attended the singapore summit with president trump. >> it's hard to know, but it seems to have been a family succession offer r over the past -- we've had three leaders in a row who have been in the family. >> that was jim sciutto reporting. thank you so much for joining us. anderson continues the breaking coverage now. >> erin, thanks. good evening, everyone. a lot of news braking tonight including a dire warning from the director of the centers for disease and prevention. winter could bring a second wave of the coronavirus. he says, and i'm quoting, there's a possibility that the assault of the virus on our nation next winter will actually be even more difficult than the one we just went through. this is because he says it would likely coincide with the seasonal flu outbreak putting another massive strain on hospitals, having to deal with both the coronavirus and the seasonal flu at the same time. director redfield, who was not at tonight's task force briefing was asked about the anti-stay-at-home protesters as well as the president's call to

liberate certain states. it's not helpful, redfield said. meantime at the briefering the president was sending mixed signals again. on the one hand he said this. >> i would say that you keep away until this thing is gone. it's going to be gone at some point. it's going to be gone, gone. and i would say you keep away and you do the social distancing. >> so, there he is seeming to suggest the virus will determine when to end statewide restrictions and that people should do the social distancing, as he says. but at the same time, he also said this. >> you have people, you can't break the country. at some point you have to go back. now, hopefully the governors are going to do -- because i want the governors -- and i've always wanted that. you can call it federalism, you can call it whatever you want. but the governors, i want them to do it. >> and to that point he was asked about georgia governor's brian kemp decision to open as early as friday and restaurants on monday and movie theaters. despite the fact georgia doesn't

be yet meet his own guidelines, the president's own guidelines, the coronavirus task force's own guidelines for reopening. he said the governor, quote, knows what he's doing. today we learned, however, the governor's decision came as news to his own task force. they said they had no idea. we'll talk about that as well. there is the va study the president has been touting hydroxychloroquine. the patients who took it had higher death rates compared to those who did not. it's not been a pier reviewed study. we'll have more on that tonight. on top of all that there is the unexplained departure of rick bright, the director of the federal agency responsible for the production and purchase of vaccines. that and senate passage of another massive installment of relief money, half a trillion dollars more for businesses affected by the outbreak. all of this as the coronavirus death toll in this country tonight approaches 45,000, according to the latest count just released by johns hopkins. a lot to get to tonight. cnn chief white house correspondent jim accosta starts

us off. jim, on the cdc director saying there could be a second possibly worst coronavirus outbreak this winter, what more was said about it at the briefing? >> reporter: well, dr. deborah birx was asked about it at the briefing and she said she wasn't sure whether or not the coronavirus will be as bad over the winter as it is right now or whether it will be worse, as dr. redfield was saying in the interview with the washington post. she tried to explain to reporters the country will be better prepared to do testing and all sorts of things by then for this deadly virus. and here's how she explained it just a short while ago. >> i don't know if it will be worse. i think this has been pretty bad. when you see what has happened in new york, that was very bad. i believe that we'll have early warning signals both from our surveillance we've been talking about on the vulnerable populations. we're going to continue that surveillance from now all the way through the fall to be able to give us that early warning signal.

>> reporter: so dr. birx sounded confident the country will be better prepared to deal with a second wave accompanied with the flu outbreak, which comes every year. and, you know, i think, anderson, the question that has to be asked as a follow-up, it wasn't at this briefing today. perhaps tomorrow. is will the country be prepared right now? the doctor was saying they'll be doing surveillance testing and so on. there isn't enough testing right now for the current pandemic that is ravaging the u.s. there aren't enough p.p.e. supplies at some hospitals around this country and so on. so i think what dr. redfield raised, really raises a whole host of questions about how the country is prepared in indication this comes back in a second wave, deadlier wave in the winter. >> what did the president have to say about a potential second wave after states like georgia start reopening and people are traveling back and forth between states? >> reporter: yeah, anderson, he was specifically asked about georgia's governor brian kemp. he described him as a good man,

