hello, and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm michael holmes. you're watching "cnn newsroom." now the numbers nothing short of staggering and getting worse. more than 2.3 million cases of coronavirus worldwide and the death toll more than 160,000. in the uk, there were fears the national health service would run out of some personal protective equipment or ppe this weekend. but a significant shipment from turkey is expected to arrive, and it will be just in time.

we'll have a live report from london just ahead. now, in spain, the state of alarm, as it is called there, will now be extended until early may at least, making eight weeks of a strict lockdown. in italy, the pope is scheduled to hold mass outside the vatican, outside in a couple hours. that will be the first time since the crisis began. and in the united states, word that critical early delays in testing were likely caused by contamination at a lab of the cdc. and the u.s. president donald trump using saturday's coronavirus task force briefing to, yes, lash out again, point fingers again and say any problems with testing and anything else aren't his fault again. cnn's jeremy diamond reports. it was the latest attempt by the president to shift blame elsewhere. the president on saturday during a white house briefing blaming democratic governors, accusing

them in fact of not even wanting to use some of the testing capacity in their states amid critical shortages. >> now they're giving you the other, it's called testing, testing. but they don't want to use all of the capacity that we've created. we have tremendous capacity. dr. birx will be explaining that. they know that. the governors know that. the democrat governors know that. they are a they're the ones that are complaining. >> reporter: even as the president shifts blame to those democratic governors, the government admits there were problems with the testing and it was the president himself who just on friday was talking about sending 5 million additional testing swabs to states that needed it because of the shortfalls they are facing. but now the president once again blaming democratic goevernors. and it is not just democratic governors saying they need more help from the government. we've heard from the republican

governor of ohio, mike dewine who says he needs some of that critical chemical reagent needed for the tests and to ramp up testing capacity across his state. but this of course fits a pattern as what we've seen the president do as he has faced questions about shortfalls in the government's nationwide testing capacity and other issues as well. the president instead has shifted blame to others, rotating cast of characters. we've seen everyone from the media to the obama administration to the world health organization and china. that was also a focus of the president on saturday as the pred sought president sought to build the case that championshipina's lac transparency led to what we are seeing in the united states. when the virus began to spread here in the united states the president was praising china, particularly its transparency,

jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. and we are seeing protests pop up around the u.s. as people demand to end stay-at-home orders. a lot of question about who is behind these protests. there were more demonstrations saturday, many people ignoring social distancing guidelines as they did. in maryland, people rallying from their cars, demanding the governor lift restrictions. in indiana, people protesting outside the governor's residence. the gathering organized by two conservative groups. they say the stay-at-home order is overreach by the government. in new hampshire, hundreds gathered outside the state house, calling for officials to reopen the state. and in texas, protesters gathered outside the state capital there. in austin, it was called the quote, you can't close america rally. and it was promoted by at least one website known for spreading conspiracy theories, and you can see social distancing not so much. harvard researchers say the

u.s. needs to conduct at least 500,000 coronavirus tests a day in order to properly reopen the economy, that's more than three times the testing that is done at the moment. we're learning about why the u.s. is falling so far behind. sara murray with the details. >> we new the cdc had problems with the initial rounds of test kits. and now we're beginning to learn why. it turns out there was an issue of contamination in the cdc's lab. that is what officials are telling me as well as my colleague, nick valencia. and the cdc was confused about whether there was a problem with the design or the manufacturing. an fda official went down to the cdc labs in atlanta to check it out. the official determined that there was a contamination problem in the lab and that was most likely what was causing the tests to malfunction.

it took an a little time to sort out how they could use the tests they had on hand, how to remanufacture some of these tests, and this is happening at a critical point in the outbreak in the u.s. it was happening as public health officials, especially in states like washington and california knew that this virus is likely spreading among their communities, and they had a very limited ability to test for it. a cdc spokesman said there are quality control measures in place, but obviously they were insufficient this time around. this issue is under investigation by health and human services. testing remains a hurdle today. it is one of the key hurdles as they move to reopen the economy. cnn, washington. and it's not just the testing issue holding the cdc back. elizabeth cohen with that part of the story. >> reporter: after talking with people inside the cdc and tied to the cdc, it seems cnn's reporting is pointing to a larger problem at the cdc.

