many of our property owners here in rehoboth as well as along the coastal communities are from othertates, and they typically will come down on a memorial day weekend but we'll have a lot of visitors coming down, staying in hotels, rental homes. and i would say this -- this weekend, it will be a lot more delaware plates and a lot fewer out-of-state plates because many of the restrictions that have been put in place by the governor were to allow delawareans to take advantage of the beaches and not so much out of state. >> as you walk around town prior to whatever influx you're going to get -- and i'm sorry about the weather. as a jersey shore person, we're all upset that it's getting off to a rainy and gray start this weekend. what's the percentage of mask-wearing? are you satisfied with where they are? >> last weekend it was a little bit disappointing for the first weekend that we had to require masks or recommend masks. i was out on the boardwalk today even though it was raining a little bit, and i was very impressed by the number of people that were wearing masks today on the board

and as i traveled around rehoboth avenue and rehoboth beach, i saw businesses with plexiglas shields, markings on the ground and the boardwalk to designate six feet separation among people in line. i was really impressed. contrasted with what you're seeing on your program with other states, i'm just so proud of delawarians with what they're doing this memorial day weekend. we need to express our honor and our gratitude for those men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country on this somost solemn of holidays. success s >> what about the 20% of people who weren't wearing masks on the boardwalk in delaware? do they pay a price for that, are they admonished, do they get a citation? >> we've been working with rehoboth and other coastal signs creating signs to advise people of their responsibilities. and they were very evident on the boardwalk and the approaches to the beaches in rehoboth. and the beach ambassadors, beach patrol, i talked to the captain on beach patrol and a couple of his lifeguards there. they were very positive, they were focused on education first. they'l

there are after-care sites we developed in gallup and rehoboth. rehoboth is a private rural hospital that has long been troubled and is now under direct management and support by the state of new mexico, and i feel very confident that the men and women who are on the front lines, providing incredible care, are getting what they need. they're amazing. and part of our plan in new mexico all along has been to move patients to hospitals in albuquerque, santa fe, and in areas where you've got much higher percentages to serve the population, in critical care, acute care, and icu settings. and so that's always been part of our plan. and you're right, some days we were seeing two patients transferred an hour from the northwestern part of the state. so what is going on? what is going on is the navajo nation, and we sounded the alarm to the white house, months ago, about the impact on sovereign nation's, lack of testing by indian health services which i'm going to really defend them. the federal government is not giving them what they need, either. and have

>> reporter: navajo nurse kelly manuelito treated the first covid positive patient to arrive at rehoboth mckinley christian health care services. she works in the intensive care unit. >> a lot of native families there are at least five or six to eight to 10 people living in one household. and it's really disheartening to see that it can spread so easily. >> reporter: the staff of the i.c.u. was overwhelmed when they saw a spike in covid patients in late april, tied to an outbreak among the homeless population. >> it's definitely scary. i don't know one single worker who is not scared to come up. we've been working extra hours, extra days, and it's just been it's been really rough. >> reporter: manuelito says she's been able to take a break in recent days. the new mexico governor lifted a week-long lockdown after fewer cases were recently reported. but the tollas been devastating on native peoples in new mexico. they account for 50% of covid 19 deaths, nearly 60% of all of the state's covid 19 cases, even though they make up only 11% of the population. >> i grew up in the north western pa

at delaware's rehoboth beach, face coverings are mandatory on the boardwalk and encouraged on its shores. >> i was very impressed with what i saw and i feel very much much more comfortable about rolling into the first of june. >> reporter: but at this new jersey beach, most people who walked the boardwalk did so without covering their faces. officials in st. louis asking people who attended events like this pool party in the ozarks to self-quarantine for 14 days. >> the risk of contracting covid-19 is exponentially increased. >> reporter: take a look at this crowd in texas. all river tubing in close proximity. >> if i get it, everybody else getting it, eh? it's life. >> reporter: and this social media video from houston showing a pool party at a club with very few masks in sight. houston's mayor says police will begin enforcing capacity limits after hundreds of social distancing complaints over the holiday weekend. >> we have to pump the brakes. people are -- there are some who are pretending as though this virus no longer exists. and quite frankly, it's not only endangering themselves a

i'm going to take a firsthand look at several cities including rehoboth beach, delaware, philadelphiaok at how reopening is affecting the people, their families, their businesses. watch our special series "reopening america." that's all next week, on the third hour of the day, nbc news now and, of course, right here o "msnbc live" at 11:00 eastern. >>> new york governor andrew cuomo apparently watches the show live. he's decided to start his daily briefing right now. let's listen. >> facts today are good. total number of hospitalizations are down. the rolling total is down. the change in intubations, people who are put on ventilators is down. so that's very good news. and the number of new covid cases per day is also down, 163, which is the lowest it has been. that is all very, very good news from our point of view. the relatively positive news is the number of deaths continues to decline, 74. this is always painful. we'll be watching this number to see how far down it actually goes. we have a large state and the covid virus tends to attack those who are seniors and those who have und

here in d.c., we have a water fountain, not put up by the wctu, a number still survive, one in rehoboth beach and ocean city, new jersey, and they're all around the country and here in d.c., we have the cogswell temperance fountain which all of you have walked past, it is catty corner from archives navy memorial. and this is our temperance fountain. so it once was an active water fountain and the symbolism was to tell people to drink water instead of whiskey. so this was erected in the 1880s. right when the temperance movement was becoming this massive national movement and trying to again -- trying to use moral suasion to keep people from drinking alcohol. so after about 20 years or so of the wctu, that moral suasion thing wasn't really taking root. people were still drinking. it wasn't having a whole big effect other than americans had shifted after the civil war away from drinking whiskey and now they're drinking beer. and since the civil war beer has been our national beverage. and in 1893 in ohio is founded this organization known as the anti-saloon league. they only existed for 40

delaware's rehoboth beach. we'll talk to business owners -- that's right these are your people.there, the beach, philadelphia, spend time in new york, new jersey area as well, on nbc, msnbc and "nbc news now." >> hoda and i are going to take a trip as well we're going to be looking at the opening of las vegas, one company's plan to keep hotels safe the official start of hurricane season which al has his eye on a lot to get to next week. let's start with this morning and the news here at 8:00. a third night of outrage over the death of george floyd led to violence, looting, and the burning of a minneapolis police building protests have also spread to other major cities around the country. nbc's gabe gutierrez joins us now. he had a long night watching protests unfold. gabe, good morning. >> reporter: savannah, good morning. this was a powder keg and it exploded overnight take a look behind me. this is one of many buildings on fire authorities are trying to douse the flames again, many buildings in this area went up in flames overnight and now the national guard and state police a