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covid-19 deaths and more than 1.1 million confirmed cases. our reporters are spread out acro across america to show the cities and towns taking their first steps to returning to normal. in texas, restaurants, malls, and mu view theaters are open at a quarter of their capacities. an executive order from governor greg abbott allowed this as of yesterday. texas has more than 30,000 confirmed cases and nearly 900 known deaths. economies across the country are starting to let shops reopen. that presents new risks of contracting covid-19. it also escalates the fight over balancing business and commerce with health in high-risk areas. according to "the houston chronicle," a new analysis by zip code shows most of houston's coronavirus cases are in the city's poorest and predominantly black neighborhoods. as a result, city officials are sending more mobile testing sites to these areas.

priscilla thompson is at one of these sites in houston. what has the reaction been like from folks waiting to get tested? >> reporter: joshua, i'm told it can be a little intimidating to turn the corner and see the national guard on your street, but folks are happy to have this resource. i actually spoke to one woman who told me she found out about this test site via a neighborhood app. it was a posting in an app. she was able to come here and bring her elderly father. this was something important for her because she's an essential worker and her father lives with her so she's coming home every day and she wanted to make sure he was safe especially considering he has some underlying illnesses including heart disease. she said having this testing site within ten minutes of her has helped to put her mind at ease. take a listen to what she told me. >> i was already stressing, where am i going to get him to get tested? i see all the long lines. i'm, like, i don't know where we're even going to get to.

this one, i registered online and they called me, did -- you're going to do this, you know, what to expect so it wasn't so overwhelming. >> reporter: and that's the experience that officials here are hoping for. they understand that it can be somewhat intimidating to need to go to get a medical procedure done or a test done. so they're hoping that communities will see this and still come out and take advantage of this resource. i do want to point out this testing site will be here until tomorrow, and then lit move to a different neighborhood and spend a couple days there testing folks. joshua? >> thank you, priscilla. priscilla thompson joining us from houston. the governor of new jersey, phil murphy, says today will be in his words a huge test for residents. state parks, golf courses, and farmers' markets reopened this morning with restrictions. new jersey has about 123,000 covid-19 cases and more than 7700 deaths. nbc's maura barrett is in

collinsworth across from philadelphia, and gary is in newark. gary, what restrictions are in place at the parks? and how will they be enforced? >> reporter: joshua, it's a beautiful day in new york. people are running around and biking around, walking around. most of them are wearing masks and staying socially distant from each other, what governor murphy wants and something he's taking seriously this weekend as they look toward reopening more and more things in the state. that's what these guys are doing. this is the essex county sheriff's department. these are checking throughout the park, making sure folks are wearing masks and making sure they're staying socially distant from each other. if folks don't have their masks, they say go get one, come back and enjoy the park when you have one. i talked to council person jodie vincenzo and he told me this. >> the runners and the walkers are all wearing face covers,

have gloves and are cooperating. they know how important it is. if we don't follow social distancing, our numbers are still high in new jersey, and we have to start coming out of the curve. >> reporter: now, governor phil murphy in his daily press briefing today made two big pieces of news. first he said daily hospitalizations are down. the new hospitalizations are down. this number has been going up and down on a daily basis, but they are on a downward trend and that is good news. second, he said, 53 hospitals in the state will be receiving a total of $1.7 billion going towards those hospitals. this will help out the people that are directly on the front line, those workers that need it the most. joshua? >> maura, let me shift to you now. how about at that farmer's market? what precautions are people taking? >> reporter: the farmer's market is just wrapping up, the vendors pulling away, but they took the farm to table setup further as setting it up farm to car,

making it contactless between vendors and customers who are able to place their order online, pay online, show up, dismay their name in the windshield of their car, and the vendors were able to place their order in the back seat of the car or the trunk, so it made for a seamless organization here. this is opening day for this seasonal market, and the organizers were telling me this is probably going to be the new normal going forward throughout the summer. it was a community event. they talked about how most of the time this is a social event but something they had to scale back but still make sure they could support their local community. the mayor was here today. i asked him about what they're looking at going forward and if he's facing any pressure about reopening. listen in. >> there's always pressure, but we haven't had a groundswell. our numbers in south jersey have been pretty high. this virus has increased as it moved south and we have more and more cases here. we're in a pretty bad place.

