the united states and all around the world. this is "cnn newsroom." i'm michael holmes. ♪ a warm welcome, everyone. coronavirus cases are climbing. the crisis is deepening. and time is running out for millions of jobless americans now just days away from losing special unemployment benefits they've been relying on during this pandemic. senate republicans are set to roll out a $1 trillion relief package on monday, but they've been fighting for weeks over the size and scope of any new unemployment aid, and there could be a lot more wrangling before any money actually gets to the people who need it. the u.s. has about a quarter, as we said, of the 16 million covid-19 cases worldwide, and this week the country could hit another mark no one wants to see, it marches towards 150,000 lives lost to the virus. on sunday, texas announced it had topped 5,000 deaths, and now parts of the state are facing yet another disaster, reeling from the aftermath of hurricane hanna. florida is the second biggest epicenter in the u.s., just behind california. for 23 days this month the state has reported more than 9,000 new cases. sunday no exception. intensive care beds in the state are filling up and despite that, officials are still looking for ways to continue to reopen. randi kaye tells us the state of play. >> reporter: here in the state of florida, another 9,259 new cases and 77 deaths, bringing the total number of deaths for floridians to more than 5,800 now. and florida now has the second highest number of covid deaths in the country. meanwhile, statewide still about 9,000 people are hospitalized. and the -- there's about 18% of adult icu beds left. in the state. meanwhile in miami-dade, one of the hardest-hit counties here in southern florida, they're looking at a daily positivity rate there of 18%, and the icu beds also running low. they're at 146% capacity. so now they are converting regular beds to -- regular hospital beds to those icu beds so they can help treat those patients with what they need. meanwhile, people in miami-dade still not paying attention to that mask mandate and social distancing. they're supposed to wear masks when they can't safely social distancing inside and outside. miami-dade police department telling me that they've issued 150 citations for businesses. that's a $500 fine and also another 174 citations to individuals. that's a $100 fine. meanwhile, bars and breweries could soon reopen in the state. here in palm beach county, the restaurants are already open. they're open to about 50% capacity, but the bars and the breweries were closed at the end of last month. now the chief business regulator is saying they could open soon. he's looking for a safe and smart way to do so. meanwhile, the florida brewers guild certainly on board with that. they say they represent about 300 breweries. they wrote a letter to the governor and the business regulation chief, saying that 100 of those will close if they don't reopen soon. and they also say that the industry gives about 10,000 jobs to the state and a third of those jobs could be lost. i'm randi kaye, reporting from florida. back to you. doctors, nurses, they are all, of course, constantly reinventing the medical emergency playbook as coronavirus throws ever more challenges at them. now, you're about to get a look inside a hospital in georgia that is being slammed with new covid-19 patients and taking extreme measures to try and save lives. here is gary tuchman. >> i'll be with y'all in a second. >> reporter: she is not doing well. a female covid patient being transferred from her room to the intensive care unit. at the northeast georgia medical center in gainesville, georgia, a state where covid deaths have nearly doubled since earlier this month. >> it's exhausting. it has pushed me to my limits. it has shown me that i'm a lot stronger than i thought i was. >> reporter: christina heybin is an rn at this hospital, a part of georgia that was a hot zone early on in the covid crisis, but numbers started dropping, the state started reopening, leading, experts say, to what's happening now. >> just when you think that we might be getting ahead of this thing, it's gonna come back and we're starting all over again. >> reporter: this used to be a corridor for regular hospital inpatients. it has now been transformed into an additional intensive care unit just for covid patients. dr. stephen morgan is treating many of them. >> i have to admit, i thought we were probably in the clear, you know? i think a lot of us did. >> reporter: dr. morgan says the rising covid numbers make the job more difficult. more fatiguing. he checks on a middle aged covid patient and is gratified by his progress. >> real strong guy. got started out on some remdesivir as soon as he came into the hospital. >> reporter: but it's a very different feeling as registered nurse haben walks into this room. this man is being treated in an especially designated covid unit. this is not the icu, but there is worry that he might end up going there. >> this patient has been here for two days. there's a lot of concern, obviously, for anybody in the covid unit, that particularly for this man because he's very old. >> there you go, darling. >> reporter: he has been given sugar water to keep his blood sugar up as well as insulin. >> one of the hardest things is knowing the last time that patient's family saw them could possibly be the last time that they get to see them. >> reporter: this