hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm michael holmes, and coming up here on "cnn newsroom," unprecedented times. that's what president trump is calling the novel coronavirus pandemic. but he assures the american public more supplies are on the way. are they? meanwhile in italy -- a warning from a doctor in cremona as italy marks nearly 800 deaths in one day. also we'll take a look at just how this pandemic unfolded from the beginning. as the world wrestles with an unprecedented pandemic a california biotech company might help. the u.s. government has approved a new coronavirus test kit that

promises to deliver results in under an hour instead of days as it is at the moment. the number of cases in the u.s. has soared to at least 25,000 with more than 320 deaths. rapid testing could save lives. in europe health officials in spain report a dramatic spike of 5,000 cases across the country in just 24 hours and the prime minister warned the crisis is only just beginning. >> unfortunately, the worst is yet to come. there are still hard days ahead. we will still have to receive the impact of the hardest most damaging wave which will put all of our material and moral capacities to the limit. >> we are covering this story from all the angles from london where the british prime minister has issued a stark warning to los angeles which is under a stay at home order this hour, and many cities in between. all right, in the u.s. states and local governments are

increasing implementing new restrictions. and in the face of that dire shortage of medical supplies, vital equipment, president donald trump, well, he's giving himself high marks again. our jeremy diamond reports for us from the white house. >> reporter: while president trump on saturday was touting the increased production of those masks and respirators that he said will begin shipping out millions of additional of those supplies over the coming weeks, but we are already seeing across the united states doctors, nurses, hospitals already beginning to face shortages of that personal protective equipment that is so crucial in this fight against coronavirus. that's why i asked the president today specifically about some of those concerns from doctors and perhaps what may have been done in the weeks prior. i know you're talking now about increasing production at so many of these facilities to get the masks out. gut given this is the wealthiest most powerful country in the world should this have been happening?

>> i'll tell you the way i look at it. so many administrations preceded me. for the most part they did very little in terms of what you're talking about. this is unprecedented. you can speak to tony, anybody. this is unprecedented or just about unprecedented. as time goes by we're seeing it's really at a level nobody believed, nobody thought possible. the fact is we're doing a tremendous amount. we started with a few masks. we had some but nothing for an event like this, and now we're making tens of millions of masks and other things. and i think it's unprecedented what we've done and what we're doing. and many doctors and i've read, many, many doctors they can't believe what we've done. >> reporter: the president once again touting what his administration is doing right now, but the crucial question really is what could have been done weeks and perhaps months prior. again, the united states began to learn about this coronavirus in early january, and so we are now nearly three months later,

and the administration is now facing a crisis of much larger proportions. now, the president was also pressed specifically on his remarks about china. we saw the president today actually get a lot more critical of china for the fact that it was secretive in many respects as far as providing information about this coronavirus epidemic that it was dealing with. that is concern that i have heard from several advisers close to the president for weeks, even months in some cases. but for the president this was really a new tone. and that's why i asked the president what has changed. >> i have great respect for china. i like china. i think the people of china are incredible. i have a tremendous relationship with president xi. i wish they could have told us earlier about what was going on inside. we didn't know about it until it started coming out publicly, but i wish they could have told us earlier because we could have come up with a solution. >> reporter: you can hear the president there saying he wish dhiena would have been transparent earlier.

of course the president's tweet about that praising china's transparency that the time came in late january, about a month after china notified the world health organization about this coronavirus. jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. >> one u.s. doctor's straight talking about the coronavirus has really struck a cord with a lot of people. during a briefing this week dr. emily landen, the chief epidemiologist at the university of chicago medicine explained why the governor of illinois' order for people to stay home is so crucial to protecting everyone. have a listen. >> we have to fight this fire before it grows too high. these extreme restrictions may seem in the end a little anti-climactic because it's really hard to feel like you're saving the world when you're watching netflix from your couch, but if we do this right nothing happens. yeah, a successful shelter in place means that you're going to feel like it was all for

nothing. and you'd be right. because nothing means that nothing happened to your family. and that's what we're going for here. >> and i'm delighted that joining me from chicago is dr. emily landon. thanks so much for being with us. your appearance at the governor's news conference, what you said, how you said it made "the washington post" and went viral. and it was because of your message and how you presented it that if people do the right thing and this horrible situation does calm down, then people might feel they gave up freedom for nothing when the opposite is true. tell us about the reaction to that message. >> well, apparently it struck a cord with a lot of people. and i didn't really expect that. i was surprised when the governor asked me to talk about his plan. i was very much in support of it when he called to ask my advice about it. and i've been talking to people

