i gotta pay rib i gotta pay my barber to muddy the hill a mile it's not only barbers many businesses in georgia have been allowed to reopen like tattoo studios bowling centers and gyms cinemas and restaurants will follow on monday but not everyone is following suit this gym will continue to hold its classes on line. better or not we open today or monday or 2 weeks that really matter unless our clients are still careful to come in in addition to georgia the pioneer other southern states in the us are planning to ease restrictions on experiment that others view as risky states with a democratic governor are mostly sticking to stricter measures. and as stressed as we are about getting back to work reopening up businesses we know that if we do it too fast a 2nd wave is likely and would be even more devastating than the moment that we are in the debate on the right time to reopen is emotionally charged in the us like here in wisconsin a large number of troops supporters across the country are protesting against the restrictions. you're in you know being all nice your freedom that your rig

i was looking at an interview with a barber who says i know i'm putting my health at risk. those small business loans i would not have-- no, that say very bad situation and choice that we are making. people have to balance. and so i think our energy as leadsers is better spent not rushing to open up but figure out ways like we are doing in atlanta. we started a cosmetology relieve fund. we are asking people to contributed to that fund. take that $15 or $50 would you have spent get yrg hair done, put it in that relief fund so we can put money in people's pockets so they don't have to choose between their life and opening up their business. >> trevor: it really is a tough choice people have to make right now because even though it's only been for many people a month, it feels like there is no end in sight so they have to start preparing for the worst because most people are only one pay check away from not being able to afford their lives. as the mayor i know you have limited power but is there anything the city of atlanta is or can do right now or anything you wish the feder

. >> reporter: baesh barbers like who happens to be diabetic. >> as a barber, what we have to do and i definitely would not have opened anything against the health officials' recommendations or the president. >> reporter: the president, who initially supported states to, quote, liberate, pulled a 180 issues a rebuke of the republican he once endorsed. >> i didn't like to see a lot of things happening. and i wasn't happy with brian kemp. >> reporter: the state won't see a peak in covid-19 deaths until next week according to widely accepted data. >> everybody is scared, but we're also afraid if we don't open and the person down the street do then we won't have business. >> reporter: this barber shop is one of two open out of the ten donna whitfield visited friday morning. >> these are our gloves. we'll probably run out by the end of next week. >> reporter: she's a barber and beauty supplier in georgia and alabama. it was her first day back in the truck in a month. she'd rather not risk bringing the virus home to her husband who has cancer but she also can't afford not to work. >> i'm j

on the barber side, it has been fantastic as well and we have had an influx of barbers contacting usntastic. what sort of experience have you had of when people say to their flatmate, will you do this for me? it is quite a responsibility, isn't it? it is, but i think at the same time there is a general consensus at the moment that no one is going to be supporting sporting the best haircut they had ever had, but this is an opportunity to try to avoid an absolute disaster. i think a bad haircut really has brought the country together in some kind of manner at the moment and it is now actually a cce pta ble the moment and it is now actually acceptable to have not an amazing haircut, but at the same time people still want to be able to have something that doesn't have chunks missing from the hair. yes, then, a lockdown haircut is a thing at the moment. the trouble is, people get the clippers out and the scissors and just go straight for it, don't they? that is not how to approach this? yes, i really wouldn't advise just going straight in. if you are at home and don't want tojoin us on lo

others like the barber shop behind us as well as the tatoo parlor they are open and it is a difficult decision to make. like you said, there is some backlash for mayors. atlanta mayor bottoms about an hour ago tweeted this. if you are getting your nails done right now please share these new numbers with your manicurist and followed with a chart showing georgia deaths are up by more than 30% from this time last week. a lot of different reactions and difficult decisions to make. businesses like jenkins barber shop opened on friday for the first time in almost a month. >> the chairs between customers. we have the benches marked. >> these are disposable. >> reporter: georgia's governor says the state is ready. >> we will allow gyms, fitness centers, bowling alleys, body art studios, barbers. >> reporter: like eric greason who happens to be diabetic. >> as a barber what we have to do and i definitely would not have opened anything against the health officials' recommendations or the president. >> reporter: the president, who initially supported states to, quote, liberate pulled a 180 issui

