on his explosive new book. pressing him on what he called possible obstruction of justice inside the white house. a federal judge saying he may have disclosed classified information. the president attacking bolton. tonight, democrats say they'll be watching closely. also developing tonight, attorney general william barr under fire after the abrupt removal of one of the nation's top federal prosecutors whose office was investigating allies of the president. tonight, calls for the attorney general's removal. the deadly shooting spree in minneapolis. one killed, 11 wounded in the crossfire. and tonight, the manhunt for at least two suspects. the protest zone killing in seattle. a 19-year-old fatally shot inside a six-block area protesters seized from police. authorities blocked from entering the crime scene. the severe storm danger right now. a line of extreme weather stretching from the plains into the midwest. and the very special first father's day. separated from his wife because of covid, but unwilling to leave her side. tonight, his first moments with his newborn. good evening, and happy father's day. i'm whit johnson, in for tom llamas. we begin tonight with startling new evidence that america's fight against the coronavirus is far from over, with 11 states reporting record numbers of new cases this weekend. in florida, more than 3,000 people have died from covid-19, and 3,000 new cases in each of the last four days. the governor no longer blaming the surge on testing alone. hospitalizations are on the rise in 17 states, including in arizona, where there are growing concerns about meeting demands in hospital icus. at the same time, president trump making headlines at his campaign rally, telling supporters he wants to slow down testing for the virus. as the u.s. approaches another grim milestone, nearly 120,000 lives lost to covid-19. victor oquendo starts us off in miami. >> reporter: tonight, doctors sounding the alarm over the dangerous surge of the coronavirus. >> covid-19 cases are spreading like wildfire in states like florida, arizona, and texas. >> reporter: the white house saying it's now preparing for a second wave just in case, stockpiling supplies. but this wave is getting worse. 11 states setting new records this weekend. and for the first time since may 1st, more than 30,000 new infections nationwide in each of the past two days. hospitalizations now increasing in 17 states, including florida, a state that opened early. >> i don't feel like people are doing enough of a job of keeping social distancing and keeping masks on their face. people are getting a little bit more tired of wearing these masks. but this is not the time to do that. >> reporter: the virus claiming more than 3,100 lives in florida alone. more than half of all reported cases on saturday were under the age of 35. florida's governor attributed the increase to more testing. now admitting there's more to it. >> that's an indication that certainly in that age group that you're seeing more transmission in the community. it's not purely just a function of the fact that they're testing more. >> reporter: while younger people may not get as sick, they may be a danger to others. >> we're starting to see these asymptomatic spreaders passing it along to their family members, their parents and their grandparents who are definitely more likely to get sick as opposed to a younger, healthier individual. >> reporter: in arizona, drivers lining up to get tested. icus are at 85% capacity. and a similar situation in nearby el centro, california. >> it's constant suffering and death and dying and going on to the next one and doing your best, doing everything that you went to school for. sometimes everything you do is not enough. >> reporter: the virus taking a devastating toll on this family in los angeles, desperate for a lung to save their mother, after already losing their father and grandmother. >> we never ate out. we didn't touch anything. we always sanitized everything, but my whole family got it. it's serious. this virus is no joke at all. >> just devastating for so many families. victor joining us now from miami. and victor, several cities are cracking down on their own, making masks mandatory, despite the lack of a statewide order. >> reporter: that's right. florida's governor does not want to issue a statewide mask requirement. so local officials are taking the lead. some of the biggest cities in the state like miami, ft. lauderdale, and orlando with mask orders. we'll see if others follow suit. palm beach set to vote on masks later this week. >> victor, thank you. now to the campaign rally in tulsa. president trump's first since the pandemic began. the president spending father's day at the golf course after last night's crowd fell far short of capacity. this, as a new abc news poll shows 58% of americans disapprove of his handling of the coronavirus response. and while the president did not address race and justice in his remarks, he did raise eyebrows with what he said about testing for the virus. rachel scott is in tulsa again tonight. >> reporter: tonight, allies are rushing to the president's defense after his rocky campaign relaunch, where he downplayed the risk of the coronavirus, calling it by a racist name, telling supporters he asked to scale back testing. >> when you do testing to that extent, you're gonna find more people. you're going to find more cases. so i said to my people, "slow the testing down, please." >> reporter: today, white house trade adviser peter navarro suggested the president was joking. >> you know it was tongue in cheek. come on now, come on. that was tongue in cheek. >> reporter: but the president has complained the number of cases in the country makes the u.s. look bad. >> that's probably the downside of having good testing is you find a lot of cases. >> reporter: and he was furious it became public that six members of his own advance team, including two secret service agents, tested positive for