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full hour of news. >> we have more news and studios, this is kpix 5 news. updates coming up in 30 another bay area city is minutes. and the cbs evening news is set to shift into reverse tomorrow after landing on the captioning sponsored by cbs state watch list. a black lives matter sign >> garrett: tonight america's has quietly been removed, but coronavirus pain deepens. it speaks volumes about the infections surge and unemployment benefits near an times we live in. end. and a protest at san patients in some states flood quentin where a dozen inmates emergency rooms. intensive care admissions also on the rise. have died. new curfews in florida and we're trying to send a clear message to governor neo r california braces for additional shutdowns. and no canada. to down to 50% of capacity. baseball's blue jays are good evening, i'm juliette goodrich. >> we begin on the peninsula forbidden to play at home or anywhere in the country. also the president says most new where a black lives matter covid cases are inconsequential. mural is no more. many communities across the bay >> many of those cases are young and the country have been people that would heal in a day. they have the sniffles and we displaying them on their streets. redwood city was one of them until last week when the city put it down as a test. >> garrett: plus congress quietly removed it. reconvenes. the goal? john ramos tells us why. another round of pandemic stimulus. >> reporter: the sign has been tributes, bipartisan and removed, but why it was removed may be a sign of the times we plentiful for civil rights
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leader and congressman john lewis. >> he was powerful. he was larger-than-life. >> he was a great man and he was tough as nails. live in. >> garrett: outrage in president dan peas got portland over protests and permission to paint the black federal arrests. and later, ford hopes for a lives matter mural as part of a black lives matter celebration. the city even supplied him with stampede. the bronco rides again. yellow poster paint to do it. >> because we were using the poster board paint, my understanding was the mural >> this is the cbs weekend news. would last as long as the paint lasted. >> rter: e >> garrett: good evening, everyone, i'm major garrett in aft being contacted cal attor washington. coronavirus continues to raffage the states where it has run rampant for weeks. california, texas, arizona and worst of all, florida. a public forum, she wanted a with more than 12,500 new infections there. sign of her own reading "maga slightly lower than its july 12th record of 15,300. 2020." >> on the asphalt, i fi not every infection, of course, leads to hospitalization or death. many people do recovery-- recover. but each positive test is disruptive to families, friends and businesses. and absent a significant
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reversal, the nation appears headed for 100,000 new cases per day. this weekend we hit roughly 70,000 per day just as experts warned of rising infection rates in georgia, tennessee, missouri and kentucky. we begin tonight with lilia luciano in los angeles. >> california is bracing for yet another shutdown as deaths and hospitalizations continue to spike. down south in florida folks are also expecting the worst. >> south beach tonight under curfew. >> by closing earlier it actually tones down the party. >> miami dade were one in five covid tests are positive, leads the state in new infections. just today adding more than 3,000 cases. it seems like this that worries officials as the governor warns young people are driving the surge. and tonight teksz as-- texas reporting more than 10,000 cases for the 6th day in a row. this as fans streamed into the
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motor speedway in fort worth. and in arizona a grim milestone, the state hitting its highest daily death toll sealt. there the federal government stepping in to increase testing in hot zones. >> we are doing tests to minimize the risk. >> california also struggling to reach its testing targets, seeing deaths nearly triple since the state's economy we open reopened in may. >> it was a discouraging week because we just went backwards. >> a second statewide shutdown looming. >> i think we're on the brink of that. >> los angeles had its worst week in new cases and hospitalizations but mayor garcetti hopes to keep the economy alive. >> we have to be surgical rather than a cleaver that would just shut everything down. >> canada doesn't like what it is seeing south of the border barring the toronto blue jays from playing at home. and in new york city the mets faced the yankees at an empty citi field, except for the best seats in the house. those taken by quiet cardboard
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fans. professional sports will resume in new york city without fans as part of the city's entering into phase 4 of reopenings tomorrow. that still mean there is no indoor dining and there is a stark contrast here in los angeles where we may have to wait three weeks to know whether the closures are working is. major? >> lilia luciano, thank you. we can add jack nicklaus to americans, more than 1.1 million so far who have recovered from coronavirus. the golf legend now 80 told cbs stort sports today that he and his wife barbara contracted the virus earlier this year. >> our hearts go out to the people that did lose their lives and the families. we were just a couple of the lucky ones. >> garrett: nicklaus says they are both doing fine now. president trump says this in a new interview quote i've been right probably more than nibbles unquote. the topic, coronavirus. new polls however suggest
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otherwise. nikole killion is at the white house. >> i take responsibility always for everything because it's ultimately my job. >> president trump told fox news sunday things were under control as two new polls showed a majority disapproving of his handling of the pandemic. >> it is birching embers this say forest fire. >> no, i say flames, we'll put out the flames. >> mr. trump emphasized death rates, not cases or hospitalizations. >> we have one of the lowest mortality rate. >> that's not true, sir. >> well, we have. >> we have 900 deaths in a single day. >> you have the numbers, please. because i heard we had the best mortality rate. >> number one low mortality rate. >> and the president's dismissed some of the advice from his own experts like dr. anthony fauci. >> one of your right hand men, daniel scavino put out this, have you seen this? dr. faucet t shows him as a leaker and an alarmist. >> i don't mow that he is a leaker. >> he is a little bit of an alarmist. >> in week negotiations resume n the fourth phase of a resume
