good day, everyone, from msnbc world headquarters, high noon here in the east, 9:00 a.m. in the west. more states back in business, even malls reopening, but what about the risk? >> if you decide not to wear a mask, part of me says i can't tell you what to do, but at the same time you have no right to infect my family and my friends that will become my patients when you go outside. >> the second round, what will happen with covid in the fall? the expectations for a potential resurgence. the fight for the right tags back on the beach. plus looking back and revising history. what do you make of jared

kushner, calling the federal response a great success story. but let's go to the latest facts. as of this hour, there are more than 1.1 million confirmed cases of coronavirus across the country, more than 65,000 people have died. several states are open for business this weekend, new jersey among the latest to ease stay-at-home orders, reopening state and county parks and golf courses while still enforcing social distancing measures the "usns comfort" returned to norfolk after spending a month in new york city helping to ease the strain on hospitals. the "comfort" treated 182 patients. fda granted emergency use to remdesivir, to be made available

to help combat covid-19. remdesivir will be used to treat the mostly severe ill patients. gilead says millions of treatment courses may by available by the end of the year. the white house blocked dr. anthony fauci from testifying before the house appropriations committee about the add mrlgs's response to the crisis. however, the white house says it will allow dr. fauci to testify at a senate health committee hearing slated for may 12th. so we have a number of reporters across the country to bring you the latest developments. we're going to begin with monica alba standing by at the white house this morning. first off, why is the white house blocking fauci's testimony next week? >> reporter: good morning -- or i should say good afternoon. we just heard that fly-over here at the white house, so you have an idea of what might be rumbling as i bring you the latest. dr. fauci ways set to appear at

a house committee. the white house says in their words that it would be counter-productive to have somebody like dr. fauci as intimately involved in the pandemic response taking time away from that to appear before a committee. of course, that house committee he was scheduled to be at would be led by democrats. what's notable here is they are saying he will be allowed to appear the week of may 12th at a senate hearing that would be led by republicans. the white house is saying that that one is okay for him to appear at. it appears to be a bit political here, but it comes as we've seen a diminished presence from what we came to know from dr. fauci, which was the near-daily appearance. as those start to fade away, the white house has pivoted to a new strategy. dr. fauci certainly continues to

do media interviews, so this is the just the latest example to control his public image. >> among the things he's been talking about is remdesivir. can you put into perspective the president's announcement, what this emergency use authorization means and why it's significant in. >> it's absolutely noteworthy, it seems to be the most glimmers of hope of one of more successful treatments. that's not to be confused with a vaccine, but in a study that was done on about 1,000 severely ill people with coronavirus, remdesivir proved to be an effective treat in a jersey of them. so people like dr. fauci and the president are encouraged. they're also hopeful this would be a fast tracking to get to more people, but it has to go through a formal approach. all said it's a very encouraging

first step, they said. new today from new york, andrew cuomo announcing a massive undertaking to clean the transit system every day. it involves shutting down new york subways overnight to something hi says the city has never done before. cor cori coffin joins me now. >> reporter: this rolling-out phase is expected to be a bit easier than in typical times, because the ridership is much lower, that's supposed to be a roll-out approach, and it would be done every 24 hours. every name that disinfectant will come through the and hopefully by the day's end, by the time all of the employees get off the trains, they'll have a clean slate the next day.

now, another thing he mentioned was that mta workers would eget regular checks as well. and for frontline workers, they say it's crucial to get antibody testing. he also acknowledged what he is asking as he starts to get ready to reopen the state in different sections, he acknowledged that it's a very difficult thing and a dangerous thing. s. >> i'm not going to say to essential workers, you need to come every day. the food workers need to come, the nursing need to come, the doctors need to come, and by the way, i don't know if i can tell you for sure that the trains and buses are clean. i'm not going to do that. i'm not going to ask essential workers, please leave your home so others can stay at home, come

work in a grocery store, work in a hospital, put yourself at risk, and i can't even tell you that the buses and the trains are clean. >> reporter: unfortunately he said that's just not a guarantee he can give, but that's something they'll be striving for. we're here in flushing which has been turned into a distribution center, which is not distributed some 3.5 million meals. as we know food is very difficult to come by in this crisis. >> do you know how long it took for people to get to that spot in line? how long have they been wait snowing. >> reporter: i actually talked to some taxis earlier. they way two to three hours. the people here at the start of the day, they came in before the sun even rose. the folks here at lunch, they started about 6:00 a.m. >> cori coffin, thank you. beaching in california's orange county are closed today, this after protests erupted in

hunti in g huntington beach. joining me from laguna beach, steve petitioner son. i know where you are. being homebound and seeing where you are, envy, but let's get to the latest from there. what are people saying? are they listening to the orders? or are they out and about? >> yeah, you know, alex it's not the worst place for a live shot. as you know, orange county is 42 miles of costline, and many of them are newly extremely defiant. we have now a seen it so far. will be you maybe a few reports of a up surfer.

that may be different from newport beach. that's where the stunning images came from last weekend where it looked like close to 40,000 people. there was a lot of hay made about people may not taking social distancing seriously. the orange county sheriff has disagreed, and he says he will not be enforcing the governor's orders by may of making arrests. so you have the law enforcement on orange county side as well. huntington beach and the point have filed legal actions o far a judge has sided with the state, but there will be more action on that later this month. meanwhile, back here in laguna beach, we spoke to the mayor asking him how this community falls in the fight from the county and the state. >> a lot of the fundamental

rights in our country is a right to protest. i think they all had a right to protest. i would have liked to have seen them physically distancing, but it's their radio i got to do that. he's asked the city to say submit a plan. we have submitted our, you know, i think he'll get they open pretty quickly, is my belief. >> reporter: the governor has alluded several times there may be a possible plan in place as early as next week to start reopening things across the state. obviously people hoar in orange county would love to see that. i spoke to the mayor saying so many on small businesses are hushing. it's more than just that. >> well, listen, at the end of your day when it's all over, go about three blocks to the south on the left side of the street, great margaritas.