and this is it. even someone i was talking to within the cdc, they said it wasn't clear to them whether all this happened because of just a contamination problem or a manufacturing problem or some combination. they said even when you're inside the agency, this does still seem a bit chaotic, that no one knows exactly how all of this went wrong. and it points to an even larger problem. people around the world tell me how much they admire the u.s. centers for disease control. they want the cdcs in their countries to be like the u.s. cdc. but i've been hearing from people that somehow the cdc has become a bit too bureaucratic, that it's got manage jerrial is. there could be tweaks in how the agency's run so it's less bureaucratic. back to you. >> let's talk about all of this with a neurologist at lancaster university joining me now from

lancaster in england. thanks for doing so. i want to ask you about these reports of the cdc, the contamination being a likely cause of these testing delays. just generally speaking, how concerning is it that the premiere disease authority fails in that regard, testing's delayed at a critical point, all the while the administration's rejecting a w.h.o. test that was pretty successful elsewhere. what does it suggest? >> well, thank you very much for having me on the show, michael. i think one of the major problems in these kind of situations comes really intensity of the working. for example the laboratories where the tests are being developed and optimized and validated, if the virus is also being tackled at the same lab, they are highly likely that the virus would move from the virus working environment to where the optimization of this one is being done. and of course we do have quality control in every laboratory that do the manufacturing and also

the processing of these tests later. but sometime it escapes, and that seems it had been the case in the cdc testing. that is especially critically at the time we need it the most. and also an important thing is really that we know in january when the disease was spreading we knew it was going to come to the countries. and that was the time it was required the most. >> exactly. here in the u.s., 150,000 or so tests a day, and as we're saying, harvard suggesting it needs to be half a million to get ahead. in the uk, testing is a problem where you are as well. how essential is it that there is that widespread testing before there is an opening up of society again? >> well, it is absolutely important in this current situation, because we don't have vaccine. we don't have therapeutics at this moment.

so the only option is to suppress the infection and isolate those who are affected and allow them to resume the economy and life. it is becoming very challenging now especially because every country is now in more or less the same situation. and everyone is demanding the same thing that is limited capability of production in normal circumstances. testing has been very critical. and because of the intensive demand, the overall quality has decreased. the scandal in the uk is that they have been doing tests to look at the appoint bonti-body. so it is critical to have diagnostic tests available not only looking for the infection but looking for who is immune to

the infection. >> right, exactly. one thing that's sort of getting more and more coverage here, and it's very concerning is growing reports of patients who have heart, kidney, lung, neurological and other effects, even after recovering from the virus itself. are you concerned about these sort of ongoing health issues, even among the recovered that with a lot of patients they don't just get better and move on with life. there are lingering effects. >> precisely. i think these are really surprising facts. if we compare it with the sars coronavirus, we haven't seen those type of situations at that time, back in 2002, 2003. in sars, we haven't seen the kidney issues. but here, we also started seeing that the virus is found in the urine, in the blood, which passes through the kidney for filtration. there are chances that the virus would have been breeding in the kidneys as well.

if we look into the data at the stages of the infection, 15% to 30% of people in china who were in critical stages had kidney issues. so this seems to be a real scenario, and we know recentept are present in these organs. so there are fair chances. when we talk about the immunity, that is one of the surprising facts in last two, three days that has been appearing that even if someone has the immunity, which is detectable anti-bodies, they might be reinfected. it might not be enough to prevent reinfection. >> there has been some evidence of reinfection as you say. i was going to ask you in the broader public health stand point. what do you make of the trump administration pulling funding

from the w.h.o. in the midst of a pandemic? and the president has sort of accused the w.h.o. without evidence of deliberately withholding information and yet you know as the "washington post" reported there were 15 officials from his own administration embedded with the w.h.o. from the start of all this. this isn't exactly the time to sort soof pull out when a globa response is vital, wouldn't you agree? >> well, michael, that is true, since the start of this outbreak, there are -- that is probably down to the scale and intensity of theis scenario. while accountability of this is certainly inevitable, this probably isn't the right time to get into these issues, because at this moment, the important thing is to really join the

world and pull all the resources, apply collaborative ability to tackle this infection. once we are passing through this one we will get it sorted about the accountability issues. >> yeah, yeah. exactly. we're yet to even see how it unfolds in africa or the w.h.o. important in that part of the world. dr. mohammad munir, appreciate it. >> the british were bracing to run out of personal protective equipment this weekend as the fight against coronavirus continues but turkey coming through with a massive shipment of supplies. up next, phil black joins us from london on what was a desperate situation perhaps resolved. also we go behind the scenes of one icu unit in tel aviv as doctors try to save patients infected with covid-19. we'll be right back. achoo! do your sneezes turn heads? ♪

