>> how will you remember carl reiner, william shatner?vision he was my early acquaintance with making people laugh but i did a show called "boston legal" and he was a guest on it. so we sat for many hours together waiting for shots and he was so amusing and insightful then i did an interview show called "raw nerve" and i interviewed him for an hour. and he made us all laugh he was a wonderful interview but then i went to a mutual friend's birthday celebration. norman corwin was an award winning radio producer in the '40s and '50s. he was an author, great playwright and producer. we both knew him, so i saw him at norman corwin's 100th birthday, if you will, all the geriatric guys wheezing enjoying each other it was quite an occasion >> what do you think -- what was his secret sauce i mean, what made him so legendary? he had that thing so many want in hollywood, longevity. >> he had that hunger to make you laugh. he was always looking to make you laugh. whatever the occasion might be, whatever the line might be, he would tell you a joke. he

let's have a look at this with william shatner who's professor of preventative medicine at vanderbilt school of medicine i joined us from city of nashville in the u.s. so welcome professor i'm what do you think should americans sit this weekend celebrations out well i think they should go out there fun they should go out carefully rather than in a carefree fashion i think we need to wear our meniscus social distancing and avoid large groups that run in that we just heard that bothers me a great deal it sounds like our last holiday memorial day weekend where many people went out in a very careless fashion and we had many many infections as a consequence we'll see what happens this year i'm really worried over i must say ok well as a number of us cases skyrockets the president has been tweeting let's take a look at what he said he said there's a rise in coronavirus cases because our testing he so massive and so good far bigger and better than any other country this is great news he said but even better news is that death and the death rate is down also younger people who get better much

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that joke i really need to get out i watch so much tv that i've now memorized the entire william shatnerleep apnea commercial william shatner here you know, i've been using a c-pap machine for over ten years and it's made a world of difference to me seriously, though, i'm watching so much tv, today i accidentally called my daughters kendall and kylie. i'm so desperate to get outside. when someone throws one item in the garbage, i bag it out and take it out to the trash can brb. be right back. i'm really running out of ways to stay entertained. last night i left our back door open and prayed raccoons would come in. things are getting a little crazy at the house this afternoon i went into the bathroom and caught my roomba in the dark watching "wall-e." "someone's in here." my roomba told me to knock i saw that hallmark is giving away one million free cards so people can send notes to loved ones that's really great because if there's one thing we need right now it's people touching licked envelopes. and finally, i saw a poll that said men are less likely to follow social distancing guidelin

william shatner, a professor of infectious disease at vanderbilt university. i see you're wearing your mask which is what we should all be doing. joe, i'm going to start with you, though. let's start with one of the most common myths that wearing a mask deprives you of oxygen. i hope everyone is watching this, okay. here's your experiment. >> according to the american home association there's no evidence that a drop in oxygen levels -- a-plus. i don't want any one claiming i don't have six masks on. one mask, two mask, three masks, four masks, five masks, six masks. >> breathing while wearing a mask may feel like it takes more effort but it's not going to cause people to suffocate. >> that's right. it's new for many people. surgeons, doctors, nurses have been wearing masks in their work for over a hundred years now. hours at a time, not just the five minutes i did there in the video. they would have told us. and so many doctors and surgeons have taken to the internet to show their own experiments hooked up to much more expensive machines to show that this real

shatner and dr. wallenski join us. first these troubling numbers out of florida's miami-dade county. icus at 122% capacity, when you hear that, what is your reaction? >> good afternoon, ana. sadly, i'm not surprised. we saw numbers going up in florida about a week, two, three weeks ago. we know that the number that come to the hospital is about a week after symptoms start. then a week after that is when the icus start getting full. we could have anticipated this. we did anticipate this. and what i think is most conc n concerning is that the numbers still keep rising, at a preopinion to us incline and that where we are right now is actually going to be better than where we anticipate we will be in the weeks ahead. >> dr. shafter, the florida governor refused to do a mask mandate, is defending his decision to keep gyms open. listen. >> that's not something that i am going to close. partially because if you look, you talk to any physician, particularly the people that are under 50, if you are in good shape, you know, you