he was going to talk to him at some point this evening. but the president went on to say if these outbreaks come around because of reopenings in certain states, we can put them out, the country can put them out like fires. the president has used this sort of analogy before. but again, anderson, that is not how it works in terms of putting out or stopping an outbreak. it isn't like putting out fires. he also at one point suggested that perhaps some of these nail salons and other businesses in georgia could do coronavirus testing for some of their customers coming in. anderson, we don't have enough testing nationwide as it is. the governor of maryland just had to go to south korea and purchase 500,000 tests on his own because of the shortage of testing in this country. so it's difficult to imagine how a nail salon or a bowling alley or a gym could do coronavirus testing in georgia to make sure people are safe coming into those establishments. anderson? >> jim accosta, appreciate it. stay right there. i want to bring in our political

health team, sanjay gupta and dr. lena wen. the president was touting hydroxychloroquine as a treatment. saying what have you got to lose. here's some of the things he said about t. >> the fda also gave emergency authorization for hydroxychloroquine. we're having some very good things happening with it. it's shown very encouraging, very, very encouraging early results. there are some good signs. you've read the signs. i've read the signs. i say what do you have to lose? i'll say it again. what do you have to lose? take it. if things don't go as planned, it's not going to kill anybody. it will be wonderful, it will be so beautiful. it will be a gift from heaven if it works. >> if some other person put it forward they'd say oh, let's go with it, you know. what do you have to lose?

>> try it if you'd like. >> i've seen things that i sort of like, so what do i know? i'm not a doctor. i'm not a doctor. but i have common sense. >> so, this isn't sort of to blame him, although it does sort of show the dangers of, you know, any elected leader touting one specific drug that hasn't been rigorously tested. talk about this new study which unfortunately has had negative results. >> reporter: yeah. i mean, i think the one thing we can all agree on, it would be a gift to have an effective therapy right now. everybody on the planet certainly wants that. but the evidence has not been very good around hydroxychloroquine. these are early studies, you know. and under any other circumstances, anderson, we probably wouldn't even be reporting on these studies. these are not normal circumstances. this is still a relgtiveativelyl study as you mentioned at the

top of the show. it was not randomized. people weren't put in random groups. it's not peer reviewed. it's come out of the va, good data. 368 patients and they were sort of -- some patients got hydroxychloroquine. some got a combination of hydroxychloroquine and a azithromycin. and some got neither. the patients who got the combination therapy, 22% of them unfortunately died. patients who did not get that combination therapy, 11% of them died. if you just got the hydroxychloroquine, it was even worse, 27% died. but again, a small study here. and you know, we need the larger data. there were some 10,000 doses i believe initially, anderson, that went to new york. those were supposed to be given as part of a clinical trial. i know some of the data now has been sent over to the fda for further review. we need to see that data because that's really gpg to paioing toe story. the fda study, out of brazil, some of the recent studies out

of france have not shown this to be an effective medicine and some of them have shown it to be, you know, with significant side effects, even death, anderson. >> were the people who were picked to get the hydroxychloroquine in some ways sicker than the people who were not? >> that's the question. when you randomize, you want to blindly -- >> it was random? >> this was not randomized. >> it was not, okay. >> you want a randomized trial to do that. there have been studies that looked at this as a prophylactic medication giving it to totally healthy people like health care workers and seeing if they're less likely to get the infection. it's gone all the way to people who are critically ill on ventilators to see if it's likely to take them off the ventilator, make it easier for them to come off. so, so far you've had some data going in both directions, but lately the larger studies, all small still, but the more recent studies, i should say, have not been very compelling. >> i mean, the deaths are very a rm

alarming. dr. wen, the cdc says this could be in conjunction with the flu. >> that's why they are saying all along there could be a seasonal possibility involved. we could see the second wave in the fall or winter. but i'm worried about a second wave coming much sooner when these social distancing restrictions are being lifted. i'm also worried about other states following what georgia and others are doing because we know that there's a lag in time between when the restrictions are lifted and when people get sick. they go to the hospital, and unfortunately, will die. and i'm afraid that people are going to look at georgia and say, oh, well, they lifted the restrictions and it's not that bad. we haven't seen cases go up. and so we, these other states, are going to be lifting our restrictions as well. and we could really see a second wave of infections now or in a couple months time that's much worse than what we have now. and then if we really hit fall and winter and that's even

