hey, there i'm joshua johnson. it we the start with some good news that will provide some relief. the irs deposited stimulus money for those with direct deboss it. america has the most covid-19 deaths in the world. also for the first time in american history the entire

country is under a major disaster declaration. cuomo says that icu have fewer and fewer people admitted and new york is the hardest state hit. this hour we'll take you across america to meet all kinds of people affected by this pandemic. let's begin here in manhattan at lennox health greenwich village where we find alex is a. how are the funeral homes handling it? >> hey, you mentioned the death toll is continuing to rise in new york. that's impacting so many families and impacting the infrastructure that exists to support these families in their time of grief. new york governor cuomo is allowing the funeral directors to come in and to help out and alleviate some of the pressure from some of the funeral

directors they talked to me about a backlog in the system and their own fears of personal protective gear. i spoke with a man who talked about the more emotional angle that's very challenging. take a quick listen. >> 9/11 as tragic as it was it brought our community together and which wasn't an executive order where people were told to, you know, stay home and not to share and not to support everyone other. >> joshua, from the folks i have spoken with it seems like they're preparing for the long haul. governor andrew cuomo in the press briefing quoting churchill said this is perhaps the end of the beginning. we have to wait and see how it develops. >> thank you.

all right, let's get some analysis on the medical develops. joining us is dr. john torres. good to have you both with us. doctor, we heard this startling prediction from surgeon general jerome adams on "meet the press." >> the next week is going to be our pearl harbor moment, it's going to be our 9/11 moment. it's going to be the hardest moment for many americans in their entire lives. >> how did in past week compare to that prediction, dr. roy? >> good evening, joshua, good to be with you. i mean, we have all seen that this health crisis has unleashed social and economic destruction to most of us. you know, we have unfortunately seen a lot of death. far, far, far too much and let's be honest at this point, we know that the death toll that we have

been seeing is -- it's a lot of it was really preventible. a lot of this is unfortunately death by bad policy so we need to get a lot more action from the federal level. action that's actually now happening at local and state levels. >> dr. torres, let's stick with this graph on the screen with regard to the shifting projections for the number of deaths as time has gone on. because there are a lot of models that have projected the number of covid-19 deaths and the columbia university model, on and on. break this down for us, what are these models and what should we take away from them? i mean, they can't all be correct, right? >> and you're exactly right, they can't all be correct, they're not all going to be correct and what you're seeing is a fine-tuning of the models. and these are mathematical

projections very highly educated guesses but they're only as good as the data is put into them. so if you have a couple of months of data, you won't get that good of a model. if you get three or four months it will improve. the further along the pandemic the closer the models are to what reality is. the perfect example is hurricane forecasting. a week before it hits anywhere, the model says it will hit the entire east coast and then as the days go on it narrows down to finally the day before it hits they can get more information about where it will go. you remember last week they were saying up to 240,000 deaths and now around 60,000 deaths. that's because they have more information and they're able to fine-tune that model more and that's why it keeps changing so much over time. >> the changing projections depend on us doing everything we can to slow the spread of covid-19, social distancing, wearing face coverings, not

surgical mask, a bandanna things like that. at what point do we need to be to know we're not reopening everything too soon? is it zero deaths nationwide or a safe range? >> yeah, again, just to drive home a point that dr. torres made that was related to something that dr. fauci said a couple of days ago. dr. fauci said in context to the 60,000 projection versus the 100,200,000 death toll projection, he said the model is hypothetical but the data is real so the that 60,000 number that was because of all the social distancing, all of the public health measures that we were practicing showed that these measures work. right, by the way, we have had thousands of pandemics or epidemics over the course of

history for as long as human beings have existed. they have existed ever since 1918, and we practiced social distancing back then and we know we need to fund public health measures and agencies and organizations so that the next time we have an epidemic which we will we'll be better prepared. yeah, ideally we need zero transmission. and that's going to -- the only way we'll be able to determine that is through widespread testing and contact surveillance and all of the other good old fashioned public health measures that needs to take place widely nationwide. >> before i let you go, dr. torres, i think a lot about normalizing life. of course that's a very relative terms. things normalized after 9/11 but some things didn't go back to normal. how do you think we'll normalize after this, more hand washing,

