dakota city beef plant in dakota county, nebraska, more than 4,300 workers there. it's in the sioux city area. dakota county, nebraska, they've got 600 cases reported in that county. there's no hospital in that county. that's the second highest number of cases in all of nebraska's counties. the other one is another big meat packing plant. i mean, this dakota city outbreak, that's -- nobody's talking about how many workers are positive there. the mayors, local mayors there in the sioux city areas are asking the three governors in that tri-state area, the republican governors in south dako dakota, iowa, and nebraska to please provide information about where outbreak or spread as occurred. they're asking for help. please tell us where our hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of coronavirus cases are coming from here in the sioux city area. you might be barking up the three wrong trees because those are three republican governors who never put in place any stay-at-home orders and who are even today bragging about how much more they're now opening up even though they didn'

now, dakota city beef plant in dakota county, nebraska, more than 4,300 workers there. it's in the sioux city metro area, but the sioux city metro area encompasses three different states -- iowa, south dakota, and nebraska. in dakota county where the plant is specifically, dakota county, nebraska, they've already got 600 cases reported in that county. there's no hospital in that county. that's the second highest number of cases in all of nebraska's counties. the other one is another big meatpacking plant. i mean this dakota city outbreak, that's -- nobody's talking about how many workers are positive there. the mayors, the local mayors there in the sioux city area, are asking the three governors in that tri-state area, the republican governors in south dakota, iowa, and nebraska to please provide more comprehensive reporting dad to include the specific location where any outbreak or spread has occurred. they're asking for help. please tell us where our hundreds and hundreds of coronavirus cases are coming from in the sioux city area. in iowa, south dakota, and republican

authorities that the employees have never been contacted by anyone, be it the state of south dakota, the city of sioux falls, or their own management. at the shed any light arch, and why those folks have not been contacted? >> thank you for that question, i am not aware of individuals not being contacted. our process is when we get positive results either from our public health lab or commercial labs across the state or out of state, is that we make contact with those positive people most of the time within the same day, 30 six hours.n i will certainly go back and look into the situation. i am not aware of 14 cases at this location. we have reached out because there is a handful of cases among residents of the facility. i will be happy to follow up on that. i would question anybody who is not able to share how they found out about their positive test results. to follow up, madam secretary, should the people who ,ork there, the employees should they tell fellow staff members that they have tested positive? guidelineshere are or what to do if you test positive. you should be quarantining yourse

dakota because everything's fine. state is planning on holding a big car racing event with a big live audience just outside the city on saturday night. woo-hoo. they're thinking they'll have 700 people in the stands. the governor is insisting everything is fine, there doesn't need to be a statewide order in south dakota so, see you at the races, see you there. governor of south dakota, govern governor noem says that's not a great idea but she's not doing anything to stop it because she doesn't want to. they are, as i said, expecting a huge crowd. in georgia, the georgia governor's plans to rip the lid off and reopen everything including tattoo parlors and massage parlors and nail salons and dine in restaurants, that plan from brian kemp turns out is a plan the governor announced without consulting the rest of his supposed state coronavirus task force. he also apparently didn't even run it by the largest cities in his state, the mayors of which were totally blindsided by this order from governor kemp. now the mayor of atlanta is left asking atlanta residents to please ignore what the governor's doing, please ignore the

you said you believe the outbreak is connected to that dakota city plant i just mentioned. why is that? >> well, because we had two deaths and i think they were associated with that company. even our health director said it's a processing plant in a state near to us and large employer. nor some reason tyson is unwilling to share those numbers which doesn't make sense. >> what is your reaction to the president's expected executive order which would force meat plants to remain open? >> it's probably too late to do much for our community because we're on sump a rise now. we had our first case on march 22nd. we're over 1300 cases in our tristate area now. by the time anything can be done, it's too late for us. we're hopeful the curve will start to go down. it's a bit alarming to see that increase and the potential for loss of life and for people being very sick in our community. >> yeah, i'm also trying to understand if these plants are open, what would happen? obviously there's been nearly 200 cases linked to another tyson plant in waterloo, iowa. these plants have become clus

