Military Sees Jump in Coronavirus Cases
BERMAN: Breaking news. The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for the execution of federal prisoners for the first time in 17 years. Daniel Lewis Lee, a white supremacist who killed a family of three, was scheduled to die by lethal injection yesterday afternoon, but a court order blocked the execution. Overnight, the court voted 5-4 to lift that order. The four liberal justices dissented. Two more executions are scheduled for this week.</s>CAMEROTA: Also developing overnight, the U.S. military reporting a 60 percent jump in new coronavirus cases in the first few weeks of July. In Japan alone, nearly 100 military personnel and their families have been diagnosed in just the past week. CNN's Ivan Watson is live for us in Hong Kong with more. What have you learned, Ivan?</s>IVAN WATSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Alisyn, more than 35,000 U.S. Marines and their family members are under virtual lockdown on a network of U.S. bases on the Japanese island of Okinawa. And this is after the outbreak that you just mentioned across Japan, within the U.S. military and among dependents. Around 99 cases right now. And the outbreak is mostly centered on the island of Okinawa. And it's dramatic because for more than two months, all of May and June, Okinawa didn't see a single confirmed case of coronavirus, up until July 7th, and then this explosion within the ranks of the U.S. Marines. And that has prompted the governor, the Japanese governor of Okinawa, to express shock and some real doubts about what he says are U.S. preventive measures against the spread of the infection. The U.S. has a large military footprint across Asia. It's not just in Japan that it's struggling with the coronavirus. There were 11 cases involving U.S. military personnel arriving on July 7th and 8th in Korea that are being dealt with. And we've been following this. The U.S. military is taking this very seriously. On the Marine bases in Okinawa, a Marine spokesman just told me it is all masks all the time. You have to wear those masks all the time. And I spoke last week to the admirals of two -- in charge of two aircraft carrier strike groups that just conducted joint exercises in the South China Sea. They were taking the threat of an outbreak so seriously that they had brought microbiologists onboard their ships, they were spacing out meal times, they were wearing masks all the time. They hadn't had an outbreak aboard those ships, but they said they were constantly vigilant about the threat of this virus. And they know firsthand, because last spring an entire U.S. aircraft carrier was paralyzed off the coast of Guam. More than 1,000 of its crew members came down with the virus. Alisyn.</s>CAMEROTA: Yes, I mean, if you're on a confined space, like a ship, of course they have to take it seriously, and that's really interesting to hear how they were trying to tackle it, Ivan. Thank you very much. So hospitals in Texas are being pushed to the brink as health care workers contract the virus. Up next, we're going to speak to an ICU nurse who got sick.