maker tesla tumbled by more than 10 percent after a series of bizarre tweets by its chief executive ilan musk posted that the stock price was too high and said he would sell off most of his possessions. and hundreds of people defied a ban on public gatherings to celebrate may day traditionally a day of leftwing protests in the german capital activists protested against grown a virus restrictions and conditions in greece's overcrowded refugee camps. now germany and france are spearheading european efforts to fund research into a coronavirus vaccine a virtual pledging conference next week is aiming to raise 7500000000 euro european commission president ursula fundal line says the goal is to develop vaccines treatments and tests to be available worldwide and an affordable price. a scientists around the world race to develop a vaccine the e.u. is trying to rally global support in the fight against corona virus in an interview with the table you commission president person of on the lie and call for a cool ordinated approach have to build up capacities to manufacture and zillions of those and then

california authorities by reopening its plant there a truck tweeted california should let tesla and ilan musk open the plant now it can be done fast and safely the company's c.e.o. has become a leading critic of lock down measures threatening to pull operations out of the state officials don't allow production to continue. and let's bring in our financial correspondent in new york yes korda ins good to see you let's start with tesla what's behind this confrontation between the company and local authorities. you know there is this controversy who's in charge district states all the federal government and why production restarts in michigan for example next week for the big 3 california obviously and specially the district that is in charge of tesla has a different opinion by the way at the stock of tesla does not really react in a big way it has more than doubled in the pasta couple of weeks but yet this is one of the big controversies surrounding test different rules in different states and districts. doesn't this miss the bigger question of whether there's even demand for cars right now who'

ilan musk decently successful- his genius is seen as specs x. company stops itself as the lead forcing us space exploration. is seen as a test of whether his business stream of lunar travel is viable and after that of course well. the galaxy's limit i suppose the first office space flight if successful will establish with the u. s. access to the international space station under its own i'll say it's on steam i'm sure it's a lot more than that to get a rocket into space. aboard it means that the us could go there without going through the russians james andre is ourur intrepid reporter whwho's beeeen watching every development on this one james welcome to the studio great to see you- clean this is a massive store with lots of implications so. explain to us more about what's happening and what's at stake. so it is a massive story why because it is the first time since two thousand and aston was resting in the leave u. soil the spacecraft to go anywhere for that matter.r. used to be the shuttle program it was terminated two thousand eleven ever since the- consider to go through the russi

more and another example of that if you just move a couple states over is out in california where ilan musk has reopened his tesla factory in fremont california keep in mind that tesla factory it's the only one in the united states he has now put workers back on the line and said he himself he said this in a tweet he himself will be working on the line he will do so in defiance of the governor's order in california for them to remain closed he says he will not remain closed any more he's been pretty outspoken about being open and not only that but says he himself will work on the line and if they come in to arrest anyone they can arrest him you have this is a fascinating story because you know you could you could parse it out to well what if i decide i don't want to have insurance when i drive and who is the government to make me have insurance and i could think of several other examples of that so i think these are the kinds of conversations guys like you and i and maybe people even smarter than us are going to have to figure out at some point before it gets out of hand. i understand you h

going to have despite orders for tesla to stay home what is the value in this move for tesla and ilan musk. well i'm not sure what the value is necessarily tesla other than getting its operations back up and running which i guess would be valuable for any business owner what's interesting about this story is that obviously the last few weeks really has been kind of as you said there the head of this kind of tech resistance so you have companies like facebook and google that are right to kind of lockstep with government orders and musk is taking the opposite position saying that this is the united states and we shouldn't be under these kinds of of lock downs and so he's been very defiant from the beginning virtually now he has restarted production lines at that fremont california plant we also know that he tweeted out that after monday he said a good day's work and thank you for everyone for being here we know that on tuesday about 3 o'clock eastern time a letter was sent from the sheriff's department to tesla and their chief safety officer telling them to shut down and that the sheriff's d

automated system ok everyone around the world of course knows to put 3 words in the same sentence ilan musk and tesla so for the astronauts is this a little bit like test driving his latest friend b. do is he fantastic super expensive car in as much as they will report back to him and space x. and nasa what this capsule is like to fly to be in actually derek i'm going to stop you there because we're now going to go to the governor of minnesota forgive me for that derrick because of other events taking place that i'm sure aware of on the ground in the straits in this in the united states said to me all right let's just cross over there and see what he says history of our state. it started with. that tragic and senseless murder. of george floyd and it extended through the week of. righteous anger being expressed by community leaders and all people of conscience. and continued to deteriorate into to civil unrest and eventually violence and rioting this morning in minnesota the sun came up as it does this time of year bright trees are but it out flowers are up promise of of summer after a long

told employees in california to defy olokun government order and return to whack chief executive ilan musk says he'll be on the assembly line and he is ready to be arrested he's suing the county which is home to the test for a factory and system that lockdown measures must remain while the state governor has given permission for manufacturing to restart. now a drive through testing center here in canada is one of the ways that government scientists are hoping to better understand the corona virus and also when to ease restrictions more than 25000 cases have now been recorded but the mortality raises relatively low with 14 deaths most of the people infected are migrant workers who are concerned for their jobs. reports. these men are survivors of covert 1946 year old money or is a limousine driver is the only one here who needed to go to hospital when he became ill in early march the breathing problem but it will be. no help when both in the book from bubble. gum balance board in november and. abdomen your lives in a compound with 40 people he shares a bedroom with 6 others who have all test

some activity but it's not the full activity that elan musk would like to see you can see cars in the parking lot, but it is not the robust operation ilan mosque wants to happen pretty much immediately. back to you all right, thanks a lot. our coverage continues online so go to kron 4 dot com. >>so you can read all about it the work just keep watching we've got lots more here on the kron 00:04am morning news. we have some breaking news from overnight actor and comedian jerry stiller has died of natural causes. he was 92 years old, you might know his son actor ben stiller he posted this picture of his dad on twitter and the road. he was a great dad and grandfather and the most dedicated husband to and for about 62 years. he will be greatly missed love you dad, jerry stiller had a decades long career in entertainment. he was well known for his role as franken stands at george's dad on seinfeld. we'll have more on his career and most famous rules. roles coming up at 9.45 when we do the morning buzz. we're about this 26 year-old surfer who died in a shark attack off of a santa cruz will tell you what his friends are saying about bend county