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[ inaudible question ]. >> yeah. so, again, the relationship with russia has improved greatly, especially since the russian hoax has been proven totally false. and illegal what they did. this is an illegal hoax, and they got caught. they got caught doing a lot of bad things. let's see how that turns out but our relationship with russia has come a long way in the last few months. i think the open sky will all work out. but right now, when you have an agreement and the other side doesn't adhere to the agreement, we're not going to adhere to it either but i think something very positive will work out. >> what? [ inaudible question ]. >> i'm thinking about going. that will be next week, to the rocket launch, i hope you're all going to join me. i'd like to put you in the rocket and get rid of you for a while. okay, thank you very much.
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thank you, steve. >> you've been listening to president trump on his way to visit a ford plant in michigan where they're demanding that he wear a mask. his response there as to whether he will, he said he's not sure, then he wants to, quote, normalize the country and then he pivoted to open churches. he said he's almost finished with the unproven drug two weeks hydroxychloroquine which is a preventive measure for coronavirus. it's still in clinical testing for that. his comments also come as a model shows nearly 40,000 american lives could have been saved had the u.s. acted earlier. john king is with me now. john, let's start with the mask situation because he's just refused over and over to wear masks. and it seems that the folks around him have started picking up that process. he also seems frustrated to talk to people with masks. you just heard him do something
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there that he's done to reporters a number of times when they're asking a question where he says, i can't understand you because you're wearing a mask. what do you make of this? >> this is just a tough ridding to solve, brianna. saying the united states is ahead of schedule. we don't know that for several weeks. we have to watch the data. see where the dates states go. smerconish states go in the right direction, some in the wrong direction. the president with this trip almost everything is geared towards saying you are safe, leave your house, go back to work. so he doesn't want to be seen wearing a mask because he thinks that runs counter to his base. and the elite trying to tell him to wear a mask to restrict the behavior. he's trying to stay in touch with the base. at the same time, he's the president of the united states, his own government that he leads recommends that if you're 2
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years of age or older and you go outside and you're going to be in proximity to other people you should wear a mask. this is a giant conflict with the president. we've seen this before, not the first time. he is stubborn, sometimes to a fault, he doesn't want to do it. we'll see what happens when he gets to michigan. >> as a reminder, as cnn reports, he wants people around him to be wearing a mask. he does not want to wear a mask. you heard him push back against this model which shows thousands of lives could have been saved if measures had been put in place sooner. he basically gave himself a pat on the back for measures he had put in place. and he referred to this model as a political hit job. >> he was misleading when he did that, too. he said he put in place the china travel ban. it was not a complete ban, but a close ban, and the president gets credit for that from his own infectious disease experts but there's a pattern here, if you question the president or
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question him in any way that might lead to well you could have double better, whether you're a columbia university study or a reporter in the briefing room or a leader in a federal agency, it's a hit job. the study says if he had been a week earlier with social distancing about 35,000 lives could have been saved nationally. two weeks earlier, 80% of those deaths might not have happened. let's remember, at the time tlrm not a lot of cases in the united states. that is a big huge debate for the president of the united states to shut down an economy. governors and mayors will also face this accountability, should they have acted as quickly as the bay area did in california. should they have acted as quickly as governor inslee did. the president is not the only one who should be asked these questions and hindsight is
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20/20, i get that part. but any questions about accountability, any questions that might lead to, sure, given what i knoll now, i wish i would have acted a week earlier. that would be a horrible thing to do. this president simply will not go there. he was perfect and you need to remember that. >> and fact-check this michigan voter fraud claim for us, john. because i think this is so important for the people to understand what the president is saying here. >> well the president, number one, he's wrong about what michigan did. he has been wrong. michigan sent out applications to all of its registered voters allowing them to apply for an absentee ballot for november. they did not mail ballots. they did not send out actual ballots that you return, here's my vote, president trump or joe biden. that's number one. number two, the president keeps saying when there is mail-in election, balloting, it is ripe
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with fraud. that is not true. you look at the governor, a democrat and secretary of state it works quite well. the incident of fraud, percentage of fraud is actually lower than traditional show up in person. look at the state of utah, republicans in utah. look at the special election in california last week, a republican candidate flipped a democratic house seat until election largely on mail ballots. does the president want to say that's fraudulent? he's just wrong on this issue and refuses to change his mind. he lost the popular vote to hillary clinton he says because 6 million undocumented people voted illegally in the election. that didn't happen. that didn't happen, no matter how many times he said, had didn't happen. and there's sezero evidence tha vote by mail is a fraud problem. there's also information that it's more reliable.
