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Another Mass Shooting in the U.S. in the Wake of Uvalde Preliminary Report; Exclusive Body Cam Video of Uvalde School Shooting; President Zelenskyy Fires State Prosecutor and Security Chief; Nationwide Public Emergency Declared in Sri Lanka; "Red Extreme" Heat Warnings Issued For Parts Of U.K.; U.S. Cases, Hospitalizations Rise As B.A.5 Variant Dominates; Western Europe Endures Sweltering Heat And Fires. Aired 2-2:45a ET

Aired July 18, 2022 - 02:00   ET

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LYNDA KINKADE, CNN HOST: Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the United States and all around the world. You're watching "CNN Newsroom." I'm Lynda Kinkade.

Just ahead, systemic failures. A damning new report about the police response to the elementary school massacre in Uvalde, Texas. Plus, exclusive body camera video given to CNN that shows the painfully slow and chaotic actions of authorities.

And shake-up in Kyiv. Ukraine's president fires two top officials accusing them of collaborating with the Russians as the war rages on.

Plus, blazing temperatures in Britain, unprecedented heat has prompted the first ever red extreme warning in the U.K.

We begin with the latest on more gun violence here in the United States. Another mass shooting this time in mall the U.S. state of Indiana on Sunday. It happened just hours after Texas officials released a scathing preliminary report on the Uvalde school shooting that resulted in the deaths of 19 students and two teachers.

Three people were killed in this latest mass shooting and two others injured during a shooting at a shopping mall in the suburb of Indianapolis, Indiana. The local police chief revealed some details about the suspected gunman.

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JAMES ISON, GREENWOOD POLICE DEPARTMENT: We have what appears to be one shooter. Looks to be an adult male. We have not identified him yet. We do not have a motive yet. It appears that he had a rifle with several magazines of ammunition. Entered the food court and began shooting.

(END VIDEO CLIP) KINKADE: And take a listen to this witness' horrifying account of the shooting.

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OLIVIA HARDING, INDIANA MALL SHOOTING WITNESS: We heard four gunshots and I looked up and I thought the carousel that's across from Old Navy was breaking down. And next thing you know you just hear about six more shots and you see everybody running. It was very scary, very traumatic. Lots of crying, lots of not knowing where the shooter was coming from.

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KINKADE: Well, the police chief praised the training his agency has had on mass shootings, but added that the suspected gunman was killed by a 22-year-old described as a good Samaritan with a handgun who was inside the mall. The victims are believed to be aged in their 20s and 30s. The police are still investigating what led up to that shooting.

Well, more now on the newly released preliminary report into the Uvalde school shooting that left two teachers and 19 children dead nearly two months ago. The 77-page report outlines a series of failures by multiple law enforcement agencies describing, quote, "systemic failures and egregious poor decision-making."

It was compiled by a Texas State House investigative committee. They held a news conference with local officials after reports released. Texas State Representative Dustin Burrows said it proved law enforcement should have done more on that terrible day.

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DUSTIN BURROWS, TEXAS STATE REPRESENTATIVE: If you know and the training and standards we set for officers, as if you know there is active shooting, active killing going on or somebody is dying, the standard is you have to continue to do something to stop that killing or stop that dying.

That day, several officers in the hallway or in that building knew or should have known there was dying in that classroom and they should have done more, acted with urgency, try the door handles, try to go into the windows might have distracted --

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KINKADE: Well, families of the victims at Robb Elementary got copies of that damning report before it was made public and they were asked -- they were able to ask questions of the investigators. Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin was furious at the findings.

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DON MCLAUGHLIN, MAYOR OF UVALDE, TEXAS: This investigation has been -- little bitty leaks here and there, little bitty snippets here and there. And all we -- and we've spent our time trying to -- just like when they said the officer had a chance to shoot the shooter. That was not true. And (inaudible) finally admitted that. It was not true. But that's the kind of stuff that has gone on constantly. And the only people that are being blindsided by that is these families.

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Let me put it this way. This has been the worst professionally run investigation that, I mean, I have never seen anything of this magnitude.

