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Texas reported more than 1,800 new infections just yesterday. Yes, thats a single day record. But its also part of an upward trend in new cases that began more than two weeks ago when the Texas Governor greg abbott began easing restrictions. Cnns ed lavandera joins us now from dallas. Ed what do you know about these new cases . Reporter well we can take you a little deeper into these numbers and kind of take a closer look at to why these numbers are so large, reported yesterday. The new numbers expected out here in the next couple of hours. But 1,800 new cases reported on saturday. According to state Health Officials, more than 730 of those are because of a team of testers that were in the panhandle area around texas investigating cases in a breakout there around meat packing plants. State Health Officials attribute the large spike in yesterdays cases to the specific testing done there in the panhandle and a lot of those meat packing workers, but it really does not change the fact that since the reopening of the economy here in texas, the case numbers continue to hover well over 1,000 virtually every day here and now there are other things that the governor says they are looking at. The number of tests executed and reported every day. They have gone up. Three of the last four days reported over 30,000 test results. By far the highest numbers weve seen since the pandemic started, but there are a number of other medical indicators and data indicators that suggest everything is plateauing. Not really spiking up heavily or trending downward. So kind of a mixed bag of information here as the reopening of the economy here in texas continues. Fredricka . All right, ed lavandera in dallas. Thank you so much. Right now to the northeast and the tristate area where beaches will remain closed for memorial day in new york city, but then open in new jersey. Cnns evan mk mcmorecmore mcmorrissantoro joins me. Reporter right, fred. Officials want to portray theyre being very, very careful about reopening recreation areas as the curve is bean bent here in the city. Where i am, domino park in brooklyn a five, six acre park in a populous area. Popular place to go. How do you make a place safe amongst this density . The answer, officials have done, paint circles on the ground six feet apart. People stay in the circles and bring a lot of police here to make sure people are oboeing social distancing rules. In other areas we heard people say the beaches in new york city remain closed memorial day and setting up fencing and other types of things to prepare to close them if people are not social distanced and using them now. You can walk on them now. Sit on them now, if you are social distant from each other, but hes keep ag very, very close eye on the behavior saying hes close them down completely if people are not safe. Very different story in new jersey where the jersey shore is incredibly important. Yesterday we were out there for a dry run of an opening plan the governor has for the beaches on memorial day weekend. We saw people there being asked kind of to use their best judgment. We saw a lot of people on the boardwalk not Wearing Masks. Not really told they had to wear masks. And people on the beaches congregating from small groups distanted apart from each others two 2ki6 approaches in these two people as people try to have a summer under coronavirus. Fred . Evan mcmorrissantoro, thank you for that. While much of florida has had some sort of partial reopening two of the biggest and hardesthit counties in florida had to way because of a high number of cases and deaths. Thats about to change monday at miamidade and broward counties will start rolling out partial reopenings pt mayor suarez is with us and taking a much more cautious approach to reopening. Paint the picture. How will it be monday or perhaps midweek . Our city is taking a cautious approach because we have most cases in the state of florida and probablily the densest part of the state. We are actually open on wednesday. Retail up to a capacity of 25 . And were not opening our restaurants until a week from this wednesday. So were taking a very cautious approach. Obviously, weve seen statistics about states throughout the United States starting to see some level of resurgence that have reopened. Thats a big concern for us. Were pitting strict kurules to maintain social distancing and hopefully safely be able to slightly reopen and open slowly, but all depends on our residents ability to do it responsibly. And miamidade is pretty densely populated. How will you enforce these restrictions . Its going to be a challenge, without a doubt. Our government is not really set up for this kind of enforcement. So were going to obviously depend on Business Owners to obviously help enforce within their own businesses. If theyre not, we have ability to shut the businesses down. Meaning meaning youre asking the businesses, or youre allowing these businesses to say, for instance, put up a sign that says, you know, no masks, no entry . That kind of thing . If they dont adhere to that you could potentially shut down businesses . Exactly. Obviously, we have our police department. We have our Court Compliance officers to go in and help enforce if someone is for some reason not following the instructions of a business owner. If we have businesses flagrantly violating the rules and are not mandating that their customers comply with the social distancing orders Wearing Masks inside other businesses, we will unfortunately