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Rochester Protests Peaceful, Promise of Change; "Tenet": First movie release of the pandemic; Djokovic Out of U.S. Open; U.S. Holiday Could Lead to More Cases; India Now the Second Highest Country Infected by Coronavirus; Push Back by Trump on Disparaging U.S. Service Members; Novak Djokovic Out of U.S. Open; Creek Fire Burns in Central California; Typhoon Haishen Pummels South Korea. Aired 2-3a ET
Aired September 07, 2020 - 02:00 ET
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MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN HOST: An unwanted distinction. India, now the world's second worst hit country with coronavirus in total numbers. We are live for you in New Delhi this hour. Also -
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Terrifying scenes of escape, some calling it hellish. California grapples with historic wildfires. And shocker on the court, see the move that has the biggest name in men's tennis out of the U.S. Open.
Hello and welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. I am Michael Holmes. You are watching "CNN Newsroom."
Eight months after the novel coronavirus was officially identified, the global number of infections from COVID-19 now topping 27 million. And despite international efforts to contain the pandemic, the virus keeps spreading at an alarming rate.
In Europe, some countries reporting their most infections in months. India, meanwhile, now passing Brazil as the country with the second highest number of confirmed cases in the world. Only the U.S. has more.
But now, there is growing concern Americas numbers could rise even further as the country prepares to celebrate the Labor Day holiday in the coming hours.
Let's get a start by getting more on the growing outbreak in India. CNN's Vedika Sud is live for us in New Delhi. Yes, how concerning is this for the Indian government? I mean, these numbers clearly going the wrong way.
VEDIKA SUD, CNN REPORTER: Well, Michael, the worry is here to stay for a while at least because we've just seen that surge in new infections on a daily basis go above 90,000 new infections a day. That is worrying. One of the reasons for that also is the aggressive testing that is
taking place. As of this morning, India has almost tested 50 million samples and this is going to rise on a daily basis. The target being, reaching about 1 million sample testings a day.
So we've spoken with some doctors. We've tried to deconstruct the reasons really for this huge surge across India when it comes to COVID-19 numbers, bringing it to number two on the list when it comes to maximum number of cases across the world. Here is what they had to say.
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SUD (voice-over): Congested streets, crowded markets. India's exponential increase in COVID-19 numbers has done little to deter people from venturing out.
RAJIV PARAKH, CHAIRMAN, MEDANTA DIVISION OF PERIPHERAL VASCULAR & ENDOVASCULAR SCIENCES: People thought that once the numbers started to go down, this was it. They had won the war. And everybody was out and everybody was, you know, out there wearing without wearing a mask, without any social distancing, without any sanitizer. Basically, just gay (ph) abandoned.
SUD (voice-over): While it took India five and a half months to surpass 1 million cases, it's taken the country just 50 days to add more than 3 million infections. Medical experts say one of the reasons for the big surge is aggressive testing.
HARSH VARDHAN, INDIAN HEALTH MINISTER: Now, twice when we set our target to do 1 lac test a day and then later 1 million tests per day, we achieved that target much before the targeted date.
SUD (voice-over): A significant decrease in caseload has been reported from rural areas with the public health care system remains extremely poor and lean.
MANOJ KUMAR, DIRECTOR, CARDIOLOGY DEPARTMENT, MAX HOSPITAL: The pandemic is spreading in the rural area that is mainly affecting the seven states of this country which are responsible for almost 75 percent of the cases.
SUD (voice-over): India's health ministry is often quoted low fatality and high recovery rates to explain its numbers. The medical experts say this has made people complacent.
SHAHID JAMEEL, VIROLOGIST: I think it is because of mixed messaging that we are putting out. We are not telling people exactly what is going on. We are giving them half truths about recovery rates, but not telling the exact gravity of the situation.
SUD (voice-over): Forced repeated lockdowns, economic compulsions have left the government to relax restrictions. With malls, restaurants, and temples already reopened, subway trains will be back on track from Monday, another possible hazard in the times of COVID. With the fastest-growing caseload in the world, India has now surpassed Brazil's numbers, second only to the U.S. in COVID-19 cases.
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SUD (in camera): What we have to remember at this point also, Michael, that India has huge population, 1.36 billion people in India compared to 211 million in Brazil. So we're going to see these numbers rise over the next few days and this remains a grim situation. Back to you, Michael.
HOLMES: Yes. Important to keep that in mind, the population difference there. Thank you so much, Vedika. Vedika Sud in New Delhi for us.
