so i agree with karine.to get out there and he's going to tell the class of 2020 that, yeah, we're going through a hard time, but, you know, there are things that you must do. your country needs you. your culture needs you. and to have someone that hopeful, that optimistic -- remember, one of the complaints about president obama was it was he was always relentlessly optimistic even when the news around him is bad. it's worse than at any point ever in this country's history, but certainly during his administration, and so, yes, we need to hear him, we need to hear his message tonight. >> yeah. you know, karine, "becoming" is on netflix and the national review is tearing up their old magazines and burning, they're so mad she's even existing in public. they are back, the obamas have decided, wasn't thbeing quiet, fine, but they're back and the culture is actually yearning for that kind of a president again. and so i think what does it mean sort of bigger picture? especially to these poor high school kids that c

so i agree with karine.e's going to get out there and tell the class of 2020 that, yeah, we're going through a hard time but, you know, there are things that you must do. your country needs you. your culture needs you. and to have someone that hopeful, that optimistic. remember, one of the complaints about president obama was always he's relentlessly optimistic, even when the news around him is bad. and it's worse than at any point ever in this country's history but certainly during his administration. so, yes, we need to hear him, we need to hear his message tonight. >> yeah. karine, you've got "becoming," which is out there on netflix, i think the national review is tearing up all the your reviews, you've got president obama tweeting vote. they are back. the obamas have decided the whole being quiet and letting the next president do their thing, that's fine. but they are back big time. i think the culture actually is yearning for that kind of a president again. so what does it mean sort of big are picture?

bettye: jim was madison and karine son. at about the time he was born, another person came to live with them. and dolly assigned to be his wetnurse. so the story goes that she put jim on one breast and the baby's name is victoria and put her on the other breast and they were together. so over the years, they became very good friends. and when they were in their teens, they fell in love with each other. and dolly promptly sold jim. any never saw his mother or father for victoria again. host: that is a heartbreaking story. one of many. so when you decided you were going to try to find these unvaccinated an unreported would happen to jump into 1992. he made your first of many many trips there. madison's family on tatian. our historic site. to portugal and africa. and like so many people who are dependent from celebs, whose lives were considered not important enough a lot of trails quit cold. but there were some real breakthrough moment for you. would you care to share any of those. bettye: in terms of finding jim. host: in ter

time he was born sally's these came to live with him and had little children and then found hired karine to be the wetnurse. so the story goes that should put jim on one breast and the baby named victoria on the right and over the years they became very good friends and in their teens they fell in love with each other and dolly found out about it she sold jim and never saw his mother or father or victoria again. >> is a heartbreaking story. just one of many. so you decided to find that unnamed and unrecorded what happened to jim and that you made your first of many trips to montpelier at the madison family plantation from portugal, africa, and several states. so me were descended from slave slaves, they were considered important enough a lot of trails went cold that there were some breakthrough moments. do you care to share any of those? >> in terms of whatever you discovered along the way. there so many little gems that you wander through this maze to find out more about your family. >> it was difficult because a lot of names were not recorded. often families were separated and i tried

>> jim was madison and karine's son. about the time he was born one of dolly's nieces came to work with them at montpelier. and hired him to be his wetnurse. so the story goes that should put jim on one breast and the baby on the other breast and nurse them to gather. over the years they became very good friends. and they fell in love with each other when they were in their teenage years. dolly found out so she sold jim he ended up in tennessee and never saw his mother or father or victoria again. >> just a heartbreaking story and one of just many heartbreaks. >> see you decided you would try to find these unnamed people and in 1982 you make your first of many trips to montpelier the madison family plantation and traveled to portugal and africa and several states and like so many people descended from slaves whose lives were not considered important enough to document a lot of trails went cold but there were some breakthrough moments when you care to share any of them? >> in terms of whatever you discovered along the way