medical center is prepared for more and more patients being admitted. this unusual-looking structure sits in a hospital parking lot. patients will soon start getting moved inside. this rapidly-constructed hospital addition consists of 44 shipping containers pieced together. there are 20 rooms for covid patients. >> everything that you would get in a traditional hospital room inside the hospital we are capable of doing here in this unit. >> reporter: everyone we talk with here expresses pride at what they are doing, but as the numbers go up, so does the concern, and in some cases, fear. >> well, i guess you know what post-traumatic stress, that's how i feel. i mean, it's like -- i feel like something that we should be able to prevent from happening, it's like we have no control over it, in reality, and then the patients pass away. it's almost like we get so close to them, it's like losing a family member. >> reporter: these doctors and nurses also consider each other family members. people they work with, fight this virus with, for as long as it takes. gary tuchman, cnn, gainesville, georgia. . >> now, that's the situation facing medical professionals in georgia. now a quick look at conditions in miami, one of the worst hot spots in the u.s. health care workers at a miami hospital are suiting up everybody like this. layer after layer of personal protective gear to keep themselves safe. but a growing number of doctors and nurses say they need more than just physical protections. one doctor, who had the coronavirus himself, says it's the unknowns of the virus that are taking a big toll on him and his colleagues. >> in florida, we are used to hurricanes, right? so you get the warning the hurricane's going to hit. the hurricane hits. then you have the aftermath. but a hurricane tornados to be sort of a finite amount of time. and this is infinite. and so you don't have this knowledge of when you have no idea how long the hurricane is lasting. so that definitely makes the day-to-day difficult as health care workers, is not knowing when is the end? >> for more now on the mental and physical burden facing doctors and nurses, i'm joined by a physician of health policy of cornell university of md sin. for those who have not been in such situations, it's impossible to know the real level of stress and trauma that health care workers are dealing with. just try to explain the visceral nature of that experience. >> yeah, thank you for having me on. and i think it's such an important issue to understand what health care workers are going through on the ground right now during this pandemic. you know, i think it's been overwhelming in a lot of areas. at the beginning particularly of the pandemic, a lot of folks did not have personal protective equipment. they didn't have the resources that they needed. i think we're at a different place now, but nonetheless, seeing the number of covid-19 patients come in, caring for them day in and day out is a struggle for a lot of health care providers, and it continues to be that way. >> you know, for many of these workers -- i mean, young doctors and nurses and therapists and the like, they would have never seen anything like this, and by that i mean the volume of patients, the deaths, the suffering, and on top of that, the fear that they could contract the virus themselves. how widespread do you think post-traumatic stress issues are or might be for the front line workers? >> you know, it's a great -- it's a great point. i think one thing to recognize is that medicine has always been a demanding profession. there's always been a lot of challenges that people have had to go through as they're caring for patients. so there is that baseline. those things have been exacerbated during the pandemic. it's been challenging for a lot of folks. we're seeing some studies that are coming out of china. coming out of italy. places where the pandemic hit early and hit hard. some of those studies are suggesting that people have symptoms of ptsd and depression up to 50% of front line clinicians. now, i don't think that will continue. my hope is that some of those symptoms will improve over time, and particularly as we're getting better, more experienced at caring for patients, as we have the resources that we need to do so, my hope is that clinicians now don't have those high levels of ptsd or depressive symptoms, but it's certainly an ongoing issue that we need to be aware of and that we need to help people through. >> you know, i've covered a few wars and conflicts over the last 40 years, and i know what the impact can be. that sense that if you're not there, no one can understand what it is like. is what these brave people experience akin to a warlike -- war zone-like experience, and what help are they getting and will they need? >> yeah, you know, i think things have evolved a lot over the past few months. i think at the beginning of the pandemic there were real fears about not having adequate ppe, about not having the number of oxygen delivery devices that folks needed. those things have improved, thankfully. we're doing a much better job with having testing, with having ppe, with having oxygen delivery devices, the ventilators that we need, but nonetheless, the number of patients that are coming in, particularly in hard-hit areas where this pandemic is continuing, where there's not great adherence to masks and physical distancing, it still feels like a deluge of patients and challenges