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WHO: Virus Impact Will Be With Us For Decades; COVID "Out Of Control" Across Much Of The U.S.; Schools Open, Questions Remain; Toughest Measures Yet In Peacetime For Australia; Vietnam: Calm Then Storm Of COVID Cases; Arizona Couple Gets Virus after Ignoring Social Distancing; Hurricane Isaias Makes Landfall in North Carolina; Philippine Capital Returning to Modified Lockdown; Leaked Video Shows Details of George Floyd's Arrest; U.S. Judge Describes Son's Final Moments before Ambush; Vogue Honors Activists. Aired 1-2a ET
Aired August 04, 2020 - 01:00 ET
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ROBYN CURNOW, CNN ANCHOR: Hi, everyone. I'm Robyn Curnow. You're watching CNN live from CNN's world news headquarters here in Atlanta.
So coming up on the show. Donald Trump calls one of his top doctors "pathetic," simply for stating that coronavirus is extraordinarily widespread in the U.S.
Also, a lesson in staying safe. Teachers and students head back to class despite unanswered questions over the virus.
And up and down the U.S. east coast, tens of millions are on alert for a hurricane bringing powerful, powerful winds and heavy rain.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Live from CNN Center, this is CNN newsroom with Robyn Curnow.
CURNOW: Good to have you along wherever you are in the world.
So the U.S. president, Donald Trump claims the country is doing well responding to the coronavirus. But with the death toll trending upward in 30 states, health experts disagree.
There are a lot of new developments also across the world.
We know that the head of the World Health Organization says the impact of COVID-19 will be felt for decades to come. But he says many countries have shown the virus can be controlled by wearing masks and other measures.
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TEDROS ADHANOM GHEBREYESUS, DIRECTOR GENERAL, WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: A number of vaccines are now in phase III clinical trials. And we all hope to have a number of effective vaccines that can help prevent people from infection.
However, there is no silver bullet at the moment and there might never be.
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CURNOW: Two new studies from the U.K. and Australia find that testing and contact tracing are vital especially for bringing children back to school safely.
We're already seeing new cases in the U.S. school districts that are reopening just this week here in Georgia, Mississippi and Indiana.
Meanwhile, the U.S. president is lashing out after one of his top experts called the virus "extraordinarily widespread."
Dr. Deborah Birx warned that infections are spreading in rural areas. And Mr. Trump tweeted, quote "pathetic."
Well, Dr. Anthony Fauci says the new phase of the pandemic is being driven by community spread. He cites nursing homes, meat packing plants and prisons as examples of where people without symptoms are infecting others.
Well, here's Sara Sidner with more on that. Sara.
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ADM. BRETT GIROIR, ASST. SECRETARY OF HEALTH, U.S. DEPT. OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES: We are very concerned, and this is a very serious point. And deaths will continue to increase for the next few weeks.
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SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The coronavirus is still spreading out of control in parts of the United States and death tolls are continuing to climb. The CDC predicting 19,000 Americans over the next 20 days could die if the current trajectory continues.
One reason why? The U.S. is in a new phase, according to the White House's point person on COVID response, Dr. Deborah Birx.
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DR. DEBORAH BIRX, WHITE CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE COORDINATOR: What we're seeing today is different from March and April. It is extraordinarily widespread. It's into the rural as equal urban areas.
And to everybody who lives in a rural area, you are not immune or protected from this virus.
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SIDNER: The numbers back that up. July's total new cases more than double that of any other previous month. The hotspots mostly flaring up in the south and west.
Mississippi now the highest percentage of positive COVID-19 cases in the country, with a staggering 21 percent positivity rate.
South Carolina follows with 18 percent, as Isaias strengthens, threatening its shores.
In Florida, the storm's winds forced some testing sites to close for a bit, creating a drop in confirmed cases. Those sites now back open.
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GOV. RON DESANTIS (R-FLA): We are encouraged by some of the trends we're seeing. We continue to see a downward trend in visits to the emergency department.
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SIDNER: Still, Florida is on the verge of hitting 500,000 confirmed coronavirus infections.
California, with nearly double Florida's population, has already surpassed that terrible milestone.
Despite that, in a state order shutting down bars three weeks ago, in Los Angeles, dozens attended a party thrown for first responders without masks or physical distancing.
The county health department is investigating, saying --
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-- "this is exactly the situation that put our entire community at unnecessary risk."
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In New York, which has now nearly conquered the virus, dozens were caught partying on a charter boat, ignoring the state's large crowd ban. The owners of that vessel arrested.
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GOV. ANDREW CUOMO (D-N.Y.): It is just really reckless, rude, irresponsible and illegal.
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SIDNER: Across America, schools are beginning to open up now.
Indiana and Georgia already seeing coronavirus infections, forcing some students to return to virtual learning next week.
Birx saying in-person learning should not occur in COVID-19 hotspots.
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BIRX: We're asking people to distance learn at this moment so we can get this epidemic under control.
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SIDNER: A special education teacher in Tulsa, Oklahoma expressing fear of returning to the classroom and regret for voting for a president she believes has botched the pandemic response.