around the corner there is a barber shop. but it seems in many cases there are a lot of businesses that are taking a wait and see attitude. some have already come out and flatly said they're not going to reopen, they don't believe it's safe. others say they're having trouble getting the ppe, the personal protection equipment they need and that is required by the state. then there has been the pushback against the governor. one of those who has been the most out spospoken is the mayor atlanta. here's what she's saying. >> in order for us to get to the pandemic and to the other side of this crisis, we have to socially distance. in a normal world we would be able to look to our president and to the white house and receive sound guidance and advice, but instead we're now telling -- having to tell people not to ingest and inject your body with household cleaners. the only thing that's helped us is that we have stayed apart from one another, and i'm simply asking people to continue to do that. i think as leaders we have to make it

seven barbers, averaging eight time as day, 70 washes. not including barbers. looking to that many paper towels used lin a day. >> costly. >> online, not allowing us to order bulk. i ordered paper towels on am zone a zo nmplt azo -- amazon and won't be here until the 11th. kudos to those who stocked up and prophetically got ahead of this six months ago. i don't know who that is. >> what are you going to do samuel? what are you and your colleagues going to do because you want to get back to your business whenever you feel safe to do so and you want your business to be viable, but, you know,'s listening to the calculus right there. it gets everyone deeper and deeper into the hole? >> the reality, before we opened up, got to make sure we have enough supplies stocked up. right now it's not about when, it's an how. the when has become irrelevant in georgia because our state is already opening back up, but how we open back up is what's important. the reality is, this is -- until we feel we have -- i can only speak for me. until i feel like i have at least three month

but they want to open more including barber shops.were supposed to get a variance to make it more liberal. and to have a variance you have to have a low number of covid cases or cases gone down 14 straight days. neither is the case here. so doesn't say weld county has asked for a variance, which is why this barber shop is open. this man right here jose is the owner. jose, i know it's confusing. you got a call from the state yesterday not to open. you talked to the regulatory department of the state today and they told you what? >> well, they told me, i called dora. >> dora is the regulatory department of colorado? >> yes. >> reporter: and they told you what? >> they said i could open up as long as the coupety said it was okay. >> reporter: and county said it's all right to open up? >> yes. >> reporter: so what are you doing for you to stay safe and customer? and we'll show a picture of the barber work in action. >> yeah, so what we are doing is you'll be able to see that we are using gloves, face masks. after every haircut we use a di

barber, i'm an economics guy.nbc sometimes and one thing i'm hearing is that if we change our tax system to tax the wealthy more which is what a lot of people who talk about income inequality say we have to do, then these billionaires -- and they have gone on tv and said you know how much we give to hospitals, to charity, all that would actually disappear. i'm not sure that's the way we should be thinking about society, that we should have people -- we have to sustain the wealthy with low tax rates so that they can give us the charity so that poor people can go to hospitals. >> that's a ridiculous argument. it's the same arguments that were used in the great depression. those are old arguments that are refurbished in this town. we put a budget together that actually showed if you do the things we're talking about, it actually benefits society. you pay people a living wage, you pump more money into society. if everybody has health care, healthier workers produce more. and we have the money and if we look at our blo

the owner of this barber shop says he's been trying to get answers for quite some time. on sunday, before he opened here, he got an answer. take a listen to a little bit of that confusion. >> does it seem like you're getting conflicting information? >> i'm getting information from two sides. i feel like i'm in a cloud and i'm like, what do i do? i'm not going to live in fear. that's not something i'm going to do. if i live in fear, i'm just going to get my hungry, my family is going to be more hungry. the bills will add up even bigger. i can't live like that. if they give me permission to open up and nobody agrees with me, as long as the county gives me permission, i'm fine. >> so again he said that he checked with the regulatory agency, they said to check with the county and the county said, sure, go ahead and open back up. one county commissioner in particular saying they didn't want to pick the winners and the losers in who gets hit the hardest in this pandemic. also had a problem here in colorado, places like marijuana shops and dispensaries being deemed essential wh

