right now on "america this morning," the final good-bye. thousands gather to pay respects to george floyd as we learn new details about the moments before he died. what the lawyer for an ex-cop charged in floyd's death has revealed. as protesters redoondz change we take a closer look at one city that disbanded its police department and saw crime fall dramatically. breaking overnight a new intelligence bulletin from federal authorities. what it reveals about extremists trying to take advantage of the chaos in the streets. plus, what we learned about the admitted member of the kkk accused of driveing into a crowd of protesters. a new spike in cases of covid-19. 20 states now seeing a jump in cases. what doctors on the front lines

are seeing and the surprising news about the risk of asymptomatic patients spreading the virus. treasure hopes? new questions about the million dollar treasure found hidden in the rockies. tributes pouring in overnight celebrating the life of bonnie pointer, one of the founder members of the pointer sisters. the cruise shipment nightmare that lasted six months at sea finally over this morning. good morning on this tuesday. george floyd will be laid to rest day. puicvind people attended floyd's enro allver the country paying respect. >> protesters marched in the streets for the 14th consecutive night as we learned about now plans to reform police departments nationwide. >> the former police officer who held floyd down with his knee is being held on more than a

million dollar bail and a lawyer for another officer is shedding new light on the case. >> we begin with the final good-bye to the man now a symbol in the fight for racial equality and justice. ♪ overnight a candlelight vigil. remembering the man whose death sparked a movement for change. >> people ask me all the time what makes this killing of george floyd different from all the rest? it is because it's literally a documentary of his death but he's narrating his death. >> reporter: monday night pallbearers walked his casket out of a church. many people still waiting in line. >> this man whose death has changed the world, he's changed

the world. >> reporter: more than 6,000 people waited hours in the texas sun to pay their respects to floyd. his family grateful. >> if he was told he'd have to sack size his life, knowing him i knew he would have did it. >> reporter: the officer made a court appearance and 3w5i8 was set at $1.25 million as he appeared wearing an orange jumpsuit. chauvin placed his knee on floyd's neck for nearly nine minu minutes as he went limp. another officer is placing the blame on chauvin. >> my client did exactly what he was supposed to do, follow the experienced officer's advice. >> reporter: revealing new details about the moments before his death. >> he had to pull him out.

they then handcuffed him. he didn't want to be handcuffed. resist resisted. not violent but they my client and his partner attempted to put him in the squad, get the man in the backseat of the squad and take him to the station. and that became a beuse he was really resisting and by the way he was saying at this time he couldn't breathe. claiming he had claustrophobia. >> reporter: back in houston a wall across the street from his childhood home is daddy indicated to local residents who die from gun violence. abc's t.j. holmes is there. >> reporter: it doesn't look like much there but it's part of the story. the childhood home. >> nearby ayesha kenny explains -- >> i want them to have opportunities and i want things to change.

>> how do you protect your sons? >> i keep telling them about their great legacy they come from. >> floyd will be laid to rest today next to his mother at a houston cemetery. abc news will have live coverage of today's ceremony beginning around noon eastern time. now to washington where a battle is brewing over how to prevent police brutality. the phrase defund the police has become a rallying cry but not for lawmakers. abc's ines de la cuetara has more. >> reporter: this morning, president trump and vice president joe biden in agreement. both rejecting calls to defund the police. >> i don't support defunding the police. i support conditioning federal aid to police based on whether or not they meet certain basic standards of decency. >> reporter: the president saying he's appalled by the movement. >> there won't be defunding. there won't be dismantling our of police. >> reporter: protesters are

demanding departments be stripped of their budgets. attorney general william barr calling the idea dangerous. >> i think defunding the police, holding the entire police structure responsible for the actions of certain officers is wrong and i think it's dangerous to demonize police. >> reporter: in minneapolis the city council says it will end the department within a year and build a new model of public safety. on capitol hill, house democrats taking a knee in floyd's memory as they unveiled police reforms that would ban chokeholds, create a national reg city of police misconduct and make it easier to prosecute an officer. it doesn't include any measures to defund police and comes as more officered are accused of excessive force and facing charges. >> stop resisting. >> reporter: in austin, t., police body cam shows

man's death in police custody last year. javier ambler can be heard saying "i can't breathe" and is headed to a grand jury. in new mexico a white police officer is now charged with involuntary manslaughter after putting his knee on the neck of a hispanic man who died in february. in portland, oregon, a sudden shake-up at the police department amid questions over how officers have responded to recent protests. the police chief resigning after six months on the job saying, change needed to happen. the department's top lieutenant now becoming chief. >> we have a lot of work to do and we're going to get busy doing that work. >> reporter: meanwhile, despite repeated claims that the antifa movement has hijacked protests around the country a new federal intelligence bulletin makes no mention of antifa. instead it warns that racially a

