i'm jim sciutto. >> and i'm poppy harlow. hours from now the white house will make an announcement on vaccine development. dr. fauci will be attending this event in the rose garden. we'll keep you up with the headlines on that as we get them. >>> and states have been making moves to reopen for weeks. the cdc just released a six-page but scaled back list of guidelines for businesses and schools to make their own decisions to safely get back up and running. six pages all voluntarily decision trees is what they provided. more on that and the states reopening in just a moment, but first let's get to john harwood on this new vaccine development announcement. do we know exactly what the president is going to announce at noon? >> reporter: not exactly. we did get a briefing or

discuss the rise of right wing extremism the meeting comes some 3 months after an attack in the town of harlowe where a german national killed 10 people most of whom he described as foreign germany's government says it deems far right extremism its biggest security threat and will monitor far right groups closely about ongoing protests against coronavirus restrictions will also be in the authorities sites syria minister all civil fights planned. this it was that although the demonstrations are obviously being used by extremists whether it's purposes we have to make sure that the right of demonstration is and can be exercised also in corona titles in court but we but as representatives of the state and the people you're protected powerful small you have to ensure that the extremists don't get the upper hand or simply call them. and the pro-democracy group of protesters. to ensure that they don't become puppets on the string to engage him to prefer to groom so often the sunni misspelt. spring and melinda crowd she is political correspondent what exactly is the interior minister planning to do now

i'm poppy harlow. >> and i'm jim sciutto. if you've been waiting for a lot of good news this morning, there are promising signs in an early stage vaccine trial. the bio company moderna has introduced phase 1 results in the department of health. participants in the human clinical trial have developed antibodies for the vaccine, which is good, because that's what a vaccine is supposed to do. >> that's really good news, and that's why you see the dow here up 700 points, because this could potentially be game-changing news. and states are moving forward with reopening plans as the death toll in the u.s. from covid nears 90,000. let's get to our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. tell us what we need to know. >> poppy, it's just what jim said. when they examined participants, they found that they had developed antibodies. this is the antibodies that bonds to the virus and prevents it from infecting human cells. they saw that it worked in the lab. does it mean it will protect people in real life? we still have to figure

. >> i'm poppy harlow. this is the breaking news. minneapolis has entered day four of unrest after a chaotic and violent night of protests. the anger there, the outrage is growing, following the death of george floyd. and unarmed black man who not only died in police custody, but died after an officer there kneeled on his neck for more than seven minutes while handcuffed to the ground. all the while, floyd said repeatedly i can't breathe. the third police precinct breached and set on fire overnight. >> this is a vision in america, in the year 2020, a remarkable one to witness. right now buildings, still burning, streets littered with debris, after a night of looting and rioting, more than 500 minnesota national guard soldiers are now on the scene there, the four officers involved in george floyd's death still have not been charged. they have not been arrested. but this morning someone was arrested, surreal moment. our cnn crew on the ground doing their job, repeatedly asking state troopers where they need to be, where it is okay to b

. >> i'm poppy harlow. this morning, the country nears 100,000 deaths from covid-19 and the president is waging a war on masks despite evidence that they do save lives. the proven way to protect yourself and others now a political flashpoint. and former vice president joe biden responding in an exclusive interview with our dana bash. >> he's a fool. an absolute fool to talk that way. i mean, every leading doc in the world is saying we should wear a mask when you're in a crowd. >> also breaking overnight, protesters in minnesota clashing with police over the death of an african-american man in police custody. police firing tear gas, some protesters throwing rocks. the scene unfolding 24 hours after george floyd screamed and repeatedly said i can't breathe as a police officer kneeled on his neck, warning this video is extremely disturbing. >> i can't breathe. >> you got him down, man. let him breathe at least, man. >> i can't breathe. >> i'm been trying to help. >> i can't breathe. >> four minneapolis police