businesses, including nail salons, barber shops, even bowling alleys are open in georgia. as new infection rates raise, there is concern it may be too soon. a mayor in one city who disagrees with the move, joins me next. that's next. breathe freely fast, with vicks sinex. my congestion's gone. i can breathe again! ahhhh! i can breathe again! ughh! vicks sinex. breathe on. from fires and hurricanes in 90 years at farmers we thought we'd seen it all. to animal antics we could laugh about later. but we haven't seen this. so, farmers is reducing auto premiums by 25%, extending payment due dates, and expanding coverage for the delivery drivers who are carrying us through. and then we'll do the next thing, and the thing after that, until this is another thing we've seen and done. swithout even on yoleaving your house. just keep your phone and switch to xfinity mobile. you can get it by ordering a free sim card online. once you activate, you'll only have to pay for the data you need- starting at just $12 a month. there are no term contracts, no activation fees, and no credit chec

no one is going to bail us out and my barbers and as well as my own livelihoodlivelihood. >> your barbersame page and they want you to reopen as well? >> they are hurting a lot more than i am. they are all young men and young f families and we are ready to get back and fix this economy. >> we all want the economy reopened. i was reading the story about, what was it, 30 million americans filed for unemployment the last six weeks. i read something you told my producer where you basically said, i don't care if i get it. meaning, covid-19. do you still feel that way? >> absolutely. i mean, a lot of us are going to get it. the statistical data is that we're not likely going to die. 79% chance of living whether we contract it or not. >> hang on, hang on, juan. let me jump in because i think neither of us are doctors and there's a lot of numbers being thrown out. i've had it. it was not fun, and i had it way better than a lot of the folks on ventilators and half of the folks put on ventilators don't make it out of the hospital. so just, i don't think you want to say, maybe, it's okay if i get it

the barbers are not necessarily protect from the patrons.are seeing that in gyms and other areas as well. . >> 100%. i hope the barber has the right to say, hey, no mask, no haircut, pal. thank you, sam brock. >>> we'll tell you about a problem in california. drivers feeling the need for speed. >>> but "first look" at this. that is a jellyfish gliding along a venice canal. a biologist said the recent low tide and lack of traffic has increased the water transparency. that you can see for yourself. it is common in the upper adriatic sea and one positive from the global pandemic. from tc copd makes it hard to breathe so to breathe better i started once-daily anoro. ♪go your own way copd tries to say go this way i say i'll go my own way with anoro. ♪go your own way once-daily anoro contains two medicines called bronchodilators that work together to significantly improve lung function all day and all night. do not use anoro if you have asthma. anoro won't replace rescue inhalers for sudden symptoms and should not be used more than once a day. tel

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he's a barber. he's not a barber, he's the nephew.e's an example of the kind of nepotism that runs rampant in the barbering industry. besides, mr. d'onofrio knows exactly how i like my hair done because he has all my haircut records from my barber in texas. what are you talking about? when i first moved here, i was nervous about finding a new barber, so my mother had all my haircut records sent here to mr. d'onofrio. there's no such thing as haircut records. yes, there are. have you ever seen them? no, but my mother assured me they were sent here, and i'll bet you dollars to donuts that this one doesn't have them. uh, excuse me. do you have access to my haircut records? your what? to paraphrase t.s. eliot, this is the way the world ends-- not with a bang but with a nephew. sheldon, you're a grown man, he's a professional, and your haircut is number three on that poster from 1946. just sit down and let him do it. fine, but if i come out of this looking like a dork, it's on you. (clears throat) so my kid said the funniest thing today. n

