for worth emery university and -- for emery university and for the communist party of china. conducting similar research projects at both institutions. despite the clear conflict of interest, he failed to report any of his at least $500,000 in foreign income on his federal tax returns. that very same day a professor at university of arkansas was arrested on charges of wire fraud for allegedly failing to disclose his ties to the chinese government despite being required to do so as a grant recipient from nasa. nasa. and just this past week we found out that this problem had rooched my home -- reached my home state of ohio when the department of justice announced the arrest of a professor affiliated with the cleveland clinic. he received $3.6 million from the national institutes of health. again, taxpayer dollars. to secure that grant, he is accused of lying to hide the fact that he was given a deanship at university of wuhan china and lied about his chinese research overlapping his n.i.h. research. according to the criminal complaint, he received $3 million in funding to china

carlo del rio, the dean at emery school of medicine. dr. emery, normally i would go to you first, you have the most degrees and you are the s scientist here. but this is the antiscientist. to the president, this seems like a game. a giant game. why am i saying that? listen to how he presented it. listen to how excited he was to divulge this news. >> i was just waiting to see your eyes lighted up when i said this, but -- you know, when i announce this. i've taken it for about a year and a half now and i'm still here. >> he couldn't wait to see reporters faces, mayor landrieu. this is not a game. 90,000 americans have died, and this is just dumb. he just wasted another day where he could have been doing something to help the american people to keep that number down, and instead, he's preening and bragging about taking a drug that science so far has shown shows no benefits. >> it's really incredible. if my kids were around they would say daddy, that's cray cray. and essentially this is really about leadership. this is where we are. it isn't a

yet emery saw no humor in the matter. [laughter] many advocates suggested renaming free enterprise or not worrying about the definition as the message of the ad campaign of the early 1950's suggested which says that the name does not matter, only the meaning. you cannot really see the text here, but the basic messages we know what it means so let us not fuss too much about the definition. my favorite moment in this quandary about definitions was when the president of brown ofversity, and the father the men who became reagan secretary of the treasury pointed out in 1943 that free enterprise is the subject upon which, when definitions are avoided, nearly everybody can agree. [laughter] true enough. let me step back and tell you about the broader aims of my book. here we have the table of contents. i tried to trace the changing meaning of this seemingly straightforward term, free enterprise. i examine the history of the term in the united states dating back to the 1830's. the book primarily focuses on the battle that emerged

the run you know as mcintyre trade emery's when there are no. gardening. you have to put it out. seeing as how. we are have our mask on and a ring round ring in new york which is considered one of them were area out west and westchester made the news because. lawyer and you rest now being known as patient 0 to measure to manhattan and that's how we started spreading the new york. heart. managed to get our own or made. me. wish that my sister works for a new york presbyterian hospital she has been now is already going to be on. for the name are my uncle who have been proclaimed that if michael vick 19 it's unfortunate that there are 16 the number and that it's a lot of war and black and spanish and me and minority people that are getting need who are. the core population are dying one as in everyday circumstances when you go to a hospital in new york city and probably in any other age the 1st thing they actually raised you having been a 4 or 5 different times that i've been we have not been able to get health insurance yet they're telling you you can keep your health insurance but

let's bring in emery university medical school, the doctor there, anis meta. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> let me start here, those four days -- we can put up the findings of your study. it reduced the median recovery time by four days, 11 days down from 15. of course nobody wants to be in the hospital, everybody wants to recover and go home. what do those four days buy you? a less likelihood of permanent injury or scarring? what's saved by those four days? >> for the last two months or so i've been taken care, with my colleagues, of several patients with covid-19, some have mild cases but many have more severe cases and end up in the hospital for a long period of time. at emery we were honored to be part of this clinical trial to look at the medicine called remedesivir to see if it would improve the outcome of our patients with covid-19. we're still waiting for the final data to come out in a few weeks but the preliminary data indicates we're able to get patients home four days earlier than if they're receiving standard of care. that four days allo

we were fortunate at emery to be one of the initial sites, along with our colleagues in the network andnitiate the study in very early of march. we very quickly enrolled much more quickly than we thought and therefore we have answers as that was released by dr. fauci yesterday. their preliminary data but important data. >> so you've got presumably you got a control group and variable group, the control group not on the treatment. the variable group is getting the treatment. can you describe the folks that are getting the treatment, how sick are they and how is the drug administered and what does it do? >> so those are excellent questions, chris. this drug is administered i.v. through the vein so it can only be delivered to patients in the hospital and the trial is a double blind placebo control trial. half receive the medicine, half just receive fluids. the doctors, nurses, patients and their families do not know which ones they're getting and will not know until they complete the study. >> what does the -- what does it do? does the drug doing and what are the results showing that dr. f

