jose >> jacob ward georgia's gamblee month after reopening. could cases rise we'll have a progress report also what would it take to keep kids safe when schools start again? we'll take you inside one school system searching for solutions. >>> when georgia became one of the first states to reopen back in april many said it was too much too soon predicting a new surge in coronavirus cases. now exactly four weeks later blayne alexander reports on whether georgia's gamble paid off. >> reporter: at tony barber's st does it almost feel like a normal saturday? >> close yeah it's close. >> reporter: when he reopened his doors a month ago he had plenty of concerns >> we were in dire straights and didn't know what else to do. >> reporter: now. >> go back and check with our clients and make sure they're doing good >> reporter: is it worth it to reopen financially >> yes, it's worth it for me and my barbers we all have families to support >> reporter: last month georgia was one of the first states to reopen and with the most aggressive approach, allowing

nbc technology correspondent jacob ward is here with more.exactly is it that these companies are aiming to do? >> they are trying to help out by doing what they've always done, which is track what you do, where you go, and what you're likely to do next, and who you've been around. the concept of contact tracing has been understand by epidemiologists, you have a human investigator go through your past, you've been in a place, you got sick, they find out what flights were you on, who did you have dinner with last week, what bus line do you take to your job, by doing so they're supposed to go back to find your contacts. the problem is, here in california, one estimate is that a county contact tracer is expected to be able to do the contacts of at most maybe two people a day. that is not enough for the number of people we're going to have to trace to get through this thing. what else is tech good at? it's good at scale. on the assumption that most people have phones, apple and google have come together among many companies -- we have a contact tr

. >> marq, i want to go to the contrast of what we just saw in oakland, and jacob ward describing the degree to which the police are talking to the protesters, being explicit what they're trying to do, what's going to happen next, contrasting with what we heard from minneapolis and -- there's not noticeable police presence on the ground there. that was story of last night as the third precinct burst into flames. conflagration. help us understand the difficulties of that, not having police there to give them instruction of what is going to happen, what they intend to do next. >> different locations have different tactical strategies, a lot dependent on the availability of man padpower an resources. you have to prioritize, some police departments are concentrated on sensitive areas they're determined to hold, other locations such as minneapolis, obviously the strategy was cede as much ground as possible and encourage the crowd to walk towards them and hoping they would dissipate the more you walk. other locations i've seen, california, seems as if there's shift in movement there too, bu

crisis is forcing companies to cut cost putting expensive real estate on the chopping block nbc's jacob ward. >> reporter: bay area tech companies were among the first in the nation to send their people home and google and facebook say their employees will mostly work remote for the rest of the year. >> reporter: some of new york's biggest tenants, barclays and j.p. morgan chase may not bring all employees back to the office at the same time austin based dell says more than half of its 160,000 staffers may never return to their desks. emptier offices across the country will have a devastating affect on the economy. florists count on big corporate orders and the bouquet on the way home and parking garages depend on people showing up to the office. >> we have people working from home there is a drop. >> reporter: while not every worker has the luxury of working from home, those who do could save money and time. the average commute adds up to 22 workdays a year and you'd save up to $4,000 annually on that commute, work clothing, dry cleaning and yes, even coffee. >> for companies, it saves mone

jacob ward, jake, thank you. >> yes, please. >>> 7:45 now on this thursday morning.good time to check in with mr. roker. al, how we looking, buddy? >> not looking too bad temperaturewise, let's check out what's going on around the country today. cooler conditions here in the east from st. louis to columbus down to charlotte. temperatures anywhere from five to ten degrees below average now, as we move into friday warming up in the northeast. look at boston, you're going to be near 80 degrees buffalo, 78. but still a little chilly in the midwest. and as we move into the holiday weekend, temperatures warm up to des moines, 81 degrees, cleveland, you'll be 81 on memorial day 79 in raleigh. temperatures in new york trying to break 70 degrees, but struggling a bit where as little rock will see temperatures in the mid to upper 80s. florida all the way on up into 80s. strong storms from florida all the way on up into the mid-atlantic states, severe storms in the central plains, sunny and warm out west today. that's what's going on around i am meteorologist, kari hall. let's

