kpix 5.com. captioning sponsored by cbs >> folbaum: tonight, encouraging news from the front lines of the coronavirus fight. in new york, daily deaths drop. so to hospitalizations. but battle lines are drawn as organized protests against restrictions spread. president trump accused of taking sides. >> there is no time for politics. >> folbaum: also tonight, the president rants against democrats in the push for more funding. >> we're just very different. >> folbaum: south dakota's governor defends leaving the state open, even as a pork plant there becomes a national hot spot. across the west, native american tribes struggle to respond. >> trying to test as many people as they can. >> folbaum: plus, cbs news investigates the fight for medical supplies in a global bidding war. and later, gratitude for the

forgotten frontline warriors. >> it was amazing. >> yeah. >> it was amazing. >> this is the "cbs weekend news." >> folbaum: good evening. i'm rick folbaum, reporting from wgcl, cbs 46 in atlanta. there are signs in some places, including new york and new jersey, of improvements in the coronavirus fight. and with millions out of work, there are discussions and sharp disagreements about how, when, and where to ease restrictions. today, the u.s. and canadaian governments announced the border between the two countries would remain closed for another 30 days, this as infections in this country now top 700,000, deaths now nearing thraept,000. danya bacchus tonight begins our coverage. >> reporter: in california, the state is grappling with its highest death toll yet. today, as protests erupted

across the country, many governors say it's still too soon to lift restrictions. the battle over reopening america is intensifying. protesters in several states are defying stay-at-home orders, demanding governors lift restrictions so they can get back to work. >> think of the people. think of the people that are struggling. >> reporter: in florida, beaches in the northern part of the state have reopened. texas governor gret abbott announced plans to relax restrictions at retail stores and parks starting next week. >> even more openings will be announced in may when it ist t . >> repor the gradual reopening comes with the virus still peaking in some parts of the country. san francisco and new york city are requiring residents to wear masks in public. >> we recommended face coverings in the past, and now, as of midnight tonight, it will be a requirement. >> reporter: new york governor

andrew cuomo said he had some good news today. >> hospitalization numbers are down. >> reporter: president trump claims sufficient testing capacity has been built to allow states to reopen, but governors and business leaders say a lot more is needed before that can happen. and across the country, more economic pain. >> this program means that we get to eat today. >> reporter: lines at food banks are growing longer as people who have never had to line up for food donations before are in need. california's governor has put together an advisory committee to assist with economic recovery, especially for small businesses. rick. >> folbaum: danya, thanks. late today, president trump addressed the national emergency at the white house. >> this was a military and private enterprises march. we marched. and, unfortunately, with the other side, because they're viewing it as an election. how did president trump do? oh, he did terribly.

let's see, he did-- yeah, he did terribly. oh. but we just got them the ventilators that they didn't have that they should have had. >> folbaum: also at the white house, our correspondent nikole killion who reports the debate over when and how to reopen the country has turned political. >> reporter: president trump spent much of his saturday on twitter blasting what he says are "do nothing democrats." the the president cited a friday conference call between the vice president and senate democrats who he called rude and nasty after they confronted the vice president on several issues, including concerns about adequate testing. >> he also tries to say nothing, and tries toeny eve that weify.and that'sen yo see senators getting more and more and more frustrated. >> reporter: the president also took aim at house speaker nancy pelosi, urging her to return to washington after funding lapsed for the paycheck protection program for small

businesses. >> she's got to get back and get this thing approved. >> reporter: democratic aides tell cbs news talks continue this weekend with treasury secretary mnuchin and his staff. the latest compromise offer on the table includes additional money for hospitals, as well as states and local governments. republicans wanted a clean bill to reup the loan program by $250 billion, but some g.o.p. leaders, and even the president showed signs of bending. >> i'm with that all the way. if they want to add hospitals. we could also tad into phase four. >> reporter: this as more protests popped up from ohio to maryland and texas, demanding states reopen. the president backed nstrats openly fying stay-at-home orders and social distancing guidelines, boldly tweeting, "liberate" as some democratic governors accused president of inciting rebellion. >> they seem to be very responsible people to me, but it's-- you know, they've been treated a little bit rough. >> reporter: while the president believes some states

are being too stringent, the pentagon announced saturday it's extending travel restrictions for troops, both domestically and abroad, from may until june 30. rick. >> folbaum: thank you, nikole. be sure to tune in tomorrow morning for cbs news "face the nation." margaret brennan's guests including dr. deborah birx, massachusetts governor jim bakker, and dr. scott gottlieb, with a look at how and whether the country is ready to reopen. the nation's fooled supply chain is showing signs of strain as increasing numbers of workers are infected. dean reynolds has more. >> reporter: even with the smithfield pork process stay-ate order doesn't her st >> we're just very different than the big populated cities, new york city, that you see on tv. we're spread out. there's a lot more open space here in south dakota. >> reporter: though some worry the virus is spreading outward