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>> john, thank you for walking us through that. i want to bring in anne rimoin, a professor of epidemiology at ucla. anne, the president said he's almost done with his hydroxychloroquine experiment, he's been taking it for two weeks, he thinks he has another day left. just give us your medical opinion of that. >> well, i'm not a physician, i can only tell you as an epidemiologist that you have to follow the data. and we don't have nudge data yet to determine whether or not using hydroxychloroquine would be enough benefit to outweigh the risks. we know there are risks with tox s tox sicity with the drug. you have to make recommendations that take into account safety as well as efficacy. >> he also emphasized after taking the hydroxychloroquine he
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was taking that he's been testing very well. but really, when you're talking about testing for coronavirus, it's either a yes or a no, right? he seemed to be saying he's testing very well which is he tested negative. but it's not to show -- you know, it seems to say he's paving the way that i took hydroxychloroquine but i did not get coronavirus. but there's no way to prove that right? >> this is part of the problem, understanding the limitations of testing which we know no test is going to be perfect. we do not have perfect sensitivity specificity of tests. we just have a problem of not understanding data and where we are, in terms of what tests allow us to say. it's all in the interpretation of these territories. and what taking taking hydroxychloroquine would actually mean for him. i think the conflation of these issues is really the problem.
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>> sure is. anne ramoin, thank you. right now, every state in the nation has opened in some way as more states race to relax restrictions. a new study warns we could see a surge of new coronavirus cases in the states especially in the south. and now data out today already shows worrying spikes across many southern states for instance, arkansas, louisiana, alabama and florida. what measures if any will local officials take to stop the spread? cnn's victor blackwell is live for us from montgomery, alabama. victor, the mayor there is warning that health services in his city are already overloaded? >> reporter: yeah, brianna, the mayor here, steve reed, let me quote here, if you're from montgomery and you need an icu bed, you're in frontrouble. that's because there has been a surge of co-credvid patients an covid positive patients in
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hospital beds across the city of montgomery. let me give you more specifics there are three other hospitals here that have maxed out, according to the mayor, their icu bed capacity. there is a single icu bed at jackson hospital right behind me. and we know also from the mayor that the people who are filling those beds are not from montgomery. he says that they're coming from rural areas across central alabama that do not have icu beds at the medical centers and the hospitals where they are. and they are coming here. those acute patients who need icu beds are going to be sent, according to the mayor to birmingham. let me give you some of the numbers. the latest numbers from the montgomery county health department, 994 poll covid case here. the mayor said there was a 36% increase in the first week of may. and a 46% increase, and then
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we'll wait to get a full picture. thought this comes after the governor of alabama kay ivey lifts the stay-at-home order and bars and restaurants and gyms and churches with some social distancing guidelines, those were allowed to reopen. the mayor says here to answer your question, what will leaders do to stop the spread? he said he is considering or would consider a shelter in place order. but he needs regional cooperation. he also says that this comes down to personal responsibility. that although people are anxious to get out, people have to remember what kept numbers low here. and put those measures personally back into place. brianna. >> victor, thank you so much for that report from montgomery. now, for a wider perspective for what is happening in the united states at this point in the pandemic. cnn's tom foreman has been looking at how new cases have been rising and falling here over multiple weeks. and, tom, all of the states are
