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order calling it unlawful, invalid unenforceable. could this open the floostates it is thursday may the 14th. "early today" starts right now >> good morning, i'm david gura. >> i'm frances rivera. >> a top health official at the world health organization warns coronavirus may never go away as it resurges in some countries. the virus has now claimed the lives of almost 85,000 americans and has infected nearly 1.4 million people beaches in southern california reopened to the public under the new rules people must wear masks if they're not in the water. sunbathing is still prohibited. pharmacists will now be able to order and administer covid-19 tests. the doctor's approval is notn wn will have to keep tabs on patrons as part of the reopening

plan they must keep a log of all customers served along with their phone number officials say it's to facility contract tracing if an infection spreads. and the urge to set sail is kicking in according to carnival cruisings bookings for august has shot up 600% there last year ships will be leaving from ports in florida and texas wisconsin state supreme court has struck down the state's stay at home order the conservative judges called the order a vast seizure of power, said it's unlawful and unenforceable. wisconsin governor reacted to the ruling last night while speaking with velshi >> the wild west, there are no restrictions at all across the state of wisconsin when you have no requirements anymore, that's a problem. and we're just leaving it open we'll have more cases, we're going to have more deaths and it's a sad occasion for the state.

>> a place called nick's bar shared this photo on twitter claiming it was taking 45 minutes after bars opened in wisconsin. there is growing concern about the inflammatory syndrome hitting children as a surge of new cases have now shown up in at least 17 states so far three children have died. >> reporter: good morning. well, later on this morning the cdc is expected to issue its alert to thousands of doctors nationwide about the new inflammatory syndrome as we are now seeing cases spread across the country. >> in oregon a state with one of the nowest numbers of coronavirus cases 14-year-old lopez didn't know what to think when she developed red eyes, a fever and searing abdom noll pain >> it was probably a 10. >> by the time he got to the hospital -- >> she was in fairly severe cardiac failure. >> leah didn't know anyone with covid-19 had been careful herself and is now one of a growing number of

kids with pediatric multianti-inflammatory syndrome. >> it can lap to any child at any time and we need to be prepared >> as cases surged to more than 80 in new york city alone the mayor announced a new ad campaign to alert parents while the governor says it's now prioritizing tests for children showing symptoms >> if your child has been exposed to someone who had covid even if it was several weeks ago, that is a special alert in this situation >> three children have died and the syndrome is now suspected in 17 states. it's still rare, but experts have shifted their thinking about kids and coronavirus >> coronavirus isn't the benign condition in kids. we need to figure out how many kids actually had coronavirus. >> the cdc is expected to issue a national alert to doctors to

look out for symptoms including fever, rash, read eyes and abdominal pain more than half in new o got a w could face in the weeks ahead. >> so doctors say this is very treatable but it just needs to be caught early and they say that's where having a nationwide definition and criteria for doctors and parents to look for will be so important >> all right thank you. president trump headed to the battleground state of pennsylvania today as part of his push to reopen the country he's scheduled to tour a medical equipment company that has sent out ppe to hospitals across the country. it comes as a whistle blower prepares to testify before lawmakers. our capitol hill correspondent tracie potts joining us with the

latest >> reporter: dr. rick bright claims that he was being pressured to back treatments that were being pushed by president trump that he did not think were scientifically sound and so he's expected to tell that to a house committee today according to his early testimony he will tell that committee that this could be the darkest winter in modern history if the federal government does not step up and coordinate the planning. now, this comes after dr. fauci testified to a senate committee contradicting the president on whether or not it's safe to reopen schools in the fall >> we better be careful if we are not cavalier in thinking that children are completely immune to the effects. we just have to see on a step by step basis >> i think they should open the schools absolutely i think they should and it's had very little impact on young people i was surprised by his answer actually because you know, it's

just -- to me it's not an acceptable answer especially when it comes to schools >> governors are grappling with what to do with the schools in their states, concerned that parents may not be comfortable sending kids back to school in as much as they can attract and transmit this virus just like adults can >> thank you very much appreciate it. there are new developmentes in the global war against coronavirus. russia's highest number of cases but low number of deaths has raised questions but russian officials are defending their calculations moscow health officials have announced more than 60% of coronavirus deaths were attributed to other cases. meanwhile u.s. officials are accusing china, the birthplace of the virus and iran of trying to steal coronavirus research via hacking. for more we turn to matthew live in moscow. good morning