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NANCY SHIVELY, SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHER: Watching the failure of leadership in our country beginning with the president over the course of this pandemic, it's not just my death warrant I might have signed, but there is 150,000 Americans who are dead.
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SIDNER: And we're now learning just how deadly the coronavirus has become across the world.
With the top epidemiologist of the World Health Organization revealing today that COVID-19 kills about 0.6 percent of the patients that are infected.
Now that might not sound like a very big number, but consider this. That number means the virus is six times deadlier than the seasonal flu.
Sara Sidner. CNN, Los Angeles.
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CURNOW: So Dr. Joseph Varon is the chief of staff the United Memorial Medical Center.
He joins me now from Houston, Texas. Sir, good to see you.
DR. JOSEPH VARON, CHIEF OF STAFF, UNITED MEMORIAL MEDICAL CENTER: Good to see you.
CURNOW: So what we have here, a president attacking top health experts. Incorrectly saying the U.S. is doing well when it isn't. Confusion and disconnection over social distancing and mask wearing. Do you feel like it's groundhog day?
VARON: Well, what's happening -- I get to see this over and over and over again. And I have previously said this on CNN many times.
The public are getting confused.
The president says something, Dr. Fauci says something else, the World Health Organization says something, I say something; your viewers don't know who to believe.
I am a big believer that we need to believe in science.
We have science that actually proves that having your social distancing, wearing your mask and washing your hands may flatten the curve, may make us have a better outcome.
CURNOW: Simple words, simple advice from a doctor who has been in the front line. How many days have you worked consecutively, Doctor -- and I know you've certainly been in the eye of the storm on your hospital?
VARON: I have been working 137 continuous days, 16 to 20 hours a day. No days off, no vacation, no sleep, no nothing. No time to even -- to pay my own bills.
CURNOW: And why, how are you managing? Is it just because -- this sheer overload you're seeing in your hospital?
VARON: What happens is these patients are very sick. We get a lot of them -- and not too many doctors or nurses or other people want to work with patients that have COVID.
There's a little bit of a stigma, you're working with patients with COVID. So only those of us who are passionate for caring for people are the ones that will continue to provide care to these patients.
And indeed, just like you said, we have ups and downs, this is kind of a rollercoaster. I'm not seeing any drop in cases like everybody else says.
Last week in one of your shows I said hey, we've got one day where we have less patients. And then two days later, we start having another surge. So I'm not sure that we have gotten to where we need to be there.
CURNOW: How many death certificates have you signed in the last few weeks, months?
VARON: Well, I've signed over 15 death certificates in just a couple of weeks. And to be honest with you, having been a critical care doctor and having done this for many, many years and then out of the blue you get a stack this big of death certificates, it's unreal.
I've never had to do that in my entire life. Yes, we will have deaths in ICUs, but sporadic. When you have patients that die every day you know that something is wrong.
And it's not that we're doing wrong because we have a fantastic outcome in our hospital. But I talk to my friends and they are all having the same problem.
CURNOW: Your friends, your doctors. So when you guys look at these images of people having party boats in New York or those old pictures of pool parties in the Ozarks, how does that make you feel?
Particularly because you're there watching and trying to help people who are dying alone?
VARON: Our patients die alone in their rooms, there is no family, there is nothing. And yet, I get out of the hospital at two o'clock in the morning, I'm heading home. And then in one mall (ph) I see a big party going on, people not wearing a mask.
It infuriates me. I feel bad, I feel like people are being carelessly disregard to what I have been trying to do. I've been killing myself for 137 days to save others and yet people just don't listen.
They don't listen to the point that they think that this is a hoax, that we're just making this one up.
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If you don't believe it, just come and spend a day with me in the ICU and you will see it.
CURNOW: Yes. And you have done that. You've brought journalists in precisely for that reason.
As a doctor, as a medical expert, as someone who believes in science, what for you strikes you about this virus? We know that the impact possibly could be felt for decades economically.
What medically troubles you about this virus and how it attacks and lingers in the body?
VARON: This virus -- I've been in medicine since 1980. This virus is a backstabber, it's a virus that will stab you in the back, you will not even know what hit you.
Every day, I see a new manifestation of the virus. Some days it's plain old pneumonia, other days it's a rash. Other days, it's a stomach and intestine problem, some days it's an eye problem.
Corona is here to stay.
In this country, there are two kinds of patients; those who have coronavirus, and those who are going to get coronavirus. It's just a matter of time.
Hopefully, what we're going to do is not overwhelm the health care system by everybody getting sick at the same time. That is my goal as a clinician.
I hope that between now and then we have enough therapeutic options for patients.
CURNOW: Dr. Joseph Varon, thanks so much for joining us. Thank you for all of your good work, I hope you do get some sleep tonight. Thank you.
VARON: Thank you, ma'am.
CURNOW: So Brazil has been reporting five-figure case totals pretty much every day. And Monday was no exception with more than 16,000 new infections confirmed. Among them, the president's chief of staff, the latest top ranking official to contract the virus.
Brazil has reported more than 2.7 million infections since the pandemic began. And the outbreak there is the second worst in the world.