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so i want to ask you this question, karine. when donald trump ran for president, he made an implicit and in some cases explicit offer to white america, a promise to them, that he would reduce nonwhite immigration if not eliminate it, he would build a wall across the southern border to keep the brown immigrants out and change and push back the demographic change that scares them, that scares white christian america to use the robbie jones term. that was the promise to white america. to black america, he said, you know, what have you got to lose. to white america, he made that explicit promise and that paid off to him. he enjoys majority support, almost six in ten, he's reaping the rewards of that promise. with biden, it is black america who delivered him to where he is today. it is black voters in the south and particularly but really all over the country who said biden and pick biden over the other 20 people. what, in your mind, should biden -- what should he offer to black america? >> so let me just first say why i'm doing thi

the covid-19 emergency may not end anytime soon in washington, i'm karin caifa. >>as a of the first of this month more than 3.5 million californians are unemployed. they lost their jobs because of the pandemic now the state has to borrow money from the federal government to make sure people get paid kron four's ella sogomonian talked about this unprecedented situation with the deputy director of california's employment development department. >>there have been some complaints of people having a tough time getting through or over the phone specifically what are some of the steps you guys are taking to meet that challenge. >>we understand the frustration we're so sorry we're doing things on a daily basis to try to build our capacity and you know just 2 months ago we had a record low unemployment rate of 3.9%. so this is just a massive avalanche that we're trying to navigate right here that includes redirecting hundreds of staff to argue call center operation a new one that we added to try to help in the answer equals basic questions and help them navigate are you i

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i'm karin caifa. the trump administration reportedly plans to wind down the white house coronavirus task force team in coming weeks that announcement coming as more states are pushing to reopen. a senior white house official told cnn today. the task force will probably be face down around memorial day there are still plans to have key medical experts advising the president and making themselves available to reporters and governors and industry leaders. people around the country are recognizing the inevitable mental trauma caused by the pandemic and of course it's taking a particularly heavy toll on frontline health workers just last week for example, an e r doctor in new york committed suicide. kron 4 sanaz tahernia talked to a local author and psychiatrist. she says we should be bracing for an epidemic of mental health problems. can you explain to our viewers why the pandemic why this time. >>is is so different from any other time in a in a physician's career. >>so i this moral dilemma, a lot line cr

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so fingers crossed so tight the forecast will be clear so will it let's check in with bill karins who's been watching closely saturday and sunday. just in case >> yeah. sunday is the backup right? it's florida in the afternoon in the rainy season so i'm working on that forecast i'll bring it to you later in the show i'll show you what the radar looks like i got to talk about the severe weather concerns today a slight risk that includes much of the northeast a big population center. 29 million people at least at risk of experiencing severe weather. of course not everybody will damaging winds maybe even an isolatedching som those storms lingering in areas of the southeast a new storm comes into the west. middle of the country looks nice for saturday and sunday and for the eastern seaboard looks like we'll ha ave we go throughout this evening. we'll be clearing out in areas like indiana during the day and a beautiful air mass at the great lakes. i'll give you that forecast coming up, frances, saturday and sunday's launch. >> all right thank you. >>> mike tyson is back in the ring the wrest

. >> bill karins is tracking our weather. good morning >> extreme weather overnight flash flooding warning in areas of new orleans and chicago and now a severe weather threat today. let's get to that first. 52 million people at risk. an area of severe weather we're expecting later this afternoon and especially this evening right around sunset. that area of the enhanced risk maybe an isolated tornado or two and then it will dive down later today. we also have a severe weather threat that will approach dallas later on this evening. we're still seeing some heavy rain in and around the bahamas and near miami it will be the worst even if this thing does develop it will coast and away from the florida up the eastern seaboard and numerous showers and thunderstorms this evening from louisiana and texas that weekend forecast coming up and there's a lot of active weather right through the weekend. >> thank you very much bill karins with that forecast and golf back on nbc tune in this sunday for the tailor made driving relief live cover

i'm karin caifa. >>now to a developing story in the santa cruz county sheriff's office says they have arrested several suspects in connection with the kidnapping and murder of 2 charlotte right. you may remember back in october a tray wealthy tech ceo was kidnapped from his home in santa cruz county. and then found murdered several hours later at a separate property in the santa cruz mountains. authorities are not revealing any more information right now. but say that there will be a press conference with more details on thursday as soon as we get more information. we will bring that to you. coming up this here on kron 4 news at 6 south bay officials are expected to vote in favor of outdoor dining find out which city will be giving its restaurants that option. plus contra costa and alameda counties officially entered phase 2 of reopening today. how some businesses are adapting to the new rules. and one county is letting residents attend religious services from the safety of their car. but not all chur