. >> reporter: and there's more encouraging news from the emery discovery. using blood plasma donations from people who recovered, researchers should be able to isolate the antibodies that block the virus. then inject those in to people who are already sick carl goldman donated blood after taking 29 days to recover from covid-19 >> and they, they are speculating that because i spent so long with the virus that i built up so many antibodies off the charts >> sgl >>. >> reporter: the question, if you recovered from covid, how long do you have antibodies to give you protection >> will they still be there in the fall or next winter if we get another wave of, you know, the sars cov-2 infection, will they still be around at that point and be able to provide protection? >> and we don't know that right now >> no. >> if the antibodies do provide immunity then people who have antibodies could have a immunity passport, allowing them clearance to return to work and perhaps even travel lester. >> encouraging news tonight, tom costello, thank you. >>> tonight, parts of al

curran is now the dean of the school of public health at emery university and co-director of the emery center for aids research. dr. curran, it's an honor to have you here with us. thanks for your time. >> thank you, rachel. >> with what you have lived through and the response that you helped lead, to what was then an unknown virus that took a terrible toll in the united states, i wanted to ask you, like, sort of the biggest possible top-level question of how you think our country is doing. how you think our federal government is doing at responding to and -- and -- and mounting a fight against this virus now? >> well, rachel, this is the public-health crisis of the century. this is something people haven't seen before and nobody will see again. everyone in public health will, just like people did with world war ii, say where were we before covid? and where were we after covid? the country has been overwhe wod by it. more so than most countries and we haven't had a very clear messaging or very clear aim at goals. you pointed out, i think quite clearly, in the previous segment, that acc

. >> yeah, tear up a little bit >> now that i've done it it's a treasured am emery i'll never forget and it was more for me than them. >> reporter: a principal's journey measured in 800 miles and 612 smiles joe friar, nbc news. >> isn't that terrific up next he's got scoops on big news and he's just 10 >>> before we go tonight we wanted to let you know that our latest installment of "nightly news" kids edition is now available. dr. john torres shows us just how coronavirus spreads. plus we'll meet a 10-year-old who loves news so much he created his own newspaper, and we'll kpr introduce you to this dynamic duo lending a helping hand our brand new episode of "nightly news" kids edition is on the nbc news youtube page right now, also nbcnews.com and peacock. and that's "nightly news." i'm lester holt. please take care of yourself and each other. >> kelly: hey, what's upcoming all, it's me again from montana. i hope you are staying safe and being healthy. and happy cinco de mayo! let's celebrate with a beverage! i do every day that encinal y. today i am showing you one of my #phonealone

for worth emery university and -- for emery university and for the communist party of china. conducting similar research projects at both institutions. despite the clear conflict of interest, he failed to report any of his at least $500,000 in foreign income on his federal tax returns. that very same day a professor at university of arkansas was arrested on charges of wire fraud for allegedly failing to disclose his ties to the chinese government despite being required to do so as a grant recipient from nasa. nasa. and just this past week we found out that this problem had rooched my home -- reached my home state of ohio when the department of justice announced the arrest of a professor affiliated with the cleveland clinic. he received $3.6 million from the national institutes of health. again, taxpayer dollars. to secure that grant, he is accused of lying to hide the fact that he was given a deanship at university of wuhan china and lied about his chinese research overlapping his n.i.h. research. according to the criminal complaint, he received $3 million in funding to china

s emery showing reports. that no entry without gloves and a mask employees here tell people.the mini market in the center of moscow is sticking to the city's new rules despite a huge drop in profits due to lock down measures the store can now only let people wearing protective gear shop. research when environment we all know that these are precautionary measures that people are unhappy about them it's hard to find gloves and masks at the pharmacy at the moment otherwise we would give them out to people so that they could buy things at our store. restaurants and non-essential stores remain closed in the capital but construction work has now we started the author worries have said that workers aren't at risk of infecting the public. on monday president vladimir putin announced an official end to the so-called non-working period in russia allowing a gradual easing of the lockdown across the country. again. based on an analysis of the situation and on the opinion of the chief medical officers the heads of each individual region will decide what restrictive and preventative measur

