Im natalie allen. Cnn newsroom starts right now. Thank you for joining us. The numbers are overwhelming, but consider this, to get a sense of how many people in the u. S. Have been infected with the coronavirus. According to Johns Hopkins university, the total stands at more than 3. 2 million. Thats more than the individual populations of 21 states, washington, d. C. , and puerto rico. 29 states are reporting spikes in cases. You can see them in red and orange here. Single day case records were broken saturday in texas, wisconsin, and south carolina. The mayor of austin calls texas a cautionary tale. Im watching whats happening in cities around the country that have gotten their numbers low and now theyre relaxing and it looks like too many of them are going to try to do what we did in texas when we reopened and austin is a cautionary tale. Cities cannot open in any way that looks like what they used to do before the pandemic. New guidance from the cdc says up to 40 of people infected by the virus may show no symptoms at all. But they can still spread it to others. The agency also says about half the time the virus is transmitted before people get sick. Thats part of the reason social distancing and masks are so important. Speaking of masks, u. S. President trump wore one in public for the first time on saturday. He put it on for his trip to Walter Reed National military medical center. Ahead of the visit, he said he had never been against wearing them. I think it is a great thing to wear a mask. Ive never been against masks, but i do believe they have a time and a place. Until saturday, mr. Trump had resisted pressure to wear one. At least in public for an extended period of time. Floridas governor says the state will not move to the next phase of reopening. He also says hes working with the white house to get more testing amid a staggering rise in hospitalizations. Cnns rapndi kaye has more from florida. Reporter here in the state of florida, we are getting word that the numbers just keep going up. More than 10,360 new cases in the last 24 hours. And 95 deaths in the last 24 hours here in the state of florida. We also know finally the number of hospitalizations here in florida, reporters have been pressing the Governors Office for weeks to release the numbers of those who have covid19 and are in the hospital. We now know more than 7200 people are hospitalized with covid here in florida. More than 560 of them in orange county, where orlando is, where disney world is, and more than 1600 hard hit miamidade. The news keeps getting worse for the Miamidade County in southern florida, that is the hardest hit county, were getting word today that 44 county bus drivers have tested positive for the coronavirus. One of them has died. It is unclear if that driver was symptomatic or what route that driver had taken. Others are quarantining at home. But the numbers just continue to jump, since the state reopened on may 4th, we have seen a 12 more than a 1200 increase in the average number of daily new cases here in the state. Back on may 4th, the average number was about 680. It is now more than 9,000. The governor speaking today good say that hes going to try to get more selfswab testing in place to try and get faster results of those who may have this virus. He said that would be about 36 to 72 hours instead of several days that it is taking right now. Imrandi kaye on singer island, florida. Back to you. The Magic Kingdom and Animal Kingdom at disney have reopened at florida despite the surging infects in the state. Everyone did have to get their temperature checked and face masks are required. But not everything went smoothly. Cnn spoke with a theme park journalist who was there. She says she got so uncomfortable on a crowded walkway she left. But she says disney did get a lot of things right. Every procedure they laid out for the most part works extremely well. It is everything in between that. Once you start putting a group of people in the parks, issues start popping up, like i saw today and a few other things. When there is lines, people stand in them. It is working incredibly well, it is working at Orlando Universal well. It is the type of thing, when there is a line you dont expect like today and arent those lines, we dont know what to do because all of us havent been in this situation. The employees, the guests, everyone. Almost all performances have been suspended at the park for now. Epcot and Hollywood Studios are set to open their doors wednesday. The coronavirus is, of course, raging through latin america and the caribbean, brazil as we have been reporting for many days is the second worst affected country in the world after the United States. It reported more than 39,000 new cases saturday, bringing the total past 1. 8 million. And the countrys most high profile patient, president jair bolsonaro, is touting a controversial drug. Bill weir reports from brazil. Reporter here in brazil, that covid19 curve continues to go completely in the wrong direction, averaging over a thousand deaths a day. Now over 1. 