ford and mr.dison, and i thought that was a great example of how during these trips out in the country away from the big cities, they really did touch the lives of ordinary americans and changed them in wonderful ways. susan: we want to listen to just a little bit of jep bisbee's music so people can get a sense of what interested ford and edison. ♪ susan: just a little bit of the music. would a lot of americans be listening to music of this type of this era? jeff: very much so. edison invented the phonograph which first brought music into americans homes. and so edison was looked to as one of those people, if he is recording it, it must be someone special. with jazz, which was considered a sort of heavy metal music of its area, starting to bother a lot of older americans who thought it was sinful and leading young people into criminality and non-virtue. going back, hearkening to old american folk tunes, based on foreign folk tunes, but we did not think about that as much, it simply was refreshing

ford museum. that night, he gets back to washington, briefs president ford, ford schedules the press conference for the next day. neither of them slept that much that night. the next morning at 8:30, which is 5:30 california time, ron zigler called and said "he changed his mind, he's not going to sign the statement, he wants to go back to the original statement." the statement that originally blames it on the staff. becker says "that's fine, i will tell president ford, i'm sure he will plan to cancel the press conference for today." zigler backed off. at 11:00 in the morning, president ford sat behind his desk in the oval office and granted the pardon, which you saw on that video. what you couldn't tell, on the other end of the camera watching that whole time was benton becker, one of the few people who knew everything that happened here. to show you a brief clip that tom brokaw, the iconic news anchor for cnbc, did for us at any event at duquesne for the 40th anniversary in 2014. ascovered the pa

jeff: henry ford understood the the ford archives.alue of publicity and a lot of the vagabonds' trips, besides the idea of some friends getting out and having fun, is that you get your names in the newspaper every day, your products are obviously going to benefit. and so he would hire cinematographers to come along on these trips and make the news available for newsreels to be shown in movie theaters. he wanted america to see how much fun you could have traveling in a car, and at the same time, if the names ford and edison made you go buy something, even better. susan: this is a film that the company produced in the 1950's to tell its story. let's watch a little bit of it. ♪ >> the cars began coming off the assembly line at the rate of one every 40 seconds. and what henry ford had foreseen happened: mass production on the assembly line drove the price of the model t down from $850 to $300. now everybody could have one. susan: some statistics to understand the magnitude of this cheap production of cars. what are some of the things that

you made america proud and you made ford proud. america is very proud of ford.ight here at the rawsonville plant, you are building a great medical arsenal to defeat the virus and cement america's place as a leader in manufacturing and exporting ventilators everywhere in the world. we are getting calls from many other countries, friend and foe. we want to help them out also. we are making thousands and thousands of ventilators. i think we started right over here. we got a call early on from bill and the group. this is incredible what you have done. with your help, not a single american who has needed a ventilator has been denied a ventilator. we took over empty cupboards. we got into the business of ventilators and tests. we have done sporting million tests. the second country is at 3 million. we are at 14 million tests. on behalf of our entire nation, i want to say thank you very much. thank you for doing a great job. driven by the love and to sweat and devotion of everyone here today, we are saving lives, forging ahead, and as of this week, the beating heart of

by bill ford. without further ado, please help me give a standing ovation from introducing our executive chairman of lord motor company, bill ford. [cheering and applause] bill ford: hello, everybody and thank you so much angela and thank you for your tireless leadership. you and your team represent the very best of ford. and welcome, mr. president to ford's rossville plant. welcome to all of our employees joining us today. today is a big day for ford and an important time for our country. this plant, we assemble components and hybrid batteries for ford cars and trucks. for the past six weeks, our employees have been assembling machines to save lives. ,nd as everybody here knows ford has always been a family business. but it is not just my family. generations of ford employees have punched in every day and plants -- at plants like this one building for america and we take that trust very seriously. we have a special responsibility to take care of each other and this country. just like we have done

you made america proud and you made ford proud and america is proud of ford. right here at the component plant, you are building a great medical arsenal to defeat the virus and cement america's place as a leading manufacturer and exporter of ventilators. anywhere in the world, we are getting calls from other countries, many other countries, friend and foe, we get calls from foes and we want to help them out. andre making thousands thousands of ventilators, and i think we started right over here. and thiscall from bill is incredible what has happened and what you have done. with your help, not a single american who has needed a ventilator has been denied a ventilator. not one. as you remember, we took over empty cupboards and we got in , 14 million tests, the second country with 3 million tests. germany, south korea, 14 million tests and the tests are the best. you very muchk for doing a great job. driven by love and sweat and devotion, we are saving lives and forging ahead. as of this week, the beating heart of the american auto forstry is back open business.