worse, then we will have overwhelmed our health care system several times. and i'm really afraid of what will happen with our health care workers if too many of them fall ill. we can build new ventilators, but we cannot build more doctors and nurses. and that's what could happen with this resurgence in the fall. >> dr. wen, i appreciate it. jim accosta, thank you very much. his admission is he is not an epidemiologist. he posted on medium, coronavirus, why you must act now has been prescient and incredibly influential. it's been viewed 48 million times. by the likes of andrew yang and psychologist steven pinker. tomas joins us now. thank you so much for being with us. i really read your writings with great attention. i think they're incredibly illuminating for people. i recommend people read them. you write about the hammer and the dance in several of your recent pieces. can you explain to us what you mean by that? the hammer being the strict

draconian social distancing that many countries, most countries have put their people through to varying degrees, and then the dance. where are we right now? >> that's right. in the hammer you don't know what's going on. you can't control it, and so you limit the economic activity so that first you lower the number of cases that you have. and then you can prepare for what's coming next, the dance. and so in the united states, different states are in different stages. you have, for example, states like alaska, montana, hawaii, they have a handful of cases every day, so they can start saying, okay, what do i do for the dance? there's a lot of states that are definitely not there, close to their peak, so they're not ready yet to move on. so first that's on the situation of the cases. then there is a question of what do you do to dance? what do you do to control the

epidemic on an ongoing basis? there, most states are not ready yet because there are a set of things you need to be able to do really well to be able to dance. do testing really well. do contact tracing really well and masks and so on, so forth. >> all those things you just listed for the united states are not in place. >> that's right. it really depends here on the states, but i think, for example, contact tracing is a perfect example. and testing, too. so let's look at these two. the countries that have done a great job at isolating cases have 3% positives over tests. meaning that for 100 tests they make, only 3% turn out positive. so that means that they're testing a lot and they're catching them as a result, a lot of the cases. where as the united states, the united states is around 20%. so it's not testing enough to know where the cases are.

if you don't know where the cases are, you can't isolate them. and then the other thing is the contact tracing. it's not just about isolating cases, but also all their contacts so that they can spread the virus. and so you have countries like south korea, for example, like taiwan that are doing a really good job at figuring out who is sick, but also for the two weeks before that who are all the contacts that they've touched and potentially quarantining these people. we are not doing any of this in the united states. there's a couple of states like california, like massachusetts that are starting to do this. there are a few plans at the national level, but there's nothing -- enough for us to isolate these contacts. and if we can't quarantine these contacts. if we can't quarantine these contacts, these will start again when we open up the economy. >> and nobody is -- nobody from the federal government seems to be addressing the need for huge numbers of people to be hired to do and trained to do real contact tracing. the kind of contact tracing the

federal government is talking about is not real contact tracing. they're talking about a few cdc people going to various states and pitching in. when the countries where the dance has started, meaning the opening up has started, what are the lessons to learn from those places? you look at again taiwan. i've been following taiwan for weeks now. it's fascinating. there are folks in taiwan out eating in restaurants every night. and germany has had incredible success. >> yeah, and germany right now is actually going up. we'll see what happens. taiwan has done a really good job. south korea for me is the golden standard because it's the only country so far that has had an outbreak they were able to control without heavy lockdown. we need to look at what they've done. you obviously want to look at other countries like china and taiwan. first there is a very big number of people, investigators working on this problem. in the case of hubei in china,

there were close to 10,000 people. their only job was to trace contacts. and you take the example of south korea and they have a lot of data from infected people and the rest of the population to know exactly who they got in contact with. for example, if you are infected in south korea, you are going to talk with an investigator and the investigator is going to have access to your credit cards data so they know where you spent money so they know where you went. they'll have access to your mobile data to know where you went and they can publish some of that data to know, say hey, these infected people went to all these places. watch out if you also went there. but also with this information, they can call these other people and say, hey, you were in contact with this person. you should quarantine. >> that's incredible. >> all of that work, we're not doing anything like that in the united states. >> tomas, again, i'm such a fan of your writing and i appreciate you being on. >> thank you. >> it's so sensible and clear. appreciate it. coming up next, small business