about this coronavirus outbreak both at my university and my hospital for a long time now. and i know it's really hard to deliver the message that you need to stay home and do nothing so that nothing will happen. that's kind of not exactly what we're expecting to be asked to do, but that's exactly what we need. >> yeah, the other point that stuck out to me and is so true, and that is that -- one quote was this. "it was the healthy and optimistic among us will doom the vulnerable." and, you know, just this past week we've seen spring breakers partying in florida. bondi beach in florida was packed. do you think the message is getting through? >> probably not as much as we want it to. it's just so hard to explain. it looks great on a beach right now. beautiful weather in parts of the world, and i want to be on

spring break. it's my son's spring break, too, and we planned to take a big adventure trip but that's off now. and i walk into the hospital once in a while. i'm doing a lot of my work from home now to help lead our emergency team, at least the medical aspects of it. there are a lot of other people leading a lot of other aspects. but when i go in it's shocking. i mean, there are so many patients, and we're just at the beginning. it's unbelievable to me, and this is just going to keep on moving, and it's going to go as fast as we let it. the only way we can stop it is by that distance, and we really need to get the message out. i don't know what it's going to take. >> yeah, well hopefully not what we're seeing in italy. one other thing i know you've spoken about is the dangers not just to your grandma or grandpa and other peoples grandmas and grandpas, but to health care workers as well.

i want to play a bit of the sound from the president on saturday regarding face masks. >> they're throwing away -- when you hear 55 million mask, how could it possibly be such a number? and i say why aren't we sanitizing masks? i've looked at all the different masks. some don't lend themselves to doing that i think, but many do. and i said why aren't we -- we have very good liquids for doing this, sanitizing the masks and that's something they're starting to do more and more. >> as a professional in your field what it's like to hear the president talk of reusing masks when health care workers are already falling ill in the worlds healthiest country. >> i've been hearing the same thing from a lot of people not just the president. but you have to understand it's so hard not to contaminate universal when you're taking off a mask and restoring it. the outside of the mask is

getting bombarded with the droplets you don't want in your nose and mouth. that's why you have the mask there. and if you take it off incorrectly, certainly you'll get it on your hands when you take it off. that happens every time. but figuring out a way to save that mask and be able to reuse it is actually really tricky. we're taking health care providers already in a really difficult position, who are working harder than they've ever worked before, they're scared of a brand new virus they're not immune to either, and we're asking them to do something completely differently than how they behaved. and these masks weren't designed to be wet. many components of them are special paper and thin fabric -- have you ever tried to sanitize a piece of paper by spraying stuff on it? it's not quite the same afterwards. these masks are designed to be disposable. it is kind of a necessity for infection control. >> i don't want to put you in a

political position but like a lot of us, do you hear the politicians and don't want to single out the president, but you hear the politicians sometimes and then you hear dr. anthony fauci, and often they're different messages. is this a time for politicians to perhaps step out of it? >> i've asked everyone on my staff that have what they think are probably great ideas and that sound okay at first blush to really run them past someone who has experience and knows what they're doing. we could do a lot of damage by just doing, you know, sort of i guess the way to hell is paved with good intentions, don't they say? so that's where we're going with this kind of talking. we need to be clear what the facts are. and the fact is that reusing these masks can be tricky. it can be done if absolutely necessary, but it needs to be done with training. it shouldn't just be something you say i don't know why we're doing this, because it is harder

than it looks. everything we're doing is a lot harder than it looks. >> it would be nice if we had the masks which is another debate. there's another two deaths every two minutes in italy. when you look at how other countries are doing in terms of lock down stay at home recommendations are we talking weeks or months? are people going to have to get used to this as i don't know a new normal i don't know middle of the year? >> i want to say this is going to be over in a few weeks, but i don't think that's the answer. i don't know how many weeks it's going to take for us to get past the part where we are out of ppe and we don't have any great anti-virals and we don't know -- and we need more help to figure out what we're doing, and i don't know how long it's going to take to build up a big chunk of immune population to help slow the spread and bring that number of people that each individual that's sick contact and how many people they get

sick, that number we need to bring that down and all these things will help bring that down. if we do it right, it will take longer than if we do it wrong, and that's the really hard message here because nobody wants to stay in their house until july. and i hope you don't. i don't want that either, but i think we all need to be prepared to do whatever it takes in order to make sure that that promise of having a health care professional there to take care of you, a bed in a hospital if you need one -- if we want to have that promise, we want to be able to keep that promise, we need to do this. >> one final thought and just quickly if you can. you say you're an optimistic person at heart. is this pandemic, what we're seeing in italy the late start to action here in the u.s., is that stretching your ability to be optimistic? >> at one point i told my staff i was really optimistic we were going to have a bad pandemic.

