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well over 1.3 miiohin peopoulese nawi we begin with white house correspondent yamiche cindor,ve and the day's pments. >> alcindor: in muche country, the push to re-open is gaining steam. >> right now i have 100% of an empty dining room,loo if you me 50%, we're cool with it. >> alcindo asuse's top scientists adv wedis into selation. three white house officials leading the nation's pandemic onsere seqst: dranthony fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert; dr. robert redfield, director of ntthe centers for disease l and prevention; and dr. stephen hahn, the commissioner of the food and drug administration. ngey are doing so after comi into contact with key ite house staffers who tested positive. today, the white house directed masks at all times in the building, except when they aret

today, at a briefing in the rose gard. we have a lot of people schooling people, most of those people are tested depending on what porgses of the oval ofice area they are president's office gets tested. and i felt no vulnerality whatsoever. >> alcindor: just last week,he president's personal v sted positive for covid-19. >> but number one in the world even three and four, depending on where you are looking. and i get a question, when will everybody be able to get tested. >> just last wthe president's personal valet tested pos viv-- yet over the weekend, the president met with military leaders without a mask. thatgh, c.d.c. guidance, th the white has encouraged americans to follow, says masks virus.lp stop the spread of the some white house officials have voiced worries, including economic adviser kevin hasset: i think that i'd be a lot safer if i was sitting at home than i

would be gngo the west wing. >> alcindor: vice president pence'press secretary katie for covid-19. she has been at many of the closely with seniocials.ng pence's office is pushing back on reports that he is "self- isolating." he will continue working in his white house office. met with vice president penceho twice last week, said today she would also self-quarantine. all of this comes amid reports that in recent weeks, the white house mishandled efforts to collect and distribute personal protective equipme. but the president strongly continues defend the response. he rejects criticism that the they can safely liftto ensure rerictions. businesses to re-open.g for >> we have to get our country open again. people want to go back, and you're going to have a problem if you don't do it. >> alcindor: pressure to re-opeh economy comes as the u.s. unemployment reaches its highest rates since the great depression.pr

in, more than 20 million americans filed for unemployment.ec treasurytary steven mnuchin told cnbc today he is icmioput ast pbo >> i think the numbers are going to be getting better ao into the summer and we reopen the economy, and that's the important issue here. dor: meanwhile, new york state, which had been the nation's hottest spot in the pandemic, today laid out plans to re-open. that comes as the state hit its lowest daily death total since march. in rochester, gornor andrew cuomo said in some regions, low- risk businesses and activies can re-start after may 15th. >> we're talking about a phad reopening, that's what basically everyone is doing. the question is moderating that phasing and ing it intelligently. >> alcindor: at the same time, a new c.d.c. report found that deaths from the coronavirus in new york city may actually be some 5,000 higher than the official tally. many of those may have been in nursing homes. the white house today

recommended testing for more than a million nursing home residents and staff nationwide in theo t ns.wetwek >> woodruff: and yamiche joins me now, along th our own william brangham. e ct that you now have several people in the whuse testing positive for covid, how white house to stay on top of this, to monitor and manage this crisis? >> judy, it's pretty remarkable. of course the country as a whole, the world has a whole has en ubedepd elf is functioning, has been completely upended by ts virus. you have multiple people now what have worked inside the ted positive, people that worked closely with its president and you now have the vice president not completely selatisnoane,tiot but officials tell me he is keeping his distance and trying to lay low. consclso have those toforep gress on remote because they too are

self-isolating after scomming in contact with someone who has now tested positiven and ou have this remarkable thing that happened today which was that the white house said every west wing staffer is now going to have to wear a mask. the only reason i'm not ise beca literally standing very close to the white house but t near the tee,us mask, president trump. doays that he ot becausl e is he not close to anyone. there are questions still there presideher or not th might start wearing a mask because every staffer in the they need to do that to stop the >> wdruff: so yamiche, we know the president spent part of the week end criticizing a number of people. what do we know, whamore do we know about his managing, his handling of all of this? >> that's right, judy. the prede spoant the weekend and today lashk out at people that he sees as his opponents talking about the media, talkin about democrats saying they are really out to get him. he talked about the fact that