But that hasn't stopped large gatherings on Rio's beaches. Hundreds have been hitting the sand as the city continues to reopen. However, many have ignored safety guidelines and over the weekend some were actually fined for not wearing masks.
And Australian officials have announced new restrictions for the city of Melbourne in an effort to contain a growing outbreak there. Starting at midnight Wednesday local time the city is expected to close some non-essential industries, including retail and manufacturing businesses.
And this comes after the state of Victoria imposed some of its strictest lockdown measures ever.
Anna Coren is live in Hong Kong and has been monitoring all of that.
Hi, Anna, what can you tell us?
ANNA COREN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Robyn, there is no Plan B. This strategy has to work, according to the Victorian premier, Daniel Andrews.
They have been averaging about 500 cases for the past month and that is just simply unsustainable. They spiked at more than 700 last week. The situation in Victoria clearly out of control.
So they have imposed the toughest restrictions ever seen in peacetime Australia. And the hope is that they will be able to bring those numbers down and contain this latest outbreak.
The premier says there is no doubt it is going to cause financial hardship and a lot of pain for many people. But doing anything less than these strict measures is just not an option.
Take a listen.
Eerie, empty, lifeless streets in the center of Australia's second largest city. Scenes unheard of and Melbourne, even during the pandemic's first wave. But COVID-19 has returned with a vengeance.
Victoria's capital is now under a six-week capital with even tougher restrictions as authorities desperately try to get this deadly outbreak under control.
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SCOTT MORRISON, PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA: This has been another heartbreaking day for Victorians, which means it's a heartbreaking day for all Australians.
I know that across Victoria many today, frankly, would have reached breaking point trying to come to terms with what has happened in their state.
(END VIDEO CLIP) COREN: It's the first time in Australia's peacetime history that citizens have had to face such a harsh lockdown.
Melbourne's five million residents have spent the past month under stage three restrictions but the number of daily infections just continued to soar.
Too many people were flouting the rules, refusing to heed medical advice.
The government said more than 50 percent of sick people who had been tested awaiting results were still going to work. While one in four who had tested positive were not self isolating.
As of this week, stage four restrictions are in place. Curfew will be imposed from 8:00 pm to 5:00 am. All non-essential businesses will be closed, along with schools and child care centers.
And only one member of each household will be allowed to leave the house each day to buy groceries.
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DANIEL ANDREWS, PREMIER OF VICTORIA: This is a very tough day, and there are many more of those to come before we get to the other side of this.
But these are the decisions that have to be made, that's why I've made them.
We have a plan, we have a clear strategy. It'll only work, though, if everybody plays their part.
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COREN: For Melburnians who have been played their part and doing the right thing, the premier's announcement was a slap in the face.
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MEREDITH FRASER: Six weeks is no mean task. It's a really long time when you add it on to the four that we've already had. So it's not just financial, it's mental. And I think that is what hasn't been given the spotlight.
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COREN: Financial assistance will be provided to businesses that must now shut their doors until mid-September.
The prime minister also offering a disaster payment of just over $1,000 to every Victorian who tests positive. Saying there is no economic reason for people who are infected to not self isolate for 14 days.
While the economic impact is terrifying so is the human toll with the majority of deaths in Victoria occurring at age care facilities.
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ANDREWS: There is no stage five. This has to work.
Otherwise, we will have to devise a set of rules that will even further limit people's movement.
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COREN: A move at the moment that's unthinkable for residents at the epicenter of Australia's most deadly coronavirus outbreak.
And Robyn, there were another 11 deaths in Victoria overnight, all of them from aged care facilities. Taking the national total of deaths to 232.
We heard from the premier a little bit earlier. He has announced much harsher penalties which are now in place for people who are breaching the rules. Those people who should be at home self isolating for 14 days.
They could be hit previously with an on-the-spot fine of up to $1,000. That has now been pushed out to four and-a-half thousand dollars. And if the behavior is so serious, police can arrest people, take them to court. They're then facing a fine of up to 18,000 U.S. dollars.
The premier describes some of the behavior that people have been flouting in Victoria over the last couple of days since that curfew came into place.
And one particular scene stands out. Involves a young policewoman telling a 38-year old woman to put her face mask on.
It is mandatory to wear face masks in Victoria as the state tries to contain this health crisis.
This woman retaliated by punching the police officer, getting her head and smashing it into the concrete pavement.
As the premier said, this behavior is appalling, it's criminal and it is shameful.
He said they need all of Victoria to get together to fight this virus. It's the only way that they are going to bring numbers down, Robyn.
CURNOW: OK. Thanks for that. Anna Coren there, reporting live.
So Vietnam has largely been able to control its coronavirus outbreak, but a new wave of cases is now turning a popular tourist destination into a ghost town.
Also, a U.S. student sent home on the first day of school after testing positive for COVID-19.
We'll talk to a superintendent, a school superintendent, on the challenges they're facing to keep schools safe.
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CURNOW: Well, Vietnam has been praised for effectively curbing its coronavirus outbreak.
But now the country is struggling to contain a recent wave of infections. Most of it linked to the resort city of Da Nang which confirmed another 10 cases on Wednesday.