let's get a check on what's going on with emery.n germany,ction is where you are sitting, but the european markets this morning are risk on. they are shrugging off the geopolitical tensions that we have been seeing and ramping up the rhetoric between washington and beijing. is outperforming, up and the british pound this morning, trading below 122. this is one to watch, given that we will have dominic cummings giving this speech with a lot of pressure on the prime minister. and oil this morning is up more than 1%. they say demand will be back in the market has been discussing whether we have reached peak oil demand as the pandemic fast forwards the outlook. something going on with corporate space, lufthansa is a huge story, the stock is up more than 6% and we had that final , and we reach with as much as 9 billion euros, and schultz was covering this story closely, as well as buyer -- they are -- bayer, reaching an settle on number of cancer lawsuits. this has been a dark clouds since they have been in the monsanto deal. nowvw was n

on a rooftop parking lot over at emery university medical center.d these dozen aircraft also did a formation over the washington, d.c., and baltimore maryland areas paying respect to the health care workers. now they're over the skies of atlanta. >>> 44 states across the country have announced school closures throughout the end of the academic year. schools are beginning to think critically about plans for the opening of their doors. it's not just a question of when, but how will they do it. >> what does reopening mean for the second largest school district in dallas? good to see you. dallas another one of my favorite cities, and a former resident of. your school district is one of the 44 among the 44 states who have said you won't be back in session until at least the fall. as you try to reassess reopening, how do you prioritize, what will it look like potentially? >> we've made some decisions. obviously for summer school, everything is virtual at home. we're going to pivot to the fall. the first plan is business as usual, which is doubtful. plan b

even the lead investigator for the vaccine trial at emery university says nothing is certain. >> if it'sful, it could allow us to shorten the timeline for developing new vaccines in the future. but it comes with its own challenges. >> dr. evan anderson says challenges for this type of vaccine include that it's difficult to store, difficult to mass produce and no one knows yet whether it's effective. the nih is testing moderna's vaccine on humans without waiting for animal trials. a speed that was unheard of before the pandemic. >> the company is already preparing to produce its vaccine in mass quantities on the sheer hope it gets approved and can be distributed almost immediately. >> the biggest source of pressure is the fact that this is personal. i think for my colleagues and i who are in the front line of trying to develop a vaccine, it's an equal weight of the sense of potential that we can do something about it and a tremendous sense of responsibility that we have to do something about it. >> reporter: alisyn, moderna is moving on to the next phases. phase 2, phase 3. if, if all goe

he is survived by his wife paulette, his daughter, adrian, and son emery. paulette joins us now. loss. we really appreciate you being here to talk about john, and so did you know that he was going to be one of the thousand names on the front page of the "new york times"? >> actually i had no idea. when i heard about it, i had an inkling. i don't know, john always somehow would manage to get on that front cover, and he did. >> and so they hadn't alerted you that it was going to be, but you had a suspicion, and so did you go looking for his name or did it pop out at you? >> i'm telling you, as soon as i looked at the page, his name popped out right away. the first thing i saw was his name, and i actually when i bought the physical copy of the paper, same thing happened, right there. it was unbelievable. it was so surreal, knowing that memorial day, you know, it's a day and time when we honor the dead and also his birthday weekend, when we would celebrate his birthday, so i just thought it was, although grim, it was just a beautifultry bite just for that purpose. >> wow. i mean, tha

colleen kraft at emery university hospital. here's your chance to speak to america to tell them if they are going to go out this holiday weekend, how to do it safely. what's the one or two things people should do? >> we need to -- good morning. we need to do the things that we've been talking about for all this time, right? we need to maintain social distancing, we need to work on our own hand and face hygiene. if we are around people that are coughing or sneezing, avoid them. so these are the things that we've been talking about throughout the pandemic. those should not change just because the weather is nice and the new jersey beaches are open. >> right. the virus is not taking a holiday. be as vigilant as you have been. i want to ask you about a couple developments that percolated over the last few hours. concern about hotspots in the south. there have been models that have suggested spikes in some of the cities and we're actually seeing it in certain places. let's talk about alabama. montgomery, alabama, the mayor is down t