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in some phase of reopening so where are the trends right now that you're seeing? >> well, that's a great question, brianna, because trend, that's a really strong word to use, except for one big trend in just a moment, we took samples, the map, from every monday for the past seven mondays. look at what happens. you see the darker colors in those states that have had an increase in new cases. tan means they're holding steady. obviously, they move to green, it's getting better. look at moves all over the place on those seven mondays. sometimes, the state is up. sometimes, it's down. sometimes, it's steady. on and on it goes. you can see a clear trend there? it's hard to see one. we did the same thing in the past 14 days to see if maybe that would show us clear waves where it's getting better or worse. if you look at that sequence you can see the same thing some states moving up, some states moving down. new jersey recently had a move down. but new jersey is one of the
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worst cases in the country. you might statistically expect them to move down because they would be have been at a peak unlike places like arkansas moving up. really, brianna, when you look at all of these, what it probably tells you more than anybody else is that this testing protocol that we have in the country is still incredibly uneven. what's being measure, who's being measured, where and how it's been reported? and that make it heart ard to m sense of this, in a way that justifies reopening. this last map, take a look at this one that probably matters more than anything else. the overall number of confirmed cases in the country as of today. look, anything on this map that is even vaguely orange or red or pink, all of those places have at least 5,000 cases.
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and in some cases more than 75,000 cases. the number one trend that we are certain of in this country is that the number of cases continues to grow. and the number of deaths continue to grow, suggesting that we really don't have any kind of handle on this virus yet. even as we're making some progress in some places. briana. >> thank you, so much for that 30,000-foot look, tom. appreciate it. scientists are racing to develop a coronavirus vaccine, the u.s. has just entered a $1 billion agreement with the pharmaceutical giant astrazeneca to secure more than 300 million doses of a potential vaccine. that's about one-third of the initial doses that the company is planning to produce worldwide. cnn's medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is joining us now. what more do we know about this, elizabeth? >> brianna, i want to take a
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30,000-foot view like you did with tom. let's do that with vaccines as well. it's very unusual, i don't think it's been done, where we make a vaccine at the same time we're testing it. this vaccine developed at the university of oxford in england made by astrazeneca, we don't know if it works. we don't know if any of it works but what was decided by public health officials is, look, if we do trials over the next few months if we find one or two or three that works and then we start production, we are going to be way behind. we want to be able to start giving it to people as soon as we realize it works. it's a gamble. it's quite probable, we're going to spend a lot of money on many dose of vaccine that will then turn out not to work. but it also means that we will spend a lot of money and it will work and then we will have a vaccine ready. the decision has been that it is basically okay to waste a
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certain proportion of this money in order to have a vaccine quickly. astrazeneca is one of the places doing this and at the same trial t time trying to figure out if it's safe. >> thank you. as the president gets ready to visit a ford plant, halting production there at another factory testing positive. plus, experts say most children don't get hit hard bit virus. and a new study may show just why that is. the wife of broadway actor nick cordero who has been suffering complications from coronavirus for months now said he suffered another setback. >> thing are going a little downhill at the moment. so, i am asking again for all of the prayers, mega prayers.
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next hour, president trump is set to tour a ford manufacturing plant that is just outside of detroit. this is a facility that is repurposed to make ventilators and ppe. and this visit comes just a day after a different ford plant in chicago temporarily halted introduction after two employees there tested positive for covid-19. scott holgerson is an electrician at that plant. he's joining to us tox about this. welcome. thanks for coming on. >> hi, brianna, thank you for having me. >> so, your plant which makes the ford explorer among others reopened monday after being closed for two months for health concerns. you feel this is too soon, tell us why.