ford: yeah, i feel that's what protected me. pres. trump: that is fantastic. ms. ford: yes. pres. trump: good. wow. ms. ford: and i have not had short- me, personally, i have not had any shortage of ppe. pres. trump: and your coworkers, are they do they ms. ford: not at the hospital that i'm at. no, we haven't. pres. trump: that's incredible. ms. ford: they have provided excellent pres. trump: so you all have very good equipment ms. ford: yes. pres. trump: -- as the expression goes, right? ms. ford: yes. pres. trump: the gowns and the masks. everything. thank you very much, amy. ms. ford: thank you. pres. trump: that's great. amazing. (applause.) it's a great story. also with us is ben ross, the cofounder of a small, custom tie business called brackish bow ties in charleston, south carolina. a great place. ben has also with his team has shifted to producing protective masks for medical workers, and he's done it completely free of charge. that's fantastic. as ben says, "we've pushed the gas pedal down, and we haven't let up." so brackish bow ties has donated more than 2,000 masks t

you've made really america proud and you made ford proud. america is proud of ford. right here in the component plant, you are building a great medical arsenal to defeat the virus and cement america's place as the leading manufacturer and exporter of ventilators anywhere in the world. we are now getting calls from other countries, many other countries, friend and foe believe it or not. we want to help them out to. we are making thousands and thousands of ventilators. and i think we really started right over here. we got out call very on him bill and a group. it's incredible what happened and what you've done. with your help, not a single american who has need a ventilator has been denied a ventilator, not one. as you remember, we took over empty cupboards. the cupboards were bare. we got into the business of ventilators and testing and all these other things. now we have done 14 million tests. the second country is at 3 million at less than 3 million. germany, south korea, the tests are the best of all. but, on behalf of our entire nation, i want to say thank you ver

he gets to talk for half an hour with the chairman of ford, billy ford. and tells him how boring his internship is and begs him for an interesting job. billy ford eventually puts him in this project which is the skunk works which is to scope out the future of transportation and megacities. in soap chris thomas sees this mobility revolution we are talking about, and he convinces billy ford and others to set up a venture fund that will invest in all of these new technologies. and so that is what he did. when we wrote the book, he will still doing that. but later, he quit the venture fund and is now setting up an education basically a new university to develop the brainpower for new mobility in detroit. the idea being they need to have the talent for these new technologies, robotics and other new technologies to keep the auto business in detroit. >> has he made any profits from what he has been doing since he left ford? >> while i imagine he did very well it's a venture fund in its had a good return on a lot of its investments. they are in robotics and other

we're waiting for him to walk through this ford plant. lot has been made before his appearance whether or not he would wear a mask for example. it is the rules there you're supposed to. you see everybody inside is wearing one. any thoughts about that subject before i ask you others? >> i think it is important folks follow instructions of medical personnel and scientific personnel. obviously you leave it up to each individual but i think it is important to follow the instructions of the scientific folks. connell: fair enough. the instructions were, everybody is complying with them we see on camera. this facility you wear masks. that is the rules. we're waiting for the president to come out. blake talked about, one of these companies, ford is one of them, shifted the gears, pardon the pun to get involved in the health care fight. as former health care official, what do you make of that? company like ford or others completely different than what they have done in the past to make ventilators or other health care equipment? >> i think it is r