farmers have told us none of their crops know there's a pandemic going on and so they've got plenty of crops to sell and they have an inability to get them to market. >> reporter: so this market presents a unique opportunity for those farmers to interact with their customers and get their crops out the door. like you heard from the mayor, there's been an uptick in cases here in south jersey over the past couple weeks and part of that might have been due to an increase in testing. again, the new jersey governor said they're putting plans into place for a slow reopening, haven't given any specific details on that or a time line because unlike other states across the country they're nowhere close to that date yet. >> at least hopefully being close to philadelphia will make it easier for some of those vendors to sell what they have so that it just doesn't go to waste. thank you both. nbc's maura barrett and gary grum grumba in new jersey. in michigan, the battle over lifting restrictions has been intense and intimidating.

on thursday, hundreds of protesters demonstrated in the state capitol against the state's emergency measures that had been set to expire. some were armed. others were heavily armed. the republican-led state legislature declined to extend the emergency declaration. in response, governor gretchen whitmer, a democrat, extended the order herself to may 28th. president trump tweeted that the governor should, in his words, give a little and make a deal with the protesters. whitmer responded to that. >> we're not in a political crisis where we should just negotiate and find some common ground here. we're in a public health crisis. we're in the midst of a global pandemic that has already killed almost 4,000 people in our state. >> michigan is among the ten hardest hit states. it has more than 42,000 cases and more than 3,800 deaths. joining us now is paul egan, the lansing chief for "detroit free press." welcome to the program. >> hi, joshua. >> where does michigan stand

with getting back to normal when it comes to reopening the state? and how is it dealing with this tension between the governor and the state legislature? >> michigan has started reopening gradually. recently green houses were reopened, golfing, which had been off-limits, permitted again. starting may 7th, construction goes back. that's a big one. real estate sales can start happening in person again. parking enforcement. anything that is normally done outdoors, forestry, those are all coming back may 7th. where the problem is from the perspective of the republican-controlled legislature is it's not happening quickly enough they believe and they would prefer much more of a regional approach. there are areas of the state that haven't had a single case yet, counties in the upper peninsula of michigan, for example, and they're pushing strongly to say some of these areas of the state should reopen

much more quickly. >> regarding these protests,er what should we make of the armed protesters? michigan state law i assume does allow them to openly carry these weapons, but has this kind of demonstrationumber of michigan residents, though, were surprised to see these photos of people standing in a public gallery with weapons that in some cases were loaded, at least people that were carrying them told me they were loaded, and looking right down on lawmakers. you know, you have lawmakers, african-american state representatives, senators from detroit who have just entered this building, seeing things like confederate flags, nooses outside, and they're sitting in this chamber with -- you know, there's no barrier, no bulletproof glass. people are looking down at them in some cases the yelling from the gallery carrying weapons. at least one state senator on thursday actually wore a

bulletproof vest to the session. >> where does this go in terms of the governor and the legislature finding common ground if they can? >> quite possibly headed to the courts, joshua. there's not a lot of negotiations going on right now. they're basically at an impasse. and the legislature has authorized legal action. they haven't filed a lawsuit yet. but that may be the next step. >> that is paul egan, the lansing bureau chief of the "detroit free press." thanks for talking to us. >> thank you. puerto rico is assessing the damage from a magnitude 5.4 earthquake. it struck this morning. no word of any deaths or injuries. much of the damage is in a city on the south central part of puerto rico. the mayor tweeted out these pictures. it follows a larger quake back in january. that prompted a major disaster declaration by president trump.

up next, our trip across america takes us to california and the battle over the beaches, a fight over sun, surf, and sand and when it might be safe to return to all of that. later, small business owners are looking for lifelines to stay afloat. how might the paycheck protection program cause problems for businesses? also at 7:00 p.m. eastern, chris jansing takes the show on the road for a special live hour here on msnbc. >> i'm chris jansing from cleveland city hall. it's hard to separate the coronavirus if the politics of it, but governor mike dewine has often bucked his republican party and his constituents have rewarded him with higher poll numbers. we'll talk the politics of coronavirus tonight in a special hour from cleveland, ohio, 7:00 eastern on msnbc. how about no

