partially reopening. an expert warns the in your opinions numbs of cases and deaths will go up. it's not all clear for china the country reports new cases in wuhan. and in enforces fresh lock down measures in a north eastern city. also a record number of americans are losing their jobs. experts predict the worst of that might be yet to come. experts warning a relentless rush to reopen will result in lost lives yet almost all u.s. states are rolling back crisis restrictions with more set to expire in the coming days. some of them in states nowhere near controlling their out breaks. those you see there in shades of

pink are struggling with a lot of new infections. yellow is holding steady. this coming as a key model predicts 137,000 deaths in the u.s. by august. that's several thousand more than last week forecast. a top researcher says more movement means more transmission of the virus. >> we're seeing explosive increases in mobility in a number of states that we expect will translate into more cases and deaths. in ten days from now. >> now in the coming hours the u.s. will hit 80,000 covid-19 deaths noerly a third of the 282,000 fatalities worldwide. healthcare giant is vowing to some sort of vaccine available this year and aiming to produce

a billion doses for next year. clinical trials start in september. of course nothing is guaranteed. meanwhile the virus is edging closer than ever to the west wing we're hearing president trump is concerned that aids contracting the covid-19 virus will under cut his message that the worst is past. and the states should reopen. that coming as the u.s. vice president makes fairly questionable decision. >> reporter: vice president pence office on sunday saying that the vice president will not interself-quarantine after his press secretary tested positive on friday. saying in a statement vice president pence will continue to follow the advice of the white house medical unit and not in quarantine. he tested negative every day and plans to be at the white house tomorrow. that is on monday. the vice president is expected

to be at the white house certainly not a self-quarantine there. his decision is in contrast with what we're seeing from three doctors on the coronavirus task force. head of center of disease control. the head of the food and drug administration and dr. fauci. the government top infectious disease expert. all entering some form of self-quarantine for two weeks after they came into contact with a white house official. who tested positive for the coronavirus. their announcements about going into quarantine came within 24 hours of the news that katy miller the press secretary who is a spokeswoman for the task force had indeed tested positive. certainly some differences here in the approach. that is the thing we're seeing from the white house. the mismatch piecemeal approach. to what these officials should do if they come into contact. the vice president has spent more time with katy miller than any of the other officials on

the task force. and so far the white house is declining to say whether any other officials on the task force or white house officials who would be in frequent meetings with the vice president press selk tear whether they will work from home and enter some kind of quarantine. what we are also learning is that those three officials who are going into quarantine were set to testify before the senate health committee on tuesday. those officials will still go forward with the testimony. the chairman o. committee announcing all three of them will appear by video conference. >> joining me now from new york. cnn national security analyst. great to have you on. the president playing down the need for widespread testing and at the same time we have this cluster at the white house. vice president press secretary. secret service agents.

presidential valet. and the vice president going against recommendations to isolate. what do you take from that white house spread and how it is being handled? >> the first instance you expect the president and the vice president in the white house to lead by example. if they're not following guidelines that certainly doesn't message to the base to the followers to the american people that the cdc guidelines should be taken serious le. it's worth remembering that the president the vice president and white house staff are really high valued targets when we think about infection or any other direct threat to the security or health. that is because personnel at the white house are viewed as essential personnel. in the eyes of the federal government. it's essential they are able to physically come to work, and perform their roles and responsibilities. i was one of the personnel for four years.

that makes protecting their health paramount importance. i look at the president and the vice president, senior advisers and others. being on television and public, walking around the white house without masks for example. not engaging in basic guidelines. i just have to ask myself why not? >> you worked there of course for years in the obama administration. when it comes to the place itself, give us a sense of the physical working environment. potential spread. and as you point out people don't seem to be using masks there. >> social distancing is a luxury you don't have at the white house. whether you are working in the white house in the west wing or east wing or the eisenhower exec ti office building. which is where the vice president most of the vice president staff and space is really cramped. i worked in a converted closet for years. two feet from my closest

colleague. at the same time equipment is shared. we're talking about hand washing and avoiding touching physical surfaces. there's oftentimes one classified printer in a shared office space. you have to touch doorknobs to get into secure rooms. where the offices are held. it's very difficult to just engage in basic social distancing. and minimum i expect that staff would do things like wear masks. just to be extra cautious. >> to that point, even if the cases are largely a symptomatic so far. when you have exposure affecting the cdc and infectious diseases. it shows how the heart of government can be threatened and again how the administration isn't following guidelines. and in the case of the vice president quarantining after exposure. how concerning is that in terms of the function of government?

