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[0:14]at a Michigan restaurant escalates into this life-threatening situation Kovach crisis inside one florida hospital as infection surged 10,000 new cases in the
[0:25]state today doctors say they're seeing more severe cases and some younger victims new reports of young people actually throwing covin parties in alabama to see who gets it first in
[0:36]texas masks are now mandatory in public as a houston ICU says it's now at 100 percent capacity dr. Anthony Fauci warns we're at risk of losing control of this
[0:48]pandemic as President Trump calls the report that Russians paid to have US troops killed a hoax Russian leader Vladimir Putin tightens his grip on power potentially becoming president for
[0:59]the rest of his life longtime companion of Jeffrey Epstein d'Alene Maxwell under arrest accused of luring underage girls to be sexually abused
[1:08]Maxwell enticed minor girls got them to trust her then delivered them into the trap that she and Epstein had set for them where the FBI tracked her down and
[1:20]where the case goes now after Epstein's suicide threatened to close it summer safety with many Americans looking to escape a look at how you can keep
[1:29]yourself safe if you're traveling and while many global citizens of this planet have been focused elsewhere lately a reminder that many scientists say the planet remains under threat by climate
[1:41]change our new series called it's not too late good evening everyone I'm Lindsay Davis thanks so much for streaming with us the u.s. broke yet another record today with
[1:52]more than 53,000 Kovach cases reported that's the largest single day total so far today the Trump administration's Kovach testing coordinator told Congress we are not flattening the curve right
[2:03]now increasingly public officials are joining the growing chorus singing the same tune imploring Americans to wear a mask in Texas today with cases surging a stark change of tone from governor
[2:14]Abbott who's now mandating masks in all counties with more than 20 cases after he previously blocked local officials from penalizing residents who went without a mask today in Florida the vice
[2:25]president said wearing a mask and good hygiene is not an either/or choice and on the frontlines tonight in Florida doctors are worried about what a holiday weekend without masked or social distancing might mean for hospitals
[2:37]already at capacity our Victor kendo leads us off tonight doctors on the front lines suiting up for battle Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami
[2:47]seeing a surge in Kovac patients is your floor at capacity right now we're even opening up different units at this point to be able to meet the demands of the patients that are coming
[2:58]in the wave of new patients leaving staff exhausted the way I see it now if things don't change and people take it a little more serious and the next two
[3:07]weeks the country hitting 50,000 new cases in one day this week America's top infectious disease doctor warning America is losing the war against the
[3:18]virus I think it's pretty obvious Howard that we are not going in the right direction right now if you look at the number of cases it's quite disturbing now we're setting records practically
[3:29]every day of new cases that clearly is not the right direction despite case is rising in 38 states and 19 pausing or reversing reopening President Trump today suggested things
[3:40]are under control we have some areas where we're putting out the flames or the fires and that's working out well the crisis is being handled vice
[3:52]president pence traveling to coronavirus hotspot Florida which reported a record 10,000 new infections the virus claiming 67 lives including the state's youngest
[4:02]victim an 11 year old boy no one wants to see these numbers where they are or no one wants to see them go up in Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks where Memorial Day pool parties made national headlines for the lack of social
[4:14]distancing and masks authorities are now preparing for a record number of people for the 4th of July weekend I know that we're getting ready to move into our 4th of July weekend
[4:25]and it makes me really nervous I know after the 4th that we could potentially see another surge authorities in Tuscaloosa Alabama are outraged over a
[4:36]new disturbing trend seeing young people are throwing coronavirus parties with a prize payout for the first person who
[4:42]gets infected that are taking that that
[4:51]are taking this for granted alarming new numbers tonight involving children Oregon seeing a rapid surge of infections among children younger than
[5:00]10 in Texas more than 300 were in fact hitting daycare centers and at least 30 students and staff tested positive at a school outside Phoenix in Alabama a four month old baby
[5:11]among five children hospitalized but if you think this doesn't affect young people that actually affects young people new infections putting a strain on testing staggering lines again in
[5:21]Texas the governor today despite earlier hesitation now making masks mandatory statewide as twenty-six states report rising hospitalizations one Medical
[5:31]Center in Houston says ICUs hit 100% capacity in El Paso high school English teacher Rene Chavez was also taken to the hospital on June 3rd and never left
[5:41]he died late last week I never thought I would have to have a life without him because he was my best friend his wife and then also got the virus but recovered Arizona seeing record
[5:53]hospitalizations I see use now at 89% capacity I think we let our guard down a little bit beaches across Southern California are closed for the busy fourth of July weekend and in West
[6:03]Hollywood not wearing a mask could cost you $300 Victor Kendall joins us now from Miami Victor you've seen firsthand just how busy the medical workers there
[6:14]are how are they coping and what's the general sense among people who are on the front lines as they experience this surge well Lindsey right now here at Jackson Memorial Hospital they have
[6:25]space but they also have twice as many kovat patients now than they did during their peak in April today 315 patients just a few months ago it
[6:35]was around 160 and they are bracing for more the mayor of Miami Beach now saying that if the hospitals can't treat everybody who comes in nobody wants to see it but we'll have to head back to a shelter in place Lindsay all right
