Mitt romney takes to the streets with protesters. Now former secretary of state colin powell says hes voting for joe biden calling the president a divider who lies all the time. Cristobal making landfall lashing the gulf coast with storm surges and flash flooding, neighborhoods under water. The storm spinning out nine reported tornadoes in florida. We are tracking the latest this morning. Ready to reopen. 400,000 people back to work in hardhit new york city, 100 first reported covid case. Governor andrew cuomo declaring the city has crushed the curve as cases increase in 20 other states across the country. The death toll in the u. S. Climbing past 110,000. And our abc news exclusive. The new evidence that coronavirus may have been spreading through wuhan long before Chinese Health officials sounded the alarm. Dramatic takedown. Good samaratins capture a suspected cop killer. We are holding him on the ground right here. After a deadly ambush involving gunfire and explosives killing a california deputy and e fbis urgent investigation. And kids calling for change. No justice, no peace. How the new generation is standing tall in the fight against racism. The Youth Movement gaining momentum across the country. Plus, the 9yearold whos making a big impact, raising 30,000 to help minneapolis. And this morning were making her monday. Good morning, america. Thank you for joining us this monday morning. What an extraordinary moment this is in america. It has been two weeks since the globalotts swept our nation fro coast to coast over the weekend, robin. And that movement is continuing as you know, george, from protesters taking to the streets in los angeles to demonstrators in our nations capital. That powerful black lives matter painted on 16th street in washington, d. C. , that sign inspiring other cities to paint similar works of art across the country. Take a look at this one in raleigh, north carolina, amy. Beautiful, end racism now. And take a look at this other stunning image out of d. C. There was over a mile of fencing surrounding the white house but protesters decided to make the most of it to make it part of the movement posting signs for change. And in the city where george floyd was killed, the Minneapolis City Council promised last night to dismantle the Police Department. Were going to have a live response from the mayor of minneapolis, jacob frey, in an exclusive interview. Hes standing by to talk with you, george. Were going to continue in houston where thousands, as weve said, are expected today at a memorial for george floyd. Marcus moore is there with the latest. Good morning, marcus. Robin, good morning. It will be a highly emotional day here as thousands are expected to come to this church for the public viewing for george floyd. This as people in cities across the globe protest floyds death. From coast to coast, thousands gathering to peacefully protest Racial Injustice and Police Brutality. 10,000 people paying their respects at a memorial for george floyd in north carolina. His death igniting a global movement. Some death aint about dying. Some death is about waking all of us up. Reporter in washington, d. C. , sunday, civil rights icon john lewis who marched for equal rights in selma in 1965 and was beaten by police, this weekend standing on a newly painted mural, the words black lives matter leading right to the white house, he said the nation wod that we will get essage to there. According to the washington post, preliminary data shows that more places have held protests since floyds death than the 2017 womens marches previously the biggest singleday demonstration in american history. And that theyre not just in large cities but in small historically conservate coun wl. [ crowd chanting ] like vidor, texas, with a history of kkk. We are hoping with all this light all the darkness will go away and stay away. Reporter this as the nation grapples with other violent incidents caught on camera. Overnight, a terrifying scene at this peaceful demonstration in seattle. Police saying a man drove this car into a crowd of protesters and later sh per people started trying to bust into his car to stop him and he pulls out a gun so i started running away. Next thing im hearing someone got shot. Reporter this video showing the suspect with what appears to be a gun as he disappears into the crowd. Officers is in stable condition. And in buffalo, two officers now charged with felony assault after shoving this 75yearold man to the ground. He was hospitalized. The officers who pled not guilty face up to seven years in prison. In many places protesters calling to defund the police and some asking that a portion of their budget be given to community to fund housing, hospitals and schools. Sunday the Minneapolis City Council announcing their plans to end the Police Department saying that decades of Police Reform efforts have proved that the department cannot be reformed. Our commitment is to end our citys toxic relationship with the minneapolis Police Department, to end policing as we know it and to recreate systems of Public Safety that actually keep us safe. Reporter but on saturday, c during a visit to support protesters, the site where george floyd died. We dont want no more police. Is that clear . We dont want people with guns around in our communities shooting us down. Lieptment . I do non t pdertn. Rwd reporter thats proposal being discussed in cities across the country. New york and los angeles, leaders there calling to shift funding from Police Departments. Back in minneapolis, officer Derek Chauvin