it came from mount pincus followinmark zink is following jack dorsey's move last friday. >>> let's talkut travel and good news for the travel industry. the number of daily passengers screenings at the highest level since the coronavirus travel restrictions were put into place. major airlines saying flights canceled are now being added back. jana katsuyama tells us what passengers should expect. >> it's a glimmer of good news. the tsa and out nationwide they screened 250,000 passengers a day of from 90,000 in mid april and that sfo some airlines are resuming flights that have been shut down. swift airlines and lufthansa will be doing well. still, demand remains low. at sfo daily security has 3000 compared to 70,000 this time last year. we need chief psychologists because we are will looking at the psychology of the traveling public. >>reporter: concern over health and safety is pumping the industry to take new measures, mandatory masks, sanitizing wipes, social distancing and no touch scanners. new protocols. >> we purchased 750 of these devices which are ordinarily used for a passengers

zink says that while he was there, the number of cases in new york started to drop. he also said his big take away here is that we should do everything that we can to keep what is happening in new york from happening here. today, we went on the john hopkins map and we found that new york has 340,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus. that's about five times more than california. 27,000 people have died in new york. that's roughly nine times the death toll of california, and of course, california is much larger with twice as many residents then new york. >>> we do still have a few sprinkles out there. i'm keeping an eye on the weather for you, a break on the way but more rain in the extent forecast. i will have details, coming up. >>> plus, it's go to heather holmes to show you some of the stories we are working on for the 7:00 news over on ktvu plus. >>> the u.s. state department is set to review changes, potential changes to passports. we will tell you how it will affect the transgender community. >>> and putting up childhood vaccinations during the covid- 19 pandemic.

eye-opening revelation from the president that he is taking a malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine and zinkupplement in hopes of preventing coronavirus after an exposure at the white house. what the nation's experts are saying about that this morning kristen welker at the white house, good morning. >> reporter: hey, savannah, good morning to you the president's announcement he's taking hydroxychloroquine caught even some of his own top advisers off-guard in a statement overnight, the white house doctor saying he discussed using the drug with the president after a stafferer here, a valet, tested positive all those indicating the president may be more concerned about catching it that he indicat indicated. >> i'm taking it right now, hydroxychloroquine. >> reporter: overnight reaction to the president's bombshell admission he's taking the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to protect against coronavirus. >> i've heard a lot of good stories. if it's not good, i'll tell you right. i'm not going to get hurt by it. >> reporter: house speaker nancy pelosi weighing in. >> he's our president. i wou

anne zink and i've had the privilege of working with her and you have a very good protocol in trying to keep alaska safe by isolation over a period of time when you come in. as you know, we also work with the state to meet your very challenging testing requirements, because you can't really send labs out 1,000 miles away. so we put a real customized mix of point of care and also the machines, i think we sent nine or ten new to alaska and about 50,000 tests, which is about four times than you've done to date collectively in order to provide that support. so again, i do think there's a comprehensive strategy that you do have. but again, the mitigation to the degree that you can, given the circumstances, the face masks, the hand washing, the hygiene, we understand fully the challenges, particularly in the fishing environment and the remote, but all of these have to come together, the testing, the tracing, the mitigation, the hygiene factors, to try to keep your community safe. and we really understand culturally that many of your communities were almost annihilated in if 1918 influenza

anne zink and i've had the privilege of working with her, and you have a very good protocol in trying to keep alaska safe by isolation over a period of time when you come in. as you know, we also work with the state to meet your very challenging testing requirements, because you can't really send labs out 1,000 miles away. so we put a real customized mix of point of care and also the machines, i think we sent nine alaska, and about 50,000 tests, which is about four times than you've done to date collectively in order to provide that support. so again, i do think there's a comprehensive strategy that you do have. but again, the mitigation to the degree that you can, given the circumstances, the face masks, the hand washing, the hygiene, we understand fully the challenges, particularly in the fishing environment and the remote, but all of these have to come together, the testing, the tracing, the mitigation, the hygiene factors, to try to keep your community safe. and we really understand culturally that many of your communities were almost annihilated in if 1918 influenza pandemic, and

zink. so, mr. president, as you can tell, the utmost i will generals is required -- the utmost diligence is required. so is planning and so is communication and bringing people along, particularly when you're asking them to take extreme measures. and this, again, because of the leadership we have, is something that i think so far is going well in our state. as commissioner crum said, alaskans are contrarian by nature. they want to be educated. they don't want to be forced. when they were told that it was the right thing to do to comply with mandates, that if we do this now, he said, it will hurt less later, alaskans did this. commissioner crum continued -- it was the most painful thing i've ever done, asking people to close their businesses but not as painful as it was for the people who actually had to shut down their businesses. very painful. but alaskans complied, tried to take care of the overall health of the population, and we worked together. that's what commissioner crum said. mr. president