[6:47]Victor a kendo thanks so much and for more analysis of the alarming rising Kovach cases we bring in president Trump's former homeland security adviser and ABC contributor Tom Bossert Tom
[6:58]thanks as always for joining us thanks Lindsey so with the majority of states seeing cases rise in that grim number 50,000 new cases in a day I want to
[7:08]start by asking how do we get here I mean you worked on disaster preparedness at the White House would it would you say has been the single biggest mistake made yeah Lindsey it's hard to pinpoint
[7:19]any one mistake in this as we try to analyze all the different behaviors that we would have never predicted and all the protests that have intervened and and the various different you know thoughts and schools of thought and
[7:31]political arguments but I think this through I think maybe the biggest mistake might have been the initial one the blanket shutdown across the country what it did was it taught some people
[7:41]the wrong lessons in this country those people in places that didn't have a lot of virus they thought that the shutdown was either premature or unnecessary or an overreaction or all three they went
[7:53]out they socialized they didn't get sick and they learned wrongly that they can get away with it and now as the virus has spread to their neck of the woods so to speak so to speak they're learning
[8:04]the hard lesson that no one's immune from this virus and we're seeing the numbers in Arizona Florida all through the Sunbelt go up dramatically and we remember those numbers I mean the Kovach
[8:14]cases spiked after Memorial Day weekend and those images of the Ozark pool parties in Missouri for example and now we hear that party is happening again so how concerned are you as we have the
[8:25]fourth of July coming up now you know to be honest I'm angry at this point you know how many people have spent so much time and money and sacrificed in order
[8:36]to buy us the time to control this disease and now we're figuring it away we've seen all of the benefits roll back that we purchased with really economic calamity and now we're gonna have to
[8:48]purchase them a second time I'm worried because if people don't change their behaviors this summer they're not going to be able to send their kids back to school this fall I think people have to
[8:58]realize that that they have to earn the reduction and the maintenance of that reduction in this virus by behaving in a disciplined fashion all summer otherwise they're gonna want something and not get
[9:09]it and they're going to complain all over again and so this is very alarming not only for the loss of life that we're about to see and the suffering but also the economic consequences are so predictable and it said all right so
[9:21]much collateral damage all around and as we've been reporting at least 19 states including California Texas and Florida have now reversed pause or delayed their reopening plans so will this help or
[9:32]isn't too little too late and is there now just too much Cove in nineteen already out there it's such an important question people are getting the sense from the coverage that maybe it's inevitable so let's go out and do
[9:44]whatever we planned on doing anyway that's not the case we can change the outcomes by changing our behaviors you know it's it's not a problem to blame on
[9:53]any one leader or two leaders it's an individual responsibility for all of us to make our collective sacrifices it's not too late there's a lot of disease and I fear that Arizona on the leading
[10:04]edge of this is going to see some real sorrow and sickness in the coming weeks but it's not too late even there for them to change their behaviors to get this disease back under control I know you say you don't want to point fingers
[10:16]at a particular politician but just curious as a former Trump advisor if you were with him still right now would you say mr. president you've got to start wearing a mask you've got to start
[10:24]imploring people to do so no absolutely I was variant to see him start to change his messaging on that this week I'd like to see him add to that change in message a change
[10:35]in his behavior I think we should see the president wearing a mask a few times here in the coming weeks not just telling people if they want to remember it's not to tell people if they want to
[10:46]or if they think it's in their interest to wear the mask they should go ahead and do it that's the wrong caveat the mask isn't about protecting the wearer as you know Lindsey it's about each person that wears it protecting everyone
[10:57]else it might be sick they might not know it and they're contributing to the spread if they don't wear that mask right and somehow this has all become so politicized but finally if we don't get those numbers down how bad do you think
[11:08]that things could really get this fall yeah these are pretty troubling numbers you know the microbiology and the math behave in a consistent predictable way we heard dr. pouchy predict that we
[11:20]could get to a hundred thousand new cases a day not the 52,000 or 55,000 that we've been seeing this week if that happens and remember in the Northeast we
[11:31]had a collective 38 million people affected in February and March or at-risk in the populations of Massachusetts Connecticut New York and New Jersey now just those three states I talked
[11:41]about Florida in Arizona you know in Texas they total 90 million people and their populations so if dr. fat sees prediction is right and we see a case
[11:52]fatality rate of half of 1% at which we've seen to date in this country that could total 300,000 deaths additional deaths in the United States this year I hope we don't get to that right just
[12:04]hard to comprehend those numbers all right Tom thank you so much as always for your insight and now to an arrest that was noted around the globe Elaine Maxwell the longtime companion of
[12:16]Jeffrey Epstein is now behind bars accused of recruiting underage girls for sexual abuse by Epstein and others the FBI closed in on her hideout in New Hampshire ABC's Eve a
[12:26]pilgrim that has those details tonight galette maxwell longtime companion of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is behind bars the FBI quietly keeping tabs on the
[12:37]British socialite for months moving in to a restaurant at home dubbed Chuck away a 156 acre property in New Hampshire she bought in cash for more than a million dollars she'd slithered
