our number one priority we're r- our number one priority are the residents in asbury park. ond priority is the businesses. and bringing retail back, which was already struggling because of big corporations like amazon, but bringing retail, galleries, music, all the things that make asburies y s a buasbury back int they can succeed, i think that's our number one priority. >> deputy mayor of asbury park, amy quinn. what happens here will be a model for the rest of the country or, you know, an indicator of how the rest of the country can reopen. as many 530,000 people on this boardwalk on a busy day. >> thank you for having us. >> thank you for having us. >> by the way, kudos to the deputy mayor there for being the first one to say, katy, greetings from asbury park. it was an important phrase we needed to hear uttered. >> she would be the one to say it. >> i know, i know. >> absolutely. i had to tease you there. coming up, the nation's top infectious disease expert, dr. anthony fauci is issuing a warning about reopening the country too quickly. his new data suggests the u.s. de

we send them our deepest condolences and we thank her for her years helping asbury park students andfor an extra in her life. god bless you, mama. these are the lives that covid-19 has taken from us, just a few. i wish we could speak about every single one. they were the faces we would see every day. they must remain in our thoughts. we cannot think of that toll of covid-19 only in economic or mathematical terms but also in its most basic human terms. we have now lost nearly 9,000 of our fellow residents. ii, we lostrld war 12,600. we know we will lose many more but how many and whether we mark another solemn milestone we do not wish to pass is again overwhelmingly up to us. please, please, please, keep practicing your social distancing and wearing a face covering when you're out in public. there is no cure for covid-19. there is no proven therapeutic. we only know there is no vaccine. we have social distancing, face covering, washing hands with soap and water, the basic stuff. social distancing or social solidarity as we have called it here before, is all we have to save lives. we a

i'm here as asbury park. there's not a statewide order determining whether or not can you go on the beaches but there's a shutdown of all of the board walks. over the weekend while it was really nice there were people on the beach here in asbury but they're keeping social distanced. you can only come to the beach though in a couple designated entrances. the boardwalk though is shut down. part of the reason is these boardwalks, especially when it gets really nice, get packed with people f you have been to asbury or been to point pleasant, you understand it's nearly impossible to social distance on a busy weekend. they can get as many as 30,000 people. so they're concerned about what the summer season will bring if they do open up, not being able to keep people safe around here. but they're also concerned, andrea, about the businesses. i was talking to a business owner who's had a family deli for 60 years. says he's seen hurricanes, says he's seen snowstorms. as never seen anything like this. his business is do

we have six senior towers in asbury park.ant to protect all of them. >> amy quinn, deputy mayor of asbury park, new jersey. thank you so much. good luck as the season continues. >>> up next, fast track to the front lines. the story of one massachusetts medical student, one of the ones that graduated early, to help save lives at the height of this pandemic. , to help save lives at the hehtig of this pandemic ched to miralax for my constipation. stimulant laxatives forcefully stimulate the nerves in your colon. miralax works with the water in your body to unblock your system naturally. and it doesn't cause bloating, cramping, gas, or sudden urgency. miralax. look for the pink cap. some companies still have hr stuck between employeesentering data.a. changing data. more and more sensitive, personal data. and it doesn't just drag hr down. it drags the entire business down -- with inefficiency, errors and waste. it's ridiculous. so ridiculous. with paycom, employees enter and manage their own data in a single, easy to use software.

>> i started today in asbury park on the boardwalk, the open boardwalk. they have the two lanes. i got a little bit of everything. whose right do they have to tell me to wear a mask, got people that were glad there was lots of police to make sure they were wearing masks. the police are in a tough spot. how do you -- are we ready for people dealing with all of these tensions and things going on? people are getting anxious. gov. murphy: i understand that. believe me. that includes me. we are going through something similar together. i think we said this the other day. pat, you should weigh in. when i speak to the shore mayors, and john was on the call and is doing a great job in asbury park, when we speak to them, they have raised the fact that because it is an unusual appetite to get to the beach, to get outside, they recognize that and so do we. we have had conversations about how do you do this in a way where we are enforcing, that we are not putting law enforcement or other folks into harm's way? i read an article today about an essential retail worker who is not armed, working

he's in asbury park along the jersey shore.sterday getting it dirty at the counter. we were there last memorial day weekend. it's a wonderful place. what do you have there? how are they keeping people safe? >> it's so wonderful. the stone pony is just that way. i drove by it coming in. great place. great beach. and beaches like this one up and down the jersey coast are getting ready to open up for the long memorial day weekend. but with the rise of coronavirus cases, there are some who are still very worried that this is all happening too fast and too soon. many beachfronts across the country will be open for leisure. as restless americans emerge from their quarantine. >> the boardwalk has been very crowded. the beach you can spread out more. after 60-something days indoors, it's nice to soak up the sun back on the beach. >> reporter: in california, many beaches have already reopened. and pictures like these appear to show some beachgoers bending social distancing guidelines. new york will cap beach capacity at 50%. and local g