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>but there are concerns of course about the consequences of reopening during this ongoing pandemic karin caifa has more. >>as nearly every state take steps to reopen health and human services secretary alex azar noting this on sunday we are seeing that in areas that are opening. we're not seeing the spike in cases but texas which started opening businesses on may first reported its highest single-day jump in new coronavirus cases debts on saturday. they point to more testing and outbreaks around meat packing plants but local leaders are concerned. >>it makes everyone they helped a pause. i think because everyone's watching this to see what this grand experiment described that. >>to a result in places that have already reopened being watched by others on the costs like miami promising new scene. >>some of the statistics about us a strong united states are real and started to see some level resurgence and that's always a concern for us mayor bill de blasio says the timeline for new york city's eventual reopening is up to new yorkers keep buckling down on the social distancing. >>on the she

a top doctor in the white house coronavirus task force says that a vaccine is possible by january karin caifa reports from washington dc. president trump in a fox news town hall sunday, shiftinghis projection for us deaths from the coronavirus upward i was just a 65,000 and now i'm saying 80 or 90. >>and it goes up and it goes up rapidly but it's still going to be no matter how you look at it at the very lower end of the plane trump apparently referring to a march white house projection that said the country could see 100,000 to 240,000 deaths and also expressing confidence in vaccine by the end of this year. doctor deborah birx of the white house coronavirus task or said sunday a vaccine is possible by the start of next year on paper but would require proper execution operation warp speed is the trump administration's project to speed the development of a potential coronavirus vaccine with a goal of making millions of doses by the end of the year. that's despite experts warning of a 12 to 18 months vaccine. timeline. >>i think there's a lot of unknowns but it looks very promising a bit

>>there could be another round of relief for small businesses karin caifa reports. >>with more than half of states relaxing coronavirus restrictions in some form others are feeling pressure. >>and in states like california and michigan protest. michigan governor gretchen whitmer said sunday she's not been moved, but we know that people are not all happy about having to take the stay home pastor and you know what. >>i'm not be there. but the fact of the matter is. we have to listen to that the genealogists and public health expert maryland governor larry hogan is response sadly we had far more people died yesterday in maryland that we have protesters public health experts agree underscoring the importance of caution if we open up too soon. >>i will see a resurgence of cases a lot more people getting sick and dying. and we'll have to shut back down again but contributing to the restlessness is economic anxiety more than 30 million americans out filed for unemployment benefits in the last 6 weeks. >>the trump administration said sunday that 2.2 million loans worth bill

>>in washington, i'm karin caifa. >>and we are hearing former president obama's criticism of the trump administration's response to the coronavirus now as well likely his harshest criticism that we've heard. >>obama calling the administration's handling of the pandemic a chaotic disaster. >>it's part of the reason why the response to this global crisis has been so in the thick and spotty. >>it would have been bad even with the governments it has been oh absolutely. disaster. when. a mindset. o what's it for me. with everybody else will never mind set. his operation in our government. >>the audio from a recording in which the president had to call the former president had a call with his staffers at the time encouraging them to endorse joe biden now the institute for health metrics and evaluation is now predicting more coronavirus deaths in the u.s. by august and this as states continue to ease restrictions to open up more and more of the economy and previously the institute predicted a 134,000 deaths in the coming mon

karin caifa has the latest. >>it's entirely conceivable doctor anthony fauci cdc director robert redfield and fda commissioner stephen hahn all members of the white house coronavirus task force will testify remotely for a senate hearing tuesday. they're currently self quarantining after contact with a white house staffer who tested positive raising concerns about the tight quarters of the white house workplace need to be laser focused on protecting the president and vice president. this has at least 47 states ease some restrictions with an eye toward getting back to business at president trump's encouragement we expected a very quickly will have a picture about you know how quickly we can recover whether we might have to slow the recovery back down because the disease is spreading and so on. >>health experts warn normalcy can't really be restored until a vaccine is widely available. johnson and johnson told abc this week they have a leading candidate and they're looking to produce 1 billion doses next year. >>we

