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for a loved one. you can also go to cnn.com/impact. >> sanjay, thanks. and i want to thank all those who wrote in with your questions. to everyone else who joined us tonight. if you didn't get your questions answered the conversation continues at cnn.com/coronavi s cnn.com/coronavirusanswers. the news continues right here on cnn. hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm anna coren. ahead on "cnn newsroom" -- across the u.s. americans weary of self-isolation ventured out to enjoy a sunny saturday. including these new yorkers. under orders to keep their distance in the park. in europe some countries aren't moving as quickly. we'll take a look at what's working and what isn't. and could air travel be in danger? a look at the dangers in place that could impact the future of flying.
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we begin with the coronavirus pandemic playing out in some very different ways right now. part of the world is moving toward opening the -- toward reopening and toward what could loosely be called getting back to normal. this is new york's central park on saturday. the weekend sunshine and warm temperatures also drew people out of the -- onto the national mall in washington. and right now more than 30 u.s. states are loosening restrictions. and so are many countries. in hard-hit italy, for instance, construction and manufacturing businesses can open their doors on monday. as new cases continue to go down in italy, prime minister giuseppe conte says the country's reopening plan could accelerate. other nations, however, are saying not so fast. france is poised to extend its state of emergency and india's lockdown, which was set to
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expire on monday, will continue for two more weeks. well, johns hopkins university says there are more than 3.4 million coronavirus cases worldwide. roughly a third of them are in the united states. where more than 66,000 people have died. the situation in many states is still fragile, and there's a lot of concern they are moving too fast. but saturday spring was in the air and as cnn's karen cofer tells us something was in the skies. >> reporter: at maryland's prince george's hospital just outside of washington, d.c. a quick break for a salute. >> it's really nice to be appreciated. >> reporter: the navy blue angels and air force thunderbirds flying over washington, d.c., baltimore and atlanta to honor first responders and health care workers saturday. but crowds on the national mall to watch the show drew concerns as the district of columbia's stay-at-home order is still in effect. crowds also headed to central park despite new york's continued pause order and as
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governor andrew cuomo said the state is still losing nearly 300 people a day to the coronavirus. >> that number has remained obnoxiously and terrifyingly high. >> reporter: new york city mayor bill de blasio said the city and police were prepared. >> if everyone follows the rules, that's great. but if not there's going to be very intense enforcement. >> reporter: while new york's pause order remains in effect, americans in more than 30 other states are seeing relaxed restrictions this weekend including open retail stores in texas and georgia. new jersey governor phil murphy allowed state parks, county parks and golf courses to reopen. he said it's up to residents to follow the rules and help them stay open. >> let's make sure that we have a good weekend and a safe weekend. >> reporter: by next sunday may 10th more than 40 states will have partially reopened. in washington. >> reporter: southern california is seeing some beach backlash this weekend. three cities are pursuing legal
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action against governor gavin newsom after he ordered all orange county beaches to close over social distancing concerns. local officials claim the governor has singled out their county while letting other beaches stay open. cnbc paul vercammen reports. >> reporter: here on huntington beach, surf city, an eerie scene. the beach completely empty. after a judge let stand governor newsom's closure of orange county beaches. attorneys for huntington beach and dana point and others have launched a legal assault against the governor, are viewing among other things he was violating their constitutional rights, saying he made his decision from a podium in san francisco and had used photos, compressed photos from the ground that did not reveal what newport city officials said from the air, which was there was social distancing last weekend. basically, what happened in the end is the judge upheld governor newsom's order but not before
