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everything from pharmaceuticals begin to develop right now >> governors announce plans to reopen while others are tightening their restrictions. with the number of infected americans inching its way toward the one million mark pressure is mounting on the white house to develop a national strategy. >> in the bay area six counties are extending their stay at home orders until the end of the month. authorities in california arrest two men in a multimillion dollar scheme. they tried to sell $4 million of protect i ha protective equipment that they didn't have. they even slapped fake 3m labels on empty boxes

they are facing fraud charges. and it's important to stay connected. veriz veriz verizon, comcast and at&t has vowed to not enforce late payment fees the franchise valued at more than $3.7 billion decided to return the money after the loan was made public. the houwhite house is ready ramp up testing for coronavirus. they are prepared to send all 50 states enough tests to screen at least 2% of residents each month. tracie potts joining us with the latest and some medical experts say this plan does not go far enough >> reporter: so the federal government now stepping in in a big way which is what a lot of

states have been asking for. president trump says they will help states double the amount of testing they're doing from 1 to 2% health experts say it's woefully inadequate but they plan to do so by making those test kits available by focusing on communities where a lot of minorities live, the president mentioned latinos and african americans and putting tests in retail stores to make them easy accessible when people are out and about again. that's the key here to try to ramp up testing in order to allow state to reopen more quickly. >> we are continuing to rapidly expand our capacity and i'm confident that we have enough testing to reopen in the reopening process. we want to get our country open and the testing is not going to be a problem at all. >> reporter: and an update on the small business loans that

reopened this week, $310 billion in new money that congress just made available after the fund ran out, but now there have been technical difficulties and delays with the applications >> yeah, and there are businesses across the country that are closing up for good because they can't figure this out soon enough. thank you. u.s. covid-19 cases are still rising and know so are the number of people leaving their homes. despite the fact that most states remain under stay at home orders but as the fight to open the economy comes more and more doctors are speaking out against it fearing another spike in the the virus. >> reporter: california, this is what quarantine fatigue looks like as americans leave home amid stay at home orders >> we think all the beaches should be open. >> reporter: in and yeah go, minutes after beaches opened a wave of surfers hit the water and for some a flood of concern on shore

the city council in new port considering a weekend closure to beaches after 40,000 flocked here during a heat wave. >> those images are an example of whatnot to see. people, whatnot to do. this virus doesn't take the weekends off >> the local battle over public beaches where some are closed and others are open in neighboring communities are funneling large crowds into the same area making it difficult to social distance. a new study suggests more americans are spending less time at home. doctors othe coronavirus task force say social distancing will e extend through the summer. >> out here, this is safer than it is in the grocery stores. >> with nearly a million cases of coronavirus cases in this country, doctors still describe the fight against the virus as bedlam >> it's really hard to grasp the

severity of the problem. >> reporter: this doctor worries if americans don't stay home ers will be overrun. >> patients are still sick, they're still dying and if we reopen too quickly everything is going to spike again. >> reporter: they're worried the tide could turn in the wrong direction. >> across the country many meat packing plants have been shut down because of coronavirus outbreaks. this tyson food plant has opened tyson has shared a warning about the pandemic on our food supply. >> reporter: signs in a critical link in the nation's food supply link might be cracking as some meat packing plants have become covid-19 hot spots tyson, jbs and smithfield have tested positive for the virus

forcing the temporary closure of at least 15 plants some employees are scared to show their face because they don't want to lose their job >> they didn't have enough masks or things like that to provide to us so they would start giving us different types of rags and stuff. >> reporter: tyson closed enough plant due to covid-19 cases. >> this order is necessary to end the threat to the city as quickly as possible. >> reporter: all employees are now provided surgical style face coverings but warning customers that there will soon be a limited supply of their products say the food supply chain is breaking all of it worrying a cattle ancher. >> it's unsettling because we don't know what's going to happen when it comes time for us to sell. >> reporter: in colorado some 6,000 employees wait in line to be screened for symptoms to be