more people working from home, what do you expect? >> that's a perfect example, 9/11 because we never got back to pre-9/11. we have security checks and things we didn't have before. you can't walk to the airport to the gate with a loved one like before 9/11. so initially, you'll see more hard core separation, you will see criteria, people maybe wearing masks and clamping down on things a little bit and sporting events is great example. i think initially you will see the athletes by themselves then maybe half the fans there. and then eventually we'll go to the full fans so you don't have to necessarily have that separation. but it depends on again getting everything under control. i'm guessing over the next year or so as we await for it to come back again, coronavirus in the fall, that we'll start seeing some loosening of all the guidelines and people being able to go out and about to the near normal life but i think to get to normal which is a new normal i think that's going to take a year or more and the vaccine

will be the big player and we think that's about 12 months away. >> all right, thank you both for making time for us. life is anything but normal right now. especially with people lining up at food banks. awaiting on government aid for the very first time. then again that's all too normal for millions of us. we may not like to think about it but now we can not ignore us. joining us from san antonio, texas, is julian castro the former secretary of housing and urban development and a former presidential candidate. welcome to the program. >> good to be with you. >> we found an image out of san antonio that really rattled us and we wanted to make sure to include it tonight. at first you look at it and it looks like a car dealership. then you realize it's this well stratified line of people in their cars waiting to get help from the san antonio food bank. now, organizers handed out a

million pounds of food. thankfully more help is coming in. how does that strike you? >> sad. tragic. and i think it astonishes a lot of people but really it shouldn't. you know, joshua the real story behind that was you're right, it looks like a car lot or it looks like a mall parking lot during the holidays. but there were four miles worth of cars lined up behind what you see there in the photo. so that was just part of the number of people who were lined up to get food from the food bank here in san antonio. they served i think over 15,000 families in the last few days and in the valley of texas they had -- they had been overstressed and that's happening everywhere. this has laid bear how many people are on the edge of poverty or financial insecurity with one missed paycheck or being laid off. it's shown us as a country, hey,

we're not as strong as we think we are and this is an opportunity to learn from make and ensuring that people are more economically secure, more food secure, more health care secure going forward. i think if we pass this us, if we don't learn those lessons then you know there's not going to be any kind of bright side getting out of it. >> let me ask you about a few of the lessons, one has to do with housing. some states have halted the evictions. at a certain point renters have to start paying rent again and landlords may have to pay mortgage payments again. my uncle is a landlord and he was concerned about his payments. what should we do to help those renters, landlords, tenants after the pandemic is over. >> you have a good point. we need to make sure that with renters, with people more having to pay mortgage, with landlords on both sides of the equation that we're putting enough into

rental assistance, freezing evictions but it takes investing in everybody along the chain. the next relief package offers as an opportunity to do that and i hope that democrats and republicans are able to work together so that we make sure people can stay in their homes. we need to ensure that homeless individuals can get off the streets. i applaud the places that have created public/private partnerships with hotels that are not open or don't have any guests and are putting homeless individuals into hotels. getting them off the street, getting them out of unsanitary conditions and into the safer place. going forward, we need to make sure that everybody in this country has a safe, decent, affordable place to live. i called for creating 3 million units of affordable housing and i called for a refundable and

advanceable renters tax credit and making the housing choice voucher program an entitlement program. those are things we the can do after the pandemic. if we learn these lessons and we make important changes that we need to make this this country, so that more people with prosper. >> speaking of the stimulus packages today the irs began direct depositing economic impact payments, more are coming. very briefly before we let you go, what do you think of what's been done so far and what's the one biggest thing you would like to see done in the next phase before we go. >> well, you know, it's a good start. i think they had to make those investments. but $1,200 and many people have said it on the network and

