>> good morning, christi.e're specifically talking about stimulus checks they could finally start going out this week. april 13th could be the first day that you may see money direct ghosted into youdeposite account. if you filed for 2018-2019 and you have a banki ining deposit information with the irs, you should start seeing the checks next week. if you don't have the information on file, the irs is going to start a tool that's a secure portal at irs.gov. where you can go online and actually put in your banking and direct deposit information anded money can get to you faster than sending you a paper check. social security recipients are going to receive an actual check. those payments will go out in the near future. and those not required to file tax returns. they can go on to a portal at irs.gov and called the nonfilers tool and get the information there. christi. >> good to know. we are, we should point, one week into that loan portion of the bill and it's called the payroll protection program. there's cri

christi, paul? victor? >> we've seen people online, our friends and colleagues tweeting they can now hear the sirens so often that sometimes they don't even notice them anymore because there are so many. jason carroll for us outside the javits center. thanks so much. >> thanks, jason. >>> so the president says the death toll would be higher, as you heard sarah say, if mitigation tactics weren't put in place. despite multiple warnings from top health officials eight states have not issued stay-at-home orders. >> now, the coronavirus response coordinator, dr. deborah birx, says that now is the time to do everything you can to keep yourself and your family and your friends safe. >> this is the moment to not be going to the grocery store, not going to the pharmacy, but doing everything you can to keep your family and your friends safe, and that means everybody doing the six-feet distancing, washing your hands. >> with us now is dr. charles powell. he's the head of the pulmonary and critical care at mount sinai

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amen to that. >> what's the upside of the reset for you, christi?efinitely the time with my kids. now i get to help, especially my 10-year-old, particularly with her literature and her composition. and i have seen how she has grown just over the last couple of weeks. i never knew how satisfying that would be for me to see that. what about you? >> my boyfriend has been with me for about a month now -- >> how's that going? >> that's new. we're making it. we're making it. but to be able to work on projects together, i help him with his projects, he helps me with mine. i don't think we knew how our talents complemented one another so well and having the time in the house allows us to see it. >> i love you two together. i know that means not to anybody but i do. >> we love us together, too. >> with every new development that you know you have questions about we want to make sure we get them answered. dr. charles powell, head of pull mow nolg in new york are going to be with us tomorrow, along with dr. sanjay gupta. let us know what questions you want ans

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. >> and i'm christi paul.e're so grateful to have your company this morning. >> well, this morning, coronavirus deaths in the u.s., now at 37,000. the number of cases, more than 706,000. and there's one big question how -- actually, two, when to start reopening the country. >> yeah. the president unveiled guidelines, of course, to help states loosen restrictions. he pointed out, it's up to the governors to decide when and how to reopen now. >> so, today, more of those anti-shutdown protests are planned after several. you see here what we saw on friday. the president, president trump phrased those protesters are very responsible people. pointed out to liberate some states bled by democratic governors. >> scientists say four states may be able to loosen social distancing measures as early as next month. a model shows vermont, west virginia, montana and hawaii, all states fewer with 900 cases could open in a couple of weeks. others may need to wait until late june or early july. >> even the easterlyierliest ste h

well it's very possible they will be by the way i thought that was such great analysis from christie talking about you know air b.n. b. and some of those massive companies that really don't own anything so who does own the real estate who does own the vehicles that you know the people traveling for over well it's the individual workers and then in many cases those are individual contractors the problem is right now to your point. the government's not bailing out contractors or small business owners this s.b.a. rollout has been an absolute joke so far in terms the way it's been handled and one of the problems is you have a lot of small business owners who are being crushed by it because they're not getting any help but the majority of people in this country who are employed are employed by small businesses so it's not just the workers that are hurt but if those small businesses cannot come back if those small businesses cannot reopen when the time comes because they didn't get help that they were promised and yet they were being forced to shut down and that's important for people to r

i think chris christie is giving this president a big flashing red light. don't go after joe biden. >> it has to be a painful moment for chris christie to sit there and defend the ineptitude because we know firsthand how chris christie knows how to respond to a crisis, you saw him work with president obama during hurricane sandy. the idea that the president isn't political, the entire news conference isn't a news conference to inform the american people about a public health crisis that's killing americans by the tens of thousands. every day it's misinformation, it's spin, it's -- it's -- it's the construction of an alternate reality to extra kate himself from the response that we have seen american president commit to in a crisis, ever. we see nothing but fingerprinting. chris christie's advice is taking place in an alternate reality, because the person he's directing it is not following it. >> steve schmidt, heidi przybyla, thank you my friends. >>> after the break, new repo reporting undercutting one of trump's favorite methods of deflection. that story