. >> and i'm poppy harlow. track the virus or catch a second wave of this. that warning coming directly from cdc director robert redfield who raised the possibility of another lockdown just months from now. at the same time, new modeling shows we could see a surge in those states who loosened their restrictions early, particularly some southern states. >> as states open up, all 50 of them, we learned that if the u.s. had locked down sooner, tens of thousands of american lives could have been saved. we're talking just a couple of weeks sooner and this pandemic might have looked a lot different here in the u.s. let's get to senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. let's take a look at this modeling. again, it's modeling, so it's using the best data available making an educated guess, in effect. what difference does it say a lockdown would have made earlier? >> it says that it makes a lot of difference, a big difference, jim. so several other countries locked down, so to speak, before the united states did. there was a lot of discussion, should we, shouldn

. >> and i'm poppy harlow. it is just a stunning juxtaposition as thousands of americans completely ignored health guidelines over the weekend. this warning came from one of the nation's top infectious disease experts. >> right now we're in the very earliest days of this pandemic, so don't think of this as yet big. this is not. for all the suffering, pain, death and so forth we've had so far, only about 5% of the u.s. citizens have been infected and this virus is not going to rest at all until it gets to 60 or 70%. we have to understand we're just in the beginning. >> good to see that warning on this broadcast just a short time ago. it comes hours after the world health organization cautioned that we could see a second peak of infections in this current wave. right now 18 states are seeing a rise in cases even as the country pushes ahead to get back to normal, reopening economies. let's get to cnn's brynn gingras. she's in new rochelle. brynn, folks may not remember, but in the earliest stages of this, that was

i'm poppy harlow. >> and i'm jim sciutto. it's a sad day, it's a jarring day in this country. the streets of minneapolis filled with outrage, with looting, with fires. today the fourth day of unrest after the death at the hands of police of george floyd, an unarmed black man who died with a police officer's knee on his neck. he kneeled on him for more than seven minutes while, we should note, he was handcuffed on the grou ground. all the while floyd said repeatedly these words, i can't breathe. the third police precinct itself was breached and set on fire last night. >> and right now there are buildings in minneapolis this morning that are still on fire. police in riot gear blocking streets with litter and debris. more than 500 minnesota national guard soldiers now on the scene. the four officers involved in george floyd's death still have not been charged and they have not been arrested. but this morning members of the free press, our cnn crew, arrested doing their job. >> i'm sorry? >> you're under arrest. >> okay. do you m

i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm jim sciutto. the country remains in the middle of a pandemic, and current employees at the centers for disease control, which is of course, responsible for responding to things like this, say that they have been, quote, muzzled by the white house. they tell cnn that politics and not science has been the driving force behind the administration's pandemic response. the cdc's pushback comes as friction with the white house is playing out in a very public way and as the agency finally releases guidelines on how states can reopen safely. >> it is something the white house has been holding back for weeks. and it comes as the u.s. hits an important milestone. today, all 50 states will now be reopened in one way or another. we're covering all of it this hour. let's get to nick valencia who joins us. nick, you have been tracking and in touch with folks at the cdc throughout all of this. talk to us about what these officials are saying is happening. >> yeah, we have been speaking to multiple officials throu

i'm poppy harlow. >> and i'm jim sciutto. been waiting for a lot of good news this morning, there are promising signs in an early stage vaccine trial. the bio company moderna has introduced phase 1 results in the department of health. participants in the human clinical trial have developed antibodies for the vaccine, which is good, because that's what a vaccine is supposed to do. >> that's really good news, and that's why you see the dow here up 700 points, because this could potentially be game-changing news. and states are moving forward with reopening plans as the death toll in the u.s. from covid nears

. >> and i'm poppy harlow. the administration is scrambling as coronavirus makes its way inside the white house. vice president mike pence is there today despite his own press secretary testing positive for the virus. officials spent the weekend trying to track down who she was in contact with. pence's decision to not self-quarantine goes against cdc guidelines but three other k key key key officials there are isolating. >> dr. anthony fauci, dr. robert red field and dr. stephan hahn are all self-quarantining. they have upped the amount to 137,000 deaths by early august. john, who else is quarantining in the white house, who isn't, and describe the level of concern there among staffers. >> reporter: jim, this is a really strange situation and a fairly incoherent response from the white house. first of all, everybody in the white house is scared about getting the coronavirus. let's be clear about that. kevin hassett, the economic adviser, made that crystal clear in an appearance yesterday saying it's scary to go