so i think, yeah, it's that i never wanted to do this. this was the thing that really worried me the most in terms of all the things you face when you're trying to prepare for infection prevention and protecting a hospital full of people and all your staff. this is the one thing i never wanted to do because it seemed too hard. and i have to be honest with you it is way too hard. and i don't know if we're going to be able to do what we're going to need to be able to do. but the only thing i know how to do is ask people to do it and let them know why. >> and you did it so eloquently and you've done it again. and a huge thank you to you and the work that you and your colleagues do at this difficult time. dr. emily landon, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> powerful message there. now, italy, of course, as we've been reporting has more covid-19 cases than any other country in europe. on saturday reporting what is a staggering number of fatalities.

think about it 800 deaths in 24 hours. in particularly hard hit northern italy hospitals at breaking point. melissa bell with our report. >> reporter: the front line of europe's battle against the coronavirus. with its soldiers in a race against time that is so far being lost. northern italian hospitals like this one in cremona already creeking under the strain. dr. angelo pann shows us its operating rooms now transformed to makeshift intensive care units, the icus themselves overwhelmed by the sheer number of covid-19 patients. >> there is not enough room in the icu. and if milan will be badly strike by the outbreak, it's going to be a big problem for anybody. >> reporter: beyond the shortage of beds and ventilators, the doctors getting sick themselves. dr. pann has had one day off in

the last six weeks. he says total confinement is the world's only hope. >> we can win the battle. if the people would keep on having contacts with each other outside in the restaurants, in the bars, in the supermarkets and so the infection will spread -- keep on spreading. it's going to be very tough. >> reporter: and his message from the front line to the outside world. >> this is good opportunity. >> reporter: melissa bell, cnn. it is mother's day in the u.k. but it is shaping up as you might imagine to be an unusual one. the prime minister is asking people not to visit loved ones this sunday holiday. boris johnson warning the national health service could as

things look become overwhelmed if people don't act to slow the spread of covid-19. joining me now from london to talk about this, and it is a different government now in terms of approach and attitude. and what's ahead for the u.k.? >> reporter: yeah, michael, it's a much different approach. and pretty much what boris johnson is warning is that you should not go see your mother on mother's day. he's saying that it's too dangerous. the best present you could give your mother is to stay away from her. he is warning just as we are seeing in italy hospitals overwhelmed, it's possible the u.k.'s national health service is not far behind. saying if people don't adhere to social distancing then the national health service, the hospitals will be completely overwhelmed. they're also warning people, they're imploring people to stop panic buying. they're saying it's affecting the health care workers who might go to grocery stores and

find empty shelves and they're saying u.k. citizens have been stockpiling about a billion pounds worth of food, more than they normally would in other circumstances, and that is absolutely not necessary. as of right now they have not put national restrictions on food, but the grocery stores themselves have started to restrict people from buying food, and of course we've had the complete pretty much lock down here since friday. pubs, restaurants, gyms. they are all closed. you can only get take out and carry-out. people are still allowed to walk around outside, but essentially all other activities are canceled. >> is there any bright side here in the u.k. from what you see? >> reporter: there is a slight bright side, michael. i mean, there was a call for retired health care workers to come out of retirement and help the national health service. and within the first 48 hours they got around 4,000 to 5,000 nurses and 500 doctors to sign-up just within the first 48 hours and hopefully more will be

coming out. that is glimmer of good news out of all this. they also struck a deal with private hospitals in the united kingdom to help the national health service. this is really wartime footing is the message from the government that everybody no matter your position, whether you're connected to the health care system or to a vulnerable person everybody has to do their part. michael? >> indeed trying times everywhere around the world. hadas gold in london, thank you. now californians are under a state at home order over the coronavirus. we're going to take a look at how millions of americans are managing when we come back. is mealtime a struggle? introducing ore-ida potato pay. where ore-ida golden crinkles are your crispy currency to pay for bites of this... ...with this. when kids won't eat dinner, potato pay them to. ore-ida. win at mealtime. teaching kids and having kids of my own. i didn't realize that having kids would be the hard part. so we planned to start ivf treatments.

