here's abc7 news reporter laura anthony. epter: non 's ea oakland slow streets program to provide safe areas for residents to exercise while social distancing. >> potentially the slow streets could become an attraction. >> reporter: the oakland police department slow streets could become unsafe. if they get caught up in illegal side show activity, like this one from last weekend. >> these particular streets are smaller blocks, narrower streets. it's not really conducive for illegal side show, however, we know that illegal side show will use side streets or smaller streets to navigate their way through the city. >> reporter: but on the slow street that is arthur street, the more immediate danger from those who speed through the area it seems on a regular basis. like this, just a block away from where we were standing. a speeding driver failed to make a turn and flipped his mercedes nearly into someone's house. o . >> i just knew it was going to hit my grandson's car. they always drive fast up and down 73rd. and the side streets. like my street. >> we need to make sure that you acth, ce

tonight in a story you'll see only on abc 7 news, laura anthony introduces us to a walnut creek womanho delayed a visit to the er until it was almost too late. >> it was right in the center of my chest. >> she knew something was wrong but with hospitals overwhelmed with coronavirus patients she was afraid to go to the emergency room. i was afrd scenario with lots of people in emergency and in the hallways, et cetera. and that wasn't the case at all. >> gleason's fear of covid-19 became secondary when the pain became unbearable. >> it was like a screeching pressure, very painful. and the r many it happened the more painful it got. until the last one, the pain went up under my jaw and i got nauseous. >> gleason finally went to the emergency room where doctors quickly discovered she had an artery almost completely blocked. >> this is the blockage right here. so, it's fat and then all of a sudden 90% blocked. >> dr. dublin performed the the stem procedure, one that could not wait even one more day. >> i would have loved it if she came in two weeks before with had the chest pain first star

tonight in a story you'll see only on abc 7 news, laura anthony introduces us to a walnut creek womanho delayed a visit to the er until it was almost too late. >> it was right in the center of my chest. >> she knew something was wrong but with hospitals overwhelmed with coronavirus patients she was afraid to go to the emergency room. >> i was afraid of the new york scenario with lots of people in emergency and in the hallways, et cetera. and that wasn't the case at all. >> gleason's fear o cidbecame s became unbearable. >> it was like a screeching pressure, very painful. and the r many it happened the more painful it got. until the last one, the pain went up under my jaw and i got nauseous. >> gleason finally went to the emergency room where doctors quickly discovered she had an artery almost completely blocked. >> this is the blockage right here. so, it's fat and then all of a sudden 90% blocked. >> dr. dublin performed the the stem procedure, one that could not wait even one more day. >> i would have loved it if she came in two weeks before with had the chest pain first started. by

here's laura anthony. >> my kids have attended camp galileo for the last six years. >> reporter: erin williams' children are camp galileo regulars. that's why she signs up her two middle schoolers for three week sessions this summer. >> two children for three weeks each plus extended care in the morning and in the afternoon endinged up being $3,502. i waited until the end of march to sign up, but was getting emails from the camp saying that the sessions i was looking at were filling up quickly. >> reporter: but just days later galileo announced it was cancelling all of its summer sessions, offering no refunds, just credit for future camps. erin williams' children would have attended galileo here at lafayette elementary school. the founder and ceo of galileo told us he would love to offer refunds to the williams and other families, but he simply doesn't have the cash on hand. glenn trip said camp galileo is unique in that its high impact camp experience requires preparations to begin in september of each year and necessitates an intense amountiamount of forward-looking expenditures, in

in walnut creek, laura anthony, abc7 news. >> laura, thanks. >>> a drug developed by foster city-based gilead sciences may not have helped coronavirus patients in china in early trial. results for remedesavir were mistakenly posted to the world health organization's website before they were taken down the w.h.o. says the data is undergoing peer review. gilead says the results are mischaracterized. it says the study ended early because of low enrollment, and that did not lead to any meaningful conclusions. several large scale trials are being conducted in the u.s. right now to figure out whether this drug is safe. >>> for those of you keeping count, today is thursday, april 23rd, day 38 of our shelter in place in the bay area. the bay area's early shelter in place intervention likely saved tens of thousands of lives, according to a ucsf epidemiologist. dr. george rutherford estimates some 34 to 44,000 lives would have been lost had the bay area done nothing to confront the coronavirus pandemic. those figures are based on cdc and the imperial college of london's early estimates on wha ha