the media is the enemy of am people and if you look at the tweets he sernghts i think wem are putting p there are all sorts of tweets where he is going after, dozening age dozens s tweets. idprises followers as a way to talk to the american people. but tbh this regd it was something different than in the past. one thing that is different is that mt obama, there was some leaked audio of him saying that the presiction tode tic sa.onavirus was a soohe resident has been talking about the fact that he doesn't like th obama was criticizing him. one other thing, the president held a briefing in throse garden. he talked about tetionz. he stressed that any americanne who wants ors a coronavirus rsst can get a test. there are gover pushing back on that, judy. > woodruff: and is itisliam of reporting on tave done a lot what do we know about whether, what the white house isalking about is adequate for what the needs are, and in particular,

for people, for businesses to accding to alble for every place l public health expts, we a nowhere near enough testing in this country. i mean t president touts that we are doing a record flm of we have ne tested fort is true, coronavirus at this capacity, we are nowhere near what needs to be done in order to really get our hands around the epidemic that we are suffering under. the estimates vary. i mean we are at about 300,000 tests being done per dy, that sounds like a lot. but harvard global health institute last week put out a study that estimated that we need to be a 900,000 tests per day. so we are a huge gap. only a third of the way there. we heard from caitlyn rivers testified before congress. an xp ehopkins university. she told congrs last week that while the estimates vary, we could be needing 3.5 to 10s of we are nowhere near there.

so regardless of what the president says and says how we are putting out a record number of tests, it's still not enoughg anin, thething that we keep hearing is of course we need to get the onomy open. people want to go back to work. but as a business owner, as someone who runs a restaurant or nursing home or meat packk plant or any of the places that we've seen suffer outbreaks. how you can edgity matily bring people back to work if you can't outbreaks.s sick and who is noto and that is the problem we have. a gap in testing leaves us vulnerable to seeing an increased spike in caste . what do now about the administration's record on delivering wide spre testing and how that compares to what ir thident and his team areies of staments put out by the president and by the white house that are, frankly, not accurate.

the predent at that infamous meeting when he was down at the cdc said anyone who wants to get a test in the country can get one. we know that is not true. to this day that is not true. there are places all over the country. and again not every state is the same. sting, needre atple acer s maloe more testing, they can't get it. promedt ot accurate.r theite u woulmad hav ie ba2ck7 million tests by that month. that is not true. many people have criticized the president's unwillingness to u real the defense production act to try to address some of thtical shortages for this testing material, the swabs, the chemicals, the protective gear that you need to build a robust testing systwe. ere promised drive thru testing centers at walgreen's and wal-mart and all over the country. very, very few of those havetu ly opened. google was supposed to open a website that was going to direct people to thest. has not come through. so again, the thing that i think

strating to public health experts is that theisy arurgue o really want the economy to be growing aga, and tget people out of their homes safelo and back tk, you have sto know who is infected and who is not. and e first step in that process is testing. and we are just falling down on the job inhat regard right now. >> and william, we heard the president agaytoai ni ardannnd o wants a test can get one. that is what they are saying at the white house today. >> william brangham, yamiche al sinlder, thank you both. >> thanks, judy.ou >>e welcome, judy. >> woodruff: in the day's others news, ptive democratic nominee joe biden blasted president trump's handling of the pandemic. in an op-ed for "the washington

post" bie:wrdeum "otoup trldsh same necessary protecte has gotten for himself."rm the vice president argued that's the only way to get the economy going again. the u.s. dti jtmepcesaenaryst it is considering federal hate crimes charges in the killing of ahmaud arbery in georgia. the state attorney general asked for the investigatio two armed white men, george and travis mcmichael, chased and shot arbery in february. they were charged with murder last week, after video of the incident went viral.up the u.s.me court heard more arguments by phone today, on whether religious c institutio be sued for employment disfoimination. twer catholic school teachers in california tried to ge their schools after be let go. the court must decide whether a 2012 decision on a related question barthe lawsuits. in hong kong, police have

