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look, i have enormous respect for senator klobuchar.e trail. but one of the things we're seeing right now is the differences that we have during the course of primary campaigns are vanishingly small, when compared to what we are up against in terms of bring an end to the trump administration, and what we hold together, shared values. we are the ones who believe climate change is real, one oneo care about making sure workers are empowered, ones who are ferociously protective of the future of our democracy, which is yet work amy and others independent senate is so important on making sure thatesh will be able to vote and vote by mail is available. these are the things that motivated us to get into the arena and compete in the first place. and it's so much bigger than any o our individual efforts. >> i think people will be surprised. we knew each other before we started running. i remember having a beer and burger with pete when i was in south bend, and he was amazing then. he's amazing now. and throughout the campaign, we would text each

great to be here. >>> let's bring in senator amy klobuchar now from minnesota.g us. >> thanks, george. >> let's start with the state of the economy right now. what are you seeing in minnesota? i know your governor has started to open the state over the last couple of days, relax some of the guidelines. number one, do you support that, and number two, do you see minnesota emerging from the damage relatively quickly? >> i support what our governor is doing. he's been very careful and listened to the doctors and the scientists, and we are still under a stay-at-home order but what's been going on is that for quite a while he's had garden stores open and home repair stores open, hunting and fishing, and that's been a positive thing for our state. but like every state in the country, george, we are suffering from one important thing and that is a lack of national strategy. you know, we can tune out this president's rants about chugging bleach but we can't tune out the fact that we have a lack of protective equipment, that we do not have enough testing, that there is a

. >> thank you so much, senator klobuchar. for your remarks you touched on a lot of really important points. we also have a question for you that was sent in by the president of democracy 21. he asks, you are known for striding to work in a bipartisan fashion and being able to maintain bipartisan cosponsors for the bills you introduce. do you think we can get any senate republican support are more funding for the states to run their elections since there is strong support from republican as well as demo attic state officials on the need for these funds? i know you touched on this a little bit, but maybe you could elaborate. >> i look forward to hearing from the republican secretary of state from washington state. the iowa secretary of state so they need the funds yesterday. you have governors in states like maryland and new hampshire and ohio that are republicans, that are pushing for this money. that being said, i don't want to sound naive here because we know in congress there are problems. the rules us chair committee, he h

to our stephanie gosk following his coronavirus fight. >> reporter: for senator amy klobuchar and her husband, 2020 started off chr crisscrossing the country. but days after she dropped out of the presidential race the couple would be facing a very different kind of challenge, coronavirus. >> it suddenly hit me. i had a fever, and that fever just lasted for days and days. >> and i kept saying it's over 100 like every day. it's still over 100, i think you might have it >> senator, you don't strike me as an alarmist buzz was there a point where you started to get nervous? >> yeah, well when he seemed not always attuned to what the temperature was and that it was so high, when he started coughing up blood. when you detected the shortness of breath in our phone conversations. >> reporter: john had to go to the hospital for five days relying on supplementing oxygen >> it's so hard and he ended up taking a turn for the better so many people take a turn for the worse, and you can't be there. you can't hold their hand, give a hug to the health workers >> john, you're 52 years old, you had no

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amy klobuchar, thank you so much for joining us. your home state of minnesota,at took a loot, compared to neighboring wisconsin, you've got about the same population, but minnesota has only aut half the number of covid 19 cases. how do you explain that? >> well, i think it's a combination of things. our governor and ou elected officials have tried as much to speak as one voice, and we have been very clear about the governor has about people staying at home. we've also looked at things like hunting and fishingnd keeping that open, as well as some of our home repairs, things like that. i think that has helped in trying to figure out, and no one is going to figure out the right formula, no ane's seenthing like this before, but we're

it is an interesting moment for senator klobuchar. know vice president biden is forming a committee to vet these women who are on his short list for vp which, again, includes senator klobuchar, according to the conversations oo s i've bee having. >> who else is on the short list, alexi? >> we've heard names like elizabeth warren, senator kamala harris, stacey abrams has been out there publicly saying she thinks she'd make a great running mate. biden himself told axios on hbo last year that senator warren would definitely be on his short list of women considered for vp. i think that we can only take the vice president at his word, but the conversation i'm having, those are the names i've heard come up. as well as someone in atlanta, the mayor who doesn't have the same national profile, but her name is come up more and more in talking to people about potential vps. >> we see the president on television every single night because these coronavirus briefings. some reported that basically he sees this as a rally. he sees this as part of th

