right now on "america this morning," new guidelines. >> one careful step at a time. >> a plan to get america up and running as states decide if it's safe to re-open from reducing coronavirus cases to ramping up testing. what it takes to end the shutdown and which governors say it's too soon, plus the news overnight about the experimental drug that could be the key to recovery. growing clusters, two major hot spots this morning with hundreds of cases. the concern about america's food chain as the virus threatens the u.s. meat supply. the changes now being made. workers push back. protests grow as some stimulus checks are delayed and small business funds run out. one state reporting an unemployment rate of nearly 40% and now shop owners taking a

stand re-opening stores defying stay-at-home orders. >>earl why president ums rmer prison . finally together. the touching reunion a lifetime in the making for the mom who gave birth in a coma. and the safest place in america. how one town has managed to stay completely virus-free. good friday morning, everyone. we begin with the big push to re-open the u.s. economy. >> president trump says some areas of the country could be back open for business as early as today. he's unveiled new white house guidelines but he says the governors will make the final decision. breaking overnight yet another nursing home tragedy. at least 29 people have died from coronavirus at this senior care facility in queens, new york. the workers fear the death toll may be much higher.

families say they've gone days without information about their loved ones. also breaking overnight, encouraging news about a possible treatment. researchers say the experimental drug remdesivir has helped some patients rapidly recover but they warn it's still too early to draw conclusions. new evidence of the economic impact of the virus for the first time since the 1970s china reports that its economy shrank in the first quarter down nearly 7%. abc's alex presha joins us with the latest efforts here in the u.s. to get our economy back on track. good morning, alex. >> reporter: good morning, kenneth and mona. the president has set forth his plan. we know he's highlighted may 1st, but the trump administration has said that states will be in the driver's seat here, so we'll see what kind of pace they set. president trump laying out his blueprint to re-open the country. >> america wants to be open and americans want to be open. >> reporter: his guidelines call for a phased approach though he says it'll be up to governors to decide when to lift

restrictions. states would enter phase one after they see a two-week decline in the number of people with covid symptoms and in the perjury of people testing positive for the virus. once a state can check those boxes people would still be advised to do social distancing and avoid groups of more than ten but businesses could look at slowly return to work. without a rebound they can move to phase two where you could see some places like restaurants, movie theaters and bars re-open with social distancing protocols. the president hopeful parts of the country could re-open by month's end. >> i think 29 states are in that ball game. >> reporter: ohio's governor believes his state can be one of them. >> i'm an optimist. we can do this. >> reporter: ohio part of a new coalition of seven midwestern stating working together on a plan to re-open. seven coasts on the east coast and three on the west coast with similar alliances though some like new york have already extended their shutdowns until at least may 15th. governors and health officials alike agree the key to the future is testing and tracking

the contacts of people infected to prevent further spread. dr. deborah birx on cnn. there is no disease where we test 140 million workers on a weekly basis. the cdc already has about 500 plus people on the ground in many states. >> reporter: the big fear a potential spike in some states. >> let's face it. there may be some setbacks that we may have to pull back a little and then go forward. >> reporter: and while testing is key tracking the spread is just as important. in salt lake city the health department there says it has successfully tracked 85% of the cases in that community. the state of massachusetts also has an ambitious tracing program in the works. kenneth and mona. >> alex presha there live in washington, d.c., thank you. late they are half hour, we'll take a closer look at the re-opening guidelines and the challenging surrounding them. we're learning more about two of the biggest clusters of coronavirus. one is from the "uss roosevelt" in guam where 655 cases have

been reported but even bigger is the cluster at the smithfield food pork processing plant in south dakota with more than 730 cases there. an estimated 7% of the nation's pork supply has been lost because of shutdowns. many pig farmers are facing massive losses. industry experts say to prevent a meat shortage big changes must be made in those processing plants. >> what we have learned from the disruption in the public health and its impact on our ability to prepare the hospitals, the front line workers within the networks, this can have some tremendous impact on our food supply chain. the food industry has a huge amount of labor participation in the front line, in processing and the slaughterhouses and the farms and when you start to aggregate those numbers, i think we can really have a dramatic consequence of this, an entire supply chain within the food industry. >> meanwhile, demand

products has dropped by up to 15% because of restaurants and schools being closed. industry experts are trying to reconfigure the supply chain to better serve grocery stores and food banks where there is a massive need. next to the labor crisis in america. 22 million people have lost their jobs in recent weeks. many have gone without any pay as state unemployment programs buckle under the pressure. and now part of the government stimulus package has run out of money. this morning americans are seeking financial help in record numbers. more than 22 million people lost their jobs in the last month. and the state and federal funds that were promised at the start of the pandemic have yet to arrive for many of them. >> i was part of a massive layoff of about 100 employees. >> reporter: tina plastini of monroe, connecticut, applied for unemployment three weeks ago and still hasn't heard anything back. >> i am a single mother. i have no money, no food, and i am trapped waiting for the department of labor to approve my claim.