for health care workers, doctors, for nurses in some of these areas. you know, one thing that i would say is that, you know, i work in new york city. at the height of the pandemic here in april, nearly every single patient i cared for had covid-19. we implemented the right public health guidance. people adhered to it. by mid-june there were times i had no patients who had covid-19. so i want to also give hope to doctors and nurses and respiratory therapists that are out there right now and struggling in some really hard-hit areas that things will get better. that we need to continue to work on public health and communicate effectively about the importance of these issues. and my hope is that things will continue to -- or at least start to improve in the coming weeks. >> when it comes to the stresses and the impact -- and i think, you know, there have been suicides among health care workers and even doctors and so on. when it comes to the levels of stress and what they're up against, what would you like people to know about what is happening in these icus? what message do you want them to take from the conversation we've just had and the article you wrote in "the new yorker"? >> i think the main thing i want to communicate is if you're feeling stressed, if you're feeling anxious and depressed, there is help out there. your peers are there for you. covid-19, for all sorts of reasons, can be a very isolating ill against, both for clinicians, doctors, nurses, as well as patients and families. so we need to make extra efforts at this time to stay connected with one another. that might be through facetime, through support groups, through phone calls, through text messages, whatever it might be in your case, given the need for physical distancing, even from one's own family in a lot of cases. a lot of my colleagues are not staying with their families right now to make sure that they're not passing on the virus to their loved ones. so we need to make those extra efforts to stay nebtconnected w other health care workers, with our friends and with our families. >> that really is an important point. doctor, thank you so much. really appreciate you doing what you do. and the article in "the new yorker," people should check it out. thank you. >> my pleasure. thanks for having me. zblmp well, brazil now has more than 2.4 million coronavirus cases and it took only five months to get there. a coalition representing more than a million health care workers in the country says president jair bolsonaro is responsible for, quote, crimes against humanity for how he handled the response to the pandemic. nick paton walsh is in brazil. here's his report. >> reporter: a small ress pete perhaps in the numbers that brazil recorded in 24 hours ended on sunday, only 24,000 new cases. i say only because in the three days previously every 24 hours had seen over 50,000 new cases. terrifying numbers, frankly, for a country whose president tested positive for two weeks, despite playing down the severity of the disease, and emerged on saturday morning on twitter to say that he, in fact, tested negative. essentially giving himself a clear bill of health. brandishing like he has done over the last couple of months, particularly during his illness, the medication hydroxychloroquine. now, that's according to doctors and scientists globally useless if you have coronavirus, and possibly even dangerous, yet still he continues to tout it, particularly here in the seat of government, the capitol brazilia. the day saturday he declared himself negative. he talked about how he wouldn't have known he had the coronavirus if he hadn't tested positive. in stark contradiction to his statements that he felt he had a slight fever and backing freedom of speech in the country than essentially the virus sweeping the country. stark criticism levelled against him, though, from medical professionals who put together a 64-page document that they're sending to the haig, to the international courts, there to essentially accuse president jair bolsonaro of crimes against humanity. suggesting that his rhetoric of playing down the disease, his failure of government to act decisively may well have contributed to so many of the deaths still surging here in brazil. a slight respite to the numbers on sunday, only 24,000, but that's after a horrifying week, frankly, where they saw 50,000 cases. nick paton walsh, cnn, brazil. days after the u.s. forced a chinese consulate to shut down, beijing retaliates by closing an american consulate. we will take you there live when we come back. if you have postmenopausal osteoporosis and a high risk for fracture, now might not be the best time to ask yourself, are my bones strong? 