♪ bored in the house and i'm in the house bored ♪ making news in america this morning, re-opening america. >> normal, it will not be. >> the new changes on the way u coronavirus from spreading. res testing requirements as a new study warns social distancing could last for two years. a sudden reversal from president trump now leaving the decision to lift restrictions up to the states as he claims at the month. the states could be n this morning the lesson we could learn from europe where some areas are already re-open. hot spot hazards. death tolls jumping in multiple states as new cities see a spike in cases from colorado to iowa, the rush for field hospitals and why some governors are fighting

stay-at-home orders despite growing outbreaks. keeping clean from dirty laundry to the soles of your shoes. the new advice that can help keep your home and your family safe from the virus. plus, back on the front lines. the doctor back in the er just days after beating the virus himself. and a possible testing breakthrough. the new approach to identify the coronavirus that's just been approved. good wednesday morning, everyone. president trump is cracking down on the world health organization suspending all u.s. funding. >> he claims the organization mismanaged the coronavirus from the beginning, so let's get right to the map. more than 13,000 deaths are now reported in new york after new york city added nearly 4,000 people who were not tested who apparently had the virus. new jersey has nearly 3,000 deaths. both michigan and louisiana now have more than a thousand. >> some good news from los angeles.

the mayor says they scaled up testing so that anyone with symptoms can now get test results by the next day. >> millions of americans are eagerly waiting for government stimulus payments.ngn rerte s.a ted on the stimulus checks. the treasury tells abc news it does not expect any delays. meanwhile, harvard researchers are now predicting some sort of social distancing will be needed in the u.s. until 2022. that headline is now part of a fierce debate over when and how states should begin to re-open. this morning, a striking reversal from president trump now saying he'll let the country's governors re-open their states after he falsely claimed on monday that he had total authority on the matter. >> i will be speaking to all 50 governors very shortly, and i will then be authorizing each individual governor of each individual state to implement a

re-opening. >> reporter: but the constitution says governors don't need the president's authorization because states are given police powers during a public health crisis. the president says at least 29 states could re-open before the end of this month. others like california, which was the first to issue a stay-at-home order, are gearing up for a long, drawn out re-opening process. governor gavin newsom unveiled his guidelines. >> normal, it will not be at least until we have herd immunity, and we have a vaccine. you may be having dinner with a waiter wearing gloves, maybe a face mask, dinner where the menu is disposable, where the tables, half of the tables in that restaurant no longer appear, where your temperature is checked before you walk into the establishment. >> reporter: newsom says it could be months before large-scale resents are held and widespread testing will be crucial. dr. anthony fauci says when it

comes to testing, we have a long way to go. >> to me we have to have something in place that is efficient and that we can rely on, and we're not there yet. >> reporter: hours later trump claimed testing is now the governor's responsibility, not the federal government's but assured americans states will re-open safely. >> we want them to do their testing. we want them because they're equipped to do testing. >> dr. fauci said this morning that critical testing and tracing ability does not currently exist. >> i don't know. look, i don't know. hey, john, i don't know what he said. >> my question is -- >> nobody knows. >> reporter: in the meantime, president trump is now suspending all u.s. funding for the world health organization claiming the agency mismanaged the crisis from the beginning and spread china's misinformation about the virus. >> the w.h.o. failed to investigate credible reports from sources in wuhan that conflicted directly with the chinese government's official accounts. >> reporter: but back on january 24th the president himself was praising china tweeting, china has been working very hard to

contain the coronavirus. the united states greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency. it will all work out well. >> you're criticizing the w.h.o. for praising china for being transparent, but you also praised china for being transparent. >> i don't talk about china's transparency. >> in response to the w.h.o. funding cut, the u.n. secretary-general said now is the time to come together, not cut resources. and parts of europe have now partially re-opened including hard hit spain in hopes of reviving the spatial spanish economy. many construction sites have re-opened providing every worker with a mask, but one woman from ohio who is living in barcelona and has pre-existing health conditions fears the government there is moving too quickly. >> they're shoving these people out in the street as a social experiment, but i really hate it. it's scary, you know. we should wait a couple more weeks. i just look at every additional person on the street right now as a risk to my health. >> reporter: meanwhile, in italy and austria, kid's shops and

