xfinity. the future of awesome. hello, everyone, i'm brooke baldw baldwin. re-opening america is picking up speed. 31 states will be open by week end. restaurants, public parks, dozens of shopping malls preparing to open their doors. the federal social distancing guidelines are also set to expire at midnight and we learn today the white house is considering new cdc recommendations detailing how businesses, schools and other groups should handle re-opening. they include schools, keeping desks at least six feet apart, having students eat lunch in classrooms rather than cafe terrify yas.

faith-based organizations holding virtual or outdoor services and restaurants using disposable menus, pilates and utensils among other precautions. all of this as the numbers continue to mount. the virus has killed more than 61,000 americans. well over a million americans have been affected. let's start with how the country's three biggest states are each preparing to open in three different ways. stephanie elam is in california. one of the most cautious approaches to opening back up. stephanie, what will it took like there? >> reporter: well, for one thing we did see last week where the temperature soared and people flocked to the few beaches that were open. that would be in ventura county and orange county. because of that the governor of not at all thrilled here. governor gavin newsom said that's not just what we want to do because these viruses don't

take the weekends off. we're expecting to hear from him shortly announcing he's going to order all beaches up and down the state to be closed for the foreseeable future. now we just know in newport beach that city council in orange county had voted to keep their beaches open but with stricter enforcement of those distancing guidelines. so one. executive from orange county saying this is an overreaction. also san diego which opened up their beaches saying their people have done a good job of following the rules so they are not happy about this. they say it sends the wrong message. we do a memo was sent out to police stations in the state to talk about that. we're waiting to hear about that because of the concern of the virus still spreading as numbers are rising here in l.a. county. anyone who wants to get tested for the virus can now do so according to the mayor. >> things change quickly. ed lavandera is in texas where the governor is taking a

different approach. ed? >> reporter: hi, kate. here in texas the state home order ends today. starting tomorrow restaurants like the ones you see behind me can begin opening up andcapacit. so what does that mean in reality? essentially what this is doing is that is making business owners on their own having to make these very tough decisions. restaurant, malls, movie theaters can open up although several movie theater chains say they will not open up, stay closed for a matter of safety. we spoke with one restaurant owner here and as you look at the trend lines of coronavirus cases in the state, state officials believe that they are beginning to see the flattening of the curve. but here in dallas county they had nearly 180 new cases announced today. that's the highest number of reported in the last month and a half. so troubling signs here and that's why there's still a great deal of concern and business

owners like the one we spoke to say they are just trying to figure it out and make the best of a horrible situation. >> it's been extremely stressful. we won't make a dime out of this at all. 25% of the revenue. 100% of the costs. we're doing it for our staff family to make sure they are taken care of and hoping to make it day-by-day. >> reporter: the owner of this particular restaurant says they are opening up essentially just to be able to salvage work for their employees. as you heard they will be losing money and a lot of small business owners as politicians make these claims that they can re-open, re-open the texas economy, small business owners left to make these very difficult decisions. >> running day-by-day is no way to run a business. we go to west palm beach, florida where the governor is taking a different approach. >> reporter: you can say the governor here in florida dipping his toe in that re-opening pool phaseflorida's 14 day trend

despite looking at that here's what's re-opening. we have the retail stores. they can open at 25% capacity. restaurants can also have 25% capacity inside and tables outside as long as they are six feet apart. elective surgeries can resume, golf courses as long as you take your own cart. ramps are open., parks and boat as far as what's closed movie theaters, dog parks, salon, all remain closed. nursing homes are still closed to visitors. picnic areas are closed and cools still closed. masks and social distancing encouraged and no groups larger than ten. here's what's key. he's keeping these major south florida counties miami-dade, broward and palm beach county where i am closed, completely closed. these are three major counties, the most populace counties of the state.

they include 31% of the state of's population about 6 million people. those will remain under a stay-at-home order. even though the governor says he's re-opening he's taking extra precaution when it comes to that area of the state. >> thanks. so now to testing. one of the most important issues that experts say in keeping a handle on the virus as the country re-opens despite repeated pleas from states and experts for help ramping up testing, president trump is once again contradicting what his task force has stated all along now suggesting widespread testing isn't necessary. listen. >> we've done incredible with testing and you'll see over the next coming weeks, mike you may want to speak about that a little bit but in the next coming weeks you'll see some astonishing numbers. i don't know that's necessary. >> let's take a closer look at two of the biggest states. texas and florida.