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some heated arguing, especially by the newport beach city attorney. >> huntington beach has done an absolutely remarkable job. and notwithstanding the governor issues this order shutting our beaches. we feel targeted. i think it's punitive. and if it was really a matter of statewide concern, which is his purview, he would have closed all the beaches up and down the state. but he didn't. he's picking on orange county. he's picking on huntington beach. and the empirical data, the data about spread and cases and he deaths here in huntington beach, orange county, absolutely do not support the beach closure. >> reporter: a deputy attorney general arguing for the governor said this is not a case of singling out orange county, this is more of a need to social distance in the middle of a pandemic. also in orange county sporadic protests popping up in various cities, all of them asserting that governor newsom had overstepped his bounds. perhaps if there's any silver lining in all this, he had indicated that he may start to
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reopen parts of california beginning as early as monday. reporting from huntington beach, i'm paul vercammen. now back to you. the coronavirus death toll in the uk could soon surpass italy, which has the deadliest outbreak in europe. johns hopkins university reports more than 28,000 deaths in the uk. just a few hundred shy of italy. britain is struggling to contain its epidemic. italy care homes have suffered. doctors and nurses are struggling with protective equipment shortages. and the government has struggled to provide enough tests. although officials say they've now carried out more than 1 million tests so far. the spanish prime minister says he will ask parliament next week to extend the country's state of alarm for another 15 days. he detailed some of the restrictions that will start to ease on monday and announced an almost $18 billion fund for regional governments. there have been encouraging signs in spain recently, but the number of people who have died
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from covid-19 now tops 25,000. the french government, though, is planning to extend the state of emergency for about two months. parliament will look into the proposal starting tuesday. it includes a quarantine process for people entering france from abroad, its overseas territories or corsica. efforts so far seem to be paying off as the number of people dying from covid-19 each day there continues to drop. well, joining us now is dr. ivan hung. he's a clinical professor at hong kong university and chief of the division of infectious diseases there. dr. hung, great to have you with us. obviously, here in hong kong we have the same population as manhattan, new york. there have been just over 1,000 cases and only four deaths, which is quite incredible considering that hong kong is on china's doorstep. and there hasn't been a local transmission now for two weeks.
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what do you believe authorities have done differently to other countries to get on top of the pandemic? >> well, i think in hong kong we have 7.5 million people living in a very crowded city area. i think the strategy that we have done which is different perhaps from other countries, first of all we closed the border relatively early. and we had very intense infection control and contact tracing. and also universal wearing of masks in the community. and this is very important. and also that we offer diagnosis to our patient very early on so that everyone could get a fess done and once they're confirmed if they have symptom they will be hospitalized and receive treatment very early on from the symptom onset. and i think this is a very key to -- yes. >> i was just going to say you mentioned that people wearing
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masks, how important that is. obviously, people remember sars quite vividly in hong kong in 2002, 2003, which is why everybody wears a mask. i mean, you cannot go out in public without wearing one. let's talk about china. it's recorded a fifth straight day of no deaths and only two new cases. how have they managed to achieve this considering china was the origin of the coronavirus? >> again, they adopted very tight measures in terms of infection control, especially to prevent imported patient from overseas to coming back in and causing a local infection. so again, they closed the border with russia and also that they have very tight infection control and they screen everyone when they arrive at the airport for the coronavirus.
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and once they detect it they will be hospitalized and treated. or else the other will be quarantined for 14 days. >> okay. some countries, as you know, they're starting to ease restrictions and reopen their economies. countries that believe they have the virus under control. and then of course the united states, which just isn't there yet. some states are reopening. are you concerned that they're reopening too soon? >> yes indeed. i think you really have to achieve a so-called zero number of cases or very low number of cases in the community for at least 14 days. that's no local outbreak for 14 days. that's what we adopted in hong kong, before you could start aegz the infection control measures. otherwise, then you have a resurgence of the number of cases in the community. and that will be bad news. >> we're just looking at images of shanghai on friday.