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the broadcast georgia's governor brian kemp pushed to own businesses. it took his coronavirus task force by surprise. he's given the green light to arrange what you might call non-socially distant business toes reopen, tattoo parlors and hair salons. the coronavirus task force coordinator was asked about the wisdom of that tonight. >> we've been very clear in the guidelines, and i think it's up to the governors and mayors to ensure that they're following the best they can each of those phases, to make sure that both the public is completely protected. but the governors and mayors need to communicate very clearly on the data that was used for decision making and make that transparent and available to their communities. >> we asked governor kemp to come on the program. he declined. we're happy jamie booth could join us. she owns a hair salon in grant park neighborhood. thank you for being with us. sorry it's under these circumstances. but when governor kemp says social distancing will still need to take place for

businesses reopening, how would that even be possible in a hair salon? >> anderson, thank you for having me. and it doesn't make any sense because once the first person sits in my chair to get a haircut, then i can't promise the next person that sits in my chair that i'm not going to contaminate them, and i can't say that i'm not contaminated at that point. so if we're supposed to be 6 feet away from each other, it's physically impossible for me to run my business and feel like i'm not putting someone's life in danger or the life of myself. >> so will you be opening back up? >> no, not any time soon. i don't think i'll open at least until mid may because we don't know what the numbers are in georgia and we're not doing proper testing. >> but, i mean, that's going to hurt you financially obviously. >> it is. i'm a single mom and i have no income other than when i'm behind the chair doing hair. and i don't know that i'll be paying my mortgage or rent on my salon, and i'm still not going to put anyone's life in danger.

i'll have to figure it out as it comes. i believe i'm doing the right thing by not going back to work yet. >> i have to say that's a remarkable decision by you. obviously you would be very justified based on your financial situation and what you're facing, you know, to just open up and get as many customers in as you can. >> yes, absolutely. and i've spent the last 24 hours talking to other hair dressers and he is they tigss aesthetici the industry. i haven't spoken to one person that thinks it's okay for us to go back to work under these circumstances. >> i understand that you've heard from clients, customers who contacted you out of concern that you were staying safe. it's certainly good to know that they are standing by you in this as well. >> yes, absolutely. i've done hair for 23 years and i've never taken this much time off from work before and i had a lot of people call me to -- the most of the text messages i received were saying, please don't open your salon. we don't want you to do that.

we want you to stay safe and we want to stay safe. i'm very appreciative the clients are being nice about it and they agree, and they're also scared. >> well, jamie, i'm sorry for all you're going through, and i appreciate you coming on to talk. and god nosy want hair salons to open more than anybody. i want my barber back. i gave myself a buzz cut, and it's a little growing over, but i have a big bald spot on the side of my head which is not really the look i was going for. >> yeah, i actually saw that. that's pretty funny. >> okay. maybe you can give me some pointers. or when you're open and everything is fine, i'll come by and get a real cut from you. >> that sounds great. thank you so much. >> thank you, jamie, appreciate it. thanks for all you're doing. >> thank you. have a good evening. >> more on the pressure being put on governors to open like it ready or not. michigan endured the loss of 2,500 lives since the outbreak began. a presidential call on twitter

to, liberate michigan. gretchen whitmer responded in "the new york times." trust me, we governors are, too, but we need to get this right. governor whitmer joins me now. governor, what is your message to other governors who are already opening up their state economies right now, especially given the guidelines from this white house which is -- has very specific, you know, as specific as they are, they're not that specific, but it does have guidelines for what needs to be in place. and in the states that are reopening right now, to the extent they are, those things aren't in place. >> right. so, the guidelines call for 14 days. i'm seeing numbers start to level off or drop. the guidelines call for observing best practices even if we do go back to work. 6 feet away, wearing masks. these are absolutely essential. i looked to see what other states are doing. all i can tell you is we in michigan are taking this very