laura anthony takes us inside lindsey ia story you'll see only on abc7. >> we set up a drop-off areal. >> at the lindsey wildlife center, it's all about adapting to a difficult situation. >> he had a wound on his neck. >> the patients lindsey serves know nothing of the pandemic that's affecting so many humans. that includes this young bald eagle treated just this week for a broken bone in his chest. >> for so many years, you create that culture of caring for wildlife. now we feel the obligation and the responsibility to maintain that. >> the intake process has changed dramatically, moving completely outside. once an injured animal moves inside, it gets the same care, always delivered by lindsey. so while the hospital side is still humming with activity, the museum side, the one that hosts thousands of visitors each year is mostly quiet, except for those that make it their home. >> you know, enjoy a good nap just like the rest of us right now that. >> includes woody, a 26-year-old woodpecker and 73 other ambassador animals being cared for by lindsey staff. >> we have an amazing, dicat

abc7 news reporter laura anthony is live with the latest. laura? >> well, hi, dan. we learned those new numbers late this afternoon of those 65 confirmed cases now, we know that 40 of them were patients, are patients here at the gateway center. 25 staff members. we don't know from the county health department if the seven deaths are all patients or may include some staff. while family members are clamoring for more information, we talked with one young nursing assistant who just arrived in the midst of this crisis to try to help. >> they kept telling us that she is in the safest place she could be, and doesn't seem like that's ringing true. >> barbara rios' elderly mother is a resident of gateway care center. gateway staff won't answer rios' calls or knocks at the door. calls or knocks at the door, but she has talked with her mother on the phone. >> i didn't know that people had been dying here. last i heard there was one patient who tested positive. and that is the last i heard. >> i actually just came here because they needed help. >> nursing assistant has worked

laura anthony joins us live right now. laura? >> reporter: well, hi, larry. that one family is demanding accountability and hired a prominent attorney. here in hayward, we have seen some of the families of those two have lost their lives come to retrieve their belongings. the county says the numbers haven't changed since friday. 66 cases, including 41 patients. nine have died. and late today we heard from a family who said their loved one is barely hanging on. >> i've come to say goodbye to my husband of 65 years. or to tell him i loved him. >> reporter: it's been nine days since diana lost the love of her life, her husband of nearly seven decades. one of at least nine patients at hayward's gateway care center to die of covid-19. >> at no time while gateway, did we see the staff wear masks. before and after the outbreak. and for the last four days of his life, despite multiple calls a day, we were unable to speak to him or access him. >> reporter: the 87-year-old korean war veteran was in gate bay ar way less than a month. some staff were ordered to work even

live in oakland, laura anthony, "abc7 news." >> more testing the better. thank you, laura. >>> in san francisco, piers 30 and 32 are being set up as a coronavirus test site. drone view 7 gives us a view of the work underway. this ask where the warriors wanted to build their arena. it's still a parking lot. the site is designated for san francisco's first responders, so we're talking about police officers, firefighters, and health care workers. the testing site opens today and by the end of the week they hope to be running 200 tests per day. >>> san francisco mayor london breed announced the city has leased 300 hotel rooms to provide housing for employees on the front lines of this pandemic. >> this weekend, 30 health care workers moved into the first hotels. these hotel rooms allow people to do the incredible work they are doing to save lives without having to worry about going home to their families and folks in their community. they provide the relief for frontline personnel who are working long hours and commuting far distances. we will continue to add m

laura anthony explans, the number of clients multiplied. dramatically, many are getting in line for the first time. >> the line of cars, waiting their turn to get a box of food from the almedia food bank. never imagined they would be here. >> never. it is a humbling experience. >> reporter: russell and anna work in the hospitality industry. they both have been out of work for weeks. >> we are not alone. we have never had to be in any sort of situation like this. there is a lot of people in theptity, the airlines, you name it. >> our numbers increased dramatically. >> reporter: prepandemic, they served 50 to 60 families at each give away. serving as many as 600 families in a single day. >> precovid, 800 fams a month, and serves now, 2000 a week. we are seeing dental real estate agent, small business owner, all of a sudden, they have no income. >> despite the huge jump, the almedia food bank has been able to keep up, thanks to cash donations. >> >> reporter: the director said she hasn't seen lines like this. she worries many of the new client

