♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> yuccas: tonight, infections skyrocket and deaths add up as the coronavirus rages like wildfire across the south and west. today, disney world and other amusement parks reopen, despite florida's surge. hospitals and labs overwhelmed in several states. and why the president is now covering up. >> i think it's a great thing to wear a mask. i've ever never been against masks but i do believe they have a nd.heat wave millions. also tonight: >> thank you, mr. president. >> yuccas: new fallout after president trump uses his power to keep his longtime friend out of jail. plus, borders closed. airlines in crisis. how one travel company is adapting for the covid summer getaway.

making 'cents' of a nationwide shortage -- of coins. and, later-, how a 12-year-old is lifting spirits during a national crisis. >> i appreciate that they're working so hard every day, trying to save people's lives. /this is the cbs weekend news >> yuccas: good evening i'm jamie yuccas in los angeles. for the seventh time in just 11 days, the u.s. set a new single-day record for coronavirus infections. there were at least 68,000 new cases on friday. more than 3.2 million people in this country have been infected, 4,000.ath toll now topping at least six states reported single-day records for new infections. some hospitals are facing a crush of patients. rules and restrictions are being

adjusted just about everywhere. adding to the misery, a massive heat dome covering much of the country, breaking records in several cities including tucson and new orleans. danya baachus begins our coverage. >> reporter: with hospitalizations on the rise here in los angeles, the mayor is asking people to avoid the urge to beat the heat by having pool parties or gathering with friends. the message is similar from leaders across with country with many fearing the worst is yet to come. >> for the health and safety of everyone -- >> reporter: today, a magical milestone for many. two parks at disneyworld, in orlando, reopened to the public today. they'd been shut down for months. sositors must wear masks and social distance. this comes as florida shatters virus records, reporting more than 10,000 cases on friday. arizona is one of the nation's biggest hotspots with 90% of i.c.u. beds at capacity. >> i didn't really care much

about covid. it was a joke to us. >> reporter: jimmy flores admits, he didn't take the virus seriously-until he was infected. >> it became real to me. i was the first person i knew that got it. >> reporter: kristen urquisa's 65-year-old father died after contracting the virus last month. >> i don't want my father to just be another number. >> reporter: she criticized state leaders for downplaying the virus. >> the state needs to be doing more to protect people. >> reporter: the governor's office expressed condolences saying every loss from the virus is tragic. the country's three most populous states -- florida, texas and california -- all repo t day death tolls this week. across the south and west, outdoor testing centers were overrun, some people waiting up to a week to get results. a heat wave shutting down this testing site in houston, texas. texas hospitals are seeing three times as many covid patients as they did just days ago. the governor extended the state's disaster declaration and

activated additional federal resources and has this warning. >> actually, the worst is yet to come as we work our way through that massive increase of people testing positive. >> reporter: california hit all- time highs in the number of patients hospitalized. here in l.a. county, testing will be insufficient in the days and weeks to come. jamie. >> yuccas: danya, not good. thank you. president trump says wearing a mask isn't hard, as he headed to a military hospital in maryland this afternoon. earlier today, former president jimmy carter and his wife posted a photo with the caption, masks save lives. mr. trump is facing new criticism for his handling of the pandemic and his defiant help to keep longtime friend roger stone out of jail. cbs's nikole killion is at the white house. >> reporter: president trump arrived at walter reed medical center wearing a mask, visiting with wounded service members and

healthcare works, who treat the patients. >> i think it's great to wear a mask. i've never been against masks. >> reporter: the president who has rarely worn a mask, defended the use and doubled down on his decision friday to commute sentence of long-time confidant tweeting "roger stone was targeted by an illegal witch hunt that never should have taken place." >> i'm very happy with what i did. >> reporter: stone addressed reporters outside his florida home after the president called him to relay the news. >> he had followed my case throughout and that he thought that i had been treated unfairly. >> reporter: stone was due to report to prison next week to serve a 40-month sentence after being convicted last november on seven felony counts which include witness tampering and lying to congress. democrats from presidential candidate joe biden to house speaker nancy pelosi accused the president of abuse of power. so did some republicans, mitt romney chastised -- unprecedented, historic corruption.

>> every president in modern times has used the pardon and commutation power. some people may not like it when it's used, but it is the president's power. >> reporter: the president also spent part of his day golfing after postponing a rally in new campaign cited safetyght. the trump campaign cited safety l storm fay,ropical storm fay, but some sources tell cbs news there we but some sources tell cbs news there were concerns about attendance. the vice president traveled to jacksonville, florida, to thank the host of the republican national convention. the city has become a covid hot spot and the convention will be held outdoors as a precaution. >> the president vowing to take new action on immigration. do we know what he balance to do? >> reporter: the president said in an intervdrs ca a pay to citizenship. the white house confirmed it

