april 2020. >> the death toll as of this morning has doubling in just the last three days. >> america was hurting. >> new unemployment filings. >> record unemployment. >> last week filed for unemployment. >> ballooning debt, an economic recession. >> hard reality is beyond

painful. >> not a good equation for a president running for re-election. >> he's frustrated by what we've seen happen in the stock market. the numbers he knows of job losses and people who have filed for unemployment are through the roof and they're going to be incredibly damaging to him in november. and that's his fear. >> so, the president wanted to push governors to restart the economy, at least in part to resuscitate his re-election campaign. and the only way to do both, reopen the country as soon as possible. but that seemed unrealistic when models were predicting 100,000 or 200,000 deaths. according to "the washington post," an impatient president trump sought different data which some white house economic advisers delivered. >> "the washington post" is reporting kevin haasic built a different coronavirus model

which aides interpreted showing deaths would have already peaked and that would be far fewer fatalities than initially seen. t"the washington post" is reporting this affirmed skepticism with people in the west wing about what health experts were saying about the severity of the crisis. is that true? >> as kevin himself said in that story, that is not true, jake. absolutely not true. what he was doing was taking the gates model from the university of washington and basically smoothing it out to show what is actually happening. there's a difference between a forecast trend and what is actually happened. so, we didn't change anything based on that. >> we want to have our country open. we want to return to normal life. our country's going to be open. >> on april 16th, the administration announced a plan. >> our team of experts now agrees that we can begin the next front in our war.

>> with no vaccine yet on the horizon, the country had to increase testing and contact tracing capability, decreases cases over 14 days. >> test and then isolate the person who is infected, trace all the contacts, quarantine them. but we didn't do the first part of this well enough and that's affected everything else downstream. >> i think there doesn't seem to be kind of an effort to get out in front of that. it's always like the u.s. has been a couple of steps behind. >> but the country has struggled with testing since the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic. testing was unusually limited to small groups, health care workers, people who had known contact with a sick patient, or, this is crucial, people with symptoms. but now in order to reopen the country and prevent further outbreaks, the country needs lots of tests because, as

scientists announced in mid-april, people might be most contagious two to three days before they develop symptoms, when they're asymptomatic. >> what's really critical is this constant sentinel surveillance for asymptomatic individuals. >> constant surveillance and widespread testing, so those with the virus can be quickly identified and immediately isolated from the rest of us to stop the spread. and according to one study by harvard's center for ethics, the united states needs at least 500,000 tests to be conducted every day in order to safely reopen. maybe even more than that. >> we probably in this country need to be testing 1 to 2 million people a day ultimately. >> i think we're going to have to have to 300 or 500 million tests before we get out of this. sufficient quantity, good tests, with high quality, easily

available to anyone who wants one. >> we're testing more than anybody. >> and listening to president trump speak about testing in mi mid-april, it sounded as though u.s. had both quantity and quality. >> we have right now the best testing system in the world. >> but that claim does not square with the facts and what the experts were saying. >> dr. anthony fauci is raising questions about the nation's readiness, telling the the associated press more coronavirus testing is needed saying, quote, we have to have something in place that is efficient and can rely on. and we're not there yet. >> excuse me. i know your question. the governors are supposed to do testing. quiet. quiet. >> the president also continued to clash with the governors, who the president felt should be in charge. the governors argued they don't have the power of the defense

production act. >> we're going to need testing, more testing, faster testing than we now have. >> only the president has that power, to force companies to get testing up to speed. only he has the power to force companies to make tests, testing reagents, and swabs, to hire lab workers, and to manufacture lab equipment. >> more help is needed from the federal government on testing. >> this is probably the number one problem in america and has been from the beginning of this crisis. >> this tension between state government and federal government that has always existed since the founding of our country, but this is now life and death. and this question of who should i rely on to keep me alive? >> we actually spoke with several of the president's political adviser who is say they believe the reason the president is pushing the responsibility for testing off on states is that then the president whont be the one to