is expected to make his first appearance on that charge of Second Degree manslaughter. Okay, marcus. We are joined by mayor jacob frey. Thanks for joining us. We showed that video of you and we heard about what the council is deciding to do right now. So will you veto a Council Resolution to dismantle the minneapolis Police Department . Let me be clear, i am for massive structural and transformational reform to an entire system that has not for generations worked for black and brown people. We have failed them and we need to entirely reshape the system. We need a fullon cultural shift in how our Police Department and departments throughout the country function and am i for entirely abolishing the Police Department, no, im not. Over the coming days and weeks im looking forward to working with them and talking with them about what they mean when they say ending and abolishing and ill be talking with them directly. They were very clear last last night. This has to be the beginning of the end of the Police Department. You have people like congresswoman ilhan omar saying its rotten to the core and cant be reformed and believe it has to start from the ground up. Well, in looking from the ground up, i look to our chief arradondo. This is someone who literally sued the Police Department for racial discrimination, this is someone who is chockfull of integrity and has been doing the very hard work to get that transformational reform and now hes our chief. I do support him. But let me be clear, there are so many areas where both mayors and chiefs, elected officials and otherwise have been hamstrung for generations because we cant get that necessary Culture Shift because we have difficulty both terminating and disciplining officers and then getting that termination or discipline to stick. And so let me be very clear, were going after the police union, the police union contract, the arbitration provisions that mandate that we have arbitration at the end of the process and oftentimes that reverts the officer right back to where they were to begin with. We need to be able to have the Culture Shift and if were going to do that, it also means we need to have the ability to discipline officers to begin with. Okay, those are some of the changes youre calling for. Is there room for a compromise here with the protesters saying dismantle the Police Department . Just lay out what a compromise might look like and how youll get them to accept it. I dont want to speak for the Peaceful Protesters in minneapolis. I can only speak for myself and the vision that we have for the Police Department, which requires massive structural reform and so, you know, everything is on the table at this point. I think right now we need to use this momentum, channel all this anger and sadness and energy to real structural reform, and i think were coming to a reckoning right now. A reckoning of our words from the past with our actions that need to take place now and into the future. You are taking it from both sides during this entire crisis. We showed that video of the protesters telling you to go home saying threatening to vote you out next year. President trump has not been shy on twitter calling you weak. What kind of toll has this taken on you personally and do you think it might cost you your job . You know, i have been attacked by everyone from donald trump to, yes, activists, but i want to be clear, i support people expressing their First Amendment rights even when it means that theyre calling me out. So is it difficult . Yes, of course, its difficult. But lets remember, this is not about me. This is about the tragic murder of george floyd by a police officer. We need to be grounded in that as we move forward. Mayor frey, thank you for your time this morning. Thank you. Amy. Well, george, turning now to washington and President Trump coming under fire from former military leaders and members of his own party for using force to drive Peaceful Protesters from outside the white house and his threats to send the military into states. Senior congressional mary bruce has the latest on all of that. Good morning, mary. Reporter good morning, amy. Well, as thousands of protesters gathered here outside of the white house this weekend, the president was at home behind this massive new fortified fence. The white house is now almost completely surrounded by more than a mile of this fencing. The president walled in and increasingly isolated as he is facing a growing rebuke from his own party and top military leaders. Former secretary of state colin powell, one of the nations most prominent republicans, now joining the growing chorus condemning the president with a blistering critique. He lies. He lies about things, and he gets away with it because people will not hold him accountable. Reporter outraged at trumps threat to use military force against american citizens, powell says hes voting for joe biden. He didnt vote for trump in 2016 either and now powell is calling out republicans in congress for not speaking up. Even more troubling that congress would just sit there and not in any way resist what the president s doing. Change in washington this weekend. We need to stand up and say that black lives matter. Reporter while inside the white house President Trump fired off tweets downplaying the crowds and demanding law and order. And announcing hes ordered National Guard troops to withdraw from washington saying everything is under perfect control. Asocts t attorney general bill barr insists there is no systemic racism in u. S. Law enforcement. I think theres