The United Kingdom has recorded nearly 3,000 new infections within a 24 hour period. That's actually the highest daily increase since May. The total case count now standing at nearly 350,000, but the death toll not keeping pace with increase in cases. That is some good news. Only two deaths recorded on Sunday in the U.K.
We must also note that the number of tests being processed in the U.K. has increased since May. Much of North America celebrates Labor Day on Monday, but holiday activities could increase the risk of exposure to the coronavirus.
New Jersey was hit hard early, but numbers have fallen in recent months and state officials, they want to keep it that way.
Here is Evan McMorris-Santoro.
EVAN MCMORRIS-SANTORO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: On Friday, New Jersey governor, Phil Murphy, noted that this state had had six months since its first coronavirus case. Six months where the state went from one of the worst story of the pandemic, to one of the best stories of the pandemic.
Then came this weekend, the big test of all of the gains New Jersey has made. Murphy loosened rules on restaurants and movie theaters, allowing 25 percent capacity inside those places for the first time since the shutdown back in march.
I traveled across the state to see how things were going. At the movie theater, I met people who talked about sitting far apart from each other, wearing masks, while watching a movie. They felt safe, but they wondered if they would be able to continue?
And here in Asbury Park, the beach had a strict limit on how many people could be on the beach and how long they could be on the beach. And here on the boardwalk, we still saw a lot of people not wearing masks. Restaurants, like the one next to me here in Asbury Park, allowed 25 percent capacity of indoor dining.
I spoke to a manager who said he hopes this works so that he can add more and more people and get his business going back again. But Murphy says, if these experiments fail, if he sees the numbers go back up, New Jersey will shut down once again.
Evan McMorris-Santoro, CNN, Asbury Park, New Jersey.
HOLMES: Well, with 57 days to go until the U.S. election, one of the latest tell-all books about the president comes out this week. It is called "Disloyal, A Memoir." It is written by Mr. Trump's former personal attorney, Michael Cohen.
Outlining many things in the book, Cohen calls Mr. Trump a racist. He writes that before his kickoff announcement in 2015, Mr. Trump said this about minorities, "I will never get the Hispanic vote. Like the blacks, they are too stupid to vote for Trump. They are not my people."
Meanwhile, President Trump and members of his administration are busy pushing back on that disparaging article published in the "Atlantic."
CNN's Jeremy Diamond with those details.
JEREMY DIAMOND, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, with less than two months until Election Day, President Trump just can't seem to shake this "Atlantic" article that describes the president's disparaging fallen service members from World War I during a visit to France in 2018.
The president reportedly referring to those fallen service members as suckers and losers. And now, multiple news outlets, including CNN, have0 confirmed different parts of that "Atlantic" story as former senior administration official telling CNN that the president did indeed refer to those fallen service members in crude and disparaging terms.
Now, the pushback from the White House has been tremendous, perhaps greater than we have seen for any other previous news story. And part of that, of course, is because veterans and the military are an important part of the presidents voting bloc. Here is the pushback that we were seeing on Sunday from cabinet members.
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DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Have you ever heard the president disparaged U.S. service members or veterans?
ROBERT WILKIE, U.S. SECRETARY OF VETERANS AFFAIRS: Well, absolutely not. And I would be offended too if I thought it was true.
STEVE MNUCHIN, U.S. TREASURY SECRETARY: I think this president has enormous respect for the military and for the generals. And I've been at the tank at the Pentagon with him. I've been at 9/11 at the Pentagon with him. This president respects and supports the U.S. military.
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DIAMOND: Now, the president has, of course, for his part already denied the story vehemently, but his denials are complicated by some false statements that he has made as he has tried to make those denials. One of them is that he talked to First Lady Melania Trump, who he claims was back in Washington, D.C. when in fact she was on that trip to France with him in 2018.
And then the second part of the president's denial was claiming that he had never referred to the late senator, John McCain, as a loser.
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That claim is defied by the video evidence of the president referring to former Senator John McCain in exactly those terms. And of course, more broadly, the president back in 2015 had referred to Senator John McCain as a loser and then went on to say that he liked people who weren't captured saying that John McCain was not a hero.
But of course, that was also a broader denunciation it seems of prisoners of war, not all too dissimilar from what we're now hearing that the president said during that trip to France.
Jeremy Diamond, CNN, the White House.
HOLMES: Let's turn our attention to tennis now as one of the biggest names in the game is being disqualified from the U.S. Open. World number one, Novak Djokovic, was defaulted from the tournament after hitting a lineswoman with a ball.