everywhere else, $1,200 is not going to cut it for many americans. they just lost their job, a lot of people don't have health insurance, they're wondering where they'll get their meal from tomorrow or next week so i would like to see a more robust investment in rental or mortgage assistance or freezing evictions on top of that. including hazard pay for front line medical workers, all those people who are keeping the economy going right now. most importantly, perhaps an investment in the future and an investment in more affordable housing. a transition to medicare for all. i mean, how ridiculous does it look right now that people have to rely on their employer generally for their health care and over the last several weeks 17 million people lost their job. it doesn't make sense. we need to transition into the better health care system. >> mr. secretary, good to talk to you again and thanks for

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today the white house denied a request from the u.s. postals is -- post service for $89 billion. it's not the only part of the supply chain that is struggling because of coronavirus. in georgia, the tyson foods poultry plant is trying to feed america and keep the employees safe. there are three related deaths at the plant. many of the winter vegetables come from florida, but tomatoes and green beans and others have

been left to rot. in south dakota, the smithfield pork processing plant is temporarily shutting down. more than 80 workers there tested positive for coronavirus. join us is roger steel from grand island, nebraska. also with us is lamont byrd the director of safety and health at the international brotherhood of teamsters. glad to have you both with us. mayor, the plant if your town is suffering from the outbreak. talk to us about what's being done to keep workers safe there. >> yeah, i went to the plant thursday morning because i wanted to see and i'll tell you that procedures i went through to enter the production floor of the beef packing facility, first i entered through a tent where i was -- i had a temperature taken with an infrared camera and

there i was given a face mask and i walked across a walkway that had the product that disinfected the bottom of my shoes. before i could enter the production floor, i had to put in ear plugs and over my face mask i had to wear a balaclava which covers your whole ned and neck except for your eyes. for the eyes i got safety glasses and then to top everything off i was given a hard hat and a frock coat like the workerers wear. the last thing i had to do before i entered the production floor i was taken to a hand washing station. and there i wash i washed my hands and dried the hands and put on gloves and upon entry into the production room i was dressed the same as all the workers on the floor. >> so it sounds like the mayor had to go through a whole lot of

safety procedures before the plant. talk about what truck drivers are facing during the epidemic. how much has safety been a part of the conversation there or has it been? >> is that -- yeah. thank you very much. well, safety is -- has been an issue that has been at the forefront of our discussions. our members are encountering challenging conditions, working very long hours. in fact, there are some truck drivers who are working without any type of regulatory restrictions in terms of how long they can work on a particular day or a workweek. so we are working very hard to promote health and safety in the workplace because as you're all aware, truck drivers play a critical role to transporting goods to our hospitals, to our

grocery stores, to correctional facilities. so it's a very -- very up-front discussion on health and safety. >> is anybody an essential worker, truck drivers are definitely essential. what would you like to see done and what are you recommending that truck drivers do especially with maybe varying degrees of rules about safety equipment, maybe rest stops or truck stops that are open or closed because of the pandemic. what are you recommending? >> yeah, i'm sorry, the audio is a little bit bad. i think i caught some of your question. but the question i think was what are we doing, or what are we recommending? >> yes. >> we are recommending that drivers to the best of their ability comply with the guidance that's provided by the centers for disease control. but what we are being told by the drivers is that oftentimes it's extremely difficult for them to employ those practices.

around the work they're performing, it's in close proximity to other workers. they're having difficulty accessing personal protective equipment and supplies like hand sanitizer. it's a really challenging situation that truck drivers have. i'll give you an example a problem that i just got a phone call today about in kansas city, missouri, we're dealing with a company unilever where we had several cases of positive members for covid-19. including one member who died, so it's a very serious situation that we are being confronted with and it's very difficult for workers to comply. one of the things that we are very much urging is that there be election approved by the congress that will empower

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there's an old saying when white folks get a cold, black folks get pneumonia. this is reinforcing the axiom between whites and people of color. texas has more than 12,500 cases and more than 250 covid-19 deaths. the city of houston is just under a quarter black.