arrested more than 200 people after pro-democracy protests on sunday night. they're accused of setting fires and blocking streets. earlier, demonstraons broke out in shopping malls nd the city. protesters said police are using >> (dtranslatedf): in the midst of the coronavirus, the dg trictionserga oaninth rn freedom of assembly, not on y for the hughts of citizens, but also for other religious activities. i think this is a gross violation of human rights. >> woodruff: mass protests against mainland china's rule rocked hong kong for much of ir mary vee cione ong has killed19 ailors. the army says a missile struck a naval vessel, instead of i intended target, near the portas ofin the gulf of oman. in addition to the dead, 15 sailors were wounded in the o

incidesunday. back in this country, twitter will post warnings about tweets on the pandemispthat contain ed or misleading information. e company says it will n rectly fact-check tweets. instead, it may cover them entirely, or direct users to a link with more information. wall street had an uneven day, as investors kept watch for signs of economic recovery. the dow jones industri average lost 109 points to close at 24,222. t, the nasdaq rose 71 points. the s&p 500 added just afr tion of a point. and, two passings of actor and comedian jerry stiller has died, of natural causes. he launched his caer in the 1950's, teaming neth his wife, meara. 40 years later, he gained new stardom, as the irritable frank hestanza on "seinfeld."

re he to >> you gather your family arounn tell them all the ways they have disappointed you over the past year. >> and is there a tree?he >> no, instead's a pole. requires no decoration. i find tinsel distractin >> fra, this new holiday of yours is scratching me righter whi itch! >> let's do it then! festivus is back! >> woodruff: jerry stiller was 92 years old. and, grammy-winning soul singer betty wright died of cancer on sunday, iaeratommi m he. r 1970's, with hits like "clean up d ber,tty whwrerige ht washe 66. still to come on the newshour: how countries at different stages of recovery are handling efforts to reopen. the coronavirus lays bare the needs of ag-neglected chicago hospital. why the pandemic exacerbatestho.

anch >> woodruff: from moscow to milan, a singapore to seoul, the watchword these last weeks and months has been lockdown. now, many of these places are beginning to loosen covid-19 restrictions. but, as nick schifrin reports, inhis global pandemic, the first steps are made cautiously, and with nguarantee that won't be steps back. the >> schifrin: after seven weeks ms are bac quarantine, the beach spain's small businesses reopened too. and llowing onof the world's strictest lockdownch a cafe con

tastes like heaven. >> schifrin: for first time in almost twmonths, parisians left the house without government permission. shoppers filled the champs elysees, with their boutiques of choice written on mandatory masks. >> ( translated ): wearing pyjamas all day long doesn't he.ho i want to go spping again. is good for our morale. >> schifrin: in switzerland, beef is back on the menu, as diners are allowed to return toa rests. elementary school students are back in thnetherlands, sitting behind plastic shields. and in russia, despite a new surge of cases, president vladimir putin is also looking to reopen. >> ( translated ): starting from may 12, wherever possible, it is necessary to create conditions for the restoration of work of toterprises in the basic s of the economy. >> schifrin: but there's a rip openings.nder this wave of re-

in seoulcl, t stghubs habaewnnss and bars that weren on friday night, now have padlocks. a single 29-year-old visited this neighborhood last week to go clubbing, and infected more than 50 people. the only reason the club-goer had been allowed out: southla korea d social distancing, 10 days ago. >> ( e translated ): it will long time before the covid-19 outbreaknds completely. should also brace for the pandemic's second wave, which many experts are predicting. this is a vy rugs that has a foothold in the human populations and is >> schifrin: dr. rebecca katz directs georgetown's center for global health science and security. >> dr. rebeccah i'm not even sure that we have finished the first wave. and already individuals and problem. d ke are ying to but in fact the curves are telling us we are still in the

midst of >> schifrin: for months, singapore used widespreadcu testing and meus contact tracing, to prevent an outbreak. but in the last two months positive cases have jumped a hundred-fold, because adthmit they failed to consider these toworer bloitcks. they're full of foreign workers who can't social distance. it. people in institutions a perfect for disease transmison. passes over to the rest of the population. >> in northeast china state >> schifrin: in northeast china, state tv showed police settingin up new checkpo, after warning of a new wave and reclassifying province as gh-risk. in wuhan, where covid-19 began to spread, authorities reported a handful of cases-- the first, in more than a month >> we are taking the first >> s.chifn: in londonfy our yesterday, prime minister boris joson unveiled the united kingdom's first plan to get t rkers back on the job.