i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm jim sciutto.lduan starts right now. >>> hello, everyone. i'm kate bolduan. thank you so much for joining us this hour. at this point, everyone is wishing the pandemic was over and passed, of course, including the president, as he's making crystal clear in a new interview, but the facts on the ground are also crystal clear. it's not over. more than 71,000 americans have been killed. 1.2 million americans infected. and with that in mind, now look at it this way. if you eliminate the new york metro area from the total count of new cases, you can see right there, infections are still climbing in the rest of the nation.

i'm jim sciutto. >> and i'm poppy harlow.ust a stunning juxtaposition as thousands of americans completely ignored health guidelines over the weekend. this warning came from one of the nation's top infectious disease experts. >> right now we're in the very earliest days of this pandemic, so don't think of this as yet big. this is not. for all the suffering, pain, death and so forth we've had so far, only about 5% of the u.s. citizens have been infected and this virus is not going to rest at all until it gets to 60 or 70%. we have to understand we're just in the beginning. >> good to see that warning on this broadcast just a short time

let me welcome in my partner, poppy harlow. a small technical difficulty this morning. nice to have you, poppy. >> you know -- when the camera doesn't work at 9:00 a.m., but the amazing team at cnn comes in and fixes it in a flash, that's a good news day. good to be with everyone. hello. and we do have this new forecast highlighted by the cdc, jim, predicting we're just weeks away from a jump in new coronavirus hospital cases. researchers from columbia university are projecting a drop over the next two weeks, before new hospitalizations go up, an increase by some 3,000 people a day by late june. brynn gingras joins us this morning with a little bit moran where things stand right now. good morning. >> good morning to you. yeah, listen, there is a majority of the states that are on good footing right now. the numbers are seeing a decline. let's first talk about the cases where they're going up. those states primarily, 16 of them, they're mostly in the southeast part of the country. we talk about kentucky, we talk about alabama, those states are seeing significant surges i

i'm poppy harlow. >> and i'm jim sciutto.ite house has mixed daily medical briefings pushing to reopen and has scaled back appearances from dr. fauci, the number one u.s. health expert on outbreaks like this. it is also now rejecting guidelines from the cdc on reopening. cnn first told you about that guidance to open places such as schools, businesses, churches safely, but we just learned the administration is now ignoring that guidance that it asked for. >> it is an unprecedented move, holding back objectives, scientific guidance. as most states move to reopen, at least in part, by the end of the week, and none are following guidelines to do so. let's go

i'm jim sciutto. >> and i'm poppy harlow.t undeterred, the president says he is taking the drug hydroxychloroquine despite warnings from the fda that it could have lethal side effects. white house press sry

i'm poppy harlow. a memorial day weekend like we have never seen before, a memorial day that nearly 95,000 americans will not see. >> so what is the breaking news this morning? a new study shows and this is an expansive study, that the anti-malaria drug that the president touted repeatedly for coronavirus patients and notably that he himself took is now linked to a significant increased risk of death in patients who take it. let's go to cnn's elizabeth cohen with more on these new details. we already had some studies that showed no benefit from taking this for covid patients. what is different about this is that it is large, but shows real danger here. >> well, actually, one of the ones we already heard about showed danger. the largest study before this one was published and done by the university at albany in the new york state department of health and that one showed not only didn't it work, but it increased more than twofold the chances of someone having a heart issue. this new one is much larger. t

. >> i'm poppy harlow. a dramatic shift, a key model now predicting more deaths as states loosen their restrictions. this model doubling its projection saying more than 134,000 americans will die from covid-19 by early august. but the push to reopen not easing up in many states, plans are moving forward despite the stunning new predictions and when it comes to those difficult decisions, dr. anthony fauci, he put it like this. >> it is the balance of something that is a very difficult choice, how many deaths and how much suffering are you willing to accept to get back to what you want to be some form of normality sooner rather than later. >> that's the trade-off here, it comes as we get new developments this morning in the ongoing push for a vaccine. u.s. pharmaceutical giant pfizer has announced it has begun testing an experimental vaccine in humans in the u.s., that, a crucial step, but a lot of steps involved with this. let's get to elizabeth cohen. let's begin on this modeling here. it is a model that th