individuals to police themselves in these situations, and even at one point saying south dakota is not new york cityate is home to one of the larger outbreaks in the country. the mayor of sioux falls, which is south dakota's largest city, has put in a formal request asking the governor to issue those shelter-in-place orders at least for the counties surrounding his city, saying anything he can do, and he's tried to issue these proclamations, doesn't have any teeth without the governor behind him. still, with this outbreak, the governor has been defensive saying it wouldn't have mattered, anyway. >> the vast majority of our positive cases are happening in this part of the state, and the fact that this was a critical infrastructure business, a shelter in home wouldn't have made a difference. >> those hydroxychloroquine trials happening in the state of florida, jim, poppy, they're looking at preventative effects of this medication, so they're not testing them in people who already have covid-19. they're seeing if you took it ahead of time, could it prevent you from getting it? again, nothing has been p

. >> reporter: tonight some residents of sioux falls south dakota feels their city is under siege. this pork processing plant is a coronavirus hot spot linked to nearly 900 cases now we are hearing about conditions inside from a current long-time employee who wished to have their voice disguised. >> i started getting really super concerned when a person on my line was diagnosed with covid-19. >> reporter: the worker says this is a picture of the calf -- cafeteria for cardboard dividers and yellow tape for social distance but the employee says that's nearly impossible. >> there is people standing in line outside and people walking down the hallway there is no way to be six feet apart. >> reporter: smithfield says it's extremely proactive in responding to covid-19 supplying masks and face shields for employees and paying worker whose stay at home when sick. the plant is now closed indefinitely. >> a lot of us were getting scared knowing if we didn't show up for work, we might not have a job. a lot of people were worried about their family members, bringing it home and spreading it to

city. that it is from north dakota. downstate new york, long tenantand new york city, is upstate here. different this checklist needs to apply to each place. we need rapid and ubiquitous testing. that is one of the most important things we have to emphasize. we are not there yet. retesting of people not only with symptoms, -- we need testing -- people that are asymptomatic. they can be carrying the disease , we open up a business, they are carrying the disease and giving it to other people. then we are back to where we started. everybody on this call agreed, and everybody in this country should agree, that the worst thing we can do is reopen not happen chap was -- checklist in place, and we go down this road again. then people will really lose confidence in their government. then people will really have anxiety, they have anxiety now, from sickness and death in financial anxiety. to reopen the economy. we all want to get to the next phase. better,y we will be stronger, kinder and more loving. we have to get going together as a team, and it is no time for protester partisanship. it is t

build field hospitals to handle overflow coronavirus patients both in sioux fall, south dakota, and in rapid city. south dakota's neighboring states of iowa and nebraska also don't have stay-at-home orders. they are also now contending with multiple outbreaks at meat processing plants including a plant in madison nebraska now, where workers were first advised that some of their colleagues had tested positive, as of friday, last week, dozens of workers had been sent home, that plant at least for now is staying home, excuse me, staying open. iowa has what appears to be a large outbreak at a meat plant in waterloo, iowa, local officials including the county sheriff and the mayor of waterloo, iowa, have been begging for that plant, a tyson pork processing plant to be shut down, but so far, they are keeping that waterloo iowa plant open and running, despite the large outbreak there. today, there are other outbreaks now being reported at meat processing plants everywhere you look, in tarheel, north carolina, in logan's port, indiana, in goodletsville, tennessee, in worthington, minnesota, where they to

dakota. the governor there is saying the republican governor, largest city in south dakota is sioux falls, and here's some images from a drive-by protest, a socially distant protest, people in sioux falls who came out to show support for people who work at a local meat processing plant and a city in sioux falls owned by smithfield, they process about four to five percent of the pork sold in the country about 3700 employees in that one facility at sioux fall, that plant had its first employee test positive for coronavirus on march 26th and when they learned of that first test, the other people who work in that plant were concerned, as you would be, and in part because a lot of that work inside that plant is done in very close quarters. and a lot of cases, you are shoulder to shoulder with your fellow employees doing what can be very tough physical labor. after asking for better conditions and protective equipment inside the plant, and the community turning out to support those demands from the people who worked there, smithfield did close the plant down last week for three days, they said they

