alex matthews in naples. well the current virus is said to cause an president's disruption to german football with some matches being played without fans for the 1st time it's going to hit one of the biggest clashes in the bundesliga the dobie between dortmund and shall cut which will not take place behind closed doors on saturday before that to gladbach will play cologne tomorrow also in an empty stadium. german football is known for attracting a sea of supporters last week some fans have glove bought took precautions against the coronavirus but the same seats will be empty during their next home match against rival cologne setting a historical precedent for the top flight in germany. thriftiness salinity primarily affects the fans but of course it will also hit. since most you can imagine there are financial consequences if you will have to see whether it's just going to be for this game or whether it's going to affect more games what is the next stage answers to those questions are left up to local health

brent: for more now, we want to go to the italian city of naples, where journalist alex matthews joinss. alex, it is good to have you on the program. i mean, the whole country is under lockdown. it is unprecedented and it sounds dramatic. what is it like? alex: it's been a very big change, particularly here in naples where i am, over the past few days. the news of how bad the situation has been in the north is certainly spreading down in that fear as well. travel is, as we have heard, very restricted, so you cannot move easily from region to region. you need to stay in your own commune. here on the coast that means checks at ports for people going to islands such as capri. as well as checks for people going on trains to go long distance. and everything about normal life seems to have slowed down. the piazzas are very empty, there are not many people in restaurants, there are barely any tourists here. the nightlife right now if i look out the window is very, very -- well, there's nothing there because everything has to close down at 6:00 p.m. i went to the supermarket today and in order

alex matthews joining us tonight from naples italy with the latest on a country under lockdown alex thank you. well to coordinate their response to the coronavirus epidemic european union leaders have held emergency talks by video conference not in person and european council president charles michel hosted the rare virtual get together g. day as the spread of the virus gathers pace across europe the news 27 member states have been criticized for being slow to react. more i'm joined now by a barber pole in brussels good evening to you barbara with all of italy under a lockdown is europe now on course to copy china locking down millions of people is that even possible here in europe. they can't copy china of course because there you have big brother style mass surveillance and europe has to as we saw in italy if peel to the to the common sense and the sort of the citizens and say these are reasonable and do this because it's really fall in everyone's good and that seems to work so far to a certain extent and we don't know yet whether all of europe will have to go into lockdown but we've se

are for more now we want to go into the italian city of naples where journalist alex matthews joins us alex is good to have you on the program i mean the whole country under lockdown it's unprecedented in sounds dramatic what's it like. it's been a very big change particularly in naples where i am. then you sort of how bad the situation has been in the north they set me spreading down in that favorite way out trying to leave as we've heard very restricted so you can't move very easily from regent street you need to say in your own community here in the close that means exit polls for people going to the islands that you're crazy and cross. as well as some people getting on trains to go long distance and everything at about normal life seems to slow down but the axe is a very and now there are many people in restaurants or at any tourists. the nightlife right now if i look out of the window is very very well there's nothing that because everything has to close down from 6 pm and i want to see from out here on today i don't want to make sure that people could keep a distance of one meter

straight to the italian city of naples and no i'm joined by journalist alex matthews welcome alex the whole country in lockdown sounds dramatic well what's it like. it's been a big change since wednesday last wednesday when i 1st arrived simply having maples the bank and the coronavirus army and the north people sort of preparing for a little bit but in the past few days particularly today the change was noticeable there accuse outside of supermarkets you get tickets in order to be able to go inside you have to wait and so your number comes up that's to allow people to keep this one meter distance inside the supermarkets. as well as a notice to be quiet so there may well be far fewer tourists around and one take difference even in the south of it to me now is the number of people who are going around wearing the face masks and gloves as well to try and protect themselves so it has been quite a substantial change down here as well and how is it being infosys you are meant to stay indoors otherwise waltz what's the or else. there's not too much so they all are out is still a question as

alex? wrong, they used white wash in order to hold the fencing together which is why it the white house. matthew: exactly. if you look at the exterior of house, that particular sandstone, much of it which came virginia, particularly quiaa creek and thea, county, an stafford lot of the sandstone produced had a gray color so you have to imagine the white house as a gray building and what they did, because sandstone is so porous, seal it and protect it from winter months because if stone'sts into the pores, it freezes and then it expands inuse water those pores so what the scottish stone masons did and the workers who built the white house, enslaved and free workers who built the white house, they coat of lime based white wash in 1798. white wash is different than the white paint they use today but that was really where the story began of starting to call it the white house because it was a was first that applied so they do add the first int of lead white paint 1818. this is after the burning. that colloquium term of white house had already been established so the idea that they started calling it

alex? >> history.com. >> no. cnn. this first one was cnn. what about this one? matthew? >> msnbc. >> huh-uh. >> christopher? >> fox. daniel? >> washington post. >> "the washington post," yeah. now, but do you notice there's a key difference between the first one and the second one, what word did they use? >> lore. >> white house lore. so if we go back, there's not really -- it just kind of repeats the story verbatim that we know, but at least "the washington post" acknowledges that there's lore to it. it may not be entirely true. we're just not true. what about the final one? any ideas? yeah, alex. >> it's kind of using it as a way to be critical of the president. >> how so? >> because it's talking about how they're trying to take down not because it's old but trying to talk about how he wants to take it out as a negative way to portray the president. >> do you think -- so you think there's a negative portrayal of the president? it seems like this article is kind of pinning blame on melania trump. right? is that what you mean? >> that's why people would read it, you know what i mean. >> what about the language befo

matthew, can one get covid-19 twice? >> so ann -- i'm sorry, so alex, i don't think so.here has been reports initially from china and also from japan and south korea that people have tested positive. they recovered, and tested positive again. i personally think it's a problem with testing. i think right now it's not a big concern. >> next one, and i've been struck by the video of customs lines at chicago o'hare airport. we are supposed to be social distancing, but as we put this video up, ann, this is not social distancing. you've got people packed together for four hours, some were saying, even longer to get through customs. what are your thoughts on that? >> absolutely, so dr. waxman and i have been talking about this, and really thinking about what can be done here. this is not social distancing. and of course in any outbreak or epidemic setting you're going to have situations where people just by nature of how systems work, are going to be close together. so airlines, tsa, all of these organizations have to work together to be able to find ways to stretch outlin line

alex? >> who's in charge, who has been in charge in the past of decorating? is it the historical association, curators? the first lady? or a bunch of people? matthew: all of that is done internally. i would say primarily decoration is done, overseen by the office of the first lady, east wing staff. after thanksgiving they have volunteers, usually upwards of 500 people who will come to the white house and help decorate and they get all of those decorations done right after thanksgiving and then reveal the decorations usually the next week. so they need to have it pretty much orchestrated, planned, organized, and then be able to have all those people turn it around and get the decorations ready by the following week. the decorations themselves, they either end up with the presidential libraries or they go off to the executive support facility. sometimes one of the things people often wonder is, are they buying new decorations every year? sometimes they will repurpose previous year's decorations. they can change the ornaments, they can change the ornaments, they can change the colors but sometimes they get new decorations as well. ok. myth number six