laura anthony talked to industry experts to find out. >> reporter: up like other parts of the country, in the bay area, the meat and poultry cases are still full in many grocery stores. >> haven't seen a shortage. we haven't been affected. >> reporter: alameda's market almost has too much product, even offering sale prices on some. many markets source their products in california. not from big companies in the midwest and elsewhere that have had to close plants due to covid-19 outbreaks. >> we buy ourself local. so a lot of california grown here. >> reporter: angela's kitchen here managed to stay open during the shelter by offering takeout specials that include meat and poultry. >> three-course meal, so a side salad, entree and dessert for $10. >> reporter: angela's kitchen had to shop around in the beginning, but not lately. >> the first few weeks were tough, trying to get the supply that we needed for meat. but luckily next door, we've been getting our meat from marketplace and then that's our menu also changes to reflect the availability that we have. >> reporter: officials say any

mayor libby schaaf opened the city's second covid-19 testing center, abc 7 news reporter laura anthony is live in oakland tonight with the story. laura? >> reporter: well, hi, dan. this site is actually closed up now for the evening. it will be open, though, six days a week to certain individuals, it's really an expansion of what oakland has already been doing, providing testing for first responders. this is an expansion of that to what they're calling front line workers. >> they have to go through a screening process. we're trying to follow the cdc national criteria. >> oakland is expanding its covid-19 testing beyond traditional first responders to now include those considered vulnerable because they're working on the front lines. >> all of those who have, because of their care duties, extra risk and exposure to covid-19. >> reporter: specifically the list includes health care providers, grocery store, food bank and restaurant workers, homeless service providers, funeral home providers, child care workers, and residential and sheltered caregivers. the newest test site in oakland is i

live in oakland, laura anthony, abc7 news. >> very god. laura, thank you. >>> abc7 news today brought the mayors of oakland, san francisco and san jose together in a town hall. you had your questions answered and heard a discussion about the future. >> i'm wayne freedman in mill valley where we have two kinds of mitigations going on. one against pandemics with people in their homes, and another against wildfires with pg&e cutting the power. the question for residents is when. that's coming up. >>> i'm michael finney. pg&e has already cut the power in contra costa county. my 7 on your side report is straight ahead. >>> i'm spencer christian. we had a sharp cooldown today, and there may be a in these uncertain times, look after yourself, your family, your friends. but know when it comes to your finances, we are here for you. what can i do for you today? we'll take a look at the portfolio and make adjustments. i'm free to chat if you have any more questions. our j.p.morgan advisors are working from home to help guide you through this. for more

here's laura anthony. >> reporter: no one disputes it's a good idea.akland slow streets program designed to provide safe areas for residents to exercise while social distancing. >> potentially, the slow streets could become an attraction. >> reporter: but the sw streets could become unsafe. >> these particular streets are smaller blocks, narrower streets and not really conducive for h know that illegal side show will often use side streets or smaller streets to navigate their way through the city. >> reporter: but on the slow treat that is arthur street, the more immediate danger for those who speed through the area it seems on a regular away from where we were standing. a speeding driver failed to make a turn and flipped his mercedes nearly into someone's house. no one was seriously hurt. >> i just knew it was going to hit my grandson's car. they always drive fast up and down 73rd and the side streets. like my street. >> you need to make sure that you are nice and slow. >> reporter: just before that accident, back on arthur, oakland police had to warn

abc7 news reporter laura anthony takes you inside lindsay in a story you'll see only on abc7 news. >> we set up a drop-off area out in here that allows people animals. >> at the lindsay wildlife experience, it's all about adapting to a difficult situation. >> he had a wound on his neck. >> the patients lindsay serves know nothing of the pandemic that's affecting so many humans. that includes this young bald eagle treated just this week for a broken bone in his chest. >> for so many years, you create that culture of caring for wildlife. now we feel the obligation and the responsibility to maintain that. >> the intake process has changed dramatically, moving completely outside. once an injured animal moves inside, it gets the same care, always delivered by lindsay. so while the hospital side is still humming with activity, the museum side, the one that hosts thousands of visitors each year is mostly quiet, except for those that make it their home. >> you know, enjoy a good nap just like the rest of us right now that. >> that includes woody, a 26-year-old woodpecker and 73 other ambassad