senator amy klobuchar joins us now. senator, what can you tell us about those rep evpreparations? it was very similar to what you heard today from the president. i just keep going back listening to your last segment and thinking it was this president that the republican convention that said to the nation i alone can fix this. remember that? >> sure. >> in the middle of the biggest crisis we've had in our lifetimes, he then said he was backup to the governors and this last week he said he alone can reopen the economy, which we know is not right under the constitution and we have major business leaders saying wait a minute, we cannot put our customers and our workers in danger and we need testing. so today, we got some guidelines that's always helpful to have but i think in the end, what happened on the call, the point that i made to him on the call that so many others did, as well, is that we actually need a national strategy for testing.

amy klobuchar, thank you so much for joining h. state of minnesota, took a look at it, compared toig oring wisconsin, you've got about the samepolation, but minnesota has only about half the number of covid 19 cases. how do you explain that? >> well, i think it's a combination of things. our governor and our elected officials have tried as much to speak as one voice, anwe have rnen very clear about the go has about people staying at home. we've also looked at things like hunting and fishing and keeping that open, as well as some of our home repairs, things like that. think that has helped in trying to figure out,nd no o is going to figure out the right formula, no one's seen anything like this before, but we're trying to do our best. the othething we've done recently as i've worked hard to get mo's theorem test approved in washington, and now we've reachean agreement, the governor has, with mayo and university of minnesota, so the plan is to test up to 2,000 a day, which for a state of our size is pretty signie ficant. and e thing

and joining us now is senator amy klobuchar.thank you for joining us tonight -- >> thank you, lawrence. >> i want to begin with your husband who i know now is out of the hospital and one of the good stories about recovering from the coronavirus. >> he is. he's doing so much better and i will say after going through that myself and our family and not being able to be by his side and waiting six days for the test, like so many americans right now, and you think about those that are in the hospital, can't be with their loved ones, some of them tragically dying alone or are just the nurses and doctors there and then you think about that nurse in wisconsin there on the front line and simply wanted to vote, exercise a right to vote and she couldn't because she was being the hero and so i think all of this is tied in, lawrence, because this administration didn't plan for this pandemic when they could have. and your last guests dr. jah and ron klain just explained that. they didn't plan. they didn't get the testing underway and now we a

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what does amy klobuchar bring?'s tough, she's from the midwest, she can give you states that hillary lost that essentially make president trump the president. michigan, pennsylvania, as you know she's from minnesota, obviously that's a purple state these days, wisconsin. she can do very well there and help in winning the midwest. and she appeals to many blue collar people that have voted for trump. so that's the thinking there. the thinking of kamala harris, again, smart, tough, ambitious. one of the problems that hillary clinton had in 2016 was a lack of turnout among african-americans. kamala harris is african-american. particularly in big cities. that also helped -- hurt her in those midwestern states. for example, the black vote in detroit just wasn't there compared to what it was in previous years. same with philadelphia. so the thinking is she can help biden there. again, this list is subject to change. it's early on, but that's what i'm hearing. those are the names that i'm hearing that are at the top of the

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senator amy klobuchar calls it outrageous what happened today. we'll talk to her next when we continue. >>> i hope it makes the people of wisconsin very angry because they have the right to be damn mad about what they're having to go through today. and it is partisan bs. >> claire mccaskill from today. keep in mind, wisconsin voters who stood for hours in long lines to cast their ballots today during a pandemic, by the way, won't have their votes counted till april 13th. former obama attorney general eric holder posted this photo on social media today saying, this is irresponsible. it is shameful. we have to do better for our november election. for more, we're happy to be joined by the senior senator from the state of minnesota, democrat amy klobuchar. and, senator, we'll get to wisconsin, your neighbor to the east, in one moment. i am duty-bound to ask you, having had a brush-up in person with coronavirus, how is your husband? how is your family and household? >> oh, he's doing so much better, brian. he's home and he's happy, and he's still reco