>> reporter: we're still seeing relative few confirmed cases of fatalityties oz after this morning just over 2,300. but several tines are conservative estimated moscow officials last week released so called excess mortality figures for the month of april which showed that about 2,000 more people in moscow died this april than last april unofficial tallies kept by russian doctors nationwide suggest that up to 200 of their colleagues have perished fighting on the front lines. officials yesterday admitted that 60% of covid deaths were attributed to other causes but they defended this on technical grounds citing things such as leukemia and heart attacks and blood clots. also pneumonia has been classified as the cause of death in a lot of cases. meanwhile in the united states the fbi yesterday accused chinese state and nonstate hackers of attempting to steal coronavirus vaccine research and

other best practices now, china has routinely denied similar allegations throughout the crisis and lashed out at the united states and its partners for attempting to politicize the pandemic as cases rise in u.s., russia and elsewhere these activities undermine the global fight against the virus. back to you, frances >> thank you let's get a look at your forecast on this thursday morning. janessa webb has that. >> good morning, you two good morning, everyone we have an active weather pattern that is setting up across southern plains into the midwest. severe weather threat going to be enhanced throughout your afternoon. now, currently we have 20 million that could see severe weather into the afternoon, evening hours with damaging wind gusts going to be the primary threat also a hail up to 3 inches in size so you're going to want to watch that closely what's stirring up the severe weather is temperatures are changing very quickly.

just yesterday i was talking about us being under freeze alerts across two thirds of the nation now we are back in the 80sd 60s. we have transitioned from winter conditions to summer heat across texas into the deep south. so the heat is going to continue to build but we're also watching the tropics. more of that coming up >> all right we'll hear from you then as states continue to open you are for business so are some of the nation's parks both yellow stone and grand canyon national park are set to reopen for a limited time. grand canyon will open for four days friday through monday with restricted access and yellow stone will open the south and east entrances in wyoming, but will limit visitor travel to the lower loop of the park

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in today's quick hit it is nba basketball is returning to its roots. spalding's contract with the league is set to expire next year and wilson, the original provider of the nba basketball will produce the new balls justin bieber announced that he and ariana grande will be signing a limited number of cds for their new song >> and joe biden will be holding a coronavirus round table with governors phil murphy and gretchen whit mer. it will air on joe biden's facebook and twitter pages at 3:00 eastern three major tech companies

are moving to extend their work from home policies, with twitter telling employees they may never have to go back to the office. >> reporter: empty streets and empty office towers don't just mean a change in how we work, entire communities have relocated to new places. a corporate headquarters can put tens of billions into local economies. when amazon considered building a headquarters in maryland a study said it would bring in $17 billion. in charlotte, bank of america has 180,000 employees working from home during the pandemic. austin based dell expects more than half of their 160,000 staffers to never go back to their desks. >> here in the san francisco bay area, google and facebook have announced that most of their workers will be at home for the rest of the year, but now twitter has announced that its workers will be at home from now on and that's going to have an enormous impact far beyond just empty desks in a building like this >> nail salons, barbers, shoe

repair, dog groomers, bars, the list is long of those who depend on a work a day crowd and they all stand to suffer if their customers don't commute in dan miller's chain of dry cleaners has stores in walking distance of many tech companies. >> we've seen declines nationwide of between 70 and 75% in the dry cleaning and laundry business it's one of the hardest hit industries other than airlines and hotels we're optimistic that through adapting with those changes that we can survive and thrive but it's going to be a new world >> and for the folks who made a living selling to the lunch crowd twitter's announcement means the pain of the pandemic can be permanent >> our sales are about 40% lower. >> being able to service more of our community is going to be more of our focal point instead of just looking toward upstairs within our building. >> working from home may be a chance to stay safe while we wait for a vaccine but city life

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