. >> we don't have final numbers but they are encouraging we're a large university the ann arbor campus has 46,000 students we end up matriculating our freshman class of over 7,000 freshmen we basically hit our predicted numbers. where there are losses and perhaps in the hospital surprisingly are amongst our international students the uncertainty about the pandemic, travel, immigration control, things of that nature have put a damper on the abilities of international students to have enough certainty about the future to sign up to matriculate >> what is your best guess about how normal the campus there in ann arbor is going to be come the fall and i'm thinking specifically one of the things you guys are best known for is your athletic programs and if football doesn't take place, that's another revenue drain for the university >> i look at it the other way around if we can't have our students on campus for public health informed fall semester, it's hard to imagine having student athletics if we don't have students and we don't have classes. we're working hard now to work through various

even in ann arbor, michigan, coach jim harbaugh is all ready to roll without a wolverines audience inhe big house. >> i would be comfortable coaching again without any fans, if the choice were play or in front of no fans or not play then i would choose to play in front of no fans. >>> most sports that were put on hold in march are reportedly aiming to return sometime in july, that means a busy month, the pga will resume june 11, but count adam scott out of that first tournament in texas, he says he's not comfortable with the testing plan the pga has in place. he will skip the first seven tournaments on the schedule and is aiming to come back late july. >>> the 49ers of field business, defensive tackle tj jones was injured during the teams trip to the super bowl but he got engaged. dropped to one knee last october before a monday night football game, his now fiancc said, yes, but today we learned the pandemic has affected the game plan. >> the engagement is getting pushed back a little bit. engagement is probably getting pushed back the marriage is probably 2022. as far as that goes, e

answer >>> college football up top, and most sports are prepping to return without fans, even in ann arbor michigan, coach gym arbor was all ready to roll without maize and blue presence in the big house. >> heck yeah, i'd be comfortable coaching a game without any fans. you know, if the choice were play in front of no fans or not play, then i would choose play in front of no fans. >>> hey, see that shiny big oth? that's the super bowl trophy, the bruce lombardi trophy and robert kraft has six of those. winner will pay $1002500. the ring was from new england's 34-28 comeback win against the falcons. >>> a little rusty at this. usually i do this and a top five appears. this day last year it was st. louis blues night. they won and clinched the western conference finals in six games. blues went on to win the stanley cup channelship. number four, 2015, madison baumgardner swung on, gone. first of two career home runs against clayton kershaw. number three, 2012. russell westbrook at oklahoma city put the western conference finals on ice. knocked out the lakers to gain the nba finals. number two

ann arbor is following social distancing measures quite well.'m impressed by that but we are not having as many cases of death. you want to mobilize your resources to the county in greater need of those limited resources. we have to do a better job in getting our numbers. we are never going to have exactly accurate numbers, particularly in the fog of war or the fog of an epidemic. at least if we can get closer to reality, that will help us on many levels in terms of how do we manage and respond to this pandemic. host: a little less than half are never -- half an hour left with dr. howard markel. we welcome your calls and comments. the lines for the owes of you in the eastern and central time zones, (202) 748-8000. the mountain and pacific region, (202) 748-8001. you that are medical professionals, the line is (202) 748-8002. we go to surprise, arizona. john is next. caller: thank you for taking my call. i'm old enough to almost a member 1918. not quite, but my dad went there it. we all understood the heat of the summer kills the flu. everybody g

one example for you, ann arbor, michigan, hope to university of michigan, usually sees as many as 50,000itors come to the town for commencement ceremonies. those have all been called off, so that means a huge blow to the economy in that town. in massachusetts, another example, more than 100 communities are home to a university or college. so this is certainly a part of the economy that we shouldn't ignore when it comes to the pandemic hit. yas? >> a major cost to the cities and towns across the country, hence the reason they need recovery, as well. cnbc's julianna tatelbaum, live from london for us. thank you so much. good to see you this morning. >>> coming up next, a look at axios' one big thing. coming up on "morning joe," a stark new warning from the cdc points to a soaring coronavirus death toll in the united states, as the president pushes for a return to normalcy. >>> also, how positive indicators for the economy could actually be a bad thing. that conversation is ahead. "morning joe" moments away. sprinting past every leak in our softest, smoothest fabric. she's confident, protec

it's the people lining up and in my city in ann arbor today we got a notice saying the city pools weren't going to open this summer. i think we're going to see more of that. whether private pools in smaller clubs are going to open, whether they can pull it off, it's not the swimming that's the problem, it's everything outside of the pool. >> and chlorine you think kills the virus. do we know? >> i do believe it does. everything i've read suggests it does. >> one of my just friends, john mcaniff, i like to drawn him in the pool just as a show of dominance. i should give him a pass this summ summer. >> i think he deserves a pass. >> he certainly does not deserve one but i'll give him one. we watched beaches open this weekend. i was shocked, i never thought people would run into the beach and on saturday when it was nicer, we saw exactly what people were doing on the beach. what's the best way if you're hanging out at a beach or the side of the river, what's the best thing for the family? >> that's going to vary depending where you live. i see some of the beaches have closed off their parkin