ford and general electric have workingreat job together.nd there are countries working with you and they have done a great job. they do a great car and they really have done a great job on the ventilators. and i have heard that the polity of the ventilators is top-of-the-line. we really appreciate it, fellas. reporter: there is a lot of interest on whether you would end up wearing a mask. can you take us through your thought process on why you chose not to? pres. trump: i did have one on before. i work one in the back -- i wore one in the back area. reporter: did you also have goggles? pres. trump: goggles and a mask. reporter: why are you not wearing when here? -- one here? pres. trump: everyone here has been tested come in fact i was tested this morning. i was given a choice. area had one on in an where they prefer it and it looked very nice and it was very nice. reporter: how about the example it is setting for other americans? pres. trump: i think it set a good example. but as i say, i did have one on. : you have seen the manufacturing

all the ford executives of ford, everybody there on that tour, they were all wearing masks. the only one i saw who wasn't wearing a mask was the president of the united states. you know, jeremy, there also have been some serious questions about the fate of the cdc director dr. robert redfield. i understand the president was just asked if he plans to replace him. >> that's right, wolf. the president was asked. he was asked that question quite directly. he shot back with an emphatic no as he was walking away to the next part of his tour at that ford manufacturing facility. wolf, that came as we know that we reported repeatedly over the last several days on the tensions between the white house and the cdc, but beyond those tension, we seen it in public view with top white house official peter no czar ro criticizing him on sunday. we reported the president was criticizing at a lunch on tuesday. the president insisting he believes john redfield is doing a good joshlt. dr. redfield, we should note, trying to put aside any of those questions. he's done a number of interviews perhap

trump: no. >> please welcome for' -- ford's plant manager.

efforts and from ford's efforts until today? >> thank you, professor, and good evening, everyone. i feel really blessed and enormously grateful for the invitation to be the terry sanford lecturer this semester. of course, the opportunity to come to duke to this amazingly magical place that seems year in ly in its beauty and its excellence, and in its richness, you can't help but eel that this is a rich place. and it reeks of it. and it is an interesting thing that we'll get to in a moment, but i do want to say that it is just always such a warm embrace hen i come to durham and that's why when my friend once again intervened in my life to probably rig the system so i could be named the terry sanford lecturer, i readily accepted. i think your question of andrew carnegie and the fund for north very a and today is a important one that really, first of all, we have to acknowledge andrew carnegie. andrew carnegie was a radical for his day. andrew carnegie believed that everyone in america should be literate, should have a library, hav

jim is ford's ceo. are you confident that you can keep all 59,000 people you're bringing back to work in the u.s. safe? >> i sure am in fact, cynthia, what i know is we're ready. >> reporter: he says he's convinced after 1,000 ford employees volunteered weeks ago to come back and make ventilators in this very factory. >> and in fact, in the nine, almost ten weeks, nobody came down with the virus working close to each other, plus, we've had experience in europe now, in thailand and of course, already in china we've not had one instance where the factory had a virus issue. >> reporter: but keeping the assembly line running requires parts, many of those parts made in mexico where some factories are struggling to reopen the financial pressures on all the auto makers to reopen is massive. ford poised to report $5 billion in losses. >> the auto industry is going to be completely reshaped i think you will ultimately see fewer brants you will see consolidation. >> reporter: who is most vulnerable >> ford is abs

ford's testimony was credible and compelling. i believe dr. ford.crickets] >> not only do women like dr. ford who bravely come forward need to be heard, but they need to be believed! [crickets] >> i believe dr. ford. i believe there is every reason to believe her. [crickets] >> i believe professor ford. i believe she's credible. [crickets] >> sean: nancy pelosi, she is going to the mat biden. we reached out to plenty of i believe not a single one. most didn't even get back to us. the i believe ours in the democratic party have conveniently evaporated into thin air and are taking in breathtaking hypocrisy just like with the quid and the pro and the quo like everything else. this is eventually gone especially true with pelosi. let's take a look at her. >> this investigation on justice kavanaugh when a very similar allegation came out on him -- >> let me just say, i respect your question and i don't need a lecture or speech. >> we are here to show our solidarity. we are here to show our respect for all women who have a case, have it respected, due proc