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welcome back. in california the state's 40 million residents are starting another day of a stay at home order. stores and corporate offices closed as one of the world's largest economies has come to a near standstill. cnn's paul buchanan filed this report earlier. >> reporter: the stay at home order is in full effect in california. and here in los angeles and talking to people in and around lake hollywood they say they just need to get out of the

house and they're trying to absorb that rule of stay 6 feet away from everybody else, but you talk to a family and they were telling us after a while you have kids and you just go stir-crazy sow get out and about. >> you know, you have to get out. at least if we're in nature and staying away from people, separated, it makes us feel better. >> getting a little exercise is kind of keeping me up and not sitting around all day and just taking a hike and spending good family time and not, like, just sitting around stressing about this crisis and all the bad things. >> reporter: so people are out and about. we talked to the los angeles police department about the stay at home ord. they say let's for instance say that 12 people were together at some park or somewhere around here, they would first get a warning, they'd try to work things out voluntarily. if these people don't disperse,

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welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm michael holmes. you're watching "cnn newsroom," and it is time to update you on the headlines. italy reporting a staggering

number of coronavirus deaths. nearly 800 in just 24 hours. military trucks being used to transport the bodies. john hopkins university says italy has more than 53,000 cases of infection, the highest number in europe. twice any other country outside of china. britain's prime minister now avoiding people to avoid personal visits with their loved ones on sunday. it is the country's mother's day holiday. boris johnson says the spread of covid-19 is in his words accelerating and warns without widespread social distancing the national health service could be overwhelmed. the u.s. government approving a new coronavirus test kit that promises to deliver results ipunder an hour instead of days. as the situation is now those could begin shipping as early as this week. well, as medical personnel on the front lines deal with

critical supply shortages, we are learning more about what did and what did not happen once u.s. officials first learned of the virus. cnn's senior investigative correspondent drew griffon reports. >> reporter: how did the united states end up in this position with a desperate shortage of coronavirus tests? a shortage of supplies to administer these tests, even a shortage of protective equipment for medical workers? the u.s. government knew the virus was coming back in the beginning of january. on january 8th when the cdc published an emergency health advisory on a reported cluster of pneumonia of unknown origin in wuhan, china. medical experts tell cnn the trump administration failed to act at this critical time. >> what we see is the lack of preparation over the last two months has now put us in a terrible position. >> reporter: in late january the first u.s. case of coronavirus was identified in washington state. but while chinese officials

began locking down the city of wuhan, president trump was in davos, switzerland, telling the world that china's problem would not be the world's pandemic. >> we have it totally under control. >> reporter: trump barred most non-u.s. citizens from flights coming in from china but behind the scenes mistakes were already being made as the numbers climbed to nearly 35,000 cases worldwide, the cdc was creating its own coronavirus tests. a slower process that included sending the tests to public health labs to make sure the tests would work. those public labs found out the test was flawed. >> so they immediately reported that and cdc began its investigation very quickly. but more and more labs as they were verifying this through the coming days also found the same problem. >> reporter: within three crucial weeks testing was at a near standstill while the cdc tried to fix the problem and the u.s. health system was flying blind. the virus spreading across

america, and u.s. health officials had no way to test for it. >> that kept us from having visibility on domestic transmission of the virus for weeks and weeks and weeks. >> reporter: when the cdc's new test was finally fixed and ready there weren't enough to fill demand. this letter shows private health laboratories begging the fda to relax restrictions and let them create their own tests. it happened within days, but in a race to contain it the virus was well ahead. by march 6th there were more than 100,000 cases worldwide and more confusion from the administration. >> anybody that wants a test can get a test. >> reporter: when the president said these words across the country shortages were everywhere. today the shortages of tests include just about everything needed to administer the test. >> there are shortages on many pieces of it. >> reporter: public health officials say it just didn't need to be this bad. two years earlier the white house made another potentially enormous mistake laying aside the pandemic response unit with

the national security council but the white house says the same role exists just under different titles. critics say that trump administration decision hampered efforts with coronavirus. >> i think it made us slower and it made us more prone to mistakes. >> reporter: jeremy who used to run foreign disaster assistance for usa says all the shortages from testing to swabs to masks can in part be traced back to that one decision. beth cameron who under barack obama ran the pandemic response unit says there is no doubt. >> we would have gotten more ahead of this had the office still been intact? i think absolutely. >> reporter: the president who ultimately said he didn't know anything about disbanding the pandemic team and also defended it now denies his coronavirus response has been anything but perfect. >> we were very prepared. the only thing we weren't prepared for was the media.