>> anyone who cark from home, for instance those in construction omanufacturing, should be actively encouraged to go to work. >> schifrin: but this morning commuters and the opposition party called the guidance confusing.ir and scotland's minister nicola sturgeon rejected the plan, out of fear of a second wave. there will, of course, be risks whenever we start to ease right now is that sk isgement still too great. too many people are still dying. world health organizations emergency director mike ryan said today. >> if disease persts in countries at a low level without the capacity to investigate cluster, identify clusters, then there is always the risk that the disease will te off again. >> it's going to require a lot of testing, trang, isolation, quarantine, treatment when we ssyncamibgepo this an, th resource-intensive.

it requires a really robust public health system which to be honnist doesn't reay exises in those parts of the wod. >> which is why experts say this dsn't the second wave strkts ercond innings path tomehe for the bbpbs news disz hour. for the pbs newshour, i'm nick hifrin. >> woodruff: congress has appropriated roughly $175 billion so far to help hospitals and other healthcare providers weather the consequences othis covid pandemic. but some hospitals are struggling to keep up and racial disparities in the american health care system arema ifying the problem. william brangham has our latesti conver from the frontlines of this crisis. >> brangham: we go now to the city of chicago, a cit's dealing with its own rising

outbreak, and one small hospital on the city's south side roseland community hospital, and how it is struggling to keep up. the front page story in theri "chicagone" recently said it all: outgunned, outmanned and underfunded. i'm joined now by roseland's president and c.e. and by the manager of its emergency room, lynette houston. thank you bothery much for ing here. tim egan, to you first. for those of us who can't see inside your hospital and see what you all see every single day, can you just give us a picture of what it's like in there now? >> well, our emergency department has been overrun. you know, we have 19 bays and our e.d. and right now, you can find gurneys at the nurses station. patients being treated right in the demand for our service has been overwhelming, but we've been meeting that demand. and it's that's why we say it's a bright hope during dark chaos. we're giving people a chance to recover from this disease. we're giving the best treatment

possible. and i just can staff enough. folks like lynette, our doctors, our e.v.'s. veeryone is stepping to the front lines and deng the care that people need. >> brangham: and tim, staying with you for a secon could you just give us a sen se oyowho pulation is?ur >> well, the roseland hospital's on the far south side of the city of chicago, we're the last hoital within the city limits on the far south side.at we're in the g roseland community. and 96% of our residents are african-american and over 87% of our patients are medicaid patients. >> brangham: and lynette, the same questn to you as i asked tim. we can't see inside your emergency room or your i.u. can you give us a snapshot of enat it's like, the kinds of pa that you're seeing there?>> he kind of patients that we're seeing here is patients who come iand suspecting that they've been infected by the virus. we have a 19-bed e.r., where we thve other rooms where we can improvise and pue patients there, which will come up to

like twenty two beds. but nowe're also using beds around the nurses station, where we can put at least eight beds around the nurses station. these people are coming in and they're sick. they're sick. and i know the news says "stay home and try to take care ofho yourself a". but these are people who use the emergency room. as their primary phy because a lot of people in this area don't have their own primary, so the emergency room is their primary docto come herh ar >> brangham: we tim, a lot pa these that congress is g to try to keep them afloat. are you getting help from the state to help offset some of these costs that you'r incurring? >> so we've seen some federal aid that came from the payroll protection program. but we're after-we're seeking many more grants. we need more support. we've tested 10,000 folks who've come down to our hospital over covid-19 testing. you know, the roseland community is 7% of the population of the city of chicago. right now we're 16% of theea covid-19s.

that showcases the disparity in the funding health care that has happened over decades in thg city of ch while i've seen medicaid dollars flood out to resourcese suburbs, tmulti-billion dollar corporations, hospitals like roseland have been underfunded. you know what i said on th front page of the chicago outmanned and underfunded. i meant it. we don't have a reserve of funding that we can uytous b staff. and that's because of this woul lack of funding that we received over many, many years. >> brangham: lynette houston, tim is describing a situation that sounds like a terrible circumstan for the sta that has to work in, day in and day out. i mean, obviously,he stress of this kind of work in a contagious environment where people are worried obviot ly abemselves getting infected. and yet it sounds like you're having to work incdibly long hours just to meet this demand.