8 million confirmed cases, but with a lack of testing, all across this vast country, a lot of experts believe that number is off by at least a factor of 5 or 10. President jair bolsonaro, the most famous covid19 patient in brazil, continues to promote his prescription of hydroxychloroquine, the anti antimalaria drug hes so fond of. Im in the center of brazil today, the geographic center, big agricultural region, i met a doctor who spent ten days in intensive care. Now his boss, the supervisor of his hospital is in intensive care. I asked him about bolsonaros prescription, he said he took those antimalaria drugs and they did not work at all for him and he prescribes them because he has no other choice. Theyre cheap, theyre available. He says otherwise what do i give my patients . Water . He also said that for a lot of the patients in this rural agricultural area, the other choice to infection is poverty or starvation. And so it doesnt take much encouragement from the man in charge for people to get back to work, for people to heed that call. So that comes down then to the only way to protect themselves, to try to flatten this curve here is mask wearing, social distancing, quarantines, we know the president s not fond of that. And the president even though he was ordered to wear a mask by a judge, back in june, defied that time and time again, flew to other states, would wait in the crowds with hugs and handshakes. We have seen him wear the mask, though he took it off the day he announced he had it. It will be interesting to see after if he comes through, hopefully he comes through this, if it will change his mind about the other precautions. His wife and daughters tested negative for covid19. The bolsonaros. But now it is just places are bracing for what may be another wave that never really went down as more and more cases become evident all around this country. Im bill weir, cnn, brazil. Former special Counsel Robert Mueller is making a rare statement defending his indictment of roger stone. Thats because stones loyalty to the president may have just saved him from a lengthy prison sentence. Well discuss that coming up here. When we started our business we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. I remember setting up shipstation. One or two clicks and everything was up and running. I was printing out labels and saving money. Shipstation saves us so much time. It makes it really easy and seamless. Pick an order, print everything you need, slap the label onto the box, and its ready to go. Our costs for shipping were cut in half. Just like that. Shipstation. The 1 choice of online sellers. Go to shipstation. 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Thats what friends are for. Ask your veterinarian for apoquel next to you, apoquel is a dogs best friend. According to Johns Hopkins university, the total of coronavirus cases in the United States stands at more than 3. 2 million, 29 states are reporting spikes in cases. You can see them here in red and orange. Single day case records were broken saturday in texas, wisconsin, and south carolina. New guidance from the cdc says up to 40 of people infected by the virus may show no symptoms at all, but they can still spread it to others. Were going to talk about the latest developments with my guest, joining me from toulouse, france, is shawn griffith, she led hong kongs inquiry into sars in 2003. Thank you so much for joining us. Good to see you. Good to have you on again. Thanks. As of saturday, the United States has 61,352 new cases and we keep setting new records every day. What does that tell you about the situation we are in here . From an external perspective, it shows that youre not really in control of the virus. The epidemic is increasing, the numbers keep as you say keep breaking the records, which is a really unfortunate record to keep breaking. And it is a very serious situation because obviously covid is running rife, particularly in those states that show red on your map. It is hard to fathom, isnt it, how quickly states like florida and even West Virginia now, louisiana, south carolina, are surgie ining and so rapidly. What should states do to try to turn this back . I think they need to get public messages out, that this is a serious disease. This is a sense that it doesnt seem to matter if you get covid, i read about covid parties, but thats just ridiculous to think this isnt a serious disease. It can affect any of us. It is more likely to affect older people, more likely to kill people who are older with a preexisting condition. At the same time, young people can also contract it and there are longterm consequences of having the disease. So really it is a matter of saying what can we do as individuals and what can we do as authorities. And so for individuals, it is remembering social distancing, remember social hygiene and i would advise Face Covering from mask wearing and for the states, they need to think about what lockdown measures should be in place to stop the spread of disease. It seems to be increasing, increasing, increasing. And we had as we head toward winter, we add in flu and the population is poor. We also now have seen this new development from the cdc which estimates 40 of people infected dont have any symptoms. How does that complicate the situation . It means that if you dont feel unwell, you think i havent got it, but in fact you can be infectious. If youre close to somebody who is vulnerable, then they will get the infection or they may well get the infection. What you need to do is remember that each and every one of us needs to take those hand washing precautions, wear Face Coverings, needs s ts to remem social distance, and remember that when we go shopping, when we go out for a meal, remember when with friends, we need to remember that though we have no symptoms, we could be infectious. And how long could it now take, do you think, for the u. S. To get out from under this . It will depend on what measures are taken. And i think, you know, i think that people thats why im really emphasizing it is the measures you take. We we can hope there is going to be a vaccine, but the vaccine isnt with us yet and then the question is, who gets the vaccine. Having a vaccine is not necessarily the answer. Were Getting Better at treating people. But a lot of the Hospital System under pressure that dont rely