♪ president trump promises more coronavirus testing, while getting testy with some governors in his push to reopen america. also ahead this hour, hundreds of thousands of small businesses in the u.s. are hanging by a thread, after a lifeline of money ran out. what now? plus, the future of live music. two of new orleans' finest artists join me live. how they plan to keep you dancing through it all. got to keep the music going.

hello, everyone, live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta. welcome to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. i'm natalie allen. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. 5:00 a.m. here on the u.s. east coast. thanks so much for joining us. united states is entering the weekend with a battle over when and how to reopen the country as the number of reported inspections and deaths soar. data tracked by johns hopkins university shows the u.s. with more than 706,000 cases and more than 37,000 deaths. that is not stopping talks of phased reopenings. adequate testing is key for it all to work. and president trump says the

resources are there. >> we have tremendous unused capability within those laboratories. and i hope the governors are going to be able to use them. the governors are responsible for testing. and i hope they're able to use this tremendous amount of available capacity that we have. >> but the cdc director under former president barack obama disagrees that the onus should be on the state or that testing has been anything but lacking. >> it is absolutely the federal government's responsibility. currently, we're doing, in this country less than 150,000 tests a day. earlier today, we released a report, and we calculated quite simply if we were just testing the highest priority people. and nobody else, we'd need about three times as many tests. and since we're also testing some lower priority people, we're going to need more than that. and if we tried to test really

extensively, it would be 10 to 20 times that. >> this comes as president trump is lashing out at several governors, all democrats tweeting liberate, virginia, michigan and minnesota. that prompted this response from virginia's chief executive. >> i would just simply say that as the governor of the commonwealth of virginia, i along with this staff, is fighting a biological war. i do not have time to involve myself in twitter wars. i will continue to make sure that i do everything i can to keep virginians safe and to save lives. >> so that is where the nation stands with surging deaths, testing concerns and twitter insults from the president. and in spite it all, a growing pressure to open states up. our nick watt has more about it. >> reporter: huntington beach, california, a protest march

complete with trump 2020 flags. similar scenes also in other parts of the country. they're calling for the country to open up again. jacksonville, florida, they just reopened the beaches. the crowds came immediately. many completely ignoring the social distancing guidelines that are still supposed to be in place. >> folks, this could be the beginning of the pathway back to normal life. but please respect and follow these limitations. >> reporter: in texas, state parks will open monday. a week from then, stores can open, for pickup only but -- >> school classrooms are closed for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year. >> reporter: governors, not the president, will be calling the shots. >> we must get this right because the stakes are very high. >> reporter: some say we're just not there yet. >> fact of the matter is better to be six feet apart than six feet under. we've got to save lives wherever

2 matters it matters. >> reporter: in michigan and today, the president tweeted liberate michigan. >> i think elements of what they're doing is too much. >> you have to develop a testing capacity that does not now exist. we cannot do it without federal help. >> our best scientists and health experts assess that states today have enough tests to implement the criteria of phase one, if they choose to do so. >> reporter: reopening will be regional. >> soaping in states and not others is a little bit like, you know -- somebody said to me it's like having a peeing section in the swimming pool. >> reporter: some neighbors states in the middle of the country. and let's not forget there are thousands of health care workers on the front lines. >> thousands of patients -- >> reporter: still, so many lives in the battle. >> and right here, a patient who

unfortunately on the verge of being intubated. we're trying to save her. >> here in california, the governor says we are now in the midst of a pandemic-induced recession. look at l.a.x., normally, one of the busiest airports in the world, not a plane in the sky. the governor won't say when he's going to reopen the california economy. he says that will depend on the science. nick watt, cnn, los angeles. right now, there is no approved therapy for the covid-19. but there are more than 100 trials under way. several involve an older drug called rremdesrir.

it is older, but she's optimistic. >> we have a lot of our patients improving and going home. i think we're all really pleased to see that. at this point, if it's related to the study drug or not, but we're expecting results on that a little later this month. >> however, there are concerns about the methodology used in one of those studies as an infectious disease specialist explains here. >> let's say you have 100 people have the flu. i'm going to have half of those people eat carrots for ten days. everybody had the flu and somebody got healthier with that. that's basically the level of evidence that you're getting on the chicago study. some of the patients got five days of remdesivir. some got ten days.