book stores have now re-opened. back in this country while we debate how to re-open the economy, new hot spots emerging from iowa to colorado. the mayor is now recommending large events and festivals be canceled for the rest of the year. here's abc's megan tevrizian. >> reporter: this morning coronavirus hot spots creating new concerns across the country. >> every one of these numbers is a person, it's one of our neighbors, it's one of our friends. >> reporter: louisiana reporting its deadliest day yet. the death toll there rising above 1,000. >> it's a little bit like going to work. >> reporter: in denver authorities are bracing themselves for a spike in cases rushing to build a field hospital to accommodate a potential rush in patients. >> at the end of the day it's about people's lives. >> reporter: meanwhile, states that have resisted stay-at-home orders now facing new outbreaks. south dakota now home to one of the biggest coronavirus clusters in the country after nearly 450 workers at a pork processing plant in sioux falls tested positive. the mayor asking the state's governor to take action.

>> we're growing increasingly concerned about the need to mitigate that spike before it overwhelms our hospitals. >> reporter: in iowa at least 152 cases are confirmed in louisa county, the county in the state without a single hospital. that outbreak now tied to a tyson meat processing plant. >> who is the sickest patient? >> reporter: health care workers like this nurse in pennsylvania are overwhelmed battling exhaustion after 16-hour shifts. >> i just closed my eyes what i thought would be a minute and i woke up three hours later. >> reporter: while others like this doctor in new york city are heading back to work after fighting the virus themselves. >> thee days without a fever i was right back at it. >> reporter: putting their lives at risk once again despite not knowing if they're fully immune. >> this is something they we could get reinfected with. i think we're in pretty bad shape. >> reporter: in the struggle there is hope like this 97-year-old in florida who beat the virus. >> don't give in.

fight it, and do what you have to do. >> reporter: and employees for major league baseball teams are taking part in a large antibody study that could test up to 10,000 people for covid-19 antibodies. this should give researchers a greater sense of how widespread the virus is across major cities in the u.s. kenneth, mona. >> thank you. u.s. embassy employees in china were reportedly worried about safety at a coronavirus lab in china two years ago. "the washington post" reports the embassy staffer sent official warnings to the state department. they had visited a lab in wuhan that was researching bats and found the disease could spread to humans. the state department has declined to comment. turning to the weather, let's check your wednesday morning forecast. a mid-april touch of winter in kentucky where light snow covered spring blooms outside lexington yesterday. checking the radar right now new storms will bring snow to the rockies today.

one to two feet is possible in some areas, and thunderstorms are possible today from the plains to the midwest. more rain is expected in the northeast where temperatures won't get above 50 degrees. 60s from atlanta to albuquerque. 80s in phoenix and l.a. and 92 for a high in miami today. coming up, cleaning your shoes to stay safe from the coronavirus. our medical expert weighs in. also ahead, a remarkable survival story. hear from the woman fighting the coronavirus who gave birth while in a coma. and later, a stimulus surprise. one man goes to the atm and finds uncle sam has made a very

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americans are struggling to put food on the table, this was the line of cars outside a food bank in western pennsylvania yesterday. it was more than two miles long. we've seen this kind of need across the country as americans wait for their stimulus payments to arrive from the government. the federal government is now stepping in to help take care of the elderly after cities revealed just how many coronavirus victims live in nursing homes. the cdc and fema announced new data collection protocols in hopes of saving lives. this morning a new fight to help those most vulnerable to the coronavirus. >> we're making the assumption that covid-19 is in most, if not all, of our nursing homes. >> reporter: in new jersey dozens of nursing home residents have died leading first responders to evacuate the entire facility. >> we were barely able to give basic care for our patients at the beginning because of the staffing shortages. >> reporter: it comes as abc

news learns that one-quarter of covid-19 deaths in new york have been traced to live-in facilities. in massachusetts, that number is a staggering 45% of all deaths. the spread there so bad that the national guard in full protective gear was called in to test residents in this senior living facility. >> they should know about this virus. the rest of the world knows. >> reporter: deborah's mother died in a nursing home in washington state where the u.s. outbreak began. she is suing claiming the facility could have done more to stop the virus. >> and they should know better. they should just know better. >> reporter: but the rapid spread is proving difficult to stop. in virginia a single home has now lost 45 seniors to the virus, but many residents have nowhere else to go. >> she said, don't, you fight it. don't go back there. >> reporter: one nursing home resident in california is set to be released from the hospital after being treated for the virus, but she says she's scared to return to her home. >> no, no, no. >> why? >> because i don't want to die.

