[Cooper:] As COVID-19 ravaged rural and underserved communities, California lawmakers call telehealth the pandemic silver lining. Virtual care visits quadrupled since the start of the pandemic, expanding to areas like New York and the Navajo Nation where language and access barriers proved difficult. Here's a look at more coronavirus headlines across the country.
[Alison Kosik, Cnn Business Correspondent:] I'm Alison Kosik, in New York City. AMC Theaters says it's opening some cinemas today. The world's biggest movie theater chain said it's celebrating the 100th birthday offering retro movies at 15 cents a ticket for the day. AMC has had to delay the reopening several times but will reopen theaters in almost a dozen states across the country. By the time new movies are released, like "New Mutants," AMC says it expects to have 400 of its more than 600 theaters opened. The theater chain says new health and safety measures include requiring guests to wear masks except when eating and drinking, lowering theater capacity, and upgrading ventilation systems.
[Dan Simon, Cnn Correspondent:] I'm Dan Simon, in Vacaville, California, where a wildfire is raging out of control and happening during the middle of a pandemic. There are nearly two dozen major fires burning in the state and resources are stretched thin, in part, due to the virus. The state traditionally relies on prisoners to battle wildfires. But this resource is being depleted because of outbreaks within the prisons. Some 10,000 prisoners had also been released early because they were nonviolent. The state is trying to augment its firefighting force to make up for the shortfall.
[Omar Jimenez, Cnn National Correspondent:] I'm Omar Jimenez. A person who spent hours at a bar during the Sturgis motorcycle rally last week in South Dakota has tested positive for COVID-19. Now health experts were already concerned that this could turn into a super spreader event because it is one of the largest events and gatherings we have seen over the course of this coronavirus pandemic since it took hold here in the United States. Moving forward, this potential exposure at the Sturgis bar is one of several COVID-19 cases that are now being connected to bars and even concerts over the past few weeks in South Dakota.
[Cooper:] I want to thank all of our correspondents. L.A.'s mayor making good on a threat to turn off power to a Hollywood Hills home-turned nightclub. It's a violation of public health orders. Plus, a former DHS official says the president was serious about trading Puerto Rico for Greenland.