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. >> joining me now is the democratic senator from minnesota, amy klobuchar. thank you for being with me. >> thank you, reverend. >> let me start personally, you and i have gotten to know each other in the last few months, i got to know your husband. we sat near each other at all the debates as he was there at ringside cheering you on. we understand that he suffered from a coronavirus attack and that he is -- i believe has gone home now. give us an update on where he is and how this impacted you personally. a lot of people watching need to understand you are not just talking as a political leader, you're talking as one who your loved one, your husband was a victim of this virus. >> exactly. and first of all what a great group you had on the show, and torepresentative clyburn, i did want to address the double standard when it comes to people without money and the minority community. my husband's story is not unlike a lot of stories. started out with cold symptoms. he eventually started coughing up blood. goes to the hospital. we don't find out the results of th

, kamala harris... >> yeah, i know senator klobuchar and senator harris, and i've spent and they're both ible., i could've voted for either one for president had they gotten the mination. >> how would you handicap the presidential race right now? >> i wouldn't.h there's so mat can happen. what each candidate does between all the difference. right? because there's a real risk of resurgence.re there's risk that the virus mutates. there's a real risk that we can mishand any type of therapies. if a therapy comes out and some percentage of thery can't afford it because somebody played favorites with a pharmaceutical company, that candidate's gonna get crushed. right? and so there's so many things that can change. and we really ven't seen joe come out and say a whole lot yet. and, you know, it's very difficult inhe midst of this. you know, the typical saying is don't let a tragedy go unused, w righn it comes to politics, but at the same time, you kn, to say too much, it could be misconstrued. and so i think hopefully we get mor-- we get this more, and we'll have a better fundamental understand

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i appreciate your making time for us tonight senator amy klobuchar. >> thank you. >> thank you.e will be in touch as they say. that does it for us here. you can find me tomorrow on "the beat" at 6:00 p.m. eastern or this slot. i'll fill in tomorrow for coronavirus special coverage. don't go anywhere because up next is "all in" with chris hayes. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. perhaps you've noticed a small but growing chorus, loud chorus arguing it is time to move on from this pandemic, throw the doors open to the economy, anything less than that is tyranny at these protests that have broken out where you can find plenty of trump gear with guns and the occasional confederate flag flown in michigan of all places. these protests are being organized by some of the right wing interests behind the tea party protest against president barack obama. where do you

shows, number one where is the national strategy, that's from governor newsome on 60 minutes and amy klobuchar on morning shows and number 2 if you answer that, number 2, why did you guys collapse the pandemic office when you guys took over possibly to save money, do you want to answer both of them? >> sure. pandemic office, that was nsc situation but lots of parts of the government responsible for that and all of those have been functioning. again, we are on the other side of the medical aspect of this and i think that we have aleaved all the different milestones that are needed. the government, the federal government rose to the challenge and this is great success story and i think that that's really, you know, what needs to be told and in terms of the national strategy that you mentioned with governor newsom, look, we've been very busy doing, we released the strategy document earlier this week. it was an 8-step plan and 7 of the steps have been completed. you can't accelerate to the levels that needed to be done. a lot of the work is up-front work and we needed more tests than any place in

and senator klobuchar is joining us now. thank you for your time.start with the work you're doing for veterans. why is the problem so persistent among veterans? you can look at some of the long term care facilities, whether holyoke, massachusetts or pa m pennsylvanpnew jersey, and they are being decimated. why are they more vulnerable and what can we do to help them? >> two things. like so many of our senior centers across the country, they are in congregate living facilities on top of each other, there are health care workers that are going in and out that maybe work at other facilities. and of course we've seen tragic situations. the second is many of our veterans are particularly vulnerable especially those that have been exposed to burn pits where things were burned during the iraq and afghanistan wars and we have proof and many, many medical stories about people who developed severe conditions with their lungs because of that. many have died. and so those people are particularly vulnerable. so that is our story. i get back to square one on ever

on abc news although klobuchar has commented on the issue previously, she told msnbc a claim should be investigated and she thinks it was sufficiently researched by the new york times. amid silence from the dnc and biden some former bernie sanders supporters are pushing him to withdraw his endorsement and his former press secretary tweeted progressives didn't make this happen, corporate democrats chose biden and it is a good time to know if bernie is on the ballot. biden has not addressed these allegations personally. his campaign denies it and we are being careful not to silence his accuser amid the me too movement. >> reporter: sanders supporters feeling as new york state cancels its presidential primary because they believe the voting is too dangerous among the coronavirus pandemic. report from new york on that. >> reporter: new york governor andrew cuomo indicated a stay-at-home order for new york city would likely extend past may 15th but some parts of the state could begin reopening by then. >> reporter: statistics show new york headed in a positive certain, there has been a n