the plan is to open this business, this barber shop, even though the governor doesn't want barber shops to open just yet. this is gary tuchman, cnn, colorado. >>> health experts say and have said all along the only way to reopen is to test people on a massive scale. testing everyone, people with and without coronavirus symptoms. the u.s. isn't there yet. the white house response coordinator said it's going to take something big. >> we have to realize that we have to have a break through innovation in testing. we have to be able to detect antigen rather than constantly try to detect the actual live virus or the viral particles itself. and to really move into antigen testing. i know corporations and diagnostics are working on that now. we have to have a break through. this rafael nadal test will go carry us certainly through the spring and summer. we're working on that at the same time. >> president trump has come under intense criticism for comments about potentially injecting disinfectants into people's bodies to treat the coronavirus. he insists he was being sarcastic but he may be add

bashers, thin barbers, all open for business on friday.one of the keys is that georgia has not seen a 14-day decline in the number of new cases. in fact, i don't think they've seen a new week. i think the number of cases in georgia went up yesterday from the day before according to johns hopkins. so, what would be your concern here? >> i have several concerns, john, as you pointed out, to start we still see cases going up in most georgia. and so that is certainly a first concern. the second concern i have is that the type of reopening that is happening, these businesses that you outlined all require social connection. so, you know, when you're getting your nails done, you're sitting right in front of somebody. if you're having a massage done, somebody is right next to you. these are night the type of activities that really are conducive to social distancing. so, you know, if they want to open, let's say, a small business where they're selling things and they limited the number of people that came into the store or let's say they were openi

president trump for the first time saying he disagrees with georgia's decision to re-open barber shops, gyms and bowling alleys. the fallout this morning. plus, the new statement from senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. his message to states facing financial ruin because of the virus. >>> a bombshell accusation from the official in charge of finding a coronavirus vaccine. why he claims he lost his job for defending science. and what his supervisors are now saying. >>> plus, the growing debate over whether schools really need to be closed through the summer. our medical expert weighs in. >>> a force for good. how a 6-year-old has inspired a movement thanks to the savings in her piggy bank. >>> and from the beatles to the boss to bon jovi and tony bennett, how the biggest names in music are trying to cheer us up during the coronavirus lockdown. >>> good thursday morning, everyone. we do begin with breaking news. authorities declaring a disaster after severe storms overnight. >> dramatic video from oklahoma shows one of several reported tornadoes. the storms also causing major destruc

the same will be true for barber shops. you listed barber shops as one of the businesses opening friday. that will have to be one of those businesses where both the client and the barber themselves are wearing ppe. so that will be a different process than it normally has been. and i imagine some things will be off the menu for a while like straight razor shaves and things like that. these businesses will have to do a case by case review. i imagine, i hope that at least some of the resources will come online for each business. how they should best go about doing their business safely but it will be a case by case basis and each business will be different. this is a lot faster. even with the federal guidelines opening, with the different 14-day phases. that was considered aggressive. this would in my opinion beheimer aggressive. what georgia is trying to do. so we'll see the results of that in approximately two weeks of what that will do. >> speaking of georgia, the cdc is in atlanta. and robert redfield said the following to

twins ronde barber is with us right now.>> good to see you. not my man cave. you are in my office which is comfortable for me. that was an interesting draft last night. see that virtually and get a peek in everybody's private life. i enjoyed that. brian: i did. i miss that reaction from the family when they get to the pick and walking up and the hat. but they did as good as possible. i salute the nfl to give us something else to talk about during this time from the signings and now the draft. joe burrow going to cincinnati. that's going to be the fails of the franchise. this is going to be one of the few number one overall picks that pans out for that franchise? >> i think he does. i mean, just the jump that he made from the previous year to last year at lsu i think speaks to who he is as a player. really as a person, too, and the way he carried himself i think is going to be perfect for the situation that he is going into. look, he played with a lot of talented guys lsu. reason they won a national championship. that's going