that's ford's property. he should follow the rules there. if he's someone that thought he was exposed enough he wanted to take hydroxychloroquine, and his doctors thought that the risk benefit ratio favored that then he could be harboring the coronavirus. that's the type of person you want to wear a mask. to me it doesn't make any sense. the arguments speaks of hypocrisy. >> katelyn, the head of the cdc has come out talking about a second wave is coming in the winter. a second wave of the virus. and let me read how he put it in an interview with "financial times". we've seen evidence that concerns, that concerns would go south in the southern hemisphere like flu are coming true and you're seeing what's happening in brazil now. he goes on to say then when the southern hemisphere is over i suspect it will reground itself in the north. here's the thing about that. he said this before. and that really angered the white house. what is going to be the impact of it this time? >> reporter: the president has been at odds with his health experts on se

president trump defying the state of michigan and the ford motor company, touring a ford manufacturing plant without a mask. pushing for a return to normal. even as he was surrounded by others wearing masks, the president sticking to his guns and saying he chose not to out of spite. >> i wore one in the back area but i didn't want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it. i put it on and it looked very nice. it was very nice. >> reporter: michigan's attorney general warned the president would not be welcome back if he refused. >> is the president no longer welcome in michigan? >> well, i would say speaking on behalf of my department and my office, that's right. that's exactly right. i mean, today's events were extremely disappointing, and yet totally predictable. this is not a joke. and he's conveying the worst possible message to people who cannot afford to be -- on the receiving end of terrible misinformation. >> reporter: the president tonight also insisting he has no plans to fire his cdc director. >> are you looking to replace dr. redfield or is it -- >> no. >> reporter: the qu

this ford plant had switched over to produce them. it should have been billed as an american success story. but as so often with this president, it was overshadowed by politics of his own creation. the day before, as noted, he threatened to withhold federal funding over the state's efforts to widen the ability to vote, to mail-in vote during this pandemic. the president again over and over suggested without evidence, said that it would lead to widespread voter fraud. he did back off that. he backed off the threat of funding. but the attacks remained. he took some broadsides against democratic governors today while delivering what was more or less a campaign speech at that ford plant, one of them of course being governor whitmer, the popular governor there in michigan. michigan, as you note, is a key battleground state, the one that he won by only 11,000 or so votes last time around. and it should be said his campaign advisers are very pessimistic about michigan, particularly even among the trio of wisconsin, pennsylvania, michigan. mi

i know ford asked him to do the same thing. but if he -- if we know he's coming to our state and he's not going to follow the law, i think we're going to have to take action against any company or any facility that allows him inside those facilities and puts our workers at risk. >> reporter: now, i have spoken to one source in the facility who says they would prefer the president wear a mask, specifically pointing to the fact that when the ceo came and when union leadership came and others, that they followed safety protocols laid out by ford and that they would like to see more of that leadership by example. poppy, jim? >> omar, it would be, i think, seen by many as a slap in a face by many if he doesn't. ford made masks, gowns, ventilators, the months it was closed to protect people. you can't forget that. thank you for that reporting. we'll talk to michigan's lieutenant governor later this hour about the president's visit and also that threat on funding. >>> still to come here, another 2.4 million americans filed for first t

ford executive joins us in just a moment. and tailored recommendations.s the clarity you get with fidelity wealth management. andibut that doesn't meanons. ayou're in this alone. we're automatically refunding our customers a portion of their personal auto premiums. we're also offering flexible payment options for those who've been financially affected by the crisis. we look forward to returning to something that feels a little closer to life as we knew it, but until then you can see how we're here to help at libertymutual.com/covid-19. [ piano playing ] [music] [music] especially in times like these, strong public schools make a better california for all of us. >>> general motors says it plans to reopen its plants in the united states and canada on may 18th. the automaker says it's working with unions and government health officials on the necessary safety measures to operate those plants safely. this morning, gm reported $294 million profit, a big drop from $2.2 billion a year ago, but it is better than the first-quarter losses reported by ford and fiat

ford sources tell cbs news that chairman bill ford expected president trump to wear it the entire time for the strict policy of the plant and was