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>> i know ford is under a lot of pressure from wall street and their investors to reopen. we want ford to survive. we also want our co-workers to survive. chicago has one of the highest areas in the country for the covid-19 outbreak. and we've already lost two members over the shutdown, to covid-19. they became infected while we were still operating. you know, we don't want to lose any more people. >> you don't want to -- >> there are workers at the plant who are cancer survivors who have autoimmune disease. we have older workworkers, we w to protect them. >> and when ford reopened its plants, it implemented temperature screenings, it implemented medical tests for workers who exhibited any
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symptoms. do you think the protocols go far enough, and if not, what else would you like to see? what do you think is missing? >> well, yeah, that's the problem, is that they don't go far enough. and even the protocols that they in place aren't being strictly adhered to. so, we'd like to see testing before people come back because we know that this disease is spread asymptomatic. so when workers come in, they can be infecting other workers for days before they get symptoms. so that's a problem. also, we know that there's going to be higher absenteeism because workers are today, hey, if you've got cold symptoms don't come in. and that's the right thing to do but we need to slow the line speed down because when those workers that know those jobs and are on those jobs, if you run
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the line at full speed, then you end up having to double up the jobs. in other words, putting two workers on the very same job that one worker was doing. and that brings people in closer contact to one another. and it is a violation of the six-foot rule which is hard enough to enforce, while workers are, you know, working their regular jobs on the assembly line, also -- >> and they're not slowing the line down? or there's no plan to do that? >> no, ford has said that they do not plan to slow the lines down. they have -- we want workers to be able to clean up their own areas at the beginning of the shift, before the line starts up. i'd come in early to do it, but start the line five or ten minutes later to clean up their own areas so they know it's
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clean. >> yep, look at anyone who goes into work, a lot of people are doing that. i know that's something i do going into work. we know that the president does not wear a mask. he was just asked, as he left the white house, about whether he's going to. it's really unclear. so far he has not. do you think that he should be wearing a mask when he visits the plant in michigan today? >> absolutely. everybody that's -- that comes into a ford facility is required to wear a mask. the enforcement hasn't been as strict as we would like to see it. but that's the requirement. that's the rule. and when the president, or anybody else, a member of maintenance, breaks that rule, violates that rule, it sets a bad example for the rest of the workforce. >> scott houldieson, thank you for joining us.
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i can't tell you, we appreciate you joining us from chicago, thank you. >> thank you so much for having me, brianna. there are thousands of pa pastors set to defy the orders. and heat seeking thermal in london for a thermal seeking trial? we'll see how that works. and an actor dealing with the coronavirus months later, including the amputation of his leg and his wife gives a tearful update. is the salmon wild-caught? she only eats wild caught. [cash register beeps] uh, i need a price check on honey. don't get mad. get e*trade and get more than just trading. investing. banking. guidance.
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broadway star nick cordero is facing yet another setback in this months' long battle against the coronavirus. his wife tearfully sharing an update to his condition on her instagram followers describing the situation as grim. >> i just had a bad morning. unfortunately, things are going a little downhill at the moment. so i am asking, again, for all of the prayers, mega prayers. right now. i know that this virus is not going to get him down.
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it's not how his story ends. >> correspodero was hospitalize march. he's spent week on a ventilator. he developed blood clots that forced doctors to amputate his leg. and he awoke from a medically induced coma earlier this month. g joining me now dr. lee, an associate professor. doctor, thank you for joining me, cordero has suffered many things, a series of strokes, stopped his heart, septic shock and now there's another setback. is this normal? >> well, first of all, brianna, my heart goes out to nick, his wife amanda, their son elvis. i'm praying for his recovery, we are all are, rooting for him just encourage her to keep faith
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and don't give up. you know, we don't know what this most recent downturn is she was talk youing abou inging abo. he's had a really severe course of covid-19. we know about 15% of people who get covid-19 will have severe covid-19. and about 5% will become critically ill like nick did, with multiple organ systems involved in the disease process. one of the things we recognize now with severe covid-19 is that you can get blood clots. this virus, interestingly, seems to attack not only cells in the respiratory track, but potentially cells that line blood vessels. although there's still so much we don't know, we think potentially that may be why they get these clots. the clot that unfortunately led to nick's leg needed to be
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amputated. we've heard stories about young people getting strokes. and that's another thing to point out is that, you know, the severe covid-19 is more likely in those with underlying conditions. nick cordero didn't have any underlying conditions, he's 41 and in great health. it just goes to show you this virus is ruthless and can attack people in good health, young people. >> let's talk about the youngest people. i want to ask you about kids a study at mt. sinai that found a receptor used by the coronavirus to cause infections actually appears to be less common in kids' noses which could explain why they're less likely to come down with covid-19. what did you think about this study? >> i think it's interesting, brianna, you're right, studies that have looking at covid-19 in different age groups still show that kids seem to get the virus less than adults. less than 2% are kids.
