>> that's what's making news in america this morning. right now on "america this morning," ready to re-open. more states making the move. this morning the new guidelines from the cdc and the new poll on whether americans are ready to resume business as usual. growing fallout. one day after a former government scientist claimed the u.s. still doesn't have a plan to stop coronavirus, the response this morning from president trump's health secretary. plus, a new move in congress to provide more economic relief. packing the planes, the new push to protect airline passengers and the doctor who claims he got infected through his eye. breaking overnight, curveball. why the plan to start the baseball season may not be a home run after all. the word's first trillionaire. the tech titan who is cashing in and causing controversy.

plus, the anti-tourism campaign. how states are trying to stop you from visiting this summer. good friday morning, everyone. millions of americans are pushing to re-open the economy as quickly as possible. but it's clear a majority have serious concerns. >> a new poll finds two-thirds of parents are currently not willing to send their kids back to school and finds only 26% of americans believe there's adequate testing for the coronavirus available right now. late thursday the cdc issued a new alert to doctors about that mysterious illness affecting children. cases of the inflammatory syndrome have now been reported in 16 states. >> overnight we learned the new york stock exchange will re-open its trading floor to some brokers after memorial day. more businesss across the country are opening their doors. this was the scene inside a

crowded restaurant in houston. it comes as we get new data on which states are showing success in fighting the virus and which are not. this morning, more states are beginning a new phase of re-opening. in parts of hard hit new york state 75 days after its first confirmed case of covid-19, construction work can resume today, and retail stores can re-open with curbside or in-store pickup. >> phased re-opening does not mean the problem has gone away. >> reporter: it comes as new guidelines are released from the cdc providing more detailed recommendations on re-opening. the guidelines says schools and camps should stagger drop-offs and limit how kids should gather. and the cdc says bars and restaurants should not re-open until they can protect people at high risk and encourage social distancing, separating tables, even providing physical guides like tape on the floor. in wisconsin, scenes like this in some restaurants flooded with customers, many not wearing masks. the crowds returning almost immediately after a court ruled the state's stay-at-home order

46 was unconstitutional saying wisconsin's top health official exceeded her authority in there is more work to do. >> yesterday's ruling changes nothing about the science of this virus or the work we need to continue to do together to safely re-open wisconsin. >> reporter: meanwhile, new tensions in michigan where protesters some with guns once again rallied against stay-at-home orders in place through may 28th. >> she's the worst governor this state has ever had and we need to get rid of her now. >> reporter: the state closed the capitol building thursday after online threats against governor gretchen whitmer. a decrease in many states that have partially re-opened including georgia and florida where mar-a-lago resort is telling members it will partially re-open tomorrow. texas is the biggest state where cases remain steady. in minnesota where cases are on the rise, the mall of america is getting the green light to re-open june 1st. in washington state tattoo parlor, hair salons and barber shops are learning when they can possibly get back to business.

the governor unveiled plans for that state's phase two re-opening as early as next month. some say it's still not safe. 4,000 hairdressers and barbers have signed a petition asking washington's governor to push back the time line for re-opening salons. >> my dad is an er nurse. he is working closely with us, and i do not think that i should have to work as a hairstylist wearing the same equipment my dad is wearing. >> reporter: others insist they're ready to re-open now. >> as the months go by, i get deeper in the hole. >> reporter: meanwhile, back in new york the stay-at-home order has been extended until june 13th for areas that don't meet the re-open criteria. neighbors new jersey beaches will open for memorial day weekend but with restrictions and beaches in delaware will re-open but for residents only. a whistle-blower testified the u.s. still doesn't have a plan to stop the coronavirus. it comes as lawmakers prepare to vote today on more economic relief. abc's ines de la cuetara has the details. >> reporter: this morning the

trump administration firing back slamming the scientist turned whistle-blower who once oversaw coronavirus vaccine production. >> you know yet another attack on president trump and just disproven, unfounded allegations. >> reporter: dr. rick bright testifying before congress claiming he was forced out of his job after raising concern about the administration's response to the pandemic. >> without better planning, 2020 could be the darkest winter in modern history. >> reporter: bright says early inaction by the government cost lives, especially those of health care workers describing an email he got from a manufacturer saying their supply of n-95 medical masks was decimated. >> he said, we're in deep [ bleep ]. the world is and we need to act. and i pushed that forward to the highest levels i could in hhs and got no response. >> reporter: on fox news last night, health secretary alex azar responded to those allegations. >> the president literally did

what bright is saying should be done. this guy was singing in a choir back then of everybody. we all were singing the same tune, and now he's trying to claim that he was a soloist. >> reporter: in the meantime, the house plans to vote today on a new economic relief package, but abc's mary bruce reports the $3 trillion bill has little chance of moving forward in the senate. >> republicans in the senate have made very clear that it is already dead on arrival. it includes hundreds of billions of dollars in state and local aid, something that senate republicans have said they simply don't feel is necessary to pass right now. >> reporter: even if passed the white house says president trump would veto the bill calling it an ideological wish list for democrats. >> there's money in there for illegal immigrants. it mentions the word cannabis of all things 68 times. more than the word jobs or hire. >> it's amazing to me how much patience and how much tolerance