Now as the outbreak grows, the popular tourist spot is quickly becoming a ghost town.
As Kristie Lu Stout now reports.
KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Vietnam, like other countries in Asia, reported its first COVID-19 case in late January.
But with proactive border closings, aggressive testing, contact tracing and quarantine measures, the country quickly became a model for successful containment of the virus.
The low numbers were impressive. Fewer than 500 confirmed cases of the virus. No locally transmitted cases reported in the last three months, and no deaths.
But all that all changed in late July.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): Patient 428 has died. Cause of death is hypertension, heart failure, pneumonia, ischemia and COVID-19.
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STOUT: The new outbreak appearing to have started in the popular tourist destination of Da Nang and spread quickly to neighboring Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi and Quang Ngai.
Months of near normal life, of reopened restaurants, bars, schools and resumed tourism within its own borders ground to a halt.
The Vietnamese government now trying once again to employ the aggressive measures it took at the start of the global outbreak. Immediately sending 80,000 local tourists home from Da Nang.
The beaches now closed, the streets once again eerily empty with lockdowns in place and a return to mandatory widespread testing and contact tracing.
The government has also enlisted several hundred military students to help test all 1.1 million residents of Da Nang.
Some medical officials say they believe this strain of the virus is a more contagious one, although not necessarily more deadly.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): The number of people that have returned from Da Nang to Hanoi as well as (inaudible) Dingh is very large. So the risk of an outbreak is huge.
We are also aware that the situation of this outbreak is very complicated.
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STOUT: Authorities have yet to find the origin point of the new cases.
No matter what the cause, Vietnam is now scrambling to try and figure out just how the virus reemerged after nearly 100 days. While standing at the precipice of widespread transmission -- an outcome that looks more possible with each passing day.
Kristie Lu Stout. CNN, Hong Kong.
CURNOW: And as the virus continues to spread, schools are reopening.
For some public schools just outside of Atlanta, COVID-19 is already a problem. Nearly 300 staffers there have either tested positive or been exposed to the virus.
America's top infectious disease expert says there's a way to know if it's OK to reopen schools.
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DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES: If the infection rate is so low that there's very little chance of there being infections spread, you should feel OK about doing it.
But making sure that you do the things that are necessary to prevent spread. Try and get the early months in, because when you get into the fall and winter, there may be more cases that make it more difficult.
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CURNOW: The first schools in Germany have reopened in the country's northeast in a state with the lowest number of infections.
Children will be split into age groups, and their school hours will be staggered. Staffers will be offered free COVID tests.
And officials in Mexico plan to start schools online in three weeks. It could be a problem, considering many Latin American households don't have access to the internet.
The Mexican government plans to work with TV and radio stations to help broadcast assignments.
So for more now on the challenges of reopening schools, I'm joined by Harold Olin, he's a superintendent in the U.S. state of Indiana. A school superintendent.
So, sir, good to see you.
I understand that on your first day back in school, one of the students tested positive for COVID. And another reminder, of course, this is not going to be a smooth ride.
HAROLD OLIN, SUPERINTENDENT, GREENFIELD-CENTRAL COMMUNITY SCHOOL CORP: No, it's not going to be easy. And certainly, I think about the preparations we've tried to make in our state over the last three months in preparation for this day.
We want to control the variables we can control in our school.
So there's another responsibility there. That our parents need to make sure that they are putting their students, their children, through a self check before they send them to school.
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The particular student you're referencing actually had had a test taken a few days ago. Before getting the results of that test, the student came to school.
And so we got a surprise phone call from the health department notifying us that that student had indeed tested positive for COVID- 19.
So it really put us in a position where we immediately had to jump into the protocols that we have been writing for the last couple of months.
CURNOW: And so this is going to be about preparations in schools but also about how families deal with this.
In many ways, are you looking for families to have some sort of code of conduct with the schools? And making these decisions based on the community and the students, not just their family unit?
OLIN: Yes. And really trying to educate our community. Educating first of all the parents and then the students on the things that we would look for.
We require our staff members to go through a self-screening every day. We ask families to do the same thing.
We're going to have to find ways to put that in front of families more regularly in terms of if you have COVID symptoms, if you've been around somebody that's been tested as positive, if you've been tested and don't have your results, stay away from school until you are safe, you are healthy to be in the school. So it's unfortunate that it happened on our first day. I think the
alarm that that triggered not only in our community but in surrounding communities hopefully will pay dividends in the long run.
The fortunate thing is through the protocols we had in place we immediately pulled the student from class and isolated the individual. We checked seating charts to find out exactly was in a close proximity to the infected student, determining which ones had been within six feet for more than 15 minutes.
And then, of course, that did mean we had to make some unfortunate phone calls to some families that evening to let them know that their child would be quarantined for 14 days.
Fortunately for us here in Indiana, our district in particular, we do have one-to-one devices so we can have virtual learning. Eighty-five percent of our families just choose -- have made the choice to send their kids to school rather than having that virtual option.
CURNOW: And that's a conversation that many parents and students across the world are having.
How important do you think is it for kids to go to school, when you measure the risk and reward ratio? Particularly when it comes to teenagers.