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>> i wasn't sure where i was, i was very confused. i didn't have a belly anymore. i didn't know where my baby was. i was in isolation. i hadn't been able to see my husband. i'm just taking every day at a time and just kind of trying to regain my strength and core and muscles. >> reporter: and she is still waiting to test negative before she can see her baby in person. she named her ava, which means breath of life. >> beautiful name. the fda has approved the first coronavirus test that uses saliva. earlier i spoke with dr. imran ali. i asked him about the importance of this new test. >> you know, i was looking at the data, and it is a test that is -- will be called more sensitive. that means it may pick up more coronavirus than we do using the swab test because the swab test, it depends on the technique of the person taking the swab because they can go at a different angle, hit a spot where they don't get a virus

particle on the swab, but the sputum is also beneficial because it -- you know, there's less exposure to the person collecting the sample. >> president trump says in an effort to re-open this country the states would be responsible for testing, not the federal government. is that realistic given the slow progress we've made on testing so far? >> we have done much better. i mean in march -- on march 12th we were at 20,000 tests. now we are above 3 million, so we're testing a lot of people, but we're still not at the point where we should be, so infectious disease is all about confirming cases, tracing cases and isolating cases, so unless we can confirm more cases, we can't contain the infection. and it's very worrisome that some of these community-based testing centers, sites that have been fema supported, are now losing that fema support. >> help us get to the bottom of

this new study saying the coronavirus can attach to shoes and be a carrier. >> because the shoe soles have a nonporous surface, so it's kind of like that old study from "the new england journal of medicine" that looked at plastic and other nonporous surfaces, so i have been -- when i come from the hospital, i always make sure that my -- the soles of my shoes are clean. i use a lysol disinfectant or even a wipe, so, yes, this is something that we've noticed even before this official study, which now confirms it. >> and in that study half of the shoes belonging to medical workers tested positive for the virus. and we've all heard about the importance of washing your hands, but what about your clothes? experts say do not use extra detergent because it won't make your clothes any more sanitary, and don't try to save money by using cold water. >> so you want to use warm water, the warmest water that's safe for the fabric based on the

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>> this day usually brings me a ton of anxiety. does april 15th ring a bell for anybody? >> not this year. it's a little bit different. >> i actually finished my taxes on time for once. go figure. a lot of extra time, right? good morning, everybody. thanks for joining us on this wednesday. we'll take a look at live doppler 7 and overlay the clouds and you can already see they're starting to gather along the peninsula coast and that is indicative of what will happen this afternoon as it will return and keep the bay and parts of the coast cooler. right now waking up mid 40s to mid 50s and high clouds everywhere with increasing clouds along the coast and only 61 at half moon bay and 67 in san francisco and low to mid 70s for most of the bay and low 80s in the east bay and mid 70s to low 80s inland. all right. let's get back to kumasi. governor newsom laid out the

framework to move on life after this pandemic. he set down five, excuse me, six goals that he will use to set a timeline. number one is the ability to protect communities through testing and monitoring. number two, the ability to prevent infection in people who are high risk. and number three, health systems have to be able to handle potential surges. the ability to develop drugs and treatment to meet demand. number five, businesses and schools have to be able to support physical distancing. and number six, the ability to determine when reinstute certain measures like the stay-at-home measure. too soon to give a timeline for meeting these requirements. >> no light switch here. it's more like a dimmer. that dimmer is about what i was talking about. this toggle back and forth between more restrictive and less restrictive measures. >> the governor is calling the next phase a suppression phase

with more individual accountability for face coverings and for physical distancing. and based on the governor's words and his tone, this morning we just have to face the realit. this year san francisco pri julian glover is live with more on this. julian? >> hi, kumasi, good morning. the cancellation of so many of our favorite events is a reality check for so many of us. san francisco pride announcing yesterday that all events will be canceled for this year and now we're hearing that the outside lands music festival which brings close to 2,000 people to golden gate park each august could be next. announcing yesterday that their summer season is also canceled and there's still major uncertainty surrounding the nba baseball season and major league baseball in the bay area. and as of now the 2020 nfl draft is scheduled for next week, but

if the season kicks off in september is anyone's guest. what will i