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so, why? one of the hypotheses is perhaps this virus has trouble infecting kids because it can't get into the cells. that's what the study at mt. sinai looked at. they looked at people from age 4 to 60 and divided them in different age groups and those under 10 years of age did not express the receptor that the virus needs to get into this respiratory cell, as much as the older folks did. the older you are, the more you express his receptor called the ace-2 receptor. so, i thought this was interesting that this is potentially one reason that explains why kids get this less. one thing, though, that's still outstanding is what about infants. because we know mom kids, infants will get potentially the more severe covid-19. and that, we don't know wyatt. because the study just went down to, again, age 4. so, just helps to put some of
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the pieces together. still a lot that we don't know. >> yeah. it's the more we know, the more it highlights what we don't. dr. lee, thank you. >> as all 50 states reopen in some capacity, let's take a look at how restaurants will new york will change in the future. also, as more americans lose their jobs, new numbers showing millions are missing credit card, car and house payments. and i'll speak live to the lawyer who is representing a church that will defy california's lockdown order and reopen. hear why. ♪ unilever, the makers of dove, hellmann's, vaseline, and more, is donating millions of products to frontline aid organizations like feeding america and direct relief. to get help or give help, join us at weareunitedforamerica.com. ♪
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despite the california governor's stay-at-home order, despite the fact that 3,500 californians have died during the pandemic and despite cases in both california and arkansas, church services resulting in exposure, sickness and even death. there are more than 1,000 pastors who plan to ohold in-person services on may 31st. robert h. tyler is one of the attorneys representing the lodi church. can you -- first off, thanks for coming on, because we really want to get your perspective on this.
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tell us why these pastors are so determined to defy the order and hold services and this -- to them, as they weigh this against the risk, this is the route they want to take? >> sure. you know, here in california, i think we have more restrictive -- the orders are significantly more restrictive than elsewhere in the country. maybe not new york or new jersey, possibly. but for many of these pastors they're looking at the secondary effects of what has occurred, as a result of this coronavirus shutdown. you know, from their congregants and members of their community who committed suicide or are suffering from severe depression or anxiety, people have had job losses. there's so many serious secondary effects that, you know, they want and there's no reason why a church cannot be as
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protective as anybody that goes to a big box grocery store or hardware store. in california, they evenal allow media there's a provision that makes essential entertainment studios. and the like. and so, you know, i wonder, you know, if it's okay for a studio to be operating shouldn't a church be allowed to operate? >> how do they operate? they say they're going to observe social distancing. how do they do that? we've looked at churches operating as normal and you wonder how do you fit everybody in? how do they do this? >> yeah, not going to be the same. it's not going to be the norm. what's happening with the pastors, i've been on many phone calls with them all, what they're doing is saying have a social distancing plan. they will have groups of families that will be grouped together, they'll be six feet
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apart. so there's not going to be any serious issue that is not already faced maybe in a grocery store where they're standing in line. but there will be disinfectant, there will be masks. no reason why they couldn't be just as protected as in a grocery store. >> well, if i could challenge you on that when you think of a grocery store, when i think of a church service, i think of something that usually lasts around an hour or two hours. and when i think of someone standing in line at the grocery store although, you know, it's been taking maybe longer these days. but it's not an hour or two hours, so what -- >> oh, i beg to differ. i'm not sureful you have costco out there, you go to costco, and there's a ton of people in there. there's a lot of people together in the stores. but, you know, let's think about -- let's think about this. there's a lot of controversy over the studies as to what the best approach is, herd immunity,