. >> i'm poppy harlow. the devastating numbers this morning, more than 75,000 americans dead from coronavirus and now over 20 million americans have lost their job in just the month of april, just a single month, unemployment has soared to 14.7%, that is depression-era levels and senior white house economic adviser kevin hassett just told us it could get worse. >> the next one should be around 20. i was thinking this one might be as much as 20 but we had a big decline in the labor force as well. so the numbers are going to be probably, is probably going to be best to look at as you said the 22%, it will probably be 25% in the next report and then hopefully from there, it will start to head back in the right direction. >> wow. >> those are depression-era numbers. it's just remarkable, devastating. today's numbers already the worst we've seen since the great depression. let's get to cnn chief business correspondent christine romans and douglass holtz, former director for the congressional budget office. thank

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i mean, you could see the look on poppy harlow's face there. that said it all when he spoke, that pretty blunt talk there. it's extraordinary numbers. >> they really are. when you've seen 30 million people lose their jobs over the past six weeks, it's not hard to get to that 20% unemployment figure. and for some context here, robyn, you know, during the great recession, it took months and months to lose 8 or 9 million jobs to take the unemployment rate as high as 10%, and that was painful, that 10%. this has taken weeks. and according to kevin hassett, you could see 20%. even back in 1982, 10.8% was the high unemployment rate in that terrible, terrible, painful recession during the reagan years. so, 20%, i mean, that tells you a big chunk of the american labor market is sidelined, not working. the president in that clip there you hear, they designed a big rescue, hundreds of billions of dollars of money for unemployment benefits and extra unemployment benefits to try to keep as many people as possible whole, but it is still a big, big shock. >>

i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm jim sciutto. the breaking news, really the devastating news this morning, the united states lost 20.5 million jobs in a single month in april, the worst month in u.s. history. unemployment surged to 14.7%. a number this country has not seen since the great depression. >> that's right. think about this for a moment, ten years of job growth wiped out in a single month. single month. millions and millions of people faced with bills and rent they cannot pay, and all this as 75,000 people in this country have now died from this pandemic. that's where america stands this morning. let's get right to cnn chief business correspondent christine romans. this is the clearest picture yet of just how devastating this economy is for millions. >> i'm out of superlatives. i'll give you some context here and let the numbers speak for themselves so they can really sink in. over the past couple of months, the coronavirus shutdown has cost more than 21 million jobs, compare that with the great recession, it took month

i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm jim sciutto.ntry remains in the middle of a pandemic, and current employees at the centers for disease control, which is of course, responsible for responding to things like this, say that they have been, quote, muzzled by

i'm poppy harlow. >> and i'm jim sciutto. this morning white house officials are telling cnn that disturbing new death projections are not changing plans to reopen the country. one key model has now doubled its previous estimate, saying more than 134,000 americans will die just by early august. it is pinning that increase on something simple, states using those social distancing restrictions. >> the president himself making a decision to leave the white house today for non-essential travel, heading to arizona in a minute to visit a protective mask factory. we're watching for any comment from his team on this. also pharmaceutical giant pfizer announcing its potential vaccine in humans now in the united states. let's talk about all the headlines. senior correspondent dr. sanjay gupta is with us. good morning, sanjay. >> good morning. >> i guess i'll start with pfizer, because a vaccine is really the only way for the country to turn an effective corner. what does this test comprise of in humtz aans and what are you looking for i