a caveman. >> gr ryan kemp allowing barber shops, gyms, bowling alleys and more to reopen. >> when i weighed the risk/reward, we decided to go ahead and open and put our plans in place. >> he has been getting calls since monday, but only taking limited customers with new precautions. no waiting inside. the chairs, spread out. and nobody is allowed in without a mask. >> the thing that scares me is i'm just not sure if the new normal will be suitable for what we do. >> sam brock is live in atlanta this morning. sam, businesses are back open, but with everybody wearing mask he, it does not look like business as urnl. >> everybody is wearing masks in terms of the employees at these places, but the rate rons do not have to wear masks. the guidance from governor kemp is ppe, when it is appropriate and available. so you can only imagine in places like salons, barber shops, gyms, spas, when you're inside there, some of the patrons are protected from the employees, but the employees are not necessarily protecteded from the patrons. this has drawn criticism for many reasons one of which is the

reverend barber, welcome back. you know, i've ready, an op-ed of yours.in the pap democrpap -- pandemic you wrote the impact of poverty is not limited to the poor. look at what we're seeing at meat packing plants and at different facilities. i want to you explain that a bit. >> first of all we often define poverty wrong. we just talk about what the government level of poverty is, but when you actually look at poverty by numbers study and low income, there are 140 million poor and low-income people in this country. 43% of this nation, and 62 million people that work for less than a living wage, and 700 people dieing a day prior to this pandemic. what science and the experts tell us is that pandemics live and exploit the fissures and wounds of our society. if you don't address poor people you actually allow the pandemic to spread among them and allow it to have life in the rest of the world as well. >> as we've gone on essential workers initially it was discussed is the heroes of this were the medical professionals and the doctors, but we have to look at al

nadine barber reporting to us from london. united states is a part of italy to have the world's highest krone virus death toll more than 20000 people are known to have died since the outbreak began the governor of new york state says while the death toll is a grim milestone there's been a drop in hospital intensive care admissions now iran has recorded more than 100 deaths in the past 24 hours the total is now more than 4400 and there's more than 71000 confirmed cases president has than one honey is urging people to continue to follow social distancing measures as many so-called low risk businesses reopened. authorities in the chinese city of joe of denied allegations of racism saying it treats foreigners and chinese nationals the same africans living there say they're being kicked out of their homes and facing public harassment as china steps up scrutiny of imported cases the african union nigeria and ghana have all called on china to address their concerns and the lease is in a buju with details on how nigeria and other coun

how do you maintain social distancing in a barber shop? or a hair and nail salon? at a massage therapist? think -- they're touching you. it is impossible. and the fact is, georgia hasn't even met the president's own guidelines to reopen. guidelines that call for a two-week sustained decrease in cases. yet the georgia governor, brian kemp, says this. >> i will say when we have more people moving around we are going to see our cases continue to go up, but we're a lot better prepared for that now than we were over a month ago. >> and our very own sanjay gupta said it best tonight that governor kemp closed late and he's opening early. remember, it was just a few weeks ago that georgia's governor in a stunning display of willful ignorance claimed that he had delayed issuing a stay-at-home order because he had just learned that people without symptoms can spread the virus. >> those individuals could have been infecting people before they ever felt bad. well, we didn't know that until the last 24 hours. >> the fact is we have known about asymptomatic transmission of the c