people still shake hands and go to indoor water parks like this one in rapid city, south dakota.ll seem to have places to go. we encountered a surprising amount of traffic in denver, where there are over 22,0,000 cases. we found so-called covid refugees flocking to places like geo's campground. this man pulled up from baltimore. you stopped seeing the mask? >> you are the first i've seen with one. >> reporter: even in the vast open space, geohas behas beeha n diligently spacing out campers. >> they're just coming here, and we're trying to keep everybody safe. >> reporter: there were spacious rvs and college kids pitching tents. is there a shelter at home order? >> in duluth, yeah, an a little bit. >> reporter: we then headed west to mt. rushmore. where we found the carl family from iowa, who had the presidents mostly to themselves. >> it's open. i don't feel bad about using it. people didn't want to be around other people don't go to public places. >> reporter: they are not overly concerned about the virus. you still shake hands? >> i dropped a car off the other day, the guy stuc

of sioux city, south dakota, is with us. one of more than 60 city leaders who signed a letter urging the governor to sign a state of emergencily. why do you think she continues to be resistant? >> we have all achieved some level of unity, and we're big and spread out geographically, so more than 150 mayors and some county commissioners also signed on to that letter, asking for the emergency. so we really don't know what the holdup is, but it seems to be her questioning the authority she has to do so versus the tactical or strategible benefit to do so. >> the majority of cases have happened in the sioux falls area, where the pork plant incident occurred, and that a stay-at-home order is not necessary? >> right. there's some logic to that, but here now we've been identified as one of the nation's hot spots in sioux falls. so it's just a question of when does it infiltrate the rest of our rural communities. we're 340 miles from sioux falls. you know, our metro area is definitely smaller than sioux falls, but we have thousands o

dakota. even though new york city is not like lemon, south dakota. need targeted approaches things that actually work for that community and what reflects that community's needs. that is the viewpoint i am looking at. every single county, city, and township in this state. >> i want to move to the secretary. let's bring our viewers and listeners up-to-date on the latest positive cases in south dakota. our recoveryen numbers are just as important. what can you tell us? >> as of today we have 1168 positive cases in the state. many of those associated with the smithfield outbreak. it is important to keep in mind that people do recover from covid. 80% of people that contract covid will have mild symptoms or maybe even no symptoms whatsoever. people do get better. we have over 330 people that have recovered. that is the good news. we have also seen a relatively low rate of hospitalization and that is also good news and that is what is helping to contribute toward the new numbers that the governor announced today. covid can be very serious for some people. t

dakota law enforcement. >> and had passed. >> yes. >> still, james henrikson had to know something about casey clark and doug carlile. and so the two detectives got in the car and drove 700 miles to wolford city with the wind chill, i believe it was 60 below when we were there. >> their destination, the home of james henrikson and his sarah. >> we went to the side door. from there you could see the garage and in the garage was like a two-year-old bentley, flat tires, almost laying on its belly. >> an almost new bentley. >> yes. >> obviously not taken care of at all. >> no. >> sarah answered the door, very pleasant said detectives, and went to get james. how did james henrikson greet you? did he tell you a story, sit you down for a cup of tea? what? >> he leaned out the door, slapped my on the shoulder and said too bad you drove all that way, my attorney told me not to talk to you and he shut the door. >> and you got nothing? >> got nothing. >> except for a rude reception which might have told you something? >> he was a big man, 5'10", 250 pounds of steroided rock muscle. he bragged he was benching over 500 pounds and he looked like it. but i don't intimidate and grew werewolf fans when he rea