>> the truth is we need all hand on deck. to fight this virus as well as the threat facing the nation. as officials are forced to self-quarantine or semi-quarantine, mai question is whether people like dr. fauci or the cdr director and others are able to fully perform responsibility with respect to the coronavirus. for example if other staff have to stay home because they have been infected. they can't get for example to the majority of the classified information. because dhint have access to classified servers on the regular basis from their hopes. infection spreads like wild fire within the white house and the inability of staff at all levels to show up to work whether out of fear or infection or quarantining might impact the function of the government. >> there's a lot we can talk about for hours on optics when

it comes to the administration. let's talk about this cnn reporting that president trump is told people he doesn't want to be near anyone who hasn't been tested. he's bristled coming into contact with some people in the white house. yet he expects the ordinary americans to go back to work without the benefit of testing. there's a lot of -- in that. >> i call it hypocrisy. the president is not wrong that his staff failed to protect him. a lethal threat likely came within breathing distance of president trump. as well as vice president pence. so he is right that the utmost precautions should be taken to protect his health. he is expecting treatment that he is not again advising people to take when it comes to their health and security. the fact is the white house shot itself in the foot. when it comes to their narrative it is time to reopen the country and we have flattened the curve

to such an extent we should get back to normal. based upon the fact there's new infection at the white house and the fact that the white house wasn't able to even protect the president and vice president trump. doesn't instill confidence that they're ready or willing to take necessary steps to protect us. >> indeed. good to see you, thanks so much. now over the weekend south korea reported its biggest single day jump in coronavirus cases since early april. the spike believed to be linked to seoul nightclub scene. with the president warning of a second wave. cnn is live for us in seoul. good to see you. south korea widely praised for the handling of the virus. how concerned about this up tick? >> well they're very concerned. the seoul city mayor gave a

briefing saying that if seoul falls the country falls. the next two to three days the that's critical to try and contain the tout break. what it started from a 29 year-old man on may 2 went to a number of clubs in the area in seoul. and since then we have seen from officials that 85 more people have tested positive. related to that one particular case. asking people from about a two week period. to auto policyholders for the period ending may 31st. and we'll continue making real time decisions >> they had some kind of record. the clubs are known to be gay clubs and there's rising home

phobia here in south korea. and has been in the past. the officials are saying there have been cases of people giving false information. giving false numbers. they're unable to track down everybody who may have come into contact with the individual on the particular weekend. they say they have tested 3,000 people at this point. they are waiting for about a thousand of the tests to come back. what they're trying to do with the help of police as well is trace everybody in that area. they are using credit cards usage records. the mobile phone records to try and trace and contain this out break. >> such a shame. in the meantime what lessons, other can you be thes look to south korea and say they did a great job with this. what lessons can other countries take as they look at south korea? >> it shows how ten use the

success it. how quickly it can turn. of course the mayor says the next two to three days are critical. there's hope it can be contained. we heard from the south korea president yesterday saying it's not over until it's over. you can't let your guard down. and he did warn of this second wave. he said the experts say it will come in the autumn or winter. of course we did have a number of days there were zero cases of locally transmitted cases within the whole of the country. so suddenly this a disappointing and worrying turn for officials. especially two days before the schools are supposed to be reopening. it will be a phased reopening. over weeks for the schools. that is supposed to be happening on wednesday. of course that is now in question. whether or not that will go ahead. >> real lesson in how flare ups can happen. appreciate it.

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welcome back. china reporting 17 new cases of the coronavirus. the epidemic risk has been changed to china's highest level in new lock down measures in effect for the north eastern city. five of the new cases are in wuhan. the original epicenter of the out break. wuhan had not reported any new cases since april 3. cnn is in beijing with the details. tell us about what's going on in wuhan. they probably felt the immediate danger passed. >> that's right. this latest change in wuhan is getting a will the of attention. obviously this is a city where the first out break was reported. all the cases six in total since the weekend all happened in one particular neighborhood. and in that neighborhood the official in charge has been sacked by the government for failing to prevent this resurgence. most people in china are