deal with the fall out if there is any. >> thank you. >> this was a back and forth between the president and the governors that created gridlock and confusion. >> it's hard to argue that there hasn't been lost time in this fight over who should be responsible and who is to blame. >> it's frustrating. in some ways it's disheartening because we can do this. >> tens of thousands of protesters all promising to show up to the capitol here to protest the stay-at-home order. >> what happened on april 17th certainly didn't help. >> those protests encouraged by the president himself. >> when president trump took to twitter. >> tweeting all in caps liberate minnesota, liberate michigan, liberate virginia. >> these are great people. they've got cabin fever. they want to get back. they want their life back. >> he sees some benefit in

bolstering this anti-government message. he is encouraging people to go against what their own governors have said. >> even encouraging protesters to go against the white house's own guidelines. >> to encourage people to go protest the plan you just made recommendations on, it doesn't make sense. we're sending completely conflicting messages out. >> that's one of the issues throughout the entire outbreak. even though we're called the united states of america, when it comes to all these strategies for putting a stop to this outbreak, we have not been very united. >> working very hard with governors now on testing. going to help them out. >> the president and the governors seemed to unite around testing a few days later. the president plans to use the dpa to force production of desperately-needed swabs for testing. federal testing labs were offered for some states to use. and the latest economic relief bill allocated $25 billion for

testing. so, by the end of april, diagnostic testing was progressing, though still nowhere near where it needed to be according to health experts. >> we are working with more than 400 test developers, 220 labs around the country. >> ultimately we're doing more testing i think than probably any of the governors even want. >> four days later, the white house announced a blueprint for testing, putting responsibility back in the hands of the states. >> we have enough testing to begin reopening and the reopening process. we want to get our country open. >> a plan that had the administration taking a victory lap. >> i think that we've achieved all the different milestones that are needed. so, the government, federal government, rose to the challenge and this is a great success story. >> the federal government has done a spectacular job. >> but the plan had medical experts reacting differently. >> the white house plan called for 7 million a month. we're talking about a million a

day. you can see the delta here. it's four times off in terms of the amount of testing we need to be doing here. >> it isn't perfect and we're not there yet. and we're not. but we're going to get there. we're going to get there soon, i hope. >> and they'll need to. the only true end of this pandemic, the holy grail, a vaccine, is still on the horizon. >> i think there's no question that the speed at this these vaccine trials have been going is unprecedented. vaccines can take decades. hiv/aids, 40 years and we still don't have a vaccine. that gives you an idea how challenging this can be. >> all of this is a race against time to reopen, to get back to some semblance of normal, and to most importantly, to save lives. it will be a marathon, the experts say, not a sprint. and with every step, serious communication failures that took and continue to take the country

off track. >> the virus. >> such as down playing the threat and severity of the pandemic. >> when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away. hope that's true. hydroxychloroquine. >> or pushing a drug, hydroxychloroquine, for the treatment of covid-19, a drug the fda just warned against using outside of a clinical trial or a hospital. >> what do you have to lose? take it. suppose we hit the body -- >> and then of course the recent disinfectant situation. >> then i see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute. and is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning. >> an unbelievable and perplexing moment that had people calling hotlines asking if they should be using disinfectant on themselves to combat the virus. >> this prompted statements from

the health officials and even the makers of clorox warning do not try this, it could kill. >> requiring doctors, public officials, and organizations to shift their focus from fighting covid-19 to actually warn the public not to ingest disinfectant. >> i wouldn't recommend the internal ingestion of a disinfectant. >> we wanted to ask the white house about all of this, but they declined to participate in this documentary. >> for now, americans need to keep their eyes looking straight ahead t ahead, to the finish line, listening to the experts and not getting distracted by confusing and unfounded messages. >> i don't think there's only