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obviously, it's golden week across china. people are going out. they're heading to hotels, restaurants. there's domestic travel going on. but as you can see, everybody wearing masks. doctor, health experts say that a second wave is inevitable. would you agree? and what needs to be done to stop future waves of the pandemic? >> yeah, a second wave is definitely on our mind, especially in the coming winter, because it's well known that the coronavirus actually survives better, or spreads better in colder weather. basically, i think again we have to adopt a very tight infection control in terms of wearing a mask in the community because of the number of asymptomatic cases behind and also that we have to again meet patients who have symptoms very early on and get them on treatment that will be
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probably the most important thing in hopefully controlling the virus in the second wave. >> when do you realistically see a vaccine becoming available? >> i think many institutes now are doing vaccine trials. some of them have already gone into phase one clinical trial. and if the trial is successful, then it will be quickly going into the phase two. i think the earliest time we can expect a vaccine to be available will be in 18 months' time. so probably the second half of next year. >> all right. dr. ivan hung joining us from hong kong. great to get your insight. many thanks. >> thank you. thank you very much. well, the key figure in the u.s. response to the pandemic could be caught in the middle of a political battle. the trump administration will not allow dr. anthony fauci to test before a house committee next week. but he is expected before a senate panel later this month.
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more now from cnn's jeremy diamond in washington. >> reporter: well, the white house is denying the house appropriations committee's request to have dr. fauci testify before one of its subcommittees. the white house said is it would be counterproductive to have dr. fauci one of the government's leading experts fighting this coronavirus pandemic spend his time testifying on capitol hill. but on saturday the white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany focused on a different explanation saying the white house had so the details from that committee about what exactly fauci would be expected to focus on duringthe committee hearing and when it didn't receive those details that it denied the request for his testimony. but mcenany also said that she believes this request from house democrats was a publicity stunt. >> we're working in good faith and yes we want to work with the house to ensure that they do get the witnesses that they're asking for but these need to be requests that make sense and not publicity stunts, which is what
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this was, as it was leaked that we were blocking dr. fauci, which just simply was not the case. >> reporter: one of the reason forz cs for controversy is dr. fauci has been one of the most forthcoming members of the trump administration in describing some of its failings in responding to this coronavirus pandemic, particularly on the issue of testing. dr. fauci has described some of the early failures of the trump administration in terms of quickly developing accurate tests, putting this administration behind the curve in terms of responding to that pandemic. dr. fauci, though, he will be testifying on capitol hill in a matter of a couple of weeks. on may 12th dr. fauci is expected to testify before one of the committees in the republican-led senate. democratic members of that senate committee, though, they will be able to ask dr. fauci some questions. now, on saturday there was another issue, also abuzz between the white house and capitol hill. that's because congress's attending physician suggested
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that there weren't enough tests, not enough testing capacity to test all members of the senate. president trump on saturday taking to twitter to say that the white house would make some of those rapid abbott lab tests available to capitol hill in order to test members of congress, who would be returning to washington in order to do some of the legislative business. but speaker ploesly and the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell, they politely declined that offer from the white house saying "our country's testing capacities are continuing to scale up nationwide and congress wants to keep directing resources to the front line facilities where they can do the most good, the most quickly." the white house press secretary kayleigh mcenany on saturday saying that they simply wanted to help but they accept the decision of these leaders in congress to deny this help from the white house. jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. be sure to watch the pandemic and the president by the cnn documentary unit. jake tapper takes us through the past four months week by week,