CNN World Sports' Patrick Snell is following the story. Now, he didn't mean it, but there's not much wiggle room in the rulebook.
PATRICK SNELL, CNN SPORTS ANCHOR: You're quite right, Michael. Yes, this is a huge story, no question about it this Monday, one we are fully focused on. And a huge disappointment for Novak Djokovic, the world's top ranked player, number one seed at the U.S. Open. A player that was looking to go and win career major number 18 and get within two of the legendary Roger Federer.
But I have to say, he has not covered himself in glory with this incident. He just fallen 6-5 behind in the first set against Spanish opponent Pablo Carreno Busta. And in a moment of frustration really, he was swatting the ball away from the court, unintentionally though, it hits a female line judge in the sort of neck/throat area.
She goes down in obvious distress. The rules officials get together and there's only one outcome here, Michael. You referenced it with the rules, kind of like football, soccer, red card. If you're a player and you strike a ball and it hits an official, there's only one outcome here. And in this case, it is out of the tournament for Novak Djokovic, huge disappointment for him.
HOLMES: A lot of people thought that he would sort of show up at a news conference of the stadium. He did not. He headed off, but he spoke later.
SNELL: Yes. He took to social media afterwards. And this is a play of course, you said, a very controversial 2020. The ill-fated (inaudible) comes to mind, but this is what he said on social media. "This whole situation has left me really sad and empty. I checked on
the lines person in the tournament, telling me that thank God she is feeling okay. I'm extremely sorry to have caused this such stress, so unintended, so wrong. I'm not disclosing her name to respect her privacy. As for the disqualification, I need to go back within and work on my disappointment and turn this all into a lesson for my growth and evolution as a player and human being.
I apologize to the U.S. Open tournament and everyone associated for my behavior. I'm very grateful to my team and family for being my rock support, and my fans for always being there with me. Thank you and I am so sorry." The words there, Michael, of Novak Djokovic.
HOLMES: Yes. Just real quick, any other reaction?
SNELL: Yes. Reaction has been coming in. This is a huge global talk. You could imagine what's going on in social media. The young Canadian player, Denis Shapovalov, who had his own controversy when he hit a ball into a chair umpire a few years back while on Davis Cup duty for his country, causing an eye injury to the aforementioned umpire.
He was asked about it after his victory on Sunday. I've been in that situation so I know exactly how Novak is feeling, he said. Hopefully he can shake it off and move on. I hope he needs to grows and learn from this.
And then a quick tweet from the legendary Billie Jean King as well. Here are my thoughts on the Novak Djokovic default. First, I hope the line judge is okay. The rule is the rule. It is unfortunate for everyone involved, but in this specific situation, the default was the right call.
Michael, it's a developing story. We're following it every step of the way right through this Monday and beyond.
HOLMES: All right. Patrick, good to have you on the story. Appreciate it. Patrick Snell there. And we will take a quick break here on the program. When we come back, imagine being in this car. Flames burning all around you as you try to escape a wildfire in California. Why fire cruisers struggling to contain these blazes?
Also when we come back, Typhoon Haishen is packing a powerful punch now in South Korea. Ahead, a live report from the weather center. You're watching "CNN Newsroom."
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HOLMES: Raging wildfire, as you see them there, creating a dire situation in California. More than two million acres have burned this year, the most ever. That's bigger than 10 New York cities, picture that. And we still haven't even reached the critical months of October and November.
Have a look at this time lapse satellite video from the National Weather Service, really gives you a sense of how big the blaze called Creek Fire is. It's burned more than 45,000 acres and central California since Friday.
Firefighters also battling sever heat this holiday weekend as they try to contain the blazes.
CNN's Paul Vercammen reports.
PAUL VERCAMMEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Michael, a horrifying brutal weekend of fire and heat throughout California. Let's begin northeast of Fresno, California. The Mammoth Reservoir was evacuated because the Creek Fire encircled campers at this reservoir. Many of them were in fear for their lives.
A lot of them were airlifted, more than 200 of them, to safety in nearby Fresno. And we know that at least 20 were treated for injuries such as burns as well as broken bones. One woman recounting to us the moment where she was trying to drive away from walls of flames.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Holy.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Just keep going. (BLEEP).
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh my gid.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Just keep going.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Let's go, go, go.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Just keep going.