[12:49]away to a gorgeous property in New Hampshire continuing to live a life of privilege while her victims live with the trauma inflicted upon them years ago Maxwell today facing a federal judge
[12:58]accused of facilitating epstein sex crimes by helping him recruit groom and ultimately abuse three unnamed teenage
[13:07]victims between 1994 and 1997 one victim as young as 14 years old Maxwell enticed minor girls got them to
[13:17]trust her then delivered them into the trap that she and Epstein had set for them all the while she was setting them up to be sexually abused by Epstein and
[13:29]in some cases by Maxwell herself the alleged abuse taking place at Maxwell's London home and Epstein's luxury properties in Manhattan Palm Beach and
[13:38]New Mexico Maxwell is also being sued by three women who allege she and Epstein worked together to abuse them including an e farmer whose lawsuit alleges she
[13:49]was 16 when she met Epstein and Maxwell through her older sister Maria she spoke to ABC News in 2019 what I understood
[13:58]was that Maria had a very wealthy boss and that he want to help me with school farmer says Epstein promised to help get her into an Ivy League school flying her
[14:08]to his New Mexico ranch where she expected to meet other students instead she says she was alone with Epstein and Maxwell and claims Maxwell inappropriately touched her they were
[14:20]master manipulators I think that it's a particular type of sickness that they displayed in taking advantage of you
[14:29]know a lot of you have for a sibling Epstein died in an apparent suicide while awaiting trial another Epstein accuser Virginia do Frey claims in court filings that Maxwell
[14:41]trained her as a teenage sex slave for Epstein and that the pair directed her to have sex with many quote powerful men including Prince Andrew as she described
[14:51]to the BBC last year Galen tells me that I have to do for Andrew what I do for Jeffrey and that
[15:03]made me sick Maxwell has denied all allegations of sex trafficking prince andrew has denied having sex with you Frey and doesn't recall meeting her but Epstein's alleged victims have long
[15:15]called for Maxwell's arrest we need to get to the bottom of everybody who was involved with that starting with Gail and Maxwell and four more now let's bring an eva pilgrim and Eva you report that the FBI have been
[15:26]keeping tabs on Maxwell for months so why did they wait so long to arrest her do we know why this happened today Lindsay this is what we know we know that federal authorities were watching
[15:37]her the entire time authorities say that she moved at least two times and she was having mail delivered to her under a different name Lindsay all right Eva pilgrim thanks so much for
[15:48]your reporting let's gets more analysis on this case and bring in Jessica Roth a former New York federal prosecutor and professor at cordosa law thanks so much for joining us tonight it's my pleasure
[15:59]so what I asked you about the timing of this arrest I mean this is a year after Epstein was indicted and after the FBI had been tracking her for months so what do you make of that the timing is
[16:09]certainly intriguing that we here we are about a year after Epstein was charged and arrested were also about two weeks out from Jeffrey Berman having been ousted as US Attorney in the Southern
[16:21]District of New York so those are you know important points of reference I think I'm not sure what to make of them yet I think we're still gonna be watching to see what else we learn and
[16:33]some other sort of milestone events that I noted today thinking about this and doing some research include that in in June a judge approved a compensation
[16:44]fund for the victims of Jeffrey Epstein that was put together through litigation brought by the Attorney General in the Virgin Islands and I think that fund went into effect June 15th now so that's
[16:55]interesting to think about if I were still a prosecutor I might take comfort from knowing that that fund is up and running to compensate the victims regardless of the come of any criminal case that I might pursue now so that's an interesting
[17:07]thing to think about again for context and then of course there's the ongoing civil litigation involving Maxwell including the ongoing release of documents from some of the civil
[17:17]litigation filed against her a couple months back the Second Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled that some of those documents had to be released to the public and there's been this through steady release of those documents there
[17:29]were filings even yesterday by lawyers for Maxwell supposing the release of some of those documents and so it may be that prosecutors felt that their hand was forced a little bit here because
[17:41]perhaps they thought that the release of more damaging information from that litigation would have motivated Maxwell to flee more slowly than than before and Maxwell's indictment covers a time
[17:53]period in the 90s but Epstein's charges covered a much larger period so is that significant certainly that is everything it's quite timeframe for the maximum
[18:04]light painting as the time frame for the Epstein indictment is 2002 to 2005 and there's no reason that nothing were aware of to suggest that they parted
[18:16]ways between those two time periods so I think that's quite interesting that the Southern District focused these charges on that earlier time frame in the press conference today Audrey Strauss was the acting US attorney in the Southern
[18:27]District of New York characterized the Maxwell charges as a prequel to the Epstein charges and in fact they do just like that we have exactly the same pattern of conduct by just happening at
[18:39]an earlier point in time just a prequel there okay and this has been handled by your old office how would you prosecute a case like this and what kind of key facts do you need to establish well I
[18:51]mean the most important evidence in this case is going to be the testimony of the victims and certainly many of them are already on record accusing Maxwell of having been intimately involved in
[19:02]Jeffrey Epstein's crimes in the way is described in the indictment that was filed today as having groomed them been in communication with them to set up appointments and even having been