we want ford to survive. we also want our co-workers to survive. chicago has one of the highest areas in the country for the covid-19 outbreak. and we've already lost two members over the shutdown, to covid-19. they became infected while we were still operating. you know, we don't want to lose any more people. >> you don't want to -- >> there are workers at the plant who are cancer survivors who have autoimmune disease. we have older workworkers, we w to protect them. >> and when ford reopened its plants, it implemented temperature screenings, it implemented medical tests for workers who exhibited any symptoms. do you think the protocols go far enough, and if not, what else would you like to see? what do you think is missing? >> well, yeah, that's the problem, is that they don't go far enough. and even the protocols that they in place aren't being strictly adhered to. so, we'd like to see testing before people come back because we know that this disease is spread asymptomatic. so when workers come in, they can be infecting other workers for days be

asked ford for help. >>> first responders across the country racing to emergencies now have the added danger of potential exposure to coronavirus. untold thousands of emergency workers have gotten sick. paramedic robert epperson swshal outside detroit. >> we're putting supplies on and using them on day. >> reporter: in new york city the n.y.p.d. has lost 43 employees, including six police officers to the virus that has sickened more than 5700 of its staff. >> we have an invisible enemy here. >> reporter: n.y.p.d. deputy commissioner martinez over sees the 10,000 vehicles. 835% are used around the clock daily by multiple officers. >> with so many people going in and out as well as in some cases we even have perpetrators going in and out of the vehicles, that definitely gave us a challenge to figure out the frequency of cleaning vehicles and how to clean vehicles. >> reporter: the chicago police department has reported at least 538 coronavirus infections. this is how it disinfects vehicles after a case is reported. cleaning supplies remain limited and wiping down the cars between shifts

anyone ford and he got the most boring internship you could imagine. so i sent e-mails to all the top executives asking if they can have just a half an hour of time about what i want out of this internship. he gets to talk for half an hour the chairman afford, billy ford and tells him how boring his internship is and thanks him for an interesting job. emily ford eventually puts him in this project which is more that is to scope out the future of transportation and megacities. such chris thomas sees this mobility revolution that we are talking about and he convinces billy ford and others to set up a venture fund that will invest in all of these new technologies rated so that is what he did. and when i or we rent the boat, still doing that. but later he quit the venture fund. lenny is now setting up an education, basically a new university to develop brainpower for new mobility of detroit pretty i do mean they need to have the talent for these new technologies, robotics and other new technologies to keep the auto business in detroit. peter: has he made a

what ford had been doing.ord motor company issued a return to work manufacturing playbook for the reopening of its manufacturing plants and other facilities we had a chance to see, the new policies in action. some of, i want to go over some of the new procedures they had. the daily covid-19 survey and noncontact temperature scanning prior to entering the facilities, something all employees have to go through. daily cleaning and disinfection of workstations and common areas. guidelines and recommendations for social distancing inside and outside the workstations. and in the appropriate use and application of ppe. ford also has designed measures to control the flow of people entering and exiting the facility. over 7000 employees work at ford's kansas city assembly plant, and it was impressive and encouraging to see the steps ford has taken to hold themselves accountable and ensure its workers and customers are healthy, safe and protected. smallther companies and businesses across the state have also stepped up t

kevin corke with the pierce reaction to the ford plant visit in michigan. >> the attorney general of the state of michigan says that the president is simply not welcoming her state if he refuses to wear a mask when in public or violation of state rules. and while he did dawn a mask today, even that did not tamp down her criticism. >> i have my mask right here. i like it very much. honestly, i think i look better in the mask. >> president trump today, mask in hand, but not on his face at least while the press was around. >> i had one on before. i did not want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it. >> for a brief moment the president wore a mask wall visiting a ford plant in michigan, making, making ventilators in response to the pandemic, but the fact that he did not wear one for the entire visit to drew the eye of the state's democratic attorney general. >> is the president no longer welcome in michigan? >> well, i will say speaking on behalf of my department and my office, that's right, that's exactly right. i mean, today's events were extremely disappointing, and yet, totally