required to have the government health app on their phone. with a color code to indicate their health status. the people in the neighborhood the health cold is yellow instead of green. that will restrict travel options and limit access to public venues including work. this is the last thing residents want to see after having to go through the 76 days of strict quarantine measures which has led to mhuge human tolls as wel as economic struggling. >> tell us about the northeast city having a lock down measure in place. >> the city the situation is more alarming. this city has a population of 700,000 people. it reported 12 cases since last thursday. the city is now actually facing the kind of stringent lock down measures wuhan had seen at the

peak of the out break. right now the city has required all residents to stay at home. each household is allowed to send one representative out each day. most businesses are shut. transportation into the city is suspended and students who just resumed classes are going back to remote learning. all the measures because the cases there especially the patient zero in the city is baffling. she is a laundry lady at the local police station who had no contact with people from over seas or previously confirmed cases. she had not traveled outside of her home area. so that's why the authorities are conducting very extensive contact tracing trying to figure out how she contracted the virus. so the situation there obviously another warning against complacency. for the rest of china and the world. more and more governments are starting to reopen for business. there's so much about the virus we don't know about.

>> absolutely. that is baffling. no contact with anyone. it does speak to the importance of contact tracing. appreciate it. much of europe ending or easing lock down restrictions this week. germany is on guard. the country's disease and control center says infections there are on the rise. this after some shops and schools were allowed to open last week. after a strict eight week lock down in france, shops, hair salons and schools will reopen. paris is still a red zone. stricter rules stay enforced there. to spain, hundreds of new covid-19 cases over the weekend most of them in madrid. and barcelona. outside of the regions half of the population will be advancing into the next phase of reopening. >> after more than 6 weeks of lock down in 32,000 coronavirus

deaths, the british prime minister trying to advance reopening the uk this week. he proposed a set of steps towards relaxing restrictions. max foster with more from london. >> three stages to boris johnson plan. the first will come in next week when we see him encouraging mf manufacturing and conduction workers to get back to work. and avoid public transport plefr preferably. july stage 3 with hospitality and public areas opening up. all of this is conditional. infection rates not rising sharply. the timetable will be stretched. lock down will be lock downed further. he's fearful of the second spike in the virus. the government being accused of mix messaging as well.

slogan of stay at home to stay alert. the opposition labor party saying that's puzzling. not particular clear. scotland will stick with stay at home. splits in the union there. new rules around quarantine. boris johnson saying people coming in have to self-quarantine for 14 days. why it's happening now isn't clear. france is exempt. so again confusion around quarantine rules. and when it applies and to whom. max foster cnn, london. >> as countries in europe start to reopen, children starting to return to school. the classrooms will look entirely different once the students return. more on how countries are doing it. >> reporter: some of the european citizens hardest hit by

stay at home orders are finally getting back to something approaching normal. teenagers in germany were returning to school building one by one. in denmark, primary school children get back to classrooms on april 15. some less enthusiastic than others with teaching staff facing a whole new set of challenges. >> we have soap, disinfectant. all over the place. we have put lines in the floor to indicate two meters intervals. >> since the start of the coronavirus out break in late february, italy and spain, france and many other countries gradually put in place stay at home orders and closed schools. only now are many countries beginning to reopen. >> crucial to getting parents back to work is getting children into class. in the nether land the

classrooms monday will look different. here as in france some children have started early. children of healthcare workers for instance. other children will return to class on a voluntary basis and classes will be smaller. so priority will be given to the children of essential workers. the french president explained it was a matter of social justice. >> too many children especially in poorer neighborhoods and the country side are deprived of school. with no access to digital learning and cannot be helped in the same way by parents. >> as schools like this gradually reopen. it will be an important test. the government said it will not hesitate to bring in another stay at home order should the figures rise again. can kids inside schools be kept safe from one another. and are parents happy to being sending them back? >> i have to work.

my husband is working also. and it's very comp will kated to work at home with kids. >> we have asked for children to go back to school. first children from the disadvantaged background. that's not our case. we work remotely we are not priority. >> many have to wait for going back to school. a remipd minder closing down in march was easy and obvious enough. roping reopening is harder. >> we'll take a short break. more u.s. states in prepare to reopen, one town is following two sets of opposing rules. they give you unlimited carryover data-- you pay for your data, you keep really? yeah, you just swap your sim card you can also keep your phone, keep your number,