allowed in for their shift a fifth employee has died from the coronavirus. >> it makes me angry that the company is willing to open without testing people. >> reporter: in early april the factory closed for nearly two weeks after over a hundred employees tested positive for covid-19 jbs said in part in a statement to nbc use we took the aggressive action to vol untirely close the plant public health officials agree this is the most effective way to break the chain of infection. but unions say more testing is needed immediately >> we understand the critical job that we do but we don't want workers losing their lives they lined up to process meat. >> as for the screening out here many of these employees say their biggest fear is of those asymptomatic workers who may make it through that screening process showing no fever, no signs or symptoms and get on to

the processing floor with covid-19 and spread it without even knowing it. >> no one wants that the pandemic is bringing about a new flying etiquette jet blue passengers will be required to wear face masks. other airlines will follow suit and provide those face masks for passengers >> in utah first responders turned out to make dillon's fourth birthday extra special. sirens blaring, dillon's mom said he could not stop talking about it >> i would love to find out how many people came out for his birthday >> you hear it more and more now. you hear all those people honking and held brating when they can't be close. >> time now to check on our weather with janessa webb.

sendsing joy over to you too >> big happy birthday, dillon. i'm glad he's getting out and enjoying sunshine. the heat is building across utah and salt lake city but we're watching these severe storms across the southern plains things will start to ramp up once again this afternoon all the way into wednesday now an enhanced risk of deveer storms i think from oklahoma city, even the dallas area could see damaging wind gusts. also a little bit of hail and a few tornadoses that will strip all the way up to the chicago area into the areas of the midwest. it's going to pull temperatures

m oklahoma city to little rock today, even san antonio to el paso in the lower 90s. so it's kind of hard to stay inside for the southwest but make sure you practice that social distancing and have a lot of water today >> great advice there. >> a lot of water especially in phoenix where it's over 100. an injured bald eagle was found in a flooded area in minnesota and local police were quick to respond the officers subdued it using a blanket and took it to a rehabilitation center. minnesota is known for having one of the largest populations of nesting bald eagles in the united states. >> if that's not a symbol for america right now i don't know what it is >> and we'll show you the high tech solutions for delivering essential supplies you're watching "early today."

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global coronavirus cases have now surpassed 3 million sweden has gone against the grain and kept public life open while its neighbors closed >> reporter: british prime minister boris johnson is back at work with fighting words for the virus that put him in an icu. >> if this virus were a physical assaila assailant then this is the moment when we have begun together to wrestle it to the floor. >> the uk is still mostly locked

down, but other countries are not. at london's mostly empty airport, i managed to get on a flight to sweden many passengers took major precautions. the hazmat suits were not required nor handed out by the airline. this was our layover in finland. >> this is the new normal. i don't much like it it is very creepy. >> reporter: in stockholm we landed in what felt like an earlier time sweden is adopting a very different approach to battling the virus, stores open, restaurants and bars open. schools open people are advised not required to avoid contact the policy is the brain child of dr. anders tegnell >> is this some sort of ticking time bomb that is going to blow up >> no, we don't think so

we realize that this virus is not going to go away we need to deal with it in a sustainable way and you can't keep schools closed so far sweden has seen over 2,000 deaths and polls suggest the softer policies are popular here. >> businesses and things has to keep running other ooiz we have nothing when we come after this >> herd immunity, protecting the elderly and sick who do face lockdowns and testing while leaving everyone else more or less alone so they catch the virus and are in theory better defended against it later. >> thanks for that report and to pay homage to sweden's handling of the coronavirus, a person has tattooed the face of the e

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right now at 4:30 the u.s. is on the brink of a grim milestone. nearly 1 million confirmed cases, according to johns hopkins university. this is of covid-19. there are more than 3 million cases worldwide. and the white house says it will work with governors to ramp up testing. ten states are starting to reopen against federal guidelines pressure from businesses and unemployed workers. six bay area counties are now under a shelter-at-home order until june 1st. be sure to pack your facemask in your carry-on. all jetblue employees and passengers