would not include amnesty until the president also wants to work with congress on a legislative solution. mr. trump has previously tried to end the obama era program for dreamers, but, last month, the supreme court blocked his bid. jamie. >> yuccas: we'll see what happens. nikole, thank you. tomorrow on "face the nation," as covid-19 cases surge, what can be done to stop it? general jerome adams, phoenix member and scott gottlieb. 26 states becaused or pushed back plans to reopen but there are scattered parts to have the country that remain untouched by the virus with no cases at all. janet shamlian visited one of arem. >> reporter: with pumpjacks drawing oil and cattle grazing, there's no mistaking this is texas. but unlike most of the state, mcmullen county, an hour south of san antonio, is a rare refuge from the pandemic. of the state's 254 counties,

just seven are covid-free.. mcmullen is one of them. >> we blame it on luck, sometimes we blame it on just being blessed. >> reporter: county judge james teal says it's not for a lack of testing -- they're available here. the likely reason, low-density. mcmullan county is a lot like the boot hill cemetery that's located here. they have about 800,000 acres, but only 800 residents. but it's not exactly desolate. a busy highway runs through the county, right past max's cafe, where plenty of out-of-towners stop for lunch, increasing the risk of spread. waitress kimberly kubisch. do you require masks in the restaurant? >> no. >> reporter: and you wear one in the restaurant? >> no. >> reporter: and you're not worried about covid? >> no. none of us. none of us wear one.

>> reporter: there's no requirement they do. the governor's mask order applies only to counties with 20 or more cases. so how has mcmullen stayed virus free? >> i like to say there's some magic, i love to say it's the food we serve here, but that's not the case. >> reporter: when zero is a winning number, a rural community, part of an enviable club. janet shamlian, cbs news, mcmullan county, texas. >> yuccas: hope it stays that way, janet, thank you. the national hockey league will not be iced out this summer. it's the latest sport to resume its season amid the pandemic. all games, including the stanley cup finals, will be played in canada, which has coronavirus mostly in check. teams will stay and play in two hub cities -- toronto and edmonton. the league and players ratified the plan friday, but there will not be any fans. at least 14 states now require visitors to quarantine for 14 days, if they're traveling from a coronavirus hot spot. it's stalled the airline industry's slow recovery.

and as our kris van cleave reports, it is fuelingrto hom pandemic is being done almost exclusively by car as people like the field family stick closer to home this year. they rented a lake house in new jersey, about an hour away. >> this was an opportunity where we could monitor the weather and actually see friends responsibly and invite them over and barbecue. >> reporter: airbnb ceo brian chesky. >> right now, travelers' are not comfortable getting on airplanes. they're not comfortable crossing borders. they're not comfortable going, a really long distance. >> reporter: chesky says airbnb is one of the few travel businesses seeing growth. while international bookings remain down, domestic bookings, especially within 300 miles of home, are up over 2019. >> what's going to happen is people are going to discover their local communities. and so there's going to be a total redistribution of travel. and this is gonna have a way of leveling the playing field where more communities can participate

and travel. >> reporter: do you think people are going to just cross paris and london and italy off the bucket list and instead go to a national park? >> no, no, i think it will be just diversified. >> reporter: aaa expects americans to take about 700 million trips this summer, down 15% from last year. >> we're seeing regional and local trips and a lot of those trips happening over long weekends or just a weekend trip. and it's going to be to places where they can social distance mostly. >> reporter: major hotel chains like marriott rolled out new cleaning procedures nationwide including these disinfecting foggers. airbnb says it teamed with a former surgeon general to raise its cleaning standards. how do you guarantee that someone is cleaning their rental house sufficiently? >> we designed an enhanced cleaning protocol. and then we have a review system where we ask the guest about whether they followed a variety of protocols and whether or not the place was as clean as possible.

another choice for those looking to just get away. kris van cleave cbs news, washington. >> yuccas: thank you, kris. if you can't get away, look up. a comet is dazzling star gazers. it's called the near-earth object wide-field infrared survey explorer, neo wise for short. the comet's been seen before dawn across much of the u.s. but, tonight, it will appear just before sunset, below the big dipper. you might want to check it out. it won't be back for 7,000 years. straight ahead on the 'cbs president orders akey's president orders a makeover at the country's biggest tourist attraction, sparking outrage. and it's the latest side effect of the pandemic -- what's happened to all the coins? ll the coins? tronger than you know. so strong. you power through chronic migraine, 15 or more headache or migraine days a month. one tough mother. you're bad enough for botox®. botox® has been preventing headaches and migraines

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recep tayyip erdogan, has announced it'll be converted back into a mosque, delighting his devout supporters, who celebrated outside hagia sophia, chanting "god is great." but the decision horrifies those, like nobel prize winning author orhan pamuk, who want their country to remain a place where politics and religion are kept separate. >> there are millions of secular turks like me who are crying against this but their voices are not being heard because we do not have enough free speech and democracy in turkey unfortunately anymore. >> reporter: hagia sophia built as a cathedral around when this city, now known as 1,500 years ago when this city, now known as istanbul, was ruled by the christian byzantine empire. then, nearly 600 years ago, it became a mosque when the city was conquered by the muslim ottoman empire. in modern turkey, the religious

and the secular rub shoulders, often surprisingly, sometimes uncomfortably. the decision to convert hagia sophia back into a mosque has been criticized by christian leaders, and us secretary of state mike pompeo warned against it. but president erdogan has been at the helm in turkey for 17 years and relies on the support of his religious and nationalistic base. the first muslim prayers inside hagia sophia will be held in two weeks. holly williams, cbs news, istanbul >> yuccas: quite the changing political spectrum there, holly, thank you. still ahead on the cbs weekend news -- coin flip. why some stores want you to dig deep to help them stay afloat.

