it is still blocked off and kept as a sacred space, don. >> sara sidner. sara on the scene reporting. sara, great job. thank you so much. that man who set fire -- you can bring sara back up. i'm not going to -- but, sara -- is she still there? that video from the very beginning -- >> reporter: yeah. >> -- people thought that something was off with that and somehow this was encouraging -- >> reporter: yeah. >> -- either a race war or something. they promoted this destruction in the beginning. >> reporter: yeah, i mean, look, you have to look at it as a whole. yes, there was influence by clearly, according to police, by white supremacists who were here hoping to create more violence, hoping to create rioting so that the narrative can be about black folks lose their minds and rioting and so that the narrative could change to that instead of what happened with officer george floyd. but there were people who did take advantage of the situation and end up looting and burning things down. but there was certainly some influence there and, you know, the police are

but as sara sidner now reports, they are also losing millions and millions of dollars. >> the dreaded sound of an emergency seemed to be the only sound filling the air in new york city for far too long. >> the beginning of this pandemic was very, very hectic. it was crazy. it was the craziest in my career. >> while hospitals were packed with coronavirus patients here, they were also losing staggering amounts of money. >> hospitals to the tune of about $1.6 billion. so it has been, roughly, between 300 and $400 million a month. that we have been losing. >> from the largest healthcare system in new york that has treated more than 40,000 covid patients, to the seattle suburbs where the first-known major coronavirus outbreak hit in late february. >> even in this first month of march, we projected a $15 million loss. and that's one small hospital healthcare system. >> two hospitals across michigan, both rural and metropolitan. >> our revenue went down, immediately, 60%. i mean, overnight. >> the american hospital association estimates that hospitals and health systems will have losses, thi

copacabana beach's sara sidner has a closer look. >> reporter: the dreaded sound of an emergency seem to be the only sound filling the air in new york city forfar too long. >> the beginning of this whole pandemic was very, very hectic. it was crazy. it was the craziest in my career. >> reporter: while hospitals were packed with coronavirus here, they were also losing staggering amounts of money. >> we have hit our hospitals to the tune of about $1.6 billion so it has been roughly between 300 and $400 million a month that we have been losing. >> reporter: the seattle suburbs, the first major coronavirus outbreak hit in february. >> in this first month of march we projected a $15 million loss. that's one small hospital health care system. >> reporter: to hospitals across michigan, both rural and metropolitan. >> our revenue went down immediately 60%, i mean overnight. >> reporter: the american hospital association expects $323 billion losses. >> being a nurse, i never thought that i would be on unemployment ever. >> reporter: but that is what happened to elise hollandback. a nurse in em

cnn national correspondent sara sidner joins us now live from los angeles. sara, i'll let you get your mic set. we know many beaches were closed for the holiday weekend. people flocking to san diego beaches and these numbers are really a concern in the state. >> reporter: they are disturbing. they have just come out with brand-new numbers of 11,000, but that number is a little misleading. people thought that was a day total. that was actually over the past four day disease. however, on friday it was the highest number of positives that los angeles county has seen with more than 3,000 positive cases. the worry here is really the hospital beds. you're hearing from los angeles county officials who are saying that in the next couple of weeks to three weeks they could be out of icu beds here by the end of july because of the number of people that are being hospitalized at this point, and the there is a great deal of concern here in california and the state at large. this is now one of several hot spots. instead of having one epicenter like we saw happen in new yo

cnn's sara sidner has for. >> reporter: the dreaded sound of an emergency seem to be the only sound filling the air in new york city for far too long. >> the beginning of the whole pandemic was very, very hectic. it was crazy. it was the craziest of my career. >> while hospitals were packed with coronavirus patients here, they were also losing tagering amounts of money. >> we've hit our hospitals to the tune of 1.6 billion so it's been roughly between $300 million and $400 million a month that we have been losing. >> reporter: from the largest health care system in new york that has treated more than 40,000 covid patients to the seattle suburbs where the first known major coronavirus outbreak hit in late february. >> even in this first month of march we projected a $15 million loss, and that's one small hospital health care system. >> to hospitals across michigan, both rural and metropolitan. >> our revenue went down immediately 60%, i mean, overnight. >> reporter: the american hospital association estimates that hospitals and health systems will have losses this year of $323.1 billion. the