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welcome back, everyone. time to update you on the top news this hour. south korea president warning of a possible second wave of coronavirus. after the country's highest single day jump in cases since early april. the spike believed to be linked to man who tested positive after visiting several seoul nightclubs. british prime minister expected to brief parliament monday on the plan for reopening. he is specifically urging construction and manufacturing employees to return to work. some critics say johnson's reopen plan lacks clarity. and a source telling us the president trump is worried the white house out break will under cut his message that it is safe to reopen. one of his valets and another west wing aid both tested

positive. three members of his own task force are now self-quarantining. >> in the u.s. almost every state has started to ease coronavirus restrictions despite warnings from health officials. in places like new hampshire, barbershops and retail stores are allowing customers back in. gyms and restaurants in alabama are operating under certain restrictions. each location with their own rules. what do you do if your town is on the border of two different states? each with its own rules. we look at the situation in bristol. a town that straddles the border between tennessee and virginia. >> i'm here on the tennessee side of the state street. where restaurants, businesses and can open at reduced capacity. we're seeing that right here. saying they are taking seating pi reservation only. no walk in. and they want to try to abide by

the restrictions to keep a lower number of people inside their space. once i cross the street i'm in a different state. in virginia they have not reopened anything quite yet. and now i'm in virginia. where people can only get curb side pickup or delivery for food. so that creates quite a dichotomy on both sides of the street. here are what two business owners see the situation. >> i would lig to see the other side open. businesses are competitors. it's good for everybody if we're open. i want to see everybody do well. >> i wish the governor might come take a peek. and see if maybe the restrictions should be more about county, area code. region. and maybe not statewide. >> the regional approach is interesting idea. something that we asked the chamber of commerce here. and the chamber is helping out

both sides of the street. because they are chamber of commerce for bristol tennessee and virginia. they said they tried to advocate for the virginia restaurants by talking to the government at looking at a local approach. >> it doesn't sound like there's luck in letting one section of the state open first. >> that's true. we have been told that he's not really interested in a region until approach. for a number of reasons. for us here, when it impacts you at face value, you have a restaurant who can look out the window and 30 yard across the street people are walking into businesses. dining and shopping. that's a challenge. >> a group of leaders in virginia wrote a letter to the governor asking for the same thing. a regional approach. for the opposite reason. they say they feel their population is not yet ready to reopen. a very interesting dynamic with people here in bristol.

hoping that they really can reopen sooner. one-half of the town has. we talked to a chinese restaurant on the virginia side. the owner son understands the governors tough position of having to make a decision for the entire state. he said what's most important is the health of the customers and whatever they are told about the best decision in are opening they will follow the rules. >> a board certified internist. live from los angeles. i want to start with your take on the spread of the coronavirus in to the president inner circle. white house infections and the head of the cdc, fda and national institute of health all quarantining. what does it show about this virus and its reach? >> it shows that the virus has

no boundaries. it can attack the mightiest and the humblest. and the richest and poorest. youngest and oldest. sort of the chickens have come to roost if you will. the president and the white house and the people there have almost been acting as if this were something they would be oblivious too. and unfortunately it shows that you can be completely without symptoms and you can still carry a virus. and you can spread it to an untold number of people. so i think thaths exactly what this is telling us. >> it seems the president is most upset it's stepping on his narrative of everybody getting to work. in the white house it seem there's daily testing. there's contact tracing. they have the resources. yet the president still plays down the need for those things in the broader community.

how necessary still is it in order to have a reopening that doesn't backfire in a being u way to have the things everywhere? >> those are essential. and unfortunately i think the american people can see the %-p. i understand these people are leader and vital and should have a different level of protection. but in order to open the united states or any country safely, you need to know who is infectious, who they are coming into contact with. and if people that are already been infected are immune to it. so they can go and work safely. so testing is of the utmost important to open safe lif. not only that. until you have testing you need to adhere very closely to social distancing or physical distancing. to wearing mask and extreme

hygiene. again, the white house needs to set an example. >> i'm wondering if you think -- i'm seeing on soesh social media of people going to restaurants and disturbing stuff too. is there a risk there is public complacency. president saying let's reopen and get back to work. have sports start again. people are still dying in terrible numbers. are people getting used to that and drop their guard? >> i don't think people are getting used to that. people haven't seen that. for example people in new york they fwhee this is about. people in urban areas we know what this is about. perhaps in the rural areas, they are taking their lead from a leader. which is this is not a big deal. i have seen the same videos that you're talking about. they are super-disturbing. masses of people cramming into