seriously. that we are assessing what is the nature of risk associated with each sector in our economy. how do we scale those and how do we work with our brightest minds and epidemiology to understand what the inherent risk is? and what protocols can we take to mitigate that risk? so when it's safe to re-engage, we have a thoughtful data driven rigorous plan to keep the public safe. i think that going too fast will be harder for businesses to have the confidence of the public to come in any way. if you're not guaranteeing or able to show the thoughtful plan that's gone into people's safety, i think it's going to be hard to get people to come out and participate anyway. so we have to get this right so we don't have a second wave. >> where is testing in your state now? where does it need to be in order to have confidence that businesses can reopen? and even things like hand-held

thermometers you can point at somebody's head, do you have tens of thousands of those for -- those are hard to find. i've looked in a lot of super markets and pharmacies looking for them, and they're hard to get. >> well, where we were with p.p.e. two weeks ago when i was imploring for help, we were living day to day. at this juncture we are 8 to 21 days. that's still not a lot, but it's in a much better position than where we are. we know that in order to re-engage sectors of our economy, we're going to have to be able to take these kinds of p.p.e. and show that they're available. if you are in any sort of business where you are front and center touching clientele, people, the general public, you need to have, you know, p.p.e. to protect yourself and protect them as well. so we've made great strides. our testing, we're doing 6000 tests a day. we really need to be up to 10,000. i could get to 12,000 tomorrow if i had all the swabs that we

need to conduct these tests. so we have the capability. the supply chain issue every state is confronting is keeping us from doing more testing so we can feel confident it's safe to re-engage. >> so folks yesterday from the coronavirus task force they were deriding governors for saying they need more testing. and the -- these folks are saying at the white house, well, the capacity is there. you just don't know what you have. >> yeah, so, you know, we had a call with the white house yesterday, all of the governors across the nation or the vast majority of us were on it. we engaged -- i heard over and over again from my colleagues on both sides of the aisle that this supply chain issue is real for all of us. we have the capacity to process the tests, but if you don't have the swabs and the re-agents, you can't do a test. and so if we could get those fundamentals, if the defense production act was utilized and

we went to work and started producing these swabs, they're not complicated things to produce. we just need to have a national strategy and the full force and effect of the defense production act to get this done. we need re-agents. those are the two things i know michigan is not unique in looking for. and if we could produce it on, you know, on a number that would supply all of the states, we would all have a lot more confidence we could safely re-engage sectors of our economy. >> obviously, you know, the president talked about liberating michigan, you know, encouraging people who aren't social distancing while they're protesting, protesting his own guidelines, he says, you're just being too tough on his own guidelines. just the logic of the protest. protest is a great thing in this country, but i don't understand the logic behind their protesting in support of the president, but against his own

guidelines. where do you see these protesters? how do you see this in the grand scheme of what is going on? >> well, let me just explain one thing, you know, michigan has got the tenth largest population in the country. we have the third highest death rate in the country. we have a unique problem here in michigan. i know that the story of young skylar herbert has been acknowledged on cnn, a 5-year-old, who lost her battle with covid-19. two parents who are front line first responders. this is a unique problem we are confronting in michigan and it calls for a tough solution. i do have some of the most aggressive actions on the books in our nation because i've got one of the worst problems in our nation. i am trying to save lives here. so while we can respect and revere the right of dissent, the right to demonstrate, right now in this moment to do so in such

an irresponsible way endangers the lives of others. and a momentary sacrifice, which is staying home today, is not just about limiting someone's liberties. it's about ensuring that another person has a right to live. our parents. and so that's why it's so important and so when i see demonstrations come together where people are not social distancing, they're not wearing masks, they're handing things bare hand to bare hand to children, passing out candy, i know when they come from all different parts of our state, congregate, go back, we have to be very careful in watching. are we going to see a spread of covid-19 in parts of the state that maybe didn't have it before? because that's precisely how it spreads. >> we should also point out it's quite small, the number of people involved is pretty minuscule compared to the population of your state and in other states. and it doesn't seem to me they really speak for, you know, the