our national correspondent sara sidner joins us with a look at what happened in california. i'm so glad you did this, because i keep asking the question every day. how did this happen? they were so ahead of the curve before? >> reporter: yeah, it's true, and i think the answer is very simple with experts saying we all know what we're supposed to do. the rules have been set, and it appears that both governments got lax and so did it the people. >> when you're sleeping you're on your belly, okay, good. >> reporter: the staff at this california hospital is nearing exhaustion. >> every breathing minute i think about kroefd 19. >> reporter: in a video diary nurse katherine davis says she's used to seeing one death in her unit. with 700 covid patients treated her so far she's now seen 40 deaths. >> we would ensure that a patient did not die alone, so, you know, we would take turns spending time with them and holding their hand and talking to them. >> reporter: doctors knew they had the beds to treat the surge but not the staff. >> when we heard that the next, you know, wave of rel

sara sidner, cnn, los angeles county, california. >> our thanks to sara. i want to bring in emergency physician dr. megan ranney and dr. sanjay matthew. doctor, do you agree with medical professionals featured there? do you think a shutdown at this point is the only answer? >> so, brianna, what i would love to see is our public health infrastructure funded adequately so we have enough testing, contact tracing and so we have messages that the public believes in and follows. we have to make it easy for people to do the right thing, which makes it easy for people to know if they're infected or not, easy for people to wear masks and easy for people to physically distance. if we can't do that, then we are going to have to go back into a series of shutdowns across the country as these hot spots pop up. there is, unfortunately, only two ways to control this virus. one is by following these very basic rules. the other is by shutdown. we don't want to go to a shutdown, but we may have to come to that. >> and how do you have people adhere to those, given that you've

sidner, sara, thanks very much. now, hong kong which is dealing with another outbreak but their response is much different than in the u.s. will ripley is this for us tonight. will, what's the latest in hong kong? i know they are experiencing, what, their third wave? >> it's all relative, isn't it? i'm listening to the previous reporters talk about thousands of cases per day. hong kong had its record high number of new cases just yesterday. 67 cases. that was the record high for all this pandemic. this is a city that shut down its borders early. they test everybody at the airport and pretty much thought they had blocked awl tll the ca from coming in. you see the chart just darting up there. 355 cases detected, just in the last to weeks. and you know, more than half of those are being spread inside the city. and that's very concerning for infectious disease specialists i have been speaking with who say that we might be dealing with a mutated virus that could possibly be more con tajtagious. but to think the number of

cnn's sara sidner is live in los angeles with more. what have you learned, sara? >> reporter: alisyn, you know, in may, there was so much hope. we were back in phase one of reopening. now, by july, california is back in coronavirus crisis mode. and even the county that is the most populous, los angeles county, may have to completely shut down all over again. >> when you're sleeping, you're on your belly? okay. good. >> reporter: the staff at this california hospital is nearing exhaustion. >> every breathing minute, i think about covid-19. >> reporter: in a video diary from inside eisenhower health in rancho mirage, nurse katherine davis says she's used to seeing one death a year in her unit. with 700 covid patients treated here so far, she's now seen 40 deaths. >> we would ensure that a patient did not die alone. so you know, we would take turns spending time with them and holding their hand and talking to them. >> reporter: doctors knew they had the beds to treat the surge, but not the staff. >> when we heard that the next, you know, wave of relief might come in,

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let's get to california with sara sidner. california is reporting the highest death total since april. >> reporter: on wednesday there was a report of another 8,000 plus people who have tested positive for coronavirus. those numbers have a little bit in them the backlog of testing but the trend is that everything is going in the wrong direction. we're now seeing more people getting coronavirus so those numbers are up. also the rate of infection is up and hospitalizations are up and now seeing that the death toll is beginning to rise, as well. it is everyone's dreaded reaction to all of these numbers that keep going up. of course, they were expecting that potentially the deaths to go up and we have found that they have. one of the major hotspots is here in los angeles, los angeles county. they' they're about 40% of the cases and the mayor of los angeles has said if we have to we may have to start shutting things back down again, going back to where we were months ago which is terrifying to the people here, the businesses here.