one path to defeat covid. we need our leaders to be focused, serious, honest, to be able to deal with new fast-moving scientific information. that's the path to defeat covid. >> why is the time now in the middle of this pandemic to start investigating the record? well, while we were producing that documentary, the united states hit a grim milestone. 1 million americans diagnosed with covid-19, a startling number. that reminds us how every day lives are literally at stake. this month we pass aid death toll, 65,000. not long ago it was projected the u.s. would not hit until august. and that's the reason that we do this now, not because we want to point fingers or blame the chinese government or governors or president trump. the reason that we look back is

so that the same mistakes are not repeated as these numbers continue to rise and just in case there's another outbreak in the year next year. we want to get the facts on the record, especially when the president is apparently weeding out and replacing truth tellers, government watchdogs such as the form erin inspector general acting of the department of health and human services who was telling a truth that apparently president trump did not want told. the time to get the facts on the record is when memories are fresh and when people remember what is done and what could have been done faster or better or at all. ♪

welcome back to our viewers joining us also from the united states. i'm anna coren in hong kong. the u.s. government will begin shipping thousands of doses of remdesivir this week. the head of the company that makes the drug says the government will decide where the medicine goes. early test results show remdesivir shortens the duration of severe covid-19 cases. president trump said sunday the u.s. death toll from the virus could reach as high as 100,000. well, that's a substantial increase from his last estimate of 50 to 60,000 deaths. dr. deborah birx, the white house task force coordinator, offered even higher estimates. >> our projections have always been between 100,000 and 240,000 american lives lost and that's

with full mitigation and us learning from each other of how to social distance. >> as more states begin to reopen, seven eastern states are banning together to purchase medical protective gear to prepare for a possible second wave. >> reporter: new york governor andrew cuomo appeared in a virtual show of force and unity with his fellow north eastern governors to make an announcement. >> we're going to form a consortium with seven northeast power states to buy supplies. >> seemingly pour cold water on president trump's of the-repeated boast of the china travel ban being critically decisive action his administration took early on. >> what we have seen in new york didn't come from china but actually is a different strain of the virus that came from europe. we were looking at china, and the travel ban on china may have

been helpful. but the horse was already out of the barn in china. >> reporter: meanwhile as the u.s. heads into another work week, more than half of the states are marching toward reopening. but it doesn't appear any of them have met the white house's guidelines of having a downward trajectory of cases within a 14 day period. today once again urged the importance of the downward trend. >> as states reopen, we really want them to follow the gating criteria. >> on the medical front, remdesivir received emergency fda approval friday, but birx stopped short of calling it a silver bullet, instead calling it a first step forward. as far as operation warp speed, the trump administration's ambitious plan to make 100 million doses of the vaccine available by november -- >> it's possible. >> restlessness continues to mount. defying stay-at-home orders,

spectators took to the national ball in washington, d.c. for the blue angels flyover and on a sunny day in new york city large crowds gathered in central park many without masks, earning the ire of governor cuomo. >> how people cannot wear masks. that to me is even disrespectful. >> he cautioned against a false sense of comfort, especially as more nice days lay ahead. >> my gut says the weather is going to warm. people are bored. people want this over. they see the numbers going down. they can take false comfort. oh, it's going down. that means it's over. no, no, we never said it was over. >> you heard governor cuomo's strong feelings about people wearing face masks in public. but requiring people to wear masks in other parts of the country has been met with

backlash. in still water, oklahoma, the city amended its ordinance after store employees were threatened with violence. also in ohio an order requiring customers to wear masks in stores was reversed. governor dewine said that was a bridge too far though store employees will still be wearing face masks. joining me now is dr. raj cal see. the u.s. president donald trump admitted the virus proved more lethal. the death toll could reach 100,000. do you think the president's figure is conservative considering this highly contagious virus is still spreading? >> i think the number is going to be far greater. i wish i was saying something different right now compared to what my thoughts were a few weeks ago, a month ago. but look at 1,000 people dying a