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you there, david. what have you been able to see? i ask you that because you told me it's been tough to see anything. >> reporter: it's been incredibly difficult, michael, and it's not normal that we're doing a live cross-talk with you here from a vehicle, but this is the only way that we are able to broadcast. every time we try to step out. we can show you some video from earlier. to go through the police barrier, because there is a significant police presence here, quite harsh, they wouldn't let us in. they were only letting certain residents to go in and select media. for sure they allowed the state media to go through, but we, however, we're kept outside. we've been making around outside the perimeter. behind me here if you keep going further back, you hit where the u.s. consulate was. where it was. it no longer is here as of 10:00 this morning. the ministry of foreign affairs saying it has officially closed. as you mentioned, this was their reciprocal retaliation for what the u.s. officials did in houston. everything from the timing that they gave the u.s. diplomats to get out equated to what the u.s. officials gave to the chinese diplomats in houston. it was 72 hours altogether. it is very different here yesterday versus what we were able to experience being right in front of the consulate yesterday and saturday. and that is very telling in and of itself, michael, because at that time they wanted us to see what was happening. they allowed to us be broadcasting up close. but as of today, they wanted to make sure it was only state media that was doing the broadcasting, showing images and seemingly being able to put out the narrative as china wanted it to be distributed, michael. >> yeah. yeah, interesting change there. what's been the reaction among the chinese people? because apparently on social media like weibo, there's been a lot of anti-american sentiment going on. >> reporter: and i tell you here, it's not so much anti-american that i've seen in person. i've had a few folks that would shout at us as foreigners "go home." beyond that, though, it's mostly pro-china that we've seen. we've seen a few people chanting, some people holding signs, but they were quickly taken down by police. in fact, police seemingly more focused on those who were even protesting in support of china because they just didn't want a commotion. and that's part of the reason they've kept people so far away, but i'll tell you, in people that i've been speaking with, they seem to be supportive of china having done this reciprocal move, this retaliation. they said it had to be done after what the u.s. did, in their mind, however, they're sad to see it coming to this between the u.s. and china. that was echoed to me several times. >> you know, i got to ask you, is there a sense among chinese officials that the u.s. posture is at least part of the election campaign, not just the consulate closure, but a whole raft of things that have been happening over recent months? do the chinese sort of factor in that this is an election year and china is a -- it's a convenient bogeyman. >> reporter: there's no question. they factor that in. it's campaign rhetoric. it comes with the election year. they know that. however, where they draw the line is abs they see as irreversible and damaging to the relationship between the u.s. and china. so even though it may just be campaign rhetoric and action in the u.s. to shut down the chinese consulate there, they felt like they had to retaliate, if anything, to maintain some sort of, i would say, approval in the domestic crowd. i mean, the chinese state media was pushing for china to respond. so no longer could they just simply put out harsh words. with this instance, they had to respond with action. >> david culver in a moving live shot. thanks to the chinese security. very well done that you made it happen, david. good to see you. >> reporter: thanks, michael. we're going to take a quick break. a key unemployment 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eviction protections are gone. what's been holding up the announcement of what is a crucial plan? >> i mean, michael, there's so much at stake. you'd think that the target to try to get something on the table by the end of the week would have happened. we are hoping to hear something today. and as you say, millions of vulnerable americans received their last enhanced benefits on saturday. that was $600 a week in unemployment benefits in the hands of the most vulnerable in this -- in the country. it's also really important to note that there's going to be a lapse between the benefits that we've seen that have been in place since the start of the pandemic and what we'll see going forward. now, they're saying that the number was way too high, that it needs to be revised and we know that democrats on the other hand have been talking about extending the benefit, as is still the end of the year. i want you to take a listen to what white house economic adviser larry kudlow said yesterday. >> it won't stop the assistance. it's going -- it's going to cap the assistance at a level that is consistent with people going back to work. that's what we've said from day one. first of all, state unemployment benefits stay in place. second of all, we will try to cap the benefits at about 70% of wages. >> it's not a simple system, michael. i mean, 70% of wages, you're basically looking at millions of americans on a case by case basis, so how do you implement this? and of course how long is that going to take? those are one of the big concerns coming to the fore. we know that the republicans are also talking about a $1 trillion stimulus plan overall. the democrats are saying it's going to be closer to $3 trillion. and then, of course, smoupeaker the house nancy pelosi voiced her concerns about revising that $600 a week figure to 70% of wages and the issues they may encounter. take a listen. >> let me just say this, the reason we had $600 was its simplicity. figuring out 70% of people's wages, people don't all make a salary. maybe they do. they make wages. and they sometimes have it vary. so why don't we just keep it simple? unemployment