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your story they detail part of their lives and the lives of jame and karine son jim who was sold off as a teenager, can you give us a little recap, it is complicated and it's a life but a sense of what you heard about his life. >> about jim's life. >> jim was not a sink and cream son, the time he was born when her nieces came to live with them amount your. and they assigned cream to be his wetnurse, the story goes that kareem put jim on one breast and jim on the other breast and they nurse together. over read the years they became very good friends and when they were in their teens they fell in love with each other. and she found out about it and she told jim and jim ended up in tennessee and he never thought his mother or his father or victoria. >> is a heartbreaking story in one of many heartbreaking. so you decided you will try to find the unnamed, unrecorded, what happened to jim and in 1992 you made your first of many, many trips to montpelier. this is the madison family plantation that is a historic site, traveled to portugal, africa, other several states and so many people who

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karin: yes, certainly.ithstraight, it will legal explanation, and there's sometimes caveats, legal explanations that are relevant actions.rograms, new signal forays a future programs, or current programs that are not formally part of the case. matt: exactly. the question i wanted to ask, the older programs that are the focus of this, the quantitative easing programs, are fascinating and of course closely related to the other programs they are operating now. lawsuitsu expect more to be brought because of the even bigger, looser spending the ecb is doing on behalf of germany to bail out italy and spain? karin: yeah, definitely. has been of plaintiffs active for more than a decade in these kinds of cases. one former lawmaker is on almost every case like this, and they are waiting for the ruling to see how they can then bring new arguments against the programs the ecb is launching against the pandemic. i'm pretty positive this won't be the last case of this kind. matussek, our german legal expert, live from ber

with that, let's get a check on your numbers with bill karins.ugh, you know, this reopening process for so many countries across the world. nobody really knows what it's going to look like and how it's going to go. the up side to what south korea is doing, they are actually keep the contacts of the all the people with these bars, these clubs. so if there is an outbreak like we are seeing now, this cluster, they are able to find everybody that was there and find out if they're testing positive, as well. not for sure if that is something that could happen here in the united states. >> yeah. legally or just even if it's even possible with 330 million people. >> exactly. >> a lot of challenges. let's get into some of these numbers. we had over 500,000 people tested over the weekend. and the good news is the fatalities were down over the weekend. as far as the number of cases went, we saw roughly around 20,000 reported on sunday and that was also the lowest since the end of march. so hopefully we can continue those numbers as we go throughout this wee

let's switch gears here and bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins. good morning, bill.ood to see you today. >> good morning. happy friday. we've had flooding in new orleans, chicago with flash flooding, a lot of wind damage and power outages in illinois and missouri. today will be a dangerous day. we have severe weather in the northeast and a tropical storm forming just off the coastline of south florida. but first off with the severe weather, severe storms rolling through central this morning. and also down in southern louisiana. later on this afternoon, we usually this time of year get threats. what is different is this severe weather threat will be the latest in new york, new hampshire, we may see tornados this afternoon in areas that don't typically get a lot of severe weather. as we go throughout the evening, we'll see that second area of severe weather from oklahoma city and those storms will be arriving in ♪, waco and dallas after dark tonight. the heaviest rainfall will be today. 70% chance. the hurricane hunter aircrafts will be flying into this to give us the