>> reporter: it really is, christi. york governor andrew cuomo has been vocal about. he's saying it could wind up being an economic tsunami for states. we're seeing unemployment numbers explode. it's literally driving down revenue that normally would be coming in from personal income taxes. not just from personal income taxes and revenue in many forms that states get their money from. as people have stopped working, they've stopped shopping. there are no taxes coming in from capital gains. from corporate profits. sales taxes, gas taxes, gaming, tourism, revenue, all expected to decline. as a majority of these busine businesses continue to remain closed. these states are seeing tax revenues literally dry up. it's opening up massive holes in their budgets with shortfalls expected to be in the hundreds of billions of dollars nationwide. all of this is going to have a tremendous impact on society. it could wind up evolving into a reduction in basic government services. so this could really be the next shoe to drop in the br

christie smith has more. christie? >> reporter: it has been a while since the families had seen the teachers in person, so this was a really welcome break for what is going on and a lot of families stood outside and they carried signs and cheered all while keeping their social distance as a parade of educators rolled by. >> miss you guys. >> katie kuntz the principal at grady gardens elementary, and today, she and her teachers and support staff are taking their show on the road to reconnect with their students. >> being away from our kiddos is terrible, and this is not what we all signed up for, so getting out and getting to see our kids from a safe distance is something that we just got really excited about it. >> their cars were decorated and they were greeted by signs and cheers as they toured the neighborhood. while it seems like a little thing, it clearly means a lot. >> it means that the teachers care for us, because they spent their time to drive here. >> i think that was actually really nice of them to do that,

ben swan and christiane i thank you so much for joining us to discuss what this actually all means christi let's start with you how do you see this plan in terms of getting the economy actually going again. i mean it's interesting that you call that a plan that's kind of like say a round what's your plan on getting someone to mars and so 1st we're going to build some spacecraft no mention of how or where you get the funding from then your face too you launch it you try to aim for mars but anything else will do no timeline on when that's going to be achieved or not and then you have space 3 eventually will start and that colonizing it great no mention of how or how much it will cost so as a lot of the analysts are summing it up this morning the are merging of the u.s. we opening guideline and simple there really is no. plan there are no deadlines there are no guidelines or protocols to business insists on protective gear testing sanitizing checkpoints contact if any excedrin so the plan kind of offers no federal assistance and the president pretty much left it to the states to independently

said but there is no plan now christie the plan is also meant to get as much of the economy go back going by may if we can but if you look at it in a reality the 2 biggest cities in this country los angeles or new york they've already extended their larger their stay at home orders until at least mid may what analysts are saying is this could test the lows that we saw in march what do you think about that about 30 seconds kristie well the market has been trying to discover a floor and we had this massive me down on the back of stimulus and the fact that the lockdowns have had an end date before so if we actually extend this lock down and if we extend this and day and if there is actually really no plan to get the economy back on track then that entire expectation is going to fall back on the market and we're going to get me test of what we had back in back in march boom bust co-host christine benz one sorry for the short interview there but thank you guys so much for your time. markets are mostly seeing gains for the 2nd consecutive week in hopes of a possible treatment for the coro

some expert analysis from co-host ben swann and christiane i guys thank you so much for joining us christy this contraction of economic growth is it simply because of supply chain slowdowns or are there entire industries that will collapse as a result of the economic shutdown. well run as kind of both you have this slowdown stemming from the shutdowns and businesses which creates massive layoffs and unemployment which then snowballed into lower income decrease discretionary spending which then repeats and feedbacks into the chain in a form of slowing demand so it's a vicious cycle that's very hard to control once again mentum the other part of that is that you have entire industries that are on the brink of collapse and they've been levered to help bring on cheap corporate debt now of course we're talking about the oil and energy sector hit one of the icons of america well we can also be talking about that big economy the gig and share to cop a sickly have assets that valuation upwards of several billions of dollars with 0 assets so that economy has a collapse and the fact is it has no ass