I know that many pediatricians that I have spoken to say it's actually so much more important in many ways for kids' mental health to be at school, even though they potentially are facing a coronavirus risk?
OLIN: I think you bring up a great point. That there are inherent risks in many things that we do, whether it's driving a vehicle or coming to school in the middle of this global pandemic.
As a professional educator, I do believe the best education that we can provide to students is on site.
Not only for the academic side, but as you referenced, meeting the social, emotional, learning needs that our students have.
And for some students, that's having food security; for others that's having some guidance counseling that they're going to receive at school. Students definitely do best in that environment.
And though, I think we're getting much better in the virtual environment, for my own money, my own children -- I have a junior in high school, she is on site, I have a wife that teaches as well. And we have made that decision with our family.
But all families aren't there and we want to make sure we're meeting the needs of people all over the spectrum. Whatever their level of comfort is.
CURNOW: OK. Thank you very much for joining us.
OLIN: Thanks for having me. CURNOW: And still to come. After taunting the U.S., the storm comes ashore as it is a hurricane again.
We'll have an update. That's next.
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ROBYN CURNOW, CNN ANCHOR: You're watching CNN NEWSROOM.
I'm Robyn Curnow, live from Atlanta.
So months into the coronavirus pandemic, many Americans still don't seem to be getting the message about social distancing and mask wearing, or they are ignoring it.
Well, Miguel Marquez talked to a couple who learned the hard way just how serious this is.
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DEBI PATTERSON, WAS HOSPITALIZED WITH COVID-19: We were totally lackadaisy about it.
MICHAEL PATTERSON, GOT SICK WITH COVID-19: Yes.
MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Debi and Michael Patterson didn't think the coronavirus would ever affect them.
D. PATTERSON: It was sort of almost a joke in our group of friends.
MARQUEZ: Did you wear masks?
D. PATTENSON: Nope.
MARQUEZ: Did you hang out with your friends as normal?
So all the things you're told you should back off of, you did.
D. PATTERSON: We did.
M. PATTERSON: We did. We did.
D. PATTERSON: We did.
M. PATTERSON: We did.
D. PATTERSON: And we still --
M. PATTERSON: And we paid the price for it.
D. PATTERSON: Yes.
MARQUEZ: From Lake Havasu City on Arizona's border with California, the Patterson's didn't give the virus much thought even once developing symptoms in late June.
D. PATTERSON: We just kind of carried on. Went to the pool, did stuff, you know, over the rest of the weekend. And then that Monday morning is when we both woke up and we're just -- it felt like a train had gone over both of us.
MARQUEZ: Michael got sick, Debi had to be hospitalized, put on oxygen but did not need a ventilator.
Over a month later, how are you now?
D. PATTERSON: Well, obviously, still short of breath, coughing, just the fatigue and dizziness, headaches almost daily. It's almost like somebody hit you in the head.
M. PATTERSON: Yes.
MARQUEZ: They once laughed about the virus, now they say it's no joke.
What is your message to people now?
D. PATTERSON: Be more careful.
M. PATTERSON: Keep your distance and wear a freaking mask.
MARQUEZ: In this ultraconservative corner of the state, masks still highly controversial.
PATRICK BAUGHMAN, GUN SHOP OWNER: If we make any member or any customer that's walking through our doors remove their face mask, again, that's our pride, that's also the understanding that you're ==
MARQUEZ: So you make people remove the mask when they come in?
BAUGHMAN: Absolutely. You do not shop in my store with a mask on -- period.
MARQUEZ: For gun shop owner Patrick Baughman, the coronavirus itself doesn't add up.
But 150,000 people are dead, over 150,000.
BAUGHMAN: I definitely -- I definitely don't agree with that number that you just threw out there. I think that --
MARQUEZ: What do you not agree with?
BAUGHMAN: There's so many cases of fraudulent claims as far as how they're reporting numbers.
MARQUEZ: Public health officials believe the number of dead from COVID-19 is probably higher than the official count, not lower.
When the President comes out and says wear a mask, do you think he's just playing politics? BAUGHMAN: Unfortunately I do at that point think that he's playing
politics because originally he did come out calling this entire thing a hoax.
MARQUEZ: For the Pattersons, the coronavirus is no hoax, and speaking out is not a political act. It's a friendly warning.
D. PATTERSON: It's ridiculous not to take this seriously. I mean I could've died just like the next person. I mean anybody can. It could've been either one of us or both of us.
MARQUEZ: So if you think being from a small town protects you from the coronavirus, the Patterson story tells you, you are not. We should also thank them for speaking out. It was not easy. They are from a small town -- Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
She supported President Trump in 2016, probably will again in 2020 from what we know. All of their friends are pretty conservative. So not an easy thing for them to raise their voices and speak out about this. but they say their experience was so tough that everyone needs to heed their advice.
Back to you.
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CURNOW: Thanks so much for that Miguel.
So Hurricane Isaias is getting stronger and stronger, and faster as it hits parts of the eastern U.S. The storm made landfall a little more than two hours ago in northern California (SIC).