>> i will take you up on that. a farmers market in new jersey is a drive-thru, in fact one of the many way that is small businesses are trying to stay financially afloat. let's go to mara barrett, in coalswood just east of philadelphia. how is the drive-thru affected the business there? do they see the same number of people? more in less? >> hey, alex. it's an absolutely beautiful day in collingswood, and they have split it you to five vendors a session across four days. this is the second session of the day, the second round of 500

cars coming through. customers can play their orders online. they give their name as they enter and they drive through and pick up their food and flowers. and it's a completely contactless, they don't have to touch anybody. they open the trunks and vendors puts the orders in the back. i've talked about how much safer it feels from a typical grocery store or farmers market. one thing that people have said is missing is the social aspect. they like to come to the farmers market to say hi to old friends, especially on the first day of the week. today is the opening day of the season. i spoke to eric, an asparagus grower here. listen to what he had to say. >> i think in a lot of ways you're going to miss the personal touch with the customers. there's something special, whether people show up in a morning, good morning, how have

you been? how's your winter been? you won't have that option. i'm just looking forward to not having to worry, to not having anybody have problems this is all crazy. i'm 65. i've never seen anything like this. >> they've seen an uptick in cases as the this looks like it might be the new normal for this summer. >> at least for some, it is working. at least they feel safe and they're getting great produce and flowers. that's all good. joining me is contributor natalie azar and msnbc medical contributor dr. kavita patel. doctors, welcome to you both. we have dozens of states open or partially so. dr. azar, what are yew concerns about that?

>> the concern is always the same. have they satisfied the 14-day gating before going to phase one? that requires that the state can demonstrates that there's a decreased number of hospitalizations it's different to speak as a state as a whole. there's obviously geographic variance, so i would like to think that the, you know, mayors and those folks in charge of making those decision at the county levels have the taken their numbers into consideration and feel confident they can move forward. >> dr. patel, at what point will we know whether these states were opened too soon? and if things go badly in those states, do they have any option but to shut down again? >> unfortunately it's going to be a bit of a time lag to see the true effects, because as you

know, people health professionals will likely be the se sentinels of this. another important metric is also looking at icu deaths and mortality. there's an incredible amount of data. unfortunately you're right, to put the jeannie back in the model, you have to go completely back to these original patterns we haven't even finished this first wave. we've only seen a decline, but ahn up tick in cases. we know that st. louis the virus

it came from europe, it needs to act as a nation. it brings to mind the university -- which suggests that coronavirus could surge into the fall and that the virus concerns could last up to two years. do you agree that a second wave is inevitable? >> i do. everybody is trying to model this. there's a massive second wave, which is highly liabilitily with it coinciding with the flu season and there's these smaller waves, up and down, up and down, concerning, and even potentially not decreasing at all with this first wave, and we're locked

into this plateau, where we don't even know whether we're coming out of the recovery. >> to that point, dr. azar, it's ditch emergency use to remdesivir. how hopeful are you that this is the best option we have right now to treat critically ill patients? >> the drug is an antiviral. we also know that medications that suppress that hyper-immune response is also very, very important. as we talked about in the press constantly there's also this clotting effect, this devastating, you know, ramp-up of the clotting cascade, so antivirals have their place, they very likely have their place earlier on in illness, so

while this medication appears to probably be or will be indicator for those who are more severely ill, aka hospitalized, we're also not, you know, as dr. fauci said, it's not a knockout. it's not a cure. there might be for a certain subset of patients where the antiviral effect is most critical, whereas in other patients suppressing the immune response and the hyper-exuberant inflammation may actually mean the difference. it's certainly -- it's great that it was randomized and controlled and they did find a positive effect, albeit moddist in term of time to recovery was their proof of consent and primary goal. >> always appreciate the perspective from both of you. thank you so much. gauging the economic impact. should everyone in the country get a monthly check from the government? my next guest says that should happen. how? and look up in the sky, a

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by now, many americans have seen about $1200, a one-time payment hit their bank accounts. many more checks are on the way for others. my next guest champions this idea. what if you received that money for life? this is what mayor michael tubbs writing on an op-ed, urging the country to move to a -- joying me is mayor tubbs. it's about the third or fourth time we've talked about this. it's a hot idea for you. stockton has been trying this guaranteed basic income, what was it about 125 randomly selected residents get $500 a month for a year and a half. how successful has it been? what have people spent their money are? are they spending on basic

necessities than they were before because of covid? >> thanks for having me, alex. absolutely. since we started the pilot about a year ago. the vast majority of patients are making decisions that you or i would make in terms of spending money. we just released data yesterday particularly around this pandemic, how people have been spending their money? new flashes, they've been spending it on food. almost 48% have been used for food to make sure they're able to shelter in place. it's important to recognize that we live in a time of pandemics. if it's not covid-19, it's an earthquake. if it's not an earthquake, it's a fire. so it's important to shore up the fundamentals of our country. where we're one emergency away from financial ruin. >> these outstanding exceptional situation, a pandemic, something

that california is no immune from, does this create the expectation that the government should be making these payouts routinely now? >> i would say we have to. we live in a time of pandemics. unfortunately economic disruptions are disruption activities from the climate or from pandemics aren't necessarily abnormal anymore. they seem to happy yearly or bi-yearly. a love the people are living in an economic crisis before the stock market crash and before the covid-19 pandemic. so a basic income is a a tool to provide a floor to allow people to have a foundation. if they can't go to work for a couple months or unable to open small businesses, they're not facing anxiety or fear. i know you've had your own citywide fund that's doled out money to at least 160 small businesses in stockton.

how have you streamlined this program? it's only 160. >> we've very blessed to work with a main street tranche. we realized from a federal government it's very hard for businesses -- all businesses, but particularly businesses of color to access the funds they need. to be ton being the most diverse city in the country, i thought it was important to do what we can while statistic federal government figures out that ruth's chris and l.a. lakers are not mom and pop shows. >> stockton mayor michael tubb, it's good to talk with you. i guarantee we'll do it again. breaking his silence, does joe biden need to say more? - l. here we go. lift and push and push! there... it's up there. oh, boy.

