Russian intelligence offered cash to the taliban as a reward for killing u. S. And uk troops in afghanistan. Hear what the white house and the u. S. Intelligence chief have to say. Hello, and welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Im michael holmes. Welcome to cnn newsroom. Well, as coronavirus cases surge across much of america, it is increasingly clear that many states have moved in the wrong direction. And are now rolling back their reopenings. Lets have a look at our map, youll see cases on the rise in more than half of the country. With some states hitting new highs. Its hard to find a patch of green on that map there where numbers are actually going down. Now some of these states started opening back up early, but now theyre starting to walk back those measures or at least put them on hold. In california, americas most populace state, the hospitals and especially intensive care units under intensive strain. The governor warning he could pull back the state reopening. The u. S. Accounts for one quarter of the almost 10 million cases worldwide and the almost 500,000 deaths. And the situation could be even worse than we know, in terms of infection. The centers for Disease Control and prevention says based on antibodies found in some blood samples, the actual number of infected people could be at least six or up to 24 times higher than whats being counted at the moment. Hospitals also overwhelmed in houston, texas. Our alexandra field is here with the latest. But lets get to randi kaye at another hot spot, florida. Reporter here in florida, yet another record day, a spike in cases, 9,585. That is the highest number of cases in a single day. The governor is still saying that that is because of increased testing. Increased testing from about 24,000 tests a day to 45,000 tests a day. But we are seeing higher positivity rates in the state of florida, mostly among young people, ages 33 to 35 years old, mostly asymptomatic. But they do hang out a lot in bars, and the goech has decided that was a reason to close all of the state bars, which he has done. But the governor has decided not to issue a mandatory order that everybody in the state of florida wear masks, so hes leaving it up to those local governments and local municipalities, saying hes going to trust people to make good decisions. But we see people out and about here in West Palm Beach not wearing their masks, so its unclear if everybody is really making good decisions. In miami, miami dade county, they have decided to close the beaches because of the spike in case coming up for the very busy, popular july 4th weekend. The mayor saying he doesnt want to see a spike on top of a spike. Randi kaye, cnn, West Palm Beach florida. Reporter officials here in the houston area now sending out more warnings, letting people know that the citys hospitals could be overwhelmed in a week to three weeks if we continue to see new covid cases rise at this rate. Texas Medical Center, the Worlds Largest medical complex reported that 100 of their icu beds were full this week. They also reported 28 of those beds were filled by covid ma patients. Hospitals are implementing surge plans across the city. Greg abbott has taken some steps to try to put the genie back in the bottle. Hes placed new restrictions on bars and restaurants as we see more of these cases affecting people in their 20s and 30s, but Officials Say more needs to be done. Nothing will stop the spread that were currently seeing short of an allout stayathome order, something the governor has not ordered. In houston, texas, alexandra field, cnn. Neighboring austin also bracing for an onslaught of new cases. The citys mayor explaining what he is most worried about. Right now, the scientists, the doctors tell us that on our current trajectory, our hospitals are going to be overwhelmed by mid july. That gives us probably about a week to maybe ten days to see if were able to change behaviors enough. Were on a scary trajectory, and i need my community really, now, to rally and show some discipline and i, and its time. And joining me now is dr. Jonathan reiner, hes a codirector of the cardiac kath ritization, and cares for former u. S. Vice president dick chaene. Numbers soaring. Even the European Union doesnt want americans traveling there. What needs to be done like yesterday. What would it take in a Perfect World with actual leadership to bring this back under control . Reaching out to the public and getting everyone in this country to wear a face mask when they go out into public, number one. Testing many more patients than were testing now. Number three, probably in selected areas, probably shutting some places down. Because the Health Care Systems are really at the breaking point in places like texas. So i think we have to have the political will to do all that. We did it before. In the earlier part of this first wave in places like new york and massachusetts and new jersey, and we can do it now. We have to have the political will. Weve seen some rumblings of that in texas, and i hope that strong leadership continues. You know, with those case numbers soaring, the hospitalizations of course, lag behind diagnosis and deaths lag behind hospitalizations, are you expecting an uptick in deaths at the moment . A lot of the new cases are young people, but they are the carriers for the more vulnerable, right . Thats right. And it sort of depends on the case mix going forward. So weve sort of plateaued with the death rate sort of fluctuating between 600 and 800 deaths per day. Our daily case, new infection rate is really skyrocketed to over 40,000. So if there is a large portion of new infections in young people, the mortality rate, you know, may stay where it is now. But as those young people infect older people, the worry is that that death rate will it go up. So its a little hard to tell now. Well have a better sense in about a week. It takes about a week after someone becomes infected until they get sick enough to be hospitalized. And then often about another week after that until you start seeing deaths. So it is a lagging indicator, and obviously, everyone is concerned about the death rate starting to take off again. And what are your concerns . What is the risk of hospitals being overwhelmed again . And what is the state of readiness in terms of ppe, icu beds and so on. Is that a big concern for you at the moment . It certainly is. So lets look at texas. So houston, which is now the new epicenter of this pandemic in the United States, they have the largest Medical Center in the world. Texas Medical Center, which has about 60 hospitals. And when i checked yesterday, it looked like about 98 of their icu beds were filled. Now we have the ability around the United States, and we learned this over the last few months, to create innovative spaces to treat patients in an icu setting that is not really an icu setting, like turning o. R. S into icus and recovery rooms into icu ths, but its an enormous strain on hospitals and the staff, places the staff at great risk. And hospitals can get to a breaking point. This was the whole point of