. >> nbc's jacob ward, our tech correspondent. always helps us make sense of it.hank you very much, sir. >>> that will do it for this hour actually. next hour, former nasa administrator charlotte o'keefe will weigh in on the historic spacex launch. "andrea mitchell reports" starts after a short break. ♪ thousands of women with metastatic breast cancer, which is breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body, are living in the moment and taking ibrance. ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor is for postmenopausal women or for men with hr+/her2- metastatic breast cancer, as the first hormonal based therapy. ibrance plus letrozole significantly delayed disease progression versus letrozole, and shrank tumors in over half of patients. patients taking ibrance can develop low white blood cell counts, which may cause serious infections that can lead to death. ibrance may cause severe inflammation of the lungs that can lead to death. tell your doctor right away if you have new or worsening symptoms, including trouble breathing, shortness of breath, cough, or chest p

. >> keep your head on a swivel as you told our own jacob ward. from what i understand there's a lot happening in the streets there so bring us up-to-date. yeah, i got you, cal. go ahead. i can hear you, cal. start talking. >> reporter: so you can see the line here. they can hear us. state troopers here split the crowd in two here. we've had our first volley of tear gas. let me get this mask off for a second. our first volley of tear gas. they split this crowd in half right at 7:20. this is different from what we saw last night. police are being much more aggressive and getting people out of the park. they got everybody out of this park, pushed them with tear gas and then they took all the water out, as much as the water bottles as they could because what we've been seeing is this back and forth where protesters throw water back and forth. you may see it in the next 30 seconds as they push people back. two nights ago there were seven people shot here in louisville. police are very concerned about the violence. they're concerned this could be viole

nbc technology correspondent jacob ward looks at the impact on local communities.a. you know, never mind that people working at these, the most influential companies in the world, are now being told they don't really ever have to say good-bye to their dog again or put on their shoes again. instead, think about it this way. what will it do to small businesses in cities when the workers that those companies depend on no longer come in as customers. empty office towers don't mean a change of how we work, entire communities have relocated to new places. a corporate headquarters can put tens of billions into local economies. when amazon considered building a headquarters in maryland, a state study estimated it would bring in $17 billion. in charlotte, bank of america has 180,000 employees working from home during the pandemic. austin-based dell expects half of 160,000 staffers to never go back to their desks. here in the san francisco bay area, google and facebook have announced most of their workers will be at home for the rest of the year. but now twitter has announce

reopen, what may a night on the town actually look like, savannah >> well, nbc tech correspondent jacob wards. jake, good morning. >> good morning, savannah. let's imagine it's a friday night a few months from now. your workweek is done. you've got a mask, you've got gloves on and you're ready to go have some fun. how exactly will that work the night life business is trying to sort out how you can have a good time in this new world of masks and gloves. this iconic theater where the san francisco ballet performs was the first in the country to go dark and the effect went far beyond these seats. >> you look at the repercussiond to the city at large, people come in to see shows but they have dinner before hand, a drink afterward, might take a taxi to get here, park in a garage. >> venues like this will probably be the last to open in the state. once they do, how will you get everyone inside safely. >> you approach the building, i need to make sure all the patrons coming into the building are spaced out 6 feet. we have this line of folks we want to keep socially distant like you see in a grocery

joining us now with more details is nbc news technology reporter jacob ward. so, jacob, help us understand what the president is threatening and whether it might be effective. >> katy, it's an entirely other measure whether he's going to be able to do this. legal scholars i'm talking to say he probably does not have the authority to make the sorts of changes and the agency he calls out in this possible executive order are not even the ones involved. so whether this is going forward, we don't know. certainly, it is a shot across the bow for social media companies. they rely, their entire business model relies on section 230 of the decency act. and that section essentially makes social media companies play by different rules than you and i have to. we are considered a publisher of information. when we put out false information, we're held liable to that by the fcc. social media companies coudo no have. that they're a neutral platform broadcasting out what other users put on to the platform n this case, the executive order seems to be striking at that, perhaps try

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