and extreme groups are the main problem. kenneth. >> ines, thank you. a virginia prosecutor is considering hate crime charges against a man accused of driving his car into a crowd of protesters. harry rogers admits being a leader of the kkk and allegedly revved his engine before plowing into the crowd in richmond. no one was seriously injured. we turn to the coronavirus in several states now seeing a spike in cases. the world health organization has already released new information about the likelihood of asymptomatic people spreading the virus. abc's andrea fujii has the latest. >> reporter: this morning, coronavirus cases on the rise in 20 states plus puerto rico. in arizona, the state's largest health system has now reached capacity for patients needing external lung machines. >> would you say that the situation right now in phoenix and in arizona is dire? >> yes, it is. this is the time when we need to be speaking out. >> reporter: the state seeing a record 1,500 new cases in a single day. two weeks after re-opening.

texas now open for more than a month also seeing a steep increase in new patient admissions with nearly 2,000 hospitalized. south carolina reported nearly 550 new cases monday, the highest since the pandemic began and north carolina is seeing its highest number of hospitalizations so far. more than 700. this upward trend prompting doctors to urge people to wear a face covering in public. >> there are a lot of nurses. the icu is very busy. so the amount of equipment, noise, staff that is helping to take care of our patients is more than i've seen in my 22 years of working here. >> reporter: and this morning, new information on the virus contrary to earlier thinking. the world health organization now saying that spreading the virus when you're asymptomatic is very rare, but some doctors are questioning that data. >> we do know that there is a very small percentage of patients that at the time of testing and testing positive they are without symptoms. so although the risk is very

low, it's not zero. so what we still recommend is appropriate social distancing. >> reporter: and as congress investigates the intelligence community's handling of the coronavirus threat, a house committee is now reviewing a new harvard study that found evidence the virus may have been sweeping through wuhan nearly three months before chinese health officials told the world. researchers say they can't prove the increased hospital activity was due to covid-19, but they also found that internet searches in wuhan for coronavirus symptoms spiked in october. kenneth, mona. >> andrea, thank you. time now for a look at your tuesday morning weather. what was tropical storm cristobal left behind serious flooding along the gulf coast. rescue crews seen here bringing people to safety in louisiana as the water was rising. and now as the storm moves north, flood warnings and watches are posted all the way to wisconsin.

some areas could see 4 inches of rain today. checking today's high temperatures, 98 in dallas, hot around the great lakes as well. and it will feel like august in new york but only in the 60s in the pacific northwest. coming up, a new plan for the return of major league baseball. but first how a cruise ship nightmare that lasted for six long months finally ended. and a new twist in the battle between prince andrew and

check out this bear performing a balancing act on a fence in montana. the homeowner who stayed inside said the bear walked around his yard for about 20 minutes looking for food but then took off.

prosecutors investigating sex offender jeffrey epstein appear to be turning up the heat on britain's prince andrew. the head of the investigation in new york claims the prince is trying to portray himself as being eager to cooperate but he says andrew has repeatedly declined to schedule an interview. he was a friend of epstein's. he said he never witnessed any suspicious behavior at epstein's homes. andrew's lawyer says he offered assistance to prosecutors three time. disturbing news about violence in chicago. 27 people were murdered over the final weekend of may. 18 of them on may 31st making it the deadliest day in chicago in nearly 60 years. overall crime dropped in chicago last month compared to may of last year but homicides jumped by 60%. the editor in chief of "bon appetit" magazine resigned a photo in brownface surfaced. in the photo adam rapoport is dressed in a puerto rican

costume and he says it was ill-conceived. bon appetit criticized for how it treats people of color. white staffers are demanding equal pay for their colleagues of color. a long, long journey is finally over for eight cruise ship passengers. they just arrived home after a six-month odyssey that took them to australia. the ship was quarantined during the coronavirus outbreak. most of the passengers flew home after being isolated but those eight people couldn't fly because of health conditions so they stayed on board as the ship sailed back to germany. they've now arrived safe and sound and probably will never get on another boat again. >> at least for a really long time. well, coming up, the student fighting to clean up his neighborhood after violent street protests. also ahead, new details on president trump's recent visit to the white house bunker. and later, celebrating the pointer sister who made the pointer sisters happen. ♪ th]