those worry, including kamala harris, amy klobuchar and elizabeth warren and gretchen whitmer.what is the process? who better to ask than the person who did it the last time, john podesta ran the running mate process for hillary clinton in 2016. he was the chairman of her campaign. he's the founder of the center for american progress. thanks for being here. i'm not interested in handicapping this year's crop but i'm really interested in the process. here's my first thought. it's an honor to be considered but it's awfully invasive, right? >> well, it gets to be quite invasive. i think at this stage of the process they're probably just looking at public records. i'm sure that the vice president said he had a short list. i think that short list is probably pretty long, 10, 11, 12 people. they're probably doing a -- bob bower and the campaign counsel are probably looking with a team of researchers to take a look. and answering the first big question, did they help you get elected as president? can they help you with the big prize? and is there anything in your background that cause

. >>> amy klobuchar joins us. senator, thanks very much.big campaign event in which you announced you were endorsing. first of all, i want to ask how you and your family are doing? >> really well. my husband is recovered, got out of the hospital, and is doing really, really well. we had a nice easter together with our family. i want too play what the president said today. >> our country's future hangs on this election. it won't be easy the other side has a massive war chest. the other side has a propaganda network patterned have a way to cut through the noise and spin to remind us of what is real, what is important. this crisis has reminded us that government matters. it's reminded us that good government matters that facts and science matter, that the rule of law matters. that having leaders who are informed and honest, and seek to bring people together rather than drive them apart those kind of leaders matter. >> well, i thought it was a beautiful video. i suggest that everybody watch it. what you see is he we need a confident person. you

likewould include people kamala harris, elizabeth warren, amy klobuchar. i think there really is a great -- there is a huge class of highly competent women leaders across this country that would i think be fantastic. you are following politics. obviously you have gotten the coronavirus -- gotten to coronavirus right now, at how concerned are you about joe biden breaking through with everybody hunkered down, that he will not have those breakout moments that we typically see a candidate have, to have some used in momentum? are you concerned about that as a democrat? gov. whitmer: no. i think right now what we are seeing is a nation in crisis. it is a difficult place to navigate. if you are running for office. however, i think what people want and need to see right now is steady, thoughtful leadership that is focused on the american people. podcastit is through a or through interviews, i think that comes through and i think people know joe biden. i think that is why you see the numbers the way that they are without having all of that heavy usual political pre

biden's bp waiting amy klobuchar and stacy adams -- stacey abrams responding to the allegations.he new york stories come i read that one but your viewer should read that one. this case has been investigated. i know the vice president is a major leader on domestic abuse, and i think, again, the viewer should read the article. it was very thorough. >> tara reade deserves to have her story listen to and investigated. "the new york times" did a deep investigation, and they found the accusations were not credible. i believe joe biden. >> laura: she believes biden. okay, first of all, let me say this, tonight we can tell our viewers that "the washington post" seem to be taking a turn against biden. they say he has to answer and to answer these claims. luke marcus reading -- saying it is imperative that he speaks out but he has to address the allegations and relevant records have to be released. i think they are at a crossroads, raymond on this issue. i don't think this is going away. and poor little joe can't say lgb cutie let alone speak for himself on this issue. speak with "the new

. >> amy klobuchar, the strong contender and making his candidacy make more serious. >> bret: harold.o with gretchen here tonight. >> bret: really, gretchen, despite all the pushback in michigan, you think she still going to come? >> i think she needs to win michigan and she helped deliver their and amy klobuchar is strong, but he's missing and not the right gender budget gretchen would be my choice. >> bret: all right, jason? >> i'm going to go with janet paulus on the outcome of secretary. >> bret: okay, panel, thank you very much we got to whole panels on the special report. we come back, notable moments. ♪ ♪ fifty years ago, humpback whales were nearly extinct. they rebounded because a decision was made to protect them. making the right decisions today for your long-term financial future can protect you and your family, and preserve your legacy. ask a financial advisor how retirement and life insurance solutions from pacific life can help you plan for your future. "ok, so, magnificent mile for me!" i thought i was managing... ...my moderate to severe crohn's disease. yes! until i

