we will see you back here at 6:00. >> goodnight. we will see you next in ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> yuccas: tonight, coronavirus infections spike in several states, setting new records and sounding alarms. texas and florida retreat, imposing new restrictions. houston's county moves to red alert as hospitals near capacity. beaches in miami shut down over the fo o. in califor j ice to free migrant children from detention centers. also tonight, president trump plays golf, but in a new "face the nation" interview, vice president pence defends their leadership. >> reporter: why don't you tell people to wear masks? >> we believe people should wear masks. >> reporter: why doesn't the president say that? >> what they can't social distance. >> yuccas: they work and pay taxes so why can't these

families collect a stimulus check? the godzilla of dust clouds drifts over the u.s., living up to the hype. tesla powers up the future as lic getlic gets its first up-close look. and later, trailblazers-- a group of firefighters in pasadena make history, and they're not done yet. >> it's a great opportunity to help people. >> this is the "cbs weekend news." > yuccas: good evening, i'm jamie yuccas in los angeles. record jumps in coronavirus infections on top of mixed messages from political leaders and health experts are putting americans' shutdown sacrifices to the test. tonight known cases are up in at least 30 states, especially across the sunbelt. these states you see here, some that raced to reopen, are now retreating. others have hit pause. coronavirus cases in the u.s. have now reached more than 2.5

million, the death toll above 125,000. that's the worst of any other country in the world. cbs' janet shamlian is in houston and leads us off.or n, e highs. here in houston, intensive care units are full, and officials are calling it an "uncontrollable spread." tonight, texas is hitting the brakes. bars across the lone star state are shut down tonight. >> we don't know how long we're going to be closed for this round. it could be weeks or months. >> reporter: and a reversal for restaurants, scaling back to 50% n'pacity. >> it doesn't look like we're going to be over this any time soon. >> reporter: a drastic retreat by governor greg abbott, who late friday, expressed regret about reopening. >> if i could go back and redo anything, it probably would have been to slow down the opening of bars. >> reporter: as cases surge, houston's baylor st. luke's just

opened a fourth covid ward. >> been here 25 years, cannot remember a medical disaster where we had the volume and the intensity and a new disease. >> reporter: the virus also has florida backtracking. all miami beaches will close for the july fourth weekend. and the state has suspended drinking alcohol at bars after what the governor called "widespread non-compliance." today, florida reported its highest number of new daily cases since the pandemic started-- 9,585. in miami beach, there are long lines for tests, transmission now driven by those between 18 and 35. >> people want to be social. they want to interact, and that's why you're seeing it so much with the younger folks. >> reporter: florida and texas, among the first to reopen, now trying to close that door. >> these are places that opened while they were still increasing. to open while you're increasing is kind of like leaning into a left hook-- you're going to get hit. >> reporter: back here in the houston area, officials are calling on the county's five

million residents to go out only for essential trips, saying this region is headed into a it'sstrophic situation, but it's an advisory on an advisory only. they don't have the authority to issue a stay-at-home order. jamie. >> yuccas: shocking numbers, janet. thank you. here on the west coast, washington state is putting a pause on counties moving to phase four reopening, citing concerns about the continued spread of coronavirus. phase four would essentially mean no restrictions. as cbs' danya bacchus reports, california is also seeing a spike. >> reporter: los angeles county now has the highest number of covid-19 cases in the country, but it's imperial county, east of san diego, that the governor is recommending reinstating stay-at-home orders. >> if they are not able to come to some consensus, i am committed to intervening. >> reporter: it has the highest test positivity rate in the state, averaging 23%mpared .

and in san francisco, where the numbers are rising, the mayor is pausing reopenings that were scheduled for monday. e we're going to have to dial it back because of what we see with the data. >> reporter: late friday, a federal judge in los angeles ordered the trump administration to release detained migrant children over covid-19 concerns, warning that family centers are on fire. arizona is also dealing with one of the worst spikes in the country. saturday, the number of cases increased again by more than 3,500. i.c.u.s there are nearing ng everything that >> we are doing everything that we can to run on bare bones. >> reporter: melody a nursitital. to handle the influx ofyork. nevada broke its daily covid-19 case record by nearly 54% on saturday. in las vegas, a caesar's entertainment casino employee died after contracting the virus.