day in the united states and this is with social distancing. take that away, open the gates. this virus makes no discrimination to any human being on the planet. perhaps not even animals. we don't know if it goes from animals to humans and back. i see the number soars past 100,000 and we still don't have any good cure or mitigation from a farm suitic that would help us in the hospital system. >> you mentioned that social distancing is still in place, yet many countries in at least half of america have eased restrictions or in the process of easing restrictions. are you concerned? >> i am. i'm also concerned about an economy that's crumbling. and as people starve, literally, there's other medical problems. and me as a doctor, i worry about people in starvation and succumbing to social chaos and injuries associated with that and neglect from the community because they can't afford to live. but also worried about this virus just completely continuing

to infect the entire population without any real means of us having really dealt with it other than keeping people inside the home. >> well, what should people consider when venturing outside into public places where businesses are reopening, where the economies are reopening? >> that is a great question. so, the way i look at it, i look at the data. let's stick straight to the data. and the data says that the more medical problems you have and the older you are, in particular past the age of 55, you're particularly vulnerable. look at the new york city data that came out with 4,000 patients, they found people with multiple medical problems and over the age of 55 were most likely to have a terrible course in the hospital and even die. those people should be particularly careful about venturing out and if they do venture out they need to adhere to the masks, the protocols of hand hygiene and everything in terms of distancing.

people that are younger may want to move forward a bit faster than them, and i think it might be a bit more reasonable because they're the ones that are likely to survive covid or have a milder illness. >> and then of course if they come into contact with those people in that high-risk group, that is -- that's always the concern. with the easing of restrictions, doctor, do you anticipate another surge in two, three, four weeks time? >> i see multiple apex or our term is appices. more than one apex as we move forward. this apex we're talking about now is only one statistical curve and plateau in time. when you release social distancing, there will be another surge because everybody will serve as patient zero again and start reinfecting or infecting, i should say, people that have never had covid and you'll see another apex. and it might go down again. and we'll see another apex as we

go back and forth between mitigating social distancing as we see the fatality rate go up unfortunately. >> doctor, you work in a chicago hospital. you are obviously on the front lines. how are you coping, and are you seeing improvements where you are? >> it's -- i'm emotionally and physically exhausted. and when i'm not working my wife is a mother-baby-nurse taking care of covid positive mothers, some of which are very, very critically ill. and the numbers in chicago continue to go up. in the inner city, we're seeing complete hospitals full with all their vents taken up, all their ventilators taken up, and many, many people on this type of mechanism called ecmo which is basically heart and lung bypass which is the last thing they can do before pronouncing someone dead. and in our own suburban chicago community hospitals where i work at four different ones, one of my institutions were almost full

of vents with 80 people in house positive with covid. it's challenging and now multiple nurse colleagues of mine are admitted or at home with covid. >> these are challenging times to say the least. well, we commend you for your work and everything that you do, dr. raj calsey. thank you so much for joining us. the u.s. army says it's wrapping up its mission at a new york city field hospital this week. [ cheers and applause ] health care workers at the javits convention center give a standing ovation to the last coronavirus patient to be discharged. more than 1,000 patients were treated there, well below capacity because hospitals did not run out of bed as much as they anticipated. an explosive allegation in washington. beijing's handling of the

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welcome back. the u.s. says the chinese government intentionally concealed the severity of the coronavirus from the international community while it stock piled imports and decreased exports achlt department of homeland security report said china probably got its export of medical supplies prior to notifying the world health organization about the contagion. the report does not conclude whether china acted in bad

faith. at a fox news town hall, president trump said he believes the origin of the virus was a horrible mistake but that the blame rests with china. >> i don't think there's any question about it. we wanted to go in. they didn't want us to go in. early, very early. you'll see that because things are coming out that are pretty compelling now. i don't think there's any question. don't forget, china tried to blame it first on some of our soldiers. that turned out to not go too far. i got very upset with that. that was not right. and then they tried to blame it on europe. >> secretary of state mike pompeo said the u.s. will hold china to account for concealing what was happening at the beginning of the outbreak. >> for more the tension on world markets, i'm joined by john defterios in abu dhabi. is asia following in this