with that, let's switch gears a bit and bring in msnbc meteorologist bill karins.ood morning, bill. >> good morning to you, yasmin. we've all been to florida. at least a lot of us have been to florida and you get the tropical downpours but yesterday was not the normal downpour. what happened in miami, it poured 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. 7 inches of rain. even the sandy soil of florida couldn't deal with that much rainfall. everywhere, streets looked like this. it was just flooded. there was one to two feet of water in numerous locations. we had vehicles stalled out, people needed to exit those vehicles. thankfully, because of the sandy soil, people were able to get where they needed to go. it was hairy. even by south florida standards it was ridiculous. now, by the way, wee looking at 19 inches of rain in miami this month. 19 inches, that's wild. let's get to the forecast. the rainfall responsible for that was his tropical entity now heading up towards south carolina. it's beginning to pour in charltocheryl charleston. it has a 30% chance of turning into a tropical depress

we want to bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins once again.stick to the words that the physician used in that piece with tom costello which is it is encouraging news, to say the least, at least to say we've been through this major thing we've been through, losing over 90,000 lives in this country, is there something to gain that maybe some of the people who have become infected with covid-19 are now immune? we'll have to see what happens there, but it is encouraging, bill, to say the least. >> yes, very encouraging. the curve is not as encouraging, it's slowly getting a little better. let's get into the numbers here. can you believe it's memorial day weekend coming up, right now, we're sitting over 93,000 fatalities and we're on pace to hitting 100,000 around memorial day. yesterday, we had 1502. that's a big number. tuesday and wednesday tend to be our highest number of cases and fatalities that are reported. yesterday, 20,000 new cases that was also the lowest since the end of march. here's something that is a little different, for the first

everybody knew some said friday lifting some restrictions these days not weeks away in washington, i'm karin caifa. >>modoc county in the northeastern corner of california has defied governor newsome statewide stay at home order at county has a population of about 9,000 people and to date there have been 0 no coronavirus cases at all in the county. so officials decided to allow businesses to open back up barbers can cut hair their restaurants can now offer dine-in services earlier today on kronon we talk to state senator bryan doll who represents modoc county and support the decision to open business. >>county has not all 6 of the criteria that the governor laid they have a plan. i think they're doing it right so he's going to be super great opportunity as you as you know, that's a very rule wide open space for calorie counting. and there are people for health officer county board of supervisors. the county. sheriff the you're on the hospital. i think council all working to gather more counties about 4500 square miles with about 8700 people. so that's 2 people per square mile. >>modoc county

the covid-19 emergency may not end anytime soon in washington, i'm karin caifa. >>the fda is now requiring makers of coronavirus antibody test to promptly seek emergency use authorization, the agency's goal is to rein in these unproven and fraudulent tests that have flooded the market commercial manufacturers must submit emergency authorization request and validation data for their tests within 10 business days. the policy shift announced today reverses a policy the fda had approved in march which loosened approval standards they wanted to get these things out there but that change led to companies selling antibody tests without providing evidence that the tests actually worked in more reliable. broad antibody testing could provide a better sense of just how much of the population has been infected with coronavirus possibly developing immunity. >>the next time you stay at a hotel, your experience might be a little different. the coronavirus pandemic as prompted the american hotel and lodging association to release new guidelines for hotel, cleaning and safety sta

i want to bring in msnbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, good to see you this morning.now you're a parent of two kids. i, too, am a parent of two kids. up to this point, right, there was kind of a sigh of relief because you felt you didn't necessarily have to worry as much about the kids as you were worrying about maybe your elderly parents. >> yeah. >> but now this news of a possible syndrome linked to covid-19, it is incredibly troubling. >> yeah, and the whole school angle, i mean, for the fall, million dollar question, right? >> yeah, exactly, what that may mean for schools reopening in the fall, we'll have to wait and see what happens there. but we will get some answers in the second half of the show, look forward to it. this is very much a moving situation. all right. take it away, bill. >> let me get to the forecast, this is something i didn't want to do yet, i was hoping until like july, we do have a possibility of something developing offer tdevelop developing off the bahamas and florida. the good news for this one, even those going to form close to florida, cl