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away from starting to reopen the state, not weeks, days. that does not mean the outbreak is under control. far from it. they have 52,000 cases of coronavirus, but health experts say there are probably many more infections than that. at this rate, the caseload could double every 20 days. nbc's steve patterson joins us from laguna beach. emotions are running pretty high over beach closures and such. earlier i heard one guy tell you during a live shot to, in his words, take off the damn mask. where does this fight stand right now? >> reporter: tensions are have not severed. this is orange county, 42 miles of coastline, 3 million people, the identity of orange county tied into the beaches. look, it's just orange netting keeping people away. people are upset at that. but also, i mean, the anger is on the street. take a look at this. protesters out right now. we can show them to you. a lot of them were upset even

before this whole beach argument started. most were upset at the fact that the stay-at-home order was implemented for so long, even past the point they think we've established and broken the curve. that's what people are thinking here. now it is fuel on the fire with the fact that the governor issued that order specifically for orange county. people we spoke to say that is a singling out of people in this area. here's exactly what some of the protesters said as this gets real loud. back to you. >> there's no reason not to begin phasing in an opening. the initial order was that all beaches in the state were to be closed. that was revised overnight to be only orange county. he has a -- he seems to have an issue with orange county because he was unhappy with what happened in newport beach. if what he's saying is the virus doesn't travel in other beaches, only orange county beaches, this

man needs to look at the science. >> reporter: this comes after a few communities here have issued legal action, trying to block the order against governor newsome. this fight will continue in court and on the street. we expect more protesters as the day goes on. >> nbc's steve patterson from laguna beach, california. in pennsylvania, governor tom wolf says the state will reopen slowly with many safety precautions. pennsylvania's caseload is approaching 50,000 with more than 2,500 deaths. in delaware county, east of philadelphia, excuse me, west of philadelphia, one hairdresser says she will reopen her shop with the state's permission or without it. from our nbc station wcau, steven fish esche has the story. >> i have employees that are, like, i'm not going to be able to eat if it's four or five weeks so i had to make the decision that, you know what, i'm just going to open my

business. >> reporter: nicole and her other barbers at giovanni's barbershop have been hanging on by a hair since the pandemic hit. >> unemployment hasn't kicked in. all the loans that they told us to apply for, the sba loan, that never came through. >> reporter: as of now, p.a. barbershops like nicole's are not supposed to be open, and knowing the health risks that exist, she's prepping to make it as safe as possible. >> i have uv lights that i have put in all of the top drawers that will be extra sanitation. getting my floor completely redone. i have a guy who's going to put partitions in between each station so we'll be separated. >> reporter: and clients will be waiting outside in their cars. she'll check their temperatures upon entry and have touchless sanitizer, face shields, masks, and every barber got bar ba side certified. she could face fines if she opens before the state allows. >> i'm really, really nervous about that. i don't want my license to get

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hour. president trump traveled to camp david yesterday. press secretary kayleigh mcenany said it would be a working weekend. the white house is reportedly blocking dr. anthony fauci from testifying before the house about the response to the coronavirus pandemic. the administration is letting dr. fauci testify before the senate, which is republican controlled. democrats control the house. as for fight against the virus, the fda is granting an emergency use authorization for remdesi r remdesivir. that drug will be used on the most severely ill coronavirus patients. meanwhile, most of the country is still under some kind of stay-at-home order. npr studied mobile phone location data and found a decline in social distancing. more americans are apparently leaving their homes now compared to just a few weeks ago. and here in new york, the epicenter of america's outbreak,

today governor andrew cuomo noted a slight increase in deaths but fewer hospitalizations. still cuomo says the death toll has remained, in his words, terrifyingly high. yesterday the governor announced that schools in new york state will remain closed for rest of the academic year. classes will continue online. now to the sexual assault allegations against former vice president and apparent democratic nominee joe biden. yesterday in an exclusive interview on "morning joe," biden denied it, saying nothing happened between him and tara reade when she was a staff assistant for him in the senate. >> would you please go on the record with the american people? did you sexually assault tara reade? >> to. it is not true. i'm saying unequivocally. it never, never happened. look, from the very beginning, i've said believing women means taking the woman's claim