benefits and the enhancement, which is so essential right now. >> and, michael, i mean, look at the proposal overall. look at these details. one thing that stands out is, of course, the end of the eviction protections as well. that is going to be absolutely key. we're hearing that certain states are setting up shelters and other infrastructure so that lawyers can meet with tenants that might be facing eviction. that could be a reality for many people. also important to note, another proposal that we heard that might come through today is that republicans and democrats might actually just look at various key elements that are going to be vital in protecting the vulnerable. we know that the democrats in the past have said, look, want to take a piecemeal approach. in terms of protecting people, maybe that's one way to look at it. >> yeah, those stimulus checks, there's people who applied for those back in april, may, who still haven't had them and a lot of analysts think these new ones won't be in anyone's hands until perhaps october. yeah, it's going to be tough days ahead for millions of americans. eleni jos eleni giokos, great to see you there in joburg. members of the white house coronavirus task force insist the u.s. has enough tests for anyone who needs one, wants one, needs one. admiral brett giroir admits the u.s. can improve its testing and he compared the amount of work and focus being put into the matter to the manhattan project, which led to the creation of the atomic bomb during world war ii. giroir spoke with cnn's jake tapper. >> are you happy where testing is right now? >> i'm never going to be happy until we have this upped control, and we're going to continue to push every single day to improve the testing. >> in march president trump said falsely anyone who wants a test can get a test. at what point will it be true, sir, that anybody who wants a test will be able to get one with a quick turnaround, so as to be effective. >> what is true now is that anyone who needs a test can get a test. we are not in a situation, and i want to be really clear, whether it's mick mulvaney or anyone else. i feel like going somewhere, so i need a test. that is not where we are. >> well, the u.s. state of georgia was among the first to reopen during the pandemic and recently reported a new record of cases in a single day. cnn's natasha chen takes a look at how some georgia schools plan to reopen next month, despite all the new infections. >> that's our future! that's our future! >> reporter: during a typical summer break, children aren't usually running toward a school building demanding to go to class. but in the midst of a pandemic, these students and parents in gwinnett county outside of atlanta are protesting the state's largest school district's change of heart on reopening. going all virtual instead of offering some in-class options. >> all of a sudden, two weeks before school, you know, the rug's getting pulled out from underneath us all and we're scrambling. >> reporter: kelly will yard told cnn's chris cuomo she understands the health risk and respects parents who wish to keep their kids home, but she and her husband also need to leave home for work during the day, creating a potential problem. >> dolly wood is open. the grocery stores are open. the airlines are open. corporate america is opening up. gas stations, what have you. we as parents feel like we just got left in the dust and you all just figure it out. >> kids over covid. kids over covid. >> reporter:. >> look, they can protest, and that's their right. however, there's no science behind it. so even if they decide to keep their kids, you know, make them go face-to-face, that's on them. i can't back that at all. >> reporter: ruth hartman runs an unofficial parent facebook group for fulton county schools. she says the argument over in-class and virtual and whether masks should be required has gotten political when it should just be about the science. >> what i can tell you for sure, despite the south korea study, is whether children upped nder the united states don't spread the virus as the same as over 10. i think that's still an open question that needs to be studied in the united states. we certainly know from other studies that children under 10 do get infected. it's just unclear how rapidly they spread the virus. >> reporter: the overall data in georgia shows a staggering rise in covid-19 cases. with the highest number of them in the red zones, including fulton and gwinnett counties. in nearby cob county, the virus is also spreading aggressively. >> we are in that high spread or high transmission section right now. and we as an organization cannot add to the transmission rate increasing. >> reporter: parent opinions vary by zip code and if they can afford child care or private tutoring. in a june survey, 43% of gwinnett county students said they want all in-class learning, while just over half of them said they'd be uncomfortable with that. in the urban core, parent were likely to prefer virtual learning compared to parents in the north. it's a preference often based on personal experience. >> i've actually attended two covid-related funerals recently. i mean, it's happening. even if it's not happening to you, it's happening and it's terrifying. >> reporter: natasha chen, cnn, atlanta. it was a fitting and somber final journey for a u.s. civil rights icon in a horse-drawn carriage, the body of congressman john lewis