. >>> let's switch gears and bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins.rsday. >> yeah. good morning to you, yasmin. we have to talk about the concerns we have today. we have this pesky storm that's been sitting in the same spot for like three days. and our friends in north carolina and ohio and kentucky have kind of taken the brunt of it. we didn't have a lot of horrible flooding yesterday, but we could get some additional flooding today. we have areas of very heavy rain in areas from north carolina to virginia, south carolina is beginning to improve a little bit. and you'll notice some of the brighter yellows and reds, those are heavier areas of rain and a previous thunderstorm complex now about to come in along the coast there around onslo county, camp lejeune area. it's the mountainous areas we are most concerned with. notice the maroon there, we have one flash flood warning in areas of western virginia and one smash flash flood warning to the west of wilmington, north carolina. an additional easily 12 to 3 inches during the day today and our computers

thank you to bill karins for holding down the fort.ms like these things always seem to happen on a friday. so actress lori loughlin and her husband agreed yesterday to plead guilty for the admission scandal that happened last year. they will be convicted for paying $500,000 to get their daughters admitted to the university of southern california as members of the crew team. they'll plead guilty to conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud and loughl i n will spend two months in prison while her husband will serve five months. she'll be subject to two years of supervised release. loughlin and her husband claimed their independence for more than a year. they agreed to ask the judge to dismiss the charges. danny, good morning to you. great to see you on this friday morning. >> good to see you, too. >> you wrote an analysis piece on this case for nbcnews.com. and i want to talk about part of that piece. you talk about this dynamic of wanting to hold out for a trial by jury of your peers, but being worn down by time and by money. talk about

. >>> i want to bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins, as always, tracking the numbers over the weekendooking? >> sunday is always a little lower so we wait and see what monday and tuesday bring into it. the fatality number was the lowist since march 31st. by the end of today, we'll be close to 70,000 fatalities since this began. so, yeah, as far as the other numbers went, we've been tracking the daily cases. i did slide the plateau. remember at the end of the last week, we went way up. you can see just to the left of that black area where we were yesterday, we had that jump. i still don't think we're off of it. it goes from the beginning of april through tend of the last week. we'll see if this week does give us any drop, but over the weekend, we had 28,000 cases on average. in april, the bar was set at 30,000 cases per day. so when you hear the daily number of how many cases we had nationwide, we want it lower than 30,000 and hopefully dramatically lower in the weeks ahead. let's get to the weather concerns. the new storm system that we're going to be tracking is now in nebraska. we'r

hurry johns hopkins university count in washington, i'm karin caifa. former democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders, thanks his supporters will vote for joe biden in november's a u.s. election despite a former aides warning that biden was not consolidating sanders supporters. >>sanders said in an interview today that biden was beginning to make overtures to his supporters. >>at the end of the day of the vast majority of the people who voted for me who supported me will understand and to understand that donald trump is most dangerous president. in the modern history of this country is a pathological liar he's a racist and a sexist a homophobe at central and i think at the end of the day they will be voting. for joe biden but i think what joe is going to have to do is beginning to move in that direction. it's the same as those working class people say to those young people say to those minorities listen, i understand your situation. >>sanders said biden's message should focus on student debt relief, health insurance coverage, a living wage clima

karin caifa reports from washington dc. >>president trump in a fox news town hall sunday, shifting his projection for us deaths from the coronavirus upward i was just a 65,000 and now i'm saying 80 or 90 and it goes up and it goes up rapidly but it's still going to be no matter how you look at it at the very lower end of the plane trump apparently referring to a march white house projection that said the country could see 100,000 to 240,000 deaths and also expressing confidence any vaccine by the end of this year. doctor deborah birx of the white house coronavirus task or said sunday a vaccine is possible by the start of next year on paper but would require proper execution operation warp speed is the trump administration's project to speed the development of a potential coronavirus vaccine with a goal of making millions of doses by the end of the year. that's despite experts warning of a 12 to 18 months vaccine. timeline. >>i think there's a lot of unknowns that looks very promising a bit to see how many to make sure that