some can have for the pain of others. >> reporter: mitch mcconnell isn't ruling out another stimulus plan down the road. republicans are demanding language that limits liability for companies that re-open. kenneth and mona. >> ines, thank you. a top congressman is urging airlines to stop packing their planes. the chairman of the house transportation committee is asking airlines to book only two-thirds of their capacity on each plane in order to guarantee social distancing. a louisiana doctor says he contracted the coronavirus on a crowded flight. he believes it was transmitted through his eyes. dr. joseph fair, a contributor for nbc news says he wore a mask and gloves on a flight from new york to new orleans but his eyes were unprotected. >> we tend to focus on the nose and mouth because that is the most common route, but droplets landing on your eyes are just as infectious, and, of course, i wasn't wearing goggles on the flight.

>> dr. fair says they were packed on the plane and should have gotten off. the airport in las vegas may be famous for slot machines, but now it has ppe vending machines. travelers can now also buy a mask, gloves and hand sanitizer before their flight. time now for a look at your friday morning weather. wind-driven wildfires have merged to consume more than 8,500 acres in southwest florida. new evacuations are under way, but thankfully some rain is in the forecast later today. in texas, more rain is expected around beaumont where heavy downpours left cars underwater on some city streets. looking at today's high temperatures, 85 in new york where severe thunderstorms are possible later today. rain is possible across the plains where it'll be 70s. dry along the west coast. 68 in seattle.

forget billionaires, the world's first trillionaire coming up. a new curveball in negotiations to start the major league baseball season. the player refusing to take a pay cut. and the anti-tourist campaign. how states are trying to stop you from visiting this

back now with a report claiming jeff bezos is on track to become the world's first trillionaire in 2026, but the projection is generating controversy. some say it makes too many assumptions about economic growth and amazon's success. critics of bezos are using it to push for higher wages and worker protects at warehouses. senator richard burr of north carolina has stepped aside as chairman of the intelligence

committee after the fbi confiscated his phone part of a stock trade investigation linked to information about the coronavirus that burr allegedly received during a senate briefing. now, he denies any wrongdoing. senator kelly loeffler of georgia has also denied any wrongdoing selling stocks around the same time and senator diane feinstein turned over documents saying she had no involvement in her husband's stock deals. fans eager to see some action. here's abc's kimberly brooks. >> reporter: this mo pro sports making the move to re-open on the right track. nascar is off to the races this time in south carolina, its first event since early march. >> we're not coming in that close of contact with another competitor. o environment in nascar lends itself very well to going back to our sport. >> reporter: but for fans streaming the races online all eyes will be on ryan newman. >> i feel like a complete walking miracle. >> reporter: newman still doesn't remember this frightening crash february 17th

that nearly took his life. >> big miracles and little miracles in my opinion that aligned for me to be able to walk out days later with my hands around my daughters and to be thankful. >> reporter: in baseball talks are under way between owners and players to start the season in early july. >> i think it's hopeful that we will have some major league baseball this summer. we are making plans about playing in empty stadiums. >> reporter: but owners throwing players a curveball with a plan to cut salaries. >> i'm not playing unless i get mine, okay, and that's just the way it is for me. >> reporter: blake snell, star pitcher for the tampa bay rays who was set to make $7 million this year is refusing to play with the pay cut. >> i'm sorry you guys think differently but the risk is way the hell higher and the amount of money is lower. why would i think about doing that? i'm sorry. >> i had great confidence that we'll reach an agreement with

the players. if we don't play a season, the losses for the owners could approach $4 billion. >> reporter: in the nba, a handful of teams are back on the court for voluntary workouts, but skepticism remains. >> i do think it's going to take a while. we're not through this yet especially black and brown people. we have to be careful, so we have a ways to go, but we want to play. >> reporter: in golf the pga is moving full steam ahead with plans to resume its schedule in june but not before a blockbuster charity event next weekend featuring tiger woods and peyton manning taking on phil mickelson and tom brady. brady doing trash-talking on twitter posting this image saying he's never had much of a time beating the colts or a tiger. the commissioner said teams are prepared to test the players multiple times each week if and when a deal is reefed and the season finally begins. kenneth, mona.

