >> the mass threat from cyberattacks have been looming for years. dan coates warned about the threat three years ago. >> the infrastructure that servings this country is literally under attack. >> reporter: the white house this week sent business leaders nationwide a letter appealing for immediate action saying we urge you to take ransomware

crime seriously and assure your corporate cyberdefenses match the threat. fbi director wray called out russia in that incident. for vladimir putin is fighting it back calling it nonsense that russia russia was ever involved in cyberattacks specifically on the jbs meat packing plants. the white house says president biden will address that jbs attack with putin as well as the increased cyberattacks that we know have been emanating from russia when they meet in the upcoming summit. >> russia's leaders brushing off u.s. allegations that russian hackers are around the recent cyberattacks. matthew chance has that part of the story. >> reporter: vladimir putin sharply rejecting implications that russia is involved in the

cyberattacks in the united states describing them as nonsense, ridiculous, and just hilarious. u.s. officials say two recent attacks on a crucial u.s. fuel pipeline and on a major meat packing company were carried out by cybercriminals based in russia and have called on the kremlin to crack down. the suggestion being the russian authorities are currently allowing the cybergangs to operate. putin made his remarks on russian state television. on the sidelines of the st. petersburg economic forum. take a listen. >> translator: it's just ridiculous to blame russia for this. i think the u.s. relevant services should find out who the scammers are. not russia for sure. for us to extort money for chicken and beef is hilarious j

less than two weeks putin is expected to meet president biden in a face-to-face summit in geneva, switzerland. hacking is on one of the agendas. president putin hopes the meeting will be held in a positive matter but that he does not expect any breakthrough in russian/american relations. matthew chance, cnn. despite the urgent messaging coming from the white house, president biden isn't yet calling the issue a national security threat. here is how the white house explained it when asked by cnn's kaitlan collins. >> reporter: on these ransomware attacks does the president view those as a national security threat? >> i certainly think the president views those as a rising national security concern in an area where we need to

continue to keep our focus, keep our assets, focus on energy and brainpower on what we can do to address this. certainly this is a priority to him, an area where we will be spending a significant amount of time in the coming months. the u.s. senate top law enforcement officer says cyberattacks are her top security concern and not like a riot we saw on january 6th. karen gibson says hackers are target is the halls of congress every day. listen to this. >> i worry a lot more about cybersecurity than i do about another mob attack in the capitol. certainly, our networks have attempted intrusions every single day so cybersecurity for me is a much greater concern than thousands storming the capitol. >> fbi director compared the

current cyberthreat with ransomware to the terrorism threat around 9/11. do you view it that way too? >> i think whether it's ransomware or other cybersecurity threats, yes. i see cybersecurity as my greater concern. >> my colleague michael holmes discussed with an expert the threat ransom ware poses. now the ceo of a cybersecurity during dragos an here is part of their conversation. >> so far everything has been criminal in nature taking advantage of these things. but it does expose the weakness that everyone is concerned about where you could do disruptive attacks and we have seen these types of attacks before, not with ransomware but with cyberattacks and infrastructure including ukraine in 2015 and ukraine in 2016 when cyberattacks took down portions

of the system. >> reporter: you mentioned health care organizations being hit. one imagines at some point lives are going to be at risk or even lost. >> absolutely. so i think we have to, first, focus on human life. that is obviously what we need to protect the most. beyond that, it also is just a significant economic impact. a lot of these companies, especially when you look at industrial companies, they are portions of our supply chain for food, energy, water. when you interrupt those it can have an impact on our day-to-day lives and some of those are in time manufacturing. so disruption to them is very difficult to catch up for, especially if you're in the middle of a global pandemic. it's not exactly easy and that can lead to significant impact. >> coming up on "cnn newsroom," the u.s. president is working to keep infrastructure negotiations bipartisan but he is facing pressure from his party to keep things simple if republicans won't play ball.