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KINKADE: Well, now we have a troubling new look at the official response. CNN was granted exclusive access to body cam footage from the scene. Shimon Prokupecz has more on that. But we must warn you, what you're about to see is disturbing and contains strong language.

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UNKNOWN: Oh, shit! Shots fired! Get inside! Go, go, go!

UNKNOWN: 701, PD units -- was shot in the head.

SHIMON PROKUPECZ, CNN CRIME AND JUSTINCE REPORTER (voice-over): New body cam video released by the Uvalde mayor shows the frantic first moments police arrived on scene at Robb Elementary. This video taken by Uvalde Police Sergeant Daniel Coronado as he made his way inside the building. But within moments, more gunshots.

UNKNOWN: Shots fired inside the building.

UNKNOWN: Which building?

UNKNOWN: It's an AR.

UNKNOWN: He's in here.

UNKNOWN: I can't break. Something to brake.

UNKNOWN: Careful guys. Shot fired.

UNKNOWN: (Inaudible). Do not shoot your guys, okay? Be right there.

UNKNOWN: I can't break in here. Can somebody (inaudible).

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UNKNOWN: He's in this classroom right here on the right.

UNKNOWN: (Inaudible) there?

UNKNOWN: Take cover guys.

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PROKUPECZ (voice-over): After taking cover outside, Sergeant Coronado gives his first update on the situation to responding officers.

UNKNOWN: We're okay, guys. He's armed inside this building. We have him contained. He's going to be on the building on the west side of the property. Careful with the windows. Facing east, right there.

PROKUPECZ (voice-over): Minutes later Coronado tells dispatch what he believes is happening, that the gunman is in one of the school's offices, not a classroom.

UNKNOWN: Now subject is in the school on the west side of the building. He's contained. We got multiple officers inside the building at this time. We believe he's barricaded in one of the -- one of the offices. (Inaudible) still shooting.

PROKUPECZ (voice-over): But as the minutes continue to tick by, the urgency first seen by the initial response fades away. Instead, Uvalde police officers are seen hunkering down waiting for more backup.

Critical moments pass by at a time children were still alive in the classroom. At one point, you can hear Sergeant Coronado asking for permission to open a door into the hallway where armed officers are already inside.

UNKNOWN: Officers inside the building. Am I clear to open the door here on the south side of the building?

PROKUPECZ (voice-over): It's after this moment that we learn that Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo is inside the building, as other officers crowd around looking for guidance.

Arredondo has been a central figure in the state's investigation of the shooting. DPS Director Steve McCraw calling his actions on the day of the massacre a, quote, "abject failure." As more officers arrive and more inaction, you can hear police begin to seek direction.

UNKNOWN: What are we doing here?

PROKUPECZ (voice-over): We also have video from Officer Justin Mendoza (ph) who also arrived on the scene. At 11:58, local time, police helped the first students and teachers from a nearby classroom escape the building.

At the same time, Sergeant Coronado can be seen helping children escape from a window outside. At this point, it had been nearly 25 minutes since police first entered the building. More than 12 minutes later, we get our first glimpse of Chief Arredondo in the hallway of Robb Elementary. You can hear him pleading with the gunman to give up, but seemingly unaware that children may still be inside in the classroom.

UNKNOWN: You let me know if there's any kids in there or anything. This could be peaceful. Could you tell me your name, anything I can help, please?

PROKUPECZ (voice-over): Moments later, a critical piece of the puzzle from the camera of Officer Mendoza. 911 dispatch gives a chilling account from a student still in the classroom.

UNKNOWN: We do have a child on the line.

UNKNOWN: Wait, what was that?

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UNKNOWN: It's going to be room 12 (inaudible). He is in the room full of victims. Full of victims at this moment.

PROKUPECZ (voice-over): And yet, even with that information, six minutes go by without any sort of response. Then we see Arredondo with a set of keys trying and failing to make entry into a classroom near where the gunman is barricaded. Eventually handing the keys off to another officer who does make entry.

More heavily armored officers arrive, but no one gives the order to go in. Then suddenly, a new round of gunfire.

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UNKNOWN: Get down. Get down. Get down.

PROKUPECZ (voice-over): But after those gunshots, Arredondo again tries to talk with the shooter.

UNKNOWN: Can you hear me, sir?

