hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm anna coren live from hong kong. despite warnings from coronavirus experts more u.s. states are set to loosen up on the lockdown in the coming hours. hard hit italy is also easing restrictions. the government's gradual plan to open up the economy. also ahead, no word from north korea about kim jong-un's recent absence. but south korea is aweighing in. we'll go to seoul for the latest.

♪ right now the u.s. is fast-approaching a million confirmed cases of the coronavirus which is about a third of all infections worldwide. over the weekend, thousands of new fatalities were reported bringing the american death toll to just shy of 55,000. well, that's according to johns hopkins university. critics point to the sharp increase we've seen since early march and say does it look like states should be reopening. yet are some are taking small to large steps in that direction with stay-at-home orders set to expire in a few more states in the coming hours, each with different circumstances. well, meanwhile the white house response coordinator says what the u.s. really needs to do is slow the spread of a break through -- i beg your pardon -- needs to do to slow the spread is a break through in testing so

that large numbers of people can be screened. >> we have to have a break through innovation in testing. we have to be able to detect antigen rather than constantly try to detect the live virus or the viral particles itself and move into antigen testing. i know corporations and diagnostics are working on that now. we have to have a break through. this rna testing will carry us certainly through the spring and summer but we need to have a huge technology break through. and we're working on that at the same time. >> in a few hours, another round of businesses will reopen in the state of georgia. the governor has cleared restaurants and movie theaters to open their doors on monday. on friday, gyms, nail salons, barbershops, bowling alleys were allowed to reopen. atlanta's mayor is worried that it is far too early. >> i'm extremely concerned.

and as an elected official, we often want to be right. but i can tell you that this is one that i hope that i'm wrong about. and i've said it before, i'll say it again, i hope that the governor is right and i'm wrong because if he is wrong, more people will die. and this notion that we can somehow deal with more people who are sick is ludicrous because we don't have a cure and there are healthy people walking into hospitals dying from this illness. and so simply because we may have a bed to offer them or a hospital room for them doesn't mean that we can save their lives. and i think therein lies the problem. i understand that people are hurting economically and people don't want to have to make this choice, but it's important so that we can flatten this curve for a sustained period of time. when i look at the numbers, the

numbers that i have received from this afternoon, our deaths are up 32% from this time last week, a popular test of 26% from this time last week. we aren't headed in the right direction and my fear is we're compounding the problem. >> the governor of colorado has officially relaxed restrictions. his plan is to allow businesses to reopen the first week in may with a reduced work force. some shops say they are ready for business. >> reporter: retail businesses that are non-essential businesses that follow the proper safety protocols will be allowed to open, but customers will have to pick up the goods on the curb side. on friday if they're still following the safety protocols, the the retail businesses can have customers inside. also on friday barbershops, beauty salons, other personal car businesses will be allowed

to open. in the state of colorado all 64 counties in the state make their own decisions. denver city and denver county don't want everything to open right away. they don't want anything to happen tomorrow that would allow that. others want more open like weld county. you have to ask the county for a waiver if you want to ask for more. this county hasn't asked for a waiver but has told business leaders they can open businesses tomorrow. this place here is called the barbershop. that's literally the name of this barbershop. you can see the sticker the cleaners put, 4/26/2020. they were inside. they came here and put on outfits that looked like they were going into outer place to be careful. they sprayed this place down, according to the owners, is ready to open tomorrow. and they say they have a book full of reservations between 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. this is one of the barbers, ty. they got a call after one of our

reports that they don't have the authorization to open. and the county said you could be open. are you planning to be open? >> yes, sir, tomorrow at 9:00. >> are you confident that you're going to be safe and your customers are going to be safe? >> 110%. we practice safe practices 24/7/365 -- >> right, but tomorrow, what are you going to do that's different? >> tomorrow what we plan on doing is we ask customers if they have masks or would like to wear masks, bring those in. we'll be offering gloves, hand sanitizer, all sort of precautions to our customers. but we as well will be doing that personally. >> if the county asked you tomorrow, if they changed their mind, commissioners said you should not be open, would you close? >> absolutely. we have to follow whatever guidelines are put in place and we have to listen to whatever we're being told. we're just trying to make sure the client and customers safety