these were not the sickest patients, the ones on ventilators. they're not patients with underlying conditions. one, we did not really have a controlled group to prove this was the drug with the effect. the sickest people that were least likely to survive were excluded from the study. >> all right. so, here is what we know about remdesivir. it's made by gilead and it tricked by mimicking identification building blocks. it's an investigational drug and not approved in any country for use. and it was developed in 2014 for the ebola epidemic and has some success in treating mers and sars in animals. those two viruses are similar to covid-19. let's talk with emeritus keith

neal, he studies infectious diseases and comes to us from derby, england. good morning to you. thanks for coming on. >> good morning. >> from what you know about the drug remdesivir, are you encouraged? >> i think some of the signs are encouraging what's really worrying me is what some countries haven't done in united kingdom, that's that we're entering people in controlled trials. we give it to patients and they continue to get better, it's no prove that it's doing any good. and it doesn't identify any side effects. i think we've recruited over 5,000 patients into a number of different nationwide trials in the united kingdom looking at earlier treatments with different drugs. and with the illness or people who get better in a week or two, we should have results relatively early on. and it's a pity this hasn't been

done in other countries beforehand. >> well, how can that happen? how can you grow these trials? >> because we have a national health service which is able to coordinate things nationally. it has advantages and disadvantages having a centralized system. and this is one of the advantages of a centralized system. >> i want to talk to you about the numbers here, over 2 million cases worldwide, and 154,000 deaths, with no treatment yet. let's talk about the particulars about this disease what patients might be mystifying. they often lose their sense of taste. the smell, what lhallucinations

lethargic. what's curious to you about that aspect? >> the only thing that's actually surprising is the loss of taste and smell can is not too unusual given coronaviruses often are common colds. that affects the sense of smell that can be affected and the sense of taste is strongly linked to the sense of smell. having a wide range of symptoms for the disease is totally well recognized. certainly common influenza, we know that many people go through the influenza season, catch the flu, and actually never have any symptoms they recognize in retrospect, because we can prove they have the flu in antibodies. at the same time, people of the same age can actually be killed by the virus, so the whole range of symptoms is not unusual. what we don't see at the moment is the number of people

asymptomatic which has been published recently in a new york city hospital with screening all pregnant women coming in. with a high rate of infection, although new york city has been a hot spot, over three quarters never had a fever but we thought pregnancy was an increased risk. >> another aspect in this defined. let's talk about still the lack of testing in the uk and in the u.s., of course, both are seeing horrific numbers of cases and death. the u.s. president is encouraging states to reopen. but what if the foot is off the gas too soon with social distancing, considering there's not a treatment or widespread testing. >> i think testing is -- the role of testing is to identify patients for contract tracing. what we've done in the united kingdom to bypass it, not having enough resources to test at the

current moment tour symptoms was asking them to self-isolate. and household contacts to self-isolate. which is what we would do if found to be positive. i'm not sure if the states are more aware of that. >> we appreciate your insights and your expertise so much, professor keith neal, we hope you'll come on again. thank you, sir. >> thank you. well, there are fears the united kingdom will be the hardest hit country in europe because of the government strategy at the beginning of the pandemic. national health service providers say there's a critical shortage of clinical gowns. they say they tried to get emergency deliveries from other countries, but it was too late. those countries had also rubble out of personal protective equipment for doctors. the uk is one of the most effective countries when it comes to the deadly virus. and the british government is trying to catch up.

>> i can announce today that the government has set up a vaccine task force to coordinate the efforts of government, academia and industry towards a single goal. to accelerate the development of a coronavirus vaccine. this task force is up and running. and aims to ensure that a vaccine is made available to the public as quickly as possible. >> the uk has been showing its appreciation to health care workers like here in scotland with the sound of bagpipes. but some doctors are saying they need that equipment more than cheers. we get it. ninas s ddos santos is joi us from london. good morning to you, nina. while they try and scramble for the health care workers, there's also a move afoot for a vaccine there. what can you tell us?