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it wouldn't lock down too early and that some spread was unavoidable, even desirable. >> if people go too early, they become very fatigued. it's not possible to stop everybody getting it. and it's also actually not desirable because you want some immunity in the population. >> reporter: hindsight always gives a clearer, unfair verdict. but new updated government figures show the death toll just in england was a lot larger than known at the time in the days leading up to lockdown. when the prime minister said he was still shaking hands. >> i shook hands with everybody, you'll be pleased to know. >> reporter: and no deaths were announced. four people had already died in england. when cheltenham horse races criticized for going ahead ended. the official number was 10 when really 58 had died. the -- the toll was 349 but
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really 847 had died. >> there are some early signs looking at experience in some other countries that if we'd gone a bit earlier we might be looking at slightly better results now. >> likely to be next year when people in the cold light of day can look back at all different countries and different things that went down, what worked and didn't work. >> if we'd taken different measures at different times, then different people would become infected. if we had come in a week earlier, then probably less people would have died up to now. but as we -- as the disease continues to spread through the population, a different series of people will die. >> testing and contact tracing was a problem from the start. partially dismissed and then heavily embraced. >> 100,000 deaths per day. >> reporter: many grand schemes were announced home sthant body tests, apps, a volunteer army. but this one actually happened. nearly on time. albeit late. it can't have helped decisionmaking that boris johnson was nearly killed by the
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disease too at its peak. >> some of the messaging has not been as consistent or as clear as to be helpful. i give the government a bit of the benefit of the doubt. these are somewhat unprecedented times. >> reporter: still despite the huge toll the uk's health service was not overwhelmed. even huge overflow hospitals like this in london were barely used. half those who died nengd so far were over 80. did the uk not protect them enough or was there little that could be done? tough questions that time and grief will answer. nick payton walsh, cnn, london. spain has just closed its largest makeshift hospital a visible sign the country is past its peak of infection for now. officials are trying to keep it that way and avoid a second wave at all costs. cnn's scott mclean reports. [ applause ] >> reporter: this is the moment the last patients were discharged from spain's largest
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field hospital. a proud moment for a country that lately has had little to celebrate. 73-year-old patrickinio dorado spent three weeks here. marian martinez was in the bed next to hers. >> translator: i think we are doing better. the fact that we are the last patients finishing with the virus, a global tragedy, but what is important is that we are here. >> reporter: the sprawling convention center turned hospital has seen 4,000 patients in the six weeks since it opened. on this day health care workers outnumber patients, but it wasn't always like this. at the beginning doctors at the makeshift hospital told cnn the facility was badly mismanaged, there were too many patients and not enough staff. >> it was a little bit chaotic with a lot of people here that were sick with the virus. >> reporter: perhaps that shouldn't be surprising. general manager eduardo lopez puerta says it saw its first patients 18 hours after the governor asked to transform it
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into a field hospital. >> it's not easy to build a field hospital from scratch. >> it's very difficult. it's very difficult. i think this is an absolute record in the time we did it. we could have waited and do it in one month, but in one month it wouldn't have been useful. >> reporter: as the weeks went on, the situation at efema improved along with the health of the country. the number of active cases in spain is shrinking, and the death rate is a fraction of its peak. at one point madrid was using two ice rinks as temporary morgues. both are now closed. so are 5 of the 13 hotels being used as hospital wards. two others are no longer accepting patients. the closure of efema comes as spain is preparing to reopen. children are now allowed out for an hour per day. adults will be able to exercise outside starting saturday. and in some parts of spain restaurant patios will open on monday. the government says it's confident its careful approach
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can avoid a second spike in cases. but not confident enough to dismantle the beds and infrastructure inside efema, which will stay in place for at least another month. after that? >> then we start dismantling the beds and equipment but we will still keep all the installation that's are already done just in case. >> reporter: spain's crisis is far from over, but the closure of its biggest hospital might be a sign the worst has come and gone. scott mclean, cnn, madrid. flying in a post-pandemic world. what lies ahead for the future of air travel. we'll explore when we come back. with high protein and 1 gram sugar. it's a sit-up, banana! bend at the waist! i'm tryin'! keep it up. you'll get there. whoa-hoa-hoa! 30 grams of protein, and one gram of sugar. ensure max protein. that family doesn't have to take out of their house. it relieves stress off of me to let me know