racism in the United States still but i dont think that the Law Enforcement system is systemically racist. I understand the distrust, however, of the Africanamerican Community given the history in this country. Reporter barr defended the use of force against protesters outside the white house last week to clear the way for the president s photoop, barr insists it was not a peaceful demonstration, a on the use of munitions to disperse the crowd, he falsely claimed pepper spray is not a chemical irritant. There were not chemical irritants. Pepper spray is not a chemical irritant. Its not chemical. Reporter now experts tell us that is simply not the case. The cdc classifies pepper spray as a chemical irritant. Bottom line, robin, force was used here on what at the time were Peaceful Protesters. And that is the bottom line, all right. Thank you so much, mary. Now to that storm making landfall near new orleans and slamming into the gulf coast overnight. Rob marciano is tracking the latest in new orleans right outside there. Good morning, rob. How is it going . Oh, robin, look at this water. Storm surge has been the big player with this system. This neighborhood inundated. A good three feet of water on this roadway. Its about as far as we can go down and beyond that, you can see the waves off of lake pontchartrain crashing off the seawall. Its had a huge impact far away from the center which now spins about 100 miles to our north. Cristobal making landfall in louisiana. Flash flooding and storm surge. Waves just pounding the seawall as cristobal makes landfall now, a bit of a break from the rain but the surge flooding just keeps on coming. This roadway turning into a raging river in mississippi. The waves wrecking the highway in pass christian. The conditions becoming difficult to drive. Cars stranded, land turning into sea. The waves whipping onto shore at Hancock County where these rescue trucks had to go against the current to rescue these people from the Silver Slipper casino. Casino employee brittany bo bossquet as they headed back to dry land. Telling abc at one point they felt like they would fall out as the truck leaned on its side. Cristobals bands reaching across the gulf region to as far as central florida. This ef1 tornado in downtown orlando with winds of 105 miles per hour. One of nine reported tornadoes across the state. Beware, tornado warning. Reporter the system uprooting trees and ripping off the roofs of these homes. And now all this rainwater will transported as far north as wisconsin. Robin. All right, rob, thank you for being there. Its tough to see those pictures there. Thinking of my family and friends up and down the gulf coast there, thanks for being there for us. George. Thanks. The latest on the coronavirus emergency. With the u. S. Death toll topping 110,000 and cases still on the rise in 20 states, there is some good news from here in new york. The city begins the first phase of reopening today. Ew phanie ramos has the story. N york City Crossing a major milestone in the fight against the coronavirus. Forget flattening the curve. Im going to change the state signs. We banked the curve. Reporter exactly 100 days since the citys first confirmed case of covid19, the former epicenter of the outbreak now officially entering phase one of reopening. As many as 400,000 people back on the job, stores now opening their doors for curbside pickup. But the pandemic is not over. The death toll in the u. S. Now climbing past 110,000 and concerns growing about the spread of covid19 as hundreds of thousands march against Police Brutality. Kansas officials now warning a protester who marched there friday and didnt wear a mask has tested positive. Nevada also seeing a spike as the Las Vegas Strip reopens with new safety precautions in place. But some casinos packed. L. A. Times sports columnist capturing this footage at the hotel and casino friday. Many seen without masks. And across the country at least 20 states are still reporting an increase in covid19 cases including pennsylvania and arkansas. Officials there say they havent even seen the repercussions from demonstrations yet. George. Still have to be careful. Okay, stephanie, thanks very much. We are following a lot of other headlines including an abc news exclusive. A new investigation into the beginning of the pandemic. Were going to show you what some satellite images of hospital parking lots suggest about when covid started spreading in china. And then, nfl commissioner Roger Goodell now showing support for players to protest peacefully. But first, lets go to ginger. Yeah, whats left of cristobal now a depression is going to surge north into a strong midlatitude cyclone. What that means is, flash flood watches extend into iowa, wisconsin and wind, bigtime winds from that and when the front passes, 40 to 50mileperhour gusts possible tuesday night through wednesday. Your local weather in 30 seconds. First the select cities sponsored by sherwinwilliams. Good monday monday. Im meteorologic mike nicco. Total sunshine warming trend begins today in fact it will be calmest and warmest tomorrow, another mini heat wave, and a rolish coaster of temperatures the rest of the week. Today 69 at half moon bay. Mid to upper 70s around the bay. Tonight well fall back intntntt another interesting story. Serena williams and Alexis Ohanian, they posted a personal conversation on instagram about his decision to make a better world for their daughter. Well tell you about that when we come back. We come back. 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