vast majority of people out there who are trying to do their best and reflective of the sense we're all in this together. >> right. >> governor whitmer, i appreciate your time. >> thank you for making that point. the vast majority of the people in this state, and i think across the country, are doing the right thing, and we want to thank them. we need to double down right now. we will get through this together. >> the social distancing, the one thing -- you know, this is obviously a terrifying situation for everybody. the one thing that gives me personally as a citizen great hope is science knows what to do. science tells us social distancing works, and we have seen that. it's just a hard thing to do and there's obviously a lot of other factors at play. we know the only thing that works, it's the only tool we really have. >> right. so just stay away from one another. virus can't transfer from me to you if we're not together. it's really that simple. it doesn't make isolation easier. it doesn't make the loss of a job easier or the loss of a

business. but we do know that we have the power to bring this virus to its knees. but we have to observe these practices, and that's how we save lives and that's how we shorten the amount of time we are in this posture and we can thoughtfully think about re-engaging sectors of the economy when we can do so. >> governor whitmer, thank you. >> thank you. >> we continue the conversation about reopening economies. the city of wuhan in china. how it has worked out so far and what life is like for people who are living there. (laughter) ♪ ♪ ♪

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tonight a remarkable report you're only going to see on cnn about wuhan, china, the source of the virus. as far as we know. our david culver was there in january and got out just before the lockdown went in place. he's back there tonight three months later. david, glad you're there. before we start, i want to show everybody what it was like the last time you were there as word spread the city was about to be locked down. let's watch this. >> reporter: so, this is where authorities believe the source of the coronavirus is. it's the wildlife and seafood market. and you can perhaps see over there it's cordoned off. you have police on all the corners. it is so sensitive within minutes of us arriving and recording, security asked us to stop filming. so police asked us to leave the market area. they said we have to ghetto official permission. once we get permission we can come back. the reality is we wouldnn't be granted that permission. we can drive-thru it, but you can see they closed off the entire market area. no shopping is going on, no business whatsoever.

it's just empty. they shut it down on new year's day trying to ease fears, suggesting they can handle the virus. but the number of cases continues to rise. sparked by a 3:00 a.m. phone call. >> our work right now is to check out, get out. we headed to the train station as soon as we got word. the city of wuhan, china, essentially going on lockdown. a drastic effort to contain the spreading of the deadly coronavirus. as we arrived, crowds already lined up for tickets stretching out the door. 4:15 in the morning here, and the only way to buy tickets at this hour is in person. we're good? all right. what time do we leave? >> 7:00 a.m. >> reporter: 7:00, all right. is it at this station? >> another station. >> reporter: we have to go to another station? >> it's a station closer. >> reporter: to the market that's shutdown right now, the source of all of this. so the city of wuhan

essentially on lockdown. but a lot of health experts are now questioning whether this will really be effective in containing the virus. or is it a few days too late? >> david is back in wuhan now. i know you just got there a couple hours ago. what's it like from what you've seen so far? >> reporter: you know, you get the feeling, anderson, that this is a city trying to awaken once again. it was a 76-day brutal lockdown, harsh conditions, and many of the communities here, folks couldn't leave their homes. they were sealed off, not even to go outside to get a little bit of air. you start to see it coming back. in fact, one of the things we're struggling with here is the background noise of traffic. but that's a good sign, right? clearly folks are trying to get back to life, trying to get back online with their businesses, and yet there is this eeriness, too. there is fog in the air that surrounds some of the businesses

and communities here, quite frankly. on a personal level, anderson, it's kind of surreal. the last time i was here was three months ago. i woke up in the middle of my nap 3:00 a.m. local time realizing three months ago to that day was when i got a call saying, you've got to get out. the city is about to go on lockdown. >> what procedures, what kind of screening process, if any, did you have to go through? did you have to get tested? what are the controls like in wuhan for citizens? >> reporter: as you know, we were in shanghai for the past 2 1/2 months, and we have been working for weeks to try to plan our trip back here to wuhan because this is not just about getting a ticket, getting on a train and showing up at a hotel that you've booked. it's a lot of procedures that you have to have in place and i've been working closely with cnn leadership and some of the our security team to make sure that we do it with my team here and do it properly. now, let me show you as you can see on the train that we finally were able to get on board out of shanghai. there were a good number of people there. people, locals in particular,