particular region here in the wake of this chad and this is what it has this is sun troll south dakota rapid city not to say began to come down lace on wednesday and right now they have 21 centimeters of snow and it's going to take a while for drill to begin to melt because how much is austin so very low but it will begin to clear out it should begin really lots of polls over this weekend so what we've got is it's windy cold air being forced him behind this line of rain you can see snow calls to the knoll still some snow in soon will central areas of canada and then ahead of this very mild warm air in place really in across the southeast texas you'll see here quite a bit of rain so this is where we could actually have some severe thunderstorms at the same time there's a system just pushing in to northern as the california now this will bring rain but also some snow maybe up to 30 centimeters along the line of the western nevada and that could lead to some problems but this is what we're looking at in terms of how much so this is sunday you can begin to see these woman's shades of color beginning

in behind some very heavy amounts of snow have come down south dakota this is central south dakota rapid city picked up 21 centimeters really from wednesday night it will eventually begin to melt because the time it is all coming back up but it's going to take a while because system pushing into northern california they'll bring mountain snow some heavy amounts of rain. rain across much of texas says strong at times and still very cool but look at this it is an improving picture 9 in dallas on saturday by monday up to 26 that is the trend as we go through the last apos of the weekend . the recognize the both sides have legitimate grievances do you believe the undervote is a fashion or poor kids don't have all gone they can debate with up front on al-jazeera. people have come to expect a lot from al-jazeera over the years it's the reporting the commitment to on the reporter places the commitment to the human story. but it's also the idea of challenging those in power if a politician comes on this channel they will be challenged and that's what people expect of us they want the questions answer

dakota is now struggling to contain. here's my "nightline" co-anchor, juju chang. >> reporter: far from the hellish hospital scenes in new york city, nestled in the nation's heartland, sioux falls, south dakota. now home to one of the biggest covid-19 clusters in the u.s. the epicenter at this smith d-19d pork processing plant wit of rk, employing 40,000 people across the country, forced to shut down the sioux falls plant this week. some employees say they've been worried for weeks about their health and their families'. was there a lot of fear among your co-workers? >> of course, everybody was with a lot of fear to go to work every single day. >> reporter: and so what made them go to work? >> that they don't want to lose their jobs. >> reporter: the outbreak outlining the protection of workers while maintaining the country's food chain remains secure. >> for me, one person wasn't enough to shut it down, because we have a lot of contact, you know. >> reporter: she didn't want to reveal her name, even after quitting last week, after having worked there, she says, for more than ten years. >> i was thinking that it was not a safe pla

tyson foods is halting operations at beef facility in nebraska ba and dakota city.hey say. this facility employs 4300 people. think about the jobs involved and number of closures we've seen at these meat plants. but tyson has voluntarily idled the pork facilities in waterloo iowa a indiana, and washington state. there are a ton of meat plant closures. iowa has seen numerous ones, missouri, washington state, illinois, minnesota, wisconsin, south dakota, colorado. it goes on and on. there are concerns about meat supplies. stuart: there are. i see stocks running low in the local supermarket near me. that could get worse. they try to deep clean, reopen. we'll see how it goes. >>> get back to mcdonald's, new developments there, a new headline, lauren, mcdonald's what have you got? >> they're doing the fake meat options in time. the ceo says they will have a plant-based something on the menu over time. they tested a plt. it was in canada last year. it was a temporary test. we'll see if it is expanded or put something new plant-based on the menu. they might have to, well,

she's defended that by saying south dakota is not new york city which by definition is true just like this pencil is not a brontosaurus and done of us are miss america except for miss america who actually is. but for the people of south dakota and for the people who work at that smithfield plant who until this weekend were working shoulder to shoulder with hundred of colleagues who are positive for coronavirus and for all people who are family members of the 3,700 people who work in that plant for their friends for every person, all of those workers have come in contact with in a state that is not at all sheltering in place and everything's open, there's no shutdown of businesses in the state, no restrictions on bars or restaurants or anything else. thank you governor noem. for our fellow americans, among and around that cluster which may, in fact, be the largest coronavirus cluster in the entire country now, for our fellow americans who are there now staring into the precipice for want of a governor who understands what's going on here and who understands how exponential curves work