>> yuccas: you probably didn >> yuccas: you probably didn't see this coming. first it was toilet paper and hand sanitizer. then yeast and flour. now it's coins, as in quarters, nickels, dimes and pennies,that are in short supply. cbs's michael george has more. >> reporter: can you spare some change? some consumers are noticing a coin shortage. the federal reserve calls it a dramatic deceleration of coin circulation, all because of a change in our patterns and

payments since covid-19. some businesses, if they're open, might not accept currency in the first place or havee. the federal reserve told americans last month it would have to ration the distribution of coins, putting limits on how much change banks would be given. those banks, in turn, are supplying fewer coins to the gas station and the corner store. stores like that account for about 165 million transactions a day. >> right now cash is a problem. >> reporter: according to a spokesman for national association of convenience stores, jeff lenard >> they're only being given a fraction of what they normally get in terms of coins. the irony of all of this is that if there is any kind of payment that retailers love, it's cash. >> reporter: retailers sent this letter to treasury secretary steve mnuchin and jerome powell calling the shortage an emergency, asking the federal reserve to release coins.

this mint, on the grounds of the u.s. military academy here at west point, shut down, at the onset of the coronavirus outbreak in new york. the u.s. mint says its u.s. military academy here at west point, shut down, at the increased to nearly 1.6 billion coins last month -- all while having to adjust its workflow during covid-19. the u.s. mint tells cbs news it has put together a coin task force in an effort to reduce disruptions to coin circulation, since the demand for circulating coins has drastically increased, saying -- reduced retail sales activity and significantly decreased deposits from third-party coin processors has led to the demand. in the meantime, the work- around, for now, has some stores asking customers to empty out a coin bucket or that dish you keep on the dresser. >> just saw the sign. they need coins, so rather than take them to the bank, we just brought them in here. >> reporter: michael george, cbs news, west point, new york. >> yuccas: or check those couch cushions. michael, thank you.

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♪ america the beautiful >> reporter: night after night, he's here. a twelve year-old and his trumpet outside emory-decatur hospital. jason zgonc's saluting the covid-fighters, front-liners like dr. matthew hogan. >> it's amazing. it takes very little to make people happy, right? >> reporter: both jason's parents are professional but musicians. but that's not where he got the idea. >> on facebook, i saw a guy from the new york philharmonic playing off his balcony for the nurses and doctors at shift change, and i wanted to do something similar to it. >> reporter: rain or shine, he started playing tribute. 61 nights and counting. >> i appreciate that they're working so hard every day, trying to save people's lives. >> reporter: i'm gonna guess there's a lot of people in this hospital who can't wait for 7:00 to come around to hear you play.

>> i think some people in the hospital do. >> reporter: natalie smith does. >> just at his age and his talent to even think about that is just mind-blowing to me. >> she had just finished a rough shift the first time she heard jason play. >> and it gives you a sense of community. and it changes your whole shift 'cause people come into work and they'll be talking about it >> reporter: this virus is sticking around. the only good part? jason will, too. >> they know every night, i'm gonna be out there playing for them. >> reporter: mark strassmann cbs news, decatur georgia. >> yuccas: an attitude of gratitude at 12. pretty remarkable. saturday. cbs weekend news for this saturday. later on cbs -- 48 hours. and don't forget 'sunday morning with jane pauley' first thing tomorrow, where my pal lee cown will be filling in. i'm jamie yuccas in los angeles. have a good night. captioning sponsored by cbs

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>> reporter: just as alameda county was rolling back indoor dining, the city of oakland trying to rollback crowds at lake merritt. >> it was pretty crowded last weekend, you know? tons of people out there celebrating, doing all types of festivities, barbecuing and stuff. >> the last couple of weekends, you know, it's a good thing to have fun, but who knows at whose expense? >> reporter: it was a couple big weekends that reached a crescendo over the fourth of july, when massive crowds at the lake went late into the night. >> we saw what happened. firetruck could not get to an emergency. was delayed by about seven minutes. >> reporter: that incident on top of coronavirus concerns. >> i emailed the mayor, my city councilmember, a couple news organizations, and it looks kehie a little bi the ke week >> r dramatic difference from this week compared to last week? >> i think the mayor did the right think of they were smart enough to close the perimeters two parked cars and just limit the areas of which