seriously. when she steps forward and then vet ted look into it. that's true in this case as well. women have a right to be heard and investigate claims they make. i'll always uphold that principle. but in the end, the truth is what matters, and in this case, the truth is the claims are false. >> tara reade claims the assault happened in 1993. she says that she filed a complaint with the senate, though that complaint by her account was for harassment and not assault. biden says there is no record of the complaint, but he is calling for the government to release any related records. mike, what is the latest on this accusation and the related documents? >> reporter: at this point, it's important to make a distinction between the kind of corroboration that may exist for the allegation that tara reade has been making over the last several weeks in the number of interviews including with nbc news. there's a corroboration that

might exist with conversations she said she sad with individuals at the time and in subsequent years. and there's this question of whoo might exist in terms of documentation for any complaints she might have filed with a senate personnel office at the time. i'm going to apologize because new developments on this in the last hour and i want to read carefully and will be looking at my phone to do so because the wording is important. when we first spoke with tara, she described filing a personnel complaint with the senate, she said at the time the complaint she filed had to do with harassment but that she did not allege assault. now, in an interview that just was posted by the associated press with readthaeshgs e that on friday, she said she described her issues with biden but the words she used, she did not use sexual harassment. i used uncomfortable in the report. she's saying to the associated press the word she used in the report she filed with the senate did not specifically saija -- say harassment.

my colleague, ali, was told that she she filed a complaint regarding sexual harassment and retaliation, but i'm not sure what explicit words i used on that intake form until i see it again. so these changes potentially in what she is saying over time are important here, given the serious gravity of what she's alleging here. you heard the former vice president yesterday in that interview with "morning joe" and in his statement as well he released to the press describing what he is viewing as potential inconsistencies in her account going forward, and so this is something that the campaign and frankly the entire country will be very closely tracking now as we continue to look into these allegations. >> you know, mike, i'm looking at the text message you're looking at too. it says i filed a complaint regarding sexual harassment and retaliation. those two things could be quite different depending on the rules of the senate. i mean, harassment is the act. retaliation would be some kind of punishment or additional pressure as a result of reporting the act. so that seems to add potentially another layer of complexity or

confusion or question to all of this. >> reporter: and that's why it's so important what the biden campaign and the vice president himself did yesterday, which was to say first, of course, that they don't believe any record exists because as multiple staff who were in the office at the time have since told us, they don't recall this being raised with anybody at the time. so the fact that biden is saying if such a record exists he's asking the secretary of the senate to petition to the national archives who may have custody of those records to do a full search for any personnel complaint that exists, and if they find something to release that to the public. they also broad than to include any other related documents that may exist involving reade. so this is something that obviously is an important fact going forward, and of course the biden campaign insisting that no such record exists in their view, but they're calling for steps to be take within the senate and the national archives to clarify that point. >> all right. thank you, mike. mike memoli joining us from

washington. be sure to watch the reverend al sharpton's interview with joe biden on "politics nation" today at 5:00 p.m. eastern, 2:00 pacific on msnbc. their motto was always "keep the peace." now it's "stop the spread." the institute for nonviolent chicago works to eradicate gun violence in at-risk communities. now it's rallying to fight covid-19. they're distributing as many as 3,000 meals per week to struggling residents. currently, illinois is battling more than 56,000 cases of coronavirus with more than 2,400 covid-19-related deaths. nbc's shaquille brewster joins us with more from chicago. how are they grappling with the coronavirus in its communities where it's been able to have an influence on violence? >> reporter: i spoke to an outreach worker from that organization and he described it as fighting a two-headed dragon, because, yes, as you saw in that