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Isaias is the category one hurricane that has been coming online. It could bring tornadoes and flooding. There are reports of a number of structures on fire in one community as you can see from these images. Thousands are already without power.
We know that in the coming hours, the storm is expected to march up the coast and pommel parts of the northeast of the U.S.
Well, Pedram Javaheri is tracking the storm's path and he joins us now to give us some understanding of those pictures that we've just been seeing.
Hi, Pedram.
PEDRAM JAVAHERI, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes, you know, this is a storm we expected to strengthen, Robyn right at landfall and that is precisely what it did. It's strengthening up to a decent looking category one. So we're talking 75 miles per hour or about 120 kilometers per hour. It ramped up to closer to 140 kilometers per hour as it made landfall across the region at around 11 p.m. local time.
The damage, of course, right on the immediate coast there across this region of the states of North and South Carolina where the impact was.
But what we are watching for this particular storm, as you noted, is its forward progression within the next 24 hours. We know it's rather an expansive area of coverage when it comes to tropical storm watches and warnings even as far as north of the state of Main there.
And in fact, of course, originally stretched out of the state of Florida first time that any storm since 1960 has had that broad of a coverage for tropical watches and warnings.
But here's the center of circulation, and we watch this because we expect this within just the next 12 hours to traverse upwards of 800 kilometers, that would take it as a tropical storm still right over portions of Washington D.C. potentially just east of D.C. and then possibly directly over Philadelphia and/or New York. I say 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. local time on Tuesday.
And you got all of this happening just inside of a 12-hour period. We'd expect the winds to still be at tropical storm force which should be upwards of 95 to over 100 kilometers per hour.
So you put this together, we know power outages become a major, major concern and follow how quickly this progresses across the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. Atlantic City could see a 106 kilometer per hour gust, New York City at 103 kilometers per hour, Boston over 80 kilometers per hour across this region and of course, the system quickly by Tuesday night into Wednesday morning exits and loses tropical characteristics.
But power outages across the state of North Carolina have already exceeded 200,000 customers, and we expect this to be far more extensive as the population density increases here into the northeast.
In fact, notice much of the eastern Jersey Shore area into long island, potentially around New York City is highlighted in orange. That would be the widespread expectation of outages, and of course, given the pandemic, getting power back might be a lot more challenging than previously when it comes to tropical systems.
So we're going to watch this in the next couple of days, Robyn.
CURNOW: Yes, it is a bit of a double whammy, isn't it?
Pedram, thanks so much.
JAVAHERI: Thank you.
CURNOW: So back in March, the Philippine president ordered one of the world's longest and strictest lockdowns. But now after easing restrictions in June, the Philippines is seeing a spike in cases.
So joining me now from Manila is CNN Philippines senior anchor, Rico Hizon. Good to see you. How has this decision to go back on lockdown again being welcomed?
RICO HIZON, CNN PHILLIPINES SENIOR ANCHOR: Well, Robyn, there was initial resistance particularly from the business sector because Metro Manila is the country's economic beltway and it is the home to the financial district and almost all the major industries from hotels to food, manufacturing to services -- they are all based here.
And business leaders and economic managers are seeing stricter restrictions may hurt consumer demand and production and that will put more pressure on the country's faltering economy.
And reestablishing the more stringent modified enhanced community quarantine, which means public transportation will be suspended, checkpoints manned by military and police officials will be back, domestic flights are canceled until the 18th while international flights are limited. And Robyn, a curfew will also be imposed across the metropolis.
But when you speak to analysts, they believe it will positive in the long run if the health care system is given a reprieve. And the bottom line for many here in the country is that life is more important than money.
As we know, the Philippine economy just like many global economies, Robyn, are suffering amid this pandemic. Businesses are closing down. Jobs are being lost. The Philippines for instance is facing its deepest contraction in 30 years. And it was already starting to recover after the government eased quarantine restrictions in June, Robyn.
CURNOW: So this is a pretty big decision being made here by the president and I understand we was pressured by doctors and the medical associations, the medical community. What did they say to him?
HIZON: Well, you know, Robyn, they pleaded with President Duterte and the government to reimpose this strictest lockdown, which is the enhanced community quarantine because COVID-19 cases here surged more than fivefold. And the infections overwhelmed the health care system.
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HIZON: In fact, on social media platforms right now, "hashtag Time Out" is gaining a lot of popularity. And a key research team said that if the capital remained under a looser lockdown which is called general community quarantine, where you have all the malls, shops, gyms, salons being opened, cases could double by the end of August. And this really troubled the health care workers.
But, you know, the government compromised with the health care professionals and imposed the second strictest form of lockdown, which means strict home quarantine and residents will only be limited to accessing only essential goods and services.
But on the flip side, Robyn, President Duterte did not take this lightly. He hit back at the medical community, accusing the doctors and the health care workers of trying to foment revolution. Apparently reacting to a protest song from the musical "Les Miserables" which has been recorded and shared online by Duterte's detractors. So now, Robyn, doctors and statisticians are, you know, keeping their fingers crossed that this latest lockdown in the country's economic hub will hopefully flatten the infection curve, Robyn?
CURNOW: Yes, hopefully. Great report there. Thanks so much, Rico, live there from Manila.