some of the names in the mix are governor whitmer of michigan, amy klobuchar, senator klobuchar of minnesota, those were both tight races in 2016. do you think those choices for joe biden could make things trickier in minneapolis or in minnesota i should say or in michigan? >> they completely think in michigan it will help us. she has done everything wrong for that state. >> martha: she is polling very well in michigan. >> i think the vice president shall candidate is going to be much different. i'm not convinced it will help. i think our math is expanded. i'm not worried about this one state. i think we have new states like new hampshire, new mexico, nevada, minnesota in play. do i think a vice president candidate could change? we'll see. i'm not worried about any of the current choices and i think the president and vice president are going to be in a great position in november. i don't see anything being a better metric than they had an '16. >> martha: all right, i'm almost out of time but i want to ask some of the president's critics say these news conferences are the rallies. they go on

if he wants to appeal to the upper midwest where those battleground states are, klobuchar would be awould governor kregretch wilmer of michigan who has emerged. if he wants to move toward the progressive base, senator warren would be a strong choice. if he wants to galvanize voters of color, obviously kamala harris brings unique qualities to that. i think he'll have to weigh those. plus compatibility, how does he feel about these candidates, how would i feel about working closely with them not just in a campaign but in an administration. that's the thought process that he's going through right now. >> the president of the united states, we always talk about the rose garden strategy, we might call it the briefing room strategy. right now when donald trump comes in for the coronavirus briefings, they run an hour and a half on average. some say they're hurting him more than they're helping him. but he's on tv and joe biden is stuck at home. >> i'm sure there are local tv stations around the country that would take an interview with joe biden and run them at the top of the news. the conv

you've got kamala harris, amy klobuchar, who i mentioned, elizabeth warren.oman coming forward. then there's this other woman, chris, tara reade, who also has something to say. the timing of this, what do you make of hillary clinton's potentially endorsing, later today, 3:30 p.m. eastern, joe biden? >> chris: it just shows how continuously tone-deaf hillary clinton is to what's actually going on with american voters. this is about as unexpected as the trump campaign announcing that he is endorsed by mike pence. it's kind of irrelevant. what it does for biden, if you look at the states that donald trump beat hillary clinton in -- pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, arizona -- states that made the difference between he was the president, who won the presidency in 2016. if i am the trump campaign tonight, the first thing i'm doing is reminding those voters that voted for trump over clinton in 2016 that now hillary clinton is on team biden and doing everything they can to crystallize that choice with working-class voters, the same voters who rejected hillary clint

their likes dislikes far ability ratings and in some cases what saved see of a comma harris and amy klobuchar who are more e conservative area again. you sir to talk about t's not forget what president obama said joe biden which is excellent complimentary tea. so the group with both plisher and heres for example of people who are very much still in the middle where where joe biden lives. but can they be out there testing sort of a more liberal areabecause again you're especially with with say sunlike errors stacey evans, whatever you're trying to get. other other demographic out there you want the bone younger voters be enthusiastic, you might see howthe left was see contingent you know get together know what's going to presume that everyone's going to unite behind them behind by i i think it's a very rong presumption or they're going to want to stir te all that in this sort of ocess that they're going through right now there's actually a ry strong with that rain push warren rit now because she seems to be the most paries all the plans as we often noted during the debates. i think that her ag

klobuchar is a midwestern woman, she does appeal to the midwest, which is where hillary clinton lostn 2016. remember, three states, wisconsin, pennsylvania and of course, michigan went to donald trump. those states you know, are key to the democrats winning this election and a midwestern woman may push that to the democratic side this time around. also, it's really unclear how andrew cuomo fares in the midwest, with midwestern voters. he's a real new yorker. the other thing that's unclear is how much does andrew cuomo want it. i mean, listen, his dad, who i know and admired, i covered him early in my career, mario cuomo, the governor of new york, was named -- was dubbed hamlet on the hudson because he was fickle about whether he wanted to run for president in the late '80s and early '90s when he was a national figure in his own right. andrew is displaying some of that as well. he's saying publicly he doesn't want it, it's obviously very difficult to leave being the governor of new york in the middle of a pandemic to run for president. that's another factor. but people who know him ul

klobuchar gets out. flood of endorsements for biden. then you just started sig, remember super tuesday biden swept through the south. then you went to michigan. remember, we had the michigan primary there on the tenth? that's the big state fwho. you saw there is a core of this party that bernie sanders had deep support from and then the minute there was a bandwagon effect you thought might take hold, rest of the party said no and they found joe biden and joe biden got on a roll. it all happened very quickly. >> steve, months ago i was able to look across the studio and see you. at least we can do this by remote control. is there a modern day parallel to the power one state, south carolina, had in exploding this biden campaign? >> it is fascinating, brian. we are conditioned sort of as political journalists, political analysts when we talk about both parties' primaries to fixate on iowa and to fixate on new hampshire. first two states here. but the state that has been getting it right on the democratic side in the more recent elections h