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william shatner is here. doctor, good to see you. thank you so much for joining. we looked at the study she reference and while kids are less likely to get sick from the coronavirus, health officials say transmission in children is still very unclear. tell us what we know. >> what we know, don, is that those countries that have reduced transmission -- we haven't -- but those countries that have reduced transmission have been either able to keep their schools open or open them up, but that's in an environment where community transmission is very low. now, we're going to take the science and apply it and help the schools try to open up, because that will happen across the country. and the general principles, wearing masks, disinfection, six foot distancing and avoiding groups are going to be applied to the schools, and the schools are doing a whole lot dinfferen things. taking the temperatures, there will be a symptom screen. if your child that has symptoms don't send them to school. there will be staggered hours of operation so there's not crowding coming and leavi

shatner said her risks are quite low because she's 2. the probability of her having a serious illness and then passing it on is quite low. but like every parent out there she's the most important thing to me. if something were to happen where we had major outbreaks in schools it could be devastating. the second thing here is that for parents it's important to prepare, to know where your kid is going to go every day. if we have to dial back on that like we did in the spring this could be really devastating for parents. so we want to forecast with the best possible knowledge of what the future is actually going to look like rather than what an administration's political priorities are for what they want them to look like. and this is how we ought to be planning putting the public health before the politics. >> yeah, the politics stay out of this. let the public health experts deal with this. doctor, i want to press, you know, on this. under 10 it's okay but over 10 they have to be careful going back to school. >> well, i think there is a d

william shatner, and a former cdc official. great to see both of you. doctor, you told me last night president trump was clearly flirting with disaster by continuing to hold large events like this, especially when he and others, one, are not wearing masks and you hear pamela brown's reporting about secret service agents but it's not just secret service agents, which is important to talk about because they're on the their o jjob, bu look at these crowd shots, people very close together. many not wearing masks. what is at stake here tonight? >> the health of the public, which apparently is not much of a concern for the president and his team. kate, would you have a get together in your home if you knew that at least some of the people coming to your home would get sick or maybe die because they're coming to your home. >> of course not, right? >> or that others that came to your house would get so drunk that they would get into accidents and hurt people who weren't even in your house. that's what happens when you have a mass gathering during a pandemic. an

william shatner, some optimism on this saturday. thank you so much. >>> misinformation about covid-19 is sweeping america, perhaps as much as the virus itself, thanks to contradictory statements from white house officials and from the president himself. but covid-19 survivors like larry kelly are pushing back against all of that noise by sharing their stories of hope and survival. kelly known to his family as miracle larry spent 128 days in the hospital battling coronavirus. i caught up with his friends and family as he prepared to take his first steps out of the hospital this week. larry kelly was not always known as miracle larry. loveable, sure. >> he loves everybody. i mean, he loves his friends. he's got a huge, i mean, you meet him, and you fall in love with him. >> tough, definitely, he doesn't back off at all, he's ferocious when he needs to be. >> the life of this retired teacher, theater aficionado took a terrifying turn, he went to the hospital unable to breathe with chills and a fever. doctors diagnosed larry with covid-

let's get right to it with william shatner, adviser to cnbc, whitney cooper from rutgers, and presidential historian, jon meachum. i could literally start anywhere because we have three special experts. always a good choice to make. professor cooper, i start with you on the humanity of this. something you've written about. those 52 million people who are unemployed, as i mentioned, these 12 million people until midnight tonight, they have some federal protection from eviction and then they don't. what should we think about, what should we care about for them? >> well, part of the challenge that we have is that we have a national leader who has no empathy. he's never had to work a day in his life for anything and he doesn't understand what that level means. we're seeing people standing in long lines for unemployment all over the country in the middle of a pandemic which endangers their lives and their lively hoods. but also, we had an eviction crisis in this country prior to the pandemic. we had disproportionate amounts of black families being evicted because of getting poor mortgages and b

and ceo of labcorp, adam shatner. thank you, adam very much.e have taken both actions to give americans access to plasma therapies. the fda made the treatment available to patients with life-threatening infections beginning in march. we provided $48 million to support their expanded access program for plasma. we are providing up to $270 million to the red cross and america's blood centers for a collection of up to 362,000 units of plasma. my administration is partnering with commercial labs, insurers, and health care providers, to encourage those who have had the virus to donate plasma. so, if you have had the virus, if you would donate, it would be a terrific thing. we really need donations of the plasma to those who have had the virus and you've gotten through it. i guess that means you have something very special there. we would appreciate that. it would help a lot of people. we are grateful to labcorp for offering free antibody testing to identify people who can donate and labcorp has really been fantastic in a lot of ways. as a result of t

quote a doctor at vanderbilt quoted in a "new york times" story today about your proposal, william shatnerys he welcomes your proposal but says few states have thepe ise and money needed to generate this data, to analyze is data. he says it's a great ideal but it's not something many states can rea realistically do o affod to do. >> bill schaffner is one of my favorite infectious diseasee experts and just about always gets it right. i think he's correct, that states are looking at an enormous challenge. thdata feeds coming in are complex, they're not necessarily accurate there's problem wit duplicating patients. but the c.d.c. has sent out me than $10 billion to state and local health departments, and congress, this week, is debing the next supplemental appropriation. there's dinitely a need for improved data systems all over, county, state and federal. if we don't have those, it willr beto get this information, but many states have some of mostinformation, and states can get most of it. >> woodruff: i think some people whoay be listening to this, dr. frieden, saying, wait a minute, is thi