angeles lakers got several 1000000 in the in the stimulus so i mean it's all ridiculous here now christie equities i have been mostly stable today although some would say that's volatile but you know their body of it what are we seeing in markets around the world and all the markets around the world this is they are having a relatively good day what are you seeing on tuesday or. well on the surface the market hasn't really moved much where about half to one percent but there is quite a fair bit of volatility in between the sectors right now you see the biggest tech stocks that have held up the market the founding stocks they've turned sharply lower today while investors shift into undervalued names names that have actually sold out the worst during the peak of the outbreak so it's basically a rotation day the russell in next is gaining double the s. and p. in those markets are known for the high risk high reward scenarios and right now investors are piling into that high risk betting on the economy reopening and in addition just as you also see me tell it's like a pretty holding ph and ot

of euro pacific capital and boom bust co-host christy i thank you for your time. time now for a quick break but hang here because when we return bankrupt hospitals are back in demand to help fight the coven 1000 pandemic plus will explain the law and why many businesses and school systems are now opting out of using the zoom back now as we got a break here the numbers after. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation full community. are you going the right way or are you being led. direct. what is truth what is faith. in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. for a mate in the shallows. this is a story of women women with troubled histories and complex court cases you know some . leave off who lives out there. where not. the person that's. a cheesiness and b. they are considered the most dangerous of criminals she's in a still. body off 23 hours of the day tell me that is not enough punishment in a world of women on death row. the world is driven by shaped by one person. no dares

ramifications of this and our own boom bust host wow that became a mouthful of sub boom bust host christi i who by the way has done a bevy of reporting on this specifically on gilliatt laboratories my thanks to both of you for being there with us i'm going to start with you dr dr dombrowski. how convinced are you by the research and the information that's coming out about this trial they did at this hospital in chicago. well clearly this does show quite a good promise here you've taken very critically or patients with severe respiratory syndrome and made them better which is great we were able to get them off federal leaders and get them back into health but they did 2 studies where they looked at a short course of medications you know 5 days and 10 days and actually you don't need to go beyond the 5 days you seem to do equally as well and you've got a pandemic you're so any glimmer of hope with breeze a great deal of light and some hope for the world as as we're hoping to see here. remind me once again this is a drug that's an anti-viral that as you just suggested is being used on patien

well thank you christy for that have more we want to bring in peter schiff c.e.o. of euro pacific capital now peter i want to start by asking you are we starting to see a turning point as christi pointed out in the market as we get better data out of the coronavirus death or has all the news now been priced at and do we have a bottom now. well i tend to doubt it you know too many people are focused on the pin and ignoring the bubble that the pinprick you know before the covert 19 shut down the u.s. economy was long overdue for a severe recession and the us stock market was long overdue for a bear market so i think that call would virus simply accelerated the onset of both and so 'd all that's going to happen is that we're going to return to a recession and a bear market so i would not get excited about this rally i think we still have a long way to go on the down side and the economy i think is going to be even worse well chrystia your thought some people even comparing this not only now to the 2000 it recession but to the great depression that we haven't seen and

. >> i'm christi paul. thanks for keeping us company here. >>> governors across america are feeling pressure to loosen the social distancing rules. there are more anti-lockdown protests seemingly supported by the president, popping up across the country. right now more than 97% of americans are under some type of a stay-at-home order. >> the thing is, we're hearing from medical experts saying this is too much too soon when it comes to reopening. researchers at harvard say the u.s. will have to triple testing to half a million a day if the economy's going to reopen successfully. >> so yesterday the president called out state leaders for not making what he calls full use of coronavirus testing capacity. although democratic and some republican governors say there just are not enough supplies to get the job done. they say that the president, rather, also says he thinks some governors have gotten, in his words, carried away, with social distancing. >> our reporters are standing by with the very latest. start wit

nbc bay area's christie smith joins us live with how it's going. christie?reporter: terry, first let me say that neighbors and of course essential services can still get through, but the idea, like here on 42nd street, is to give people more room in their neighborhoods as they try social distancing as they exercise. i tell you today we saw people using it. 42nd street is empty today at broadway and oakland, just a few neighbors' cars and people riding bikes and others running in the street. tom dudley says more space was needed to keep that six foot social distance out on his walks. >> i think it's working really well because when a lot of people get out walking, some of us have to move into the street, so this makes it a lot safer. >> reporter: since the stay-at-home order to slow the spread of covid-19, popular exercise spots like lake merritt have seen a surge of people. starting today there will be more options with the oakland slow streets program. >> staying healthy means moving your body and you should move your body in your local neighborhood. >> rep