comes first. >> thanks for talking with us. >> absolutely. >> this is a really nice salon. they've put spacing between the chairs, a bar that will not be open, a pool table is usually here. they've taken it out to create more space. restaurants and bars, there's no plan to reopen now in the state of colorado. they won't be opening in new york either. not much of anything will until mid-may at the earliest. and that's only in parts of the state that have seen a two-week decline in hospitalizations. new york's governor said when the time is right the construction and manufacturing industries will be the first to get the green light. >> the overall hospitalization rate is down. the number of intubations is down. the -- even the number of new covid cases is down, still not good. still 1,000 new covid cases yesterday to put it in focus.

the descent continues and that's a very good starting place. we are now back to where we were on march 31st before we started this dramatic increase in the number of cases. we're still watching. the big question is how fast does that number continue to come down? >> and joining me now in new york, cnn medical analyst dr. kent sepkowitz. doctor, great to have you with us. i think it's fair to say there's real confusion about what should be happening in the u.s. right now. some states are reopening or relaxing restrictions. then you have deborah birx, the task force coordinator come out and say social distancing will remain in place through summer. who should the public be listening to? >> the public should listen to the physicians. and the physicians unbiased. i think that dr. birx has often

showed candor and directness, not always unfortunately. but i think her advice is appropriate. i think that the sense that we've suffered enough and therefore we get a snow day or something like that to go have fun is mostly immature and sort of disappointing to see people adopt. >> because dr. birx has always said that a testing break through is needed before the economy reopens. so, why are governors doing this? >> i think that they have real pressure. i mean, i -- nobody wants to have to do this, right? nobody enjoys social distancing. it was maybe a little bit interesting for a week or two. now, you know, in new york we're hitting about two months. you know, a crashing economy is a terrible thing. people complaining every second of the day is a terrible thing.

voter base complaining, it's a very terrible thing. it ain't easy. you know, none of this is easy. taking the path of less immediate resistance which is open it up, it's going to look good for a few weeks and then there will be cases. and how many cases, where the cases are, and importantly will we be able to see the association between a surge in cases and the relaxation of the stay-at-home rules. >> you would have to assume that these conflicting messages and the confusion is very dangerous and that a second wave is inevitable. >> yeah, yeah, totally so. a second wave connotes the notion that we handled the first wave which this would actually be a lack of handling of the first wave. i think it would be a continuation which is, you know,

tragic. it really wastes all of the work of these months. and, you know, i think 3/4 of the country endured all this time trying their best. we set the dial back to zero. we don't get any credit in the bank for all these days that we've been in isolation. >> vice president mike pence has said that by memorial day weekend which is a month away, the u.s. will largely have the coronavirus epidemic behind us. do you agree? >> no, not at all. the death rate will be lower. so, we could claim that as a victory, i suppose. it's odd that they keep making these easily-disprovable pronouncements. they've been saying them since did this with the 15 cases and it's a miracle. and why they keep setting themselves up to look like idiots, i don't know. as dr. fauci said kind of

brilliantly a while ago, the virus will decide when this ends. we don't decide. it's crazy that we keep doing this. this is what -- you know, this is what my kids would do when they were younger. you know, can we open the presents now? come on, come on, come on. and adults are supposed to say i know this is hard and i know, but we have to wait. that's sort of the adult voice that we are supposed to adopt. but it seems that we are giving into the adolescent, you know, make a mess and screw it sort of approach. it's just the kind of immaturity and inability to delay gratification. >> dr. kent sepkowitz, great to get your insight. thank you so much for joining us from new york. days after president trump made his disastrous comments about disinfectant a lot of people are still angry and confused.