PROKUPECZ (voice-over): And again, minutes later --

UNKNOWN: Sir, if you can hear me, please put your firearm down, sir. We don't want anybody else hurt.

UNKNOWN: We got kids in the (inaudible).

UNKNOWN: I know. I know.

UNKNOWN: That's what we're doing. We're trying to get him out.

PROKUPECZ (voice-over): After no response, police still stand around without much urgency. Over the course of the next nearly 30 minutes, we see more officers arrive.

The video obtained by CNN cuts out moments before police breach the classroom and kill the shooter at 12:51 local time. By then, many young innocent children and their two teachers were dead. Shimon Prokupecz, CNN, Uvalde, Texas.

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KINKADE: Steve Moore is a retired supervisory special agent with the FBI and a CNN law enforcement contributor. He joins me now from Los Angeles. Steve, this report was absolutely damning, systemic failures by multiple groups, the school, the police, the shooter's family. It was damning but sadly not entirely surprising given that we already knew the police took over an hour to get to the gunman. And we knew that the gunman's father helped him get a gun despite him making threats to kill his own family. What's your reaction to this report?

STEVE MOORE, CNN LAW ENFORCEMENT CONTRIBUTOR: Well, like you said, we kind of already knew the outcome of this. We were just trying to learn how it could have possibly happened. And I'm kind of stunned and listening to the officers in that hallway -- keep in mind, I'm career law enforcement, son of a career law enforcement person. I want to come here and say the police here risked their lives. They did all this.

I can't say that. The police here, they -- they didn't understand. Arredondo didn't understand what was going on. He was giving no leadership and the point of the whole thing is to trade your safety as an armed, trained law enforcement officer for the lives of defenseless children. And instead, they prioritized their own safety over the lives of the kids.

KINKADE: It's horrible to watch that video we just saw. And despite the gravity of the situation, just by the number of responders. There didn't seem to be any plan in place to respond to this situation. A situation that sadly is not unusual here in the U.S. Texas has more registered gun owners than any other state. Why in a state that openly embraces guns was there not a robust response, no clear plan?

MOORE: Well, there is a clear plan. See, that's the huge tragedy of this. There is a nationwide agreed upon plan on how to address active shooters. And Arredondo himself had written -- had written his department's policy on this. Arredondo had been trained in this. Every officer there -- I would really be surprised if there was an officer there who hadn't been trained in this.

Everybody knew what they had to do and nobody, for whatever reason, nobody did it. And the procedure is simply this. You go to the sound of the gunshots and you end the gunshots. You know, he was saying, well, we didn't have radios. We didn't have shields. You never had shields. You never even trained with shields. They slowed you down.

You never used radios because if you were coming down the hallway and the radio hissed or static came out like you were hearing in the hallways there, it gives away your position. You don't need a radio to do active shooter response. You need your ears. Get a loaded gun. Go to the sound of the shots and stop the gunfire.

KINKADE: The Uvalde school district police started in 2018. Take us through their role. Where did they fail?

MOORE: Well, see, this is what I don't understand. You have nine schools in the district and you only have six officers. Why did they even form a department?

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Why didn't they stay unified or whatever it was, give their officers to Uvalde City Police so that they could have enough officers to at least cover the schools? The problem here is that Chief Arredondo of the Uvalde Unified School District police took charge of a situation where he was so far over his -- that was so far over his head and nobody, nobody -- nobody usurped it. Nobody said, you know, you've got to do something else.

I was astounded to find the Uvalde police SWAT Team commander was one of the first arrivals. Why wasn't he put in charge of this? Why didn't he take over this situation and say, we have to go in. That's what we have agreed nationwide what we need to do. And there is -- there is enough to go around here.

KINKADE: Yes. And, of course, this report obviously just focused on this situation. It doesn't look at the big picture. Who else is to blame because surely in a country where an 18-year-old could be more heavily armed than dozens of police officers in that school, I mean, surely that's a problem? This is going to continue to happen. What needs to change?

MOORE: Well, the first thing that needs to change is on the short term, until you can do something about mental health or until you can get guns out of the hands of the people who shouldn't have them, you have to protect schools, you have to protect churches. These are where the shootings are occurring and job sites.