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on my mind, you have rules for leadership and a couple of those you've already expounded on, bryce harlow rule and joe loftus rule, your first role is to be a participant? >> oh, yeah, that's what democracy is all about. early on when i was working with him in primaries ronald reagan gave me a tie and in the tie said democracy is not a spectator sport and be part of politics and be willing to serve and be a participant. >> rule number 5, competence is the name of the game in leadership. >> well, it's a great start to be competent. if you're not competent, you're going to get in big trouble. i had a tough experience, i told you when i went to washington as secretary of labor i was kind of innocent of politics and had political appointees slots to fill and i realized that you are trying to work with a diverge constituency and i said i need the best management guy in this industrial relations, everybody told me a guy named jim hudson, and then i talked to him. i said, well, we have to have a real labor guy, not a lawyer but someone who negotiates, stands for election, union guy, so we found

i'm poppy harlow. >> and i'm jim sciutto. in just a moment the ousted vaccine chief, dr. testify on capitol hill. based on his opening testimony, he will warn of, quote, the darkest winter in modern history if the administration does not ramp up its response to the coronavirus outbreak. president trump already on the attack this morning. he has called dr. bright a so-called whistleblower, a disgruntled employee. dr. bright claims he was fired simply for clashing with top senior administration officials in particular for opposing the use of an anti-malarial drug touted by the president to treat coronavirus. >> president trump is increasingly frustrated with the nation's top infectious disease doctor, and he is taking that frustration publicly now, publicly criticizing dr. fauci. let's begin this hour with manu raju on capitol hill. tell us what we already know in terms of the remarks that dr. bright will make

i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm jim sciutto. america it's up to you. page but watered down guide for businesses and schools to make their own decisions in effect to get back up and running. using those that are voluntary and they're a far cry from a 60 plus page document that have more specific guidelines but was shelved by the white house. >> that's right and that guidance comes as the governor of hard hit new york extends the stay at home order for millions of people unless a ree job needs the reopening criteria. and they're not going to get

but the member for harlow suggested that when students return catch-up premium should , a be broughto close the gap between those most disadvantaged and left behind and their better-off peers. in constituencies such as barrow that would make all the difference as we rebuild, so will you commit to such a scheme? p.m. johnson: i thank my honorable friend and congratulate him on the way he represents his constituents in barrow. he is exactly right. that is why, among other things, we are ensuring that there are extra computers and laptops for disadvantaged communities, while making sure that we supply them with more 4g routers, which are invaluable at this particularly difficult time. there will be more to come, because this government will pursue our agenda of uniting and levelling up across the whole u.k. >> david linden. >> thank you, mr. speaker. since the government lowered their benefit cap threshold in 2015, it has been frozen, which essentially means a real-terms cut every year for those affected. the resolution foundation and the i fs are just some of the voices calling on the

jews were murdered on the spot or transported to extermination camps projects like darrius poppy harlow's try to establish the names of the victims so that they are not forgotten. by. there are initiatives like this all over poland for the past 30 years the restoration work has been focusing on a few more towns or villages each year michel shooter it considers this one of his key tasks. relatives of the people buried in poland often come from overseas to visit the cemeteries including from the u.s. . part of your values and i treat kids my new for never hear my sister my brother in law or. my wife hiding out there somewhere. special measures are so important you call them let them talk about having the holocaust and that's essential you have if. it's an obligation of every good. not only jews that germany is really a publisher of every with human being remember what happened the knowledge of it but if you think about that then perhaps the 1st thing we should do is make sure that every victim of the holocaust has a grave and more and more others demand to the best of our ability will never

you know, the president of the federal reserve bank of minneapolis told poppy harlow yesterday, you know be surprised if the real unemployment rate hit bottom which gets into these great depression numbers. then we got that grim news today of another 2.1 million americans filing unemployment benefits. that as employers continue to lay off workers. i wanted to throw in good news, i'm throwing a little caution. because we don't know which what i this virus is going to go. but we are seeing these claims numbers bottom. if you look at the chart, the claims numbers in the last week in march peaked at 6.9 million. they have been going down since. we are also seeing improvement in a number of american who's are currently -- they're known as continuing claims numbers. we're seeing those numbers fall as well. they fell another 3.9 million at the end of may 16th. the week ending may 16th. these are good signs. you know the grim reality, brooke. there are still millions of americaning out of work. these are not data points. these are actual human beings, americans out of work just trying to pay the