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turkey coming to the rescue of the united kingdom, just as britain was expected to run out of gowns and certain masks and other personal protective equipment needed to battle the coronavirus. turkey sending a large shipment of gear, expected to arrive sunday. phil black joins us now from

london. the uk desperate for this. how did this all come about? >> reporter: desperate, michael, and it's a big shipment, 400,000 gowns or it sounds big. but balanced against the need of the entire health system here, it's expected to be just enough for a few days. from the very beginning of this crisis, doctors, nurses and hospitals across the country have been talking about not having enough personal protection equipment to deal with the scale of this, and from the beginning, the government has said it is doing all it can to tap into edge supply, boost or even create domestic production, but the reality is it has not worked. so much so that public health officials here have now issued new guidance on how this protective equipment should be used in hospitals, and it now includes calling for what are supposed to be single-use disposable items to be reused. where the very clear, best, safest practice shows that these items should only be used once.

the government says this is a global problem, that demand is so high everywhere. supply is tight. that compromises are necessary. but that is balanced against a stark fact. and that is that hospital, hospital staff are dying at least least 27 so far, and there's a lot of anger over this issue, too, michael. >> yeah. what's the latest, meanwhile on, i mean, we hear these numbers, and you've just got to remember every time that avenue oevery o them is a devastated family. what is the latest on the cases, the deaths and the trajectory? >> reporter: so confirmed cases according to the testing regime here is more than 114,000, the real number of the cases in the community is many times higher than that. confirmed deaths as a result of the virus, that's now more than 15,000 people. so we understand that the lockdown measures are having an effect. that transmission is slowing.

hospital admissions are either stable or even diminishing in some places. but the death numbers every day are still very high. and although they appear too have plateaued they are still 800 plus or more. and it's expected to stay that way for at least a week or two. on top of that, those deaths only cover the deaths that take place in hospitals. there are many more dying in the wider community, particularly care homes. and it's going to take a longer time to collate those figures. the estimation is that the government's aim of keeping deaths below 20,000 people is not looking like it will be achieved. it could be double that to the point where the uk is perhaps the worst-hit country in europe, michael. >> yeah, and a lot of complaints about people dying at home, not being tested postmortem as well. thank you, phil. israel plans to start easing restrictions put in place to

combat coronavirus in the hours ahead. industrial and high-tech workplaces as well as certain stores will be allowed to reopen under health and social distancing rules. more than 13,000 cases of coronavirus are reported in israel. more than 150 people have died. cnn's oren lieberman has more now from an intensive care unit in tel aviv which cares for those worst hit by the virus. >> reporter: deinsiep inside th medical center, even the hardest answers are hard to find. >> we are learning more and more about it. >> reporter: this is an intensive care unit for covid-19, the toughest coronavirus cases come here. before we were allowed in, we had to dress like the medical staff for protection. my blood sugar monitor for type one diabetes required an extra

wrapping. i have stood under rockets from gaza and artillery fire and more, but yet a part of me was more nervous here e as . as we step inside, the doctor shows me around the 16-bed unit. many are sedated or on ventilators. they get round the clock attention, the risk of anything less is too great. there is no such treatment for coronavirus. >> you have to see them every day, to see their faces, to see all the parameters. there is the atmosphere around patient. >> reporter: an external control room allows remote monitoring of every bed and a place to breathe. part of the job to keep everyone positive. >> sometimes i'm not so positive, but i think if i won't be positive no one will be. >> reporter: one day at a time in there? >> yes, one hour at a time. >> reporter: within a few minutes of putting on all this

protective equipment i started sweating. my mask fogged over. but i have the luxury of being able to take this off in a few minutes when i step outside. the doctors and nurses will wear this hour after hour, treating patients who need intensive care. they'll take a quick break, step outside and do it all over again. israel's mortality rate has hovho hovered around 1%. the country's health care system is among the most advanced which has helped lower the more at that time rate, but the number soars for the critical care patients who need to ventilated. >> if you cannot succeed, be