during his briefing thursday, he suggested coronavirus could be treated with a disinfectant injection. that's just dangerous. the white house response coordinator is trying to soften the impact of mr. trump's words. >> what should the american people know about disinfectants and the human body? >> well, first, that was a dialogue he was having between the dhs scientist and himself for information that he had received and he was discussing. we have made it clear, and when he turned to me i made it clear and he understood that it was not as a treatment. and i think that kind of dialogue will happen. >> well, here's where state leaders say it's necessary to keep talking and keep debunking the president's comment. >> we had hundreds of calls in our hot line here in maryland about people asking about injecting or ingesting these

disinfectants which is, you know, hard to imagine that people thought that that was serious. but people actually were thinking about this, was this something you could do to protect yourself. >> injecting, ingesting, snorting house hold cleaners is dangerous. it is not advised and can be deadly. in the past two days there's been a significant increase in calls to the illinois poison center compared to this same time last year associated with exposures to cleaning agents. >> well, italy is preparing to loosen its lockdown restrictions in phases in the coming weeks. the prime minister announced some travel limits will be eased and there will be more access to parks and gardens. funerals will be allowed to be held with up to 15 people attending. this comes as italy reported its sunday death toll was 260, the

lowest since march 14th. >> translator: may 4th, attention will be focused on wholesale trade. it is clear a commercial network will be needed. we set may 18th. museums, exhibitions and libraries. we have also talked about the training of team sports on the sports field. >> cnn contributor bobby nadeau is in rome with more. bobbie, what is the reaction of italians to the easing of restrictions in what is europe's longest lockdown? >> i think people are optimistic this is going to work. may 4th people can exercise away from their homes. we haven't been able to leave our homes for the last two months. people will be able to offer takeout. that's something we haven't had here. and people are optimistic this is going to work. on the 18th, those retail stores

opening will help the economy, and by june 1st, they're really, really, really hoping that they'll be able to open restaurants, perhaps open the beaches, and really get this economy back on track. everyone's optimistic, but of course all of these new openings are going to be under the guidelines of strict social distancing. even when those retail stores open, they're going to have to be able to disinfect the clothing and shoes if anybody tries them on. so, there's a lot to work out. but people are ready for this, anna. >> please keep safe. this just in. starting in monday people in almost all of germany will be required to wear masks in public, that decision coming from the german federal states. each state has its own set of rules, but all of them now require face coverings in at least some public spaces. berlin, however, only requires masks when riding public transport. officials in south korea say

north korea's leader is, quote, alive and well. questions about kim jong-un's health have been floating around for days now after he missed the celebration of his grandfather's birthday on april 15th, north korea's most important holiday. paula h paula hancocks has been following this story in seoul. what's the latest? >> reporter: we've just been hearing the south korean president moon jae-in speaking on today which is the second anniversary of that key summit between north and south korea at the dmz. and he really didn't mention kim jong-un's health at all as far as he can tell. he did talk about a shared future for more cooperation based on willingness for peace and shared trust between him and kim jong-un but really not referring to the elephant in the room which is this remarkable amount of speculation as to what

the health of the leader is. now, when it comes to that, what we do know at this point is that he did miss the april 15th celebration of the birth of the founder of north korea and his father kim ill sun, a key date if not the most important date in the north korean calendar. many experts believe and agree that that is a significant absence of the north korean leader. he hasn't been seen since either. but of course there are a number of conflicting reports as to where exactly he is and what his health is at this point. we did hear from one adviser to president moon just sunday evening saying that he believes that kim jong-un is alive and well but we are hearing difring views from others. i've just spoken to a high level north korean elite. he believes there must be health issue for kim jong-un for him to have missed his grandfather's

memorial and that ceremony on the 15th. but he also says that you should be careful of believing these other rumors and speculation about what's happened to him, because quite frankly, and he knows north korea better than most, there are only a very few number of people who will know where kim jong-un is and what his condition is. he mentioned his wife, his sister, his chief aides. he said beyond that the knowledge of what has happened to him simply wouldn't be there. he did mention he believes those within north korea now know there is gossip and rumors regarding his health. so, he says the longer the silence goes on the more significant that is, anna. >> paula, has someone who has lived in south korea for the many years that you have now closely following this story, what would happen if something were to happen to kim jong-un? who would take over, and where would that leave north korea?