i'm poppy harlow. >> and i'm jim sciutto. "newsroom" with john king starts right now. >>> hello on this friday. i'm john king in washington. this is cnn continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. thank you for sharing your day with us. any moment now we'll hear from andrew cuomo, his daily briefing in new york city today. also the president holds a veterans event at the white house, a reminder of this memorial day. >>> beach day now regulated by social distancing. the president says in his mind this is irreversible. all 50 states open, and the president's take is they should stay open even if the coronavirus explodes in the fall. in the here and now, there are states trending in the wrong direction. one in particular, alabama, worries about a shortage of hospital beds. we begin with another violent collision of what the president thinks and says in the more disciplined world of science and data. for two months now, president trump has sold hydroxychloroquine as a game changer, as a drug that saves lives. the president s

. >> i'm poppy harlow. so glad you're with us. sad news. the projected death toll rising as the race to reopen gains momentum across the country. while nearly every u.s. state plans to loosen their restrictions by next week, a key model often cited by the white house now projects 147,000 american deaths from covid-19 by august. >> governors, of course, not the only ones grappling with the question of reopening. schools are facing kruls decisions on whether to move forward this coming fall. the nation's largest four-year public university system, the california state university system now says almost all of its classes in the fall will be conducted online. is that a canary in the coal mine, a sign of the times? more on that in a moment. let's begin with elizabeth cohen on this new modeling. the health experts as you know better than us -- >> these numbers -- >> as you reopen, you'll see numbers like this. is that what we're seeing reflected in this model? >> yes, to a large extent, that's what we're seeing. we're also seeing changes in testi

i'm poppy harlow. >> and i'm jim sciutto.n this friday. i'm john king in washington. this is cnn continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. thank you for sharing your day with us. any moment now we'll hear from andrew cuomo, his daily briefing in new york city today. also the president holds a veterans event at the white house, a reminder of this memorial day. >>> beach day now regulated by social distancing. the president says in his mind this is irreversible. all 50 states

. >> and i'm poppy harlow. 100,000 coronavirus deaths, that marker seizu marker surpassed now in this country in just four months. the president acknowledging those losses, finally, tweeting, quote, we have just reached a very sad milestone with the coronavirus pandemic deaths reaching 100,000. to all the families and friends of those who have passed, i want to extend my heartfelt sympathy and love for everything these great people stood for and represent. god be with you. this morning we're learning more about who has been impacted most from this pandemic. much more on that in a moment. but first, breaking overnight, violence in minneapolis over the death of george floyd, an unarmed, handcuffed black man who died shortly after a police officer pinned him to the ground and put his knee on his neck for more than 7 minutes. >> floyd's death not just fuelling anger across the city of minneapolis, but many across country. and not long after those protests started, they turned dangerous, frankly, buildings set on fire raging throughout the night, many still burning as the sun rose over the

. >> i'm poppy harlow. this morning, the country nears 100,000 deaths from covid-19 and the president is waging a war on masks despite evidence that they do save lives. the proven way to protect yourself and others now a political flashpoint. and former vice president joe biden responding in an

i'm poppy harlow. seen before, a memorial day that nearly 95,000 americans will not see. >> so what is the breaking news this morning? a new study shows and this is an expansive study, that the anti-malaria drug that the president touted repeatedly for coronavirus patients and notably that he himself took is now linked to a significant increased risk of death in patients who take it. let's go to

. >> i want to play what white house economic adviser kevin hassett told poppy harlow in that the numbers don't tell the whole story. listen. >> the next one should be around 20. i was thinking this might be as much as 20 but we had a big decline in the labor force as well. so the numbers are going to be probably -- it's probably going to be best to look at that, 22%. it'll probably be 25% in the next report and hopefully from there it'll start to head back in the right direction. >> wow. >> you mentioned, christine, how, you know, some americans who lost their jobs aren't actively looking for jobs so maybe they aren't counted in the latest number. how much worse do you think the actual number may be? >> reporter: i think he's absolutely right. it could be 20%, 25%, the next number and talking about the u-6. there's some people who would like to be working full time but are working part time or not being entirely used the way they'd like to be in the labor market so-called the underemployment rate. i'm really worried, you know, not from an economic standpoint but from a family well-being