>> reporter: that's right, natalie. what they're trying to do, as you heard from the business secretary there, his job it was to announce this task force is try to leverage to get what the team that they have both in the field of academia and industry also well. remember, uk is home to very pharmaceutical rupps like the big behemoth glaxosmithkline. and they both have proven track records for vaccines to be effective and safe. the government putting $17 million, 14 million pounds that is into our currency here into this task force. some abocademics question wheth more money is needed for that but that's a controversy for later. as they've also expanded a building for a specific testing facility. but they did caution if anybody is expecting this to be available just around the

corner, it may well be on the other side of the summer, many months from now. scientists at oxford university are working on a vaccine as well as here in london at imperial college indicate they may have something ready by summer. any mass testing and that could be crucial to wind down the lockdown and turn back the economy, natalie. >> that would be the one huge breakthrough, would it not. nina, it's still incredible that the uk is having trouble with gowns for the front line health workers and they're also behind in testing. what's the latest on that. >> reporter: both of niece two issues have been massive embarrassments to the government here. what we learned through the night, public health england which is the body that sets the guidelines for nurses and doctors, those really here on the front lines here facing the highest risks tracking the

coronavirus, some of them have lost their lives. they were advised to reuse their ppe, personal protective equipment, we're talking about the visor, the masks, the gowns and also the protective gowns that nurses use to protect themselves from aerosol droplets, when they have to do procedures for instance, getting ventilators to patients. that's a very risky procedure. and the uk may run out of gowns early. one of the questions that the uk has them has the devolved system here in the uk means that some parts of the country like scotland and also wales have the right to set their own public health standards. and some of those parts of the country have enough supplies. so the big question is why is it that one part of the bulk of the country, why is it that a large swath of this nation is facing

shortages and other parts of the country have been able to organize themselves seemingly better. on that front, there's embarrassment that the government says it aims to test 100,000 people per day in this country. we learned on friday that the capacity remains at 38,000. and not even 38,000 people on friday were tested. so that is a big concern here. as i was saying before, vaccines and mass testing a way to unlocking the lockdown that we've seen that will now be in place three weeks from now. even before that to save more lives especially on the front line, more protective equipment will be needed. natalie. >> absolutely. we appreciate you reporting for us this morning. nina dos santos in london. next here, trapped behind bars during a pandemic. when we return, we report on how jails and prisons are using a new strategy to contain the spread of the virus. also president trump wants schools in the u.s. to open as soon as possible.

how possible is that? and before we go to break, look and listen to this japanese violinist pay tribute to hospital workers from a hospital roof in italy. ♪ ♪ >> yokoyama studyies in c. emona that has been ravaged by the virus. a doctor said he got goose bumps listening to the music and for a moment he felt good. ♪

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deaine d detain detainees. it meant employing new strategies including reducing the population for those serving nonviolent offenses. >> we've been able to reduce the population in the jail in four weeks by almost 25%. >> reporter: this has already had a pretty big impact? >> we want to make sure we're improving conditions for people who don't need to be there and people who aren't there have optimal conditions for their health and safety. >> reporter: one of the jail's main tactic was literally creating a boot camp, those taken where they stay separate from the jail's paper las vegop. hundreds of beds laid out to stop the spread. for people who aren't infected, how doll do we maintain that?

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georgia. i'm natalie allen. you're watching "cnn newsroom." here are our top stories. reported coronavirus cases in the u.s. have now surged past 706,000, with more than 37,000 deaths. that's according to figures tracked by johns hopkins university. part of the dramatic increase is due to inthe inclusion of probable cases in recent days. that is when the patient is diagnosed with covid-19 without lab tests confirming it. u.s. president donald trump says individual states are responsible for their own testing capabilities. but governors across the country say the federal government must help. testing is seen as the key to reopening the country. and influential model that tracks pandemic data is giving some states extra reassurances that they could soon reopen. the institute for health metrics and evaluation projects that vermont, west virginia, montana

and hawaii may be able to open as early as may 4th. but it warns that other states may need to wait until late june or early july. u.s. lawmakers are scrambling to save small businesses, trying to secure another $250 billion for loans after tens of thousands of businesses were told they were out of luck. $349 billion loan fund from the stimulus plan was quickly tapped out. our phil mattingly has that story. >> reporter: millions of small businesses are hanging by a thread as the coronavirus continues to devastate the u.s. economy. >> industry is hurting right now. >> reporter: the financial lifeline signs into law to help them has officially been serve veered. michael cervelli has been producing corporate events for years, he's committed to paying

his seven employees through the crisis. >> for the past 30 days we've been busting our butts taking everything from the back burner, bringing it to the front, working hard, preparing with our clients now, i've got to tell you, today, i'm a little scared. >> reporter: but the small business administration has now exhausted its $349 billion payment protection program leaving lenders and borrowers alike to see this message. in just 13 days the agency has seen more loans than in the 14 years prior combined. it underscores the sense of urgency and devastation that small business owners like he does and the limbo. >> i turned to my bank today and i said, excuse me english, but i said, am i screwed? am i getting the short end of the stick? they said unfortunately, you're still in the queue. you've never made to to that next phase. >> reporter: more than 800