how is everybody holding up? >> my staff is really tremendous. altake my hat off to them because this is ... it can be s oimomheveesg.lmrwin where we try to laugh. we try to, you know, not look at we do lose people, k and it has happened here also. wid those families cannot be he but we have to keep moving forward. we have to keep fighting. and my nurses are ally tremendous. the i.c.u. nurses are really tremendous. >> brangham: it certainly sounds like it. lynette, i understand youan haven't had a to see as much of your family personally as would like to. >> i haven't, i haven't. my daughter doesn't live here, thbut i normally you go se every weekend. i don't go because i don't want to go round them right now.

>> brangham: becausee worried about infection? >> yes, but this is not only me. it's my whole staff. i have one employee thatagives in the gnow. i have one employee who moved art of her house, because she didn't want to bnd her mom, who is sick, who has a condition where it's compromised. so it's not only me. is the sacrifice that we make this a whole group effort. so no,e haven't seen our families. >> brangham: tim egan, you said ngat you have been complai about the underfunding of hospitals like you for years, even before the pandemic. do you think that this crisis will actually be the thing that importance of commle up to the hospitals, to rural hospitals, to small health centers like yours? >> i'm praying to god that it is.mberde ie caer cniue th to covid-19 is a call for hope,t we finally get the decision makers to realize that

communities like roseland derve an investment in the health care services. these folks are dying because they have co-morbidities folks are dying because they have quad morbidities. that's because we're not we don't have the ability to treat folks when they were at their earliest onset of diseases like asma, c.o.p.d., heart disease, obity. ndd nfofu outreach to these folks to get overall health.lness and and without funding, that is ablutely available, we won be able to do that. and you' just see moredisparitye african-american community without that desperately needed bnding. ngham: all right, tim egan and lynnette houston of roseland hospital on the south side of chicago. thank you both very,much for talking with us. and good luck with all of your work out there. >> thank you. >> thank you, i appreciate it.>> oodruff: one other note: this is national nurses week, we give a special thanks to lynette houston for speaking with us and a shout-out to all

of the nurses working on the frontlines of hospitals, clinics and healthcare providers arod the country. at least 100 nurses in the u.s. have died since the pandemic began, according to national nurses united, the largest union of registered nurses in the countr >> woodruff: for more than 60 million americans withli disaes, the rapid spread of covid 19 is particularly dangerous. many live in long-term care facilities, which are at greater risks for coronavirus deaths. these americans also are two times as likely to live inne poverty as somithout a disability. but so f, legislation has hoenfaorrt spi h fhe stephanie sy has a closer look at all of this and we begin by hearing some voices of those affected by this.

>> i myself have a visual impairment. >> i'm a wheelchair user. >> i am also an advocate with disability called larsen's syndrome. >> i work in a day program. i'm the lead in my classroom. >> we have been staying home for the past two weeks becau of the vi id 19 snfhuintdow mn.e ta wheelchair. so over time, i get a little bit weaker over time.e >> i h20 year old daughter with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and this has been really hard on her and on all of us as her routine has st been flipped upside down. >> i have a brother with autism. as a family member my brother going into the hospital right now is my greatest fea we don't know how we would be communicated with or understood. >> my biggest concern or fear

during this is health care big time and medical rationing.li because bee it or not, many people with disabilities are not getting services right now >> my husband is my primary caregiver. if he were to get sick or called backo work before i have to back to work. insurance ll not allow me to get a home health aide, ey he factover because of i work full time. >> soon wai loves being ableo o aetayk. it's also a place where he can develop his artistic talents. also gives him structure and not staying at home. that's also very iortant for me, gives me a break from

keeping him busy the whole day. >> aa blind person when you step out, it's inevitable that you need assistance. we have the social distancing. we are talng about not touching each other, which is understandable, and on the other hand you need help. you need somebody sometimes to hold your hand. >> we're starting to see some challenging types of behaviors. we have a few new holes in our walls. and she sometimes just has uncontrollable sobbing during te day, which is heartbreaking a regular basis y would before because they are scared of getting me sick or of getting their family sick. i leel like i have taken a w to build my independen and i don't want feel like i'm kind of going backrds. >> there is a spectrum with essential workers and the spectrum is we are at be bottom of trel. like the doctors and the nurses police department are so high up.