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let's go to the latest facts on the coronavirus pandemic. more than one people have recovered worldwide. in the u.s., that number is more than 16 on,00,000. in spain, crowds flocked to the streets of barcelona, running, walking, biking for the first time in seven weeks after the lockdown was partially lifted. back here in the u.s., the senate plans to reconvene monday. there would know by coronavirus testing available for all 100 lawmakers. health and human services secretary alex azar tweeting he was sending about 1,000 tests and three testing machines to the senate. news comes after the reports that there were not enough available to the available, many of whom are 65 or older. in new york city the department of defense released this video showing a crowd of health care workers, military personnel, first responders as well, cheering that guy on. that is the final patient to be

discharged from the temporary hospital at the javits convention center. the patient was the 1,095th to be treated there. well, this week the u.s. navy blue angels and the air force thunderbirds conducted their first-ever flyovers. crossing several states. just a few moments ago, you heard it at the very top of the hour. monica alba was saying that was the notice from the white house, but degree voom tick fashion, streaking across the skies of the nation's capital. we see lee ann cal well there. what was that like, and how many people guarantied to see it and hear it? because it's loud. >> it was loud, alex, and it was quite a moment. just moments ago we saw them streeg above the skate. up to throw to that tape for a

moment it was pretty amazing video. take a look. and the pump of this, alex, was to show support for the frontline workers, the health care workers, essential workers on the front lines of this covid crisis. it's similar to what we saw earlier in northern this week. washington, d.c. is just one of the cities they plan to do this throughout the next month. the timing is pretty significant as well. that's because d.c. and the surrounding area, it would a significant day as far as covid is concerned. they hit their 2,000th death yesterday, and also the most people confirmed positive for the case yes, sir, with over 3100 in just one day. mayor bowser of d.c., she says the city is not at its peak yet.

they are still spiking. the capital physician told members of congress today they don't expect the peak until mid-may. this was a big show of support for the auer, and i don't know if you can see the crowds behind me, but there were a lot of people out hire, alex. the lure of the good weather and the show brought so many people out here, and it was -- a lot of people weren't wearing masks, a lot not social distancing, but you know, they still came out anyway despite the -- and the military saying stay at home and watch it from their front yards. they'll head to atlanta and finish up their show in a couple hours. >> i was out tuesday afternoon in front of my home and i heard them coming. i saw it. i get the sense you responded

like i did. it was awe-inducing, so incredible to see these guys, the precision with which they fly, and frankly for me, i was jealous, because i've always dreamed about going up in one of those. i don't know if one of you had. what do you think? >> yeah, i've never actually want to do go up in one. i'm not a big plane person, but, you know, also the sound, the roar, the way it hits you internally is really, really amazing. you know, the military says these are also training hours for these pilots. it doesn't cost any additional money. these are things they need to do, and they might as well give some people some uplift and moral support while they have to do it anyway. >> and they absolutely did for many, many, in fact millions of us. thank you so much, for bringing that to us. let's switch gears and go to joe biden's response to a sexual assault allegation made by tara

reade. she claims biden assaulted her in the mid 1990s. yesterday joe biden denied that claim. jeff, to you. >> reporter: for weeks, as you no, many democrats have urged joe biden to issue a more forceful response to that accusation, and now he's done just that. he's flatly and emphatically denying the allegation that dates back nearly 30 years. former vice president joe biden breaking a month-long silence denyic an allegation of sexual assault by former senate aide tara reade, friday speaking with mika t. >> would you plead go on the record. >> no, it's not. i'm saying unequivocally, it never, ever happened. >> reporter: rebiden at the tim

of the accusation said once, not ever. if it's suggested i did so, i will listen respectfully, but it was never my intention. in march, reade for the first time publicly accused biden of holding her against a wall in a senate corridor and assaulting her when she was a senator and she briefly worked on his staff. >> i remember his hands underneath my blouse, underneath my skirt, and his fingers penetrating as he was trying to kiss me. >> do you remember her? do you remember any types of complaints that she might have made? >> i don't remember any type of complaint she may have made. >> ali vitaly has spoken with tara reade a mum pal times. >> she previously told me she filed a complaint with the personnel office in 1993. she says that complaint harass

razzment, not this alleged sexual assault. >> reporter: biden requested the secretary of the senate to find and publish any complaint. >> i'm not going to attack her. president trump who denies -- y by -- >> all of a sudden you become a wealthy guy, you're famous, then you become president, and people you have never seen that they've never heard of make charges. so i guess in a way you could say i'm sticking up for him. >> reporter: nbc news has reached out to tara reade for a response to her interview. so far she's not responded. you might be wondering why in allegation is coming forward now, given that joe biden has been a fixture in public life for a decade. nbc reached out to the mad who

vetted biden to be barack obama's william j eiseffress sa his team found no evidence of misconduct of any kind on joe biden part. let's bring in the president and chair of african studies at princeton, and esteemed msnbc at the colleague. what's your assessment of his response? >> i thought it was forthright, honest, and he did something that was really important. that is he did not try to impugn the character of tara reade. i think it's important for vice president biden to exemplify how we ought to respond to claims of sexual harassment and assault. we have to believe the woman -- let me be very clear. to say we believe her is not to assume the guilt of the accused, but to seriously consider the