you always speak with such authority and of course my colleague, sara sidner out there on the streets almost daily covering these stories. we appreciate you joining us as well. this is a tough conversation that we all that is the only way we're going to get this issue under control. so we've had a productive conversation and i hope we can build on it for the future so thanks to all of my guests, thanks to you for listening and thank you for watching as well. i'm don lemon. our coverage continues. >>> hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you're watching "cnn newsroom" and i'm rosemary church. the u.s. hits another single day high in new coronavirus cases as some hospitals and intensive care units around the country buckle under the immense pressure infections are putting on the system. this as a potential vaccine shows early promise. researchers say it produced antibodies to the coronavirus and all patients tested in a trial. and a bitter defeat for jeff sessions. he lost his senate bid after his former boss donald trump campai

. >> reporter: i'm sara sidner in burbank, california, where the number of covid-19 patients being hospitalized is spiking. there are about 6,000 patients in hospitals with coronavirus. those numbers spiking out of control and health officials very worried if the numbers keep continuing that way, that they will run out of icu bed in the state. so they're trying to get that under control. also the number of people coming back with positive covid-19 testing, that has jumped in the state 6.8% across the state but in l.a. county, the most populous, at 11.6%. officials saying they have to get the numbers down. >> reporter: i'm carolyn manno in orlando, florida, on the edge of the major league soccer as they look to start the season this evening. the nba welcoming 22 teams so far in mls, trouble with the coronavirus. players from three clubs out of a possible 26 have already tested positive. the keys here are being described to me by one mls executive as diligent testing, a socially distanced atmosphere that is somewhat militant. and also everybody working together to ensure that this bubble gets str

. >> reporter: i'm sara sidner burbank, california, where the number of covid-19 patients hospitalized is spiking. now about 6,000 patients in hospitals with coronavirus. those numbers spiking out of control, and health officials very worried that the numbers keep continuing that way, that they will run out of icu beds in the state. so they're trying to get that under control. also, the number of people coming back with positive covid-19 testing. that has jumped in the state. 6.8% across the state, but in l.a. county, the most populous state, at 11.6%. officials say they go have to get the numbers down. >> reporter: i'm carolyn nano in orlando, florida, right on the edge of major league soccer's bubble as they look to restart their season later this evening. nba resuming their season july 30th. mls, trouble with the coronavirus so far. players from three clubs out of a possible 26 have already tested positive. the keys here are described to me by one mls executive as diligent testing a socially distanced atmosphere what militant and everybody working together to ensure the bubble gets

and my colleague sara sidner out on the streets covering these stories. appreciate you joining us. this is a tough conversation we should all continue to have without castigation, judging each other, concern of saying or doing the wrong thing, that's only way we're going to get this issue under control. we have had a productive conversation, hope we can build on it for the future. so thanks to all of my guests, thanks to you for listening and thank you for watching as well. i'm don lemon. our coverage continues. >>> good evening. with more than 136,000 dead in this country due to the coronavirus pandemic, the president of the united states today stepped into the rose garden and tried to turn into a political rally he can no longer do because of the pandemic. for the better part of an hour he railed against china, democrats and joe biden, lashed out at climate accords and energy saving air conditioners, statue vandals and on and on the president at times seemed like he was reading a list. at other moments, he seemed to free associate. he talked about bombers under his command and sa

. >> reporter: i'm sara sidner in pasadena where the pasadena tournament of roses parade has done something they haven't done in 75 years or so since world war ii, they are canceling the rose parade. it is a huge disappointment for this and surrounding communities, because it does bring in millions of dollars, but it also brings in a lot of fun and beauty to the city. it is usually right down this boulevard here. that is not going to happen. why? because organizers say with covid-19 around, they simply cannot guarantee the safety of the volunteers and the professionals and spectators who come to see it. >> as you just heard, alabama's governor announcing that all residents are now required to wear face masks in public as the state reports a record number of deaths. >> i always prefer personal responsibility over a government mandate. and yet i also know, with all my heart, that the numbers and the data over the past few weeks are definitely trending in the wrong direction. >> 35 other states this morning have some form of a mask mandate. 12 states in puerto rico are reporting record hospita