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former u.s. president donald trump is set to speak at the north carolina gop event late saturday event. it comes as trump debunks claims he lost the election because of fraud. trump called facebook's decision to suspend him from facebook for two years. cnn spoke with former british politician nick kleg about the decision. >> our rules are not to adjudicate what billions of people use our platform might be, but whether what they they say will lead to real world harm. if you like the trip word, that was the violates of the rules

that occurred in january and the violations for which we will be very, very vigilant in the future. >> u.s. president joe biden has rejected a republican counteroffer on infrastructure spending. it doesn't mean the chance of a bipartisan deal is dead. that group of republicans and democrats are working on a proposal that we could see as soon as next week. phil mattingly has the latest. >> reporter: -- >> now is the time to build on the foundation we laid. >> reporter: president biden pressing the path forward to a major infrastructure deal. >> we have a chance to seize on the economic momentum of the first months of my administration. >> reporter: a path that remains in limbo. biden speaking by phone with senator capato the lead gop negotiator in the long bipartisanship talks but to increase the spending by $50 billion fell short of biden's

expectations. white house press secretary in a statement saying, quote. but also indicated that the current offer did not meet his objectives to grow the economy and tackle the climate crisis and create new jobs. biden, this week, offering to drop the top line of his proposal and take corporate tax increases off the table to finance the plan, a central gop ask. but republicans have quietly poured cold water on that effort. still, the white house not signaling time has run out yet. >> it's not unlimited but we have an opportunity. he is going to talk to senator capato this afternoon and we will see how those conversations go. >> reporter: biden facing cross cutting pressures inside his own party. progressives pleading with him to drop the bipartisan talks and move to a budget procedure that allows for a simple majority to move biden's sweeping proposals. >> if we are going to stand up for working families what we need to do is use

reconciliation. >> reporter: as moderates are crucial where the democrats hold the narrowest of mantle and calling on them to continue. >> these take time. i know everyone is in a hurry right now. >> reporter: for biden, a critical moment coming as the may employment report showed 559,000 jobs added, an unemployment rate that ticked down to 5.8%. >> our major economy is gaining jobs as quickly as ours. >> reporter: but the hole from the pandemic still deep. 7.6 million jobs fewer than before the coronavirus shut down the nation. and no shortage of choppy economic data from inflation to labor force participation, threatening to derail biden's goals. >> as we continue this recovery, we are going to hit some bumps along the way. we can't reboot the world's largest economy like flipping on a light switch. >> reporter: for president biden the biggest question now is where does he go next? white house officials have made

sure they don't accept the six republicans the only game in town. they want to have conversations with any republican or democrat who has a pathway forward. that is key. as long as other democratic moderates make clear they want negotiations to continue they will. manchin and senator romney have been leading another group working on the issue and not to the white house level yet' may soon change. keep an eye on house democrats next week. the white house is keying on a june 9th movement on a house surface transportation bill. that is at the core of what president biden wants to do on infrastructure and much larger than what a bipartisan group in the united states senate has produced up to this point. the white house juggling a couple of balls right now keeping them all in the air recognizing they need options as they move forward, but also the time is running short. phil mattingly, cnn, the white house. majority of americans are seeing an end to the pandemic in

sight. a new poll shows two-thirds of adults in the u.s. feel like their lives are somewhat back to normal. they are feeling optimistic and less worried, even though there is still a big partisan divide over many coronavirus topics. as work places open back up, there is lots of confusion and differing guidance about who has to wear masks and when. as an example, california's safety board says we workers cao maskless at their job but even if everyone in their room is vaccinated. thank you for being here. the ruling in california that every employee has to keep their mask on unless everyone there is vaccinated, all of the employees, i mean, that is happening simultaneously with the state getting rid of almost masks and socially distancing requirements so you're able to go to the gym without a mask but not to work and it's raising all

sorts of problem. >> it is completely conflicting what the cdc says and violates a lot of common sense and employers out here are trying the best they can to incentivize their employees to all get vaccinated. you have a situation a hundred employees and 99 are vaccinated and one holdout so we all have to wear masks and it's crazy. first of all, it's not what the cdc says. number two, you have people saying who is the guy that doesn't get vaccinated? that person will feel incredible pressure and a whole lot of reasons legally and otherwise does not make sense. >> aris there a way legally to take this to court? >> no. the interim guidelines, the temporary guidelines. in theory our governor could