officials haven't said where they worked, but do say a small number of employees are self-isolating. and despite new infections across the country, american airlines plans to once again fill planes to capacity starting july 1, joining united in making all seats available. jamie. >> yuccas: interesting move there. danya, thank you. the trump administration insists the curve is flattening, even as coronavirus cases continue to set new records in several states. cbs' nikole killion tonight on the mixed messaging from the white house. >> reporter: instead of going to his new jersey estate this weekend, president trump retreated to his virginia golf club. with a resurgence of covid infections across the country, vice president mike pence defended the administration's pandemic response in a new interview with john dickerson set to air sunday on "face the nation." >> reporter: did the reopening elppen too early? >> well, all 50 states are opening up again, to one degree or another.

and i know there's a temptation to associate the new cases in the sunbelt with reopening, but it's important to remember that states like florida and like texas actually began to open up in early may. >> reporter: even as the vice president insisted the country is in a better place, the trump campaign called off pence's campaign events in florida and arizona this week out of "an abundance of caution," although white house officials say he will still travel to those states, along with texas. one week after a rally in tulsa, dozens of campaign staffers have been quarantined, and cbs news has learned they were told in an email they will be "required to obtain a negative covid test this weekend before returning to work." >> we have a little work to do, and we'll get it done. >> reporter: the president barely mentioned the coronavirus and did not attend a briefing first with his task force friday, the first in months. today on twitter, he touted a

brief filed by his administration "asking the supreme court to terminate obamacare, so that it can be replaced with a far better and much-less-expensive alternative." democrats, including the president's rival joe biden, are saying millions could potentially lose their coverage if that happens, arguing it would be cruel in the midst of a pandemic. jamie. >> yuccas: nikole, thank you. there will be much more from vice president mike pence tomorrow on "face the nation." washington governor jay inslee and south carolina senator tim scott will also join john dickerson for more on the soaring coronavirus cases in their states. today, princeton university announced it will remove woodrow wilson's name from its public and international affairs school. the university cited the former president's "racist thinking and policies." the decision follows a global n nd civ rights. mississippi lawmakers today took steps to erase the confederate battle emblem from the state flag.

it's the last state to incorporate the symbol. late today, the state senate joined the house in voting on a plan that would remove the confederate banner. governor tate reeves says he supports the change. more big companies are unfriending facebook. unilever, honda, and verizon joined coca-cola, hershey, and twitter in pulling their ads. the boycott calls on facebook to police hate speech and misinformation on its site. c.e.o. mark zuckerberg yesterday announced steps to address the issue. s apar, critics appear unimpressed. president trump promised a second round of stimulus payments in an interview earlier this week, but that's not comforting to more than a million americans who were excluded from the first round of payments. here's cbs' adriana . or nurse from wisconsin, was counting on the stimulus. her husband's restaurant hours were cut in the shutdown, and they have two girls to support. >> we needed it just as bad as anybody else needed it.

>> reporter: but katelyn, and other americans like laurie from illinois, were ineligible for the stimulus. >> it does make me feel kind of like a second-class citizen in a way, just for who i married. >> reporter: the cares act left out couples who file jointly if one spouse lacks a social security number, even if the other is a u.s. citizen, ebook ng outrage in places like this facebook group for mixed status families. >> how dare you! because me and my kids are being affected. >> reporter: laurie's husband, who is undocumented, doesn't legally on visas, or foreigners married to americans abroad. instead, he pays taxes with an individual tax i.d. number. >> they, like, punish us because he's not a united states citizen? how you can punish a child that was born here? like, an innocent child? >> reporter: the heroes act would provide stimulus payments to all taxpayers regardless of status, but there's opposition.