children and a teenager in new york have died now some mysterious illness that may be linked to covid-19 karin caifa explains. >>doctor anthony fauci said he will tell we're can wear a mask in a modified quarantine for 14 days after what's described as a low-risk contact with a white house staffer who tested positive for the coronavirus cdc director robert redfield an fda commissioner stephen hahn also of the white house coronavirus task force have also started to self quarantine meanwhile, new york governor andrew cuomo says the state is working with the cdc to respond to an illness affecting dozens of the youngest new yorkers that may be linked to covid-19. >>these children happened to have the covid antibodies. or be positive for covid. but those were not the symptoms they showed when they came in to the hospital system. >>the governor's office said saturday a 5 year-old a 7 year-old and a teenager have died. similar cases of the syndrome in children have been reported in seattle northern california the united kingdom, italy and spain, it's more an inflammation of the blood vessels. >>which

karin caifa reports. >>in dire warning about the state of the coronavirus economy. there is the risk of permanent damage and will for the first time treasury secretary steven new shannan federal reserve chairman jerome powell face questions from lawmakers on the rocky rollout of the cares act the historic trillion emergency relief package, these programs are making a major positive impact on people's lives. that's really at times heated hearing highlighted the delicate balance between the health of americans and the health of the economy it is so important to begin bringing people back to work in a safe why how many workers should give their lives to increase in gdp or the dow jones was 1000 quite. >>no worker should give their lives to do that mister senator and i think your charter a station is unfair the meeting comes after the congressional oversight commission found the treasury department has so far spent little of the billion appropriated for lending money to businesses and to state and local governments. how in the new shunpledged to launch the main street l

it would take years and years in washington, i'm karin caifa. >>while the nation waits for a covid-19 vaccine to be approved and released many families are avoiding doctors offices, altogether that means no routine visits for regular checkups and other vaccines, according to the centers for disease control and prevention there's been a noticeable decrease in childhood vaccinations order through the federal program that immunized as half of the country's children. the drop started the week after president trump declared a national emergency the cdc says while it might not be an issue now one says social distancing is relax those who are not immunized will once again be at risk. >>more than 36 million americans have applied for unemployment benefits in the 2 months since the coronavirus first hit the national unemployment rate is at 14.7%. that is the highest since the great depression. many people are looking for work right now, and we have some advice from bay area base glassdoor about how to make your resume stand out. >>all that resonate profe

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karin caifa has the latest now from washington. >>as new york state's rate of coronavirus hospitalizations and new cases trend downward a troubling trend. dozens of the youngest new yorkers afflicted with a possible covid-19 related illness it's more new inflammation of the blood vessels. >>which can then cause problems with their heart. >>and governor andrew cuomo said saturday at least 3 children have died and the state is working with the cdc to respond to the illness. these children. >>happened to have the covid antibodies. or be positive for covid. but those were not the symptoms they showed when they came in to the hospital system. >>experts say it is too soon to tell what it really means right now this is new data we do not know exactly what it means or how to interpret it in the context yet of this epidemic. >>new developments like that in new underscoring why some worry states are reopening to quickly. >>if we want to get to the other side of this we have to be more thoughtful not just as a state. but as a country. >>calif

>>in washington, i'm karin caifa. >>well the city for health metrics and evaluation is now predicting more coronavirus deaths here in the u.s. by august. this as states are continuing to ease restrictions and open up more parts of the local economies. previously the institute predicted a 134,000 deaths in the coming months will they increase that number now by 3,000. the institute named california has one of a handful of states where coronavirus cases and deaths are going up more that researchers had expected. >>well it's time to change simply put the and that's the key driver. we're seeing some say you know 20 percentage point increase in the 10 days in mobility. and that will translate into more human contact were transition. and the other thing that we're we're seeing in some say which is why we like to to revise the forecast on a very regular basis is that we're to see more cases and deaths than expected in certain but it's mostly mobility. that's right not the numbers. >>arwa let's take a look at the numbers the