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coronavirus relief package, two months after the house passed its own plan. >> the president says he wants liabilities protections for businesses and a payroll tax cut. >> i would consider not signing it if we don't have a payroll tax cut. >> the president is also facing a tough fight for re-election. the same poll show him trailing former vice president biden by 15 points and eight respectively. >> i'm not losing. because those are fake polls. >> taking a wait and see approach come election day. >> you can give a direct answer, will you accept the election. >> i have to see, look, i have to seevment i'm not going to just say yes. and i didn't last time either. >> the bieden campaign slammed the president interview saying the american people will decide the election and calling his covid response catastrophic. the president's chief of staff say mrs. trump plans to roll out some initiatives this week to address the pandemic. major. >> garrett: nikole killion, thank you. more tributes today honoring the
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life and legacy of civil rights champion congressman john lewis. michelle miller is in atlanta. >> all across atlanta worshipers at church services remembered the late congressman, one of the legendary figures of the civil rights movement. >> john has been our congressman for 34 years. >> former u.n. ambassador andrew young marched with lewis and dr. king. >> john lewis is one of the quietest, most humble leaders that has ever lived. he seemingly doesn't have any ambition but to serve. >> there is a moral obligation to do something. >> for many here and across america, lewis left a lasting impact. >> the quote of him saying let's get into some good trouble is activating a generation. activating a generation that wants to get involved and say hey, this is wrong. i'm going to stand up for it and i'm going to stand up for it
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loudly. i'm going to stand up for it proudly. >> former secretary of state colin powell. >> he spent his whole adult life fighting these issues. and going after racism. and so a man with that kind of bravery built into him is an incredible individual and he was. and i think we will always be remembering what he did for our nation. what he did for our people. >> major, there say candle light vigil set here at the john lewis memorial mural but already there are calls to rename the edmund pettus bridge after him as well. as you remember, it was on that bridge in march of 1965 that he lead protestors across from selma to montgomery as they were fighting for their voting rights. they were met with opposition from law enforcement. and it is that moment that became known as bloody sunday. >> garrett: michelle, with congressman lewis' passing, the question looms, what does it
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mean for the continuing fight for racial and social equality in america right now? >> lewis was an incredible ally to the next generation, whether it was with immigration or gun control or gay rights. he was the man who was always willing to reach across some other movements and bring people forward. whether it's in techniques or ability. he had this incredible sense of mentorship and the hopes is that there will be others who come along and fill his shoes. >> garrett: michelle miller, thank you so very much. today the mayor of portland, agents o of his city, accusing them of overstepping their powers and threatening protestors. as meg oliver report, new violence is adding to tensions. >> more clashes erupted saturday night between federal officers and protesters in portland.
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this agent repeatedly strikes a man with his baton before they douse him with pepper spray. police declared a riot after they sayere. the mayor claims the increase in violence on the tactics of federal officers, many of them ice agents. >> they're not wanted here. we haven't asked them here. in fact, we want them to leave. >> the nightly demonstrations began 53 days ago in wake of the deaths of george floyd, breonna taylor and ahmaud arbery. >> we will do anything that we can to get our point across so that people understand where we are coming from and what we believe in. >> but after a more than a month of active protests president trump sent in fed real agent toses protect buildings and personnels with. >> people are being scooped offer the streets in unmarked van, rental cars, apparently. they are being denied probable cause and they are denied due process. they don't even know who is pulling them into the vans.
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the people aren't identifying themselves. and as far as i can see, this is completely unconstitutional. >> this the mayor is suing several agencies for illegally detaining protestors off the streetses. president trump responded sundaying tweeting we are trying to help portland, not hurt it, we must protect federal property and our people. meg oliver, cbs news. >> garrett: overseas now japan says it is extremely concerned after more than 140 u.s. marines tested positive for the coronavirus. the marines are based on the island of okinawa. as amy inocencio reports, the it is testing an uneasy relationship. >> the ospreys still deploy out of okinawa japan. the u.s. military keystone in the pacific, even as the marine corps wageblic hlth battle against coronavirus. a major change from this fourth of july party seen on social
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media. allegedly direct service members when restrictions were loose are. okinawa's governor criticized the u.s. military for spreading the virus and isolating new arrivals in this off-base hotel. >> is there truth to that? >> so as of right now we have not found any connection between the july 4th celebration and any positive case we have identified. >> the joint covid response cell is the military's nerve center to trace and treat the virus. up to 40,000 marines and their families are now in a state of restricted movement. >> if you go out in town you go home and come to, without. that is really the only interaction you have off the base. >> okinawa is home to more than half of the roughly 50,000 u.s. personnel stationed in japan. flight surgeon margarette moore. >> the spread is being,-- exceptionally well-contained by the policies. >> is it a directive that everyone has to wear a mask.