flattening the curve. Flattening the curve, spreading out the cases so that our medical system didnt get overwhelmed. We barely missed that in places like new york and new jersey six wooks ago. And im worried about texas. The difference is that when new york was at its breaking point, new york shut town. New yo new york shut down. Texas is not shut down. We did hear from the Harris County executive an order for nonessential people to stay home, but we havent seen that. Leadership, national coordination, youd think, is pretty important in times like these. We have seen that coordination in countries that brought their cases down. I mean, in the u. S. , testing was lacking from the start. It still is. The shutdown was slow. The restart was fast in many places. Theres been pretty much zero federal coordination of anything. You know, its literally just scrolling through the president s twitter feed. Its on everything but this. Are you worried about the lack of a coordinated federal response . Absolutely. So, when we started talking about opening two months ago, the federal government had a reasonable plan. And it called for states to have 14 consecutive days of downward trend in new cases and declining positivity rates and increasing testing rates and hospital capacity. But look at texas. When texas opened, they only had two consecutive days. They had, barely had two consecutive days of a downward trend. So many of the places that opened werent ready to open. And certainly not ready to sort of move towards phase three. And were paying the price for that now. The problem is that there is an essential conflict of interest between treating this pandemic the way it needs to be treated and running for reelection, and the president is facing this now. In order to, in order for him to succeed in reelection, he has to make this go away. He has to pretend that it doesnt exist. And thats why the Vice President started his briefing yesterday by saying oh, everyones heard now the encouraging news. I have no idea what he was talking about. Hes not living in the same world that im living in. But in order for them to succeed in reelection, they really have to try and get the people of this country to believe that the pandemic is gone, that were moving on, that its business as usual. So, until we have leadership that is willing to do the difficult things, its going to be very difficult to put this down. Yeah. Thats the funny thing about pandemics. Its hard to pretend theyve gone away when hospitals are full and people are dying. Doctor, going to leave it there, dr. Jonathan reiner, coe director of the cardiac kath tarization. Thank you for your expertise, sir. My pleasure, have a great night. The fatal consequences of washingtons retreat from sciencebased reality is best understood against the rest of the world. In each case, factbased data drove a strong coordinated and centralized response and public compliance. Cnns brian todd reports. Reporter the Coronavirus Crisis in america has reached such disturbing levels that the European Union could soon block americans from traveling to europe, according to officials. One diplomat telling cnn europe will be looking to keep out visitors from countries where the virus is circulating most actively. And by that measure, experts say, the u. S. Doesnt stack up well. The United States has not responded in a coherent, organized fashion which is capable of doing anything serious to really stand in the way of this virus. Reporter the United States is returning to the high infection rates of the outbreaks early days, while the European Union has pushed its rate down and seems to be keeping it down. In europe, even in places like italy, which was devastated by the virus earlier on, longer lockdowns, aggressive testing and Contact Tracing have proven effective, like states like florida, texas, arizona and california are seeing enormous new spikes. The u. S. Response is just lagging. Were not doing what we need to do to keep physically distanced. Were not across the country scaling up Contact Tracing as effectively as needed so we can prevent cases from exploding into clusters and outbreaks. Reporter south korea like the u. S. Has big cities with dense populations vulnerable to coronavirus but has had dramatically fewer cases and deaths than the u. S. What tactics made the south koreans more successful . In south korea, they have an extraordinarily, very smart testing program, which enables them to rapidly identify cases, rapidly inform the contacts of those cases. And then rapidly isolate them. If you had moved to south korea on january 20th, when each of our countries had its first case, would you have been 70 times less likely to be killed by this virus. Reporter experts say another big reason the u. S. Has fallen behind other countries in the handling of the pandemic is because the federal government allowed individual states to take the lead and make their own decisions of when and how to reopen. As a result, many states reopened much too quickly, while states hit hard early on like new york didnt. They held it over a period of weeks to months. They wrestled the pandemic to the ground to the point where now theyre more worried about there being new introductions. Open your business now reporter experts say one other problem the u. S. Has had, the politicization of the response, leaders like President Trump, Vice President pence, openly shunning guidelines on Wearing Masks. Trump on fox radio even making fun of joe biden, whos worn them. He started speaking through the mask again. He feels comfortable with a mask on, i think. And even though there was nobody anywhere near him. Reporter but President Trump and other republicans are not the only ones being criticized for politicizing the response to coronavirus. Experts point out not only did some democratic governors not call out or prevent people from staging mass protests against Police Brutality recently, clearly a risky venture during the pandemic, but a couple of them joined the protests, breaking their own lockdown orders. Brian todd, cnn, washington. One person is dead and another is injured after a shooting in louisville, kentucky. This happened during a protest in Jefferson Square park on saturday evening. Law enforcement Officials Say they performed lifesaving measures on one of the victims. Unfortunately, he died. A short time later, Police Received word of a second shooting victim at the nearby hall of justice. He was transported to a local hospital with nonlifethreatening injuries. Going to take a quick break here. When we come back, summer is here in the northern hemisphere, and that means time for the beach, but, in spain, beaches are being monitored closely for potential covid surges. Well have a report. Also a startling story out of afghanistan. Well look into allegations that russia and the taliban may have costco ligs troops their lives. Youre watching cnn newsroom, well be right back. Cartilage and bones. And unlike big glucosamine chondroitin pills, its all in one tiny pill. Try move free ultra now. 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