[19:12]physically present for and participated in some of the sexual abuse so the testimony of those victims will be critical and I'd be working with those victims to be comfortable to make sure
[19:22]that they're comfortable and we've thoroughly prepared their testimony but then I'd be looking for corroboration and there should be plenty of that here in the nature of documents there were a lot of payments being made here a lot of
[19:33]money moving around there were plane plane trips taken for the victims and in fact that's part of the charges here is that Maxwell engaged in the interstate transportation of minors for the purpose
[19:44]of criminal sexual acts so there's gonna be records of that travel there should be phone records and then of course other corroborating testimony of non
[19:54]victims maybe the pilots of their witnesses housekeepers people who would have had first-hand knowledge if not direct and circumstantial about what was happening and given your history I'm
[20:05]sure you've seen and heard it all what kind of Defense do you think that you might get from Maxwell well she's already accused the victims of lying
[20:15]that's been her defense in the civil litigation that's been brought against her saying that this just didn't happen what's sort of interesting here is that two of the charges that were filed against Maxwell today were perjury
[20:26]charges alleging that she lied under oath in 2016 and in a deposition in the context of that civil litigation when she effectively denied having participated in this criminal activity
[20:37]so I would expect that the first line of attack is simply just a factual denial of her involvement and perhaps suggesting that Jeffrey Epstein who is
[20:46]now dead was solely responsible and not her all right Jessica Roth thank you so much we really appreciate talking to you and now to the state of the economy a
[20:57]record four point eight million jobs were restored in June the unemployment rate falling to eleven point one percent according according to the monthly jobs report out today but millions of
[21:07]Americans are still out of work since the pandemic hit and with the virus surging again in recent days some workers are losing their jobs now for a second time as businesses hit the pause
[21:17]button here's ABC's chief business and economics correspondent Rebecca Jarvis tonight three out of ten Americans who lost their jobs during the shutdowns
[21:27]now back at work the president eager to relay those record-breaking jobs numbers to the American people today's announcement proves that our economy is roaring back it's coming back
[21:38]extremely strong but critics like presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden were quick to point out that many states have started rolling back or pausing plans to reopen parts of their economies
[21:49]this month to this report measures job gains as of June the 12th and the day since we've seen cases spiking around
[21:59]the country some businesses closed down again the roll back sending employees like Dallas bartender Randy heintzman who returned to work in May back to the
[22:08]unemployment line I got furloughed with almost no notice for my job this second round I think is gonna be more stressful
[22:17]layoffs persistently high for the 15th straight week more than 1 million Americans have filed new claims for unemployment benefits we saw long lines
[22:27]at this unemployment office in Oklahoma today and Rebecca joins us now so Rebecca let's just get a reality check here of course it's great news that millions are back to work but what is the fact that
[22:38]more than a million Americans are still filing unemployment each week actually tell us about the state of the recovery well Lindsay it says that it's fragile and it's complicated those 4.8 million
[22:50]Americans who went back to work is a positive but we continue to see companies having to make very difficult choices throughout this crisis and even with the reopening is upon us there are
[23:01]plenty of businesses out there that are saying we just don't know that we can make it now when you have 19 states either pausing delaying or changing their plans for reopening that again
[23:13]throws a new wrench in all of these plans around rehiring where you see people now suddenly in some cases being fired being laid off a second time
[23:23]around in this crisis Lindsay right and of course we know that many unemployed Americans have been getting an extra $600 in their unemployment checks but that's set to expire at the end of the month any signs that Congress might
[23:34]extend that and where else could the federal government step in in order to try to help avoid further job losses well today's jobs report essentially
[23:45]seals the deal at least as far as the White House is concerned on not extending that $600 benefit but it doesn't mean that there won't be additional benefits when it comes to unemployment insurance there's also a
[23:57]lot of conversation around a second round of stimulus checks out to Americans these are are something that was very important during the moment of
[24:07]crisis as many many states were shut down but you can imagine as we approach a an election Lindsey that they will be incredibly popular with both parties
[24:19]Lindsey right okay Rebecca Jarvis reporting for us tonight thanks so much Rebecca and when we come back the parking lot confrontation you won't believe how this allegedly began outside
[24:29]of a Michigan Chipotle and what happened when the cameras stopped rolling for more years how about as many as 16 we take a closer look at Putin's grip on
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[27:01]officers being investigated for photos related to the death of Elijah McClain has now resigned the department tweeting Jarron Jones was one of the employees involved in depicting in the photograph
[27:11]investigation now the photos in question allegedly involved officers re-enacting the neck hold used on the 23 year old last August before he died and next to
[27:22]that armed confrontation in a Michigan parking lot it began with a white woman allegedly bumping into a black teen at a restaurant she was with her mother and it then escalated into an angry exchange
[27:32]with accusations of racism and finally that white woman pulled out a weapon ABC's Alex Perez has this story tonight after this disturbing video showing a