host: can you look ahead at hotspots like new york city and south dakota and in the south in miami andn nursing homes? how do you incorporate that into your data? dr. mokdad: we get the data on mortality by age and sex on a daily basis and we are trying to adjust some things in the models. a couple things we are finding to adjust. one is the exact reporting of deaths. anybody.for departments are doing an amazing job addressing the pandemic and sometimes it is reported the next day. for previous day. the second one, hospitals are good about reporting deaths but in nursing homes, there is a delay in reporting the deaths. we add them when they come to us. host: part of what you did was educating the public and this has been a month-long education in how to deal with pandemics. is the message getting through, and do you worry if the government begins to reopen the economy, we could become lax in the months ahead? dr. mokdad: the message is getting through. we have two epidemics going on. one that has peaked already in new york and now we are seeing a decline in cases and demand in the hosp

dakota. the mayor of sioux falls, you're in a much more rural area than mary is. but tell us what the conditions are like where you are in your city. >> well, you know, in sioux falls, south dakota, we have about a third almost of our state's population lives in the two counties here in sioux falls so we're kind of a dense populated base of south dakota and roughly about 90% of all the covid cases in our state right now are in sioux falls, south dakota. so we're in a little bit more of a high response position right now. the smithfield plant mentioned in your previous segment is here in sioux falls. we've been dealing with the outbreak there, the top hot spot in the country right now in terms of the employees there being affected. so it's really heightened the response and the concern amongst our residents, but most recently as of two days ago, we had data that showed us based on our projections, based on the hospitalization rate and the capacity of our health care systems, we're still going to be very close to our health care capacity with the measures we've taken. so, we're in a good spot, but also very tense because we're in th

i represent the north shore of long island in new york city then it is for north dakota. it is different in new york state in my district, downstate, then it is from our dish for our cochair from upstate new york -- then it is for our cochair from upstate new york. this checklist needs to apply to each place. we need rapid and ubiquitous testing. we are not there yet. we need to test not only people with symptoms, not just taking temperatures, test people who are asymptomatic. they could be carrying the open up business, we have been upstairs and they are carrying the disease and giving it to other people and we are back where we started. everyone on this call agrees and everyone in the country should agree that the worst thing we can do is reopen, not have the checklist we are talking about in place and then we go down this road again. -- then economy will be people will really lose their confidence in the government. we all want to reopen the economy. to get backto try to normal. hopefully we will be better and we will be stronger and kinder and more loving. together. g

talking about two dirt track races at small speedways at a town called jefferson, south dakota, which is near the sioux cityt major league racing we're talking about. this is not nascar. these are small events with they are loud and fast. and all the first the organizers who oend the tracks wanted to have these races like they always do it. with fans there and concessions and all the things you'd expect at an event like that. that obviously brought a lot of international scrutiny to the events. we're all under quarantine and didn't seem like something that was advisable to a lot of people. including governor, who weighed in and said she didn't think it was a good idea to have these races with fans. which would be better to not do it but broke her agreement to have groups of ten more organized and gathered in one place. so eventually, the organizers decided to cancel it with the fans, but go ahead with the the races any way. so the first one happened last night. and we had had some footage. i wasn't the at the races. i was here in the apartment. but we have some footage from the races. what you see in the fo

she's resistant saying at one point that south dakota is not new york city and she believes the outbreakone of the worst in the country, would have happened anyway. >>> i'm barbara starr in washington. for u.s. troops, their restrictions will be lifted when he is convinced the science tells him there will be minimal risk. he says any decision will be made based on the science he sees and he's advised about. from this point forward, the restrictions on u.s. troops will be reviewed by esper every 15 days and when he is sure the troops can be kept safe and communities in which they live and work will be safe, there will be easing of movement restrictions on u.s. military forces. >>> john, it's interesting to see that story out of fisher island in florida where they can get tested. have easy access. look, as we've learned throughout this pandemic, the wealth disparity in this country is, by definition, a health disparity. they're just closely connected. >> you say interesting. some people might say depressing or enraging. getting testing should not be based on your zip code or how much money