but black people are just over half of the covid-19 deaths. hispanics and whites in houston are dying at a lower proportion than the white people. is this what houstonians is always saying and we're noticing it nationwide or is this disparity something new? >> you know, the mayor was asked about it this week, when hurricane harvey hit we saw that some communities of color and people who are on the margins were certainly the most impacted and you mentioned those numbers out of houston and in all, houston has around 16 total deaths and nine of those have been black patients. which is a fairly small sample size. what you really want to look at is what's happening across the state. but the problem is that data across the state is largely incomplete. of the more than 12,000 confirmed cases that you mentioned state officials told me this morning they have only compiled data on race and

ethnicity for around 1,800 of those. so there's a long way to go in terms of getting that data out to figure out what's going on. >> we have been told this week and in the past by dr. fauci, by the surgeon general jerome adams that people of color are not medically predisposed to crisis, we are not at more risk so what's playing into the disparity? >> experts have mentioned a number of risk factors to me. one is that a large number of essential workers with african-americans and latino and they're going to work every day and keep in mind the testing sites and where they are. houston only has only four testing sites so there's concerns if the testing sites are too far, people may not go or if they don't have a vehicle

to do that drive-thru test they will then end up at a hospital once the symptoms have worsened. you know, i spoke to an epidemiologist who of course mentioned the chronic illnesses like diabetes and high blood pressure as being key issues, but she was sure to emphasize that this is not something that's only, you know, related to folks who are low income but it cuts across socioeconomic lines. listen to what she told me. >> but we do know that among african-americans, socioeconomic status still -- that race overrules that. so even among african-americans who may be educated, have a good job, you know, have health insurance there's still a higher prevalence of some of the underlying conditions and some of the research that's going on is to see how structural racism

relates to that. >> and one thing she mentioned to me is that folks will call this virus the great equalizer. which is true. anyone who is exposed to the virus can get it, but the data suggests that the outcomes and the consequences are far different depending on who you are. >> thank you, priscilla thompson from houston. let's continue this conversation with maria hinojosa, and the deputy national editor for "the new york times" and the author of "one mighty and irresistible tide, the epic struggle over immigration, 1924 to 1965." maria, structural racism is it enough to say it's the legacy of america or is it more to it than that? >> that's sadly a place that we have to start. i mean, part of what we're

realizing in these terrible times, these have been challenging years for the entire country. one of the things that's happened is that we have had to see things that we didn't actually have to see before. see it right in front of our faces and so i think we have to look at something. a lot of people may not understand that term, structural racism. but it starts from the fact that you don't feel recognized in your work or you have to continue to go to do work, even though you sick. if you're a delivery man or a cook, you don't feel like you can't go to the boss and say i can't work and then you don't know if you can go to the medical center because if you speak spanish you'll be targeted and handed over the immigration officials and there are a series of things that happen that are based on sadly a notion of white

supremacy. so it's things we don't want to have to look at. but the people riding the subways, anybody who has been riding the subways, they have increasingly become less white over the last three weeks to a month. >> i have noticed that too. >> right, there are people who are still having to go to work. it's just less people who are white and that's -- that's just the way it looks. >> since you brought up the term, structural racism talks about the legacy of the racism. the racism has create this today. we have seen a rise in the asian talks since this began. you wrote that the attacks have sent fear and anger through

asian and asian-american communities. what do you see being done about it? >> i think people are starting to talk about, and i think in the earlier weeks asian-americans are stunned about what's happening. they were trying to get supplies, trying to get toilet paper and food and they're standing in line and suddenly someone starts yelling at them and they're taken aback and the stories are horrifying. there's a professor out in california who is collecting data and in two weeks they have seen more than a thousand reports of hate crime. what's stunning to me more than 6% is children. there's a growing awareness, president trump who has been saying -- calling the coronavirus the chinese virus has held back a little bit more recently.