[27:44]white woman pointing a gun at a black mom and her teenage daughter authorities in Michigan charging that woman and her husband with felony assault two very different stories from two different
[27:56]groups both sides claiming they felt extremely threatened those charges come after this video went viral tequila Hill posting it on Facebook Wednesday authorities say the conflict
[28:07]started after the parties allegedly bumped into each other at a Chipotle
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[28:24]claiming she was blocked from entering her car before her husband asurs her into the vehicle westenberg then rolls
[28:30]down her window Hill then appears to move to the back of the vehicle and that's when things escalate as it reverses authorities say Hill believed
[28:42]they were trying to hit her so she pwned it on the rear window westenberg storms out of the car with her finger on the
[28:49]trigger and Alex Perez joins us now Alex it seems like we're starting to see more of these kinds of confrontations caught on video but this one certainly could
[29:00]have turned out much worse for everyone involved what kind of punishment could that woman and her husband face yeah Lindsay you know the sheriff's officials today even talked about some of those tensions being high they're in
[29:11]their area and across the country asking people to please let cooler heads prevail now if this husband and wife are convicted of felony assault and they could face up to four years behind bars
[29:22]Lindsay Alex Perez thanks so much and still had on prime the shocking body cam footage from the protests a few weeks ago officers laughing while shooting rubber bullets while protesters insist
[29:33]that they were being peaceful fighting for freedom the WNBA star's pursuit of justice and how the man she helped get released from the missouri prison is now responding and how we view recent
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[32:01]with new jobs and unemployment numbers out today we want to take a look at how Americans view this economy and the surprising extent to which those views aligned with political party by the numbers 69% of Republicans describe the
[32:13]US economy as excellent or good compared to just 10% of Democrats who say the same according to a recent poll by Quinnipiac University on the flip side 89% of Democrats rate the economy as
[32:24]quote not so good or poor while just 27% of Republicans say that Republicans are much more optimistic 67% expected the economy to improve over the next year
[32:34]while only 29% of Democrats see that happening according to a poll by the AP and NO are see economic views weren't nearly this polarized during the 2008
[32:44]recession also an election year went up to 95 percent of americans agreed that the economy was either poor or only fair according to Gallup and of course President Trump continues to tap today's
[32:55]economy saying it's bringing back to life like a quilt rocketship and called last month's jobs gained probably quite probably the greatest comeback in American history
[33:05]and still ahead on prime the dramatic rescue after a sea plane crashes into a lake near Seattle Meghan's reveal new details on why she reportedly felt quote unprotected by the royal family and
[33:17]later on our show a look at a little-known environmental regulation that the Trump administration has paused due to the pandemic and its potential climate impacts but first here are some
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[35:40]as at least 36 states see a steady climb in Kovac 19 cases President Trump claims the US is making progress in the right direction
[35:50]Europe was warily and they're getting under control we followed them with this
[35:57]terrible China virus and we are likewise getting under controls but coronavirus task force member dr. Anthony Falchi
[36:07]speaking with the BBC today refuting that claim what we've seen over the last several days is a spike in cases that are well beyond the worst spikes that
[36:17]we've seen that is not good news we've got to get that under control or we risk an even greater outbreak in the United States Americans furloughed due to the
[36:28]shutdown returned to their jobs in June or found work last month the government reporting 4.8 million jobs were added but another report shows last week
[36:38]nearly one and a half million Americans filed for unemployment today's announcement proves that our economy is roaring back it's coming back extremely strong this is the moment
[36:49]where Lauderdale city manager has called public body cam footage appearing to show officers laughing and celebrating after shooting rubber bullets at protesters
[37:01]this footage of the protest over George Floyd's death from May 31st first obtained by the Miami Herald now leading to an investigation in one of the moments an officer mistakenly believes
[37:12]his body cameras on standby mode and not recording the city's manager saying the footage quote paints an unflattering yet
[37:24]truthful depiction of the chaos those officers were operating it pulling back the curtain new court filings reportedly revealed the strain Megan Marshalls been
[37:35]feeling while a part of the royal family in her legal battle against the Daily Mail Entertainment Tonight reports Marco felt quote unprotected by the royal family while pregnant with her son
[37:46]Archie going on to claim that she was quote prohibited from defending herself against those tabloid claims smartville suing the Daily Mail for publishing portions of a letter to her father she and her husband Prince Harry have since
[37:57]given up their royal duties the dramatic rescue after a sea plane crash into Seattle's Lake Washington video showing the aircraft flipping over in the water
[38:07]about 200 feet from shore two people exiting the plane kayakers in the area helping pull them to safety the cause of his crash is still under investigation luckily enough there was enough other
[38:18]people there there were you know right on site it's not a bird or a plane it's well we don't know today we celebrate all those flying mysteries in the sky
[38:27]with the 20th anniversary of world UFO day raising awareness of unidentified flying objects like this one released by the Navy it's an attempt to encourage
[38:39]governments to declassify any information regarding UFO sightings throughout history just in case 20:20 hasn't been eventful enough and