So still ahead, it was a shocking crime. The family of a U.S. judge was shot at home. Her only child was killed. Now that judge is speaking out. We will have her powerful message.
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CURNOW: So the former Pope Benedict is recovering from what the Vatican called a "painful but not serious condition". The Vatican commented after a German newspaper reported the Pope was -- the former Pope was very ill shingles. The newspaper quoted Benedict's biographer, describing the 93-year-old as extremely frail and that his voice was barely audible when he saw him on Saturday. Benedict cited health reasons when he retired back in 2013.
And leaked police body camera footage shows new details of George Floyd's fatal arrest. The video was obtained by "The Daily Mail", a judge had previously said the footage couldn't be published. It's unclear how "the Mail" obtained it.
Omar Jimenez has more on the new video, but we must warn you, it is disturbing to watch.
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THOMAS LANE, POLICE OFFICER: Put your hand up there.
GEORGE FLOYD, KILLED BY POLICE: God.
LANE: Put your (EXPLETIVE DELETED) had up there.
FLOYD: I got shot.
LANE: Hands on the wheel. Put your hands on the wheel.
FLOYD: Yes, sir.
OMAR JIMENEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This partial body camera video obtained by "The Daily Mail" showing former officer Thomas Lane pointing a gun at George Floyd within 25 seconds of he and former officer J. Alexander Kueng knocking on the window of the car Floyd was in.
They were responding to a call over a fraudulent 20-dollar bill being used at the store across the street. Officers next seen here trying to get Floyd out of the vehicle.
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FLOYD: I'm sorry. LANE: Step out and face away.
FLOYD: Please don't shoot me, Mr. Officer, please. Don't shoot me, man.
LANE: Step out and face away.
FLOYD: Would you not shoot me, man.
LANE: I'm not shooting you.
JIMENEZ: He's eventually pulled from the car and cuffed.
FLOYD: Ok, Mr. Officer. Help me.
LANE: Stop resisting.
FLOYD: I'm not.
JIMENEZ: Based on CNN's viewing of the complete body camera footage, this is the first of two struggles.
The second much more forceful as officers try to get Floyd into the police squad car. Floyd says he's claustrophobic. Soon, he's being pushed in on one side by Kueng and pulled in on the other Lane, seen in video obtained by "The Daily Mail".
FLOYD: I can't choke. I can't breathe, Officer. Please. Please.
My wrist, my wrist, man.
I want to lay on the ground. I want to lay on the ground. I want to lay on the ground.
JIMENEZ: This is the first time George Floyd says "I can breathe" based on CNN's previous viewing of the video.
They fall out on Lane's side and go to the ground to what has now become an infamously familiar position. Floyd's neck under the knee of Derek Chauvin.
FLOYD: I can't breathe, officer.
DEREK CHAUVIN, FORMER POLICE OFFICER: Then stop talking. Stop Yelling.
FLOYD: They'll kill me. They will kill me, man.
CHAUVIN: It takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk.
JIMENEZ: This is from the perspective of Kueng's camera where not long after, Lane asks if Floyd should be moved.
FLOYD: Please. Please. Please.
LANE: I just worry about the excited delirium or whatever.
CHAUVIN: That's why we have the ambulance coming.
LANE: Ok.
JIMENEZ: Floyd loses consciousness shortly after and was pronounced dead at the hospital. Chauvin now charged with second-degree murder and manslaughter.
Lane, Kueng and Tou Thao are charged with aiding and abetting second degree murder and manslaughter. None of the former officers have entered a plea, although Thao and Lane have asked for their cases to be dismissed and Kueng's says he plans to plead not guilty.
Attorneys for the four officers either declined comment or did not respond.
Omar Jimenez, CNN.
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CURNOW: A U.S. judge whose son was killed and husband wounded in an ambush last month says she doesn't want another family to experience a similar tragedy. In a message she also described the moments before the shooting and her son's last words.
Here's Alexandra Field with that story.
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ESTER SALAS, U.S. FEDERAL JUDGE: To weeks ago, my life as I knew it changed in an instant and my family will never be the same. A mad man, who I believe was targeting me because of my position as a federal judge, came to my house.
ALEXANDRA FIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Federal Judge Esther Salas' only child Daniel Anderl spent his last weekend with his family at home in New Jersey, celebrating his 20th birthday.
SALAS: The weekend was a glorious one. It was filled with love and laughter and smiles. Daniel and I went downstairs to the basement, and we were chatting as we always do. And Daniel said, "Mom, let's keep talking. I love talking to you, Mom."
And it was at that exact moment that the doorbell rang, and Daniel looked at me and said, who is that? And before I could say a word, he sprinted upstairs. Within seconds, I heard the sound of bullets and someone screaming "No".
FIELD: Daniel was shot in the chest, blocking his father, Mark, who was shot three times and survived.
SALAS: We are living every parent's worst nightmare, making preparations to bury our only child, Daniel. And I'm here asking everyone to help me assure that no one ever has to experience this kind of pain.
We may not be able to stop something like this from happening again, but we can make it hard for those who target us to track us down.