but of course, sioux falls is the largest city in south dakota, and south dakota's republican governor, christie noem, has insisted that she still will not issue a stay-at-home order in her state. she has not ordered nonessential businesses to close. she thinks really everything is fine and south dakota is a huge success story. and so on the front page of the "argus leader" now, alongside all of the latest news about the plant and this worker who died today, and the biggest cluster of cases known in the united states, and the cdc flying in, and the governor nevertheless still saying it's fine, it's fine, there's no reason to close anything down, alongside all of that on the front page of the "argus leader" now, there are these daily news updates that amount to a running tally of all of the other places, all of the other open businesses, in no stay-at-home order south dakota where people now are starting to fall ill, because you can't have 644 cases associated with one workplace and think that's going to be it, that's the universe of infection that we'll have. now, there's the running t

city. the south dakota situation here with the largest known cluster in the country, it's just like watching a slow motion train wreck. nearly 800 known cases at that one plant. it was 250 at the start of the week. we are told reliably that they still have not tested everyone who works at that plant. there's no stay-at-home order. the local paper, the ar gus leader, is running a running tally every day now of all the new workplaces in and around sioux falls that have decided to shut themselves down or have otherwise reported they too have coronavirus cases among their workers. that's because everybody's still going to work because there's no stay-at-home order in south dakota because the governor thinks it's fine. south dakota has one of the most rapidly increasing caseloads in the country. the entire state of south dakota has a grand total of 2,300 hospital beds. the governor, though, is unperturbed. >> we do have a hot spot in sioux falls. i think everybody is well aware of that, and people are talking about that. i also want to give you a little bit of perspective on this situation. i kno

. >> sean:f new >> new york city is not south dakota. people are spread out. it's easier to social distance here. we do have some pretty populated areas as well. when given the opportunity to let people utilize their liberties and freedoms that this country gives them, they do the right thing when it comes to protecting theirot families and their communities. we gave them the opportunityhe o do that and they overwhelmingly dead. we are in a really good spot as a state. we had one issue in a park processing facility -- b1 how's that going, by the way >> sean: how's that going, by the way >>>> a big number of them, but they've isolated them. we are aggressively over testing in the area and identifying those positives and we are getting that county andci city under control. we've got some rough days ahead of us, but we are in a way better spot than most of the country and in a way better spot than we thought we would be. it's because the people stepped up and really did the right thing. so i am incredibly proud of the people of our state. i trusted them and they

i wanted to say that dakota appear in the grand forks, which a city ofscribe as stalingrad here on the red river, we are hardly affected very much. i think there is a total of maybe 200 cases as i read in the paper last week. people are doing what they do all over the country. they are doing a good job here. they are wearing the masks. host: jim, there are not nonessential closures in north dakota yet, correct? caller: i don't believe so. everything seems to be going as it was. the only difference is people are lined up at the restaurants in the drive-through windows and they are still doing business, they are open, and the only thing that was a real drag was the library closing. that was what hit home for me because i love the local library and i love to talk to my library girls and all the people there, i get my movies and my books, and i had the same book now for about a month. i'm really depressed about that. i do want to say one thing about the cash i kind of had a feeling -- they talk about disparities, but what about the gender disparity? this is an overwhelmingly male disease.