new figures show those states are falling considerably short of their testing goals even as they re-open, and texas governor greg abbott has said they need to test 30,000 people a day. over the past two weeks the state conducted less than 12,000 tests a day on average. in florida, experts say the state needs to test about 33,000 people every day. that's more than double the current rate of daily tests being conducted there at the moment. for more on this joined right now is the mayor of miami beach, florida. the state beginning to re-open on monday in a big way. your county, your city, your county and two others not part of that re-opening as randi kaye was laying out. how do you feel about florida re-opening now? >> well, i don't know that -- to be accurate the governor put that on us to decide. i don't think we should be

rushing in to a re-opening at all. i think we have to rely on doctors and health care practitioners who tell us whether we're ready and two main things to decide whether we're ready is the measure of the virus in the immunity and it's still here, obviously, hasn't really been plummeting down the way they want it to. more importantly you have the testing capacity, the surveillance testing, the contact tracing which is a massive effort so that when you do have an outbreak which you most certainly will have you have in a laser-like surgical way, cabin off from the rest of the community. you don't have that ability you'll be flying blind and unfortunately have to close again because there will be nothing you can do. >> exactly on that point, governor desantis said earlier this week. "our ability to test exceeds our current demand." he's saying you have an over supply of tests apparently at this point.

do you see it that way? >> listen, i've been -- the governor has responded to our request for opening up a new testing site at our convention center which was already tran formed into a field hospital. now we'll transform it into a testing site. it's not really even just the testing that's going on right now that concerns me. we have to have the capacity to do this contact tracing and imagine my community. we typically get 10 to 15 million voiftors in a little town of 92,000 and all these hotels and venues and prome mnas and how do we control this if we don't have massive amount of testing. i'll give a plug to the rockefeller foundation, they are rolling out very competent and state-of-the-art best in the marketplace approach to this and picked our community, the dade,

miami and miami-dade and that will give us the capacity to do this. if not i'm worried we'll open up to a disaster. >> that's exactly right. a second wave is what everyone is absolutely terrified for. forget, putting aside most important thing what it for public health, for the economy in your -- what it means for the economy in your city and state it would also be devastating. do you have -- do you see any sign that contact tracing is even close to where it needs be for where you think it needs be? >> i will say this. we've reached out and as i said one of the problems with any kind of challenges that reveals the lines of organization our county health department works for the state surgeon general who doesn't report to anybody in the county or city so you got to hope they deal with it. they've been pretty good. they increased their capacity and are getting to the point where they are almost there. we brought in experts from the

university of florida and from duke to challenge that to make sure it is because i can't tourist turn to my residents and say let's fire it up. imagine if it does fail. then how hard is it going to be to convince people that it's safe to re-open again. who is going believe us? who will come here? who will go anywhere? it's important to get it right and you must have critical capacity for surveillance testing to help with contact tracing and for testing asymptomatic people. >> you're not re-opening yet. in your city. . >> no. >> when do you -- do you have any -- do you know or have any idea in your gut when you think you with ill be re-opening? you think a week out that you'll be able to start thinking seriously about it? a month out? is there one thing you need to see singularly before you're gu

attorney and former federal prosecutor not the gut of an epidemiologist or infectious disease doctor. when they tell me we have capacity to manage this virus so you can open up that's when i will turn to my residents and say experts told me this. it's not a political decision it's a health care crisis. even though it has an economic crisis as well it's a health care challenge. >> let me ask you, the governor has -- when he was in the oval office especially he is taking credit for the relatively low death rate that we've seen in florida. he's also really gone to the point of criticizes other states for what he's called their draconian measures they put in place and they had higher death rates. when you look at how things played out in florida you shut down, you did a stay-at-home order in your city on march 23rd, more than a week before the governor issued a statewide

order. do you think the governor deserves credit here, or do you think it was the fact that your earlier action and that of other local officials was able to get ahead of it. >> you know, i think it's -- listen i don't believe this is a game about credit or blame. the governor i called and told him we were doing it. he wanted to hear. he was totally agreeable. and he gave us the information and supported us. so i'm not about whose fault it is. but we can use more of that capacity to understand this issue because typically cities like mine don't have the capacity to make these very sophisticated and complex health care decisions. i'm not a finger pointer. i was the democratic leader in the legislature. he's a republican. it would be easy to get into that. we were the first city to