as for the ford chairman, bill ford, he was asked there at the end by a reporter whether or not it was true whether he told the president it wasn't necessary to wear a mask. all he would say is it's up to him. jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. >>> well, despite the backlash the president has faced for his coronavirus response, mr. trump's approval rating remains likely the same. a new national poll from fox news indicates 44% of americans approve of the way he's handling his job as president while 54% say they disapprove. those numbers are almost identical to his approval rating for how he's responded to the coronavirus pandemic. ron brownstein is with us. based on the polling it doesn't appear this is having much of an effect on the president's approval rating. what do you make of this? >> the country has dug in. we've seen that throughout the president's very tumultuous, rocky tenure. events have happened, impeachment. the charlottesville comments that would consume another presidency. it would end up back where we started with the president facing a majority with one important a

it started under ford.because ford -- ford asked the question, do we need an interstate commerce commission in 1974, and that led to other questions being asked and ultimately they deregulated the financial services and they tried to deregulate the airline. it's interesting because jimmy carter picked it up and he became a bipartisan and then a global margaret thatcher gave it a new name, and there's -- the bottom line is there's a lot of unknown history associated with the ford presidency. and the nice thing is it turns out to be, he turns out to be a much more interesting, much more complicated person, and i thought i knew him pretty well. and i've learned a lot of things. and i've learned some things i suspect he did not know about himself. >> by the way, tomorrow morning if you're watching this live, at 9:00 these three folks will be on our c-span call-in show to take calls from the audience at large, but susan's got some questions. >> we can stay here for a while. i've got some great ones. john just as

even ford getting pulled into this back and forth.he president said when asked by one of the reporters on the tour, he said one of the reasons he took the mask off is he didn't want the press to see him wearing it. he knows people are talking about it. he knows it is something we're watching. you see fordr responding. had the feeling of a campaign event, not only talked about vice president biden, alluded to him, talked to a republican candidate for senate, john james. he said that will be a great senator. he praised the work john james is doing. both the plolitical side and th presidential side. >> right. shaquille brewster, peter baker, thank you both. it is clear to me the president wants the michigan story to be about masks and not other stuff. there's a lot of other stuff going on. i will talk with debbie stab -- debb debbie stabenow. if this dam had been working better, may have prevented the disaster. >>> and the laws and how they're changing in states that matter most in 2020. st in 2020 you should be mad at tech that makes th

policy while he was actually meeting with the ford people and discussing what was happening there at the plant. so there is that. let's listen to what the governor of michigan just told rachel maddow about this. >> all of the ford executives wore the masks. all of the employees were wearing masks. all of the press were. and it's really important that anyone with a platform has a responsibility to make sure that they model precisely what we're asking everyone else to do. this is about public health, not one person's or another. this is about all of us, and anyone in a position of power and responsibility, i hope emulates and does precisely what they are asking everyone else to do. >> so ron, there's a piece of progress there in that the president did at least wear a mask but this really was a campaign trip. this was non-essential travel to that ford plant. >> well, there's a piece of progress, lawrence, but of course it's ironic because what the president said was i didn't intend to have you see me in a mask, i intended to not have you see me in a mask, i was hiding it, which is what

to watch kavanagh's hearing in person even having never met ford.ou know happy to be in there standing by her side. in her quest for justice so it was important for me to to to be able to support her and to support survivors everywhere but read feels that support does not extend to people like her who have claims against those on the left even comedian james corden who was extremely vocal about backing forward has not said anything about reid before go i had said i want to say i was so inspired. i'm humbled by dr ford's testimony today i felt the bravery in the face of intimidation and abuse and i called you a comedian jimmy kimmel was also passionate in his praise for forward and distaste for justice kavanagh hear me out of this so cavanaugh gets confirmed to supreme court ok well in return we get to cut that pesky penis of his off. you know that's what i did even though there was 0 evidence against cavanagh kimmel still felt the need to get involved in the conversation because he clearly is all about empowering women only in my pants and you're al

