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they shut down everything, fitness centers, museums, people are being advised to work from home, so essentially you have an jose ball art has more. unprecedented situation to try >> it's a language so universal to tackle an unprecedented that it transcends race, epidemic because italy's tally religion and borders now of the people testing ♪ >> we use music to promote the positive to coronavirus has shot up to more than 7,000 with 366 idea that we are more alike than we are different. dead so the government felt like they >> jonathan is a professor of had to come to extreme measures music in dallas. through his choirs he brings to attatackle that. together people of all ages, even the economy has taken a big students and adults, but now he's taken on a larger mission tumble today the stock market in milan using his choirs to help heal has dropped 10%, and that is a communities. >> it's a wonderful expression major impact on an economy that that when you sing it, you was still lagging behind the rest of europe and still trying prayed it twice, and i think in to recover from the previous many ways we're changing hearts recession ten years ago. and minds because we're able to >> i'm sure the travel industry sing things as one community as well hit hard there specifically in italy. ♪ thank you. >> absolutely. if you can't avoid taking a >> when a man opened fire in an el paso walmart last year pra plane there are some things you killing 22, most of them mexican can do to stay healthy in the

americans, he decided he needed air during this outbreak to send a message to texas here's nbc's some brock. this is not who we are >> reporter: to fly or not to so he organized two concerts fly with cases travelers are one across two countries, two days apart, one just across the border in juarez, and one in el >> i'm really worried about being in the airport paso his choir performing in both you never know who you're coming locations. the cultural exchange going both in contact with directly. >> do you feel safer wearing the mask >> i do. ways this youth choir from juarez >> reporter: but are masks effective? the cdc says they should be with a powerful performance at home, ask then traveling to el considered for sick travelers with respiratory symptoms like paso to sing some of the same coughing and sneezing and for passengers sitting near others songs. with respiratory symptoms. to an american audience. >> it was just so overwhelming while a lot of flights to affected areas have been canceled, anyone who does decide to hear music from a different to travel precautions on planes culture in a different country, are key. >> it's safe to get on a plane and it was really small skblo. use your hand hygiene. try to avoid people who are coughing and sneezing, but if >> reporter: music as a way to fight hate and prove that two you're older, if you have underlying illnesses, you have cultures can exist in harmony. to ask yourself is this really >> there are so many ways we can an essential trip. >> reporter: but what else can make the world a smaller place you do in a perfect world you'd be simply by performing on one

sitting next to the window obviously your exposure here is the least. stage united in a message of if you sit in the middle seat, this is the worst because you have people on both sides of hope you. in fact, no matter where you're ♪ seated, the cdc says people who are within six feet of a traveler with coronavirus are at medium risk of getting the >> our thanks to jose for that disease. what about what you're breathing story. it's been about seven months now on board according to the international since that day it's nice to see positive air transport association stories still coming out of the there's filters on planes that el paso region, a place very get out 99.9% of microbes which close to home for me. means the air quality on the cabin is as good or better than >> that's your hometown. ex ext extra special to see that coming your office. together. >> thanks for starting your before takeoff, pay special monday with us, i'm phillip attention to cleaning surfaces, mena. >> i'm show in the skies over anyplace other passengers have australia's capital. touched including armrests and it is the country's annual the front and back of tray balloon spectacular. the crowd gets to watcthe big tables and digital screens use a tissue on the handle opening the bathroom doors, flushing the toilet and turning the water on and off in the sink small tips that could make a big difference for a healthier time in the skies sam brock, nbc news.

the two-man race for the democratic race heats up, six more states head to the polls. bernie sanders and joe biden will both hold dueling rallies in the midwest after picking up key endorsements over the weekend. nbc's dan scheneman has more >> the comeback king >> reporter: joe biden on the campaign trail in mississippi speaking to an african-american congregation ahead of the state's primary. >> this election, it can make the choice to take the country back. >> reporter: the former vice president also gained the support of another former rival. >> i have endorsed him, and i'm going to do everything i possibly can to help him win. >> reporter: senator bernie voice. sanders meanwhile also picked up >> it is more than numbers. a prominent endorsement. >> these are the states that >> never lost his taste for will win over the field. justice for the people >> reporter: at a rally in grand >> ideologically, you /s \e a stark warning on the rapids michigan, the vermont coronavirus from one of

america's top scientists as senator spoke to the voters who have been at the heart of bide's members of congress self-quarantine and president support. >> we're tired of a health care trump tweets about the outbreak in the middle of the night system that does not give care >> in the u.s., multiple cruise and justice to the ship dilemmas for large crowds african-american community. on long trips. >> reporter: michigan is the biggest prize on tuesday, 125 and in italy, some 16 million delegates at stake in the people on lockdown for nearly a state's primary. month. will it stop the spread? it's a state sanders won four >> could the future of the 2020 years ago and may need to win election be impacted by again if he hopes to slow coronavirus for crowds and big biden's surging campaign, dan rallies as six states prepare to scheneman, nbc news. vote tomorrow? let's get a check of your >> an outpouring around the weather on this monday with nbc globe to celebrate international meteorologist janessa webb women's day. >> and senator elizabeth warren good morning. >> good morning, everyone. jumped out of th we're starting off this monday with dry conditions across the pacific northwest. but what's going to happen in the next 12 hours across southern california, we have a setup of kind of a pineapple express that's really going to start to happen. what that means is high pressure is along the coast, but that moisture is going to continue to flow in across the hawaiian tropics. now, this will continue for southern california at least for 36 hours we are talking about rain

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morning, that war over oil prices markets plummeted with the dow expected to open under 1,300 points in the red. and oil prices are tanking down over 20%, and now trading below $33 a barrel over the weekend opec talks imploded and saudi arabia started flashing oil prices in retaliation for russia's refusal to cut its own output. we are looking at a brutal week for the markets. tax season is in full swing, and many americans are paying to file their taxes online even when they don't have to. nbc's vicky win reports on how to tell the difference between the free file program from the ird the site that might hit you with those fees. >> reporter: from turbo tax to h&r block major tax preparation companies advertise filing for free. >> that's right, turbo tax free is free, free, free, free, free,

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it's an agreement between the government and tax preparation companies to let people who make $69,000 or less file for fre yoe option of free file. too many people, millions are being tricked. >> reporter: a government audi million people eligible for free file may have paid to file their taxes. an estimated $1 billion they could have kept. eligible taxpayers who go directly to irs.gov/freefile and click here will not be charged, but if you go onto that same company's commercial site, the program advertised as free can sometimes add on charges each company has two different versions, and check it out, this is the turbo tax home page remember the one i showed you earlier? here's what it looks like when i go through the irs free file site and the same for another major company, h&r block this is the home page. this is what it looks like when

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