shelter-in-place, first city to close our beaches, first city to require masks among one or two in the nation. when he to. because we are not a city that does social distance. we want our fairs and super bowls and people coming to ocean drive and beautiful beaches. . but right now we can't have that and we're not built for social distancing. we needed to act faster and quicker. when i called and let him know that's what we're doing he called to say i'm supporting it. >> as a fan of your beautiful beaches i'm included in the everyone is looking forward to getting back on your beaches. until then thanks for what you're doing. we'll stick close to you and hear what you're hearing on the ground and when you make those designates to re-open. coming up for us the drug remdesivir is raising hopes of a treatment for the coronavirus. for a drug that hasn't been approved by fda. will there be enough.

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140,000 patients. cnn medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is tracking this sign of hope. we'll take it where we can get it. statement coming from gilead about how many patients they can treat now and how quickly they could increase production? >> reporter: right. so two thoughts on that. first you mentioned 140,000 patients. assuming each patient did a ten day course of treatment. gilead has said it looks like maybe five days would be enough so that then increases the number. if you can do 140,000 for ten presumably you can do twice as many for five if that were to work out. this is an antiviral drug. they are not complicated to manufacture. gilead has a lot of expense doing this. they have a large portfolio of hiv drugs, antiviral drugs. so every reason to think they can ramp this up else.

>> the administration ramped up operation warp speed to speed up the development time for a vaccine talking about treatment. dr. fauci said that the goal is for that to happen by january. let me play what the president said about this today. >> i hope we'll have a vaccine and we're going fast track it like you've never seen before. if we come up with vaccine i think they will. >> what are you worried about this effort? >> reporter: it's interesting because it sound like this is something new but really what they did they gave it a new catchy name, operation warp speed. he's saying january. well back in january of this year dr. fauci said 12 to 18 months. january of next year, the end of this year that's 12 months. in other words on the short end of what dr. fauci said. there certainly are skeptics who said wow we never made a nieuwveen anything like that. it's usually years and years. but there are some advantages right now.

first of all they are throwing a lot of money at this. there are dozens and dozens of companies that are trying and so that really helps when you throw money at it and have a lot of different teams working on it, also with the technology that we have today that we didn't have in prior years. it could be that they could get this done in 12 months. >> great to see. thanks. so how is this going to work? joining me is an associate director of the emery vaccine center in atlanta. doctor, thank you so much for taking the time for us. what do you think of this timeline of manufacturing covid vaccine by january? >> i think it's very quick. it's possible, but it's going to be difficult. the big issue is, obviously, they need a vaccine that works and safe. and normally it takes three phases of trials to have a vaccine done. the first one which is going on with a number of vaccine products including one at emery

right now, dealing with safety and immune responses. phase two is intermediate and phase three which is the actual effectiveness trial or efficacy trial to look at whether the vaccine is protective and whether there are any safety problems with its use. then all of this information has to be reviewed by regulators for licensure and we need produce it. i think we know it's quickly as possible, 12 months is optimi optimistic and as cohen said, this began in january and we are moving forward. so there are a number of vaccines in phase one or phase two trials right now. >> as we've all been learning, and you've been pointing out, it's not uncommon to see a timeline of something more like five years or even ten years to get a vaccine into market. are there risks of moving this

too quickly? >> i don't think there are risks of moving it too quickly. i think that there are other than perhaps wasting funding that could be used otherwise. i think the major risk is will these vaccines work? we don't have a model of a vaccine that works yet and how safe is it? obviously, there are a lot of trials going on. according to the world health organization there are eight vaccines in clinical trials and another 70, 70 plus vaccines or actually 80 plus vaccines in pre-clinical development. so we need something that works. and normally it takes years and trials take longer. centralizing the effort. a number of vaccine possibilities that they are we're working at warp speed but looking at around the world and