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et cetera. and these pastors say, hey, look, we can do this extremely safe. and we can do it more safe than any grocery store. we care about our flock, our congregants, our community more than costco cares about their customers. this is our ministry. and we're going to be doing everything we can. there are jewish friends who are not able to participate in online streaming because on saturdays, the orthodox, they're not allowed to use power. so is this a real substantial issue for a lot of people of faith. and the intent is to bring warmth and comfort to the people around them. and if there's anybody that has covid-19, they're not going to be coming. the churches are asking the elderly to not attend. people who may be more subject to covid-19 at risk to not attend. so, they're going to be taking all sorts of precautions that are even greater than what you see for many of these businesses
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that are deemed essential, when, you know, a church is just as essential. so they should be allowed to gather together. >> i do want to say that a lot of stores have been encouraging and putting in place limited capacities. you see lines outside of some of these stores. they're outside, not inside, as they wait for people to go in. i just want to make that very clear. robert -- >> and that's exactly what the churches are going to do. the churches are going to do the same thing. they're going to limit their capacity. i mean, i have churches saying, we'll only use 25% of what's allowed in our occupancy so that we can effectively distance people. they come in one door. walk out a different door. they don't even have to touch door handles to get in the building. >> and what happens if people start getting sick? >> oh, i can guarantee you that if there is any sort of person that might get sick, you know, it's certainly my recommendation to these churches i represent hundreds of churches, it will be my recommendation that they stop
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meeting until they can figure that out. and come back together once it's safe again. but, you know, we believe it is safe enough here. you know, there are counties in california where there really aren't even any covid cases any longer. there are counties, mendicino county, they had one case. and that got resolved. and for the longest time, without any covid infections, they were still shut down, and you could still go to the grocery store and costco. >> robert, thank you for coming on. look, we know this is such an issue for so many people. they're looking for outlets. people their mental health, we've heard from people, that's the gym for them. a lot of people, that's the church for them. we hope you're weighing this and we hope everyone stays healthy. we'll be keeping an eye on this with you.
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>> thank you. >> as the churches look to defy the order, robert tyler, thank you so much. >> thank you. london's heathrow airport unveiling a thermal scan. and facebook's mark zuckerberg makes a big admission that may signal when his offices will look like. and battling coronavirus. i will speak to him live. young man whispering: what's up? young woman whispering: condoms father: condoms charlie. she wants to know if you brought any condoms. young man: yeah i brought some. announcer: eargo, a virtually invisible hearing loss solution with high quality sound and lifetime support. eargo offers free phone based hearing checks and consultations all from the convenience of your home. call today.
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airport. the technology is looking for signs of fever, a common symptom of coronavirus. cnn business editor richard quest with us. this is in one term, all right but what other safety measures are being taken? >> yes, it's in terminal two, the queen's terminal, used by star alliance carriers including united airlines. the idea is they'll pass these screens, these monitors and if somebody is showing signs of a fever, then they will be off to the side. the importance of it is, you don't have to stop. you just have to walk past through these monitors relatively slowly. for a large fast moving area with a lot of people like an airport, this would appear to be the trick. no holding of temperature guns to the head. just walk on through. if successful, and it looks like it's a good idea, it will be moved to departures, to
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arrivals, it will be moved to all the other areas of the airport and it will be used in other terminals too. it's all about getting people through the airports as fast but safely as possible and then environment where that is just impossible. >> that is keeps them so far away from the people who otherwise would have to get close to them, so it's important. just in now, facebook's mark zuckerberg, he says now half of the country's workers could be working remotely in the next five to ten years. >> a revolution in the workplace is under way. there will be those people who choose to stay at home. twitter has already said, if you wish to stay at home and work from home permanently, that will be made possible.