>>barber's barbers like eric greece and who happens to be diabetic for her. >>we have to. i definitely. can anything against. official recommendation. the president who initially supported states to quote liberate pulled a one 80 issuing a public rebuke of the republicans he once endorsed i didn't like to see a lot of things happening and it wasn't happy with it and i wasn't happy with brian kemp, the state won't see a peak in daily covid-19 deaths until next week. according to widely accepted data. but we're also afraid that if we don't open the first not freed and then what happened. >>this barber shop was one of 2 that were open out of the 10 donna whitfield visited on friday morning. these are our will probably run out by the end of next week, she's a barber and beauty supply or in georgia and alabama it was her first day back in the truck in a month. she'd rather not risk bringing the virus home to her husband with cancer. but she also can't afford not to work, but i'm just can. on the fans, you know i don't know. >>i hope we're doing the right fund that paid or not w

people were excited because they were sending me pictures going, hey, i went to the barber shop, they only let one person in. homer just talked about a story he got a haircut this weekend the lady had the door locked. she had to open the door, she temperature checked him. made him use hand sanitizer, he was the only one that came in and when he got done, he went out. she said i've got to work. she goes i was fixing to lose my car. so these are tough decisions, no doubt. but we put measured steps for people that wanted to open, it was not a mandate, there's a lot of people that have decided to wait and i support that 100%. there's a lot of people that want to learn more about at what time guidelines are and get ready and support that, but you have people out there like peggy who was fixing to lose their car and when people get desperate like that, the doctor and i both know those outcomes are not going to be good. for protecting the public so we're better off in my opinion trusting people because i trust georgians. they're smart people. they're great entrepreneurs. they're hard-working

every friday before show time, i go in, talk with my barber, we have barber shop conversation for 40e shave, you know? and i miss it. but we're all staying at home. >> actually -- >> i'll be james harden by may. >> yeah, i can see. it does look a lot longer there. it's like whiskers on the side. >> yeah, it is, it is. but you know. we're going to work it for as long as i can. we'll see how it goes. >> we'll see how long you can work it. i'll have to cut my husband's hair in the next day or two with clippers. i don't like those things. they scare me. i'm afraid i'm going to cut his ear off or something, but i'll record it and see how it goes. >> please do. please do. >> i will. i'll post it. >>> all right, next hour starts now. ♪ >> on this easter sunday, the united states finds itself in a sobering and tragic position. it now has the highest number of reported coronavirus deaths in the world. >> good news is the curve of the increase is continuing to flatten. >> ever since being diagnosed, i have been more like america's dad than ever before. don't worry now, don't be afraid, this sh

. >> joining me now is reverend william barber, the president of the repairers of the breach and thechair of the poor peoples campaign. nicole hannah jones, award winning journalist for the "new york times," lead on the 1619 project and back with us, professor eddie glaude of princeton university and an msnbc cribber. thank you for joining me for this important issue. nicole, one of the remarkable things about the 1619 project that you're working on, when the first africans were brought to american shores against their will, is that there has been disparity, some of which goes back generations that have set in to cause the things that are causing african-americans to contract and die from coronavirus at a higher rate and some of this is historical and will need massive change to fix. >> yeah, for sure. if you look at the conditions that a large number of black americans live in, it's not surprising that black americans are bearing the brunt of this coronavirus. when you look at black americans remain the most segregated group of people in the country, the most likely to live in areas

this barber shop is reopening amid confusion. governor of the state has authorized retailers to open up if they have proper protocols and if they are on the list. but some have been told they have to apply for a variance and it's not clear if they did that, but this barber shop is reopening. >> in miami, miami-dade will plan to reopen parks, water ways and golf courses. this will involve strict social distancing guidelines and law enforcement, so much so he said he has hired 400 people to monitor parks and members of the miami-dade police department, coast guard and fish and wildlife will be patrolling and arresting people if needed and issuing fines up to $500. >>> in atlanta. several more meat processing plants shut down over the weekend including the production plant in green bay, wisconsin due to an outbreak of coronavirus. this comes as tyson ceo took it out an add saying the food supply chain is breaking. and while there may be less food, there should still be plenty of meat and the concern is for the plants and farmers and