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welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm anna coren. you're watching "cnn newsroom." the pandemic has dealt devastating blows to almost every part of the world's economy. one major question still up in the air, even with new policies when will passengers feel comfortable taking to the skies again? well, cnn's richard quest looks at what flying might look like in a post-pandemic world. >> reporter: social distancing and air travel are contradictions in terms. with long queues, evaporating leg room and invasive reclining, air travel is particularly ill suited for our new coronavirus reality. the pandemic has left global travel at a virtual standstill, and it's clear the way we fly will need to change before passengers will feel comfortable
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returning to the friendly skies en masse. before the crisis there was this massive drive to maximize capacity on board. pushing the flying public ever closer together. now airlines must embrace the exact opposite. at the very least, it seems, the middle seat will probably stay empty for the foreseeable future. even though that will make it almost impossible for airlines to make money. international air transport association's ceo alexander de juniac says ticket prices will have to go up. >> in these conditions there is no airline which is able to fly and make money. on these flights. so it means two things. either we cannot fly or we have to increase the price of the tickets by at least 50% to 100%. so it is the end of the cheap
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travel for everyone. >> reporter: airlines are ramping up other precautions. on jetblue, air canada, korean and lufthansa, masks will be mandatory for the duration of flights. emirates is limiting carry-on baggage to on the essentials. meals are doled out in bento-style boxes to reduce contact. even the in-flight magazines have been removed from seatback pockets in case they carry the virus. expect to see cabin crews donning visors and gowns, full personal protection equipment could be the order of the day. and qatar airways says it's doing thermal screenings of its crew. in spite of all these measures, barry diller, the head of expedia, believes flying and social distancing are simply incompatible. >> the idea that you can take the middle seat out of an airplane and have any kind of,
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quote, social distancing is absurd. you can't. it does not work. social distancing works when it's complete. you can maybe clean planes better. yes. that would be good anyway. but social distancing in these kinds of arenas is a myth. >> reporter: the italian cabin design firm aviair interiors gave us a glimpse of what the future could look like. this shield could be fitted on existing seats, putting a barrier between passengers to increase isolation. a more extreme interior overhaul turns the middle seat around entirely to keep contact between passengers at a minimum. to be sure the travel industry will reopen, and we will take to the air again. however, for passengers like you and me the experience we go through may never be quite the same again. richard quest, cnn, new york. well, joining me now is
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brian summers. he is a senior aviation business editor for skift. great to have you with us. the airlines industry has quite literally ground to a halt. how does it plan to get back to business? >> oh, it's going to take a long time before it gets back to business. a lot of airlines all over the world are in great trouble right now. they have aircraft parked in the desert, all over the world. there are some airlines that are going to come back a little faster than others. but they're basically going to take their airplanes from the desert a little bit at a time. this is not going to be that v-shaped curve that people were hoping for for a long time. it's just going to take a while. >> it is grim. ayarta which is the international air transportation association, estimates the world's carriers will see revenue this year drop by more than half. it really is quite extraordinary. >> it's the worst disaster in the history of aviation.
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you know, where i am in the united states people used to talk about 9/11 as being the worst it could get. one 9/11 was basically a north american phenomenon. and two, air travel got back to normal within, you know, months or years maybe. but this is going to take a very long time. really until people feel it's safe to travel again. maybe folks will want to drive somewhere or take a train or go close to home. but if you're talking about flying long haul, it's going to be a long time before most of the public is really willing to do that. >> i want to talk about some of the job losses in the airlines industry. british airways, they've cut 12,000 jobs. easyjet's laid off some 4,000 cabin crew. qantas, 20,000 staff are on leave. the list just continues. do you think it's fair to say that the consequences of this pandemic for the airlines industry has not been fully realized?