covid-19 ahead of his comeback rally. the campaign said more than 1 million people requested tickets online. waiving liability if they contracted the virus. do you plan to wear a mask? >> i have one, but i do not plan to wear it. >> reporter: but the crowd was smaller than expected, after the president promised a packed house. >> we've never had an empty seat, and we certainly won't in oklahoma. >> reporter: tulsa's fire department says only a third of the arena was full. and the campaign canceled the president's scheduled remarks to an overflow outdoor crowd. and though the police department says demonstrators were overwhelmingly peaceful, the trump campaign blamed the turnout on protesters. >> there were protesters who blocked the mags. and so we saw that have an impact in terms of people coming to the rally. >> rachel, joining us from tulsa. health officials in oklahoma where the virus is on the rise are urging people who have attended large-scale gatherings like that rally to get tested. the president's campaign saying there will be more rallies. >> reporter: that's right. the president said he feels like his campaign lost momentum during the pandemic. he's feeling a sense of urgency to get back out in front of his supporters. this week, the president heads to phoenix, where officials are requiring all residents to wear a face mask. but it is unlikely the president will do so. whit? >> rachel, thank you. next here, the abc news exclusive just hours away. martha raddatz pressing john bolton on damning new allegations against president trump in his new book, and why he's going public now. one thing is clear, the president's allies and enemies will be watching closely. here's martha raddatz. >> reporter: tonight, in just hours, the full story of john bolton's explosive new book. bolton, who served president trump longer than any of his national security advisers, saying he was deeply disturbed by trump's actions in the white house. you also use the phrase in the book that trump's pattern looked like obstruction of justice as a way of life, which we couldn't accept. obstruction of justice as a way of life? >> look, these were things that i could see some evidence of, and they bothered me greatly. i talked to the attorney general about them. i talked to the counsel to the president about them. i've talked to other members of the cabinet about them and relayed my concerns. and they were very much on my mind. >> reporter: a federal judge refusing the justice department's request to block the memoir, "the room where it happened." although the judge admonishing the former national security adviser for likely publishing classified materials, a claim bolton disputes. the book, being released tuesday, accuses the president of being erratic, irrational, and foolish. >> i don't think he's fit for office. i don't think he has the competence to carry out the job. there really isn't any guiding principle that i was able to discern other than what's good for donald trump's re-election. >> reporter: president trump blasting bolton, saying he broke the law and will pay a big price in possible losses of book profits and potential criminal charges. today democrats and republicans questioned why bolton never sought to testify in house impeachment hearings. >> for $29.95 he can monetize his national security clearance, but under oath he would have had an opportunity to answer questions and not just make assertions. >> reporter: but now some democrats say they will investigate any further allegations of wrongdoing raised in the book. >> i don't think we should wait if we conclude that there are important things that he says that need to be exposed to the public. the public needs to know exactly what they have in this president. >> reporter: what is also clear from the interview with john bolton is that he wanted that book out before the election. whit? >> martha, thank you. and a reminder, you can see the exclusive interview with martha and john bolton in an abc news special tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern. next tonight, top democrats demanding answers from william barr after he initiated a public showdown with one of the nation's top federal prosecutors. he was leading an office investigating members of the president's inner circle. tonight, that u.s. attorney out of a job. trevor ault with the fallout from new york. >> reporter: tonight, the chair of the house judiciary committee saying attorney general william barr deserves to be impeached after the abrupt firing of the nation's most powerful u.s. attorney. >> we've seen a pattern of the president opposing, of barr corruptly impeding all these investigations. so this is just more of the same. >> reporter: democrats now vowing to investigate whether the decision to remove geoffrey berman was politically motivated. sources tell abc news the president has been pushing to get berman out for months. the attorney general even telling him to resign. >> i'm just here to do my job. >> reporter: but berman refused, leading to that public standoff with barr, ending only when the a.g. asked the president to step in and fire him. >> i don't get involved, i just don't get involved. but the president has to sign a document or, i guess, give it the okay. >> reporter: berman's new york office had already sent the president's former fixer michael cohen to prison, and has been investigating his personal attorney rudy giuliani for months. former national security adviser john bolton telling martha raddatz president trump told turkey's president erdogan in december of 2018 he'd intervene in the office's investigation into a state-owned turkish bank. >> the president said to erdogan at one point, look, those prosecutors in new york are obama people. wait until i get my people in and then we'll take care of this. i thought to myself, and i'm a department of justice alumnus myself, i have never heard any president say anything like that. >> reporter: whatever was said to