claim. i'm saying that you can't dismiss the claim. you have to take it seriously. so what vice president biden must do is to be as forthright and open to the process, to allow the process to proceed, so that he can in some ways defend himself without in some ways impugning the character of tara reade. >> and you how should the vice president go about doing that, eddie? what more does he need to do to clear this up once and for all? >> well, i think, you know, the first thing is to allow for the relevant papers at university of delaware and relevant papers from the secretary of the senate, for those to be made public. >> of those things, the second is where the vice president has said a complaint would be filed. i'm curious about the university of delaware papers, eddie. aren't those almost exclusively

position papers, things typically donated to think tanks or universities by public politicians that don't typically get looked through -- not necessarily looked through -- they don't get posted publicly until they leave political office? >> no, agreed. i think part of what has to happen is anything relevant to the claim of tara reade in the papers at the university of delaware, if there are any -- if there is anything relevant in those papers, it should be made public, i think. i think vice president biden should be the one to call for that. it seems to me in this moment, the way we distinguish what is happening now, from what happened with justice kavanaugh, what we saw with justice kavanaugh is a complete missile -- dismissal of dr. ford's

clam claims, we don't want that. the vice president doesn't want that, and we don't want to signal those of us committed to the me too movement. we don't want to compromise our commitments. we need to be as open and forthright as we called for in the kavanaugh moment. >> 100% agree with you. last quick question, do we know the extent to which joe biden's papers have been gone through? where they are in the process of documenting what they have? >> i don't know. i can imagine some archivists around the country just pulling their hair out thinking we could just make the papers available. they might be being cataloged. we don't know what stage the university of delaware is in in terms of processing his papers. if they're farther along, vice president biden should be as open and forthrite and transparent as possible in this moment. eddie glaugh, good to see you.

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dealing? >> illinois extended the stay-at-home order for another month. that pattern has not extended when you look at gun violence. and still bon listen to what he told me.

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developing today, more than two dozen states are going through some form of reopening this weekend. texas, where retailers and other businesses are now open at 25% capacity. joining mess is congresswoman berne niece johnson, one of two nurses in congress, for which i thank you. i'm awfully proud to have spoke with the other nurse in congress. you ladies are the epitome of devotion, for sure. as we look toward dallas county, it reported a record number of new coronavirus cases as the businesses began reopening

yesterday. is your district ready to reopen? >> i do have questions, and i really do hope people will use common sense. i'm interested to listen to the professionals to see if we're really ready. people miss going out, but this is an unusual time, and we've had to face that more person contact spreads this virus. we've never dealt with this for most of the people now that are born, but we need to make sure that we are certain that we are protecting ourselves and others. we just last week started to ask everyone to -- there was some pushback in that we're typical texans that don't necessarily

want someone to tell us how to act, but this is a critical time, and i go along with restricted as long as we can. realize we have a lot of small businesses than many states, and they're suffering. i understand that, and i really do sympathize with that but we must look to save lives first. i'm a little concerned about opening this quickly. and do your constituents share that concern? i'm sure you're accurately reflecting the frustrated, but they want to do it now? do they want to do it yesterday? if they don't, what else do they need to have? i would simply say caution. i know people are tired of being at home. there are ways of which you can make that up i know that i'm

vulnerable, and i've been at home, working from home a lot longer hours than i work otherwise, but it is very important to emphasize not only do you protect yourself, you protect others as well. >> may i also, wearing your hat as a nurse, when you see the protests that were countrywide yesterday for those nurses who were saying please just give us what we need to be protected how much longer are we going to have to hear their cries. is there anything that congress can do to ensure they are safe on the front lines? >> congress has tried. it's a matter of trying to get the materials. in this area what we like most, is we have to do up more testing. body covers and masks, were caught off-guard, i think all

over the country, but certainly here. i still an not i have joined my colleagues, pleading with fema, pleading with health and human services to get more equipment and to be ready to do more testing. i think testing is the key. i think research to find a remedy is ultimately needed there's no point in thinking that we can pay for the damage of this virus. we have to attack the virus itself, and we certain need to protection those front lines and nurses. do stay safe. why is the white house refusing to let dr. anthony fauci testify in the house next week? hony fauy in the house next week technologies advisor.

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good day, everyone. from msnbc world headquarters here in new york, welcome to "weekends with alex witt." let's get you up to day. there are more than 1.1 million confirmed cases across this country, more than 6 a,000 people have died. several states are open for business this weekend. iowa, utah, wyoming and maine among the latest then in texas,

stories, restaurants and movie theaters fitness -- and by monday, some it states have 146 pe peek. the fda granted emergency used to remdesivir, making it the first medication, made available for about the

administer's response to the crisis. however the white house set that's slated for may 12th. monica, there's a bit of a back and forth going on about testing in congress. what's this about? >> reporter: a concern over the amount of testing as they are slated to there wouldn't be enough, but late overnight, alex azar clarified in a ner going to send abbott testing machines which give the results in a matter of minutes and would send over 1,000 tests for their use, given that the senators are all

hoping they're all testing next week. that is something that minority leader shot back with, what about the rest of the country? in other places though that does seem to improve hopefully by june they could be looking to doing a million tests a day. the other pardon of my questions.