you have to be prepafred in cas. now bringing it together, the trials, the private companies who will manufacture the drug and federal government with a whole lot of money and obviously >> you out with this project is the oversight over the drug to stream line the effort. i'm wondering this morning if this is the best way to get a vaccine done, why isn't it done more often with vaccine production? >> i think part of it is for many other vaccines there's not the emergency that we're talking about. what we're hearing -- what we have here is a new disease to which the population seems to be 100% susceptible. we don't really have that or any other vaccine preventable diseases that we had to deal with and so that there is, obviously, want a vaccine as quickly as possible and would try to get an aids vaccine for over 30 years and have been unable to do it yet. but i think we clearly vaccines would make a big, big difference

in the health burden of this. the other issue that we need to be considering now is even if we have a successful vaccine, we're not going to have 8 billion doses the day after the vaccine is licensed to vaccinate the whole world so we're going to need to have a system in place to prioritize what might be limited supplies initially who gets it and assuring that we have a delivery system to get the vaccine out to people for whom it would be recommended. >> absolutely. thank you for coming on. it's really important to get your perspective. thank you. >> i might add one of the big issues is it's not too early to begin discussing if you have limited supplies which groups should get the vaccine first. >> who do you think should be the first group? >> well, i think that to me the

two major groups that one would have to consider are essential workers such as health care workers, and then people who are most at risk of complications from disease such as the elderly. but you might need balance that if the elderly often don't make that good a response to a vaccine you may have to protect the elderly more directly by preventing -- by vaccinating people who might transmit. there's a whole process that the cdc undergoes and they have a committee, advisory committee on immunization practices which begins to look at this information and then deciding which is the best way to mitigate this disease. >> progress but clearly not there yet. thank you so much. >> correct. we do need to think about those things now and be ready so when we get the first doses we're ready to go. >> absolutely.

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more evidence today of how devastating this pandemic has been to american workers. new data out this morning shows 3.8 million americans filed for unemployment last week bringing the total number over the last six weeks to more than 30 million people. just yesterday the u.s. economy shrank at its fastest pace. very clearly this is not over yet. joining us now chief economist at moody analytics. about 18% of the workforce is one employed. is that what we're looking at? >> yeah. somewhere between 15 and 20%. you have to go all the way back to the great depression of the 1930s to find unemployment that high. probably kate understates the stress you have a lot of people that are not working, but to be counted as unemployed they have to be actively searching for

work. in this environment you can't do that. so they are underemployed. if you include those folks it's probably closer to 25%. it's the highest unemployment rate since 1933. a lot of stress. >> a lot of stress. these numbers have risen. more than 30 states we've been talking about all hour starting to partially re-open. there's an obvious potential economic benefit of that. but also huge risk if it's not done right or done too soon. what impact would a second wave of the virus have on here? >> oh, goodness. i think that would be devastating, obviously, to confidence. just the uncertainty that would create. then in terms of dollars and cents. think about what policymakers do? what would the administration and congress and federal reserve do with that. if the gamble doesn't pay off and we have a conwave we're asking for what we may call another depression.

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with the understanding of the coronavirus is change any minute. there's been one somewhat consistent believe the majority of young children were not becoming seriously ill. now there's some scary new developments. a rare inflammatory condition of the blood vessels in some children with coronavirus. just today the world health organization announced it's investigating these cases now being seen around the world. some of these cases have been seen by doctors at children's national hospital in washington, d.c. joining me right now is dr. bell chief of critical care at children's national. doctor, thank you for being here. your hospital has seen ten children showing these scary and serious symptoms described as severe inflammation. can you describe what you're seeing and honestly what parents should be looking for? >> sure. thanks for having me on. the symptoms we're seeing, coronavirus in general has caused severe inflammation including lungs and blood

vessels. we've seen 11 children in icu right now who have some form of inflammation and one particular child has inflammation consistent with the kayasaki disease. we're trying to figure out the association. >> of course, there's a question that hasn't, is there a connection between covid and this severe inflammation like kawasaki disease. what damage can this kawasaki disease do to a young patient? >> so kawasaki disease was first named in 1967. it was identified in japan and seems tube genetic predisposition for the disease in the janz community. there's cases every year and

every pediatrician has heard of kawasaki disease. this outbreak around covid seems to be a bit stronger but a viral disease thought to cause kawasaki disease and covid is accentuating that process. the different between covid related kawasaki disease and others at least from cases we've heard about is that there's much bigger shock associated with it. low blood pressure. needing to have heart medication administered to maintain blood pressure. that's what we're seeing in our patients and seen in other places around the world. that's the reason for the alert and for the intense interest from everybody involved. >> and this gets to how is knowing this, this anecdotal evidence, how is this changing how you're caring or assessing children who come inspected with covid. >> kawasaki disease as an entity associated with the development