>> reporter: todd sayland lost his job as a restaurant server in ft. lauderdale and applied for unemployment one month ago today and has yet to see one penny. >> not everyone has savings, which is what's alarming. for some people, i'm sure it's very scary. so i personally have been using my savings. obviously that can't last forever. >> reporter: many americans started getting their federal funding this week, a $1200 check that's part of the trump administration's stimulus bill but not everyone who's eligible has received their check. sayland is still waiting for his. >> i know some of my friends have received their stimulus check. of course, when that finally hits, that's only $1200. that here in lauderdale basically pays rent but will certainly help pay a few bill, reimburse some savings i'm

bleeding. >> reporter: the paycheck protection program which provides small business loans that are forgivable as long as 75% of the money is used for payroll. but that program has now officially run out of money. the administration is trying to get congress to add more funding. >> exhausted is a good thing, not a bad thing. it went quickly. it is so popular, the banks have been incredible. >> it's super frustrating. >> reporter: nick pontin says he's been trying to apply for a loan since the morning applications went live two weeks ago and learned yesterday that he's not getting a loan because the money has run out. >> at this point i've got no faith left in the federal government to exercise any sort of meaningful relief for small businesses. >> and overnight we saw a staggering new figure from hawaii. one report says unemployment in that state now tops 37%. a lawyer for the louisiana pastor who held services despite a stay-at-home order has now tested positive for coronavirus. tony spell refused to obey social distancing guidelines. his lawyer attended at least two events at the church. a church usher died this week of virus-related complications.

president trump's former personal attorney, michael cohen will be getting released from prison early because of a virus outbreak in the facility where he is serving a three-year sentence in upstate new york scheduled for release in november 2021 and will now serve the rest of his sentence at home. now for a check on your friday morning weather forecast. believe it or not, winter is back in syracuse, new york, where snow showers just ended a few hours ago, but forecasters say the snow will be back late tonight and tomorrow. the radar shows stormy conditions across the middle of the country. up to four inches of snow are expected in parts of illinois and ohio. checking today's high temperatures, near 70 on the west coast, mostly 30s and 40s in the midwest. below normal, 50s and 60s in the northeast and 70s across the south. coming up, a new warning

about the u.s. postal service and its uncertain future. also ahead, businesses in revolt. we hear from the small business owner planning to re-open despite stay-at-home orders. and a mother meets her daughter for the first time after delivering her while she was in a covid-19 medically induced coma.

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prospect of unemployment is adding to the stress for postal employees. many of whom are struggling to stay healthy working in cramped spaces. and more americans are protesting stay-at-home orders and now even some business owners are defying the government promising to re-open as early as today. here's abc's kimberly brooks with those details. >> reporter: this morning workers across the country pushing back. >> we want to go back to work. >> we need to get this going again. it's time. >> i'm a free american, and we need to start freaking acting like it. >> reporter: from texas to virginia, protests erupting as states extend stay-at-home orders. [ crowd chanting ] >> reporter: ininsis he constitution and all jobs are essential. and in michigan, local law enforcement is now joining the resistance with at least four sheriff's departments saying they will no longer enforce the governor's stay-at-home order

writing, while we understand her desire to protect the public, we question some restrictions that she has imposed as overstepping her executive authority. >> let us work. >> reporter: meanwhile, some store owners say they plan to get back to business no matter what. >> i'm absolutely aware of the risks that i'm taking. >> reporter: in alabama, this barber shop owner is opening his doors saying his livelihood depends on it. >> i've thought it through completely, not taking this lightly. >> reporter: and in ohio, the owner of a racetrack says he's re-opening now. >> i didn't plan for a pandemic. i never -- i never put money away for the rainy day. we are opening. >> reporter: even though ohio's governor says the state will slowly begin re-opening on may 1st. >> summit motor sports park is not going to wait for dr. fauci

and wait for amy acton and wait for mike dewine because none of them even know i exist and none really care. >> reporter: one business owner is suing the state's health department claiming businesses were never given a way to challenge whether or not they were essential and allowed to stay open. kenneth, mona. >> thank you, kimberly. and coming up, the town that's untouched by the coronavirus. also ahead, your questions answered. can vigorous exercise make you more vulnerable to the virus? our expert weighs in. ♪ pressing down on you, no man ask for ♪ ♪ it's the terror of knowing what the world is about. ♪ ♪ watching some good friends screaming 'let me out' ♪ ♪ this is ourselves ♪ under pressure ♪ get relief behind the allecounter with claritin-d.ion