on the Hospital System. It is going to be about the Public Health precautionary measures, which will, you know if you get symptoms, get tested, go into isolation, make sure your contacts are also tested and are in isolation and so that we can break the chain of transmission. Thats what we need to do and need to do it many times over when you have a huge surge in so many places. Yeah, and the threat here is hospitals being overrun, florida, Miamidade County, is seeing over 100 increase in ventilators. There are a lot of very sick people in these hospitals and even manpower could be short at some point and that would put the United States in a situation that could be, well, quite frankly, historic. Well, the unfortunate thing is that we saw in wuhan, where the disease started in january, it was those pictures of overwhelmed hospitals, healthcare staff, who are getting sick, and finding themselves we know that theyre at risk because theyre closer to the virus, it is the fact that the Healthcare System can be overwhelmed. It was overwhelmed in northern italy and so the states have plenty of time to look at these messages. Thats what is so unfortunate. And we you will start to run out of protective equipment, you will start to run out of ventilators if you cant stop the curb this disease and priority size wize who gets car. It is very serious that people think hard about how we can prevent the disease, and think hard how we can best intervene. Really important that you stress that people in these states must get proper information, you know. This has been a very much a conflict here in the United States. Young people as you mentioned havent taken it seriously. I saw one report today where a young woman who was 30 years old in a hospital died and the last words to the nurse was, i got this wrong. I thought it was a hoax. That just goes to show you how far we are to getting the message straight. You really have to get the message straight. This is not a hoax. It can affect young people. It can also affect children. So to think it doesnt is incorrect and sometimes they can get an extremely severe reaction. So it is a serious disease. It will it can be controlled if we all take it seriously. If you think of it as a hoax, it is not a hoax. It is a real disease. You look across the world, you look at brazil, mexico, you look at indonesia, pakistan, india, theyre all seeing increases in numbers of cases, increases in deaths and the deaths are among the most vulnerable and the elderly. So, you know, young people it your grannie youre protecting when you take the measures if not yourself. We always appreciate your expertise, sian griffiths joining us from fltoulouse, france, thank you so much. Thank you. Two republican senators have broken ranks with u. S. President donald trump after he commuted the prison sentence of his long time friend and ally roger stone. Senators mitt romney and pat toomey both denounced clemency for stone, even though most other republican lawmakers have remained quiet on the matter. Stone was convicted of seven felonies including lying to congress and witness tampering. The president on saturday doubled down on his action, defying what the attorney general said about the stone case. Roger stone was treated horribly. Roger stone was treated very unfairly. Roger stone was brought into this witchhunt, this old political witchhunt and the mueller scam, it is a scam, because it has been proven false, and he was treated very unfairly. What i did what i did, i will tell you this, people are extremely happy because in this country they want justice. And roger stone was not treated properly. Well, as you know, the stone case was prosecuted while i was attorney general. And i supported it. I think it was established, he was convicted of obstructioning congress and witness tampering and i thought that was a righteous prosecution. And i was happy that he was convicted. Most thought it was a righteous conviction there prosecution of roger stone. The former special counsel of the russia investigation Robert Mueller made areacting to trump action. In the washington post, he wrote this, i feel compelled to respond both to broad claims that our investigation was illegitimate and our motives were improper and to specific claims that roger stone was a victim of our office. The russia investigation was of paramount importance, stone was prosecuted and convicted because he committed federal crimes. He remains a convicted felon and rightly so. Lets get more perspective now on this, joining me from london, inderjeet parmar, a visiting professor at the London School of economics. Thank you for coming on. Thank you, good morning. Good morning to you. There has been no shortage of outrage over this move by President Trump, a cnn legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin called the president s move the most corrupt and cronyistic act in perhaps all of recent history. What are your thoughts . Well, it is within his constitutional remitt. On the other hand, the on commutation of a sentence doesnt mean a pardon, doesnt mean the person is not guilty, but what it does show, if you like, is that President Trump is continuing to declare war on what he would call the deep state and he wants to wear again the mantle of the champion of the people who is draining the swamp and so on and still fighting that war. But what he shows is that now Something Like 7 of his advisers who are convicted of various crimes, some of them are serving sentences. But President Trump wants to try to exonerate himself by exonerating the people who basically acted on his behalf, even if not necessarily with his own knowledge. So hes basically doing the opposite of draining the swamp