So, when you have a school, whose doors are wide open, who have a fence that's not chin high to keep people out and you have a police situation where they're not going to follow the one thing that can save lives, we -- we don't -- we haven't even begun yet. You have to start -- first, do the things you can do tomorrow.

Get everybody on the same page on how are we going to respond. Then you go into the hard grinding things like how are we going to keep the mentally ill from having guns? That's heavy lifting. The easy stuff should be how to get a police agency or multiple police agencies to respond to this, and that's what our national policy is.

We train -- one of the other reasons we don't use radios is we assume we're going in with people from -- who are not from our agency and might not have our frequencies. So, it's -- there was a robust, complete, acted out, trained out plan, and the problem was when somebody started shooting at them, they didn't follow through.

KINKADE: Yes. Alright. We'll leave it there for now. Steve Moore, thanks very much.

MOORE: Thank you.

KINKADE: Still ahead on "CNN Newsroom," allegations of treason causes sudden shake-up in Ukraine's government. Why President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says two of his top officials had to go.

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KINKADE: Welcome back. A major shake-up in Kyiv. On Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fired two top government officials citing accusations of treason within their organizations.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY, PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE (through translation): Today, I made a decision to remove the prosecutor general from office and to dismiss the head of security of Ukraine.

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KINKADE: Mr. Zelenskyy says he lost faith in their leadership abilities after many of their subordinates were accused of treason in collaborating with Russia. He did not disclose whether the fired officials themselves are under investigation.

He also announced that the former regional head of Ukraine's security service in Crimea who was fired at the start of the war has now been detained on suspicion of treason.

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ZELENSKYY (through translation): Everyone who together with him was part of a criminal group that worked in the interest of the Russian federation will also be held accountable. It is about the transfer of secret information to the enemy and other facts of cooperation with the Russian special services.

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KINKADE: Well, the shake-up comes as Ukrainian troops are going on the offensive in the south, part of a push to recapture Russian-held territory. CNN's Scott McLean reports.

SCOTT MCLEAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Ukraine says that it is slowly but surely taking back territory in the southern part of the country. The military won't say exactly where they have made gains, but there is some evidence suggesting that they have made modest advances around the border region between the Mykolaiv and Kherson regions.

Ukrainian forces now claim that Russian troops are hiding themselves amongst the civilian population in Kherson to avoid being hit by Ukrainian strikes. Of course, the Ukrainians are keen to utilize their newfound artillery fire power supplied by the west by striking at Russian supply lines deep into Russian held territory.

Ukrainians say that they have seen evidence suggesting that a large volume of Russian military equipment has moved through the city of Mariupol headed west. Those analysts suggest that that equipment may be headed toward Kherson to help the Russians defend the city that they've held since the early days of war.

In the eastern part of the country, there is little evidence to suggest that the front lines have moved much at all in recent days. But the Russians continue to bomb and shell the towns, villages and cities on the other side of the front line. The most recent, Pokrovsk, where local officials say at least one person was killed and more than 12 were injured. Scott McLean, CNN, Kyiv.

KINKADE: For more, let's bring in CNN's Clare Sebastian in London. Good to have you with us, Clare. [02:24:56]

So, the Ukrainian president fired two top officials, the prosecutor general and the head of security, questioning their leadership qualities and accusing many of their team of treason and collaborating with Russia.

Zelenskyy saying that Russia would not have taken so much territory if it were not for people in those departments helping the Russian federation. What more can you tell us about Russian infiltration?

CLARE SEBASTIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, Lynda. President Zelenskyy says 651 criminal cases have been registered. We don't actually know the details of the crimes themselves, but he says this specifically includes more than 60 employees by the prosecutor's office and the security services of Ukraine.

He says that these employees allegedly remain in occupied territories and were working against the Ukrainian states. So, clearly collaboration with Russian sort of not just the military, but the authorities that are installed in occupied areas has been a big concern to Ukraine. And this is a very serious move given the high- profile of the people involved.

Iryna Venediktova is the -- she's a prosecutor general, now former prosecutor general, a very prominent figure, very sort of ubiquitous on western media. She was recently last week in the Hague holding discussions on the war crimes prosecutions she is trying to push through in Ukraine.