[38:49]speaking of eventful now to Russia where today President Vladimir Putin thanked his supporters for backing a constitutional amendment that will allow him to effectively remain president for
[39:00]the rest of his life should he choose to run again or at least until 2036 but anti Kremlin critics alleged large-scale fraud and outright ballot stuffing as well as pressure on public
[39:12]employees to back Putin's position in the referendum so what happened behind the scenes of that vote ABC's Patrick revote has this story Vladimir Putin looking relaxed on
[39:23]Wednesday as he voted in a constitutional referendum that will allow him to extend his rule until 2036 ever since Putin announced the vote there was little doubt about the
[39:34]outcomes but the week-long referendum produced a huge result for the Kremlin but the official count nearly 78 percent of Russian voters backed the amendments
[39:44]it means that Putin already in power for 20 years will now be able to run for two more six-year terms as president the Kremlin set such importance on the
[39:55]vote it held it even as Russia's coronavirus epidemic has continued to worsen but the day after the vote Putin treated it almost as no big deal yeah
[40:05]sure no but I kid sir just like wait I got there next year you just cause it's spicy bomb why sure
[40:16]but Putin made no mention that the change would allow him to stay in power throughout he's acted as though the referendum was not about his future
[40:26]Russians were asked to vote on over 200 amendments including Social Welfare guarantees and a number of conservative additions that write aspects of a putin estai geology into the Russian
[40:38]Constitution among them a ban on same-sex marriage his critics though had no doubt over the true purpose of the
[40:46]vote resets Putin's presidential term
[40:56]count from four to zero meaning he will be able to run again in 2024 and again after that the move needed now many observers believe to head off a
[41:07]potential succession struggle Putin telling state TV is much last month connect us up Tilden of Kagan you state when you would go that is do it yeah
[41:17]Dobson open okay mister normal name recognition era but now a new request Nationals Oriskany ago same if Cusco was
[41:28]not pretty good about it not only pretty meaningful scale we see just a quarter change opinion yeah the sebacean show leadership again
[41:37]disclosure authorities pulled out all the stops to get out the vote despite
[41:47]the virus epidemic offering voters the chance to win cash prizes even apartments a Russian cosmonaut voting from space for the record your honor
[41:58]most usual safeguards to prevent fraud were removed over the course of seven days people were allowed to vote at work or at home Kirill Trofimov a member of a local
[42:09]elections commission in Moscow said it was obvious to him that the ballot
[42:13]collection from Homs was suspect project ideas in Scripture soft inertia
[42:28]very Muslim least least disability opposition activists have accused authorities of simply fabricating the
[42:39]vote to get it above 70% some videos have emerged of apparent ballot stuffing people arriving to find their votes had
[42:47]already been cast election observers have faced obstacles in monitoring the polls this journalist said his arm was
[42:58]broken by police at a polling station falsification that was found yesterday it was a ver national record since the fall of the Soviet Union Rome an audit
[43:09]runs goalless an election monitoring group that says it's gathered hundreds of examples of ballot fraud as he came to meet ABC on Thursday he was ambushed by a crew from a Kremlin TV channel he
[43:21]told us they harassed him and asked him why he was talking with Americans the channel later ran a report falsely
[43:32]suggesting you don't attack the journalist its usual practice in Russia
[43:41]our phones are tapped when we agree for meeting with foreign diplomats or journalists all of a sudden an TV crew
[43:51]or some streamer would appear directly connected with the elections directly connected with what happened to yesterday in Russia and our attitude and
[44:02]our findings regarding this event who don't says he believes as much as 30 percent of the referendums votes may be fraudulent but you have to understand
[44:13]that you can ballot box stuff with people you can compel them to vote in favor this is not free choice this is not very free will
[44:22]they are sort of ballot box stuff but in person you can compel soldiers to do it you can compel people who from municipal
[44:33]organizations a lot of Russian business business is not free in Russia and they are very dependent on local authorities critics against such tactics were needed because in recent years polls show
[44:45]Putin's popularity has slowly to weaken a recent survey from a State polling agency showed only 28% of Russians trust Putin the lowest number
[44:55]on record and down sharply from three years ago we had this all already two years dynamics of very great deal slowed
[45:05]down and his rate falling of his personal rating Denis Volkov from Russia's only independent polling agency the Levada Center says his polls show
[45:17]while most Russians still support Putin it doesn't mean all of them approve of his decision to stay in power indefinitely the decision itself was very controversial it's 50/50 in
[45:29]population 50 who who are against this decision 50% are in favor of it and so the announcement of the decision that it
[45:40]made his rating go down several percent more Putin though is still popular and a referendum has shown how strong his ability to control Russia's political
[45:50]reality remains for ABC News
[46:01]Patrick weevil our thanks to Patrick for that and by car by playing with the pandemic dramatically restricting travel options particularly abroad more Americans are now exploring our
[46:13]beautiful country but what are hotels and rental homes doing to keep visitors safe our Gio Benitez has this report it's the busiest day on the road of the summer as thousands head out on the
[46:24]great American road trip before the fourth of July while travel is down dramatically cell phone data shows that more than half of the states in this country are seeing more traffic than they did before the
[46:34]pandemic Montana Wyoming Idaho and Alaska seeing the busiest roads right now many of those drivers intend to stay at hotels and rentals like Airbnb so what are they doing to keep us safe