nbc bay area's christie smith joins us live with more on that. christie? >> reporter: well, terry, certainly essential traffic can still get through and of course people who live on the street can drive through. but the idea oakland is pushing here for drivers to avoid certain streets and allow people to social distance and have more room to exercise. and today people are using it. 42nd street is empty today at broadway and oakland. just a few neighbors' cars and people riding bikes and others running in the street. tom debly says more space was needed to keep that six-foot social distance out on his walks. >> i think it's working really well because when a lot of people get out walking, some of us have to move into the street. so this makes it a lot safer. >> reporter: since the stay-at-home order to slow the spread of covid-19, popular exercise spots like lake merritt have seen a surge of people. starting today there will be more options with the oakland slow streets program. >> stay healthy means moving your body, and you should move your body in your l

thank you, christi. >> letha love you're doing important work.h for stepping up to the call. please keep up with us. we wish you our very best. we'll be keeping you in our prayers. >> thank you very much. we need it. >> you and all. thank you, thank you. we'll be right back. >>> wisconsin's governor wants state lawmakers to delay the democratic primary this tuesday over covid-19 concerns. they're going to meet for a essential session to vote on that today. >> a couple other states with april primaries have moved from in-person voting to vote by mail. the democrats pushed back the national convention that was set for july. when bernie sanders asked about the conventional possibly not happening this summer, here's what he said. >> god only knows. i mean -- i mean, we are in a moment where there's very little understanding of where we're going to be from the coronavirus perspective a month from now, two months from now, four months. i suspect that there is thinking on the part of the dnc. and i expect in the republican party as well, you're not goin

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i am going to start with christie here so christie tell us what's going on with equity markets today. well bar gets open sharply down wednesday as we start to get economic data and weak banker earnings coming in all below expectations and my needs are expectations that have already been lowered or advised low are ready so they're coming in even worse and that we sell about $500.00 on the open and close down almost 2 percent so today the department of commerce reported that march wintel sales saw the biggest drop on record and the biggest annual decline since the financial crisis so now we have all the nancy j.c. penney preparing to file for bankruptcy and now this means closing all 850 of its stores and furloughing its 95000 employees across the united states marshal show that retail sales plunged 8.7 percent in march with clothing in excess of topping 50 percent of all my food and beverages which dropped 25 percent and then you also have new york manufacturing numbers coming at an all time low 78.2 percent so now essentially you're getting a double whammy the 2 big pillars of the ec

history but they managed to claw it their way back to positive will boom bust co-host christi i actually just explained kristie what's happening in the oil markets this tuesday. well what's of concern to investors now on tuesday is that there's even more selling now occurring in the back months the june contract is down the most active trading down over 40 percent today meanwhile brant crude also traded down about 23 percent below its support level of $20.00 per barrel so as storage continues to fill up prices could try at extremely depressed levels for the foreseeable future the main u.s. storage hub in cushing oklahoma where the beach i expect to be full within weeks so even as opec oil production cuts kick in and may those 10 percent cut will barely make a dent as global demand has dropped more than 30 percent meanwhile u.s. shell produces a fast approaching the point where they'll be forced to shut down operations now president from called on the government to make fun of ailill to u.s. oil and gas industry after promising in a tweet that he quote would never let the great us oil and

doing now that would really be the last nail in the coffin for the free market when the us co-host christi i n r t correspondent rachel glove and thank you for that. on thursday the u.s. department of labor announced like christie said another 6600000 americans filed for unemployment altogether about 16800000 people have now filed unemployment claims for benefits in just the last 3 weeks now those are record numbers we're talking about here record lows the lowest since the great depression when 8600000 people lost their jobs but that however was in a matter of 2 years well let's bring in c.e.o. . and that it will intelligence former federal reserve insider danielle de martino danielle thank you for joining us today i want to look at having me and start with the employment now we're looking at a loss of about 10 percent of the workforce in just the last 3 weeks j.p. morgan saying that it could go as high as 7000000 now will it. i think that we will indeed see a 4th subsequent wave of 4th subsequent week because if you look at the most populous states in the nation we're talking about florid