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and i pretty much promise you, for anybody or anybody who can manage to be productive at home, look, even our own company, producers on our own shows, we are learning and experimenting and now deciding and voyaging the limits of what can be done with a workforce from home. it is a revolution that has been enforced upon us but it is happening and there may well be people who will never go back into the office by choice. >> it's pretty amazing. richard quest, great to see you. thank you. and we're getting another look now at the jobs crisis in america. another 2.4 million people filed initial unemployment claims last week. nearly 39 million americans have sought jobless aid since mid march fueled by the widespread shutdowns due to the coronavirus. first time claims peaked in the last week of march, more on today's top stories from my
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colleagues across the country. >> reporter: i'm christie romans in new york. credit tracker union said a record 15 million credit cards were enrolled in hardship programs, meaning lenders allowing the credit card holder to delay their payments during the pandemic. and 3.6 million homeowners were past due on their mortgage payments by end of april, either in a forbearance program and asked lender to delay payments or simply stopped paying. >> reporter: i'm dianne gallagher in atlanta. 570 employees of the tyson foods poultry plant tested positive for covid-19. but 25% of the more than 2200 employees who were tested, tyson said that most of those tests took place at a three day on site testing event in early may and that any employee who tested positive received paid time off and also, can't return to work
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until they've met tyson and standards. after operating in a limited capacity in the last week. >> reporter: andy schultz in georgia. will we have football stadiums filled with fans this fall? one of the big sports questions right now. ohio state athletic director telling reporters if they can't fill ohio stadium seating more than 100,000, run many social distancing models they could have 20,000 to 22,000 fans. he knows this is not going to work everywhere but ohio state has the capacity to do it. yesterday, the ncaa announced football and basketball players can return for voluntary workouts starting june 1st. >> reporter: this is kate bennett in bethesda, maryland. melania trump will make her first solo address to the nation on the topic of the coronavirus. she's expected to join cnn's
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global town hall this evening to discuss the impact the pandemic had an children and education. again, it will be her first time addressing the nation. >> thank you so much to my colleagues for that reporting and be sure to watch the town hall for the first lady's message. join anderson cooper and dr. sanjay gupta for a look at what it will take to get kids back into the classroom. coronavirus, facts and fears, that is live tonight at 8:00. many u.s. rez straunstauran welcoming customers back inside this week. i want to bring in shimon prokupecz at the brooklyn chop house restaurant. shimon, tell us. >> reporter: yeah, so this is brooklyn chop house located in manhattan. we're in here because we wanted to give folks a look at what restaurants could look like. and just quickly, in this restaurant, what they're going to do is use partitions all across the restaurant. there's a partition here, it's plexiglas and they're going to
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use that to separate patrons, people who come in to eat, to give them a level of safety and also instituting policies where they saran wrap plates and cups. there's a loss of revenue, so we're lucky enough to have a chef, award winning chef of the year, you own a restaurant in washington, dc. you don't own this restaurant, thank you for being here. what is it that you, as a restaurant owner, we heard a lot about ppe but there's a separate fund that you guys are hoping to get that's called the restaurant stabilization fund. why is that important? >> restaurant stabilization fund is extremely important. restaurants pay yesterday's bills with today's profits and
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we don't have any profits right now. we don't know what the 18 months are really going to look like. we're talking about 25% capacity and then you add on all the ppe that we need to operate our restaurants. these plexiglas partitions, our single use menus. there's going to be a lot of additional burden that's going to be put on the restaurant industry in total, so we need to make sure that we have something that's there for us to access so we have an industry when this is all said and done. >> how concerned are you that the industry won't come back? is there real concern if you don't get this money that you have people without jobs? a lot of people, right? all across the country. >> the restaurant industry is vast. everything from mom and pop shops to high end restaurants. the small restaurants, something that's really close to my heart. those are the restaurants that, one, i like to eat in but also the ones that feed america. we
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