from the plant where hundreds of workers have tested positive, noem sites hard-to-verify data to back up her stance. >> we have seen such an outstanding call to action among the people of south dakota, that we actually have more people staying home than many of the other states that have put in shelter-in-place orders. >> reporter: the smithfield plant processes about a fifth of the nation's pork supply. t is now closed indefinitely, but that closure and those of other food processors, because of the pandemic are, stressing the nation's food chain. kaitlin wowak is an industry analyst at the university of notre dame. >> we're seeing so many disruptions across a number of different product congratulations, particularly meat and dairy products throughout the supply chain. >> reporter: the disruption right now adds up to more than of an inconvenience for consumers, because there is food. but as more workers get sick, real shortages could materialize. at the j.b.s. meat packing plant

in greeley, colorado, senate-year-old saul sanchez was working sick, but his daughter could not convince him to stay home. >> my dad was an amazing, humble, hardworking individual. he'd be like, "they need me. they're short staffed." >> reporter: sanchez died last week from coronavirus. the plant is now temporarily closed. dean reynolds, cbs news, chicago. >> folbaum: today, several native american tribes sued the federal government for control of $8 billion of coronavirus funding allocated to them. as michelle miller reports, the virus has hit life on remote reservations hard. >> reporter: it's hard to imagine when you look at the vast vistas in the rural west there's an overcrowding problem here. but there is a problem, and it's big. on tribal lands, even here, social distancing can be hard to do. >> i know some of the affected houses out here, there are like, 13, 14 people that live in a

house. >> the overcrowded home situation is at least 16 times the national average. >> reporter: kevin alice, c.e.o. of the national congress of american indians, says federal funding for housing has been frozen for decades, a violation of old treaties, and now feared as an agent to aid the spread of the virus. we're getting word that the navajo nation in southern utah, northern arizona is especially hard hit. >> that's where we're seeing, you know, large cases of confirmed coronavirus infections. >> reporter: there are more than 1,000 known cases in a place lacking water. >> we tell people to wash their hands, but a study showed 30% of the homes on navajo nati have running water, so how are they going to do that. >> reporter: with limited resources, tribal leaders are improvising. the navajos have instituted strict curfews, requiring people to stay home or face arrest. to keep outsiders out, at an entrance to the pine ridge

reservation in south dakota, we found oglala sioux tribe roadblock. >> all across the state they need to be trying to test as many people as they can so they know who has it and who doesn't have it. >> reporter: at wind river, dr. paul evert's team has ramped up testing at a higher rate than the entire state of wyoming. but they face another kind of roadblock-- not everyone has a phone, so getting the results to people infected and tested positive mean they remain out there, somewhere. michelle miller, cbs news. >> folbaum: washington state reported coronavirus case in the u.s. that was back on january 21. as carter evans reports, it is now a story of success. >> reporter: for several brutal weeks, the seattle area was america's epicenter for coronavirus. it spread at a terrifying rate,e nursing home. but as soon as the virus struck here, seattle struck back. >> we took early and decisive

action. we didn't take it lightly. >> reporter: king county executive dow constan steen and seattle mayor jenny durkan say they had to act fast. can people look to seattle as an example of how this social distancing is working? >> i think absolutely. >> reporter: the city and county quickly closed schools, major corporations, like amazon and microsoft, told workers to stay home. vibrant streets emptied and seattle shut down. >> it goes against everything we do in every other parent of our jobs. we're causing enormous economic pain and individual pain. but from that, we will avoid the graecht pain, which would be the collapse of our hospital system and more and more people dying of this virus. >> reporter: by keeping people apart and cancelling public events early on, infection rates in washington were af. suc has an reopen. >> let's go back to public

gatherings, opening restaurants, et cetera. just can't do that. it is still circulating in our community, and any time you give it a chance it will immediately begin infecting people on a widespread basis. >> reporter: to keep the virus at bay, washington's governor is still keeping schools closed through june, but the state is now confident enough to ship some 400 life-saving ventilators to other communities that need them more. >> it was very scary in your community. how do you feel now? >> folks are beginning to have a sense that we've got this. >> reporter: carter evans, cbs news, seattle. >> folbaum: in colorado springs today, a special salute. the thunderbirds soared over the air force academy commencement. vice president mike pence addressed the graduates, many of them wearing masks. this year, family and friends had to watch online. additional high-fives and hugs were not allowed, but the traditional hat toss did happen. and here in atlanta, the virus hasn't stopped 19-year-old avery