of transformative reach search and let's bring back to bus co-host christy i want to start with you over the last month you've been on this show sounding the alarm that this economic downturn is not due to the coronavirus is there any way that we can actually restart this economy and it's going to make up for these dismal metrics that i just laid out right there for you on the table. well 1st. let's bear in mind that up until about 8 days ago we were in a freefall and then the fed put the united states on its back and it really put the world on its back and it basically said the world is too big to fail so there's been a dramatic difference and that dramatic difference is is it's not only just liquidity in the united states but the i.m.f. which we fund primarily is now opening the spigot to asian countries to other parts of the world and that's a big deal now that we've we've released not become a solved problem at this point we were a coronavirus problem certainly which kicked off this waterfall negative economic effect but the fed is it has unlimited ability to make this thing as a bri

chris christie how effective is the p.p.p. program in doling out funds and those who actually need it most. well actually so it's been a complete mess banks and all the other financial institutions who are responsible for distributing these funds they were comfortably unprepared for the task that they were hit with so much demand in a few short weeks so you have large corporations being prioritize over the smaller businesses that the people he was intended to help so meanwhile small businesses provide nearly half of american jobs and what a 5 percent of national production so they were actually completely ignored small business owners actually got completely screwed as it was revealed that billions went to large corporations with almost 20 percent going to publicly traded companies who have other means of accessing capital so a lot of critics have put these companies on blast us taxpayer money to go back to these multimillion dollar companies meanwhile companies like shake shack they have announced that we were turning the loa

let's bring in a wrong christie and abc analyst. -- ron christie and a bbc alt.e had a fourth relief ill today and trillions spent on the buyers. -- the virus. do youhink congressional republicans will have to given eventually? >>on 't think so. the description here is we need to make sure that all of the aid goingut is going out to those who need relief for the coronavirus. we don't need to be providing funding for governors who have mismanaged their state, overspent or put gaffer pet aprojects a now looking to the federal government to bail them out. i point to new york were andrew, -- andrew omo has a hibillion-dollar deficit i budget. that is not proper. we need to make sure all of our resources are devot to otecting american lives around. --round the globe. anchor: let's look at mitch mcconnell's suggestion that states should declare bankruptcy. that ultimate hurt the economy or even be possible -- wouldn't that ultimately hurt the economy or even be impossible? >> states, b statute have to have a balanced budget. so the notion that states don't manage their

of euro pacific capital and boom bust co-host christy i thank you for your time. time now for a quick break but hang here because when we return bankrupt hospitals are back in demand to help fight the 1000 pandemic plus will explain the law and why many businesses and school systems are now opting out of using the zoom back now as we got a break here the numbers after. this is a story of women women with troubled histories and complex court cases you know some . believe. i was out there. who were not. the person that there's a cheesiness of the day are considered the most dangerous of criminals she's in a still. all the off 23 hours of the day tell me that it's not enough punishment that it will give women on death row. in this community there are people who believe that it's ok. it's really hard there are no jobs and you see the kids ask and as a parent. i can come up with arguments and there's a lot of conflict within the game between the teams most of the conflict i would say overall is around money and most of their money is made. close one on each other's cos

victor and christi back to you. >> thank you for the report.>>> i know there are feelings of isolation for all of us and really setting in for people who are elderly in nursing homes right now because they can't see the people they love during the pandemic. so there's a senior living facility manager who came up with this clever idea. >> he built this plexi glass box in his garage and placed it outside the senior center so residents can interact with visitors. >> we've had several family member who is didn't think they were going to see their loved ones on birthdays, we've had many, many tears. >> this is great because we would just be able to wave at him. so now we get a chance to talk to him and see that he's doing well. >> this is just a fantastic idea. fantastic idea. there are now several meetings scheduled each day. the cubicle is disinfected between visits. >> good for people on both sides of that, isn't it? >> yeah. >> that's awesome. >> you know, to think of that, we've seen the video of people sitting at windows and holding up signs a

nbc bay area's christie smith joins us live with more on that. christie?terry, certainly essential traffic can still get through and of course people who live on the street can drive through. but the idea oakland is pushing here for drivers to avoid certain streets and allow people to social distance and have more room to exercise. and today people are using it.