applications were awaiting approval when the funds ran out. those business owners have no idea what comes next and their eyes are on congress. >> every senate republican is ready to act today. today. but democrats have not let us reopen the program. >> reporter: but republicans and democrats are locked in a stalemate as they try to add funds to the program. republicans pushing for an immediate and clean additional $250 billion. democrats blocking that effort and countering. there are other urgent needs as well. >> we help small business but if we don't deal with testing and health care problems and local government problems, small business may have enough money to get back, but people won't go out on the streets. >> reporter: for small business owners, the details of that negotiation and how it ends up are the least of their worries. they just want a resolution. >> we are asking you to please remember us. the live events industry. the caters, the hospitality

people that bring life to the world. we are not celebrating right now. we are asking just for help. >> reporter: phil mattingly, cnn, washington. well, the u.s. president is trying to blame democrats for the country's economic troubles. he is accusing them of not working to approve money for the next stimulus measure. the current bailout gave money to individuals and created a loan program for small businesses, but that money quickly ran out. now, lawmakers are pushing for a new influx of cash, and president trump says he's on board. >> nobody knew it was going to be this successful. don't forget, when you say the money's gone. it's been a tremendous success as a program. people are -- they really want it. and some people won't be able to get there -- keep their business open unless they get that money. it's been a tremendous success. it's been executed flawlessly.

with few exceptions it's really been good. i think democrats are going to do do it. nancy pelosi, she's away on vacation or something and she should come back and get this done. i don't know why she's not coming back. the fact is, she's not doing her job and there's nothing unusual about that for her. >> the democrats have actually been fighting for hospital states and local governments to be included in the program. here's speaker of the house nancy pelosi put it. >> we want to have more money for small business. we believe in that. the entrepreneurial spirit of america is still important. but it also important for to us have more funds for those on the front lines, the health care workers, police, fire, ems folks and all of those who really need help, as they try to save lives. >> closing down beaches has been a big issue in this pandemic. the governor of hawaii has ordered all state-owned beaches to close until the end of the

month, to combat the virus. people are allowed to swim and surf, as long as they follow social distancing rules but they may not sun bathe or play in the sand, got it. the governor also said certain activities like boating and hiking are okay, as long as it's just two people or relatives who live together. in parts of florida, though, it is a different story. jacksonville has opened its beaches and parks with some restrictions. cnn's randi kaye tells us what happened when the barriers came down there. >> reporter: the beaches opened at 5:00, it was a mad dash for the ocean. people had been lined you on the streets. and when police gave the all-clear, they floodeded beach area. there were bikers, surfers, swimmers. people came to fish. they came to run. they came to walk. they brought their dogs to the beach. there really was no hint at all that we were in the middle of a pandemic from the scene on the beach.

we know that the jacksonville mayor lenny curry is saying all of these activities are considered essential activities he says that is in line with governor ron desantis' executive order. he is limiting the hours, 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. in the morning. and again, 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in the evening. during the day, the hours of the beach will be closed. we did talk to a lot of people and we asked them how they felt about the beaches being open. they were very excited. they said they've been cooped up for months since the beaches closed here march 20th but they as noticed that a lot of people were not social distancing on the beach. we saw people sitting in the sun, sun bathing, gathering in small groups. having coolers. laying on their blankets. that is something that the mayor said cannot go on. he wants people to continue to social distance. we did see one deliver that went up to a couple and did ask them to get up, because they weren't

allowed to just hang out on the beach unless they were doing something like exercise. so that was happening. we also didn't see very many people wearing masks for protection on the beach. so, it will be interesting to see how long this continues if this is allowed to continue here in this area. because it seems as though the social distancing guidelines are not fully being followed here on the beach, as far as we could see on the first day. we'll see what happens from here. randi kaye, cnn, jacksonville beach, florida. well, musicians are coping with the pandemic like everyone. taylor swift, she's cancelling concerts and calling it quits for now. it makes sense. but what do you do if you bought tickets? a couple of new orleans' biggest acts are promising to play on virtually. we will talk to the leader singers of big sands funky town and cowboy they're live with us now after this.