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he watched violent protests damage and destroy buildings in his hometown of buffalo, new york so he decided to grab a broom and clean up. he spent ten hours picking up debris. his hard work has earned him a new car donated by a man who heard his story along with a college scholarship. attorney general william barr is contradicting president trump's claim about his recent visit to the white house bunker. the president said he went to the underground bunker to inspect it but barr tells fox news trump was moved there because of security concerns. >> we were reacting to three days of extremely violent demonstrations right across from the white house. a lot of injuries to police officers, arson. things were so bad that the secret service recommended the president go down to the bunker of. we can't have that in our country. >> sources say the president was so upset point optics of hiding in the bunker he staged a

photo-op at st. john's church to show he was in control. we want to return to the minneapolis council members vowing to end the city's police department. they're not the first. camden, new jersey, disbanded theirs seven years ago. linsey davis spoke with the mayor and county executive. >> walk us what you did and why it was so important for camden. >> put this in context in that, you know, the camden county police department was really borne out of our fiscal crisis and our public safety crisis and not as a result of police brutality. what's important to highlight is that we engaged the community throughout the entire process, so we communicated with them from the very beginning listening to their concerns, their ideas and in particular, the type of community policing that they wanted to see in the city of camden. >> and you were charged with implementing this and i understand you went to the community for input and urged officers to get out and meet their community changing

completely how policing was done. how did that work? >> we asked members of the community what they were looking for in police officers and we took some of those characteristics and made it part of a job description for our potential police officers and then they were trained in de-escalation and they were trained in community relations and the first thing they do is they knock on the doors on the neighborhoods in which they are serving, introduce themselves and let the residents know that they're there to help. they can call them at any time, communicate with them, and what we've been doing throughout these years is building a trust with the residents of the city which has really been key to reducing the crime rate in the city. >> former president obama has singled out camden as a success story and also praised police for demonstrating peacefully with community members these past of weeks. are you proud of what the city and county accomplished, and what wow suggest if there's one point that other cities and counties across this country

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when pain happens, aleve it. all day strong. building a better bay area for a safe and secure future, this is abc7 news. making news right now at 4:27. happening today, san jose city leaders consider reforms. the mayor says one option is off the table. the nation says the final good-bye to floyd today. thousands of people pay their respects as his family prepares for his funeral. will it be the last call forever? san francisco bars plea to reopen. it is tuesday, june 9th. thank you for joining us and let's get a check of the weather with meteorologist mike nicco. hi, mike, how are you? >> good. how are you doing, liz? >> good. got my coffee. >> good thing we don't have much of a breeze. not much of a wind chill.

high pressure continues to take control of our weather. most of us pretty calm this morning and look at the clear conditions as we look back from pier 15 and the exploratorium towards downtown san francisco and here's another look from the east bay hill. so, let's talk about what will happen temperature wise. mid 60s around san francisco and low to mid 80s for the rest of the bay. upper 80s in the south bay and north bay and 90s in the east bay valleys. not only today, but likely tomorrow, also. big cooling trend as we head towards the weekend. here's liz, again. >> thanks, mike. george floyd will be laid to rest in houston today. thousands gather for the memorial for the man whose death caused a change. jobina fortson is live with us with the details. hi, jobina. >> thank you, liz. thousands are expected to join

the celebration of life today. we will take a live look so you can see a visual of the church. it will get under way at 9:00 this morning our time. floyd lived most of his life in houston. more than 6,000 people showed up yesterday to pay their respects to george floyd. he died two weeks ago. for many an emotional farewell to the man who has become a face of a movement. overnight people gathered for a candlelight vigil at his high school. his family is grateful for the support. >> this man whose death has changed the world, he's changed the world. you have to come. >> meanwhile, the former minneapolis police officer charged with murdering floyd appeared in court yesterday. the judge set derek chauvin's bail to $1.25 million.

following today's service floyd will be laid to rest at the houston memorial gardens next to his mother. liz? >> live coverage of the private service and the celebration of life for george floyd. abc news anchor david muir will be in houston for this. coverage set to begin at 9:00 this morning. you can watch it on our website and our abc7 news app. the san francisco city council will discuss police use of force all amid the growing and serious changes coming to the department and julian glover is live with those changes and what we can expect today. julian, good morning. >> hey, good morning, liz. yeah, ahead of today's meeting the use of force by police and we know the san jose police department is already announcing changes to its policy in response to the actions during recent protest of their officers and, of course, in response to the deadly force we all saw