if we have a growth in kalamazoo or a rural part of michigan we won't have the kind of hospital systems that can meet a need that a community that is growing out of control. covid-19 doesn't recognize county line. >> reporter: in detroit, the epicenter of this state's outbreak, state representative tyrone carter knows that all too well. >> it was a fire, and she took a blanket and threw it over the entire state to try to smother this fire. >> reporter: just after sitting down. >> can you wait two minutes? be right back. >> reporter: some business to attend to. a house vote on the state's republican-controlled legislature, to challenge governor whitmer's emergency powers. and which way did you go, if i may ask? >> no. i think she's done a great job. >> reporter: he stands by the governor's stay-at-home order. >> it's impacting certain areas more than others. so, hmm, is it geographical? an ethnic issue? >> when 14% of our population is african-american and yet 40% of our deaths are african-american michiganders, it tells you that we have got a real racial problem in our state and that mi

. >> reporter: at this plant in kalamazoo, michigan, manufacturing is ramping up even before having the vaccine. 75 workers are essentially sequestered, working around the clock. so once it's developed -- 10 million doses available commercially by year end. >> reporter: and in 2021 they hope to manufacture 200 million doses. but there are major challenges in handling the vaccine that are still being worked on. >> we have to be able to freeze it, handle it under frozen conditions. so we have people working to design a facility to do that. >> alex with us live tonight. promising news on the hunt for a vaccine. and the promising news out of south korea, they were worried about people getting infected a second time. but now saying it was picking up evidence in the body from the first fight against the infection? >> reporter: that's right. the results are so promising, authorities in south korea are removing the requirement that people who have had covid-19 must test negative before returning to school or work. david? >> no promise how long that immunity can last, but it is promising. alex,

there is a grooming company out of kalamazoo, michigan, now helping a local distillery make hand sanitizer help people find it and donate it from local hospitals. the resilience from small business is now so apparent. it comes from our report. 57% of small businesses say they are still optimistic over the long run for the future of their business. emily: you are also highlighting some of the challenges being faced by female entrepreneurs. i wonder if you can share some of your thoughts about the pandemic, childcare issues, school be enclosed, how that might be a double whammy and making it harder. sheryl: women worked a double shift before coronavirus. it is clear that women are putting in a double-double-shift. the average heterosexual straight couple right now, the woman is working 71 hours per week. men are doing 50. that is a gap of 21 hours a week. that is half a full-time job. we have talked for so many years about what has to happen in the workplace has to happen at home. this is a great time for men to lean in to their families and take as much of it that they can so that women are

they are doing classes with .acebook online there is a grooming company out of kalamazoo, michigan, nowping a local distillery make hand sanitizer and help people find it and donate it from local hospitals. the resilience from small business is now so apparent. it comes from our report. theyf small businesses say are still optimistic over the long run for the future of their business. highlightinge also some of the challenges being faced by female entrepreneurs. i wonder if you can share some about theoughts pandemic, childcare issues, school be enclosed, how that might be a double whammy and an order. -- making it harder. sheryl: women worked a double shift before coronavirus. it is clear that women are putting in a double-double-shift. the average heterosexual straight couple right now, the woman is working 71 hours per week. men are doing 50. that is a gap of 21 hours a week. we have talked for so many years about what has to happen in the workplace has to happen at home. this is a great time for men to lean in to their families and take as much of it that they cancel that women are

i was teaching at western michigan university at the time in kalamazoo and we knew kent state very well. i think kent state could have happened anywhere, because these demonstrations across the country were spontaneous. young men did not want to go and fight in this war, and that probably was the -- a very critical factor. i agree with the caller from penn state that you could tell in those years which side you were on by how you dressed. this is the question i want to put to mr. means. is the country more divided today or then? my own view is, it's more divided today, because you can't tell who people are by the way they dress. it's really the absence of a critical news media. people retreat into their own polls. they go to the left or the right, and i think the division is deeper. what do you think, mr. means? >> gary, thank you for the call. let me add to that, howard means, the fact that we did have a draft in the 1970s. please respond. >> yeah. boy, i'll tell you, that's a question i spent a lot of time thinking about lately, especially with this anniversary coming on. i don't know

into cat homes without being tested and that's how the pandemic spread amongst the elderly and in kalamazoo where one of the people to take the government's task for that is the shadow social candidates this kenda who went head to head with matt hancock secretary. and it has england rightly asked hospitals to free up at least 30000 beds to cope with the virus but can we explain why there was no requirement to test those being discharged to campaigns the very group most at risk until april the 15th it's important to remember that hospital can be a dangerous place for people as well as saving lives it also is it can carry risks and does and so it is appropriate and clinical decision approach and appropriate in many cases for people to be discharged from hospital and safer for them to go to a care home what's important is that infection control procedures are in place in that cabin and those infection control procedures have were put in place at the start of this crisis and have been strengthened exactly as she says as we've learned more and more about the virus all the way around and as the c

there is a grooming company out of kalamazoo, michigan, taking their expertise, they make men's grooming make hand sanitizer, helping them make it and donate to hospitals. the resilience of small business is so apparent. businesses, despite all the bad stats we shared, they are still optimistic over the long run for the future of their business. that is hope we all need to hang onto. sheryl: you are highlighting challenges faced by female entrepreneurs. can you share thoughts about how the pandemic is affecting female entrepreneurship and women in issues, given childcare schools being closed and how that might be a double whammy and make the situation even harder on women than it already is? sheryl: we talked about this so many times, but women work a double shift before the coronavirus. the data my foundation put out last week is showing clearly women are putting in a double double-shift. the average heterosexual straight couple right now, the woman is working 71 hours a week doing childcare and housework, in addition to what is often a full-time job. men are doing 50. that is a gap of

of the best parts about being a senior, he's looking forward to studying chemical engineering at kalamazoo his dad is a teacher. that entire family is keeping very busy in quarantine. thank you, anthony, for sending us that photo. we wish you the very best. >>> now let's get to "pop news" and lara. remember back in the day when amber would actually get off the couch and hand me the picture? but you know, that was -- those days are over. >> reporter: you know, it's tiring. amber, hello. you know, robin, i'm taking a little page out of your book with a little monday motivation with our first story. hugh jackman, the guy may have an oscar but he's proving there's always room to grow, right? the actor sharing that he's been taking film classes through columbia university, saying that studying with the class' professor, annette insdorf, has influenced how he watches movies and that it's made him, quote, see a bigger picture of every script that comes in, whether it helps him grow as an artist or asking why is this an important story to tell. jackman isn't the first celeb to go back to school du