i know ford has asked him to do the same thing. but if we know this, and he's not going to follow the law, i think we're going to have to take action against any company or any facility that allows him inside those facilities and puts our workers at risk. >> reporter: now, i've spoken to a source in the facility who says they would prefer the president wear a mask when he steps inside, specifically citing that when their ceo and when union leadership and others stepped inside, they want to see more of that leadership by example on that front. but again, this visit is not happening within a vacuum. it also comes as president trump has been going back and forth pleading state officials here specifically over the recent move by secretary of state to send absentee ballot applications to all of their voters. now, he initially mischaracterized what was being sent out saying they're ballots, as opposed to applications. he also claimed to withhold federal funding to michigan. again, these are the dynamics playing out as president trump mak

let me show you a live picture of ford's plant in ipsilante, michigan. it happens to be wone of the factories ford repurposed to manufacture ventilators during the worst of the coronavirus outbreak. president trump is meeting with african-american leaders right now. we will then watch him take a tour in this hour. we are then told that right after the tour, he's to deliver remarks. we will take you back there as soon as the speech begins. it all comes as the market sinks slightly after the labor department reported that nearly 39 million americans are now out of work. 39 million total. the bears holding the edge over the bulls right now as businesses do slowly come back online. lockdown orders come to an end here and there, but for now, the dow jones industrials, s&p and nasdaq are colored red. dow is down 84 points. we have the s&p down 18. the nasdaq lower by 63. >>> so how then do you square the reopening of the u.s. economy with worrisome news that millions of americans are falling behind on credit cards, mortgages and auto loans? we have one of the

the president disagrees with a new study that suggests just that, and tours a ford plant in michigan.aking news in the ahmaud arbery case: a third arrest. college scam plea deal: actress lori loughlin and her husband plead guilty to breaking the law to get their daughters into u.s.c. but could the pandemic keep them out of prison? and back to the future-- in this time of social distancing, the drive-in theater makes a hollywood comeback. this is the "cbs evening news" with norah o'donnell, reporting .from the nation's capital. >> o'donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us. we're going to begin with a eadly illnessr of cases of that alarming and deadly illness attacking children that's been linked to coronavirus. 00nighght, more than 300 cases have been reported in the u.s. in 27 states and washington, d.c., and doctors say they are now seeing the disease, called multi-system inflammatory syndrome, in teens and young adults. new york's governor says he's now urging parents not to send their children to day camps until more is known about the disease. now, that comes as there

a ford spokesperson says executive president bill ford encouraged the president to wear a mask. the expectation was that he would keep it on the entire time. here is what the president had to say about that. >> well, i did wear -- i had one on before in the back area. but i didn't want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it. i had it in the back area. >> did you have the goggles on, too, sir? >> i did. >> and why would you not be wearing it -- >> because in this area -- >> why aren't you wearing it here, sir? >> not necessary. everybody has been tested and i've been tested. in fact, i was tested this morning so it's not necessary. >> but the executives are wearing it. >> well, that's their choice. i was given a choice and i had one on in the area that they preferred it. it was very nice. but they said not necessary. >> what about the example it would set for other americans -- >> well, i think it sets an example both ways. >> he was strongly encouraged to wear that mask throughout the entire tour and chose not to. michigan's attorney general is criticizing president trump t

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. >> we have breaking news on ford phil below has the story >> melissa, ford announcing officially what we heard from gm and fiat chrysler over the last couple of days ford will be resuming production at its plants starting on monday, may 18th remember, earlier today the governor of michigan basically gave the all-clear for manufacturers to once again begin production starting next monday the 11th. on the 11th ford will begin waking up the system starting with its parts, deep owe that will reserve monday, may 18th. this will being a gradual production, and instead of three shifts it will be two shifts and in some plants where there are two shifts it will go to one shift and there will be safety calls for those workers and ford resuming production on monday may 18th melissa? >> phil, thank you phil lebeau. resuming production is important in terms of getting the cash flow going and ford did a debt offering successfully and did this make the picture for ford and the other makers that utsch in better? it's at least some clarity >> it's a little clarity so that is good and we got a lot more