And Ivan Bakanov who is the now former head of the Ukrainian security service, a longtime associate of President Zelenskyy, a childhood friend he helped in his campaign bringing him to office. In fact, I want to bring up this picture that shows him as part of what Zelenskyy captioned "The Dream Team in 2019."

Right before -- you can see him there on the far right, right before the final round of the Ukrainian election in 2019 that brought President Zelenskyy into office. Clearly, this is a big fall in favor for that individual.

But look, Zelenskyy says there could be more to come. He says that each official in each security sector and law enforcement agencies is now being evaluated. And clearly for Ukraine, this comes at a time when they are trying to re-take a lot of territory from Russia.

They cannot afford any intelligence failings and we know as well that Russia is also struggling in some areas. The head of the U.K., the chief of the U.K defense staff said on Sunday that they think that around 30 percent of Russia's land combat effectiveness has been lost as a result of this conflict. So, both sides trying to push forward and facing difficulties.

KINKADE: Clare Sebastian for us in London. Thanks very much.

Well, Sri Lanka's acting president declared a nationwide public emergency. Ranil Wickremesinghe made the proclamation in the interest of public security after protests over the country's deepening economic crisis.

Public demonstrations over soaring inflation and shortages of basic necessities hit a tipping point after protesters took over government buildings and forced the president to resign. Mr. Wickremesinghe's call for a public emergency comes as parliament is set to hold nominations for a new president on Tuesday.

Well, a dangerous heat wave is moving through parts of Europe. We'll go to Rome live for the latest after a short break. Stay with us. You are watching "CNN Newsroom."

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LYNDA KINKADE, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Welcome Back to CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Lynda Kinkade. A heatwave is gripping Western Europe and the U.K. is bracing for possible record high temperatures in the next two days. Things look so bad that British officials held a crisis meeting a so called Cobra session to address the heat. And authorities have issued their first ever read extreme heat warning for parts of the U.K.

Well, things aren't any better across the channel in western France. Officials they're issuing their highest temperature alert for 15 departments on Sunday. And the heat is making it even harder to battle several wildfires.

And the heats also fueling wildfires in Spain. The health ministry says high temperatures have caused more than 200 deaths. These people in Madrid splashing down to stay calm.

For more what to expect with this heatwave, meteorologist Pedram Javaheri is in the CNN weather center. But first I want to go to our Barbie Nadeau who joins us live from Rome. Barbie, the heat on yet another heatwave there.

BARBIE NADEAU, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: That's absolutely right. You know, we're used to hot summers here in southern (INAUDIBLE) but this has been a relentless, relentless time. And this is comes at a time when people are supposed to be conserving energy. Worrying about energy prices making it difficult when you think you oh, should I turn on the air conditioner? Should I not? You know, there's a huge drought in parts of northern Italy, which means the crops, you know, people are having a hard time getting irrigation for the crops and things like that.

All of these things together with just this continual hot weather that doesn't seem to cool down even at night is making it very difficult, especially for the elderly. And for the people who are suffering other health issues. Lynda, it's been a very difficult summer so far.

KINKADE: Yes. Really, really hot. I want to go to Pedram because climate change obviously is making extreme weather more common. What can we expect in the days ahead? PEDRAM JAVAHERI, CNN WEATHER ANCHOR: You know, Lynda, Barbie really said it well here when it comes to impacting the elderly, certainly ones that are less affluent as well. We know when it comes to extreme temperatures, those are the most significantly group impacted people. And it's very disproportionately impacted as well and the success of heat that has been in place for a couple of days across the south and west now beginning to expand off towards the north.

And climate logically when you look at the middle and latter portion of July and to early August, that is when the warmest temperatures are typically expected across portions of Europe. And you'll notice in Spain in the past couple of days, we reached up to 44 degrees. That is about 10 degrees above average. And keep in mind, this time of year, again, the hottest time of year, 34. Past a 38 or so is typically the warmest you see across this region of Spain.