have to shut them down. So Miamidade County has been one of the hardest hit areas in the state. Accounting for about a third of all cases in the state. How concerned are you that a lot of people may not act responsibly as you kind of spelled out, and that could potentially cause a spike in numbers . Very concerned about it. You know, we havent even already started, you know, this monday, reopening, and already had yesterday the largest number of oneday cases in probably a month, a month and a half. So one of the issues weve been having throughout this entire process is analyzing the data. Making sure that the data were seeing is accurate. What we assume happens is that some of the private labs data dump on a regular base so youll see all of these sort of uneven spikes and the two days that preceded that spike were eextre low case positive day. We have to work with the department of health to get a sense how the data was inputted to make smart decisions. A top industry there is tourism, and what do you do about that . I mean, because youve got residents who perhaps may be more familiar with the guidelines that you put in place, but also talking about a lot of people who are transient, come through as tourtourists, i set r its set ra. Its going to take time. Traffic, and airports, not sure many feel safe traveling. I think thats going to be an issue. Obviously, well see how this reopening goes. Were hopeful and obviously optimistic it will go well. Hopeful cases continue to go down so we can enter into the next phase, in 14 days. Some of what weve seen across country are a concern and weve had a oneday spike. Its just one day but something we have to look at and monitor carefully. Mayor francis suarez, thank you so much, of miami. Appreciate it. Thank you for having me. And as states start to reopen there is a weekend lockdown affecting the countrys largest native american population. Well take you there live for an update, next in the newsroom. I do motivational speaking in addition to the substitute teaching. I honestly feel that thats my calling to give back to younger people. I think most adults will start realizing that they dont recall things as quickly as they used to or they dont remember things as vividly as they once did. Ive been taking prevagen for about three years now. People say to me periodically, man, youve got a memory like an elephant. Its really, really helped me tremendously. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. The Navajo Nation has one of the highest Coronavirus Infection rates in america, despite spread over ar vast area, spanning new mexico, arizona and utah. The crisis is requiring drastic measures including weekend closures of all businesses, even essential once, like gas stations. Cnns sara sidner is live from the capital of the Navajo Nation window rock, arizona. These are drastic measures but is it making an impact . Reporter they say they hope its making an impact but weve seen a spike in cases. Theyve havent very spritrict. A 57hour lockdown partly because theyve seen a spike not only in number of cases but in the number of deaths. As it has stood for some time, the Navajo Nation had the third highest rates of infection per capita behind new york and new jersey. But the president of the Navajo Nation said that is partly due to the fact they have been testing more than any other state in the nation. About 11 of his people tested, which explains the numbers a bit, but he is clear this is having a devastating impact on the population. Not just on a health side, but also economically. He also talked about why his 175,000 residents have such a hard time containing the virus. You would think in a place that is 27,000 square miles that covers three different states that selfisolation and distancing would be easy, but he talks about why it isnt, and what makes that so difficult here on the Navajo Nation. We talked to the president in ship rock, new mexico. Even though this is vast navajo land, you know, about 175,000, 200,000 citizens living on the Navajo Nation, you know, we need supplies and we need to bring water to drink and also water for our livestock. We do have to leave our homestead to get food and supplies, and then come back home and so thats one of the reasons why this virus is spreading like wildfire here on the Navajo Nation. Reporter and he also mentions that 30 to 40 of the residents in the Navajo Nation do not have running water. Frequent handwashing is a problem and generations of people live in one house or one compound making selfisolation very, very difficult and that explains, he says, why this virus has spread. Now, the reason im wear ag mask with hardly anybody around is because there is a rule. Part of his sort of strict edict to the people here on the Navajo Nation if youre in public you freed to wear a mask and he hopes as science said masks and distancing, selfdistancing will have an impact as they watched the numbers rise and continue trying to test aggressively. Fredricka . All right. Sara sidner, thank you so much. Appreciate that. The u. S. Is not alone in seeing protests over lockdown restrictions. Next, well take to you london where outrage is also pouring into the streets. Well tell you what that countrys Prime Minister is saying about it. It only takes a second for an everyday item to become dangerous. Tide pods childguard pack helps keep your laundry pacs in a safe place and your child safer. To close, twist until it clicks. Tide pods childguard packaging. Tmobile and sprint to power your business. 