compassionate. >> reporter: he is guided by the latest technology and experience. he was in the 2006 lebanon war, that's him treating a soldier on the stretcher. this, he says, is a ditch figff fight. one he calls much more complicated. >> the virus taught us to be more modest, more humble and a lot of compassion. it as ju it's just a virus, but not just a virus, something much bigger. >> reporter: doctors and nurses are tested every week for the virus. everyone so far has tested negative. in this most sterile of environments, families are only allowed in if it's to say good bye, otherwise messages are recorded and sent through the nurses and prayers must penetrate the layers of protection around the icu. the patients see only the unit's staff. there is solidarity here through a common vulnerability. the closer you get to the patient as a doctor, does that make it harder and more personal

as a human? >> it's personal. we're human. we are as fragile as we they. now as in this bed i might be here, my family. we are very fragile. >> reporter: oren lieberman, cnn, tel aviv. the coronavirus has disproportionately devastated the african-american community. and other communities of color. we'll talk about it with the president of the american medical association and tell you what that group is doing to try to change this all-too-familiar reality. also, millions of americans waiting for that much-needed stimulus check to arrive. so what's the holdup? we'll explain when we come bam. because you can't get to the theater, we're bringing

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and welcome back to "cnn newsroom." i'm michael holmes. appreciate your company. the latest on the coronavirus pandemic for you. according to johns hopkins university, more than 2.3 million people have been affected worldwide. the death toll now topping 160,000. in spain, the state of alarm as it's called there, will be extended until early may at least. that makes eight weeks of the strict lockdown there. in great britain, a shipment of personal protective equipment or ppe expected from turkey at any moment, just as the national health service feared it would run out. and, in the united states, word that critical early delays in testing were likely caused by contamination at the centers for disease control and prevention

lab. well, the coronavirus pandemic has forced millions of americans into unemployment at a record rate. a staggering rate. look at that number there. over the last four weeks, roughly 22 million u.s. workers filed for jobless claims. that's just shy of 14% of the total workforce. and it is the largest and most dramatic rise needless to say, in unemployment claims since the u.s. labor department began tracking data back in 1967. the federal government sending out stimulus checks to help people get by, but the crisis is overwhelming unemployment offices. and that has left millions of americans waiting without. cnn's brian todd reports. >> reporter: in san jose, laura is trying to be patient. they've gotten their stimulus checks sent by the government to help people during the coronavirus pandemic, but they both have been furloughed from their jobs, have applied for unemployment benefits and

haven't gotten a penny of that yet. >> we've gone through all of our savings. you know, we've really had to dig in. we've had a lot of mounting bills. we had to contact all of our creditors and tell them that we weren't able to meet our obligations right now, because there's absolutely no money. >> reporter: in addition to unemployment benefits not reaching people like the shelves, there are roughly 60 million americans still waiting for payments. logistical and clerical obstacles are causing delays in getting the payments out. and the pain is pal pbling. >> tens of thousands of households are gathered around the kitchen table wondering how they're going to make the next rent payment and purchase the necessary food. >> reporter: the reason? the sheer volume of americans who are eligible. some 150 million. for people who didn't file electronic tax returns and don't have direct deposit arrangements with the irs, it's taking longer

to get them their payments via snail mail. >> that process of printing and stuffing those checks is going to take many, many weeks. and the estimate i've seen is that it will take about four to five months. >> reporter: also some people told cnn their payments were sent to old bank accounts that have since been closed. and millions of low income people who are not required to file tax returns are harder to locate. while they wait, desperate for money, some are turning to pawnshops. this tucson, arizona pawnshop has seen a 90% increase in people looking for quick cash through loans. some people come in crying. >> i've never seen it, and i hope i never have to see it again. >> reporter: and scenes like this. cars lined up for miles in texas, florida, at food distribution sites. to compound the suffering, the government's program to help has run out of money. and congress hasn't been in session to work on getting more in the pipeline.

brian and kristin ward had to lay off 26 people at their restaurant in manhattan, kansas. they were told they weren't eligible for the small business payment because the restaurant hadn't been operating for a full year yet. >> it all happened so fast. it doesn't seem real yet. so it is kind of numbing that we're jobless, no income, we don't know how to support our family right now. >> reporter: the wards did eventually get loans from state officials and total strangers. but only after they appeared on cnn. experts say there's another large category of americans who the government has not been able to send payments to. one economist calls them the unbanked. people who have no formal bank accounts anywhere who rely on payday lending operations to process paychecks and take care of their most basic financial needs. there are millions of those people experts say and so hard to locate that many will never get stimulus payments. brian todd, cnn, washington.