>> reporter: victor, christi, good morning.his is the latest in a string of moves the president has made against people who were involved in his impeachment inquiry. recall that he removed from the national security council alexander vindman, that was an official who testified against him in the impeachment inquiry, reassigned him. also his twin brother who had nothing to do with the impeachment inquiry, other than his relation to vindman. he was also reassigned away from the nsc. and the president fired former ambassador to the european union, gordon sonland. so this is not totally a surprise because the president has made the moves against people involved in the impeachment inquiry. michael atkinson was the person who informed congress about the whistle-blower complaint. the president informed the house and senate intelligence committees late last night in a letter that he planned to remove atkinson at the end of a 30-day period. he has to wait 30 days before removing atkinson but atkinson has been placed on administrative le

he and his wife christie helping out local first responders yesterday, providing lunch from audubon cafeor 100 oakland police officers. as for the big picture of baseball, usa today reporting discussion of a plan that would replace the american and national leagues with grapefruit and cactus leagues to be late in spring training sites in florida and arizona without vans. i asked hendrix for his take on this evolving stream of hypotheticals for getting the season started. >> they are very much in the early stages, so there are a lot of holes and flaws, obviously it's like any plan, the first draft is never going to be having every hole covered or anything like that but i like the fact that they are looking into ways to get back to playing obviously there are bigger issues at hand right now, making sure this thing is contained and we start to flatten the curve a little bit and we start to see a little bit of regression in moving forward. once that happens, once we get past that, hopefully we can get back to playing and hopefully baseball can help heal the country. >> is christie catching y

in san francisco, christie smith, nbc bay area news. >> thank you, christie. >>> don't plan on making that weekend plan to the beach in santa cruz county. they are off limits from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on saturday. santa cruz county sheriff office says it issue 2 wood d 210 issu. beaches will be open for people to exercise in the water, like surfing and paddle boarding. >>> the bay area announcing new 150 reported cases today, putting the total at 7900. 20 cases in contra costa county, which has 862 reported cases. santa clara with 25 new cases and a total of more than 2100 overall. santa clara county continues to be hardest hit in the bay area. and within the county, you can see san jose has more than 1400 cases. within santa clara county, here's san jose, the biggest city in the bay area in terms of population. sunnyvale with the next biggest total. 120 cases. santa clara itself with 100. and dr. sarah cody says the county has done a very good job flattening the curve and has less than 5% of the total cases reported in california. >>> the drug has been tested for months and today

christie smith has a story of a community kitchen. >> we sell mac and cheese, hamburgers, some cobb salad. >> meals are packed up in oakland. part of a new idea called luka's community kitchen. >> luka is soliciting donations from individual donors that we have relationships with. we're using the fund to produce low-cost meals that are distributed by our nonprofit partners out to various homeless camps. >> the meals are made by their workers and donated to partners like east oakland collective, who distributes them. >> our work has increased and expanded. so the demand for food for people who are unhoused or people living on the street or their car has increased. >> there's another benefit. it can help the restaurant pay bills and get employees back to work. they've had to furlough about 80% of their staff as people shelter at home. >> by being able to help some people come in and do some work, it's giving them an opportunity to keep getting a paycheck and keep their families fed as well. >> they say the oakland chamber of commerce has stepped up and there's an online fundraiser. they pla

here's christy smith. >> reporter: on easter, worshippers won't be in st. mary's cathedral, but there will be mass. the aritch diocese of san francisco says half of the parishes are live streaming, and some have seen three times the number of people than a traditional mass. >> they are very well attended, and we expect the attendees during holy week to be even more so. particularly on easter sunday. >> reporter: with the shelter at home order, people are embracing virtual solutions. >> we have for many, many years, held a second night seder as a community. >> reporter: this year, that will be a little different here in san francisco. >> this year we're going to do the entire seder over zoom, and it will be tonight, and i expect we'll have several hundred people. some people, depending on the situation, this might be their passover. >> reporter: the restaurant here typically serves 500 people for easter brunch. now they're doing a traditional easter dinner to go. >> we're trying to adapt to what people need right now. and i think it's really tough for famili