video, as they're working with the community to do things like pass out meals, pass out masks and hygiene kits to help stop the impact of the coronavirus and the spread of that virus in the disproportionate impact on that community, they're dealing with the uptick and continuation of gun violence in this city. we learned from police data released in the past couple days that in the month of april, chicago, while they saw a 30% decline in overall crime, so things like burglaries were down to 20-year lows, thabs nt is noe same with shootings. shootings were up in the month of april, 7%. i spoke to the superintendent and a senior director from that community group. listen to how they explain the difficulties of having to combat both issues at once. >> people live in very uncertain times, the covid pandemic, have to also deal with gun crime. worrying about getting shot or

some other type of violence. >> even though our mission is violence prevention, we understand that that all starts with root cause, right, with people lack regular sources. so we're good. we're happy to be able to fill in the gap and help our community. >> reporter: all of this is still happening as the state has extended its stay-at-home order another month in the state of illinois, not expiring until the end of may. you're seeing the violence continue and the spread continue. yesterday the state announced the highest daily total of new coronavirus cases, about 3,100 cases, over 100 lives lost just in that 24-hour period. you're seeing both issues, both epidemics having to be dealt with by officials here in chicago. joshua? >> yeah. this is a tough one. chicago has made progress in recent years in terms of reducing gun violence. that needs to be noted. so for them to have to deal with this again when we're already dealing with a larger pandemic i think feels like insult on top of injury. shaq brewster in chicago. small businesses are the

backbone of america's economy. no wonder there's so much concern about us falling over. these businesses employ nearly 60 million people, many of whom are searching for lifelines. in the latest episode of the podcast "into america," nbc's jermaine lee spoke with the owner of a pet supply store on how he is navigating the government's paycheck protection program and joins us now to discuss it. tremain, tell us about this business owner. what's his situation like right now? >> thanks for having me. andy has a chain of supply shops, three of them. he opened them up in 2017, poured his heart, his soul, his life savings into the operation. he wasing in as customers. then covid-19 hit and his sales went down 60%. even though he's trying to get innovative in terms of making sales online and doing curbside

delivery to folks it's been a tough time for him. let's take a listen to what he had to say. >> i filled out five applications for the ppp loan program. i have not heard from any of those companies, whether or not it's pending, whether or not it went through, whether or not i got denied. i don't know if it's coming, if it's not, if it's stuck, if i need to do anything. there's no communication whatsoever. i feel like i'm on a desert island. i don't know if help is coming. there's no way to communicate, to find out what's going on, and it's just i got to wait and see. >> reporter: that feeling of being alone and isolated, on a desert island is exacerbated by the fact when that first round of aid, $2349 billion of aid, that little guys like andy were trying to get the a piece of to stay afloat, they watched others gobble up the enormous piece of the pie in a matter of weeks. so andy couldn't get a piece of

it. they're struggling. he's still applying for the second round. he hasn't heard back yet. but he's hoping beyond hope that something opens up and something falls in his lap just to keep his business afloat. >> the paycheck protection program, tremain, requires that 5% of the funds go to employee salaries and no more than 25% can go to rent, mortgage, interest, utilities, things like that. i imagine that those rules make it a deal breaker for businesses in higher-cost areas, right? >> you have to imagine that's a real sticking point. while a bunch of businesses across the country would love to get any bit of money to help them pay their employees, their utilities, rent is a big deal. imagine you're in new york or chicago or san francisco or any other high-rent metropolitan area, how tough it is. andy in massachusetts, he's not in a big city, but the utility company is still calling. at least he was able to cut a deal with his landlord where he only has to pay 50% of his rent. 50%. but imagine elsewhere that's

really tough. it's not just paying your employees, not just maybe you can get more takeout orders out and try to reap some of your money. it's that rent that's a big deal. many businesses, quite frankly, quite sadly, won't be able to survive this. they're now one, two, three months behind in rent. >> i remember how many businesses in san francisco closed when they were doing well paying the rent, so you can only imagine what it's like now. trymaine lee. subscribe to "into america" wherever you get your podcasts. coming up, a crisis within a crisis. many health care workers are struggling to protect themselves physically and mentally. that was driven home by the suicide of an e.r. doctor this week. what can we do to help? so chantix can help you quit slow turkey. along with support, chantix is proven to help you quit. with chantix you can keep smoking at first and ease into quitting so when the day arrives,