veto it. unless he vetoes it, it's probably the rule for at least the end of july which conflicts with our june 15th opening. >> broadening this out beyond california, it seems we have a patch work of rules. are you seeing similar tensions playing out across the country as state loosen restrictions and having companies to make those decisions whether to drop the mandates or keep them and have to play mask cop? >> this has been a constant source of irritations for employers 18 months now. instead of the federal government with one consistent message we are getting inconsistent message from washington and 50 different rules by 50 states and localities in the bay area, we have got santa clara county where a lot of the tech companies are they different rules be we have in san francisco. it's like a moving truck target trying to make this work and

employers and employees are having a difficult time and it's difficult to imply. >> the cdc guidelines there say it is safe for employees in most situations to work indoors with a mask if they have been vaccinated. can employers have different rules for vaccinated and nonvaccinated employees and how do you enforce that? do you track vaccination status and insist on seeing the proof? >> okay. so the federal and state law thank god is clear on this now. you can require -- first of all, you can ask them if they have been vaccinated and then ask them to require it. that is determined to be perfectly okay. only issue is can they mandate vaccines? there is a couple of different schools of thought on that. most employers right now are not mandating it but creating incentives to get people to get vaccinated. put aside what happened in california. around the country, if most people are vaccinated, according to cdc what you say inside is those unvaccinated, you probably

ought to be masking up or else you're taking a risk with your, you know, with your health. but to require vaccinated employees to also be masked up just defies logic and just does not make sense. >> then going beyond masks, can you see these same tools used to determine whether employees can go into the building or go to certain event or have certain access, something like that? >> yes. for example my law firm in california. we say to employees if you want to come back to work you got to be vaccinated, otherwise work from home. that is what a lot of employers are doing. they are saying when vendors come in you can be safe in knowing you're safe inside the premises. for those employees, either medically or for religious religions can't get vaccinated.

what most employers are saying for some reason you can't get vaccinated, then stay home. for those who want to come back, we want you to be vaccinated. >> finally, just, you know, a fix for this. you mentioned federal guidelines. does that have to happen the federal government steps in? how much power do they have in the states have impdifferent id on this? >> during the trump administration they took the position this was about states rights and up to the states and local governments to make these decisions. the chance of the federal government stepping in and saying we are going to have a 50-state rule, not going to happen. unfortunately, at least for the time being, it's going to be left to each state and each locality to make their own decision and that is what employers and employees have to grapple with. it is a tough one. >> it is a tough one. thanks so much for trying to navigate us through this. we appreciate it. >> my pleasure. take care. british travelers in

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the agency says it's carefully reviewed the data in children age 12 to 15 concluding the vaccine is safe and the benefits outweigh any risk and it's now up to the country's vaccine committee to give the final go ahead. this comes as concern grows over the spread of the covid variant first identified in india. public health england says it's showing substantially increased growth and has now dominant form in the uk. the rise of variants is at least partially responsible for the scramble to get british tourists home before portugal is official off the uk's safe travel green list. that scramble, what kind of effect is it having there? >> reporter: well, what we are seeing at the moment is on the one hand, portuguese politician tag to the air waves in large numbers and more than we normally see on british tv the laugh few days to say they don't understand the british

government's logic for adding portugal to this amber light. they have a system of green, amber, and red in terms of covid safe destinations where you have to quarantine from if it's amber or red because the likelihood of bringing in one of these variants is higher. portugal says we have a similar affection rate compared to the uk and yes there is a indian variant the british government is worried about but the uk has some as well. so that confusion ranges in terms of policy but also for your average person trying to desperately trying to get back before you have to quarantine. you get called multiple times a day and people come to your house to check on you and you also have to do a battery of different tests that can be expensive and lots of holiday makers want to avoid that at all

costs and desperately scrambling to get back and big airplanes are scrambling to get people back and said a number of britons understandably have decided to cancel their summer vacation that they had previously booked to portugal. the bigger problem here is this question of variants circulating inside the uk. that might seem perplexing to many people who is looking at the uk and saying it's one of the top five vaccinating nations in the world and one of the vaccine success stories. over half of uk adults have now been offered two doses of a type of covid vaccine. the counterargument from authorities here appears to be, yes, but we don't know whether these vaccines are entirely affected against some of these strains and particularly the delta variant first identified in india. as such, caution applies. there is something they have to want to hit and that is the lifting of domestic covid