downturn? >> yeah, in fact, friday was universally pretty bad, anna, and we see some of the markets that are closed in asia. but the ones that are open are taking a licking. never have a clash of the titans, if you will. don't forget, number one and number two economies in the world. right now it's the u.s. pushing hardest particularly in an election year and particularly because the sensitivities around the number of deaths in the united states. let's take a look at those markets and you'll see what i'm talking about, seoul down around 2% on the day, hovering around lows. hong kong coming out later with gdp figures, down probably around 6.5 to 7%, down around 4% on the day. australia provided a lot of stimulus. we had a terrific month of april in the markets and now the u.s.-china tensions bringing that down again because of the worries about tariffs and what's going to happen to the u.s. bond

market if china eventually decides to sell. u.s. futures are down around 1% the entire time. all three of the major indices so far on light volume of course and then the oil futures, we're right near the low for the day and you see the us benchmark wti down around 7%, brent again near the low, the opec came into effect on friday. the market wants to see if that's going to be delivered. but there's huge concerns because china is the number one importer, whether demand there remains low for all of 2020 and going into the first quarter of 2021. >> this latest spat between the united states and china, how is this going to affect the trade deal? >> well, you know, they have this phase one of the deal, anna as you know, january 15th and calling for china over the next two years to spend an extra $200 billion on products. this is particularly sensitive.

i'm glad that you decided to note it because in an election year, donald trump has been saying for the last three years he's going to open up the chinese market particularly for his two bases in the farm belt and the energy belt. so, $80 billion of the $200 billion is supposed to be for farm products, particularly soybeans and california nuts and even pork products coming from the midwest. again, those are strained in the coronavirus. and also the energy market. the u.s. is trying to challenge saudi arabia and russia in china as the number one importer of oil and gas. china is impressive. so far we see other gulf producers like uae and russia slow to take on products from the united states. if that's going to be the position, you can expect the trump administration to push even harder as the pressure mounts on the president because of the coronavirus. and perhaps many say he's right to say what happened in wuhan

going forward but should it spill in to u.s. markets and the trade deal as well? that's the real question mark. >> john defterios, as always, great reporting. many thanks for joining us. on sunday the trump administration released results from its small business loan program. more than half of the $310 billion in additional funding is already claimed. during that fox news town hall, president trump was asked if more help was coming. >> we're going to do more and everybody wants to do more. it's actually on that aspect of it, it's very bipartisan. so, the answer is yes we're going to do more and you're going to have your job. you're going to get another job. you'll get a job where you'll make more money frankly. we're not doing anything unless we get a payroll tax cut. that's so important to the success of our country and the following year. i think the following year has the chance to be one of our best years. >> jeremy diamond picks up the story from washington. >> with millions of americans

struggling financially across the united states, president trump's chief economic adviser larry kudlow said the trump administration is going to be taking the next couple of weeks to determine whether additional stimulus from the federal government is needed and what form that financial stimulus will indeed take. kudlow indicating that the white house needs to assess what kind of impact the current financial stimulus is already having on the economy and how the economy begins to rebound as some of these states begin to reopen their economies. but kudlow indeed describing this as i apause. >> there may well be additional legislation. there's kind of a pause period right now. but i would say to you at this particular juncture, let's execute the continuation of what we've already done. let's see what the results are. the outlook in the weeks and months ahead directly is not positive as you noted. the unemployment is very, very high, almost 30 million people.