crossing the edmund pettus bridge one last time. his march across that very bridge back in 1965 defined his role in the nonviolent movement for racial equality and led to a pivotal change for voting rights. his legacy so clear. martin savidge reports. >> reporter: there are still days more of tributes and farewells to u.s. congressman and civil rights icon john lewis, but it's hard to imagine that any of them are going to come close when it comes to the imagery and the poignancy of selma on sunday. john lewis is history as a civil rights leader goes back some 55 years when he with a group of other demonstrators that were actually protesting for voter rights were crossing over the edmund pettus bridge in selma, alabama when they were set upon by alabama state police. they were severely beaten. in fact, john lewis nearly died. that actually became eventually a turning point of the civil rights movement in the united states. and so now in the aftermath of his death going back, this was a connection both to that terrible day, which became known as bloody sunday, and to what has changed since that time. the connections and similarity, his casket leaves the same church that the protesters left on that day, followed the same route that they followed that day, but this time when he approached the bridge, instead of an angry mob, it was a crowd of supporting saying thank you, singing to him, praising him. and when it came to crossing that bridge, this time his casket in a horse-drawn carriage, he did it all alone. met on the other side by his family and alabama state troopers. this time who were there to honor him. his body was then transported to montgomery, alabama, the capital of this state, where people waited in pouring rain and long lines for the opportunity to pay their respects to a civil rights icon, to a powerful congressional leader, to a son of alabama. martin savidge, cnn, montgomery, alabama. the two-time academy award-winner olivia dehavelin has passed away at the ripe old age of 10. she was best known for her role of melanie hamilton-wilkes in "gone with the wind." for many decades she was the last surviving star of that film. when she sued and won her case against warner brothers in the 1940s to help actors gain independence from the big studios and their contracts. olivia de-havilland died of 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essentially no choice but to act. >> the cases in spain, the data we got was on a friday. compiled that and showed a big jump across mainland spain. that was then assessed jed afternoon and we took the decision as swiftly as we could. we can't make apologies for doing so. we must be able to take swift, decisive action, particularly in relation to localized or internationally in relation to spain a particular country where we see we must take action. otherwise we risk reinfection into the uk. >> reporter: now it's worth keeping in mind that spain is a major holiday destination for british travellers. millions go there every year, and right now is peak seen. season. so not only is this decision a major headache for people who are there or planning a holiday there, it's also a significant blow to the spanish economy, which relies heavily on tourism. and like many others has been battered by the coronavirus pandemic. response so far from the spanish government has been relatively diplomatic. the foreign ministry spokes woman said in a statement that the spanish government considers the situation under control. outbreaks are localized. isolated and controlled. spain is a safe country, she says, who respects the decisions taken by the united kingdom with whose authorities we are in contact. so while the spanish government tries to reassure travellers that it's safe to go, clearly the uk, norway are taking a different approach. simon cullen, cnn, london. now, some of those british tourists in spain say they're baffled, if not angry, over the decision to quarantine them when they return to the uk. they say the decision on saturday to take spain off the safe travel list left them with no way to avoid a quarantine since they were already there on holiday. and many say they feel safe in spain. >> if a spike here is quite big, i kind of get it, but if it's only minor, then i don't see the point, really, because there's more measures here than there is in the uk at the 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250,000 tons. surfers from cape town encounter marine plastic more often than most, and some are working to solve the problem themselves. cyril vanier with their story. >> reporter: with more than 17,000 miles of coastline, south africa has a deep connection with the ocean. however, a 2015 study showed that the rainbow nation is one of the worst plastic polluters on the planet. world-renowned surfer frank solomon has spent most of his life in these waters. >> i honestly heard about people talking about the problem of pollution and the issues that we're facing, but to see it for myself on my home beach that's traditionally very clean, that was definitely a moment that changed my perception of the problems we are facing. by 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish by mass. and that just blows my mind. >> reporter: solomon has founded the sentinel ocean alliance in his hometown of hope bay cape town to give underprivileged children in the area an opportunity to learn to surf 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