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>> st not a suggestion, it is an order from comanding officers and you could be stood to be punished for not doing what they say to do. >> and of note the u.s. marine corps says to expect even more service members to test positive but only because they will be doing increased testing. they also stress that military readiness will not be compromised to respond to any threat here in asia-pacific. major. >> garrett: ramy inocencio, thank you. straight ahead on the cbs weekend news, there is a race for a covid-19 cure, we all know, that but will there be enough viels to deliver a vaccine. and later there say new bronco in town and we will seald up. ga
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>> if warp speed is how fast the race for a successful coronavirus vaccine is moving, then this factory floor is a crucial finishing line. the certificateup institute of india is the world's largest manufacturer of vaccines and has been tapped by fark facialg giant astra-zeneca to produce over a billion doses of the vaccine being trialed by oxford university. certificateup cree adar poonwalla says of the over 100 coronavirus candidate vaccines he has the most faith in oxford. >> we have dedicated all of our manufacturing facilities at the moment for the astrazeneca product. as you heard it is a billion doses, it is no small amount even for us. >> if the oxford vaccine trials are successful there is still serious concerns about how to distribute it. glass viels like these produced by the germany schott ag a most ctive w whe simple lheyine of health and human services are
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already warning of a critical shortage. >> we are in a situation where lots of thunkings have to come together. as you know such coordination efforts at that scale also depends to a great degree on political motivation within the trump administration has been trying to diseur supplies only for the u.s., the scientists are warning that america first approach will only prolong the still very global pandemic even with an effective vaccine. im yahd-- imtiaz tyab, cbs news, london. >> garrett: still ahead, the nation's coin shortage causes a new challenge at checkout. 7
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under scrutiny for his relationship to convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein is noticeably absent from official photos. an update to a story we reported here last week. the pandemic-induced nationwide shortage of coins. several big retailers including cvs, kroger and wal-mart are now asking shoppers for exact change only or to pay with credit. for those who can't, some stores are simply rounding up and donating the difference to charity. next on the cbs weekend news how the latino community is bearing the brunt of the coronavirus crisis.
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fighting the deadly coronavirus. as the numbers continue to spike, a sobering reality has emerged. latinos and latinas along with other communities of color are bearing the brunt of this pandemic. >> they left us alone to fight. and there are still days where we feel very alone. >> if there are no work ares because we get all sick and it is impossible to sustain that work because of that, then there is no food. what are people going to do. >> i want everyone to look back and know that her dad really put up a fight. and as he was fighting, he was taking care sometimes of the very people that wanted him out. just to prove to this country that he's worthy. >> as the virus continues to rip through the latino community, activists tall back on a familiar battle cry. >> this is for our community, this is for our country.
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so por favor. >> leer in texas more than 40% of the confirmed coronavirus cases come from the hispanic community, more than any other ethnicity in the state. and as its new school year creeps closer latino families worried the digital divide will continue to grow just like the covid cases. major? >> garrett: mireya villarreal, thank you. pandemia: latinos in crisis airs tonight at 9:00, 8 central on cbsn and also available at cbs news.com/pandemia. when we return, ford corrals a new s surks v as the bronco rides again.
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>> you need a bronco. >> the ford bronco is back. collector robert parker has been waiting 24 years to see the iconic suv ride again. >> when i think about bronco i think about, you know, my bucket list. things that i have always wanted to do, places i've always wanted to see. >> the bronco, a totally new concept in transportation. >> when ford introduced the 1966 bronco it was unlike anything on the road or off it. >> the bronco is a roadster. >> its original code name goat, go over any terrain. for its 31 year production run ford's five generations of broncos sold 1.1 million vehicles as the truck drove right into pop culture. rolling through 1200 movies. >> it could be a very good bet that this is o.j. smpson's vecle. >> bheroos perhap best known for the 1994 s policn th white ford bronc
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by 1996 americans were flocking to four-door suv's sending bronco to the stables for nearly a quarter century. c-net's tim stevens. >> is there demand for another suv. >> right now the demand is still strong and with so many suv's on the market there is really high value for personality and character in suv's and that is something lacking, the bronco does not lack character. >> we got a ride in the new broncos. 20201 include a two door and four door and smaller bronco sport. >> do you feel pressure not to screw this up? >> st always in my mind about don't screw it up. >> getting it right falls to dave per is sack fords director of icon. >> every mill mighter has been folt over. people are using it and driving it. >> robert park certificate holding down until the spring where he can spark it next to this classic he is restoring, kris van cleave, cbs news, washington. >> garrett: tonight that is the cbs weekend news for this sunday. i'm major garrett in washington.
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