they have in their words it would be counter-product erv when he's so intimately involved, and spending his time in other ways, but he is lated to appear before the senate in a republican-led panel on may 12th the following week. monica, thank you so much for that joining mess is richard blumenthal. thank you, sir, for joining me. how do you feel about going back? >> practicing social distancing is difficult, but the real question is why are we going

back. mitch mcconnell's response to a crisis seems to bring back the senate to consider the nomination of a far-right judge nominee who han unequivocally asked for repeal of the affordable care act endangers the hundreds of workers who do maintenance or security, who will be put in danger. they are still severely lacking here in my state of connecticut, even for first responders and health care frontline workers, and likewise i'm sure you're

aware that mitch mcconnell spoke with a conservative radio host recently saying his motto is leave no vacancy behind. we've all known for some time this is something that he believes will be his professional legacy, right? appointing as many conservative judges as possible to the various benches, but in your mind how does this sync up with where we are now? >> i see in the state of connecticut from the videoconferences, telephone calls, and constantly in contact how they're struggling. to put food on the table that should be the business of the united states senate, not

confirming far-right charges and remaining the yew dishary in the image, and there are plenty of steps we can take right away to put more money into the hands of those small businesses and families and workers struggling to literally stay alive financially and public health measures to save our hospitals who are on the brink of financial disaster. particularly to the latter part, senator, i know you and your democratic colleagues senator warn are warpen sent all right demanding jared kushner's role in distributing supplies. can you explain more about what you might do with the information you might get? >> this project is call the project air bridge.

involving rereports even seizures of shipments that prevent those from going to the places that need them most. the hot spots like new york that have been very short changed in terms of the masks, gowns, gloves, as well as other substantial supplies this involves the suns government paying to transport for the wholesalers and distributors that then make decisions about where to send supplies, possibly hiking prices, and shortchanging areas that need these supplies most. that's why we want more transparency. they have been completely unforth coming. we have demanded information about this so farther opaque pet project of jared kushner.

we do know that jared kushner has trumpeting the administration's response to the virus. let's take a listen to him. >> we're on the other side of the medical aspect of this. i think we have achieved the different milestones. the federal government roses to a challenge. i any what you'll see in may as the states are reopening is many will be a transition month. by june a lot of the cunning should be back to normal. the hope is by july the country is really rocking again. if it was such a great success story, why are they keeping it a secret? there's no evident or facts to justify the claims. as for the economy rocking again, we all would like for the economy to be reopened, but that

won't happen until the tide has turned on this insidious disease, and there is every reason to continue to be cautious and prudent, to maintain physical distancing and all of the kinds of measures that have helped turn the tide and mitigate it so far. and here is the area where clearly there's no success, and that's on providing more testing, more contact tracing, more of the personal protective equipment that our frontline health care workers need. in fact i will be participating in just minutes now in a virtual march organize the by the yale doctors and other clinicians countrywide to protest the lack of equipment. that's a national scandal. >> we will not delay you from getting to that virtual

demonstration. thank you so much. good to see you. stay safe. now let's head over to the west coast where the beaches are closed sadly, but-looking at those protests. that was huntington beach yesterday as hundreds rallied. joins me is steve patterson. so let's see, it's 10:20 in the morning your time there. not too early for avid beach-goers to get out and enjoy the sun. are people listening to the orders? are you seeing anyone try to sneak onto the sand? i know you know this area as well. it's about as perfectly beautiful a day as possible. the beach is to my right. you can see the orange fences. that's kept a lot of people away. there was the report of maybe one surfer, maybe two. most people are getting out and about, but they're following distance rules. by what you hear to my left, by

cruising the street. some of the most beautiful cars i have seen in orange county. they're respecting a lot of that. people are then there's people here as well. i want to show you some of the anger, some of the emotion owl here. protesters have taken to the street. take a look at this. they are from you traded at what the governor is doing. they say their rights are being trampled on. they don't believe the governor is constitutionally sound. yet we've been talking to people just like this in communities across -- newport beach, a lot of them feel the exact same way. some mayor say they have to stick to the plan. the governor wants mayors to create a plan, the mayor here in laguna beach says he's doing that. here's what he said he needs to do to get his community back open. listen to this. >> there's always a biff the risk in life, right?

but we talked with our chief kevin snow, we're confident we can manage the krouse, starting first with baby steps, right? 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. phase two is to take it out to the full day, and then phase three is to open it up for weekends. >> reporter: you can see some of the frustration on the signs. there's been shouts of support from across the street, and also some shouts of disagreement, but they're here because they say this is their constitutional right. we expect they see protests to get bigger today. there's multiple groups that may join up later on today. the governor says he's days away from creating a plan which will hopefully soft reopen some of the states, and i think a lot of people are looking forward to that. data shows communities of

colors are being hardest hit by coronavirus. the city of houston is taking action. a new mobile testing site is open in sunnyside. that's where we find priscilla thompson, with a good day to you, priscilla. how urgent of a situation is it there? what are you hearing? >> reporter: good afternoon, alex. this testing site is truly in the neighborhood, actually at the local high school here, and there are apartment buildings and houses all around us. that level of accessible is incredibly important. the houston tron coal found that the rate of infection here is thee times that of the tout an. some folks told me that while it can be intimidating to see the national guard in your backyard, they were thankful this testing site is here.

i also spoke to a who, she brought her father who had been having trouble breathing, and she works at a pharmacy. she felt like it was really important to get him tested. she walked me through the process of getting him here today. take a listen to what she told me. >> they don't tell you, you know, where you can go and what to -- you know -- i was just really scared. i just kept trying and trying. let me try this number, that they put a flyer on our neighborhood app, and that's how i find out, you know, that we can come here. >> so that why the will be key, because they're going to be moving around. this site will be here tomorrow,

and so, you no, disseminating that information is really the next step in this process, alex. >> absolutely important to get the world out. thank you so much. we're going to go right now to a news conference being held by new jersey governor phil murphy. let's listen to what he's talking about, including declining numbers of folks with covid. >> we were ready to begin the process of our recovery. as i've said here before from time to time, and we all know this, you all know this, life goes on in this state. births, deaths, other developments that have in many cases nothing whatsoever to do with covid-19. as all-consuming as this is, we all know there is life, and we lost two lives of people i knew over the past couple days. i want to acknowledge them very briefly. first union beach mayor paul smith. paul was a really good guy.