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But it does depend on develop ag vaccine and theyre not there yet. Its ambitious and a lot of people are questioning the timeline. Nevertheless the government is throwing everything at this particular project, particularly the one up in oxford, fredricka. You see that take place against britains new rules of handling this pandemic. Reporter lots of confusion around the new messaging, but also this issue within the United Kingdom where wales and scotland are rejecting Boris Johnsons plan effectively and going their own wee. Keeping their lockdown for longer. Boris johnson really only speaking for england when he talks about lifting the lockdown in the manner hes talking about. Today he wrote in a sunday newspaper talking about acknowledging the frustration over the complex easing of this, but says it is, by its very nature quite complex. Acknowledging it but not changing anything there. The other thing we got over the weekend, they recruited 17,000 contact traces. These are the people that are going to go out and find those who have been in contact with anyone thats had the virus. Thats going to be in place for the next month when they start in theory opening schools and shops. Max foster, thank you so much. The white house says it has a new plan for widespread coronavirus testing. Well explain ahead in the cnn newsroom. First a preview of tonights cnn film scandalous. I couldnt have create add better picture. Couldnt have sent a photographer out with instructions and had him come back with Something Better than that. That changed the face of american politics. Gary hart had an excellent chance becoming president and that destroyed his political chances. I dont really want to comment on that. Reporter dukakis took his place. Read my lips. No new taxes. No chance against george bush. If george became president his son became president later. Changed the course of history. Did we do well or not . Thats not my problem. 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Thanks for having me. Great. How important is it to get these types of tests out to the public . I think its critical. We have a lot of challenges with the current wave we are testing. First of all you need a mask in order to do the test. The provider needs a mask, and youre still doing these tests in medical facilities by a nurse or a provider, and generally they can take up to 8, 12, sometimes up to 24 hours to return a result. It would be gamechanging to use a massive amount of tests easy to do. People could do them on their own. That would be a huge step forward. Talk about the cdc. Often the centerpiece of any national fight against some Health Matter threatening the nation. Now there seems to be a growing tension between the white house and the centers for Disease Control and prevention. A white house trade adviser Peter Navarro slammed the top Health Agency today. Listen. Early on in this crisis, the cdc, which really had the most trusted brand around the world, in this space really let the country down with the testing, because not only did they keep the testing within the bureaucracy, they had a bad test nap did set us back. Well, is it a setback that would you have this kind of dispute between the cdc and, you know, the white house . The health and Human Services secretary azar was pressed today saying should he take any responsibility for any missteps of the cdc and he refused to answer that, but is this kind of fissure another setback for the nations fight against this pandemic . I think the only way to fight this pandemic is with a unified front, because the virus doesnt care if were divided or together and, in fact, the best way to fight it is fight it together. I will say that the cdc is my goto resource for all details that i need as a provider. When im thinking about how i might deal with ainfection control issues. The guidance that i need, thats my goto place, and we need those details from the cdc. We need them to be forthcoming, we need them to be voluminous. We need them so we can understand exactly how to operate to prevent this disease and tackle it. The president sounded confident as pertains to a vaccine that this nation will see it by end of this year. A lot of skepticism among scientists in the medical community saying a product that could be distributed by the end of the year, not possible. Where are you on this . Boy, would i love to see that happen. I am i would like to say im cautiously optimistic, but i just think that thats an incredibly ambitious timeline. We never have seen a vaccine at that timeline. In fact, never seen a vaccine at double that timeline. So i know we have incredible resources going towards it. I would like to see it happen. The other thing i want to comment on is, once there is a vaccine, will people take it . I remind people only about 50 of People Living in the United States get vaccinated for influenza every year. As we think about going into the fall and the threat of coronavirus again i would say lets get vaccinated for the things we have. Secretary azar said today also that the method of production and manufacturing the vaccine will be different this goround and thats why theyre able to expedite the time line. Is that concerning at all to you . Or does it offer relief to you . I think it offers a suggestion theyre going to pour an intense amount of resources in. The production may vary depending which vaccine is brought to scale. So we dont exactly know which one we would need. Theyre going to have to be scaling up numerous areas of