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today in the skies over washington and baltimore, the thunderbirds soared overhead as a thank you to personnel fighting the coronavirus. today's flyover follows similar trips across new york, new jersey, and philadelphia this week. the america strong flyovers will continue around the country until mid-may. these flyovers are spectacular. i could see it from my apartment the other night.

but are they doing more to cheer up health care workers or the rest of us? these lifesaving workers face extremely long hours and great personal risk and the kind of trauma some compare to being in a war zone. >> and then i see the nurse now for about 12, 13 years in icu but i've never seen patients that are this sick. >> i was not prepared to enter into an entire unit and multiple units with droves of relatively healthy patients who were now fighting for their life with covid pneumonia. i've seen families lose parents, brothers, sisters, multiple family members in one family, and it's really terrible. >> lorna breen was an e.r. doctor who took her own life last sunday evening. she was the medical director of the emergency department at new york presbyterian allen hospital. she contracted and recovered from covid-19, but her family says she never recovered from the stress she experienced treating others.

>> she had 12-hour shifts. and when she finished, she said i can't leave. nobody's leaving. i have to stay and help. and i kept telling my sister, you know, you can't -- if you can't function, you can't help anybody. you have to sleep. you have to rest. she didn't want to give up. she would not give up. she would not let it break her which, of course, it did. >> joining us now is dr. wendy dean, the co-founder of moral injury of health care. she has served as an e.r. doctor and a psychiatrist. welcome. >> thank you very much for having me. >> clarify that term in your group's name, moral injury. what is moral injury? >> so moral injury is when a physician or another health care provider, a clinician, knows what their patient needs and is unable to get it to them because of some -- their hands are tied. there's a corporatization of

care that doesn't allow them to get what their patient needs. >> you wrote a piece about how deaths like dr. breen's might be a hint of the next covid-19 crisis. elaborate on that. >> much like the infectious disease doctors and the intensive care doctors, the emergency care doctors were seeing what was happening with the virus coming from china and elsewhere, we as mental health professionals, are looking at the trauma that our health care providers are sustaining in this fight. and what we are saying is they look great right now because they put their heads down and they take care of patients that are in front of them and they will do what it takes to keep their patients alive the best they can. but when they have a minute to breathe, when they have a minute to step back and start processing all of the trauma that they'd experienced, that's

when we start to see some of the challenges, the psychological stressors and the psychological coping challenges that come with an experience of trauma like this. >> you know, it's hard to go a day here in manhattan, at least where i live, without hear eight [ applause ] or honking horns or music playing, something to show health care workers we care about them and we're grateful. is that actually helpful or does it just kind of call more attention to this nightmare that they're living through? >> so i think it's helpful. it is really powerful for health care workers and other essential workers who know that they are supported so broadly by the general public. that's really a balm. the thing that worries me about it is heroes aren't allowed to be weak. heroes aren't allowed to grieve. they're not allowed to cry. really they're not allowed to

feel. they're asked to be strong for everyone. and i think we really need to recognize that health care workers need the opportunity to put down their cape, to put down their protective equipment, and to be human when their shift is over and when the pandemic wave passes. >> back to dr. breen, i want to play one more clip from today. she said something else about how covid-19 impacted her sister. listen. >> when you think about what happened to lorna, do you believe it was a result of her being sick with covid, or do you believe it was a result of her having to work so hard under these incredibly strenuous conditions because of covid? >> savannah, i know for myself, i know in my heart that it was both. she had covid and i believe that it altered her brain. and then she went back to the

most horrific, unimaginable conditions and for somebody whose life's calling is helping people, and she just couldn't help enough people, and the combination was just untenable. >> dr. dean, before we let you go, ma what do you make of that? >> i absolutely agree. i mean, i think this is part of the heartbreak of what's happening now is physicians are doing their level best, all of the clinicians in health care, everyone on the front lines, including emts and paramedics, are doing their best to take care of patients who are desperately ill. we hold ourselves to the highest standards, and when we can't get what we need for our patients or can't keep them alive no matter how hard we fight, we suffer as a result of that. we care deeply about the patients we take care of, even if it's only for 20 minutes or half an hour, and especially when it's as long as covid is

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