of coronary aneurysms. that's been an effect of one thing how we'll follow things up. we're looking to try to find the best therapies for all people with covid disease and we're excited for the remdesivir study and other studies coming out that might be helpful to our kid in a compassionate use. >> is there a specific age that you're seeing this pop up in or just generally in the pediatric cases you're seeing? >> kawasaki disease on a whole affects kids around teenage of 5, between 3 and 6. our kid is in that range. that's a manifestation of this disease. covid is causing some of this but we're still working on lots more details. >> absolutely.

much more to learn. scary but thank god you're on it. dr. bell, thank you. >> thanks so much. >> programming note. tonight a cnn global town hall. dr. anthony fauci and bill gates joining anderson cooper and dr. sanjay gupta for coronavirus facts and fears, 8:00 p.m. eastern. coming up new york has been under a stay-at-home order since march 22nd. for the first time new york city subway will shut down overnight. why now? details next. (announcer) in this world where people are staying at home,

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will be held on may 17ing in darlington, south carolina. fans will not be allowed. nascar says it is implementing social protection equipment and social distancing and health screenings for anyone who enters the venues. another major change the new york city system will not be running. shim money wrarks are the details? >> reporter: so an unprecedented move by the governor. he seems to be at the end point here there has been a problem with the homeless, given all that complaints from the transit authority workers, they

announced they will be closing it down between 1:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m. so they the disinfect the subways on a nightly basis and so what's going to happen is they're financial to have workers fan out all across the subway. they will use cleaners. they will really get into some of these subway cars, these subway stations and buses and clean them. one of the reason, we've heard from the governor. he's taken criticisms early on in keeping the subways opened, one of the reasons he kept it opened is because of the front line workers, the doctors, the nurses, the grocery workers. the delivery personnel. all the people we have relied on throughout this pandemic, he didn't want to shut the subway down. what they will do between these hours when the subway is shut down. they will offer lyfts and ubers. they're coming up with a plan. they will announce that next week, the state is, the mts is. they will tell people how to use

the ubers and lyfts. this was not an easy decision for the governor, but given what has been happening in the subway with the homeless, he thought it was great to go ahead and disinfect the subways perhaps towards the opening of this city. some indication they want to head in that direction. kate. >> extraordinary times, extraordinary measures, thanks. they are showing positive signs against trials, one of the doctors leading one of those trials talks to cnn next. first, one good outcome, the country told to stay at home, rescue animals have been able to find new homes at a surprising clip. >> when we got the shelter-in-place order for the covid-19, we moved 86 dogs into foster homes we are having meet

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. this is cnn breaking news. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. right now at this hour, we know of 68,670 people almost 69,000. the nation reached 30,000 deaths two weeks ago. that means more than half of the total lives last so far happened in just the last 14 days. today president trump said of his administration's response to the pandemic, quote, i think we did a spectacular job, unquote. his son-in-law called the federal response a great success

story. all a part of a piece that the no mistakes have been made and everything has been done perfectly, which, of course, empirically it has not. two weeks ago he said it was low and the administration was fully prepared. >> we're ready. >> we're ready. this is an all hands on deck effort and whether it be testing kits or whether it be medical devices or protective gear for our healthcare providers. >> the fact is, they were not ready and with more than 60,000 americans now dead, shortages of tests, testing supplies, protective equipment for healthcare workers continuing to be reported, it seems clear the administration remains unready in some key ways. more than half the states are in some stage of re-opening. it's clear all have not met the influence to do so. the economic picture in this country, of course, remains grim. one if five working american versus now lost their jobs according to today's new

unemployment claims. that's 30 million people. though, there are some states like california that are adding restrictions as cnn's erica hill reports. >> reporter: for many americans, the first step towards a few normal begins tomorrow. >> i think our customers will feel comfortable, you know, shopping in our store. >> reporter: by the end of the week, 31 states will be partially opened, despite none of them appearing to meet the vague white house guidelines that call for a downward trajectory of documented cases within a 14-day period before any opening. many res