>> reporter: drew griffon, cnn, atlanta. well, spain's prime minister is urging his country to stay strong because he says the worst is yet to come. predicting what he calls hard days ahead. spain on lock down and the death toll from coronavirus now more than 1,300. even though that number is expected to climb an american family living in madrid not keen to leave. cnn's scott mcclain met them at their home. >> reporter: while there's trumpet practice up stairs there's homework to do down stairs. this is what spain's mandatory quarantine looks like for the matino family, americans living in madrid. >> i didn't think it would get this bad. i thought be cautious, stay away and distance and all that. but to stay home and not be able to go out, yeah, that was a little -- that was a little harsh. but, you know, we're dealing with-touch. >> reporter: matt and veron

cuoriginally from chicago invited us to see how their isolation was going. but we didn't want to risk bringing the virus in their home so we stayed in the backyard and spoke with them from a distance. ver veronica also sent us this video of the routine. school is now online, soccer in the backyard and there are plenty of chores. >> quarantine has been family time. >> lots of family time. >> we can't be together 20 hours a day so we all have to find space to be alone too. >> reporter: spaniards are only allowed to leave home from work, to walk the dog or to go to the grocery store. the matinos never considered going back to the states but some of their friends already have, and their phones haven't stopped ringing since the crisis

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welcome back. the realities of the coronavirus are causing more and more countries to shutdown large parts of their economies. unemployment numbers beginning to spike in the u.s. but just how bad could it get? here's our christina alesci. >> that's right, we're already seeing signs that the coronavirus is having a negative impact on the u.s. economy, and we don't have precise government figures yet. but what we do have is antidotal

evidence of americans losing their jobs and projections of just what kind of impact that's going to have. goldman sachs is predicting 2.25 million americans are filing for unemployment insurance this week alone. that is an 8-fold increase verses the week before. now, we know what industries are being hit. it's largely the hospitality and leisure industries. we're seeing this with airlines, with hotels, restaurants. airlines and air travel in this country have essentially ground to a halt. united, one of the biggest carriers, yesterday saying they're going to have to make cut backs if congress doesn't intervene and provide that rescue funding. m marriott, one of the biggest hotel chains here in the u.s. announcing it's going to furlough 10,000 workers, and one of the biggest restaurant companies here in the u.s., actually here in new york, union square hospitality saying it's going to layoff 2,000 people.

now, the good news is congress is working through the weekend to get a trillion-plus rescue package through congress. they believe this will help blunt the economic impact on the average american by getting checks in the hands of average people and loans out to businesses. but no one really knows how long this crisis is going to last, and that's going to determine just how severe the economic impact will be. >> christina alesci there. and let's talk it over with john defterios who joins me now from abu dhabi. the u.s. markets had their worst week since october 2008. great concern with how europe is going to fare with the cases skyrocketing in italy and so on. what does this mean for the core european economies? >> you know, interest the core european economy it's a huge challenge, michael, and also the

stock markets down 30% to 35%. we had the prime minister of italy going yet another step further suggesting that if it's not critical business and it's only needed for life support going forward it will be halted until april 3rd. so it raises the multibillion dollar question going forward is this going to be the model in germany, france and spain, the core of europe as you were suggesting there? we see the u.k. preparing for a spike in the virus right now. so they're setting up unemployment funds. there are reports the u.k. governments will take stakes and it's quite radical the response. you have to think the method everyone's using right now, michael, in to the rearview mirror is to go back to 2009 and 2010, and they're allocating funds. but back at that crisis and i remember covering it 100% of the focus was on the financial system. this was very different as christine was suggesting here because it affects cinema business, food, unemployment benefits the government has to

put forward, manufacturing. it's not just a financial crisis, so week by week we see governments coming out with different packages saying we don't know how weak it's going to be but the cost of bailing out those who don't have jobs is going to be extreme. >> yeah, absolutely. i was just reading the new stimulus package coming out of australia as they start to take this seriously as well. how does that compare in the scale of what we're seeing in the u.s. and europe? >> reporter: well, they decided to add another $38 billion u.s. dollars and takes it to over $108 billion, michael. i thought the treasurer was suggesting they're preparing for a deeper, stronger and longer to quote him in terms of what this means for the economy. and you know how things are changing so rapidly. a week ago they had their financial package and they said it's not enough.