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city that you see on tv. we are spread out. there's a lot more open space in south dakota. >> though some worried the virus is spreading outward from the plant were hundreds of workers have tested positive, she cites hard to verify data to back up her stance. >> we have seen an outstanding call to action among the people of south dakota that we have more people staying home then many of the other states that have put in shelter in place orders. >> the smithfield plant processes a fifth of the nation's pork supply. it is closed indefinitely but that closure and those of other food processors because of the pandemic are stressing the nation's food chain. she's an industry analyst at the university of notre dame. >> we are seeing disruptions across different product categories particularly meat and dairy products to the supply-chain. >> the disruption adds to an inconvenience for consumers because there is food but as more workers get sick, real shortages could materialize. at the meat plant in colorado, he was working sick but his daughter could not convince him to stay home

. >> well, sean, new york city is definitely not south dakota. we have some parts of our state that are pretty sparse and people are spread out, so it's a little easier to social distance there, but we do have some pretty populated areas as well. and when given the opportunity to let people utilize their liberties and freedoms that this country gives them, they do the right thing when it comes to protecting their families and their communities. so we gave them the opportunity to do that and they overwhelmingly did. we are in a really great spot as a state. we had one issue in a pork processing facility -- >> sean: how's that going by the way? how's that going? >> gosh, there's most 800 people that have tested positive out of 3700 employees, so a big number of them, but they've isolated them. we are aggressively over testing in that area and identifying those positives and we are getting that county and that city under control, so we've got some rough days ahead of us but we are in a way better spot than most of the country and we are in a way bet

while we are treating the rest of the country like new york city, while montana or south dakota reallye open for business. i think we need to get a little bit more aggressive about taking care of our economy, because i think in the long run we are going to see some serious damage in our health from the economic damage that we are doing now. >> dagen: as we are waiting, as we see the president walking out to the podium. let's listen to the president of the united states. >> president trump: thanks very much, everybody. good afternoon. today is good friday, and millions of christians celebrate easter, and the resurrection of jesus christ. at this holy time we pray that god will heal the sick and comfort the heartbroken, and bless our heroes. as american families look forward to easter, we are reminded that our story ends not in despair but in triumph and renewal. very appropriate, isn't it? i would like to provide an update on our ongoing efforts in the war against the invisible enemy. before i do that, i will have a couple of notes. the united states in discussions last night with mexic

city. than it is from north dakota. thanifferent in downstate in tom reed and upstate new york. there are different places. and while there are very different places, this checklist needs to apply to each place. we need rapid and ubiquitous testing. that's probably one of the most important things we have to emphasize. and we're not there yet. we need to attest people, not only with symptoms, we need to test people that are asymptomatic. because they can be opening up the disease. we open up a business, they're carrying the disease and giving it to other people. then we're back to where we started. everybody on this call agreed, and everybody in this country should agree, that the worst thing we can do is reopen not have the checklist we're talking about in place, and we go down this road again. then the economy will really be devastated. then people will really lose confidence in their government. then people will really have anxiety. they have anxiety now from sickness and death in financial -- and from financial anxiety. and we all want to reopen the economy. we all want to g

dakota became the largest in the country. china's economy shifts into reverse after decades of nonstop growth. the cityt the center of the crisis has raised its death toll dramatically. plus, royal tips on mental oalth, the duke and duche about their mental well-being during isolation. ♪ for all you watching, welcome to "world news america." pressure is building in the u.s. to reopen theconomy, as the death toll mounts. president tru left the decision to individual governors , but added fuel to the fire by ebacking th protesting. in a series of tweets, he ud the phrase "liberate" iall capital letters to loosen restrictions in some states. our correspondent has more. correspondent: after months under lockdown, the nation is geing restless. texas became one of the first states to begin the process of reopening. >> first, we will opening today actities that should pose minimal or no threat to covid-19 expanding. second, additional openings wil be announced april 27, after input from the advisors and medical staff. as theconomicin pain nsifies, protest across the country. many residents see little benefit