and yes, they put their lives at we have people who make $12 an hour. and we don't have the prer p.p.e. people will stop you in the street and they'll say, god bless you. you have a place in heaven. >> this is not a pc only? problem. this is a systemic problem that occurs constantly. eewean fd na intotowad y overcome these inequities in order to move forward and ensure that it's a more accessible rld for everyone. >> reporter: as you just heard, there are a cascade of challenges facing people with disabilities in this pandemic and facing the people that care for them. ining me now for a broader discussion on all these issues is rebecca coakley. she is the director of the disability justice initiative at the center for american progress. rebecca, thank you so much for your time. >> thank you so much for having number of people talk about their loss of services. can you talk specifically about what services have gone away and

how critical they are for people with disabilities? >> we're hearing stories from all over the country of people whve lost access to home a community based services, to the people that come into their homes a daily basis, help them bathe, help them eat, help them learn and help themd becau, whether it be their carevers actually contracting the illness or working for organizations th are closing right now due to the illness, we're hearing stories from people who justga can't in society anymore. they are worried about the losse of seractually forcing them to be institutionalized or put in a nursing home agait their will. and nobody wants to be in a nursing home right now. >> reporter: and so even as people lose those at home services, theyet thrust into a tuation that could be more dangerous. >> definitely. having the inability to prepare

inability to roll yourself over at night in bed to prevent bedre which is one of the most critical issues facing a lot of people with disabilities of this country. being able to roll over in bed won't kill you. for our folks,hat sort of lack of access to services does mean serious injury and potenlyti atha >> reporter:happens when a person with a disability actually bomes sick with cov 19? the center for public integrity recently released a report thate enacted policies that could mean that people with disabilities could fall to the back of the line, if there is an overelming need, for exale for ventilators or other health care supports. >> this is not sometng new for us. anytime there's any sort of health care rationing, it's the sad truth of history that we know that typically we're put to the end pe the line. le do not value our lives.

people don't look at disable people as anything beyond sometimes being needy. >> reporter: for people that health care rationing and what does that say toomebody with a >> when it comes tgets can actually, in some cases have language that that lowers the priority for people with preexisting condions or other types of disabilities. and so can decide that the 24 year old with down's syndrome is life is worth a lower level of quality of ce or lower access to care than, you know, a 72 year old or a 54 year old. >> reporter: that's got to be pretty painful for a person with a disability to have to confront. >> definitely. and that level of medicalized ableism is something tople with disabilities encounter on a

day basis anyways.it oplele orter: rebecca coakley with the center for american progress. urr k you so mh yofo ghsi >> thank you. dr >> wf: new infection prident trump's an to reopen the economy. week offer insights into whats voting could look like in november. heres and more, i'm joined by amy walter a of the cook political repo and host of public radio's "politics with amy walter." and tamara keith of npr. she also co-hosts the "npr politics podcast." hello to both of you. tam, let me start with you and bring up somethingt we puhing uch earlier in the

eprm country, the president, pushing the country to reopen asmut thes away from the health side of this pandemic. but u've got peple who work at the white house coming down with co id,sting positive for covid. how does that complicate whatter in's trying tdo? >> it certainly complicates theg meg. you know, the way the white house has been dealing with the safety of its own empyees has been too rely very heavily on testing in the las.t month or to rely much more heavily on testing than on social distancing. though testing that is not widely available for the rest of the public.la most wors don't have a test that they could just administer ts ye c in.ovemee pso tlohe white e houase has ine a lot of measureat you can probably expect to see at workplaces if and when peo

begin returning to them, things like people wearing masks in the west wing. >> woodruff: and amy, how does it complicate white house efforts to get people to, you know, to say don't worry about this, we've got it under control. let's focus on getting the economy opened up wn nev's got problems right in their own backyard, literally. >> that's right. i mean part of thejob as the president of a leader of course is to setlicy but also set stad standards and vi be20in0ore flu president obamaactually went out and got the best vaccine for that. there was a big anti-vaccinatne move. pushing people away from getting this vaccine. so actually taking the vaccine, that is supposed to send the signal f the president can do td evercan do it.