the global bench mark and this is interesting because in 2010 the united states set aside about 10% of gdp. steve mnuchin the treasury secretary is going to capitol hill meeting with the four congressional leaders today to try and close the gap on package. but if that was the financial crisis ten years ago and this is much more pervasive then you have to start thinking differently. it may have to be much bigger. the stock markets here in europe are going to be opening tomorrow, of course. in the middle east we see the only market open so far dubai is down. and this what pressures the middle east market as as well. >> john, good to have you on that side of the story. appreciate it. john defterios there in abu dhabi. when we come back, finding

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this is a party, time to grow up, time to wake up. team time to wrerecognize, it's not just about the old folks. >> some tough words from california governor gavin newsom. we have seen pictures of young people partying during a pandemic. the governor took them to task for not heeding warnings about coronavirus and social distancing. and young people were hitting the beach in australia. sydney's famous beach was a sea of humanity on friday. people defying the coronavirus rules as if they couldn't care less. have a look at that scene. it all changed a day later. bondi closed a day later. they were called the most irresponsible group of

individuals we've seep n so far. governments and health officials are telling people over and over, wash your hands, do it regularly. that message is getting out there in a typically 21st-century way. going viral on social media. >> reporter: the humble public service announcement, a vital tour to sha tool of information about how to wash your hands or not hoard supplies. but one spot is getting more attention than others. ♪ this psa by vietnam's health ministry on the virus has gone, well, viral, wracking up millions of views with the catchy hook and strong public hygiene message, but a dancer has taken it to the next level

♪ his choreography has care eved to additional views on social media getting a shout out by comedian john oliver. it's more than just a dance. you go through multiple moves on how to wash your hands. >> the first one is you have to rub your hands like this. palm to palm. and the second one is the back of this hand to the palm of the other hands, yeah? and finger interlaced. ♪ >> reporter: and it parked a global tick-tock dance challenge. people the world over are posting videos of themselves doing the dance with a #handwashingmove. but for every popular campaign on social media, there's a tor

the of season phobic content and misleading videos. >> sense we ince we do not have credibility track and fact check in that kind of social media platform. so it makes health professionals concerned about the actual effectiveness as well as the outcomes of these videos. >> reporter: tick-tock has removed some posts, its rules state we do not allow information that will allow this information. it's an image also of solidarity. >> a dance is not a medicine, but our mind, our education is what we can prevent the disease from going further and further. >> reporter: spreading joy, not

germs. i am not a good dancer. can you help me learn your dance? >> sure, why not? >> let's do it. ♪ >> reporter: with a good, clean, hand-washing tutorial. >> i see the reporter do it with me, my dance. >> reporter: yay! kristie lu stout, cnn, hong kong. >> good for kristie. she can dance. in the darkest of times a good deed can shine through like a welcome ray of hope. and even as the coronavirus forces millions of people into lockdown or isolation or quarantine, others are finding ways to lend a helping hand. cnn shows us how a little kindness can go a hongwei. long way. >> reporter: becky does her work from home working for duke

university. but on her lunch hour she works for someone else, grocery shopping for elderly neighbors. an idea she heard when she thought about her grandfather risking just going to the store. >> that's when i thought i can go grocery shopping for others since i live in a community with several senior citizen makes. >> reporter: she joins the likes of brad paisley who deliver from his store in nashville, and outside chicago, waitresses with no longer tables to wait on are delivering free meals to elderly shut-ins thanks to the country house restaurant. >> it caught us not off guard but didn't think it was going to go hike that on the first day. >> i don't know what i'm washing my hands for. >> reporter: so is a rapper who teamed up with love beyond walls for hand washing stations for

homeless. soap and water still the best weapon against the coronavirus. >> he mo willems is a parent's savior, offering home-bound kids doodle lessons. a lot of you are getting creati creative like this israeli man who figured out how to walk his dog without going outside, with a drone. and in italy where the death toll has surpassed even china comes this magical moment. as a quarantined couple can't resist a dance cheek to cheek. doing good these days is down right contagious. martin savage, cnn. we need stories like that at the moment, don't we?

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hello, everyone. welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. i'm natalie allen. ahead this hour, we take you all

around the world for the latest on the coronavirus. italy marking nearly 800 deaths in one day from the coronavirus, as health care workers and officials continue to urge people to stay home. in america, the government approves a new coronavirus test, which could give results in less than one hour. we'll look into that. and, a distellry in pennsylvania has put a pause on liquor production to make a different sort of alcohol. thank you again for joining us, it's 3:00 a.m. here in atlanta, georgia. and as the world wrestles with an unprecedented pandemic, a california biotech company may help turn the tide. the u.s. government has approved a new coronavirus test kit that promises to deliver results in under an hour instead of days.