dakota. she has been adamant about that. especially for the city of sioux falls. has said that even though smithfield has had this outbreak, a shelter in place would not have affected that because it's considered an essential business. but the mayor says that he is seeing a spike of the data that he's looking at and he wants a shelter in place. the governor came out and said yesterday that she's not the person who is going to put that shelter in place in place, but the mayor is taking things into his own hands and he has now gone to the sioux falls city council within the city to ask the counselors to issue a shelter in place. if that is issued, it wouldn't go into effect until the 24th of april. so that's days from now and we all know how quickly this virus can spread. so a lot can happen during that time. yesterday, the governor's office said that the cdc is sending a team to sioux falls to investigate smithfield and the plant here to check out their operations. >> let me ask you quickly, put the politicians on the side for us, what are you hearing from ordinary

city that you see on tv. we are spread out. there is a lot more open space in south dakota. >> reporter: those somewhere in the virus is spreading outward from the plant were hundreds of workers have tested positive, gnome says they have hard to verify data.>> we have such an outstanding call to action amongst the people in south dakota that we have more people staying home than many of the other states that have put in shelter in place orders.>> . nocl indefinily with thehefood processors becau of the pandemic, are stressing the nation's food chain. katelyn is an industry analyst. >> we see so many disruptions across a number of different categories particularly meat and dairy products throughout the supply chain.>> reporter: the disruption adds up to more than inconvenience for consumers because there is food but as more workers get sick, real shortages could materialize. at the gbs plant in greeley, colorado, a 78-year-old was working, sick. his daughter cannot convince him to stay home.>> my dad was an amazing, humble hard-working individual. he died last week from coronavirus. the plant is now temporarily closed.>>> still t

new york city's open date will be different in fargo, north dakota.need to get past a one-size-fits-all approach to invest infectious disease. realize that most in this money that is being loaned to small business is not a loan. most of this money will not be repaid. it will ultimately be considered grants, and will be added to our national debt. let's be honest about this. applications for the program open to overwhelming demand. the current data indicates that money is gone. here we are again with leadership from both parties saying, let's do another $300 billion. what's another couple hundred billion dollars? realize that money desired is not money that we have saved for rainy day. this money doesn't exist anywhere. it will be created or borrowed. even more alarming than the money is the idea that one senator can stand on the floor and pass legislation, spending half a trillion dollars and have no recorded vote and no debate. look, i understand the hardships of senators returning from around the country, so i have not invoked the senate vote to dem

cities. chris, who are these going to? >> to the dakotarter: the fda said 3d printing may be useful in a pinch, but it's unlikely to provide the same fluid barrier and air filtration protection as certified equipment. >> eventually, companies that make this professionally in batches of, you know, 10,000 at a time are going to fill that gap. >> reporter: near denver, volunteers now starting air delivery of 3d-printed ppe to rural hospitals. and part of that effort, shields made in amelia and matt brown's family garage. >> there's always something that everybody can do. even if you don't have a 3d printer, you can help somehow. >> reporter: for "good morning america," i'm devin dwyer in washington. >> love that. thank you, devin. >>> coming up on "gma," h.o.r.s.-ing around. part of what's become a playground competition. there's my career,... my cause,... my choir. i'm a work in progress. so much goes... into who i am. v dicine is one part of it. who are starting hiv-1 treatment and who aren't resistant to either of the medicines dolutegravi

city. nebraska, hall county, grand island, i'm sorry, hall, nebraska has a meat packing plant. they have more cases in this 50,000 people town. everybody knows about the smith field plant in south dakota. the navajo nation in arizona and on and on. so we're seeing the drama of new york city and seattle, detroit, chicago, new orleans, those outbreaks are burning out. getting under control. and now we're going to see it in smaller places that are going to be totally overwhelmed. >> this is radiating out that people said indeed would happen. we're seeing that. as the president shifts blame for the virus everywhere from china to the w.h.o. to the obama administration. we keep hearing him push on reopening at least parts of the country from current guidelines. we're already seeing demonstrations in some places. right wing media pushing reopening. the president tweeting liberate certain states. what are your childreoncerns ab that? >> it's incredibly shortsighted and dim-witted. i think it's as bad a public health approach to the problem as one could imagine. it's like sending soldiers to battle without, you know, any idea where the enemy is. without guns. without helmets, you know, it's so