are traveling once again within china. what's interesting is we've seen less and less of the largely protecti protective garments people were wearing. the white hazmat suits we saw when we were traveling. people have shed those. everybody wears masks, it's mandatory. a good number of people, including ourselves, wear gloves. one thing that is interesting, anderson, is the treatment of foreigners. we noticed they'll come up to us on the train, for example, want to know where we were coming in from, how long we've been in the country. they'll look at our passport several times, they'll do multiple rounds of temperature checks. it's not necessarily to ostracize us, that does happen in some parts here. it's mostly because they're concerned about imported cases. and that is something that i've even gotten a few strange looks. a mom and daughter on the train next to us, local who looked at us and said to the train staff member that they wanted to switch cabins. they think there is that much concern of the unknown.

>> you know, you've shown us in the past this code on your phone that gets you into public places. will traveling to wuhan change that the all? it's an unbelievable system there. for a lot of reasons, it probably would not exist in the united states. but will you have to quarantine once you leave wuhan? >> reporter: there are a lot of privacy concerns, no question. the qr code is the golden ticket. the way it works as we explained, each jurisdiction has their own. ours in shanghai doesn't necessarily help us get around here in wuhan, but it does help us check into a hotel. it's the first thing they wanted to see before even letting us into the door of the hotel to go in and continue the cherk-ck-in process. ours is green, the clear-all to go through. if it goes yellow or red, you can be flagged for quarantine. we're hoping it remains green and it should remain green according to how the chinese government has said wuhan is technically reopened hubei province, the original epicenter

is now back open, and people are able to leave freely. so the idea is, at least from the government's perspective, that people who leave wuhan are able to go back into other cities within china and resume their normal lives. we'll see if that holds true for us, otherwise it could be quarantine. >> david, i'm glad you're there. thank you. stay safe. appreciate all your reporting. up next, i daughter remembers her dad. a victim of the pandemic. she and her family had to say their good-byes on the phone.

one of the tens of thousands of coronavirus victims in the united states was a man named don adaire. he was a father of four, grandfather of five. because of the disease unfortunately health care professionals could be with him in his final days. all of his kids, abby, emily, kerry joined in a phone call and they talked to him for hours and hours and hours. i spoke earlier with abby about the family's experience. abby, thanks for joining us. i'm so sorry we're talking under these circumstances. first of all, can you just talk a little about your dad? what was he like? >> my dad, my dad loved helping people and he did that as a business lawyer. he helped people start and grow their dream businesses. he was so supportive of all four

of his kids and us reaching our dreams. he was active in our community on boards, and he worked harder than anybody i've ever known, all to help the people and organizations that he believed in. >> i've talked to, you know, so many people who have not been able to be speaking or not be able to be physically present with their loved one who -- with covid who died, or even be able to speak to them. you were -- had kind of a unique situation. you were on the phone. your dad could hear you. i believe you could hear him as well. can you just talk about what happened toward the end? because you remained on the phone for a long time. >> yes. so, the nurse at the hospital thankfully offered to take his hospital phone and rest it right up next to his ear. and he couldn't really talk, you know, but we could hear him

breathe, and so we just had time together. i was able to merge all our calls on this one line, and so we were able to share lots of memories with our dad and tell him how much we loved him, kind of cheer him on, and hearing him breathe, it was like our connection to him, and how we knew he was still alive. >> how long did you stay on that phone? >> it was over 30 hours. >> wow. >> you know, and we would doze off, and then one of us would say, we love you, dad, we're here for you, dad. and you know, it was a really long call, and we were all in different places in the world. denmark, north carolina, texas, and upstate new york. >> how many of you were on the call? >> all four of us. >> wow. what an extraordinary thing. my mom decade thied this past sd

me and my family were able to be with her at the end and with her throughout, but it's so important to -- i mean, it's an extraordinary experience, and even though obviously it's different on the phone, to be able to have that time, to be able to say all the things you want to say, that must, i mean, it sounds strange to say but, i mean, that is a great blessing if one is going through this. >> it was a huge blessing. it allowed me to have some sort of closure, you know, like you said, i was able to say what i needed to say knowing it was the end, and even though i couldn't see him, and i couldn't hold his hand, having that connection over the phone was incredibly valuable. >> you wrote a facebook post about this, and i was really just so moved by what you said, and one of the things you said, what was done was done. the weight of this hit hard.