. >>> minnesota senator klobuchar are opening up after he became infected with the coronavirus. they shared an urgent message. >> reporter: for her and her husband 2020 started offensively criscrossing the country but the couple would be facing a very different kind of challenge, coronavirus >> suddenly hit me i had a fever and that fever has lasted for days and days >> it's over 100 like every day. it's still over 100. i think you might have this. >> you don't strike me as an alarmist but was there a point where you started to get nervous? >> yeah, when he seemed not always attune to what that temperature was and that it was so high when he started kofzing up blood, when you detected the shortness of breath in our phone conversations. >> he had to go to the hospital for five days relying on oxygen. >> so many people take a turn for the worse and you can't be there. you can't hold their hand. you can't gifz a hug to the health workers. >> you had no underlying health conditions, you're the person this is not to affect like this. >> this is not a cold. you don't get pneumonia whe

i do believe he really likes amy klobuchar.nk that -- some people think she's not an obvious choice like kamala harris an african-american might be a more obvious way to balance out the ticket. but i think he really does like amy quite a bit. having had that job, i think he really does want a partner. i think another dark horse would be stacy abrams who is just so talented, probably doesn't have federal experience, doesn't have state-wide experience, but that's the case of somebody who could really strike a chord personally with biden, that he could really like. she's just so talented. when people are in her presence, they're pretty wowed by her. so that's someone that i would also keep an eye on. >> i'm being given the big wrap. two names on the crazy wish list in the democratic twitterverse, and those are hillary clinton, who you worked for, and michelle obama, who you know well. >> okay. >> woould you put the chances above zero? >> for michelle obama, no. there's no way michelle obama would do it. she is not a politician. hi

larry king moment but the attitude i seem to be getting is that that was expressed by senator amy klobuchar who is i auditioning as a biden running mate. when she was asked a few weeks ago she said, you know, "the new york times" did a very thorough investigation, and then that seems to be the attitude that you don't need to do anything beyond that. lou: and the role of social media here, watching twitter and the way it is performing, google basically banishing that tape simply is, it has disappeared from youtube. i don't know what happens when you search it on google, but i suspect not much at all. >> well, we don't know exactly yet where, you know, the state of that clip, okay? but i think in general you bring up a very big question that a lot of americans are going to have to be watching during this election season which is that we are increasingly seeing these social media companies have one standard when it comes to political speech and free speech for republicans, one standard when it comes to political speech and free speech for democrats and deciding, being the arbitrary judge with

com layers including from our own state amy klobuchar are. governor kathy whitmer of michigan who's been dealing with the coronavirus so these are these are things that are going to be going on that kind of intrigue will happen and that might actually help draw little attention. both good and bad in some ways the joe biden so he's got to figure a way how to make that make that appeared to be decisive. moving forward that's almost going to be his first big moment coming up in terms of how to get any airtime against president trump. while the pandemic continues. yeah that's definitely a way to. get some attention because that's something everyone wants to hear is who does he want to have this is running mate because he said that it would be a woman. >>michael you thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 5. thank you justin. we'll switch things up now and talk to our chief meteorologist who is working from home lawrence karnow as we take a live look outside here in san francisco. and fog has now rolled in for our wednesday lawrenc

. >>> hospital of minnesota senator amy klobuchar says he is one of the first to donate his plasma for research. he is donating to the mayo clinic after recently recovering. it has shown promise in helping others fight the virus. but this morning senator klobuchar joking that her husband is showing one lingering symptoms. >> he can't clean the basement because there is a lot of dust. that's the one thing. >> that minnesota humor. a similar plasma study just started at ucsf this weekend and they hope it works based on other infectious disease but they don't know for sure. if you qualify, you can donate at any blood bank if you show you haven't had symptoms for 28 days. >>> coronavirus survivors are sharing their path to recovery. some had setbacks after being discharged from the hospital. >> reporter: as life starts to get back to normal, many people are adjusting to their new lives after having had the virus, but it's clear people are recovering differently. chicago nurse daniel ortiz tested positive himself. >> i woke up and i was like in sweat. but i felt really cold. >> reporter: in