so judy, i think whether the president wears a mask or doesn't or wear it in the white house or doesn't, what we are seeing in the data and you can hear anecdotally from regular americans is if is not whether s the governmeys that businesses are open strks whether people feel safe to do and what we are seeing over an over again, if you ask people, even people who say they don't think there should be stay atou home orders,sk them, would you be willing to get on a plane? told you be willing to the shopping mall right now. they're not. and until people feel safdoing this, whatever attempt to reopee the economy going to fall short because they're going to vote with their feet moreso than anything else. >> well, spaking of feeling safe people are already looking ahead to the nev elections wondering if people will feel safe then. theris kind ever a trial run, i guess could you say, tomorrow, tam you have special elections for congressional seats in both wisconsin and california what

may wearn in these two contests if anything about whato lies aheadr voting? >> well, there is going to be a. contrast, rig in wisconsin there will be in-person voting. and about 250 members of the national guard will be on hand to help administer that elction in a way that is hopefully safe for the ople going tote in wisconsin. in california it is almostwh ovmingly a mail-in balloting situation. and the state is preparing to , i mean they have already been well on the iay to being, stay mail ballot state but being a mail tellot st in november, one thing that stands out to me about that california race i president trump over the weekend tweeting that the race is going to be rigged if the replicaublaa la talking about the race being rigged, the president raising suspicion about mailll ing, that is very much a

preview of what we ine canovember. >> woodruff: yeah and amy what about just in terms of-- go ahead, yeah. >> yeah, well, i agreewith tam touwo thheis s isweeting out just a one-time eleasction. we get closer to the fall and in many cases we may see that ballot counting may take days. because so many people vote by mail. this kind of sort of se owing th ceased of distrust even as the process is undergoing, just member when we were counting th now imagine that with this level of toksicity, that's per dangerous. the one thing i will say also blt special election in california t oks like it may be thene bright spot fo republicans right now. republican for a time. been democrats flipped it in the 2018

election, hillary clinton won this district. but right now when you look at the maiin ballot, the president talked about he more returns have ed ballots, mail-in ballots at this point .son democrats on the backs of mail-in ballots. >> woodruff: and tam, i want to ask you about that, because republicans have been in generaa much more criof the idea could be very well an election where they are winning because of mail-in. >> yes. and also because of a comlling republican candidate and a special election that followed a corsy with the democrats that won thoo seat. there are a lot of reasons why this seat could flip from eingcratic to republican, the first time a seat in california congressional payments flipped from demoepats tolican in a y, ve ltimever republicbuans ery long. ve

ha been highly sceptical in many situations, about mail-in ballots. there are otheases where in florida older voters are encouraged to vote by mail. >> woodruff: well stairks special election day, tomorrow, tuesday, may 12th. utd we'll be reporting on it b for right now, it's politics monday. amy walllt tert-- , tamara keith, thank you both. >> you're welcome. >> you're welcome n >> woodruf, coronavirus has upended life as we know it. but what has it meant for those trying to date? lisa desjardins has that story. >> desjardins: the empty restaurants, theaters, and closed public spaces acros country are meant to keep people s th and apart. that has made dating, the search for being together, just e.ra

>> like someone said to me, like after the pandemic, i'd love to cook you some spicy food. and i was like, what a weird pick up line. >> i mean, you can go to the a you're trying to build that foundation withoot of the same tools and interaction that you would normally have. got vegood at opening netflix or saa gle prime an wd starting the se andth >> and part of >> desjardins: as part of our oning coverage of life und this pandemic, we asked some of our viewers to tell us about their experience. >> i think dating is just like always sort of miserright? like just as a general rule. >> desjardins: aditi juneja in new york city is looking for ame dating during the lockdown: >> i am extremely lazy, so i was ve queens.ike, i date in i'm not going to brooklyn. i'm like, you're crazy.e' and now thlike someone in staten island i'm talking to, m like, i don't know if we ever meet, but it doesn't matter. oans:not-- no one's going