i spoke with his wife sharon yesterday, she said, and i agree, i'm not too far from union beach. he was union beach. he was not only the mayor, he was union beach. he was a friend, he was overwhelmingly popular. he won tess two elections by 71% and 61%. i forget which order. i ran a 5k there a few years ago. we did a sandy memorial event with senator menendez and senator booker, mayor smith hosted us, god rest his soul. he passed unrelated to covid 19. and gloria landy, she was a giant even though she was 4'11", as her had you had reminded me. i spoke with gene today. she was a leader in jewish causes, but causes related to the state of israel. we engaged in a speech i gave at the u.n. a few years ago.

she was secretary of the world jewish congress, president of the new jersey poetry society, and most importantly she was a wife, a mom, a grandmother and a great-grandmother. god bless each of them and all the lives that we have lost. i have one quick announcement today. i will sign an executive order extending a number of stat torrie deadlines required under environmental laws that will be difficult to meet. the department of environmental protection is required to act on construction permits, including development of doal areas and wet license within 9 on days or the permit is deemed approved. this order will ensure that d.e.p. has the necessary time to get the information it needs to make fully informed decisions. before i turn things over to juty, a couple people deserve a shoutout. 13-year-old james freeman of

middlesex county. one, we are glad he's giving shoutouts. the bug number he offered is is,000 less hospitalizations due to covid-19 this week in sum total. that's really good news. up next, the perils of americans reopening if it comes too early. americans reopening if it comes too early.

hi, my name is sonia. i am a coronavirus survivor, and thanks for everybody who saved my life. and i am going home. [ cheers and applause ]

75-year-old sonia greated with those cheers as she was wheeled ute. she battled coronavirus for nearly 2 1/2 weeks. joining me now is dr. jill barron at the children's hospital in pennsylvania, and john torres, medical correspondent. i love the stories. thisser just the best. i know you survived the virus. so when you see states starting to reopen, what is your reaction to that, and to the people who protest to lift the stay-at-home orders? >> well, naturally, alex, i am

concerned when i hear about that. i would hope that any plans to reopen are done in a thoughtful manner. first, we need widescale massive amount of testing to identify people at risk. secondly, we need an army of contact tracing people, who once those protected individuals are identified, can go out and identify all the people they potential come into contact with, and we need to protect our most vulnerable by masse sure the asymptomatic spreaders can't wreak havoc on the population. >> dr. torres, i understand you agree with what dr. baren is saying, in your mind, is it too

soon? the gyms are weeping down everything the best they can, multiple times, but is that enough? >> i get it. i've been stuck in my apartment for five, six weeks. it's just you want to get out and do the things you'd like to do, but we're in the midst of a pandemic, and the one thing we know is anytime we get back together, those cases will go um. we need mechanisms to make sure it doesn't spread. at the same time the recommendation of 14 daze of declining cases, and that's the big concern. hopefully they do have the mechanisms in place to say flip that circuit breaker, like governor cuomo said, and start getting things under control to make sure the cases don't get out of the control.

is it merely a rise in the number of covid cases? >> well, i think it's both a rise as well as the number of people that are presenting for care. if we start to get an uptick in business, even without the knowledge that they're positive is certainly concerning as a marker again for an overwhelming use of resources of the health care system. >> there's a university of minnesota study, dr. torres, that suggests coronavirus cases could surge in the fault, the virus concern would lack up to two years. how possible is this? would you say it's probable that we might see worse than what we're seeing now? or have we attacked it enough, if it comes back, it will bess less than what we're seeing now? >> we are definitely going to see the cases in the fall. people are calling it the third wave. the second wave is when we open things again in the summer, and

hopefully they stay under control. the bigger problem will be the fall. we think this thing has a seasonal component. so we think it will happen. if we do things this summer to keep things under control, keep that testing under control, make sure hospitals are ready, be ready to go back to social isolation if we need to, i think it won't be as bad as we've seen now. this honestly took everybody by surprise, it started in january and kind of went like wildfire. so i think and hope we've learned lessons from this, and prepared for what we know will happen in the fall. if we do that appropriately the number won't be nearly as high as they are now. dr. jill baren, dr. john torres, thank you so much. joe biden's response, and what he's saying about the allegations against hem and how it could affect his campaign. ns it could affect his campaign

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essential workers are protesting, asking to keep them safe. my colleague alicia menendez will talk to joaquin about that, and what what can be done to help. more than 160,000 people have recovered. the pandemic is taking a toll on warren buffett's company, berkshire hathaway. it posted a record first quarter net loss of nearly $50 million. most of their businesses have been hurt by the coronavirus and might have to close. the blue angels and thunder birds did a fly-over in the last hour over d.c., the first-ever coordinated fly-over was earlier this week, new york, new jersey

and connecticut on tuesday. and right now they're headed to atlanta for another fly-over in atlanta. mean thyme in spain, crowds flocked to the streets of barcelona to run, walk and bike for the first time in seven weeks after the lockdown was partially lifted. back here in the u.s., the department of defense released this video of frontline worker cheering for the final patients to be discharged. he was showing he number. the. new jersey state is in the early stage of reopening. residents can now go to parks across the state. governor murphy says he's prepared to shut them down again. gary grumbach, he joins us from new jersey. how about now? more foot traffic? do you think people are staying

indoor? it's a beautiful day outside. >> it really is a beautiful day out here. a lot of people hanging out on the grass, but it is being closely monitored, something governor murphy was clear about, everything in the parks and golf courses would be closely monitor monitored, and there are folks, sheriff's officers from the county making sure that everyone is wearing a mask and making sure that everyone is social distancing. one thing i want to mention is new jersey is known for being a bit snarky, so is the twitter account. they did say hay, don't mess this up for the rest of us, that's certainly something happening here. nobody is messing up. i was just kind of laughinging at the word "snarky" it's a good one.

