Lets start in new york where today, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that horse racing tracks, those racetracks will reopen without fans starting on june 1st. And that elective surgeries can now continue in certain counties. Several new york communities have already started phase one of reopening, none of them near new york city. And the governor does say hes working with surrounding states like new jersey, connecticut, and delaware to reopen beaches by memorial day. Cnns evan mcmorrissantoro is beachside. Hes joining us now from ocean city, new jersey, where a socalled dry run is being done in several towns along the coast before next weekend and evan, hows this working . Well, authorities wanted to see what would happen if they opened parks and boardwalks up to people and asked them to be responsible for social distancing. And state police said today that these communities, like the one im in and a couple of the other parks that opened up, theyre seeing a relatively low volume of peop
Of life are reopening. In parts of the country and with hefty restrictions and one major signifier of a return to normalcy remains in the distance, sports. Yesterday nfl commissioner Roger Goodell announced teams can reopen facilities starting tuesday as long as they meet local qualifications, but coaches and players wont be returning yet. He says certain players may be able to return next month. Lets begin in new jersey where preparations are underway to reopen beaches in time for memorial day. A dry run being conducted in several town ras long the coast ahead of next weekend when most of new jersey beaches will reopen. Cnns evan mcmorrissantoro joins us from ocean city right now reopening and, evan, it looks like its attracted quite the crowd behind you. Reporter yes, its not hard to be able to come to the beach p middle of an experiment reopening them memorial day weekend but this weekend was an attempt to see what happens when you ask people to maintain social distance and be caref
Cdc director dr. Robert redfield warns that the u. S. Death toll will likely top 100,000 by june 1st. President trump yesterday stuck to his reopen refrain, despite the cdcs grim forecast. I just want to make something clear. Its very important. Vaccine or no vaccine, were back. And just in to cnn, former president barack obama pulling no punches today, slamming his successor and the current administrations handling of the coronavirus pandemic. The scathing critique comes as we see President Trump making major promises to the American People that many Health Officials warn he may not be able to keep. Vowing that by the end of the year, millions of covid19 vaccines will be administered. Cnn White House Correspondent Jeremy Diamond joins us now. Jeremy, what are we hearing from president obama today about how this administration is handling the pandemic . Reporter well, ana, it was just a week ago that we heard that former president obama on a call with alumni of his administration, call
Have been populations for militants to find and recruit followers and we know that both isis and al qaeda have told their followers, as theyre getting squeezed in raqqah, isis is getting squeezed in longa and mosul. Theyve told their people to stay where you are and do as much damage as you can. This happening on the saturday evening at a landmark in london just as people are leaving bars, going across a tourist spot at night is a perfect target. All right. Kim dozier, tom fa went easy, stand by. Were rolling into the top of the hour now. We are following breaking news out of london. Reports that the vehicle has run down pedestrians on London Bridge. The people have been stabbed at a nearby market and now were learning of a possible third incident. Heres what we know right now. One eyewitness skriegs a van traveling at a high speed swerving and hitting several people, tossing one person some 20 feet in the air. The witness said it appeared as though the van was purpose fful aiming for
Legally, and we have body cam video some from the first police on the scene. [ rapid gunfire ] go that way go that way everybody stay down. Stay down wheres it at . North of the mandalay bay. Its coming out of a window. President trump is in the air at this moment headed to las vegas. He will meet with officials. First responders, victims of the investigation. He said, quote, they are learning a lot more and it will be announced at the appropriate time. We are following all new developments now. Lets start out with jean k casarez, jean. Reporter they said it seemed like he was shooting for two minutes, and now they believe the shooter was firing that barrage of bullets from 9 to 11 minutes. The first call came in at 10 08 and they believe the shooter did not finish shooting until 10 19. The crime scene processing of the hotel room will continue for days more. Law enforcement says, we are learning so much more about the planning and details and premedication. He had cameras put inside a