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glofdz. >> reporter: aubrey layne is virginia's finance secretary, responsible for purchasing his state's supply of p.p.e., or personal protective equipment. >> right now, jim, we're buying whatever we can get. >> reporter: where are you looking? >> the easy answer is we're looking everywhere. most of these were sourced overseas, particularly out of china. >> reporter: but in dealing with china, it's buyer beware. >> totally new machines here. >> reporter: american distributors tell cbs news p.p.e. factories are popping up overnight, some faking u.s. government approvals by using templates, like this one. >> we've got to make sure they are real and credible. >> reporter: vendors that once excelled churning out everything from cheap watches and children's toys are now hawking highly coveted n95 masks. >> we've had one case where we-- where we worked with a very reputable supplier, and, yet, when he got ready to shirng the chinese government decide it better take possession of the goods because they wanted them

to go somewhere else. >> reporter: despite widespread shortages, the u.s. has been reluctant to launch a national procurement effort. >> the fflt sphft not supposed to be out there buying vast amount of items and then shipping. we're not a shipping clerk. >> reporter: layne said he's left to fend for himself, bidding for chinese p.p.e.s against other states, which drives up the price. >> some of the suppliers know this, so they'll call us up and say, "you've got to make a decision pretty quickly or it's going to go to someone else." >> reporter: and we're not talking about a couple of hundred bucks we're spending here, are we? >> no, we're talking in the mllions of dolter: china-based consultant clive greenwood represents three local manufacturers that he says sell medical supplies, mostly to foreign governments. >> there is a massive world demand and they are just not going to wait for people to ditherro >> reporter: competing buyers, he said, are not going back. >> they're going up to factories with truckloads of cash and taking the entire production.

>> reporter: virginia finance secretary aubrey layne says the feds need to step up because he's worried about who he's dealing with. >you don't really know when the orders will be filled or if the orders will be filled. >> hopefully it's more a matter of when and not if. but even that, we won't know until the actual planes get here or the cargo gets here. >> reporter: a u.s. official tells us fema is helping private companies fly shipments of p.p.e. from china to hot spots in the united states, but distributors tell us to expect more shortages as more americans are required to wear masks in public. jim axelrod, cbs news, mount claire, new jersey. >> folbaum: and still aherovirua and its economy. why it's not done yet. family at home or those at work, principal is by your side.

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were banned from entering. the nearby border crossing is now closed. the town itself is in lockdown. and at least 18 officials have been punished for insufficient responses. in a surprise upwards addition to the death toll friday, wuhan reported exactly 50% more people in the city died from coronavirus than previously reported. china's official death toll jumped by almost 1300 to more than 4,600. that grim news came just a week and a half after wuhan celebrated its freedom from a 76-day lockdown. hospitals have been discharging the last of the their now-recovered patients as the final remaining frontline workers went home. but to china watchers, festivities like theseperover wr truths that the worl know. china expert and cing podcast host kaiser kuo. >> within the chinese population, they're guilty that more people died than needed to die. if there had been earlier

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with only mops and disinfectant wipes. here's don dahler. >> reporter: dizzy desautels, matt ries and john baggs are among the half-dozen custodians who keep the schools in williston, vermont clean. what's the best part of the job for you guys? >> for me, i got a bunch of little guys in my building. >> reporter: the kids? >> the kids. >> reporter: kids like william, finnegan and piper thomas. brooke is their mom. >> those custodians know my children by their first names. >> reporter: and they were the first to answer the call when an elementary school staff member reported he might've been exposed to the coronavirus. two schools were shut down, as the custodial staff was sent in for a complete cleaning. >> we did it all in two days. >> reporter: were you ever, for a moment, any of you guys, concerned about yourselves? >> never entered my mind. >> no, no. >> have a job to do, go do it. >> reporter: but brooke and other parents didn't see it that way at all, so she decided to launch an online fundraiser to

say thanks. how much did you want to raise? >> well, the original thought was $200. so it explrom $200 to close to $7,500. >> reporter: $7,500? >> $7,500, yeah. >> reporter: eight custodians in all received almost $1,000 each. >> i was shocked, surprised, and it gave me a good feeling. >> reporter: but the real gift wasn't the money. it was knowing they were valued. >> it was amazing. it was amazing. >> reporter: don dahler, cbs news, williston, vermont. >> folbaum: that's the "cbs weekend news" for this saturday. later on cbs, "48 hours." for now, i'm rick folbaum, reporting from wgcl, cbs 46, in atlanta. from all of us at cbs news, in georgia and around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org captioned by media access group at wgbh

with outbreaks at california care homes reaching a crisis print, the state has launched a new tool to track them. >> reporter: in santa clara we may be seeing the beginning of the next greatest generation as young people step up to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. i'll have that story coming up. >> plus, california has secured thousands of hotel rooms to house the homeless. but there are some hurdles to clear to actually get people into them. >> and a suspicious incident ends in deadly police gunfire at an east bay walmart. good evening, i'm juliet goodrich. >> i'm brian hackie. with cases climbing of coronavirus in nursing facilities, the state has launched a dedicated webb page to keep track of them.

hundreds of patients and s tested positive in the bay area alone. 64 at canyon springs in san jose. 63 at valley house rehab in santa clara. and 62 at central gardens in san francisco. 58 staff and patients have test the positive at he center. the biggest outbreak is at the gateway care and rehabilitation center in heyward. just over 100 staffers and patients have tested positive. at least 13 have died. rl wstate inspected tily hashe powe to te it over if they have to. gateway has been cited in the past for understaffing issues. governor newsom was in the bay area today to give an update on the state's efforts to protect the homeless. wilson walker on the state's new deal with