let's go to lindsay riser who is joining us live from asbury park, a destination point over memorial day weekend typically. but let's get to the residents there, good day to you, how they're reacting to word from the governor and if there is any zbl glimmer of hope that memorial day might be a normal with it. >> there is a lot of hope, alex. and aside from seeing this boardwalk boarded up, this is basically as far as we could go. the beaches are still open here and of course that is something that could be taken away if people don't socially distance. but these jersey shore towns have been hit incredibly hard. the boardwalks closed, mom and pop businesses line the boardwalk. i want to bring in russell lewis, the owner of water mark which is a cocktail lounge here in asbury park. you employ 45 people and their furloughed in peak season, you employ 90 people, what are things looking like for you right now as the owner. >> we're sitting and waiting like everyone hoping that we'll have restrictions lifted in the next few weeks and get back to some semblance of a summer hopefully by july/

for those of us who are sinners, we have to walk across the bridge to asbury park and get -- buy a drink. >> vineland, new jersey, pasadena. there's a variety of these places that were established as dry communities. in part because the original land deeds had locked into the deed that you received when you purchased your house that if you ever bought, sold or consumed liquor on site -- there's the consumption -- that your house reverted back to the land company. there's creative ways to keep an area dry. >> our house is wet. sgli can >> i can't resist asking. if the supreme court held, the right to privacy includes the right to define your own life, have any of the laws been challenged as violation to the right of autonomy? >> it winds up being less repeal and people -- they do what they will do. the sense that this would be something worth the investment of rigorous enforcement has largely lost. they are mostly symbolic in a lot of cases. i'm sure we can find an exception to that. in most cases it seems to be mostly symbolic. >> wow. alcohol consumption by the 1970s went up to its pre-

raised in asbury park himself, press played semi pro football and planned to try out for the nfl thishool, he taught gym class via zoom before becoming ill. he was always trying to turn a negative into a positive said simon's mom, sabrina press. "i'm very, very proud of my son." simon press was 27. >> and two footnotes to this, gayle and tony. simon press, according to the principal of his school, was ridiculously healthy. so this came as an enormous shock to everyone. the second footnote is that robby browne was the real estate broker for me and my wife when we bought the apartment you now see every day. we were far from robby's biggest customer, but he fought like crazy for us because he wanted us to have this place. and we wouldn't have it if it was not for him. gayle? >> oh, boy, i'm so sorry. this is the thing -- every week you do these pieces. it really gets to me. special shout out to your producer, rebecca castania, because they're difficult to do. you give us just a little snip boat is their lives -- snippet into their lives that make me think, oh, i wish i would have met tha

weekend, i >> reporter: as some of the beaches are set to re-open this weekend, i mean look at asbury parknto the carolina outer banks. up to nine-foot waves. >>> coming up, martha stewart joining us live. she's talking about her new show, and she'll take your baking questions too. stay with us. d she'll take your >>> "good morning america" is sponsored by liberty mutual insurance. only pay for what you need. >>> now your health, your safety, this is abc7 news. >> good morning. i'm reggie aqui. a mobile testing site is opening in san francisco's tenderloin neighborhood. this walk-through pop-up test site will operate outside the recreation center on ella street.appointments are strongly recommended. it will reopen next thursday. >>> let's turn to drew tuma with a look at our day ahead. >> walnut creek because we find partly sunny skies there. a lot of sunshine later on this afternoon. it will be a nice afternoon as well. that live picture showing you that sun and cloud mixture out there. current temperatures in the 40s and 50s. slowly climbing to near 60 right now in oaklany,ot of light be

chuck when i was in asbury park yesterday, a woman told me about her brother or brother-in-law that works at a correctional facility in new jersey. he had exhausted time off that he could take at home. he had to go back to work. he's got underlying conditions. the family is terrified but he has to go to work because he needs that paycheck, and he is going in and out of the prison every day in full on hazmat suit to try to keep himself protected. it is such a terrifying time. >> you know, prisons, meat packing plants, senior facilities, i have to say we know what can become a hot spot, still haven't made anybody that works in those three entities feel safe. workers are paralyzed for a plan. people keep asking, what do you expect the federal government to do? worry about things like this. >> yeah. yeah. >> 100%. another side note, one other side note, a family member of minor tony's, my husband, is in a nursing home in yonkers and coronavirus patients were taken back to their nursing home, discharged from the hospital, still positive, taken back to the nursing home. and we were worried abou