wati angheny apps like tinder have temporarily lifted geographic restrictions, and also pushed users to more phone and video dates to encourage s distancing. juneja says the pandemic h tperhaps also forced peop slow down. >> it feels also less like people are racing toward some finish line, where you're trying to, li byoarkee u e thonpers like it feels more like i just want some companiohip. that way, but that's a perfect analogy because it slows things >> desjardins: 45-year-old hijeremy wade in columbus, t someone just as the shelter in place orders began. so how do theyuild a romance now? virtually, watching the same things at the same time. >> i thought about potentially, you know, dancing together. so, you ow, putting on the same song and like moving around the room with you, which sounds very awkward and a little nerdy. but what else are you gonna do?

paramedic paul hess has been ngombeinmgosip the m apin,in ovember the 56-year-old finally met someone through facebook. >> she was everything. she's beautiful, she's smart, she's funny, she's snay. she's patient with me. and that's very important when you deal with me. >> desjardins: because of his work treating covid patients, ha last month he realized that it'd be best to stay away from her and her kids. so now, it's just calls and text messages. physically and and, you know,emd have to kiss the dog. , mean, he's a great dog. don't get me wrot it's just not the same. re, ds:lerdesco c oaninomefo, e from the other direction: suddenly having too much time together. >> so like our actual time in the apartment has exponentially increased. for me, it's like, you know, you didn't change the toilet paper

roll. y oh, i don't, you're right.n r for two and a hars and live in philadelphia. despite minor annoyancey say they've grown stronger through this. >> quarantine during covid as a couple has been really good for our relationship. it kind of was like timate test, like can we stand each other for this many days and hours unknowing, like not knowing how long it's going to be, but doing everything together. and therwas one day last week where i looked at him and said, i think i'm more in love with you. >> not to negate everything that's happed that's been horrible about this pandemic, but this kind of pause in li has been a thing for us. au>> dy jardinbes: manly echotit eling-- that despite all of the frustrations of this moment, it's given them a chance to catch their breath and decide what they want out of life, and

>> it say big reset, eveis checs and maybe reexainling where theo e in life. >> it's not that pple are behaving differently. are you actually getting to feel like truer >> it's not that people are behaving differently. you're actually getting to see like truer, more vulnerable senses of who people are. >> if you're in it yor a long ru got to be in it for the long run. there's no cheating. that's just, you know, stay, stay, stay e course and hope that everythi turns out good in the end and finally, get to see the people you lagovain. >> desjardins: hope for seeing the people they love, and for some, those they are still falling in love with, despite the pandemic. for the pbs newshour, i'm lisa desjardins in washington. >> woodruff: finally tonight, amidst these difficult, we thdged to e lekn ritp furry creatures who keep some of us company, onnd off camera, and to those pets who are becoming part of the "newshour

family" on social media too. it started with a crawl. viewers writing in about feeling reasred d trinanigbyued seeing our correspondents' beloved cats in the background as they reportm ho o tn hemetha, overriding the news at times. one viewer, paul, w"i am so every night, my wife and i get ready for the newshour. ghndering: will william br be on, will the cat be on the sofa, will it be awake, will the pbs logo obsre it. and to lisa desjardins, viewer pod outo me that he felt jt t fr tca. there's been a clamoring for:

>> brangham: this is pepper. >> woodruff: william's cats are all rescues. 10 year-old pepper, the tv star, and also tiki and sugar, who don't gravitate to the t.li there's also macy the dog, but she isn't allowed into the interview room because she's a rker. and lisa's: >> desjardins: this is rocky. >> woodruff: like william's, he's a rescue cat. he is a southpaw, jabsh his left, like his namesake, rocky balboa. the crawl of mail led to an onslaught dons of notes, and then, followers on social media naming their rescue shelter peto fo of our on-air team: erin carlstrom on twitter:" in the midst of all this chaos, please meet connor woodruff- thank you to @judywoodruorff er hevng sanity oery @newshour! and, scott "tweeted: "i wanted to name him after my @newshour fa too but i went a little crazy....??

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