production. I believe that they are inter t interested and motivated in doing that. To have hundreds of millions of Vaccine Doses Available by end of the year i just cant see being tenable. The World Health Organization today putting out a statement about the coronavirusrelated inflammatory disease affecting children. W. H. O. Saying its essential to learn more about it. Do you worry that parents may not be equipped with enough information to identify what may be going on with their kids . I worry that were all not equipped with enough information. Early on said kids were doing fine. This taught ut to have hue mate mate humility here. A month later kids are coming down a a severe inflammatory syndrome. I convey its rare. Were still in the hundreds of cases though we believe hundreds of thousands of children have been infected. I think we have a lot yet to learn and, yes i think its important to get the word out to understand what this markers of inflammation and how they present so parents can be aware and brick theng their children medical attention. Good to see you. Be well. Thank. As fear over the coronavirus spreads, so, too, did the theories about where it originated. It one of the theories that it was created in a lab in wuhan, china and even propped up by the trump administration. Secretary of state mike pompeo saying he had evidence supporting the claim a few weeks ago. In an interview with Breitbart News this weekend the secretary cast doubt on what he had already said. We know it began in wuhan but we dont know from where or from whom, and those are important things one of the key facts for scientists and epidemiologists to build out vaccines and therapeutics and identify how this was ultimately delivered to the world, you have to know where patient zero began and how patient zero became infected. Pompeo as reiterated the u. S. Intends to punish chynna f china for not doing more to spop the outbreak but will leave that to President Trump what to do. And the white house shuffles washingtons top watchdog. Cnn learned howard elliott, administrator of the pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration will move into the role of acting Inspector General of the department of transportation. This comes after President Trump fired the state departments i. G. Lit friday night. Cnns Jeremy Diamond is at the white house for us. What more do we know about all of these moves . Reporter right, fredricka. Hour elliott will become the departments acting Inspector General for the department of transportation, replacing the deputy Inspector General for that agency who had been serving in an acting capacity since january when the Senate Confirmed Inspector General for the department of transportation resigned from his position. This, fredricka, of course, is just the latest reshuffling of inspectors general offices across the government that has been directed by the white house. An Administration Official told me that this late ef most move department of transportation was indeed orchestrated by the White House Counsels Office deciding to offer a permanent replacement friday night and felt it would make sense to name an acting Inspector General at the same time. Of course, we cant just look at this, fredricka, in isolation. This would be the fifth reshuffling of an Inspector General across the government in just the last six weeks. These are different cases, though, of course. In this case we have an acting Inspector General coming in, replacing someone serving in that acting capacity, but that deputy Inspector General who was serving in that acting capacity, he will remain at that department, as deputy Inspector General. Thats very different, of course, from what we saw with firing of the state departments Inspector General friday night. The firing of the intelligence communitys Inspector General in april. 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The fact weve got people now returning their Small Business payroll Protection Plan loans, its ridiculous. Somethings gone wrong. The government needs to course correct so the money theyve allocated gets out there some 5 million to 10 million havent gotten Unemployment Benefits that are lmgeligible yet and anticipate the pain coming. We know this is not going to be an easy open. The house approved that 3 trillion stimulus. Not likely to pass the u. S. Senate. Business owners saying reopening, restaurants, just 25 , isnt likely to help them. Do you expect that in the next month or two, american businesses will find out if they live or die . Unfortunately, i hope thats not the case. I hope theres nor backstops. I know people dont like bailouts. Throw out the biases. We need to help households and businesses get to the other side of this. If we dont, widespread bankruptcies and consolidations. I walked down the street near where i live, a number of Small Businesses with paper over their windows permanently shuttered is stunning. We think weve lost at least 100,000 businesses already. We need an economy to rebuild from after we get through the reality of living in a world that still has an infectious high rate of contagion. So sad. Of course, if you dont have a job, youre not going to be able to pay your rent or mortgage. How long can landlords and banks extend grace periods . Well, thats really interesting. One of the good things that came out, fannie and freddie, the mortgage behemoths are allowing, instead of playing a lump sum, defer your mortgages tack it on to end of your mortgage and dont have to pay a lump snum six months or a year if