let's get a check of your weather and some of those covid numbers that bill karins has been tracking is one of those instances when you make a sweeping promise yes, you'll have a vaccine by year's end, that 300 million vaccines will be produced, people are trying to hold on to anything. they want to get back to normal. and they are scared because they want to get back to the new normal. you have to be cautious for the things that you're putting out there so as not to make promises that you cannot deliver on. >> yeah, when i have my 8-year-old asking me, daddy, when is there going to be a vaccine? you know, it's on everyone's mind. i don't want do give my 8-year-old a definitive answer because we don't know. let's get to the numbers. let's get to the curves. as far as the fatalities yesterday, whatever the reason, either a backlog or processing from the weekend, our tuesday numbers are always the highest. yesterday was the deadliest day. there have been a couple wednesdays that have been the highest but by far, tuesdays are the days where we have the single most cases reported. as far

but experts say could come at the cost of more lives karin caifa has the latest from washington.resident trump visiting a honeywell facility in the general election battleground of arizona and reiterating his eagerness to get back to business. we have to get our country open and we have to get it open should the president also confirming the white house coronavirus task force may soon wind down its work. we're now looking at a little bit of a different form. >>former safety an opening and police set up for the is some concern that could give a false impression the crisis is ending i think it's totally sends the wrong why would you say close the dow will reconstitute to do something new university of washington researchers have nearly doubled their project in us death toll citing in part looser restrictions. >>new jersey governor phil murphy responding to reopening calls we still have people get sick. >>going to the hospital and sadly over 300 today we're reporting on a minute have died. >>a focus on reopening comes as the white house anticipates one of the worst us jobs reports e

death toll past a quarter of a million monday for the johns hopkins university in washington, i'm karin caifa. white house coronavirus task force members are prohibited from testifying before congress this month. >>after new guidance issued by the trump administration today task force members and key deputies have been instructed not to accept invitations to participate in hearings. >>while other agencies responding to the pandemic or being advised to limit the number of hearings they attend. top administration officials argue the coronavirus task force and the primary agencies responding to the pandemic need to focus their attention and resources on response efforts and then having them testify could use a critical hours. the move comes just days after the white house blocked doctor anthony fauci for testifying before a house panel. newly revealed intelligence is pouring more cold water. >>on a theory that the coronavirus came from a chinese lab, multiple western officials say intelligence indicates it's far more likely that virus originated at a food market in the city of wuhan one of

. >>> i want to bring in now nbc meteorologist bill karins who is standing by for us.talk to us about the machines you're seeing today. >> good morning, yasmin. the number one thing i saw today was the testing numbers yesterday. this is the first time since i've been tracking this that we had three days in a row with a decreased number of tests. and yes, the trend is still up overall if you look at it over the last month and a half. but, you know, we went from a really high number of tests four days ago and a decline each last three days. right now, we're at 2.2% of the population or 7.3 million tests have been performed. and as far as the big number that goes today, the milestone, we are going to go over 70,000 fatalities early on today. yesterday, we're at 1,324 fatalities. and the fatality rate for the country right now is roughly right around 6%. that means out of every hundred people that have been testing positive, we've been losing six of those people to this virus. as far as weather concerns go today, we've had this thunderstorm complex rolling through south ca

. >> let's take a turn now and bring in nbc meteorologist bill karins who is standing by for us.od morning, bill. great to see you this morning. >> good morning. >> talk to us about the numbers as you're tracking them. >> the teachers union -- >> i know. you always need to be cautious about the teachers union because, obviously, they have the mind of the teachers -- teachers are top of mind for them as always. >> yeah. so let me get into these numbers for you,a yasmin. we're slowly decreasing from this plateau that was about 30,000 new daily cases in april. so far in may, we're averaging around 25,000. when you do the math on that, our fatality rate is about 6%. so every single day like yesterday where we had 25,000 new cases, eventually that means 1,500 of those people will lose their battle with this disease. so just because the number is decreasing a little bit, that still means in a couple of weeks from now we're still going to have these horrific fatality numbers. we had a dip in testing yesterday. in the last four days, we had about 1 million american tests come back and ri