[46:46]we're redefining our training and safety standards hotel giant Marriott releasing this video promoting its cleaning procedures a lot of the same technology we've seen on airplanes those
[46:57]electrostatic sprayers disinfecting hotel and the buttons on the elevators a lot of the cleaning that you will physically see it's going to be happening in public spaces um so when you're in a lobby at
[47:09]the pool and a workout room in hallways any anywhere where the public is gathering or passing each other you're going to see a lot more cleaning people physically cleaning more than they have in the past the Beverly Hilton in Los
[47:20]Angeles using a UV light robot which the manufacturer says reaches a 99.99 percent level of disinfection but even with these measures the CDC suggesting
[47:31]you take matters into your own hands avoid the check-in desk all together and get a mobile key on your phone minimize the use of public areas like pools game rooms or fitness centers and consider
[47:43]taking the stairs instead of the elevator what they should look for is that the hotel cleans the surfaces often and that day require everyone to wear a
[47:55]face mask when not in their hotel room and what about short-term rentals like Airbnb after all those are homes owned by private individuals there is no inspection by the company hosts have to
[48:06]agree to Airbnb ease cleaning protocol so what we require is those hosts were participate in the cleaning protocol to
[48:15]attest that they are in fact applying it the company saying there's a 24-hour hotline customers can call if the room isn't clean and now we are getting a sense of where people are going
[48:27]Airbnb telling us for this weekend alone more than 20% of the bookings are for listings in rural areas like the Adirondacks in New York and Blue Ridge Mountains in the southeast and so what
[48:39]you're seeing on the Airbnb platform is those people looking to not necessarily travel overseas this year but to do travel in their backyard to do travel
[48:49]over hills and explore things that are relatively close to them that they can get through by driving in fact both American Airlines and United tell us
[48:59]that they are adding flights to mountain destinations in Montana Colorado Utah and Wyoming many people choosing those outdoor trips right here in America for
[49:09]ABC News live I'm Gio Benitez a new some helpful tips there thanks Geo and this was the reason that a WNBA
[49:19]superstar in Tyre career on hold the man she fought to free from a Missouri prison after 20 years is now out adrienne bang kurt has this remarkable
[49:28]story in that moment I just I really
[49:41]felt like I could I could rest I'm absolutely absolutely elated and
[49:51]thankful just to be here in this moment right now we're having some technical difficulties
[50:08]with that piece from Adrienne when we return our ginger Zee takes a look at a little-known law that you should know about it's part of our series it's not too late and remembering an ABC and
[50:20]broadcast legend who has left us [Music]
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[50:59]it's a terrible question but we used to ask this of people so I'm going to put you in the spot how do you want to be remembered I hope I'd be remembered as a guy who tried to do some good and who was and
[51:10]the most important ways honest I don't I can't see any greatness that I would be remembered for but if people think kindly of me I'll be happy at that you
[51:21]can't see any greatness but certainly a guy who tried to do some good and who was honest tonight we are remembering the life of the legendary anchor Q downs for years he graced our airwaves
[51:32]alongside Barbara Walters on 20/20 before that it was NBC's Today Show all in all a broadcast career of more than half a century for years he held
[51:43]the world record for the most time on air more than 10,000 hours a steady and certainly welcome presence in millions of living rooms signing off from 20/20 on Friday nights with that signature
[51:54]phrase we're in touch so you be in touch married to his wife Ruth for 73 years Hugh Downs passed away this week at 99
[52:03]years old he will be missed during the pandemic and the protest what environmental is called an existential threat to our planet hasn't gone anywhere tonight we want to kick off our
[52:15]ongoing series on climate change I'll let ABC's chief meteorologist ginger Zee explain hi I'm ginger Zee what if I told you that the government
[52:24]could put a freeway in your backyard and you wouldn't have much of a say in the matter even if it could pollute your land or groundwater seems wrong right well there is a 50-year old law that
[52:36]makes that illegal but that law is being changed and that's why I'm sitting here with you today I'm chief meteorologist here at ABC News and that Hazen smoke so thick I'm getting pounded by the myths here
[52:48]good morning Victor good morning to all of you if I make a living forecasting the weather we're talking more than a foot in parts of North Dakota but it's a good thing I don't forecast headlines because if you would have asked me back
[52:58]in January was the biggest story of 2020 would be I would have made one of the worst predictions ever I was certain that climate and environment would top
[53:06]the news but we all know what happened the start of another week in the corona virus pandemic self quarantine for 14 days massive protests continued in many
[53:17]parts of the nation [Applause] welco with 19 black lives matter and police reform are rightfully taking center stage our climate environmental
[53:28]emergencies didn't go away and since I'm a scientist and a journalist I feel responsible to make sure that we don't lose sight of the planets health while we watch our own that's why we wanted to
[53:39]start this segment it's not too late because it really isn't each week I want to take you through the climate and environmental headlines that you might have missed and then focus in on one
[53:49]that you need to know more about so let's get to it [Music]
[54:01]and it's something that you might not have heard much about but you really really should on june 4th president trump signed an executive order to rollback NEPA not familiar NEPA stands for the
[54:13]National Environmental Policy Act it's the law that requires federal agencies to assess how their project might impact the environment and the people that live there it's been around since President