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>> no. the consequences have not been fully realized. and that is especially true in the united states, where i sit. the only reason there haven't been mass layoffs in the united states is because the u.s. government is paying the salaries of airline workers through september 30th. as soon as october 1st comes around, tens of thousands of americans are going to lose their jobs, and that's on top of the job losses that you spoke about in other countries. i think we all wish that this wouldn't be the case, but look, 2019 was one of the high points in history of aviation. more people were flying than ever before. airlines needed to staff up to meet that dems. and that dems is gone. and it's not just gone now. it's gone for at least two or three years. i do think everything is going to bounce back. maybe in five or seven years we'll be talking about this was a long time ago. but in the short term it's going to be bad for job losses. >> as you say, i mean, experts
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predict it will be years before air travel returns to 2019 levels. and this is because people are going to travel differently. as you say, they will travel locally. they will be very reluctant to get on an airplane. >> absolutely. and you talk about experts. but it's not just experts. airline executives are coming out there right now on their earnings calls and at their shareholder meetings and they're saying 2022, 2023 at the earliest. these are airlines like lufthansa, like united airlines. so again, it's going to be a while before things get to normal. >> and even before the coronavirus, brian, airlines obviously played a direct role in the way that disease spread around the world. and then you have this pandemic and obviously it went global because of the way that people traveled. what measures do you think the airlines industry will put in place moving forward? >> well, airlines are going to try their absolute best to make
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people comfortable while flying. so you've already seen them roll out these new initiatives. a lot of airlines are cleaning airplanes more thoroughly and more often. believe it or not, a lot of airplanes just were never cleaned very well. so they're doing that. a lot of airlines are coming out and putting their flight attendants in masks. some of them basically have hazmat suits. gloves, things like that. u.s. airlines have just come out in the past week, and they're going to require customers to wear masks. but look, i am not a public health expert. it does seem to me that even this may not fix the problems. i'm asked basically to stay two meters from anyone i come in contact with. you talk about an airplane, a confined space, it is literally impossible to do that. so you have some airlines that are coming out now and saying we're not going to sell the middle seat for a while. that's nice. and that might make people feel good. but again, that's not two meters. so it's just interesting to see
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what will happen over the next year or two until this virus is behind us globally. >> brian sumers, great to get your perspective. thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. retail has also taken a serious hit. now, as states are beginning to open up, so are shopping malls. the largest mall operator in the u.s. says more than two dozen of its locations reopened on friday across eight states. and five more in georgia are set to open on monday. cnn's natasha chen spoke to people there about shopping in the era of social distancing. >> reporter: in georgia, the state that has taken the most aggressive measures to reoept economy, the new month brought with it an entirely new place to get out of the house. the mall. >> first of all, it's been scary the first time when we heard about it but also exciting for our tenants to be able to open back up. >> reporter: the state's shelter in place order officially expired thursday night for most ga gansz. though governor brian kemp extended the order for the
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elderly and vulnerable populations to shelter in place through mid june. still his executive order allowed retail stores to open back up on friday. about a week after restaurants, barber shops, and even tattoo parlors. at avalon, an upscale outdoor mall in atlanta's suburbs, management readied the grounds for shopping in the socially distant era. >> a lot of the furniture have been placed six feet apart. >> reporter: and the walkways are one way only. but only a fifth of about 100 shops at avalon were open, and many of those were either curbside pickup or by appointment only. altered states, a women's clothing store, was one of the few that had its doors open. >> of course there is always that fear of just like maybe that one person will walk in who has, it but we are also taking really good precautions to make sure that doesn't happen. and have a lot of sterilizing everything. we have the option to wear masks. we wear gloves at the cash wrap to make sure we're not touching anything. >> reporter: new protocols
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include staemg every article of clothing a customer tries on and rgly disinfecting the fitting rooms. and because only ten people including employees are allowed inside at any time, there was a line of customers waiting outside. we found kate martin at the end of that line. >> i'm a nurse. so instinctively i think it's still too contagious. it's a very contagious disease. so i still think it might be a little too soon to come back out and be this close together. so we'll see. >> but you're here. >> i am. >> reporter: she's wearing a mask, which is the mall is also giving to its customers. but still, not everyone is. >> they should be, but they don't take it seriously. >> reporter: the retired nurse had a message for the young and the maskless who could have been unknowingly passing it to more vulnerable populations. >> you might not get us sick but they will. and they'll get it from you. your grandmother. >> reporter: natasha chen, cnn, alpharetta, georgia. from battling coronavirus to welcoming a newborn son.