earlier on our network, don lemon and van jones hosted a star-studded special called "the color of covid." they talked about how the virus is devastating communities of color in the u.s. have a lack ook at these number. the rate of covid deaths in the black community is more than double that of any other race. and in the southeast it's exceeding 20%a. you are dealing with many things, but we wanted to discuss this issue of the racial disparity in terms of covid-19, who it's most affecting. you have data from new york city showing black residents twice as likely to die from covid-19 than whites. same in new jersey, louisiana.

african-americans are 59% of the deaths, 33% of the population. the thing is that these are terrible numbers, obviously, but they aren't the new reasons, right? >> they really aren't. these numbers are troubling, but unfortunately, not surprising. particularly when we learned early on that if you had high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, you were at greater risk of having a more severe course of covid-19. so knowing that african-americans were already disproportionately impacted by those diseases, these numbers unfortunately are not surprising. >> it raises the issue of, you know, among many other things, the health care system in this country. for-profit system, unaffordable to millions of americans who are forced basically to be uninsured

or underinsured. and black communities are vulnerable to that disparity, right? >> particularly in the south. communities of color are overrepresented when it comes to a lack of insurance, which is one of the many reasons why the american medical association supports medicaid expansion in all states. we certainly need to have a strong safety net. so access to health care is just one issue, social determinants of health and other policies were biassed and misinformation and trust all contribute to these very, very tragic numbers. >> speak to those underlying conditions. i mean, the socioeconomic conditions are part of it, poor access to, actually in many cases, poor access to good,

affordable food, poor access to good health services, housing, housing instability. employment opportunities and so on. and what coronavirus has done, and correct me if i'm wrong, is basically expose things that were already there. >> you're absolutely right. among many things, including our underfunded mental health system but certainly this covid-19 has really shined a bright light on what i call preexisting conditions. again, these social determinants of health, folks living in food deserts, lack of access to transportation and structural determi determinants of health is contributing to this vulnerability to african-americans. >> this was exposed before in other health crises. there is an a.m.a. letter to health and human services and

points out that the 2009 h1n1 pandemic exposed these very issues in disparities in racial and ethnic impacts and yet here we are. >> we at the american medical association. many organizations, the former surgeon general dr. david sachler have been elevating these issues for four years, certainly these are amplified even more with covid-19, but here's what we all must commit to do, and we will get on the other side of this epidemic, pandemic, there are certain things we can do now. but when we get on the other side of this pandemic, the a. mchlts a., and of course i know many others i've been speaking with about this over the last month or so will be there committed to addressing this issue, the ama just established a center for health equity and hired our first health equity

officer, dr. aletha maybank. so the a.m.a. is planning to lead this conversation going forward, continuing to lead, because we have been working on this issue. >> what needs to happen? i mean, structurally? the question is whether what's noticed now in terms of these underlying factors will be remembered post coronavirus? what makes the change fundamentally when this is over? >> well, we certainly are going to have to, again, elevate the conversations about the uninsured. we certainly are going to have to continue to partner, and again, physiciani in the health care system can't do this alone. this is an all-in effort to relook at policies. make sure that we are ensuring equitable access. equitable access to housing. making sure we are looking at neighborhoods where there are no

fresh fruits and vegetables and making sure that residents of those zip codes have access to that, transportation, so all of these issues would require partnerships and commitment. again, not just from the health care system but really from everyone at all levels. government, public-private partnerships, certainly an all-in effort to address these issues. >> it's a societal issue. and if anything good comes out of this hopefully it's progress in those issues. thank you. >> thank you for having me. we'll take a short break. when we come back on the program, making a living is getting tougher for sex workers in japan. how the coronavirus is threatening an already vulnerable segment of japanese society, that's when we come back. they have businesses to grow customers to care for lives to get home to

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about in the pandemic is sex workers. since the spread of the coronavirus began in japan, tokyo's bustling red light district has gone pretty quiet, and that is leaving many who work there wondering how they will get by. for more on this, let's turn to cnn's will ripley who joins us live from tokyo. it's a delicate issue and a real problem for some. >> reporter: this is a large group of people here in japan and around the world, michael, who typically don't have a voice. an estimated 300,000 sex workers in japan are having to find other ways to make a living. once the brothels close they're going directly to people's homes, putting their clients a themselves at risk. rain normally doesn't keep people away from kabuki-cho. i remember my first visit here five years ago. the cold, wet streets of this sleepless town were always full,