juthani is back with us and also joining us an associate professor of infectious diseases at emery universityl of medicine. in 2014, he treated the first ebola patient to come to the united states. as we look at this, what we know about winter, the incredibly helpful llama, in all seriousness, the way i understand it, the antibodies that llamas have work differently, perhaps better than what humans have. because they found that her antibodies worked in staving off sars and mers, they decided to try coronavirus and they got a pretty good response. so i'm just wondering, as you look at this, could winter and her friends really provide some sort of hope here? >> i think this is a very promising start. so what we've been talking about with people getting antibody tests is that the tests would give a signal as to whether you've been exposed. what we haven't known if those antibodies are in fact neutralizing antibodies, meaning they could neutralize the virus and prevent infection. what we're seeing with this particular thing is that these antibodies seem to neutralize the virus which is an excitin

colleen kraft at emery university hospital and juliette kayyem, former assistant secretary at the department of homeland security. so juliette, 47 states will be partially reopened by sunday. each of these states, no doubt, wants some kind of guidance about how to do it safely. as we've been discussing, the cdc put together a 17-page document. it was, cnn has reported, rejected by the administration but now dr. deborah birx in what seems to be a reversal says it's still being reviewed and will be released at some point. people do want the guidance. it seems she got the message that something has to come out? >> i think so. or maybe something about the timing that the administration wants it to go faster and maybe the cdc document was cautious. it sounds like the cdc really does want it out and may be doing these leaks to force the white house's hand. the irony here is of course, that many of these businesses that the white house wants open so badly cannot open until they have guidance or at least sort of approval by public health authorities. think about restaurants, think about places where

. >> next emery kell life florida today. reporter: hi. thanks for doing this. i appreciate. i am wondering with this being the first time humans have had a chance to experience flying on a falcon 9 and crew dragon after all of these years of them flying, you have gotten any input from bob and doug? is it a smooth ride? what was it like? thank you. jim: i have not heard specifically as to how it flies. i do know we will hear from them soon. i don't know at what point that will take place, i don't know if you have that information? >> no. elon: i think a friend of mine who is a film maker said you need to puttic? the cram to make it look more realistic. [laughter] >> our next question is from paul of upi. reporter: yes. i would like to ask elon. i realize the mission is not over. it is significant achievement at this point. what is the impact of success for this program on spacex as whole? including development of starship? elon. well, think, obviously, an accomplishment for spacex in partnership with nasa and number of critical spires in fact, think about the total number of

stories there tonight, 7-year-old girl is dead and her 3-year-old sister missing in a flash flood in emery county. searches -- they are still searching right now. they searched late last night for the missing girl and it resumed this morning. that's tonight's look outside the beltway from "special report." we'll be right back. ♪ fifty years ago, humpback whales were nearly extinct. they rebounded because a decision was made to protect them. making the right decisions today for your long-term financial future can protect you and your family, and preserve your legacy. ask a financial advisor how retirement and life insurance solutions from pacific life can help you plan for your future. because i trust their quality they were the first to have a vitamin verified by usp... ...an independent organization that sets strict quality and purity standards nature made, the #1 pharmacist recommended vitamin and supplement brand ♪ >> ♪ o'er the land of the free ♪ and the home ♪ of the brave >> bret: that was new public service announcement by the just keep living foundation designed to try to been peop

carlos del rio, the executive associate dean at the emery university school of medicine and juliette kayyem. 67,000 deaths in the ubs. i want to play for you what the president said in the last few weeks in terms of what he's expecting in terms of the death count. >> so we're talking about maybe 60,000 or so. that's a lot of people. but that's 100,000 was the minimum we thought we could get to of the we'll be lower than that number. we would have had millions of deaths. it looks like we'll be at a 60,000 mark, which is 40,000 less than the lowest number thought of. at 50 or 60,000 people. >> we're now at 67,000 deaths. the president now says 100,000 is possible. dr. del rio, i want to ask juliette in a second. we're going to talk about the political messaging and why he was so wrong here. i'm more interested in the public health implications. why is the daily death rate so stubbornly high between 1300, more than 2,000 every day, depending what day of the week it is, the daily count of new cases between 25,000 and 30,000 every day. stubbornly high. why doesn't this seem to move? >> be