>> reporter: well, it's a question we have asked many people and many experts, many officials. and at this point, the overwhelming answer is that the sister could well be in the running. she is the one that clearly kim jong-un trusts. she is the one that has had her profile raised over the past couple of years by kim jong-un and beside kim jong-un. there's also an uncle who has been an ambassador in different european countries over the past 30 years. he is the sun of the founder. now, there is an expectation that it will be kept within the family if of course this does happen although some say those were the power base in north korea could be a con stender as well. but we should mention this is

one step beyond where we are at this point. we simply don't know what has happened to kim jong-un. >> yeah, of course. fascinating story nonetheless. paula hancocks, greats to see you. the british prime minister is back on the job after recovering from the coronavirus. just ahead, we'll take a look at the growing pressure on boris johnson to determine what's next in tackling the pandemic. us lives here. where we can find common ground... big enough to dance on. for a better us, donate to your local y today. all the way out here just for a blurry photo of me. oh, that's a good one. wait, what's that? that's just the low-battery warning. oh, alright. now it's all, "check out my rv," and, "let's go four-wheeling." maybe there's a little part of me that wanted to be seen. well, progressive helps people save when they bundle their home with their outdoor vehicles. so they've got other things to do now, bigfoot.

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welcome back. british prime minister boris johnson has a lot on his plate as he returns to work. monday marks his first day back after battling a debit tating case of the coronavirus. it will be a very busy first day. the government is working on rolling out more testing, and the opposition labor party is putting pressure on downing street to reveal an exit plan for the lockdown. for more, let's turn to cnn's isa soares. what are we expecting to hear from boris johnson? is he believed to address the media today? >> good morning, anna. that is the speculation still

not being confirmed from downing street. but we do know it's going to be a very busy day for the prime minister boris johnson, as you said back in charge, back at downing street, two weeks after being discharged from hospital with covid-19. and his inbox, anna, you believe it will be pretty packed up. he has a meeting today, we know with senior ministers, senior ministers from his own party as well, as a scientist to get an update on covid-19, how the country is battling it. we've seen lowest numbers in a month, more than 413 people have died, 413 too many, of course. every number is a loss, a family that will never be the same, worth bearing that in mind. but it's also important not to overinterpret the numbers because the numbers tend to dip at the week and slightly higher during the week. the prime minister will be getting a briefing on covid-19. and he's facing so much pressure from so many angles within his own party, tensions within his

own party, anna. some conservative donors who want to see the lockdown lifted or eased because they believe that is being harmful to the economy. they want to see the economy getting going again. then pressures from the leader of the opposition labor party. he does not want to see measures lifted, but he wants to see a lockdown strategy, a lockdown exit plan from the government which so far we have not heard. then he faces pressure as well from the population here that after five weeks of being in lockdown people feeling incredib incredibly restless. we heard yesterday from the director who said look he's seen an uptick in people getting in cars and motor vehicles on the road and he's worried about that. people are looking at the numbers and while hospitalization numbers have decreased and that's a fantastic sign particularly in london, he says this is not a moment, this is not a time to be going out.

and the government of course will be putting, looking at this, boris johnson, are we trying to make a decision. and it will be a colossal decisions he has to make on whether to ease restrictions, to lift the lockdown. and i do wonder how his own brush with death, how that will impact his decision making. what we've heard from different members of his own government the last few days is that the country is not there yet, asking people to really stay the course, anna. >> yeah, there was a great deal of criticism at boris johnson prior to him getting covid-19 that he wasn't taking it seriously enough. so, certainly be interesting to see what measures he will be implementing. lovely to see you. many thanks. still to come the worse blow to the u.s. economy since the great depression, what the daunting road to recovery looks like next. (laughter)