just like the shops lining these dimly-lit halls. prostitution is against the law in japan, but everythibody real knows what's for sale. fast forward to 2020, coronavirus is doing what the rain cannot, turning off the neon lights. in all my years of living in tokyo, i've never seen kabuki-cho this empty. normally these streets are lined with women trying to lawyer customers into their shops. the shops are closed now and the women have to find other ways, more dangerous ways to make a living. a woman we will call mika asked us to hide her face and change her name. her family doesn't know she's been a sex worker for ten years. these days with all the shops closed, she goes directly to customers, often older men, a risky proposition with the virus spreading quickly. of course i worry about my health, she says. but i worry more about how to survive. what if i can't afford to buy food? as a young girl, mika wanted to

be a journalist. life didn't work out that way. she's not asking for sympathy, she's asking for help. sex workers can't stop working, she says. but we don't want to spread the virus. japan's estimated 300,000 sex workers are eligible for the government's coronavirus cash handouts. about $1,000. advocates for sex workers say that money won't be nearly enough to keep most off the streets. there's a lot of discrimination towards sex workers he says, just before his toddler makes a brief appearance. there are many different types of people in the sex industry, he says. like single moms who need to earn money. they may be scared about coronavirus, but they're more scared of losing their jobs. his non-profit tries to help sex workers find new jobs. jobs they're not afraid to tell their families about, jobs that

won't put them and their children at risk. the problem is jobs are really hard to come by these days. many businesses are shut down. they're not hiring or laying people off, which means if people want to put food on the table for their children and their families they have no choice but to go out on the streets and put themselves at risk, michael. >> yeah, will, while we've got you, i mean, japan was pretty late to the party in getting moving on coronavirus. what is the latest on the case numbers there, the testing and so on? >> reporter: testing is still extremely limited. here in tokyo on wednesday they tested 277 people in one day, in a city of 13.5 million. there's a lot of concern that there are many people walking around perhaps asymptomatic unaware that they are spreading the virus. but the number of cases continues to climb every single day, expected to climb over 12,000 today here. there is a shortage of hospital

beds set aside for coronavirus patients and a shortage of ventilators. if the social distancing measures are not effective, could you have potentially hundreds of thousands of death even though japan's death rate right now is very low, but that's not sustainable if the virus pushes the health system which doctors have already warned is nearing the brink of collapse. >> will ripley there for us in tokyo. thanks, will, good to see you. we're going to take a break. when we come back, parts of the u.s. face a double threat this weekend, the coronavirus and extreme weather. meteorologist van dam will have a look at what's in store when we come back. i decided to make shirts for the walk with custom ink, and they just came out perfect. - [announcer] check out our huge selection of custom apparel for every occasion. you'll even get free shipping. get started today at customink.com.

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easter sunday we had over 100 tornados spawned from the severe weather threat and fast forward to today and we are staring down a horrific day of severe weather in the deep south in exactly the same areas hit the hardest. specifically, mississippi and alabama. hopefully what you're seeing on your screen here, because i am working from home. it is difficult to see exactly what's on your tv screens, but what people started to notice is the challenges of trying to shelter within some of the public tornado shelters during a pandemic. the covid-19 pandemic. so the american meteorological society came out with a statement and said do not let a virus like this or a pandemic prevent you from seeking refuge during a tornado. be aware, though, that some tornado shelters may be closed. so you want to plan ahead. if a public tornado shelter is your best option do your best to

adhere to the cdc recommendations, using hand sanitizer and wearing face masks. this is the area we're highlighting for the greatest probability of tornados, some of which could be long-tracked, strong and very intense tornados, specifically across mississippi and alabama and south central georgia. that is exactly where the worst of the tornado outbreak was just one week ago as we've already mentioned. the setup isn't as dynamic, isn't as powerful as what we experienced seven days ago, and that's because the jet stream isn't as tilted. not as much of a dip in the jet treatme stream allowing for the threat to develop. but there is the potential of damaging hail and flooding. check this out, michael. we have the potential here for over four to six inches of rainfall, stretching from

northern louisiana, into alabama and mississippi and georgia. that's where we have excessive flood potential going forward. this is go being to be an extremely active next 24-46 hours and keeping all the meteorologists and everyone in those areas on their toes. >> including us. i'm sure we'll talk same time tomorrow. thanks for that derrick van dam, and thank you for spending part of your day with us. the news continues with natalie allen after a short break. you will enjoy that. please stick around. in times like these, it is

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