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JULIANA PARK, FLED WILDFIRES IN SIERRA NATIONAL FOREST: At the time, I was on a hike with just some hazy air that became, you know, soon ash rain.
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We were wearing masks but it was getting, you know, harder to breathe, harder to see. I would say between the time of 1:30 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. we could see that, you know, we needed to leave immediately. I think if we had stayed just 10 minutes more, we may not have been so lucky.
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VERCAMMEN: And these fires burning throughout southern California, sending up huge pyrocumulus clouds that can have their own weather. In many instances, the clouds from let's say the Creek Fire, going way up eight, nine miles in the air. And the heat just oppressive in Los Angeles County, Woodland Hills, to be specific.
We set an all-time record high for an official station, 121 degrees Fahrenheit. And the concern among the firefighters and their community is that there is just no rest for them. We already broke the record for most acres burned in California.
And we have the hot months of October and November ahead where the Santa Ana winds can come whipping through and cause a lot of fire danger. They are looking for some way to get some sort of break and rest from all these flames links.
Reporting from Venice, California, I'm Paul Vercammen. Back to you now Michael.
HOLMES: Paul, thanks. Let's bring in meteorologist Pedram Javaheri now to discuss this further. What are you seeing there?
PEDRAM JAVAHERI, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Now, Michael, you know, this is a long duration event, unfortunately. Of course, we've already seen quite a bit of heat in recent months and of course, now you're seeing the ries really grow exponentially in the last couple of days.
But upwards of 13 U.S. states, dealing with these fire weather alerts. These are red flag warnings, and also of course the extreme heat advisories and warnings that are in place as well. And in fact, some 80 large uncontained fires at this hour across the western United States.
And there is that Creek Fire, the satellite imagery really shows you the incredible size and scale of this as all the smoke plume gets pushed up into the upper atmosphere and dispersed. But a 600 percent growth overnight here in a 24-hour period really speaks to the landscape across this region of California.
And again, the conditions that have been ripe for a rapid fire development. Here's the forecast going into Monday afternoon, notice even into the deserts, we should be somewhere into the low 100s here in the month of September.
In fact, just about 15 days left before autumn officially gets underway and we're still talking 120s there in Palm Springs. Los Angeles after highs into the 100s, dropping back down to own to 93 degrees, and then cooling off a little bit come Tuesday afternoon into the 80s.
And notice winter weather advisories on the eastern side of this over a 24-hour period now. And then we'll expect even snow showers coming in as kind of massive disruption here to the jet stream allowing the pattern to shift rather dramatically here.
Look at this. You bet you haven't seen a 70 forecast like this very often. Denver goes from 93 degrees down to 38 and then rapidly warms up again by the latter portion of the week. And really quickly here, I want to touch on what's happening in recent hours, Michael.
We've had Typhoon Haishen of course, make landfall. It made landfall as a Category 1 equivalent, 126 kilometers per hour, but what's most impressive as the system now falls apart, this is the fifth storm in the last four weeks to impact portions of the Korean Peninsula.
And about half a million customers across portions of the Ryukyu Islands. Also, southern Japan without power as the storm head winds of Category 3 equivalent there across this region. So certainly, quite a bit of damage left in place after so many weeks of tropical systems across that region, Michael.
HOLMES: Yes. Certainly all the activity. Pedram, good to see you. Pedram Javaheri there. And as Pedram mentioned actually, Typhoon Haishen currently lashing the Korean Peninsula, I want to show you the scene in western Japan where Haishen battered the island with heavy wind and rain. This was earlier.
And now, this was just the latest of several storms that hit the region in recent weeks. At one point, Haishen was a strong as a Category 3 hurricane. Dozens of people injured in Japan. Four people are actually still missing after their homes were washed into a river.
We're joined now by Paula Hancocks live from Seoul. It has been an active season to say the least. What is the situation there?
PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, that's right Michael. I mean, we're looking here at the fifth storm in the past four weeks that has made landfall in South Korea. And now the weather department telling us that usually you would have one or two that make landfall in that same period of time.
So it just shows how active the season has been. And this has also coming off the back of historic rainfall throughout the summer, the monsoon season here in South Korea. It was particularly devastating this summer and also in North Korea, of course.
So what we're looking at, at this point, is that storm still heading east along the eastern coast. Now, we're in the capital, Seoul, in the west of the country here.
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So, clearly, you're not seeing much of the damage here, but a very different situation on the east coast. We know that the rainfall is significant, and of course, given the fact that there has been so much rainfall over recent weeks, there is going to be concern of significant flooding.