but i think going into the election there's going to be a huge push by the republican party to say this was caused by china, not by any, you know, incompetence by the trump administration. so that pressure on asian-americans, the fear of more racist attacks is going to grow. >> the world health organization is moving towards guidelines that avoid using ethnic or racial descriptors as opposed to describing what the disease does. chinese flu, bad name and possibly untrue. what do we do about these systemic racial issues? it's in our faces now. we can't avoid talking about it but we know that america has a super short memory so what happens now? >> that's a huge question. i think one of the lessons right

now is what we -- that we don't known what's going to come in the next week. we realize the rug is pulled out from underneath us and what do we do. every night here at 7:00 in new york city, people are concerned about us, because we live in new york city. you know, there's a lot of suffering going on here but one thing that does unite us all right here in west harlem is that at 7:00, people get out and starting rings bells and screaming and applauding and making music together. and i think part of what i'm hoping there is that it's about actually when we're doing that looking out and seeing the bus driver who happens to be a man or woman who is african-american or latino or asian and see that and think about that and then continue to make the connections that many people who are still getting food delivered as people are applauding, you can see the

delivery men on their bikes. with their plastic handles as they're holding -- you know, driving through the streets. this is what it looks like. we don't see inside the hospitals, but with the death rate right now, the fastest growing group are latinos and latinas. they are the restaurant workers they're the people who are living at home where they shared a one bedroom apartment with seven other people at least one ends up in the hospital, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. so we have to open your eyes in the sense that we are in this together. we're going to take a long time to find those answers that you want though, joshua. it will take a bit of time. >> maria hinojosa, much appreciated. a family physician says put a doctor in the house. meet the man fighting for a seat in congress next.

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how do you run a political campaign during a pandemic? candidates are figuring that out on the fly and including congressional candidates across america. our next guest is running for office and working as a family physician, testing patients for coronavirus. dr. mann is running for office in texas. >> thank you. >> what do you see on a daily basis where you where? >> so we are doing testing in covid-19 in my office i'm one of the designated testers in the office. so i spend my afternoon geared up and ready to go and i can grab the tests and make sure that we are testing as many people as we can. part of my day is taking care of just the usual usual things that i would see anyway with high

blood pressure, diabetes and cholesterol and part is focused on covid-19. >> that's got to be a little unsettling to say the least. i mean, does that make your heart beat fast dealing with all those cases? >> it's what i'm trained to do. i have been a doctor for over 20 years and we in family practice we're used to shifting gears between standard things we see and sick visits. the biggest issue is making sure we had the protocols in place to do the testing properly and be protected. >> you said you're running because we need a doctor in the house, you have been practicing family medicine for some time. is there a connection between your medical experience and your being a candidate? >> absolutely. i have spent my entire career working to make sure that people were able to access the care that they need and to live

happier and healthier lives. i want to do that on a larger scale and i can do that in congress and not to mention the mess of a health care system we have right now. that's been something i have been fighting to reform for more than a decade. >> texas is a politically fascinating state. texas governor greg abbott is going to start reopening businesses. what do you make of that? are there ways or places to get back to normal? >> absolutely not. we are nowhere close to where we need to be to opening things back up. we are not testing to the degree that we need to. we do not have capacity for a spike in cases and it's just crazy to be thinking about opening up right now. we're not even close to where we should be doing. >> governor abbott signed a law that bans nonessential surgeries during the pandemic and the list includes abortions. a federal appeals court upheld that, abortion rights activists

are asking the u.s. supreme court to intervene. governor abbott said that the ban was meant to preserve personal protective equipment. is this worth fighting right now, is this a distraction from the pandemic, how do you see this? >> in texas we are used to crass opportunism and if governor abbott was concerned about preserving protective equipment he could have stopped the mandated sonogram that every woman is to get. we can free up the personnel used during the sonograms so this is an another attempt by women using the bodily autonomy and it's abhorrent.