having this trouble. Still hasnt dealt with the credit market problems for the servers tightening creditor for the mortgage. We plug one hole and then find another. We do have foresight. We do know that fast as the science is going its a breakneck speed on innovation, technology, treatments, possibility of a vaccine. That is still eternity for the economy. Knowing that means we have to front run some ofs this pain and get ready to blunt the blow to have more of the economy to recover from when we get to the other side of this. And retailers down, numbers down 16 . A lot of businesses are reopening. Stores among them. But retail is down, taken such a plunge, and a lot of folks are strapped for cash. I mean it doesnt seem like the forecast is getting any better for them either. Exactly. And one of the problems with of course, you mentioned the restaurants. Restaurants need an average of 75 capacity to break even. So they cant possibly make ends meet running 25 or 50 with social distancing, so theyre going to need more help. I think thats really important to understand. And that 75 is really contingent on heavy crowds from thursday through sunday, and a big bar bill. And i think thats something that, you know, policy makers arent taking into account, is how stressful this is, not right to open without even any protocols on a national level. Many of these restaurants dont know what they have to do to be safe, nor do they have access to ppe. Same thing with retailers. Theyre kind of low on the totem pole relative to health care providers. Right. And if youre familiar struggling and now you have to spend money on ppe or having precautions put in place for your employees and your patrons, thats a really tough, tough demand. Diane swonk, thank you so much. Good to see you. Thank you. So, as we say, a lot of restaurants are reopening, but not always at full capacity. But the Dining Experience may never be the same, from this point forward. 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Reporter mcdonalds is planning to reopen its restaurants for people to dine in, a bold step for americas oldest fast food icon. The mcdonalds experience may never look the same again. Some tables will be closed. A table will be sanitized after each customers use, the bathrooms cleaned every 30 minutes. And you wont be able to tap your drink from those famous selfserve beverage fountains with the free refills. These days, even that simple tap and pour refill is a risk. Youre stepping other people, youre jockeying in line. Thats a problem. Also, any area where youre going to have multiple people touching something is problematic. Reporter the mccdonalds reopening playbook, a nearly 60page document obtained by cnn also says that employees have to wash their hands every hour. Touch screen pay kiosks have been to be cleaned after each use. Other restaurants opting for dining in are taking additional creative measures, like the federal American Grill in houston. Disposable menus, masks, gloves. We have differentcolored linens on our table, so if it has a black linen right now if were not seating it, and a white linen, were seating it. Reporter mcdonalds internal guidelines first reported by the wall street journal dont say that every Mcdonalds Restaurants has to reopen for Dining Services right away. Each Franchise Operator gets to make that call as they weigh the reopening guidelines of their local governments. But public Health Experts say all restaurants in america getting ready to throw open their doors have to think about even more stepped up measures, like one expert says restaurants he went to in hong kong did recently, where servers gave howto instructions for customers. Every time i went into a restaurant, they would take my temperature for me. When i sat down, they would explain, heres the knife, fork, and spoon thats used to pick up the food, this is the separate knife, fork, and spoon that will be used to put the food in your mouth. Reporter still, some Health Experts are not comfortable with the reopenings at this stage of the pandemic. We know that transmission is spread through small droplets, so its very difficult to bring people into small, enclosed spaces like a Mcdonalds Restaurants and to be able to say to people, its okay to eat, you know, take your mask off, talk. Whos going to enforce this . And how do you enforce that employees adhere to this . How do you make sure that they are, indeed sanitizing surfaces, tabletops, bathrooms, as often as outlined in this plan . Reporter then theres the matter of mcdonalds employees having to enforce healthy behavior on the part of customers. The mcdonalds playbook instructs employees how to gently tell customers to distance and stay clean, but that can be dangerous. Recently, a woman in oklahoma was arrested on suspicion of shooting a mcdonalds employee when she was asked to leave a restaurant because of coronavirus restrictions. Brian todd, cnn, washington. All right, thank you so much for joining me this sunday. Im fredricka whitfield. The news rom continues with ana cabrera right after this. Hello on this sunday. Im ana cabrera in new york. At this hour, the u. S. Death toll from the coronavirus is nearing 90,000. More than 36 million americans are out of work and theres an urgent race for a vaccine. But in this time of crisis when we should all be coming together, what are we seeing instead . An extraordinary feud between President Trump and his predecessor, barack obama. Look, he was an incompetent president , thats all i can say. Grossly incompetent. An