Now, there are hopes that it won't be quite as bad as have been feared at one point because the storm did head a little bit farther in Seoul. It didn't have such an impact on land as it could have done, but it did get about 9:00 this morning on the southeastern coast of South Korea.
But, of course, South Korea is set up a lot better than North Korea to be able to deal with this kind of severe weather. We know that Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, has been touring areas of the previous typhoon, which is just a matter of days ago, which had significant damage in North Korea.
So, they are concerned, obviously, with what this new typhoon could bring. They don't need any more rainfall in North Korea. Certainly, the agriculture industry is one of great concerns, so close to harvest. If they do have significant damage to crops then that could make food insecurity, which is already significant in North Korea, even worse.
So certainly that's one of the biggest concerns when it comes to the Korean Peninsula that we have seen the east coast of South Korea being hit particularly hard with the amount of rainfall. Michael?
HOLMES: All right. Paula, thanks for that. Paula Hancocks live from Seoul in South Korea for us.
And we will take a quick break. When we come back on "CNN Newsroom," after several nights of tense clashes between police and protestors, we'll find out how city officials and civic leaders are bringing a sense of calm to Rochester, New York. That's when we come back.
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MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN ANCHOR: And welcome back to our viewers here in the U.S. and all around the world.
I'm Michael Holmes, you are now watching CNN NEWSROOM.
Protests against racial injustice and police brutality, have been taking place all across the U.S.
But on Sunday, there was a welcome sense of calm on the streets of Rochester in New York.
Demonstrators marched to the public safety building in what was a dramatic change from the tensions gripping the city over the last few nights.
Protesters are demanding reform after a black man, Daniel Prude, died in police custody.
And as CNN's Polo Sandoval reports, changes could be coming soon.
POLO SANDOVAL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: For five nights in a row, these demonstrations staying relatively peaceful.
It isn't till the very end that things do take a bit of a tense and violence turn with some protesters clashing with police.
We do know that yesterday the mayor of the city as well as the police chief hoping to address some of those concerns, specifically those that have to do with the issue of mental health.
As you recall, Daniel Prude's family had initially called authorities after he was experiencing a mental health episode for help to try to track him down.
Well, yesterday authorities here announcing initiatives to address mental health issues and police reform. Initiatives including doubling the availability of mental health professionals and moving the family crisis intervention team from the police department to a separate city department.
I can tell you over the weekend the New York State Attorney General's Office announced that she plans to empanel a grand jury to take a closer look at this case.
So authorities here recommending that many people allow the investigation to run its course.
Here's what Rochester mayor, Lovely Warren, had to say over the weekend.
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MAYOR LOVELY WARREN, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK: What truly matters is creating a city that is dedicated to serving, protecting and lifting up the least among us.
What will always pain me about the death of Mr. Daniel Prude is our failure to do that.
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SANDOVAL: Well, demonstrations are likely to continue into the week, one of the many reasons why local faith leaders are going to working with city officials to have church members, essentially, serve as peaceful buffer between protesters and police.
Hoping that the remainder of these demonstrations throughout the week remain peaceful.
Polo Sandoval. CNN, Rochester, New York.
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HOLMES: Erroll Southers joins us now from Los Angeles via Skype. He's a professor at the University of Southern California's Sol Price School of Public Policy.
Good to see you, Professor.
HOLMES: One thing that you said, you said, quote: "The combination of political speech and militias that encourage extremist views and fear of progressive change have all contributed to an 'us versus them' narrative in the U.S."
We've seen Black Lives Matter protests turn violent too, of course, the appearance of these militias.
Do you fear the mixture could manifest in election-related violence or the potential for that?
ERROLL SOUTHERS, PROFESSOR, SOL PRICE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY: I do think that the mixture's going to relate to more violence. We've seen that over the last several weeks. And as you've mentioned previously, militias and vigilantes coming out now to actually monitor these protests is actually an activity that is illegal in the United States.
Most people don't understand that they've conflated the Second Amendment to mean that you can go out and form a militia. But militias only operate in the United States under the authority of the governor or the president of the United States.
HOLMES: Yes. And the Second Amendment was meant to be against a tyrannical government not your own fellow citizen. That's a whole other argument.
Does the very fact that violence has become such a big campaign issue make the potential for violent protests on both sides even worse, leading up to election day?
SOUTHER: Well, yes, it has. And what's really unfortunate about this is that we've normalized violence in this country so much in the last three and-a-half years that it's become almost commonplace.