FIELD: The suspected shooter, Roy Den Hollander died by suicide. An attorney and men's rights activist who had argued the case before Judge Salas and then in hate-filled writings on the Internet attacked her in racist and sexist terms.
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SALAS: As federal judges, we understand that our decisions will be scrutinized. And some may disagree strongly with our rulings, but what we cannot accept is when we are forced to live in fear for our lives because personal information like our home addresses can easily be obtained by anyone seeking to do us or our families harm.
Unfortunately for my family, the threat was real. And the free flow of information from the Internet allowed this sick and depraved human being to find all our personal information and target us.
At the moment, there is nothing we can do to stop it. And that is unacceptable.
FIELD: Salas says the killer kept a dossier on her family. Law enforcement sources say he had a target list that included the names of several other judges and a photo of New York's top state court judge, Janet DiFiore.
After the New Jersey shooting she was given state police protection. A mother, now in the deepest kind of pain, is calling for more.
SALAS: My son's death cannot be in vain, which is why I'm begging those in power to do something to help my brothers and sisters on the bench.
FIELD: A powerful and poignant appeal. Federal judges do receive some protection from the U.S. Marshals Service, but for years there have been calls to increase protection for those judges.
Now Judge Salas is saying it's time to have a national discussion about what more can be done not just to protect those judges but also, of course, their families.
In New York -- Alexandra Field, CNN.
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CURNOW: Thanks, Alexandra, for that.
So coming up, as the world grapples with its history on race relations, activism makes the cover of Vogue's most important issue of the year.
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CURNOW: Welcome back.
So the September issue of "Vogue Magazine" is considered the most important one of the year. And this year's "British Vogue" cover reflects the global reckoning on race relations. It was shot by a black photographer for the first time in "British Vogue's" history.
Not three years ago, Edward Enninful became editor in chief. He's the first black male and gay person to hold the position and from the start, he promised diversity and inclusion when he spoke with our Christiane Amanpour a little bit earlier on.
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CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN HOST: So I don't really know how to describe the September issue for non-fashion devotees. I mean it's like Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, the NBA championship, the Super Bowl all put together, right, for the fashion industry. What makes it so important?
EDWARD ENNINFUL, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, BRITISH VOGUE: Well, someone said September is the January of fashion. So in our industry, it's the one issue where everything comes together, all the stories, all the editorials, all the advertisements. Really it's our fashion week in a sense.
So yes, the September issue is really the most important issue of the year.
AMANPOUR: And you found something pretty -- pretty different this time. You have got Misan Harriman as your cover photographer.
ENNINFUL: Yes.
AMANPOUR: So tell me why that's important.
ENNINFUL: So Misan Harriman is the first black photographer since for, of course, the cover of the September British Vogue issue.
AMANPOUR: Ever.
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ENNINFUL: Ever in the history. And he worked with my fashion editor, who is also black, Donna Wallace, and a whole black team. And I think they brought something so authentic to the whole project. And for me it was very important that we had a black team behind it.
AMANPOUR: Because, you know, you pull out this is -- I think you call it the gate --
ENNINFUL: The gate fold.
AMANPOUR: The gate fold and it's all these amazing Black Lives Matter activists. Even Jane Elliott who is white, has done so much on the history of racism and the biology or the psychology of it. It's really incredible.
Since you took the helm three years, have -- you said you're going to make a difference, and you made a difference. There were virtually I think it was something like 12 black covers in 25 years of Vogue history, "British Vogue".
How is it being -- how do you -- how is -- what is the reaction been? How do you feel about being in the vanguard of this cultural shift?
ENNINFUL: I mean I remember when I got the job. I thought what would I want to see in Vogue? And it was really, you know, I looked around the people. I look around the people I knew. I looked around the streets of all the major cities and I just really wanted to represent what I saw in the magazines, which was inclusivity, diversity, you know, a place for women of all, shapes, sizes, ages, colors to look and see themselves reflected. So that's what I really wanted to do.
And the reaction has been so great from the industry, from, you know, regular people, to people like yourself. And I never thought it would go this well, but I'm very happy it did.
AMANPOUR: And now, I wonder if you ever imagined that you'd be in the midst of this political, cultural, social movement. And be, again, on the frontlines of this because there's so much talk about change. And I just wonder whether for you, it's a burden, is it an opportunity? Do you believe that it will continue, or is it a moment in time?
ENNINFUL: You know, I've always done what I found from, you know, very early on in my career. I've always sort of been about inclusivity, really and sort of focus in on (INAUDIBLE) from label of the other. People who have been othered. So I just wanted to bring them into this conversation.
And I think what's happening now in the world is a great thing because people are talking about subjects they never did before -- heart subjects, you know, racism, unemployment, you know, climate change. So the magazine -- what we've doing over the years is sort -- is now the perfect conversation starter really. But it was not planned that way because every month, we try to sort of reflect what we see in the world out there.
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CURNOW: Christian Amanpour there speaking with "British Vogue" editor in chief Edward Enninful.
So thanks for watching. This has been CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Robyn Curnow.
I'm going to hand you over to my colleague Rosemary Church in just a moment. Enjoy.
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