gary grumbach, thank you. tara reade claimed biden assaulted her in the 1990s. on "morning joe" yesterday, biden denied the claim. >> would you please gone on the record with the american people -- did you sexually assault tara readest? >> no, it's not. i'm saying unequivocally, it never, ever happened. >> nbc reached out to tara reade for comments, but we've not heard back. nbc news has spoken with 14 people who worked in biden's various offices. four of them declined to comment while most said they did not remember much about reade specifically, but they had not heard complaints about biden's behavior during their time in the office. mike is joining me.

we're hearing information from the obama vetting team that vetted the vp. what are you hearing? >> reporter: it's important to know that the allegations were very serious. we have been among the news organizations vetting the claims and talking to those that she said could potential corroborate them. you have a strong denial from biden's campaign, and from the former vice president himself very clearly yesterday. one of the questions that a lot of democrats have been raising as they see potential inconsistencies, but the larger issue that joe biden has been in public life, really for 50 years, a prominent national democrat for more than three decades. we are now hearing from the team that was part of the vetting process in 2008 for president obama, as he was choosing potential running mates. they looked at every aspect of his record. let's put up tweet from patty

solis doyle. she tweeted -- we also heard from david axelrod, who reiterated that point as well, that the team of vetters, the legal minds found nothing in biden's report to suggest there was any history of this kind of allegations. nbc news has also spoken with jeffress, who repeated this is not the case. we've heard a number of people suggesting there could be records among the senate papers which are not being cataloged at the university of delaware. we heard the biden's campaign cede if there was any report, it wouldn't exist there, and biden has called on the national archives and the senate to scour their own records to see if they can produce such a document,

alex. >> mike memoli, thank you for that. more questions for joe biden will come today at 5:00 eastern when he discussion the allegations and more with al sharpton right here. joining mess -- me is madeline dean. you are one of the four congress men that are outright campaigning for joe biden. >> thank for having me on did are this critical time for our country. in terms of supporting joe biden, i'm sprout to sport him, but let's talk about the allegations. number one, they are extremely serious allegations. so i was want wanting to hear from the vice president, what he had to say about them. i think anybody who comes forward with such allegations need to be heard theron claim

investigated. joe biden yesterday through statement and through interview on your network unequivocally denied the allegations. what he also did, which i think is incredibly important, is directed the senate, who is the archivist of the records, to look for any complaint that ms. reade filed at that time. she had he filed a harassment complaint at the time. the reports will be checked, but in the meantime the vice president has been unequivocal that this did not happen. your investigation and the investigation of many other talented reporters will go forward, and i don't want to get ahead of that investigation. in the meantime, i'm extremely proud to support the vice president in his run for the presidency for a simple reason. 40 years of public service, a man who has the experience, the intellect, the heart, the compassion to lead us at a time

when we desperately lack that in our current president. it is to our peril. so i'm pleased to support joe biden for the man he is, for the public servant he he is. >> a very strong endorsement there, not surprisingly. let's take a look at a new op-ed in "the washington post," in which kathleen parker says the hypocrisy is stunning but not surprising. she goes on to say, now is the time to feel sorry for christine blasey ford, her days are over -- blasey ford, her days are over - that chris simmriticism is bein on the right. what do you say to that? >> i have note read her op-ed.

she's a talented writer, but i don't agree there's hypocrisy, but i recognize finally we're in an era somewhere somebody like ms. reade will be heard, and her claim will be either proven or not. so i absolutely disagree. i'm a democrat. i called for the exposure and investigation of any kind of sexual assault allegation that women come forward with, but if the facts prove it not to have been true, that will have to be the story. so i don't find the hypocrisy. nobody here is trying to -- it didn't happen, because we don't want to believe it. we don't want to get ahead of the story. let's see if the complaint is there, if there is some proof in the meantime that the president han unequivocal. let's turn to your stay there, the keystone state. governor wolfe announcing that

several counties have qualified to lift the restrictions. when do you think your district will be ready to open, and what about your constituents? >> i'm proud of our constituents all across the state. our people have stayed home and heeded the guidance of our governor, our county commissioners, who tell us what we have to do, and your previous guests just talked about this. i was on the call yesterday that we have each week, a couple times a week. the counties that are being reopened had very very little contact with the disease in terms of the numbers they've had, some in single digits, but where i am, what i represent is montgomery county and burks county. we've had more than 400 deaths in the last seven weeks. it's an extremely serious pocket where this disease has hit very, very hard. philadelphia and montgomery

county have been the epicenter. we were among the earliest in this commonwealth. i want for us to stay in this region is to stay put. all of the sacrifice worth while. al of the sacrifice of our first responders must be worth something. we have to protect. until we can do mass testing, until we can trace all of the contacts very rapidly, and until we can isolate and identify how far spread this disease is, it will continue to be deadly in my area. i want us to take this very, very seriously and not prematurely open. >> congresswoman madeline dean, thank you so much. coronavirus outbreaks at meat processing plants, why they could lead to a meat shortage, but churchill downs would have

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new days, they found the virus in 115 different plants across 19 states. there are 4,913 workers who have tested positive. 20 have died. president trump ordered all meat processing plants to remain open, declares them essential as fears grow over a potential meat shortage. joining me now helena,

agricultural reporter at politico. how startling numbers are those to you? >> i think it's a wake-up call that the meat processing industry in this it country is at a critical moment. these meat plants are starting to stay open. when they close, we see a break in the supply change. i think consumers should expect to see less variety. we live in a nation of plenty, and there's no need to panic. >> how bad might it get? >> well, yeah, i think variety for sure. when you go to the grocery store, you probably are not going to see the same number of

cuts you would normally see. you have to also remember, this country produces billions of pounds of meat every year, so we do have a really ample supply, and i really want to emphasize people do not need to be panicked about being able to access meat, but really, you know, workers on the front line are nervous about how to stay safe in these processing plants, and even with the president's executive order to mandate that meat plants stay open, you still need they workers on the front lines to feel safe, show up for work, and to make this whole system work. >> 100%. there are some produce workers who have problems that are the opposite. you wrote this week that the usda let millions of pounds of food rot while demand soared in food banks? >> this is an interesting time for american consumers.