Brought about and brought to light, if you will, by social justice protests and protests against police brutality unlike we've seen in a half a century.
As a result of this, there have been a number of incidents that have been happening since George Floyd was murdered that most people don't even know about.
In fact, a center stood up a database two days after George Floyd was murdered -- and that's the Center for the Analysis of the Radical Right. And there have been 500 times where white vigilantes and far right extremists have shown up to oppose Black Lives Matter protests in the United States. Often with tragic results.
HOLMES: Wow. That is a big number. You probably saw it, "The Washington Post" published an academic, if you like, gaming out of scenarios for the election based on Biden win, a Trump win, a close call and so on.
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The results are, frankly, disturbing. They point to the potential for violence on the streets and that comes back to the president sort of pro-actively casting doubt on the result of the election.
He said he can only lose if it's rigged. And what he might say to his supporters if he loses.
Is it alarmist to contemplate that scenario, sort of post-election day violence on the streets?
SOUTHER: It is alarmist.
HOLMES: Or do you think that's important?
HOLMES: It is?
SOUTHER: Michael, it's very alarmist to have that kind of outlook, if you will. What's happened, though, over the last three years is almost a self-fulfilling prophesy of a second Civil War.
And it comes about as a result of the demographics of the United States. We're going to be a minority majority by 2045.
That's been interpreted by some segments of the society here in this country as white genocide is under way and what they call the Great Replacement of white people in their home countries by foreign non- white immigrants.
And so that's why you saw when the president ran for office, his number one item was immigration. And that resonated with a lot of people here who were concerned about this white genocide that they believe is taking place.
So now we come to an election where, if in fact, the president loses and it's rigged, you have people believing that the system and the government is rigged. And that's the reason for the loss in 2020.
HOLMES: And our thanks to Erroll Southers there, a professor at the University of Southern California's Sol Pride [sic] School of Public Policy.
Well, after two political conventions unlike any the United States has seen before, a new CNN poll shows Joe Biden holding on to a consistent lead over Donald Trump.
Among registered voters 51 percent back Biden and 43 percent support Trump.
Both candidates facing a tough time changing any minds. Only 13 percent of registered voters say they have yet to make a choice or they could change their minds.
Roughly, 85 percent say they're locked in on their choice for president. Of course, the battleground states is where the real fight's going to be.
It was the first major blockbuster to hit the theaters since the start of the pandemic.
How the suspense thriller, "Tenet," performed at the box office.
We'll have that when we come back.
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HEALTH & WELLNESS
Weddings canceled. Graduations canceled. Visits with the grandparents canceled.
A lot of the things we look forward to or even rely in our daily lives have been canceled or closed this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
And prescriptions for anti-anxiety medications spiked this spring. Anti-depressants like Zoloft have been added to the FDA's list of drugs experiencing shortages.
With all of that, is there any wonder researchers might have found an increase in broken heart syndrome.
A small study from the Cleveland Clinic found patients at two Ohio hospitals who did not have coronavirus were twice as likely to have broken heart syndrome than before the pandemic.
Broken heart syndrome or tako tsubo syndrome happens when the heart muscles weaken leading to chest pain and shortness of breath. It presents like a heart attack and is believed to be brought on by high levels of physical or emotional stress.
While it can be deadly, most patients recover within days or weeks.
Researchers say the increase during this time is likely connected to the quarantine, lack of social interaction, strict physical distancing and the economic impact of this pandemic.
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PATRICK SNELL, CNN WORLD SPORT: Hi there. Thanks for joining us. Welcome to CNN WORLD SPORT.
There was just once place to start this Monday. And that is in New York City.
A huge talking point going into week two of the COVID-19 impacted U.S. Open.
Sunday's disqualification of the top-ranked men's player in the world, Novak Djovokic.
In a moment, we bring you reaction from the player himself, why tournament organizers actually took the decision they did.
And analysis as well to an incident that is certain to redefine the very history of this world famous tournament.
The Serbian player defaulted having just lost his serve, frustration's clearly playing a part here.
He can't have this moment back as he hits the ball away from the court, accidentally hitting a female line judge around the neck and throat area there.
There you can see it. You can see his instant remorse there on his face. At this point he was 6-5 down in the first to Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta.
You could see the distress in which the line judge is in there. This was in the fourth round encounter, out there on Arthur Ashe Sunday.
Djokovic, the number one seed, and heavy favorite to win this year's tournament as well and go on and claim career major number 18. After discourse with rule officials, the decision coming through.