we are covering them with generous relief packages, just trying to stabilize things and get folks through this. and then we will see. >> while kudlow says the white house is making that assessment, here's what we already know. 30 million americans have filed for unemployment since mid-march. and that small business loan program that was approved just over a week ago in just the last week already, more than $175 billion of that $310 billion of additional funding of that payroll protection program for small businesses, it's already been used up. that's more than half of the additional funding sent out. so, clearly there's economic need for stimulus. while the white house works out what kind of stimulus it needs, we've heard from the house speaker nancy pelosi. she's urging additional $1 trillion for state and local economies. we did hear earlier this week from the federal reserve

chairman jerome powell. he said additional financial relief for americans is needed right now. jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. let's talk more about the impact the coronavirus is having on the u.s. economy. i'm joined now by megan green. she's a global economist and senior fellow at the harvard kennedy school of business. let's start with the stock market. it bounced in april despite unemployment in the u.s. hitting 30 million claims. is there a disconnect between the market and the real economy? >> there's clearly a disconnect between the market and the real economy. that happens often actually where economic fundamentals can be terrible and markets can soar. i think this time around it's been led by tech stocks. i don't think we've seen the worst of it for the stock market. just because we're in the eye of the storm, i think the fundamentals in terms of

macro-fundamentals are pretty terrible. >> the market is obviously pricing a v-shape recovery, but not everyone agrees. what are your thoughts? >> i think v-shape recovery is pretty much off the table at this point, particularly as we're talking about reopening the economy and some states have gone ahead and already done that. i think there's a great chance that we could end up bringing on a second wave of this virus as ing economies do open up in which case we'll have to shut back down and open back up and shut back down so it'll be a zigzag recovery. i think if you open up the economy, that doesn't mean people are going to go out and spend. a recent spend if people could go out to restaurants and bars, 70% of respondents wouldn't do it. 85% wouldn't get on a plane. 80% wouldn't go to a large event. unless there's an actual confidence that comes back, spending isn't going to rebound

and we can't have a v-shaped recovery. >> you mentioned that second wave and experts are talking about third, fourth waves into the future. is that going to hurt the economy even more so than locking it down for the appropriate amount of time? >> so, it really depends on how severe other waves are. we saw with the spanish influenza that it wasn't the first wave that was the most deadly. we had subsequent waves and mutations that were more deadly. so, that could happen here. but even if it doesn't, you see riots around the u.s. and also other countries like italy there are protests against these lockdown measures. if you let people out and then try to lock them down again, i think that will be more difficult than having locked them down to begin with. so i think in terms of social unrest it becomes much more difficult as well. >> i just want to talk to you about the news that clothing giant j. crew has filed for bankruptcy. do you think this is the first of many companies that will make these filings? >> so, i do.

analysts have been calling for the death of retail for about a decade now and it hasn't happened. but i think there's a good chance that now it might. we already saw kind of a migration from buying retail and bricks and mortar shops to online shopping. and that's been massively accelerated by this crisis. so, i do think it's going to be hard for a lot of bricks and mortar retailers to come back after this. and i also think we're seeing a lot of them were in financial trouble beforehand. macys is an example who are in even more trouble now. it's not clear they're going to rebound the same way or really come back. so, i think j. crew is the first in a line of retailers who are going to have trouble opening their doors and may end up filing for bankruptcy. >> great to have you with us and your perspective. many thanks. the coronavirus has dealt the food supply chain a blow.

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hundred of workers at a pork processing plant in missouri have tested positive for coronavirus. over the last few days, more than 700 people at triumph foods were tested. over half of them tested positive. health officials there say the workers were all asymptomatic. the health department is in the process of tracing any contacts those workers may have had. meat packing plants in the united states are under a federal executive order to stay open amid the coronavirus crisis. but it gets complicated for plant managers, ranchers, and workers. omar jiminez explains from wisconsin. >> reporter: it's a farm in its fifth generation.

but one that's never operated in an environment like this. >> we'll make the changes we need to make. >> terry qualm is an an gus beef cattle farmer and represents the first link with segments on the brink of crisis. how concerned are you specifically? >> there's no hand book for this. there's no answer of when things are going to come around and be normal. when are people going to be able to go back to the restaurants and eat the beef we produce at the restaurants. >> qualm has been affected by the stay-at-home orders but also markets to meatpackers, the same facilities seeing outbreaks across the country. half of confirmed cases in that county stem from meat packing plants. this man says he was concerned workers like himself weren't being given enough protective equipment, so he said something about it.