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welcome back. i'm anna coren. let's update you on our top news this hour. the united states is quickly approaching 1 million cases and 55,000 coronavirus deaths. several states are easing stay-at-home restrictions this week going against the recommendations of health researchers and even the white house. during many of these soft reopenings, social distancing rules are still required. dr. deborah birx of the white house task force says the new normal needs to stay in place throughout the summer. for five weeks in a row tens of millions of workers have applied for unemployment benefits. now they're getting mixed

messages from the white house about whether they'll ever get the jobs back. take a listen to the treasury secretary and the white house economic adviser. >> as we begin to reopen the economy in may and june, you're going to see the economy bounce back in july, august, september. we are putting unprecedented amount of fiscal relief into the economy. you're seeing trillions of dollars that's making its way into the economy, and i think this is going to have a significant impact. this is the biggest negative shock that our economy i think has ever seen. we're going to be looking at unemployment rate that approaches rates we saw during the great depression, during the great recession that was a financial crisis around 2008 that we lost 8.7 million jobs in the whole thing. right now we're losing that many jobs about every ten days. the the next couple of months are going to look terrible. you're going to see numbers as bad as anything we've ever seen. i think the unemployment rate is going to jump tie level probably

16% or higher in the next jobs reports. >> restaurants were especially vulnerable to the economic fallout from the pandemic. they face an uncertain future even as social restrictions begin to ease. a restaurateur in maryland showed us what's left of his business. >> it's a ghost town. it's depressing. iet it's scary. the week before hogan announced restaurants should be shut down, our restaurant dropped a little over 40%. we got a little nervous. our bank account got wiped out immediately. we've been pretty much on the phone with either the unemployment insurance or trying to figure out some grants and some loans to try to help us. i see a lot of restaurants that are doing carryout. i think they're doing very well with it. you know, a restaurant like our

style i don't think will do very well with carryout. it's all about ambience, the mix olgs making your cocktail. the only way it would work is if we create a new menu focused on burgers instead of crab cakes. >> it's depressing when i come to the restaurant and see it the way it is right now. you see all these empty seats, the dust collecting on the chairs and the globes. it doesn't seem very promising. there's a lot that's on our books that we need to pay up before we can even reopen. we're about two months of survival. the unknown is what's scary. >> scary indeed. cnn's don defterios joins us now for analysis as we begin a new working and trading week. john, good to see you. the start of a tumultuous trading week, certainly for oil. what is driving it? >> well, you know, it's oil

linked to the lack of demand in the economy and exactly what these owners and businesses in the united states are talking about, anna. this is a week after black monday when we saw oil prices in the united states drop to negative $37 a barrel. in fairness, you can call it black april because the whole month has been a downward spiral and there's this obsession with inventories in the united states. they crossed over half a billion barrels of extra crude and there's no place to put it. the record was march 2017 and we're quickly approaching it. if we take a look at the prices now, we have wti down by 11%, rent down 3%, and falling even further. and most importantly, this is about less than half the price needed by u.s. producers to make a profit. then we have opec+ profits coming in, the major in the middle east including russia, they're going to take about 10

million barrels off the market. but roughly 30 million barrels according to the international agency and pars. you see the huge glut forming. we have the super tankers in the middle east carrying 160 million barrels around the world because there's no storage on shore. it's booked up for the next two or three months. >> such an excess, it is quite extraordinary. how is the oil trade impacting stock markets? >> you know, there is a break between the two. you look at oil or gas, say this is directly linked to economic depression and the drop in demand, right? and they look at the stock market and say they're rising again, but there's a clear reason. that's because the central banks around the world apply the liquidity. the bank of japan saying it will buy government bonds and there's no limit to that. we're going to hear from the u.s. federal reserve and the european central bank. we'll get first quarter earnings