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♪ ♪ waiting in the wings can't stop the music. this is music in the age of coronavirus. the biggest stars performing from home. social distancing like the rest of us. los angeles says don't expect to see big concerts or sporting events until 2021. that hurts. other cities say the same. taylor swift has also announced that she will be cancelling her concerts for the rest of the year. one of dozens of acts to do so. so what happens to those tickets? we'll talk concert promoter live nation is offering concert cash, up to 150% of the ticket value, we're told. the virus has hit the u.s. state of louisiana quite hard, and it forced new orleans to cancel its popular jazz fest and

voodoo music fest. when you think of new orleans, mardi gras, bourbon street, music and gumbo, it's all there. and you can count big sam's funky nation and cowboy mouth among those the city treasures. ♪ ♪ extra extra i say extra extra y'all ♪ ♪ gotta move i wanna know ♪ ♪ cowboy mouth cowboy mouth ♪ one two three four >> oh, yeah, now both bands have gone from packing houses to virtual concerts. ♪ ♪ everybody get up and dance get on your feet

♪ everybody get up and dance ♪ everybody get up ♪ i believe the internal strength because believe everybody's got to let it go i believe in the power of love ♪ >> all right. we are joined from fred lawan from cowboy mouth and big sam from big sam nation. i don't know if this is morning, or if you're still up. thank you for being with us this morning. how are you doing? >> good, how about yourself? >> i'm doing well. i just want to say shoutout, i'm from memphis, my family is from mississippi delta. thank you so much for the music. you probably knew jazz fest was going to be cancelled. but when you heard it, you know, how does that make you feel where the city is with all of this, sam, let's start with you? >> it's pretty devastating.

you know, that's one of the biggest shows we do a year. you know, we have some of the fan fans, you know, people planning out -- you know, people planning tickets for the next year and the next year. so, to have something like that, that's a staple of the city, in the world, people come from all around the world to the jazz fest to have it cancelled is pretty devastating. it's probably for the best. better safe than sorry, you know. >> has to be. fred, where are you with this? >> i'm on the same page as sam, you know. it's probably not a bad idea to postpone it until next year. am i happy about it? no, of course, not. like sam said, it's the biggest event in new orleans all year-round and we all base our lives around it. we all base our jobs around it. it's got to be a pretty substantial hit, i know for sam and myself. it's not about what you lose.

it's about that next year kicks a whole lot of musical bootie. >> exactly. >> everybody will be making comeback from festivals to sports arenas won't they? >> you know, after katrina, you know, the thing about it was, everybody was feeling very down and everything like that. once everything got rolling again, it was the greatest party ever. >> yeah. >> talk about that, sam. you know, it was hardly -- no one could hardly believe that new orleans could come back. and it really did after katrina. >> oh, yeah, we came back in full force. you know, like we never left. i actually played that first game back in the superdome, the saints played. yeah. with green day, we did that collaboration in that field. it was absolutely amazing. we'd love to again, you know, after outside is reopen.

you know. can't wait to hit the streets. >> what are you doing meantime? because musicians are inherently creative. we know that people are live streaming music shows. they have a cybertip jar. i will give to your cybertip jar if you have one. >> thank you. >> sam, what are you planning? >> i have two large trainings every week. wednesday/thursday and a sunday type brunch thing. both pretty early. central time. wednesday, i'll start at noon, wednesday i'll start at 11:00 a.m. chick it out big sam's funky nation on facebook. i have all of my videos there. some of the clips you have right now, that's where they come from. if you want to check it out, check it out. we have a tip jar, too. go to the facebook page and get the rest of it. >> sounds wonderful. and fred, your concerts are like rallies. we also want to say that you're

a children's book author. >> thank you. >> what are you planning to do this year to, you know, stay engaged with your fans? >> well, right now, we're trying to figure out ways to where we can perform live together on facebook. and a lot of that depends on technology. i've been doing a lot of facebook live concerts. acoustic concerts and fans have really responded really well. i got like 40,000 on my latest. i'm doing one sunday evening. i do them every few days. you know, it's important that, you know, i remember that, our fans are going through exactly what we're going through, too. and it's as much an encouragement session as entertainment. it's all about keeping the spirit alive. keeping the spirit of the american worker alive because that's the back bone of this country, baby. >> that's it. you guys have the original

creole/ca creol creole/ creole/cagan culture. >> as soon as the leash is off and as soon as we're not hamstrung, it's going to be the greatest time ever. >> that's right. we'll be seeing you online. >> do very well, sam. >> will do, man. >> you guys are the best. fred, cowboy mouth and big sam's funky nation. appreciate it guys. >> stay safe. >> you, too. next here, mission accomplished. and salute retired captain tom moore. that's tom. the british capital raised more money to fight covid than he could believe and took a

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