stores and restaurants. it is going to be matter of time before those people become infected. is it complacency, politics? i don't know. it's dangerous. >> incredible images out today in stores and restaurants. i want to ask you on a related economic issue. growing fears without federal money. economic losses of the pandemic will lead to states being forced to cut services. emergency services and medicare funding. could be anything. teachers. how frightening is the cutting particularly on the medical side. how frightening is that propertiprospect in a pandemic? >> things are bad enough as they are. with not enough protective equipment. for the healthcare professionals. not enough ventilators. luckily because of social distancing we have slowed that

tide. if things go crazy, seriously, the worst case scenario is people just die in droves. physicians and nurses already dying decide not to go to work. electricity and gas. i don't want to think about it. we're talking about such destructive things that could occur in society. >> everybody hopes they get the money to keep the services going. always a pleasure. thank you. >> well, more than two months after the fatal shooting of an african-american jogger a state prosecutor seeks answers about how the victims case was handled. we'll have that and more.

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the death of ahmaud arbery. the unarmed black man shot while jogging. the state top prosecutor requesting a federal investigation to review how the case was handled at the local level. cnn har tin has the savage. the story does contain graphic video. >> the georgia attorney general has now asked for the u.s. department of justice to formally step in and do a thorough review of the case when it comes to the investigation of the death of the ahmaud arbery. the reason for that is obvious. it's the fact that it took over two months for local law enforcement to look into this days and hardly anything happened and you have state law enforcement officials come in less than two days and made two arrests. the question that is come up in many peoples minds is one of the those under arrest is gregory mcmichael. who worked as an investigator in the local district attorney office. the question being asked by many is did local law enforcement give mim a favored treatment and

his son? delaying in kind of arrest because of the work that he used to do in the office. clearly that's one element that will be investigated. now, new video that come to light. it's not new to investigators. it's new to the public. what it essentially shows is ahmaud arbery on the day he died in the community where he was killed. walking into a home that was under construction. captured by a security camera. his family also has seen the video and positively id'd him in the video. a short clip. he waux around for a bit. and leaves. and goes off on a run. he doesn't take anything and many of us walked into a home that's been under construction out of curiosity. the most significant that is would be is trespassing. a misdemeanor. not a serious offense that would warrant georgia hot pursuit of citizens arrest kind of law being put into effect.

and lastly i'll point out that there were threats that have been made online the gbi investigating alleging if there were any future demonstrations in support of ahmaud arbery, something bad would happen. in less than 24 hours the gbi with the fbi determined who had made the threats and were using someone els online identity to do it. they have now been taken into custody. and it shows you how even now emotions continue to run very high. >> we'll be right back. each oth. that's why state farm is announcing the good neighbor relief program we know our customers are driving less, which means fewer accidents. so state farm is returning $2 billion dollars to auto policyholders for the period ending may 31st. and we'll continue making real time decisions to best serve you - our customers. because now, more than ever, being a good neighbor means everything.

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the u.s. is reeling from last friday's jobs report. the country losing 20 million jobs in april as a result of the coronavirus. and may's numbers could be worse. experts predict unemployment could reach a record breaking 20% perhaps more. it's unclear how the $3 trillion of economic relief to u.s. citizens will impact things like that. the white house says before anymore stimulus packages are pumped into the economy, the country needs to see how the first wave performs.

>> what the president and i are saying is we spent a lot of money, it's not into the economy yet. let's take the next few weeks. i'm having discussions with the republican and democrats. to understand the issues. the president and i are having with outside people with business. we just want to make sure that before we jump back in and spend another few trillion of taxpayers' money that we do it carefully. >> i do think there are issues here and there are probably going to be? agreements and disagreements. each side has its own positions. so it's not that we're not talking. we are. it's just informal at this stage. and really after all this assistance let's have a look at what the impact is. in at least the next couple of weeks for the economy. >> this is the biggest negative shock to an economy that we've ever seen in our lifetimes. and it hit an economy that in january was about the strongest economy we'd ever seen. and so when you've got two giant