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put out a nationwide call for help weeks ago, more than 90,000 medical workers signed up but according to "the new york times," the bureaucracy of the healthcare system is making it hard for volunteers. camilla is an emergency medicine physician in colorado. tomorrow, she is heading to brooklyn to help in a covid-19 field hospital. colorado has nearly 6,900 confirmed cases, and 274 known deaths. doctor, i understand you decided to help based on your personal experience with another tragedy. briefly, tell us what happened. >> yeah. you know, i was one of the two emergency department doctors that was on the night of the aurora shooting in 2012. and i remember, at about 2:00 in the morning, all of a sudden, all of these folks just appeared out of nowhere. and it was amazing to have all this help come, even when they hadn't really been called. and i think, you know, as i was thinking back to that time and looking at what was happening in new york city, i felt like i really needed to pay it forward. and do just what those people

had done for me that night and do it for the folks in new york city, right now. >> what was it like for you getting set up as a volunteer here? how smooth, or rocky, was it? >> it's been a little chaotic. i was told, at one point, that i wasn't needed anymore. that er doctors weren't needed there, even though i was watching the numbers spiking on tv, which didn't really make sense to me. and then i got a phone call that said can you go tomorrow? okay. if you can't go tomorrow, can you go the next day? so it's been a little chaotic. but i'm going to just say everything is so fluid and so dynamic right now, so hopefully that's why. but i'm here. i'm ready. and i'm ready to be a covid-19 rapid responder that i officially got today and i get to start tomorrow. >> talk about what the next month is going to look like for you. have they set you up with a place to live and given you a hospital shift, and so on? >> well, to be determined tomorrow, i think, or maybe

monday when i show up. so i have a hotel room. so that's good. and i know where i'm supposed to report to on monday morning, and i was told anywhere from four days to seven days in a row. 12-hour shifts. not sure where i am going to be working exactly. maybe in brooklyn, i think, is what i've heard. but, you know, it's one of the things i realized from working in the emergency department for 17 years, you just have to kind of -- you have to be okay with the fact that you may or may not know what your day is going to look like or your night because it could be nights, holidays, weekends. whatever it is. we are going to be there to help you. >> we are looking at a picture of your small children right now. they are 3 and 5 years old. you will be leaving them and your husband at home for a month. how are they handling this? i imagine you tried to prepare them for this. >> i maybe signed up first and then told my husband. you know, he knows that i feel strongly about wanting to go help, and he's always been supportive of everything i've wanted to do. i think it's going to be really

hard and i say he is the real hero because he is trying to work from home. he's going to have two children to take care of. but, you know, he understands that this is what i signed up to do when i became a doctor was to go help people. and he is -- he's my partner in crime, and he is willing to support me through all of that. so i feel very fortunate because i think, again, that he is sort of the untold story is all those people, all those family members at home who are nervous, anxious, panicked, worried about all of us on the frontlin linesd i just appreciate him. my kids tucking them in tonight is hard. >> for other healthcare workers who might want to come volunteer in new york, what would you say to them? i know you haven't gotten here yet and started working yet but what would you say to doctors who are thinking about signing up? i'm assuming you would say tell your partner first. >> well, do as -- do don't what i did. is that what i would say? >> i don't know.

i don't want to put words in your mouth. >> well, yeah. yeah. so tell your partner first before you sign up. always probably a good idea. and then i think, you know, i have actually -- since i posted online on twitter saying i was planning on going to new york city, i've had so many colleagues from all over the country who have said -- who have reached out and said, you know, our surges aren't that bad right now. we're ready to help. what can we do? i've been trying to reach out to colleagues in new york city saying, look, you guys have been working 100 hours a week. let us come take your shifts away from you so you can just take a minute. you know. so i think there is need. i think there is always going to be need. i am hoping once i get there, i can help coordinate too a bit. >> safe travels here to new york. thank you so much for volunteering and thank ts fs fo talking to us. and that is our look at coronavirus across america. thank you for making time for us on msnbc. i will see you tomorrow at 3:00 p.m. eastern and please join us tomorrow night at 9:00 for a new episode of on assignment with richard engel.

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