and now he's unsure if he's been suspended or fired. >> i don't think i did anything wrong, he says. i simply asked for more protection and more safety that myself and everyone who works there don't get infected or lose their lives. >> martinez says he along with the workers rights group filed a complaint to the occupational health and safety administration claiming they were having to work at a faster speed and that the ppe was getting so wet with sweat some was dripping on to the raw meat. >> translator: one of our coworkers next to us, we saw him sick and said if you're feeling bad, why don't you go home and get checked. he said no, i don't have anything. but like i said, there's a fear this person had to lose the benefits of his job. it's a balance workers across the country are trying to find. >> people say i have a better chance of catching coronavirus

going to walmart than coming to tyson. >> tyson couldn't address the specific situation as described but that particular tyson plant in iowa closed with over 150 confirmed cases tied to the facility, this as thousands of other workers in the u.s. have either shown symptoms or been hospitalized. and with president trump's executive order comparing to open or stay open, workers are caught in the middle. >> translator: who wants to die? i think no one. it's not the same thing to be in the danger versus when you're looking at the danger. >> the effects have been noticed at grocery stores, kroger, for example, putting limits on some meat purchases tied to shopper demand. back on the farms, the worries are less about what people are eating and more about finding the places to sell. >> when mother nature throws us a curveball, you've got to figure out a way to get around it and work with it and take care of business. >> and the business of keeping

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a spectacular sight from a different point of view. yesterday we showed you these pictures of the blue angels and thunderbirds over the national mall. here's a view from inside the cockpits as the planes flew across washington, d.c., baltimore, and atlanta. the special flight was to honor health care workers and first responders on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. well the graduating class of a college in ohio got a big surprise during their virtual ceremony, an appearance from tom hanks. the a-list actor delivered a

video message to the graduates of right state university telling them they are a special generation and their lives have been changed forever. >> you are the chosen one because of the fate unimagined when you began your adventures. you started in the olden times in the world back before the great pandemic of 2020. you'll talk of the earlier years of your lives, that was before the covid-19. that was before the great pandemic. part of your lives will forever be identified as before, the same way other generations tell time like well, that was before the war or that was before the internet or that was before bejohn say. >> thanks and his wife rita wilson tested positive for the virus while traveling in australia back in march. they have since recovered and donated plasma to help other patients. with millions contracting the coronavirus people are trying to avoid interacting with

others while taking care of basic needs like shopping. a small neighborhood market outside of washington, d.c. that is using robots to make deliveries. ♪ >> this is the market. and we're a neighborhood corner store, been here the for 100 years. i'm tracy, and i'm one of the owners. we have a long-running history of providing for the neighborhood. when the virus first became sort of, you know, in the news, we still had customers in there. it became really clear to us that if any of us got sick, the store would have to close. it's always here for the neighborhood. we've always had the reputation that we were there, and it was important for us to be there this time too.

what's really special is we have robots making our deliveries. the company reached out to us. i think with the closing of college campuses they had available robots and they were looking at places across the country where they can use the robots in communities. there's a couple of ways people are ordering currently. you can download the star ship app and put all your items in the cart and send it and then the picker, my place in the store, will fill the orders and then will load the bot and it'll be sent out to you. the robot sends you a text when it's near your house and it tells you on your phone how to open it. >> hello. here's your delivery. >> and it heads home. people love them. certain people love them because they're fun and cute. others really appreciate the separation. >> a noble idea. thanks for watching "cnn newsroom." i'm anna coren.

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this is hour, america's national experiment on re-opening for business gets much bigger. 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, right now more than half of america is reopening for business if only a little. we're on both coasts to look at whether anyone is meeting the white house guidelines. then -- >> they could have kept it. they could have stopped it. but they didn't. >> this is an example of the latest claim by washington against beijing. the details in a live report from