sidner. what did do you know about this? >> reporter: it's a 13-chapter read but an indictment of president trump from a member of his family. we haven't heard a lot from the members of the trump family. this is coming from mary trump who is his niece and a book that one of the president's siblings has actually tried to block from publishing but the publisher got the release to go forward. we're looking through some of these things and in it you see mary trump writing about the hubris of her uncle. she writes about how she didn't actually think that he was taking his presidential election seriously, and she even had lunch at one point with mary anne trump, who was a federal trump, and they are discussing donald trump running for president. this is back in 2016, and it recounts the conversation in which mary anne trump says he's a clown. this is what the book says. he's a cloupt, my aunt marry anne said at one his lunches at the time. this will not happen. mary anne trump has had a fraught his

cnn's sara sidner in los angeles for us. so, sara, california was one of the first states shut down. reopened slowly. and yet, they are seeing a huge jump in cases. what happened? >> yeah. it's what everybody feared. you know, california, as we mentioned, one of the hardest hit of 33 states that are seeing a rise in coronavirus cases. and i can tell you that, in los angeles county, which is the most populous county, not only of the state but of america as a whole, with more than 10 million people. it, the mayor says, is partly due to younger people. and we heard sanjay allude to this. people between the ages of 18 and 40, apparently, are those who are really helping to spread this virus. because, now, they are looking at the rates being positive, more than 50% of the people who are testing positive for this virus are in that group. now, that number, just a few weeks ago, was 30% of the people being tested positive for coronavirus. and so, you are seeing this trend. the mayor is imploring younger people to, please, follow the

>>that was sara sidner reporting nurses say some of the 2030 year olds in their hospitals are in so much pain they can't even turn themselves over. >>the south san francisco school district is suspending its meal distribution program for a week because a kitchen worker came into contact with somebody who tested positive for covid. the employee worked at el camino high school so now the district is shutting it down cleaning and sanitizing and families that rely on the meal service then go to a neighboring district until south san francisco resumes handing out meals next week. we've learned another san quentin death row inmate has died from covid 58 year-old troy a ash mess passed away monday at a pop-up hospital outside of the prison. he was on death row for raping and killing a 7 year-old girl in 1984. he died of complications of covid so far 12 inmates have died at san quentin because of covid. >>well in the north bay one barber shop owner in vacaville defied state orders and stayed open during the pandemic throw in a shot, it's with our sister station ktxl in sacramento takes a look at

and my colleague sara sidner out on the streets covering these stories. appreciate you joining us. this is a tough conversation we should all continue to have without castigation, judging each other, concern of saying or doing the wrong thing, that's only way we're going to get this issue under control. we have had a productive conversation, hope we can build on it for the future. so thanks to all of my guests, thanks to you for listening and thank you for watching as well. i'm don lemon. our coverage continues.

joining me now is sara sidner and police chief charles ramsey. good to see both of you. you guys are have been standing by watching and listening. black and brown people are fighting for -- they're more likely to be affected by the coronavirus. a lot of things coming together but we're also seeing some things, for example in minneapolis i was talking to residents there and trying to figure out what happened since the killing of george floyd. in that very neighborhood what you're seeing is people are starting to complain that when they do call police, when they need assistance, when there's a shooting they're not showing up and they feel like they're not being protected and served by the police department in that particular neighborhood. and we have seen this happen in other spots. in atlanta, after rayshard brooks was killed you saw this 12 or so -- more than a dozen officers calling in sick, and that sort of thing goes back and forth. because the officers also feel that people are very aggressive towards them when they try to go into a neighborhood after something like

. >> sara sidner, thanks very much. hong kong which is dealing with another outbreak, but their response is much different than in the u.s. what is the latest in hong kong? i know they're experiencing, what, their third wave? >> reporter: well, it's interesting. it's all relative, isn't it? i'm listening to the previous reporters talking about thousands of cases per day. hong kong had its record high number of new cases just yesterday, 67 cases. that was the record high for all of this pandemic. this is a city that shut down its borders early. they test everybody at the airport and pretty much thought they had blocked all the cases from coming in. up until two weeks ago there were zero cases of community transmission. you see the chart darting up there, 355 cases detected in the last two weeks, and you know, more than half of those are being spread inside the city, and that's very concerning for infectious disease specialists i've been speaking with who say we might be dealing with a mutated virus that could possibly be