forces like that colliding, then any economist who tells you they know exactly what's going to happen is feeding you a line. the fact is with all of the aggressive bipartisan action to toss maybe as much as $9 trillion at this sort of bridge to the other side, that we see things like in the jobs report on friday almost everybody who declared themselves unemployed said they expect to go back to work in the next six months. >> john defterios joins me now from abu dhabi. those job numbers were truly shocking. what might we be looking at by the end of june? >> well, the admission now, michael, is that 20% unemployment rate is a foregone conclusion. but even treasury secretary steve mnuchin was suggesting 25% cannot be ruled out. and i made reference to this in the past, that the u.s. federal reserve bank in the center of the country in st. louis was suggesting we could see 50

million americans apply for unemployment benefits. so far we're at 33 million, and we know in the last month alone that better than 20 million people lost their jobs. a lot of people haven't been talking about this, michael, in terms of the corporate restructuring that's now under way. i would say we're about halfway there. maybe not even that level. so the restructuring job layoffs are going to continue especially for publicly traded companies. and it's saturdaying to sink into the fact that people who are faced with medical dependency and vaccines here, right? how bad is going to be the snapback when it comes to the virus when people go back to work in the united states? mutations of the coronavirus. these are things to consider. and how desperate is the situation? kevin hassett, the chief economic adviser for the white house, was saying they're considering food aid at this stage and they want to make sure there's broadband access for people to start looking for jobs again when the economy starts to pick up. number one economy in the world and we're sitting in a very desperate situation. and the u.s. has already

allocated $3 trillion to the cause. >> before i let you go i wanted to ask you about a story closer to home for you. emirates managed to squeeze out a profit. i don't know how they do that in this situation. but how much turbulence is there going ahead? >> well, that profit was for the full year. they closed out their full year in march. and they suggested that the fourth quarter was not a good one in their fiscal year of course. they're saying, michael, and this is a bridge between east and west as gigantic long haul carrier, that it will be the worst challenge for them in 35 years of being in business. right? so this is not something insignificant. the chairman maktoum of the ruling family said they've done salary cutbacks, they're trying to limit their layoffs at this stage, but if you consider the iran-iraq war, the gulf war, the sars crisis, ebola in africa, and for this to be the biggest challenge it gives you a hint of what's going on. and also in the last 30 minutes we've seen coming out of saudi

arabia the minister of finance, mohammed al jadan, announcing the fact that the v.a.t., or the sales tax only introduced in 2018 will go from 5% to 15% and they're slashing jobs within the private sector and within the government sector they're linking cola payments, cost of living adjustments for the government workers because of the austerity. coronavirus and the steep drop in oil prices that the two of us have talked about over the last month and a half sinking in to the largest oil exporter in the world at the same time. >> yeah. what a major hit. good to see you, john. thanks for breaking it down for us. john defterios there. well, first quarter losses for the airline industry topped $12 billion. with the travel industry decimated many u.s. airlines can't afford to keep all of their employees for much longer. meaning up to 750,000 workers could be at risk for losing their jobs. experts warning that down the road up to a third of the

industry's jobs could go away. now, to try to keep that from happening, airlines are asking workers to take voluntary unpaid or lower-paid leave. right now the government bailout bars airlines from layoffs but furloughs are expected once those rules expire. that's going to happen in the northern autumn. and when the airlines do recover, more than 100,000 jobs could be gone permanently. in addition, meanwhile, to making passengers wear face masks, frontier airlines will also begin checking the temperature of everyone who boards a plane. many companies have investigation in circulation systems to give passengers cleaner air. frontier's ceo says it's part of the company's layered approach to safety. >> we've listened to the health experts and we've listened to our customers and we've taken a layered approach starting with the fogging and disinfecting of

the aircraft, the masks requirement for our employees which we started a month ago, now requiring masks of all passengers. but i think what's important to note, in that video, if you see it, know it's been slowed down lots of times, but the hepa filtration system on our aircraft, our average fleet age is less than four years. it puts clean air through the cabin within two to three minutes. for that reason we have not had any contact that we're aware of, anyone contracting covid-19 on our aircraft, because the system looks very good. but we're looking at a layered approach. temperature checks, masks, the filtration system, all these things together make you more safe on board an aircraft than you are in a grocery store, many other buildings. the main thing to remember is with the facial coverings, with the temperature checks, with the hepa filtration and all these things layered together we believe you're safer on board frontier and most airlines for that matter than most enclosed buildings. >> frontier will begin those temperature checks, by the way, next month. that'll do it for now. thanks for joining me.

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