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subordinate and they were zooming from the same house but in different rooms. >> he also says for private investigators business is booming right now. and we turn now to encouraging news about a possible coronavirus vaccine. a new study on monkeys has shown promise. earlier i asked dr. lala garabagian if it would change the time line and i also asked her about the cdc alert on that illness affecting children. >> this, what is called a multisystem inflammatory syndrome that is very similar to kawasaki syndrome is something that the cdc sent out an alert out for us physicians to report any cases that we see that fall under the very specific criteria and i think for parents, if your child feels unwell and is sick, go to your pediatrician, whether it's a telemedicine visit or it's a telemedicine visit or

to an emergency department to get checked out. usually these children or young adults that have this appear very ill. so it would be very identifiable for the parents. >> let's switch to the race for the vaccine. we just got a progress report from researchers at oxford university, and it's pretty encouraging. what are we learning, and what's the time line looking like? >> what this particular study shows is that there is promise that a vaccine is possible, but i think it's still in its early stages. hard to say what the time line is. i think i would be hopeful to say that we'll have a vaccine that's effective by the winter of 2021 and that's a guess. >> and, dr. garabagian, a lot are eager to start traveling again. a top member of congress is calling for airlines to only book plains to two-thirds capacity to only fill 67% of the seats for social distancing. it comes as one infectious disease experts believes he got infected on a plane while wearing a mask and believes he was infected possibly because he touched his eyes after touching

a surface. i want to know personally do you feel comfortable flying on a plane right now? >> well, i'm not going to get on a plane unless i must, and that's what the cdc guidelines and recommendations provide us. unless it's essential travel, there's no need to fly, and if you do have to travel, then i would probably recommend not eating food with your hands, especially if you haven't washed your hands beforehand but, you know, there is a risk and, you know, first and foremost if you're sick, then don't travel at all. >> great advice. our thanks to dr. garabagian. coming up, spreading cheer through ice cream. plus, a new way to avoid being lonely in your favorite restaurant. that's next. these are real people, not actors, who've got their eczema under control. with less eczema, you can show more skin. so roll up those sleeves.

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we are back with another restaurant getting creative to enforce social distancing. this restaurant in south carolina is using blowup dolls to keep people from getting too close, a few hundred miles south of the virginia restaurant we told but earlier this week where mannequins are sitting in the dining room. >> they're no dummies. now to colorado where people from out of state are being told you're not welcome back just yet. >> the state is asking tourists to stay away prompting someone to make this anti-tourism video now going viral. take a look. >> i know you said you use protection, but protection doesn't always work, and i don't know where you've been. >> also not welcoming tourists is the california side of lake tahoe. restrictions there are lifted today for restaurants and retail stores but only for locals. >> you think they have a website don't visit colorado. in kentucky a 6-year-old has started a business all to cheer up his neighborhood.

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now from abc7 live breaking news. and that breaking news is a really powerful earthquake that just rocked eastern nevada. people are reporting feeling it here in the bay area. mike nicco is tracking the location this morning. good morning, mike. >> we looked down there on the usgs cite asite and we go over nevada and 6.4. pretty powerful earthquake. thankfully it is in a very remote area. 6.4 is so powerful only 120 of those per year and the equivalent of 33 million pounds of explosives and that's why you could feel it nearly 235 miles away in san jose. places like fresno also felt it. this kind of an earthquake is a

strong earthquake on the magnitude scale. you can see that right there, six, property damage likely and some of the smaller towns around it. let's go back and take a look at some of those. you can see is it mina, hawthorn, they're probably going to have a lot of damage out of this particular system. we'll keep an eye on that and as the folks wake up and transmit what they woke up to, we'll get it to you. pretty quiet. no need for an umbrella today. sunglasses. a few high clouds as we head into the afternoon hours and a bright and milder day. fog as we talked about. visibility dangerously low around santa rosa. san francisco, richmond, oakland, san mateo and everybody else in the 70s with even upper 70s in the east bay valleys and north bay valleys. we'll keep an eye on that earthquake, kumasi. i'll send it back to you now. covering your health, the economy and the changes to education and how you work, they

are a part of our commitment to building a better bay area. this morning we are starting with the health and the rules we are being told to follow to keep covid-19 away. we have seen pretty good crowds weekend after weekend even with our shelter-in-place orders and now the city of oakland is cracking down. julian glover is live with the new rules. julian? >> hi, kumasi, good morning. you remember it was a few weeks ago when oakland mayor libby schaaf said give it a break. food trucks are banned from gathering at or around lake merritt. parking lots from city parks will be closed and now parking from lake merritt will be blocked on friday, saturday and sunday. all to cut down on crowds that are gathering on the weekend. one food truck owner we spoke

with who said usually sets up at the lake. >> i have signs that says you must have a mask, we have apple pay, we have hand sanitizer. >> reporter: new signage up and oakland city park ambassadors will be out and abount reminding people to keep their distance and handing out face masks to people who don't have them. people who live around the lake seem pretty split on whether this type of enforcement is needed. again, this starts today and will happen every friday, saturday and sunday and also memorial which is coming up in just a bit and this will last for a couple weeks until the end of the month of may. reporting live this morning, julian glover, abc7 news. >> thank you, julian. more signs that the bay area is slowly reopening. happening today, sonoma county will allow more businesses to open back up that includ