and when i look at those barbers cutting hair, it breaks my heart. my mother owned a hair salon for about 25 years. so i understand the economic hardships and how many people live from paycheck to paycheck. but what i also know, i guarantee you, those barbers would have stayed home if there was stimulus money in their pockets to incentivize them and to make it possible for them to feed their families. so what i would hope is that leaders across this country, we will be creative just in looking at ways that we can help people help themselves is. in atlanta we have started a beauty and barbershop relief fund. and we're asking people to donate money to that fund. we've asked evictions be stayed. we suspended smapayments. we have small business loans. there's so much we can and should do on the local level and federal level. but at the state level as well, i think most importantly, the most important thing we can do is be responsible leaders and not put an economic recovery before we put life. >> and just to reiterate, as you point out, the numbers are g

but this barber takes matters in his own hand to get back to work.made this mask using a plastic bottle and pipe. he is hoping it keeping him and customers safe. lost about half its customers but hoping that business picks up again as restrictions are lifted there. >>> when we come back, a south bay teenager working to keep workers safe. we will show you how. everyone is working a little differently now. so we can still answer your calls. and we are monitoring our system 24/7 to ensure that we have a fast reliable network, keep the customers connected, and making sure people are staying safe. and we're still on the road. solving critical issues as they arise. ♪ go to xfinity.com/prepare. thank you. while keeping safe and staying in, so while you're discovering new things to do in the box, we'll be here for you... at the drive-thru, on the mobile app, and with delivery. on the mobile app, whaso let's do the rightver chanthing, today.ow. let's stay at home. let's wash up. let's always keep our distance - please, six feet apart at least. let's look afte

with me is larry kudlow.u larry, you heard that barber shop owner.ms like a really cool guy, taurean. you can get back to work safely, he says, and do it our own way. and i know you are a free market, larry kudlow, and you like a good story. >> actually i got to tell you, i love that guy, and i'm also going to confess i had a hair trim yesterday. kind of a special k deal. friends of ours, you know this person but i'm not going to mention any names, she got her hairdresser to come in and open up her barbershop. the guy gave me a pretty good trim. don't have much to work with but it looks much better because it i wanted to look good on the laura ingraham show. had no temperature coming into the white house, i tested negative last week, i feel fine. i love that guy. i'd like to meet him sometime. >> laura: larry, you are special. you got a haircut. the rest of us are dealing with it. i'm just teasing. look, may is a transition month. got m to get the economy going. people are dying out there. that was a sad opening to that story. i'm bleeding money. i'v

the barber shop that was a little different. it opened around 7:00 this morning and there was a line. the men waiting to get in and once inside, they do social distance and sitting at least six feet apart from each other. the barber was wearing a mask but that was about the only i would say safety precaution. he was not wearing any gloves and did not seemed to be asking any of his customers to social distance and we did not see him checking out his temperature of any of his clients. businesses that are opened and there are many decided to wait and see. many customers are fearful and we see that the policies are supposed to follow are now equally being followed by all business. >> at least getting a thermometer being able to check people's temperatures. a lot of places you can't find thermometer. >> reporter: you can't find a lot of ppe protection and that's when you know one of the complains of business owners. they have their own customers that are worried and some show up with it and some don't. >> according to the governor, t

barbers like eric gleason who happens to be diabet diabetic. >> a barber and i definitely would not open anything against the health department's recommendation or the president. >> reporter: the president pulled a 180 against the republican he once endorsed. >> i didn't like to see a lot of things happening. and i wasn't happy with it. and i wasn't happy with brian kemp. >> reporter: the state won't see a peak in deaths until next week until widely accepted data. >> they're afraid if we don't open, then we won't have business. >> reporter: this barbershop is one of two that donna whitfield visited. >> these are our gloves. we'll run out by next week. >> reporter: it was her first day back in a truck in a month. she'd rather not risk bringing the virus home to her husband who has cancer but she also can't afford not to work. >> i'm just kind of on the bench, you know, i hope we're doing the right thing. >> reporter: the right thing for randy hicks is making sure his 25 employees at southern lanes bowling alley could still support their families. he knows people may criticize his dec