restrictions in two weeks' time so they say it's best to protect the uk and the best it can to make sure that they can have at least some type of summer covid-19-free and covid-19-restriction free for the next days to come on the uk shores. >> thank you for that in london. the captain of brazil's soccer team confirms that players and staff don't want their country to host the upcoming copa america. some were withdrawing from from the tournament because of the infection rates in brazil. the team plans to go public next week. the copa america is set to begin on june 19th. the singapore grand prix cancelled the event second year in a row due to covid-19. the event's deputy chairman said the decision was incredibly difficult but necessary due to safety concerns. the race was scheduled for october 3rd. organizers say they are working

with officials in singapore to determine the future of the race. summer olympics are now just 48 days away. tokyo 2020 organizers have been under huge pressure this week, partially because vaccination rates in japan remain low in nine regions and including tokyo under a state of emergency but not keeping the olympic torch from hitting the road again. cnn's selena wang is in tokyo. >> reporter: final preparations in tokyo appear to be under way. just less than two months to go until the olympics, the organizers are pushing ahead in the face of public opposition with the games in operational mode very much. behind me is the venue being built for bmx racing and skateboarding and can hold thousands of spectators. foreign spectators are banned from attending the olympics but now they are are wondering how

many local spectators can attend the games. over there is marathon swimming and the triathlon and temporary for the olympic games. this park is normally open to the public but now boarded off in preparation for the games. i spoke to one of the construction workers here who told me he does not think the olympic games should move ahead. infections are rising during the pandemic he tells me. i wonder if what i'm doing is good for the people preparing for the olympics, he says. but it's my job to work under the assumption the games are going ahead. tokyo was planning large olympic viewing sites across the city including one at this park as this sign indicates but amid public opposition the government says this will be used as a vaccination site. japan has fully vaccinated less than 3% of its population. >> people here are not protected. i don't think we should have it. i think everyone i know in tokyo is scared to death of people from all over the world coming. >> reporter: others in tokyo are

more optimistic. i'm really looking forward to the olympics, she says. people are down because of the pandemic. we need something fun. this national stadium where the opening and closing ceremonies will be held was rebuilt at a cost of more than $1 billion for these olympic games. in fact, japan has spent more than $6 billion on venues and temporary buildings. the economic cost of cancelling these games would be enormous. but at stake here is not just money and japan's national pride, but people's lives. selena wang, cnn, tokyo. a prominent figures in germany of the catholic church is saying he shares responsibility for sexual abuse by clerkics over the past decades because he stayed silent and failed to act. >> reporter: a surprise

announcement from one of the more well-known progressive cardinals in the catholic church is on pope francis councils. unlike other resignation over sexual abuse, this one doesn't seem to have been provertmpted any allegations by the cardinal. he says he will resign to take his share of responsibility of what he calls the catastrophe of sexual abuse. he says the catholic church is at a dead end and hopes his offer of resignation will be part of a turning point. he says the pope said him to stay in his decision until he has time to decide whether to accept the resignation. the move comes as the archdiocese of munich is expecting a report later this year on their handling of the

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today, june 5th, is world environment day. the biden administration is marking the moment by announcing plans to revise trump air regulations that critics fear undermine the endangered species attack and to reverse trump. they will look at trump rules that looked at more oil and gas ruling. environment groups are cheering biden's plan and saying urgent action is needed now. sri lanka now says weather played a role in its desperate efforts to save a cargo ship that sank near its coast. according to their port authority chairman, heavy winds shut down the port for 39 hours while the ship was on fire last

month. sri lankan navy divers expected the oil for oil leaks and they say it was too low to figure it out. even without a leak the incident has created one of the worst ecological disasters sri lanka has ever had but if there is a spill, things could get a lot worse. sam joins us from new delhi. what is the latest, sam? >> reporter: kim, the immediate effect of this catastrophe for the sri lankan environment is, in a sense, economic and that is because for 50 miles of that coastline now, indefinitely, the government has banned fishing, which is a vital part, both of the economy, but also of the day-to-day life of about 100,000 people along that strip of coastline, either side of the capital. this is catastrophic for them in the short and medium term until