or the gdp for the first quarter in the united states. we know that's going to be terrible. we know the second quarter is going to be even worse. the real question is when do we cover in the third quarter. this is a big question. but right now the stock market, we see japan rising better than 2.5%, strong gains in south korea and hong kong. shanghai just marginal gains but still it's all up vis-a-vis the demand barometer which is oil today. >> we are not off the roller coaster yet. john defterios, appreciate the update, many thanks. well, health inequalities in the midst of a pandemic. when we return we'll take a look at the devastating toll the virus is having on people of color.

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communities, and nowhere is that more evident than on the faces of families who have lost a loved one. cnn's phil black has more. >> reporter: a moment of painful loneliness for one man. he's a grieving son and brother made to wait in a place that can offer no consolation for his loss, a car park, under a mosque in north london now being used to deal with the unequal consequences of covid-19. it's become a workshop, a busy production lot rapidly building coffins, trying to keep up with the pandemic's ruthless demand. this is the confronting reality, what it really means when doctors say people of color are being disproportionately impacted by the virus. so many people in this community are dying, there aren't enough coffins for them. the carpenter's pause as the body is wheeled out in the nearby mortuary room.

this is what the grieving man has been waiting for, to begin saying good-bye. the mosque is closed, so he has to pray here in the car park for his mother inside that casket and his brother who lies in another just meters away. the 70-year-old woman and her 32-year-old son died a few days apart. both had contracted covid-19. across london in a muslim burial ground, we see more improvisation dealing with death on an extraordinary scale. the backlog for burials is so long muslim scholars were consulted to approve these trenches, each one excavated to hold 20 bodies. just days later, the first is already full. the staff in britain's national health service first noticed the terrible number of black and ethnic minority people falling

to the coronavirus partly because they were losing so many of their own, like thomas harvey, who had worked as a hospital carer for 30 years. >> it's really weird not having my dad around. it hurts every single day. >> the usually strong, healthy father of seven was isolating at home with covid-19 symptom when is he collapsed in the bathroom. his family and police broke through the door. paramedics worked to save him. his daughter says she'll never forget the words she heard soon after. >> when he came upstairs and he was just like the virus has got him, we can't do anything else -- that was just bad. >> who said that to you? >> one of the paramedics. >> much of the evidence is

anecdotal. but in the united kingdom as in the u.s., it appears undeniable. covid-19 is devastating communities of color while researchers have debated protecting vulnerable people who are experiencing a desperately unfair burden of pain and loss. phil black, cnn, london.

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spain is beginning to relax some of its strongest confinement regulations. children under 14 will allowed to spend an hour outside a day. on sunday the country reported its lowest number of coronavirus deaths since late march and cases have been declining. one fact the government is easing restrictions. scott shows what it's like for a family under lockdown. >> reporter: this is the moment that the family has been dreaming of. it's the kids' first time outside in six weeks.

for families like theirs, lockdown has meant trapped inside a thousand square feet. alejandra and her husband were working from home, regretting their decision to buy an apartment and not a house. we spoke a few days before the kids were allowed out. >> you feel sad because you feel trapped at home. >> in spain, adults have had some excuses to leave their homes, to walk the dog, go to the store, or some cases work. kids have had no excuse to go out at all. >> yes, i think it's a big impact for me and my family. we are always fighting and yelling at each other. and sometimes at night i cry before going to bed because i feel the pressure on myself. >> stuck inside, the kids have had few outlets to burn off their energy. >> sometimes i notice that alex doesn't want to talk at all. he just goes to the room and