And now he will not get the chance to close to within two of Roger Federer's all-time mark of 20.
Well, in a statement the United States Tennis Association saying:
"In accordance with the Grand Slam rulebook, following his actions of intentionally hitting a ball dangerously or recklessly within the court or hitting a ball with negligent disregard of the consequences, the U.S. Open tournament referee defaulted Novak Djokovic from the 2020 U.S. Open.
Because he was defaulted, Djokovic will lose all ranking points earned at the U.S. Open and will be fined the prize money won at the tournament in addition to any or all fines levied with respect to the offending incident."
Djokovic himself later taking to Instagram.
"This whole situation has left me really sad and empty. I checked on the lines person and the tournament told me that thank God, she's feeling OK.
I'm extremely sorry to have caused her such stress, so unintended, so wrong. I'm not disclosing her name to respect her privacy.
As for the disqualification, I need to go back within and work on my disappointment and turn this all into a lesson for my growth and evolution as a player and a human being.
I apologize to the U.S. Open tournament and everyone associated for my behavior. I'm very grateful to my team and family for being my rock support and my fans for always being there with me.
Thank you and I'm so sorry."
Well, joining us now is the "New York Times" Christopher Clary.
Christopher, you're a seasoned observer over many, many years. What was your reaction as all of this was unfolding?
CHRISTOPHER CLAREY, TENNIS CORRESPONDENT, "THE NEW YORK TIMES": I was watching it and my first thought was when he turned around and put his arm in the air and started to apologize but -- he's gone.
In tennis, every situation where you injure an official or hurt a linesman in any way, that's really the way the rule's written. You're gone.
And so it was just a matter of them coming to that conclusion. And it was the logical one, sadly, for Novak, and sadly for the tournament. Frankly.
SNELL: Rules are rules, I get that. And you've alluded to your take on it there. But was there any wiggle room here for tournament organizers, do you think? CLAREY: If it had struck the lineswoman and she had said I'm fine
immediately and had not fallen to the ground and been in obvious distress then they would have had some leeway, I think.
But she clearly was affected by it, seems quite distressed. Kind of had to be helped up and then left the court in some evident discomfort.
And I just think it was -- for that reason alone, it was pretty obvious.
But yes, if it had just glanced off -- there was a case, Patrick, just last week in the tournament that proceeded this one, on the same site.
Where Bedene, the Slovenian player just sort of tapped the cameraman with a ball by accident, and the cameraman just waved it off as if it was no big deal. And he got a warning and he was not defaulted. But this case was very different.
SNELL: Very different, indeed. No question about that. Look, big picture here, Christopher.
Number one men's player in the world at a Grand Slam going for number 18 in his case. Where does this whole incident rank historically, do you feel?
CLAREY: It's never happened to the number one player before. You look back in history and you've had things like John McEnroe was defaulted at the 1990 Australian Open for a series of code conduct violations. You've seen Ilie Nastase go out.
But those guys were not in their prime, they were not the main player at that moment. Novak is the guy right now, in men's tennis and Raf obviously on clay.
But Novak's number one by a large margin. He's won five of the last grand slam tournaments. And this tournament was really all about him and his march to 18.
And so, it really is an extraordinary thing.
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I guess you could equate it to what happened to Serena Williams on that court in the past.
When she -- in 2009 when she lost the match point on a point penalty to Klim Clijsters in the semifinals. That was a big shock after being very abusive of the linesperson over a foot fall call.
And then two years ago, of course, she had the problem with Naomi Osaka where she had three code violations. But she wasn't defaulted there.
But those are similar "Where were you?" moments in tennis. And this is certainly another one. SNELL: It is rare though, isn't it, overall, it's rare for that to
happen, what we witnessed on Sunday.
I want to ask you, Christopher. How is Novak's legacy now potentially affected here?
CLAREY: It's been a tough few months for Novak in the image department anyway. And he's well aware of that.
He obviously had an issue with the Adria Tours Exhibition Series that he did in Croatia and Serbia where he ended up getting COVID-19 virus, so did his wife and a bunch of other players because there is no social distancing.
He said that they were following guidelines. But nonetheless, it was a bad look.
And then he's had some problems with being against vaccines publicly that caused a lot of issues around the world. And he's had some other things come up as well.
So it's been tough for him.
But as far as his legacy, Novak's been chasing Roger and Rafa (ph) in the grand slam department, he may catch them. But it's just -- image- wise, he's had a lot more ups and downs than those guys have, for sure.