they are allowed to go back to their fishing industry. of course, they are also saying, the local fishermen there, the reputation for the poison that is getting into the waters, they fear, and they are already reporting a fall-off in catches for those who snuck out to go to defy the ban to go fishing and saying the catches are way down to get a lot worse. we don't know the extent either of the oil leak there that appears, at the moment, have been contained. this is many hundreds of tons of fuel oil in the ship the pearl. but large amounts of acid and other chemicals may have burned off long time the ship was on fire before it sank but may not and why it's key for the divers to be there to try to investigate the effects on the sea bed. but because this is a fish breeding area, there are coral

reefs there. the long-term damage will be felt in sri lanka by the fishing community and other tourist industry which has already been suffering as the whole world has been as a consequence of the covid pandemic so this is a major economic and environment blow to sri lanka and the scale of which is unknown but there are many tons small plastic beads that are already in the sea and affecting the wildlife there. >> we will keep following this story. thank you, sam kiley in new delhi. marine mucilage is a type of slime that is attacking all forms of life in the waters around turkey. now it's happened before but as arwa damon reports, never this much or never for this long. >> reporter: something is very wrong. an alien-like web of slime is choking off all forms of life in the water here .

from above, it looks like streaks of paint. it's like sinking through what our future will look like if nothing changes. if we continue to pollute our waters, and allow our planet to warm. it's known as sea snot. in science speak, marine mucilage, and it has happened here before, but never like this. getting sucked into the gills of fish. wrapping itself around corals, suffocating them. we're in the dardanelles strait that connects the sea of marmara to the aegean. associate professor is a coral expert who has been diving these waters for more than a decade. this coral, it's dead. another one, dying. this one, threatened. he points to a healthy sponge. and right next to it, he wipes

the mucilage coating off a dead one. back onboard, the gravity of what we witnessed sets in. the professor says he and other scientists first observed mucilage in these waters in 2007. is this the first year, where you've seen mucilage killing coral and sea life? >> yes. yeah. of course, feel very bad because, you know, doing -- during our childhood, this ecosystem is -- was -- was a rich ecosystem. even one year ago, you know, they are healthy. they were healthy. you know, one year ago. but now, it's bad. >> reporter: a year ago, this is what the underwater life looked like here. this is the exact same spot, today. professor mohammed, a planktologist, takes a surface sample. he describes mucilage as a dense, organic soup.

mostly, made up of bacteria and phytoplankton's mucus secretions. so what am i looking at right here? this little guy is just one of the phytoplankton species that he says is just one ingredient in that deadly nastiness under water. the sea of marmara is just like a coronavirus patient who's been intubated, the professor explains. because the oxygen at the greater depths is almost completely depleted. it's close to zero. the professor slides his hand underneath a blanket of thick mucilage on the sea floor. not only does this suffocate everything, but it, also, steals the oxygen at these depths as it decomposes, creating dead zones. but phytoplankton is one of the lynchpins of life on the planet. it's not the villain here. the imbalance that caused all of this? us. humans. our pollution.

it causes an excess of nutrients in the water that acts as a catalyst for massive blooms. as does the manmade-climate crisis that we have failed to prevent, or even slow down. water temperatures here have increased by 2 degrees in the last-50 years, says a professor who studies the impact of climate change on marine biodiversity. when you look at this, what do you think? >> i think it's nature's spitting in our faces. simply. and this is ecologically catastrophic. but not only sea of marmara. this is -- issue. >> reporter: experts say, this year's mucilage is all across the waters, from the black sea to the mediterranean basin. one of the world's most climate vulnerable areas. the experts we spoke to fear the currents are not strong enough to dislodge the mucilage. it's too dense.

it's not just a turkey problem. this is symptomatic of the lack of global leadership and consensus when it comes to saving our planet. the marine life here is asphyxiating. their habitat is being destroyed. and their fate could well become ours. arwa damon, cnn, the dardanelles strait, turkey. it pays to get the covid vaccine. for this woman in colorado, it pays off in seven figures. we will have her story when we come back. stay with us.

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