[54:24]Nixon signed it into law in 1970 many of us just take it for granted it's the predecessor to the CEQ the EPA the everything that protects our air
[54:33]water and land Mustapha Santiago Ali worked for the EPA for a couple dozen years so I'm gonna let him fill you in you have to remember what was happening when NEPA was actually put together we
[54:45]had the Cuyahoga River catching on fire you had this incredible amounts of smog and other air pollution that was blocking out the Sun so folks knew that
[54:55]there were these foundational elements that we needed to have in law to finally begin to have a comprehensive plan to protect so or you can just go to the
[55:06]CEUs website on NEPA and they even boast NEPA is the magna carta of environmental law and if you go back to why NEPA started most roads are gonna
[55:16]take you to well roads that were never built in the late 1960s as the great white flight was taking place out of cities and to the suburbs the government started a plan for highway projects many
[55:28]of them went right through black and brown neighborhoods this is in the time where the Black Panthers were joining forces with the Sierra Club it was a time where civil rights was meeting
[55:37]environmental rights and since then NEPA has had some pretty important success stories like in 2007 when the California Department of Food and Agriculture was spraying toxic chemicals on schools
[55:49]playgrounds and neighborhoods and then NEPA came in to help regulate that so that the people that were being sprayed could say hey don't spray us anymore NEPA also saved
[56:00]money and endangered species along with people's homes in Atlanta when a big highway project was proposed they find alternatives President Trump and his administration say that NEPA is slowing
[56:10]us down from day one my administration is made fixing this regulatory nightmare a top priority on June 4th the President signed an executive order to waive NEPA
[56:22]during the pandemic that means that agencies can bypass NEPA slaws to boost the economy immediately champions of the environment and of people are extremely
[56:32]concerned because a key part of NEPA is making the public aware and they say that in this arrangement they don't have to let us know what's going on so the freeway could potentially be
[56:42]starting with no public comment or restrictions on the public comment and we wouldn't even know that's just during the pandemic emergency right you know what's going on parallel to this
[56:53]executive order is also the rulemaking I'm and they're this the rulemaking is a much bigger deal because this is actually the formal process to
[57:02]permanently change NEPA not just for kovat 19 but for the rest of forever yep the rest of forever any day now the
[57:12]administration is set to modernize NEPA dozens of agencies agree that NEPA needs to change there behind them and it includes the American Gas Association the National miners Association some
[57:24]loggers the wind energy association and even the American sheep Industry Association yep that's the thing why does NEPA need
[57:33]to be modernized if we as a nation want to be prepared to meet the climate and to build an economy for the future we've
[57:44]got to have a permitting process that allows us to do that there's simply no reason right now to have a system that takes more than seven years to even get a yes-or-no answer on whether you can
[57:54]build a newer improved highway and some projects do take decades to approve but according to the Congressional Research reports that we read though
[58:02]delays are not because of NEPA in March the proposed changes to NEPA garnered 1.1 million comments and many of them were not happy they were frustrated that
[58:13]the new set of rules didn't just modernize NEPA but weakened it for example one of the most egregious things the rule does is prohibits any consideration of climate change very
[58:24]expressly says that agencies should not look at the climate impacts of their projects my understanding within the rules set back in March I proposed in
[58:35]March is that one of them says that climate change should not be one of the elements that we look at for an environmental assessment well it doesn't
[58:45]say that directly it's a matter of how it looks at cumulative impacts but again what's important to note is that nothing in this changes the underlying statutes
[58:57]and the regulations that they object would have to meet under the Clean Air Act this is about the process of being able to get the federal government
[59:06]permanent mechanisms in it in a much clearer place so that we can move forward on all of these projects Marty Durban is the president of the US
[59:16]Chamber of Commerce's Global Energy Institute and they all say that streamlining NEPA is long overdue it'll help Land Management and protect us from wildfires it'll get energy
[59:27]project started both pipeline and solar and wind or else we're just not going to be able to grow the economy at an acceptable rate and what I would say to them is that since we first had two
[59:38]Clean Water Act in the Clean Air Act and niba and all the preceding acts over the years the economy has continued to grow in leaps and bounds and at the same time
[59:48]we were able to lower impacts that are happening inside of communities and begin also to address some of the impacts that are happening from climate
[59:59]changes so what can we do you can go check out the changes that were proposed to NEPA there's even a PowerPoint that'll lead you through all the points I really didn't even have time to get into half
[1:00:08]of it here I'm Jinger Zeke and I promise it's not too late all right our thanks to ginger for that really informative stuff and before we go tonight our image of the day take a look at these
[1:00:20]newlyweds in Beijing sharing the sweet kiss during their photo shoot at a local park earlier today you can certainly see why they picked the spot with beautiful flowers in the backdrop but then some
[1:00:31]masked park goers walking down the path we're also captured in the backdrop call it a photo bomb or simply a sign of the times and our Congrats to the happy couple that is our show for this hour be sure
[1:00:42]to stay tuned to ABC News live for more context and analysis of the day's top stories I'm Lindsay Davis thanks so much for streaming with us and good night [Music]
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