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they say it's a long trek to the nearest hospital. >> for us to transport down to the hospital, it normally takes an hour to an hour and a half depending on the border. >> seeing that our community is spared, we realize the importance of continuing to be spared, and these outlines for safety is what everyone is going to continue to follow. >> and residents say they'll remain isolated for as long as necessary. as we mentioned earlier, the white house has offered a three-phase plan to re-open states. earlier i spoke with dr. imran ali. i asked him if we're ready for that to be rolled out yet. >> it's really i think premature because we really don't have the testing so we know the prevalence of the disease, and we don't know, you know, what is the extent of, you know, the disease in rural areas, urban areas. some places haven't seen many infections and that's because we might have not done much testing yet, so it's really premature to do it until we know what the

situation is on the ground. and people are going to move from place to place and it will be very hard to enforce. >> one of the big headlines you know this morning involves nursing homes, specifically the one in new jersey where dozens of lives have been lost. 17 bodies found. what is the state of this nation's nursing homes right now especially in the hot spots? >> it's in a state of crisis. i work in a nursing home, and this basically boils down to staffing issues and, you know, a lack of testing and a lack of protective equipment, and since there's not enough staffing, there's a large component of transmissility of the virus because these certified nurse's aides stay for a long time in each patient's room. it's going to be a real big issue we need to look at carefully with regard to staffing and availability of testing. >> a new report from "the washington post" takes a look at exercise and not overdoing it. does exercise hurt or help the immune system, and apparently

there's word that 15 feet is the new rule for social distancing while out on a run. >> well, the results of the data that i've seen about how vigorous exercises modulate the immune system is really sparse, so the medical community hasn't really definetively said one way or the other if exercise, vigorous exercise decreases your immune system. very important when you're jogging, try not to jog right behind somebody else because basic physics and the study that just came out shows that the viral particles can be propelled further when you're running because of the aerodynamics of and that would be approximately two queen size mattresses ahead of you or try to move to the side, because that's probably a safer bet because in the study up to 15 feet you can still see

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onederful™ for a planned power outage but residents are still angry. millions of small business owners jumped through hoops to try to get a loan from the government and now they're being told that the money has run out. that is so tough to hear. i know a lot of people are disappointed. we'll get to that story in just a moment. first, we want to say good morning to you, happy friday. it's april 17th. hi, mike. happy friday to you, too. >> happy friday. thank you, kumasi. are you having a good morning? >> so far it's been really good, how about you? >> i'm excited, it's friday.

the weekend is not going to be the most ideal weekend, at least it won't be like last weekend and people won't get in trouble for being outside too much. let's take a look at what is going on with live doppler 7. you can see the wind flow, onshore, once again. we're waking up to pretty cloudy conditions as you can see by the gray on live doppler 7 and our picture from the exploratorium camera looking back to the west across san francisco. pretty mild this morning. low to mid 50s out there and by the afternoon hours, we'll see just a touch more sunshine but still going to be cooler than average with temperatures in the mid to upper 50s along the coast into san francisco and low to mid 60s around the bay and mid to upper 60s inland. 70 in any places first. places like ukiah and fairfield and antioch. we'll take a look at the chances of rain for monday coming up next. now on abc7 news live desk update. >> at the live desk, the chp has

canceled an amber alert for a 14-year-old girl. they believed was abducted from her home. the amber alert was issued late last night. according to authorities they say the girl was abducted from her home in rural idaho and may have been heading to santa rosa. they were identified as 35-year-old carmelo villanuavavi and 18-year-old sergio. just after midnight the chp tweeted the suspect's car had been located 26 minutes later the chp tweeted that the teen and the two men were located. we are working this morning to find out exactly where they were located. kumasi, back to you. >> thank you, jobina. happening today a new coronavirus testing site is open in san francisco. need an appointment. chris reyes is live with what else we need to know about this. hey, chris. >> good morning, kumasi. the testing site is right behind

me. you can see the tents are set up and we will see who shows up. the testing itself is being done by verilly and one medical. here's what the mayor had to say about it. >> the goal is to increase our capacity, although i want to be clear, this is not some place you can walk up to, you have to meet the criteria in order to be tested. we just want to be able to test people more quickly, get the results back more quickly so that we can make sure that people are prepared to do what's necessary to, of course, quarantine. >> a few things about the site. it is, as the mayor said, appointment only. you must first answer a questionnaire online and you have to be 18 or older and live in san francisco. right now it is only a drive-thru site but eventually offer walk-up access.