After sweeping through china, europe and the United States, the coronavirus pandemic is surging in parts of the latin america. Cases in latin america, Central America and the caribbean have begun outpacing those in the United States and europe. Its a mixed picture across the u. S. As americans are set to mark the memorial day holiday. New york, new jersey, connecticut, delaware are among the states that will reopen their beaches but with rules to avoid crowding. Health experts continue to warn of a possible resurgence if people are not careful. We get the latest now from cnns anderson cooper. There have now been more than 1. 5 million positive cases of the coronavirus in the u. S. More than 94,000 people have died. The u. S. Continues to lift restrictions. For the first time in two months all 50 states have partially reopened. 12 states are now reporting a drop in the numbers. Last week at this time there were 24 states that saw their cases declining. 17 states are now seeing the numbe
17 states with increasing covid19 caseloads. 5 of them with spikes of 50 or more. 13 States Holding steady. 20 states decreasing. You also see it in scenes like these. Plenty of americans undeterred by coronavirus going to the beach and gathering on boardwalks over memorial day weekend, but not a lot of social distancing or mask wearing in some places. Meantime, the World Health Organization warning not just of a second wave but of a second peak that could come soon. More now from cnns kyung lah in los angeles. Reporter christine and laura, a busy memorial day here in california. Im in Manhattan Beach and it is busy at beaches across the country as americans are trying to get back out and back out to the beach to celebrate the first start of the summer. A lot of concern about what the impact of all of this will be. You can see people are somewhat socially distancing here in Manhattan Beach, but there are a lot of people here. And this is what it looks like in some of the commercial str
Began peacefully but minnesota governor tim wall says they later turned extremely dangerous. Protesters targeted a Police Precinct smashing windows. Officers responded with tear gas. Buildings could be seen burning nearby. Cnns omar jimenez joins us now from minneapolis where its still an active scene right now, omar. What are you seeing . Reporter its still a very active scene. As you request see, this building behind me is now newly on fire. We got here about an hour ago, it was smoldering a little bit. You can see how quickly the flames have overtaken this spot. It was the place across the street, it was a building under construction that was completely engulfed when we got to this scene. You may be able to see some of the spectators, potential leftover protester are still gathered around. The demonstrating has stopped. At this point everyone is watching, standing back, taking pictures and video of their city, parts of their city across from the Police Precinct on fire. And for thos
South carolina officer Michael Slager behind bars this morning, charged with murder. The threeminute video capturing the shooting death of walter scott over the weekend. When youre wrong, youre wrong. Taped by a bystander, it reveals the 33yearold officer shooting scott in the back. While he ran away. In the immediate aftermath of the shooting police said officer slager stopped scott for a broken taillight in North Charleston. Through an attorney officer slager described a scuffle, claiming the 50yearold fought for his taser, and he felt threatened. In this video you see what could be a taser fall as scott takes off, running away as slager fires eight times. Shots fired. Subject is down. Hes got my taser. While hes lying facedown, the officer handcuffs scott. Next slager jogs back to where he fired his gun and picks up something. Perhaps the taser, but from this video its not entirely clear. Back by scotts body, he drops the small black object. Then moments later, he picks it back up.
The debate offer the u. S. Drone program in the region. Also b, is this the first time an american citizen has been killed by a drone attack outside of Anwar Al Awlaki who was an american who became a terrorist and taken out by a u. S. Drone strike. To be clear white house statement says counterterror operation. They do not specify that it was a drone strike. So we should hear from the white house and im reaching out now to specify what kind of operation this was. Was a drone strike aircraft or elements on the ground involved. Thats one thing we have to look into. Keep in mind all those things have inherent risks. Drone strikes killed civilians before. You mentioned al awlaki strike the one previous weve known before pesifying drone specifically. Keep in mind there was another operation on the ground in somalia with Ground Forces that killed not an american but an International Hostage from south africa. So all these options at the president s hands, all of them are risky in these cont