People are worried that during the fourth of july holiday, people will let down their guard, stop their social distancing and handwashing that has been so successful so far. Just as many states are seeing the numbers of covid19 cases and hospitalizations continue to climb. We are going in the wrong direction. Reporter dr. Anthony fauci had a dire warning at a Senate Committee hearing on tuesday. We are now having 40,000 new cases per day. I would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 per day, if this is not turnaround. Reporter nationwide, the spread of the coronavirus has been increasing in at least tens days. In arizona, cases increased nearly 300 in june and hit a new daily record of nearly 5000 on tuesday. Governor doug ducey close down the bars, theaters, and water parks ahead of the holiday weekend. Indoor and outdoor Public Events of 50 or more will be prohibited. Reporter in texas, hospitals are near capacity, so elective procedures have been canceled. Many bar owners protest
Heartbroken stepfather after seeing the body camera video for the first time. Good evening. Im frank somerville. The parents that they called 911 because their son was suffering a mental break. They said they never thought he would end up dead a few hours later. Amber lee is outside with a story you will see only on channel 2. Reporter the parents filed a federal civil lawsuit against the Sheriffs Department for wrongful death. They said they are broken by what happened to their son i want to prevent it from happening to someone else. My son cannot go away like nothing happened. Reporter the parents of christian, want the Alameda County sheriffs deputies and the lieutenant in charge of their son held accountable for his death while in custody at the jail. Christian stepfather said he called 911 to get his son help after he started acting erratically and suffered a mental breakdown after taking mushrooms a year ago in june. The body camera video released by the Sheriffs Department, Show
Government. And we go into the heart of one of mexicos last remaining rain forests and the battle to save it from deforestation. Welcome to the program the World Health Organization has reported a recording creasing global krone virus cases with more than 180000 new infections on sunday while some countries around the world are winding down their fight against the pandemic for many the scale of their battle continues to grow latin america has recorded more than 2000000 confirmed cases with more than half of those in brazil protesters marched against president response to the pandemic as deaths cross 50000 in europe the rate of infection in germany has jumped sharply to partly to the relaxing of restrictions the country has recorded its single largest outbreak in a slaughter house with more than 1300 workers testing positive meanwhile spain has reopened its borders to the rest of europe theyre hoping an influx of visitors can steady the struggling tourism industry. As the reports from t
Of millions diagnostic tests school plans should last for at least one year while the government pursues a vaccine at warp speed faster than we have ever done thate before the nobody expects vaccine this august the second half should be better able to provide more test, more treatments better Contact Tracing and hopefully we should have a vaccine in the fall of 2021 before we begin to approach normal. Several Reasons School have the advantage to provide a safe environment for students and faculty is younger people have been less hurt by coalbed 19 than older people although doctor fauci told our committee we should be careful to assume that young people are not at risk second, schools are generally oolll communities but generally supervised and monitored and they could be traced if a child becomes sick then the classmates can be tested and for individual schools are able to remain open schools are not unfamiliar with outbreaks of flu or other illnesses that have temporary closure of in
And Public Events canceled or curtailed the country moved closer to a milestone nearly unimaginable just two months ago. As we come on the air tonight, more than 98,000 people have been killed by the virus in the u. S. Closing in on 100,000 deaths since the pandemic began. There are now more than 1. 6 million confirmed cases nationwide. At some beaches and parks across the country today, people frustrated by social distance found themselves packedin together. While others attended scaledback ceremonies or held backyard barbeques. The president and his 2020 rival for the White House Former Vice President joe biden each participated in wreathlaying events to commemorate memorial day. But the president also took to twitter. Lashing out at opponents. As well as those who criticized him for playing golf over the weekend. There is a lot of newshis holiday monday. And our correspondents are covering it all. Cbs Jonathan Vigliotti leads off our coverage tonight from los angeles. Jonathan . Rep