>> this bill does what-- it gives tax dollars to illegal immigrants. t someorter: what do you say to lawmakers have put f the argument that some lawmakers have put forward, which is, they don't want undocumented folks to benefit in any >> we as a family, we would have have, you know, put that money back into the economy. >> reporter: katelyn's older daughter worries about her dad, who found a new job in landscaping. >> i get nervous that he's going to, like, get sick with when he goes to work. >> reporter: her father, samuel, used to be undocumented, but after a seven-year process, he just got a green card and a social-- but it was too late for the stimulus. >> we didn't matter as a family. >> reporter: you feel like you don't matter? >> yeah. >> reporter: in your own country. >> yeah. >> reporter: a citizen second-guessing her own status in america. adriana diaz, cbs news, waukesha, wisconsin. >> yuccas: now to the latest in a year of extremes. these are hazy days for millions massive dustas a massive dust

cloud dri cloud drifts across much of the its way after making its way from the sah from the sahara desert. cbs' michael george has more. >> reporter: it's nicknamed godzilla, a dust cloud 700 miles wider than the united states. the international space station captured this image of the largest plume of dust from the sahara desert in decades, sweeping across the atlantic ocean. on earth, the dust is visible coom the shores of costa rica to texas. a cbserardelli is a cbs news meteorologist and climate specialist. >> i have never seen a dust cloud this large and this dense move that far and not disburse before it got to the united states. so this is thicker and denser and potentially more hazardous than most that we've seen. >> reporter: in houston, the thick, dusty skies brought in choking air, deemed unhealthy. the particles in the air over new orleans made the big easy look more like the big hazy.

all that dust brought a murky saturday to dallas. meteorologists say this round of the dust storm will weaken by monday, with some dust lingering in the southeast. but there's a second round of dust moving into the caribbean now, and it, too, will make its way to the u.s. >> the sky's just going to get very hazy. most of the dust exists from a few thousand feet up to about 18,000 to 20,000 feet and that will probably make for vibrant sunrises and sunsets. d> reporter: sunset and sunrise tonight and tomorrow, look toth the hues are likely to be more orange than red. michael george, cbs news, new york. >> yuccas: now to a developing story tonight. the white house denied today ad beene president had been briefed on intelligence that briefed on intelligence that reportedly showed russia had offered bounties to taliban-linked militants if they killed u.s. and coalition troops in afghanistan. the story was first reported by "the new york times." 20 americans were killed in combat in afghanistan last year,

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imperialists that withstood the millennia are now withstanding a challenge to universal opinion. take the stadium of the marbles, built by fascist dictator benito mussolini. the grounds still bear mosaics in his honor. duce, duce, duce-- mussolini's nickname-- everywhere. of course, italy became the years. world's first fascist state in 1922, and stayed that way for 20 years. but today, in 2020, it's stunning to find these relics of fascism everywhere. tom rankin, a professor of architecture, says italians are surrounded by over 2,000 years of complicated history. >> i think italians are used to lots of layers of history, and that even if you try to erase one, you're going to see remains of it. >> reporter: and the remains are everywhere here in the eur neighborhood, conceived by mussolini himself. that's mussolini on the horse, >> that's mussolini. >> reporter: the centerpiece of

the district is known as the square coliseum, which still bears a quote from il duce's 1935 speech announcing the eeghtion of ethiopia. "people don't even know about italy's colonial history in africa," says paolo barros, a rome city councilman. he believes what the world needs is a history lesson, not to topple fascist relics. "we'd have to tear down this entire neighborhood," he says. but the time for mere contemplation is over, says ricardo. contemplation is over, says rica he insists on obscuring his identity after his group of activists dumped paint on this statue of a colonialist general. >> we cannot celebrate people that were responsible or massacred against african people. >> reporter: but roman history is bloody and deep. if you start tearing down statues, many here wonder, where do you stop? chris livesay, cbs news, rome. >> yuccas: still ahead on the "cbs weekend news," tesla thinks outside the pickup truck box.

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evidence the department is plagued by systemic racism. >> reporter: the san jose mayor says he's disgusted by the racist comments. he was the officers fired. but some activists say that is not enough. the facebook post had been taken down. >> this is despicable. and it has no place in our city. whistleblower showed some of the racist post on medium.com. a person with the name of an active officer wrote likewise don't really matter. another member wrote black lives matter activists are racist idiots and domestic enemies. people also must muslims. saying, i see i say week repurpose the hygienist into gnosis. >> i expect any officer directly involved in this will be fired.