just staring the window. and i think coronavirus is after all showing us something that we haven't seen before. >> on tuesday the government promised kids some freedom. but a trip to the store with their parents was not what a restless public had in mind. facing widespread backlash, the health minister agreed to allow kids under 14 to play outside for an hour a day. it doesn't seem like much but after six weeks inside, it's a sign this national nightmare might soon be over. >> it feels great. it feels like you've got a lot of space around you, freedom. >> scott mcclain, cnn, madrid. for more on how lockdowns are affecting children, psychologist wendy walsh joins us now. wendy, great to have you with us. tell us the toll it is taking on children being couped up

isolated from the community. >> i think probably the most difficult part for kids is missing out on all the social interaction because play, especially make believe play, is all about social learning and how they grow. but i want to pull parents off the worry train a bit because with the younger children, what they really need say secure attachment with their primary attachment figures, their parents. so, they're having a field day. the parents may be a little stressed, but things are actually very normal. i always say a baby's home is its parents' body. having parents home maybe go a long way to creating secure attachments. i want to remind people that middle schoolers and teenagers have always maintained relationships digitally. they're far ahead it than we are. >> what are the psychological effects on kids do you think? >> i don't think so. i think in fact it's good. i think it's good to have parents who aren't so busy and aren't running out for very long

work days. i think in the long run this is teaching families about having family dinner together every night, about doing jigsaw puzzles and playing games. and i remind those parents who are forced to home school their kids that baking and decorating cookies is both a math lesson, a chemistry experiment, and an art project, okay? so, don't worry. the kids have no plasticity. they're going to catch up educationally. >> i'm going to have to remember that next time when i try to bake with my 4-year-old twin boys because it was a disaster. but i guess it's not just the kids. it's also the parents. because even though it is that family time and people are definitely being more connected, they are reconnecting. and we are hearing that from our friends, from each other. people are feeling frustrated as we heard in that package just before, that mother frustrated, ea irritated, on the verge of

tears. the boredom sets in. it can be a healthy environment. >> the adult relationship can be under a lot of strain. you have to remember there are two great fears here. fear of potential health risk for you or a family member and fear of financial ruin. and these are very weird -- i call them the background drum beat to everything we do during the day. and i think the most important thing is to discuss these fears with your spouse and also this is a great opportunity to practice communication skills. my favorite little trick is called a communication sandwich. it starts out with a layer of love followed by a layer of something a little hard to chew on and backed up with another layer of love. so, it starts out with a compliment and then an ask and then a compliment again so the person will stay open and hear what you're trying to say. >> i'm loving this advice. wendy, what is your advice for everyone to remain sane? >> we know this will pass. i have teenagers and college

students in my house, and i tell them to journal, journal, journal, journal. besides the fact that it's really good for your mental health because it creates space between your emotional experience and your eyes reading it later. but also these are important documents. people have been sending me poems, letters, and photographs from the great pandemic of 1918, and i have been devouring them with so much interest. and i really encourage everybody, young people and old people alike to document their experiences because in many generations coming up, they will look to us and go really? you lived through the great pandemic of 2020? yes, we did. and we'll have lots to tell. >> yeah, it is -- it's an incredible time. absolutely. wendy walsh, fantastic to get your insight. thank you for that fascinating discussion and all your advice. great to have you on the program. >> good to see you. and finally an update on

captain tom moore. the adorable british veteran set out to walk laps in his garden 100 times before his 100th birthday. he's now raised over $36 million and set two guinness world records, one for the most money raised by a charity walk for an individual, and the other for being the oldest person to reach number one on the charts. he recorded a charity single. all mail postmarked will be stamped with a happy birthday greeting to captain moore. he turned 100 on thursday. happy birthday. thank you so much for joining me. i'm anna coren. "cnn newsroom" continues with the lovely rosemary church. please stay with cnn. ♪

hello and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching "cnn newsroom" and i'm rosemary church. just ahead -- all around us at home are starting to feel like prison. if we can walk around outside on our street, why can't we walk around at the beach. >> this hour, a sea change as the country begins to open up and here's a chorus of warnings about the danger still