want to go now to a volunteer in the moderna coronavirus vaccine trial and also a medical student at emeryyou've now gotten two doses of the vaccine, so have you been tested for antibodies yet? >> thanks for having me again, erin. as a participant the investigators aren't sharing the specific results for each patient with the vej patient so unfortunately i don't know whether i specifically have been able to generate antibodies against the vaccine. >> so, right, so i guess it's blind to you so they're not going to tell you, but the part of the trial you're technically in and even though they're getting those important results now you're two doses in and two shots in have you had any side effects? >> i'm very happy to say after the first dose i didn't experience any side effects and the same has been true after the second dose as well, and i think it's consistent with the results moderna has released for safety for most of the participants in the low and medium dose groups. i was in the medium dose group. so hopefully this is a good sign for more folks moving forward in these phase 2 and pha

at emery university in atlanta, scientists there are leading the clinical study looking at remdesivir and how it impacts and can potentially help covid-19 patients. we spoke to the doctor leading that trial, and he said so far the results have been positive. listen here. >> we were able to show in this very preliminary data that remdesivir was helping at least certain patients get home to their families faster and, therefore, prevent some of the complications for having covid-19 for such a long period of time and also making more room available in our hospitals for further patients with covid-19. >> reporter: remdesivir is an antiviral drug. unlike other drugs, such as hydroxychloroquine, doctors say this one has few side effects which is why they looked at it as potential treatment for covid-19. >> nbc's ellison barber. breaking news coming from the state department. secretary of state mike pompeo just responded to a question about president trump's firing of the inspector general. he says he was the one who recommended the firing. >> first, the president has the unilateral right to

joining us now, elizabeth cohen and associate dean of emery school of medicine.ad you again the statement that dr. fauci sent to the "new york times" overnight. said, quote, if we skip over the checkpoints and the guidelines to open america again, then we risk the danger of multiple outbreaks throughout the country. this will not only result in needless suffering and death, but would set us back on our quest to return to normal. two things, frankly, here, number one, he knows this is a tonal contrast to what the president said. but, number two, dr. del rio, he praises it in a hypothetical, if we skip over the checkpoints and guidelines when he knows it's not a hypothetical. you just have to look at the map of the cases around the country right now, we can put that up on the screen, you can see all the states in red have cases going up over the previous week. and the ones in beige there are static when the guidelines say you need to see a decrease in 14 days. by in large, dr. fauci knows the country is not doing what he's warning against. why do you think he's say

. >> next emery kell life florida today. reporter: hi. thanks for doing this. i appreciate.wondering with this being the first time humans have had a chance to experience flying on a falcon 9 and crew dragon after all of these years of them flying, you have gotten any input from bob and doug? is it a smooth ride? what was it like? thank you. jim: i have not heard specifically as to how it flies. i do know we will hear from them soon. i don't know at what point that will take place, i don't know if you have that information? >> no. elon: i think a friend of mine who is a film maker said you need to puttic? the cram to make it look more realistic. [laughter] >> our next question is from paul of upi. reporter: yes. i would like to ask elon. i realize the mission is not over. it is significant achievement at this point. what is the impact of success for this program on spacex as whole? including development of starship? elon. well, think, obviously, an accomplishment for spacex in partnership with nasa and number of critical spires in fact, think about the total number of people

james curran, co-director of the emery centers for aids research. a real pleasure to have this much time with you tonight. thanks for making time and thanks for your service. >> thank you, rachel. >>> all right. we got much more ahead tonight, this friday night. do stay with us. ahead tonight, this fridaniy ght. do stay with us. saturdays happen. pain happens. aleve it. aleve is proven stronger and longer on pain than tylenol. when pain happens, aleve it. all day strong. eh, not enough fiber... chocolate would be good... snacking should be sweet and simple. the delicious taste of glucerna gives you the sweetness you crave while helping you manage your blood sugar. with nutrients to help support immune health. with nutrients to help we're finally back out in our yard, but so are they. scotts turf builder triple action. it kills weeds, prevents crabgrass and feeds so grass can thrive, guaranteed. our backyard is back. this is a scotts yard. at t-mobile, taxes and fees are included. and right now, when you switch your family, get four lines of unlimite