pole, it can easily destroy a series of large cities on the east coast and in new england such as ann arborhiladelphia, new york, boston, portland, baltimore, and norfolk. >> the f 100 this is designed only to go out to kill aircraft carriers. it's got a very special kind of guidance war head so that just in the few minutes it can be launched from china out to as far as a thousand miles, u.s. aircraft carrier. >> china is absolutely rapidly outpacing us in terms of their military development. what they have in terms of long range missiles that can reach every one of our bases in the pacific, airbases as well as naval bases, and we certainly are at risk in not having the capability to defend ourselves against that. maria: feeling much of china's military advancement has been intellectual property theft an issue proving to have ramifications beyond just economic and corporate. >> i can't say a whole lot other than it's the case that we worry about it every day. the threat of not only commercial intellectual property but the military technology is real. you can look at some of these systems an

a bit east of ann arbor. this is a big deal for ford.t the respirators out on the ventilators out. when that tour continues, we will bring it to you here coming up. in the meantime, down a little bit. that's all right. >> neil: we are watching the developments in michigan very closely. at the president is going to be touring this ford motor company facility that has been retrofitted to produce everything from ventilators to personal protection equipment. ppe, as you probably know better by the acronym. turning them out fast and furiously right now. it comes at a dicey time. the relationship with ford is on-again, off-again. it has had to shut down temporarily a couple of other plants. we'll get into that a little bit later. i am a neil cavuto. you are watching "your world." we are keeping a close eye on what their present plans to do or say

co-inventor of those devices and found of flex ease that's an aerospace company he joins us from ann arbor or and michigan thanks for your time this talk us through what these devices do so you mentioned negative pressure room so what you doing there is actually your exposing the widest of the entire room coming out of the what about vision reading out and then you are create you are back in the role instead what we did was to jack should be white is that the source in by actually continuing the waters by you know how do you helmet all of patients in the. back you may need to attach the helmet attached to a rock you motor to have a filter absorb this allows these projects to build good workers. and also more importantly allows the patients to be treated with oxygen supplemental oxygen to needs to can you say it's not in this way to treat the patients as opposed to. using ventilators so you don't i was patients to be treated in this fashion which is less risky and also at the same time protecting the health care workers so really it's not in terms of benefit to the patient is it all about a

important dr michelle heisler is the medical director of the group and she joins us over skype from ann arbor in michigan madame thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera so tell us a little bit more you have criticized the comments tell us a little bit more as to why. yes so we had to physicians for human rights are strongly advocating for a desperately needed science driven approach to this global pandemic and as we all know this is the worst global health crisis of our lifetimes a global health emergency requires a global coordinated response so this is not the time for the u.s. president or any leader to try to weaken the capacity for multilateral collaboration and action debbie reach a w.h.o. provides vital international assistance in court a nation there's really no other entity or organization that can do what the w.h.o. can do so you know because the lies of millions of people around the world particularly those most at risk depend on effective global action that we depend on global action to coordinate and distribute supplies to help develop a vaccine to track the progress

that is what the president is going to be highlighting in part as he goes to ypsilanti down from ann arbor a little while from now. mike pence teed up the president's departure when he spoke to start varney a little while ago. watch. >> we brought together with general motors with,ge and now with ford as the president will reflect today that are now building ventilators. we'll actually have 110,000 ventilators constructed in 100 days. i think it is nothing short of a national accomplishment that no american who required a ventilator in this country was ever denied a ventilator. reporter: national accomplishment. 9 vice president says that is clearly what the administration, neil, what the president will try to highlight at this ford plant event. however you brought up the issue of a mask. that is sort of made its way into the forefront because at that plant it is required. you have to go into the plant you have got to wear a mask. however in the lead-up to this ford said they would defer the decision to the white house. the vice president said in turn that would be deferred to the white ho

. >> sound like you're going to have a lot of lobbying inside your house when it comes to ann arb arbornor gretchen whitmer, democrat from michigan, thank you for coming on and sharing your views. i appreciate it. >> thanks, chuck. >>> up next, the cyber wars in the age of coronavirus. the feds warn that hackers linked to china are targeting u.s. biomedical research. stick around. s. biomedical reseh stick around probiotic and the gastroenterologists who developed it. align helps to soothe your occasional digestive upsets twenty-four seven. so where you go, the pro goes. go with align. the pros in digestive health. and if stress worsens your digestive issues, try new align digestive de-stress. it combines align's probiotic with ashwagandha to help soothe occasional digestive upsets, plus stress that can make them worse. and try align gummies with probiotics to help support digestive health. ♪ ambient sound fades in and plays throughout. ♪ ♪ ambient sound begins to rise. ♪ ♪ ambient crescendos and then goes silent for the tagline. ♪ neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair®. we've got the retino

host: diane in ann arbor, michigan. you oppose reopening. what are you concerned about? caller: i shared a thought and they accepted it in that i think we should check the demographics, people should be willing to give their demographic as to what age group they belong to. iam a senior citizen and don't have to go to work because of that because i am retired. it is real easy to send out other people who are working age or whatever, to send them out in this pandemic. they should keep businesses going, they should keep retirements going. there and fund my 401(k), go out there and keep my corporation going so that i can receive a good retirement. i don't want that jeopardized. they are choosing between sending these young people out into danger while they sit at home tucked away where it is safe. that comeot of people from that point of view, that it is ok for me to sit tight but you should go out and i think the economy drives that attitude. even the stimulus payments i heard, well i am doing well but i took the check. to my did was i gave it grandchildren, they are the on