the dam broke and i realized i couldn't go to be by your side, no visitors, a covid wing, i felt a huge rush of anguish, but i couldn't stay stuck there. i needed to talk to you, dad, as soon as possible. can you talk about the things you sort of said to him? . i don't want to get too personal but whatever you feel is appropriate. >> i thanked my dad for being there for me, for loving me. i apologized for what i needed to apologize for. i forgave him for what i needed to forgive him for and started sharing memories and songs. >> songs that you used to sing around the campfire. >> yeah, i just, i wanted to bring him back to all the good times that we had and with singing around the campfire, him playing his guitar, and so i

just started singing those peter, paul and mary songs, and it was really poignant, and then when i could connect my siblings, just that we were able to talk about all the good times, and his excessively long toasts at our weddings because he was so proud of us. >> the other thing that struck me when i was reading your facebook post is just how -- and i don't really even know how to say this, and it's not really a question so much, but it just, how in the end, it just, it does all boil down to, like, love. i mean, i know it's cliche and silly to say, but in the end, there really is nothing else but the bonds one has with those you love. >> exactly. and, you know, i own a small busine business, and so the few weeks leading up to this, i was really stressed up about that, but my god, losing my dad put everything in perspective. you know, and it all just becomes crystal clear that it's

about family, and it's about love. >> abby, thank you so much for talking with us. and i wish you -- i wish you peace in the days ahead. >> thank you, you as well. >> we remember don adair. as we approached nearly 45,000 deaths attributed to the vi vru we remember more people who died including a grocery store worker and a 5-year-old girl. sn't: breakfast. and, if that feels like a little bit of comfort, it's thanks to... the farmers, the line workers and truckers, the grocery stockers and cashiers, and the food bank workers, because right now breakfast as usual is more essential than ever. to everyone around the world working so hard to bring breakfast to the table, thank you. wayfair has way more waysorld to renovate your home, from inspiration to installation.

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tonight we take a moment to remember some of the other victims of this pandemic, vitalina williams worked as a cashier in a supermarket in salem, massachusetts. among the growing number of grocery store workers who died from the virus. she was from guatemala, came to the u.s. in the 90s. met her husband david here. they were married for 22 years. her husband told us he never knew anyone more loving and open

than his wife. vitalina williams was 59 years old. . reuben burkes, the second highest position in the union. he started working for gm in 1955. was active with the uaw for more than 60 years, pushing for women's right, the rights of people of color in the labor movement known as a community leader in flint, michigan. after retiring he organized fellow retirees to protest the toxic water conditions in the area. ruben burks was 86 years old. one of the youngest victims in the u.s. was sky ler herbert, 5 years old, she developed a rare form of meningitis and swelling on her brain after she contracted disease last month. she died this past sunday. both her parents are first responders in detroit. her mom is a police officer and her father is a firefighter. her mother said that sky ler la a beautiful spirit who was friendly and loving and caring and funny. she was a happy 5-year-old girl who was full of life.

we remember skylar and ruben and vitalina, three lives being mourned tonight. the news continues, i'm going to hand it over to chris. thank you so much for reminding people about the human cost of this situation. i am chris cuomo, welcome to prime time. the head of the cdc has everyone repeating his warning tonight. there likely could be another covid wave this winter. and it may be worse. why are people debating the validity of this. the only reasonable question is how do we prepare right now? the push is to reopen. look, it made sense. we all want more normal. but we know now what may be coming. the cdc head is not the first to say it. so everyone knows tonight let's push the question of whether we are dropping the