But we're climbing well into the 40s. And even its areas of France climbing it's the 40s when the 20s are more seasonal for this time of year. Extreme heat alerts across western areas of France but it really does expand farther towards the north. Paris, aiming for 39 degrees by this afternoon. London could get to 37. Dublin at 27 degrees. Incredible heat really important to note the significance of this because heat is often the number one weather killer.

We know tornadoes get a lot of attention, tropical systems as well. But heat is the top weather killer and a lot of this of course when you put it into major cities becomes that much more dangerous, less vegetation to trap moisture. The buildings themselves absorb the radiation, release it as heat. Temperatures in major cities can be as much as three degrees warmer than just a few kilometers away on the outlying areas.

And the impacts as Barbie also noted were that the overnight temperatures really struggled to drop off because of the asphalt, because of the windows, the class the structures across the landscape of major cities.

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Notice this, across this area of the U.K., even in the English Channel high temperatures climbed into the 30s on Sunday but we expect warmer weather on Monday potentially even warmer come Tuesday. Notice the U.K. Met Office that's the first ever red alert. 50 percent chance places such as Manchester or even London could touch 40 degrees in the next 24 or so hours. 80 percent chance we'll see records fall across this region.

But really the one piece of good news, Lynda, is the significant shift here on Wednesday and Thursday, at least for those northern cities back to normality are temperatures dropping off from the upper 30s close to 40 degrees in London on Tuesday down to 27. And I think by Friday, those rain showers might be welcome for some folks there. 22, I was looking through the numbers, Lynda, about one percent, less than one percent of folks across the U.K. actually have air conditioning units in their apartments or in their residence.

So, you know, people are really going to be feeling the brunt of the heat here coming in over the next couple of days.

KINKADE: Yes. No doubt. They will be getting out into any sort of park they can into some water fountains. Pedram Javaheri, our thanks to you. Barbie Nadeau, thanks as well.

Well, still to come on CNN NEWSROOM. As another Omicron variant dominates new COVID infections across the U.S., hear what the top COVID expert at the White House is recommending to slow the spread.

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KINKADE: Welcome back. COVID cases are on the rise in the U.S. as the highly transmissible B.A.5 variant becomes dominant. According to John Hopkins University average daily cases have tripled over the past three months. And the U.S. Health Department says hospital admissions due to COVID have surpassed 40,000 for the first time in about four months. The top COVID expert of the White House says that current tools like vaccinations, tests and treatments are still effective against this latest variant.

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DR. ASHISHA JHA, WHITE HOUSE COVID-19 RESPONSE COORDINATOR: What that means in practical terms is that if you were infected three four months ago, you can get reinfected. We're seeing high levels of reinfection. We're seeing people who are not up to date on their vaccines. Have a lot of breakthrough infections. But the good news here, Martha, is that our tools in our vaccines if you are up to date, if you get vaccinated recently, if you get an infection, if you get treatments, those continue to work really, really well. So, this is an area of concern, but we know how to manage this.

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KINKADE: Well, Dr. Ashish Jha added that while he encourages people to wear masks, the decisions about mask mandates should be left to local jurisdictions and states.

The former head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says monkeypox is close to becoming an endemic virus in the United States. More than 1800 cases have been reported. And the U.S. Centers for Disease Control expects those numbers to rise in the coming weeks due to streamlines reporting, delayed diagnosis and expanded testing. But Dr. Scott Gottlieb thinks the focus of who is getting tested is too narrow.

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DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB, FORMER UNITED STATES COMMISSIONER OF FOOD AND DRUGS: I think the window for getting control of this and containing it probably has closed and if it hasn't closed, it's certainly starting to close. 11,000 cases across the world right now. 1800 cases, as you said in the U.S. We're probably detecting just a fraction of the actual cases because we have a very -- we had for a long time a very narrow case definition on who got tested.

And by and large, we're looking in the community of men who have sex with men and STD clinics. So, we're looking there. We're finding cases there. But it's a fact that there's cases outside that community right now. We're not picking them up because we're not looking --

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KINKADE: On Friday, the U.S. government said it ordered another 2-1/2 million doses of the vaccine.

Thanks so much for joining us. I'm Lynda Kinkade. For our international viewers World Sport is up next. For everyone here in the U.S., I'll be back with much more news after a short break.

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