SNELL: Yes. And no question about that. You touched on it earlier at the top there, Christopher.
No major champions left in the draw now, let's talk about the tournament as a whole. How is it affected as a result?
CLAREY: It's amazing. These guys -- to know that one, nobody had to get past Novak or beat him or Roger or Rafa, all three of those guys, the Big Three, pretty much have been eliminated and Novak, of course, eliminated himself.
So whoever wins this tournament will have the title and that'll be great because it'll be a new champion for tennis and they'll be excited.
But there'll still be -- I'd say a semi-asterisk over it because they didn't have to go through one of the big players to do it.
But for sure it'll be a big moment for tennis. It's been, I think, five or six years now since there's been a new grand slam champion. The last one, I believe, was Marin Cilic in 2014 at the U.S. Open.
It's been a long, long time. It's been very common in the women's game.
So we're going to see something quite new over the next few days. And I'll be a matter of who can handle that pressure, Patrick, who can handle the moment? Knowing that the opportunity's right there. SNELL: Fascinating week ahead. Christopher Clarey, we thank you so much for your expert views. Much appreciated.
CLAREY: My pleasure.
SNELL: And you can be sure, we're continuing to monitor all the very latest on this huge story.
Meantime, a big, big shocker in the Formula 1 circuit this weekend to tell you about.
Why this young French driver will likely never ever forget this year's Italian Grand Prix at Monza.
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SNELL: Welcome back to CNN WORLD SPORT this Monday. We're going to look at reflections now on a weekend to savor.
The Italian Grand Prix for the young French Formula 1 driver, Pierre Gasly.
Meantime, a frustrating race for the world champion from England, Lewis Hamilton, who led earlier on. But the Brit penalized for pitting when the pit lane road was actually closed. Hamilton ending up in seventh place.
The 24-year old Gasley meantime, securing a first ever F-1 victory on Sunday. Ending a run of 146 consecutive races that had been won by either Mercedes, Red Bull or Ferrari.
Look at the elation there. He is loving every single minute of it.
In fact, prior to this race he'd only ever finished on the podium once before. The AlphaTauri driver finishing ahead of McLaren's Carlo Sainz and Racing Point's Lance Stroll.
A weekend to cherish for Pierre Gasly there, in Italy.
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A milestone occasion -- how about this, great story. In Spanish football, Barcelona teen sensation, Ansu Fati, becoming the country's youngest ever goal scorer.
Fati's heroics at just 17 years 311 days coming against Ukraine in the UEFA Nations League Sunday.
And how about that for a stunning strike, the precision, the curl on the ball is absolutely out of this world. 4-0, Spain, the final score. Really special goal.
A class act at just 17, he scored his country's third. And in doing so shatters a national team record that's lasted 95 years. The teenager eclipsing the previous mark set in 1925 by Juan Errazquin who was 18 years, 344 days at the time. What a moment for Ansu Fati.
Let's get you caught upon the very latest from the Orlando bubble where the NBA playoffs are taking place.
The news of an injury setback for Greek superstar, Yiannis Antetokounmpo. The Milwaukee Bucks man limping out of his team's game four Eastern Conference semifinal overtime victory against the Miami Heat on Sunday.
The 25-year-old from Athens apparently re-aggravating that previously sprained right ankle after looking as though he landed somewhat awkwardly on a lay up attempt with just over 10 minutes to go in the second quarter.
The Bucks would go on to seal the win, 118 points to 115.
Will the star man though -- will he fit in time for Tuesday's game five. We'll keep you posted.
Miami lead the series, by the way, 3-1 at the moment.
We want to remind our viewers worldwide about our top story this Monday.
Top-ranked Novak Djokovic out of the U.S. Open after being disqualified during his fourth round match against Spain's Pablo Carreno Busta in New York Sunday.
Novak the clear favorite to go on and win career major number 18 and close to within two, he had hoped, of Roger Federer's all-time record haul of 20 Grand Slam titles.
Djokovic defaulted after unintentionally striking a line judge with a ball after falling 6-5 behind the opener against his Spanish opponent.
The Serbian has since apologized. Adding he's been left, quote: "really sad and empty."
Do stay with CNN for all the very latest on all the key lines from the U.S. Open right throughout the day.
We'll be back with later Monday editions of WORLD SPORT. From the entire team here in Atlanta, thanks for watching. We'll see you again next time. Bye for now.