erdogan, halkbank was indicted last fall for fraud, money laundering, and sanctions violations after a negotiated settlement fell apart. berman, a registered republican and a trump donor, was appointed by the trump administration. and left only after being assured his office was in the hands of his deputy audrey strauss, promising she and the staff would protect the district's integrity and independence. >> trevor joining us now from outside the southern district courthouse. berman's deputy, who you just mentioned, will likely serve in an interim capacity. until the senate approves the president's nominee. but lindsey graham has indicated he won't proceed with the nomination? >> reporter: that's right, whit. senator graham says he's going to honor what's known as a blue slip rule, meaning a nominee can't advance unless they have the approval from the two senators from that state. and already, both senators here in new york have called on the president's nominee, jay clayton, to withdraw his name in consideration. whit? >> trevor, thank you. now to minneapolis, still a city on edge. now rocked by a night of violence. at least 11 people shot, and tonight, the hunt for multiple gunmen. here's janai norman. >> they need an ambulance right now! >> reporter: tonight, an urgent search for the gunmen behind a deadly shooting spree in minneapolis. >> those people down on the ground. i hope they're alive, man. >> reporter: witnesses say it was a shootout on the street outside busy bars and restaurants overnight. innocent people caught in the crossfire. >> inches from my head. you know, a bullet shot here. through both these windows here. ricocheted off the door frame inside the restaurant here and then started bouncing off inside here, i think. there was broken glass there and over here. we found a few bullets and stuff inside. >> reporter: police say the gunmen shot 12 people. one person was killed. >> they were standing right over here by the bike racks. i saw people just shooting, just 30, 40, 50 shots. >> reporter: the police chief says they don't have a motive, but it does not appear connected to recent protests honoring george floyd. police saying the shooting does follow an uptick in crime in the last few months, the chief calling it a public health crisis. whit, the police chief says investigators have several leads they're following up on. and they believe they're looking for more than one shooter. whit? >> janai, thank you. a violent father's day weekend in the city of chicago. at least 60 people shot as of this morning, 9 of them fatally. including three teenagers, and a 3-year-old boy who was struck by gunfire in his father's car. homicides in chicago up 22% this year. there's news on a deadly shooting inside seattle's protest zone. a 19-year-old killed inside that roughly six-block area. authorities say protesters prevented them from getting to the crime scene and the victim. here's zohreen shah. >> reporter: tonight, the body camera video. seattle police arriving at the scene of a shooting at the activist occupied zone. >> please move out of the way so we can get to the victim. all we're trying to do is get to the victim. >> reporter: on saturday at around 2:30 a.m., the 911 call. shots fired inside the six-block area seattle residents have taken over. protesters forcing police away. leaving them powerless to investigate. >> the victim is gone! >> reporter: jake gravbrot was there and captured this video of volunteer medics rushing the 19-year-old to the hospital where he died. another was critically injured. >> it all just makes me really sad that this happened. because yes, indeed, we want that area to be a peaceful and educational kind of place. >> reporter: activists started the zone about two weeks ago following massive protests against police violence and racial injustice. some inside, heavily armed. police had said they'd only go inside in the event of a mass casualty or active shooter. saturday night's standoff showed that didn't work. a day and a half later, police still haven't released a suspect description. the circumstances and lack of access to the scene have presented obvious challenges. whit? >> zohreen, thank you. there is much more ahead on "world news tonight" this sunday. the severe weather threat stretching from oklahoma to minnesota. flooding and tornadoes possible. rob marciano is standing by. and the onstage scare. comedian d.l. hughley collapsing during a show, later testing positive for coronavirus. an update on his condition. an update on his condition. ta-da! did you know liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need? given my unique lifestyle, that'd be perfect! let me grab a pen and some paper. know what? i'm gonna switch now. just need my desk... my chair... and my phone. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ so bob, what do you take for back pain? before i take 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richmond. calling for reparations. statues continue to be torn down across the country, including in san francisco. we get insight on new statues that may take their place. for many local families, father's day carried extra meaning amid the pandemic and protests. that's next on abc 7 news at 6:00. you know, we appreciate the little things right now, you know. even if it's working on father's day. >> father's day across the bay area was anything but typical this year thanks to the covid-19 pandemic and nationwide protests. hello and thanks for joining us on this father's day. i'm eric thomas. >> and i'm dion lim. people had to rethink plans to best celebrate dad. cornell barnard joins us live in san francisco with more on this story. hi cornell. >> reporter: hi dion. a gorgeous day in city. so many families have become adaptable during the pandemic that includes reimagining father's day. a day for dad on the shores of oakland's lake merritt. >> today celebrating black fathers. >> 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