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british prime minister boris johnson is thanking health care workers in the sincerest way. he's given his newborn son the middle name of nicholas to honor the two doctors he says saved his life when he contracted covid-19. cnn's bianco nobilo has more on a life-changing few weeks for the prime minister and his fiance. >> reporter: carrie simmons said she couldn't be happier and that her heart was full. it's been a tumultuous month for the prime minister who fought a
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battle for his life against coronavirus, telling britain's "sun" newspaper, "it was a tough old moment. i won't deny it. they had a strategy to deal with the death of stalin type scenario." to the birth of his baby boy on wednesday. the prime minister is now fully back at the helm and at work. and will be facing heavy scrutiny as now britain is on track to have the second highest virus-related death toll in the world. bianca nobilo, cnn, outside london. officials in tokyo are trying to close internet cafes to help curb the spread of the coronavirus. but thousands of people actually spend the night in those cubicles as cheap overnight accommodation. cnn's will ripley reports on how the situation is creating a new type of homelessness. >> reporter: the lines have never been longer for the weekend food handout in tokyo's shinjuku word. takahashi doesn't want to give
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his last name to avoid shaming his family. this is your first time ever receiving food like this. did you ever think that you'd be here? "i didn't think something like this could happen to me," he says. this line is full of first-timers like takahashi, reluctant members of a growing group of coronavirus refugees. the pandemic putting companies out of business, people out of work. "i was forced out of the place i was staying," he says. takahashi was evicted from his apartment. sleeping in a 24-hour internet cafe. for thousands in tokyo, a city known for sky-high rent, these relics from the 1990s are the only housing they can afford. >> ordering dinner. >> reporter: when i visited one five years ago, i saw people eating from vending machines, sharing a common toilet and shower, sleeping in cubicles packed together like a petri
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dish. the tokyo metropolitan government ordered internet cafes to close when a state of emergency was declared three weeks ago. [ coughing ] the risk of spreading the virus in such close quarters just too high. you don't see people smiling here. it's a pretty depressing place, actually. >> reporter: takahashi's new sleeping spot, at the bus terminal, is even more depressing. he's down to his last 1,000 yen, around $9. he can't find a job because nobody's hiring right now. "it gets really cold after dark," he says. what do you think about at night when you're sleeping here at the bus station? "i try to suck it up. but to be honest, i'm really disappointed i ended up like this." this area here in shinjuku is where a lot of the homeless live. ironically they're sleeping under the headquarters of the tokyo metropolitan government. several stories above, aid workers are putting in overtime.
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is japan and tokyo prepared for this? "we're really concerned," says tommo oda. "i'm scared to think about it. every day people need help finding a place to sleep." tokyo is preparing up to 2,000 rooms. homeless advocates say it won't be nearly enough. you have a whole new group of people who've never been out on the streets before. "so many people are living off what little money they have," says ron onishi. "in the next few weeks they'll end up on the streets." the number of coronavirus refugees is growing by the day. just like the lines of people desperate for their next meal. will ripley, cnn, tokyo. a lot of professional musicians have had to deal with a harsh reality. canceled shows and shut-down venues. we'll see how some of them are performing their craft and interacting with fans in spite of the pandemic.
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their usual venues are shut down because of social distancing. here's a look at two of them, based in washington, d.c. who've taken to facebook live to stay connected to fans. >> i've always had 20 to 30 shows canceled so far. my name is justin traywick, right here in washington, d.c., and now, one half of the justin and lauren show. >> every thursday and sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern daylight time. we are right here on facebook live. >> my name is lauren, also known as jersey fresh with no vowels, and i am a cover rapper and part-time entertainer with justin traywick in our living room. ♪ i will come forward to the next one ♪ ♪ it's why i'm >> why do we do this? give real quick, when did we
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high-five now. >> and finally, after beaches reopened in florida, many critics questioned if the move was too much too soon. one of those skeptics is apparently the grim reaper, who as you can see, walked the sandy shores near panama city beach alongside other beachgoers. not to be too alarmed. the dark face is a lawyer and activist and trying to highlight the dangers of reopening the economy too soon. it is noteworthy, the grim reaper was wearing a face mask. that is "cnn newsroom," i'm anna coren, bye for now. to be most successful, connectivity is vital. verizon, really for us, has been a partner for years.
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this is cnn breaking news. >> welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer in washington. right now across the united states the number of people infected with the coronavirus is more than 1.1 million people. and in just nine weeks we've watched the u.s. death toll rocket from zero to more than 66,000 americans. despite that disturbingly high and rising death toll, more than half the country is now moving toward restarting businesses and services.
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