we're sort of learning how these complicated supply chains work. in some way we have two systems. one that served food service, restaurants, cruise ships and schools, and then another which serving retail, which we're more familiar with going to the grocery store. we have seen a straight-up break in the chain. so this has created an incredible amount of disruption, really unprecedented for many different commodities, dairy being one, produce being one, it's an incredible two-pronged crisis that we're seeing farmer still today turn millions of pounds of foot into the ground because they have nowhere to sell it. the depend of agriculture has very strong to responsible. helena, thank you so much. joe biden responds to a

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more now on joe biden's response to a sexual assault claim made by former senate staffer tara reade, she claimed biden assaulted here in the mid 1990s. joe biden has denied the claim but said it should be investigated. >> would you please go on the record with the american people. did you sexually assault tara reade? >> no, it is not true. i'm saying unequivocally, it never, never happened.

from the very beginning i've said believing women means taking the woman's claim seriously when she steps forward and then vet it. look into it. that's true in this case as well. women have a right to be heard and the press should rigorously investigate claims they make. i'll always uphold that principle. but in the end in every case the truth is what matters and in this case the truth is the claims are false. >> nbc news reached out to reade for her response, though we have not heard back yet. joining us now is senior progressive for programming for sirius xm and former aide to president george w. bush. jolina, you first because i know you interacted with biden before he ran for president. you were part of an advisory council under his foundation. what did you make of his response and the way he overall has been handling these charges?

>> well, i think that his response has been a little delayed. i wish he would have come out earlier and said what he said on friday, which is that in the me too era, what believe women means is believe women's claims and take them seriously. and then you investigate and look into all of the evidence, get corroboration, contemporaneous reporting to friends and colleagues. all of that is a part of changing the paradigm, which we were living in before the me too era became a public phenomenon where we were disbelieving women as a default position. so as a survivor and advocate and someone who has interacted with joe biden in the capacity of his work during it's on us and during the obama administration, i say we default to empathy, we default to supporting people and having compassion when they come forward as opposed to being so skeptical when they come forward just because they like the man

they are accusing of misconduct. >> which would suggest that you agree with everything he said, but as you said at the top there, the timing, you wish he had done it sooner. there are creditiitics who say there's a double standard in how the allegations have been handled as compared to justice brett kavanaugh. is that a fair comparison? >> i think that's a fair comparison and if you want to understand why so many conservatives have turned away from the media, put yourself in their shoes and look at how the media responded to those allegations versus the allegations of tara reade. christine blassy ford was the one who would definitively say, and all of the people who she said were with her at the party could not testify to that. you've got an allegation tara reade where her mother is calling larry king.

she actually worked for joe biden. it has more legs. and so the time that it took for this allegation to get any attention, it really does hit the conservative nerve. >> understandably. president trump, of course, won the 2016 election in despite of more than a dozen allegations of sexual misconduct which he and his complain denied, he even encouraged biden to fight these allegations. he said that he may have been falsely accused. so is trump an outlier here? is this going to hurt biden? >> look, i think it depends upon how joe biden approaches the next couple of weeks. he has access to a plethora of survivors and advocates who can give him all the context and correct information so he doesn't go out sounding out of touch. i think that's the risk in this moment. when it comes to donald trump and in terms of the hypocrisy of feminists like myself and

liberals and even the media, i don't think that it's hypocrisy, i think that republicans who are claiming we are being hip oh krits are they themselves being hypocrites. do they believe that carroll was sexually assaulted by donald trump, do te believe that dozens of other women or do they just believe tara reade? i think if you're going to say democrats are being hi hypocritical, you should listen to claims and vet them. i actually behave as if i understand what the principle is every single day of my life. i just don't do it when the man accused is someone that i like. >> and let's say -- look, you're saying this about people in general, women, all of society. but let's also make the point that joe biden is saying this as well. investigate, let's vet this, let's see if there's truth behind it despite his claims that it never happened. real quickly, as all of the steps are formally beginning to

try to vet a potential running me mate, there are a lot of voices in the party saying not only does the vice president have a choose a women but an african-american woman. you've got congresswoman jim clie burn who has said it is not a must. quickly your thoughts on must it be an african-american woman or not? >> yes, i think he needs to choose an african-american woman. black women are the base of the democratic party. we showed that again and again, and again we showed it again in south carolina just like all those other times. so he should pick a black woman and demonstrate that he understands this particular moment and our electoral power. >> i'm starting with you next time, elise. a little bit lopsided. that's a wrap for me. thanks so much for watching. i'll see you again at 7:00 p.m. tomorrow morning. up next, alicia menendez and among her kwefts, joaquin castro

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hello, everyone. i'm alicia menendez. more and more states across america are opening for business, but the covid-19 crisis is far from over. the death toll in the u.s. continues to rise, passing 65,000. doctors have tested more than 6.5 million americans that they warn in a country of 330 million people, that is not enough. health officials say returning to public life will require much more testing, much better tracing and we are not there yet. at the same time, pressure is mounting on leaders across the country to reopen businesses. in california a large crowd ignored social distancing regulations and called for state officials to reopen the beaches. similar protests are scheduled across the country today. by monday, about two dozen states with a population of 145 million people will have lifted