i'm poppy harlow. >> and i'm jim sciutto. the white house has mixed daily medical briefings pushing to reopen and has scaled back appearances from dr. fauci, the number one u.s. health expert on outbreaks like this. it is also now rejecting guidelines from the cdc on reopening. cnn first told you about that guidance to open places such as schools, businesses, churches safely, but we just learned the administration is now ignoring that guidance that it asked for. >> it is an unprecedented move, holding back objectives, scientific guidance. as most states move to reopen, at least in part, by the end of the week, and none are following guidelines to do so. let's go to elizabeth cohen who has more. good morning, elizabeth. >> good morning, poppy, jim. like you said, this is unprecedented. i've been following the cdc for 30 years now, and presidents don't ignore the cdc. they may not do exactly precisely, but they don't ignore this agency which is the most respected of its kind in the world. let's take a look at what the cdc said

i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm jim sciutto. the nation on the cusp of just a devastating milestone. 100,000 coronavirus deaths. and the president is waging a war on one proven method to help stop the spread. that is wearing a mask. but the nation's top infectious disease expert, dr. anthony fauci, told us just a few moments ago something very different. >> i do it when i'm in the public, for the reasons that, a, i want to protect myself and protect others. and also because i want to make it be a symbol for people to see that that's the kind of thing you should be doing. >> that's the kind of thing you should be doing. very clear there from dr. fauci. if dr. fauci says wear a mask, you wear a mask. he also reacted to this new headline today that france has banned the use of hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus patients completely. that is the drug the president has not only touted but, jim, taken himself. >> the french health ministry said their data does not provide sufficient evidence to support the use of it. i asked dr. fauci

. >> and you heard kevin hassett tell poppy harlow he thinks next month is going to be worse. do you agree? >> we'll have more job loss in may. we can already see that, there's been more claims for unemployment insurance, so that's folks being laid off or furloughed, and next week is the week that the bls will run the survey for may, and we'll certainly see some job loss there. it won't be nearly as bad. i expect another 1 million to 1.5 million. it's odd for me to say that, at any other time, that would be crazy to be saying that, but you know, relative to 20 million lost jobs, that feels pretty good. i will say on an optimistic note sort of, with businesses starting to reopen, by june, i would expect to see the job losses turn into job gains, and at least for a temporary period as businesses reopen june, july, august, september, we should see job growth. i disagree with the president. we are not going to get a lot of these jobs back fast. we may get half back, we might, you know, get 10 million back but the unemployment rate is still around 10% come election day and i don't

. >> i'm poppy harlow.el now predicting more deaths as states loosen their restrictions. this model doubling its projection saying more than 134,000 americans will die from covid-19 by early august. but the push to reopen not easing up in many states, plans are moving forward despite the stunning new predictions and when it comes to those difficult decisions, dr. anthony fauci, he put it like this. >> it is the balance of something that is a very difficult choice, how many deaths and how much suffering are you willing to accept to get back to what you want to be some form of normality sooner rather than later. >> that's the trade-off here, it comes as we get

i'm poppy harlow. >> i'm jim sciutto. "newsroom" with john king starts right now. >>> i'm john king in washington. this is cnn continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. we are closing a big work week in the coronavirus reopening experiment. we will hear from the president next hour on a topic of concern to all of us, a race to find a vaccine. the president is introducing his team to what he calls operation wa warpspeed. he expects a vaccine by this time next year. experts say that's a fast pace. a more likely timeline is 12 to 18 months. 1.4 million cases here in the united states and soon to be 86,000 american dead. 26,000-plus cases just yesterday. there are also new warnings about the virus and countermeasures in place to guide the experiment. the fda said the rapid lab tests, the ones being used at the white house, shouldn't be trusted. they said coronavirus could lead to increased risk of blood clots. let's take a look at the metrics as we go through this. 48 states right now have their reopening plan in place

. >> and i'm poppy harlow. the administrati