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today in a story you'll see only on abc7 news, reporter laura anthony introduces us to a walnut creek woman who delayed a visit to her er until it was almost too late. >> it was right in the chest. >> andrea gleason knew something was wrong, but with hospitals serumingly overwhelmed with coronavirus patient, she was afraid to go to the emergency room. >> i was afraid of the new york scenario with lots of people in emergency and in the hlws >> gleason's fear of covid-19 became secondary when the pain became unbearable. >> it was like a squeezing pressure. very painful. and the more it happened, the more painful it got. until the last one, the pain went under my jaw, and i got nausea. >> gleason finally went to the emergency room at john muir hospital where doctors quickly discovered she had an artery almost completely blocked. >> this is the blockage right here. so it's fat and 97% blocked. >> da andrew dublin performed the stint procedure, one he says probably could not wait even one more day. >> i would have loved it if she came in two weeks before when the chest pain started. by the

abc7 news reporter laura anthony joining us live outside that facility right now. laura? mber inside this facility. she told me they are doing their best to take care of the patients that remain inside, that they have brought in extra staff from outside, and that the number of cases hasn't changed in the last 24 hours. still, family members are desperately afraid for their loved ones. >> they kept telling us she's in the safest place she can at dsne ringg true. >> her mother is a resident of gateway care center where six patients have died after a covid-19 outbreak. gateway staff won't answer rios' calls or knocks at the door, but she has talked with her mother on the phone. >> i didn't know that people had been dying here. last i heard wasne patient who tested positive. and that is the last i heard. >> i actually just came here because they needed help. >> nursing assistant worke for six days, caring for the patients still inside while keeping herself safe. >> we're we're drinking hot water every 30 minutes to kind of keep, fight it off, just in case we are contracting i

today abc7 news reporter laura anthony takes us to the alameda food bank where the number of clients showing up for food giveaways has multiplied by ten, yes, by ten in recent weeks. and many of them are first timers. >> the line of cars extended at least a mile, waiting their turn to get a box of food from the alameda food bank. many of those inside never imagined they'd be here. >> never, never. it's definitely a humbling experience. >> russell and anna hernandez both work in the hospitality industry, which means they've both been out of work for weeks. >> we're not alone. we've never had to be in any sort of situation like this. there is a lot of people in the hospitality industry, the airlines, the you name it. >> our numbers have increased dramatically. >> prepandemic, the alameda food bank served about 50 to 60 families at each giveaway. >> thank you. >> but now the numbers are staggering. serving as many as 600 families in a single day. >> precohavevid about 600 famil amont. and now we're serving nearly 2,000 a week. we're now seeing dental hygienists, real estate agents, all

laura anthony reporting live. thank you. >>> so many workers dealing with the cold reality of unemployment, governor newsom says there is one group that isn't given any financial help whatsoever, undocumented immigrants. that is until today. >> we feel a deep sense of gratitude for people who are in fear for deportation but are still addressing the essential needs of tens of millions of californi californians, and that's why i'm proud as governor to be the first state to announce a program for direct disaster assistance to those individuals. we're putting up $75 million. >> governorimates t 10f california's entire workforce sun documented. a total of $125 million will fill the emergency fund as a start. one-time payments of $500 will go out to single undocumented individuals. up to $1,000 per household. applications are expected to open next month. >>> the pandemic is really putting pressure on those who are in need and those who have never had to rely on food banks before. in alameda county, more pop-up food dist

laura anthony, abc 7 news. >> we'll stay on that story. farmers say low demand for crops is causing food to be thrown away which is a shame, of course. food banks can certainly use the surplus as more people need a helping hand. it's a combination of people to wait in line and get their food. >> i'm interested in the after school program. i'm not in school. as soon as the kids are back in school, woint be back until august. >> growers meanwhile say restaurants, stores, and others not demanding their produce, one farmer basically had to hack up the celery and leave it in field to rot because there was no twoun buy it. >> it's going back into the ground to put nutrients in the ground. because the decrease in demand, we're only harvesting a few dawes a week to cut the order and special orders for customer that's already have contracts with us. the employees are working less hours and less days. >> i'm very worried. i have three kids. it's been kind of like hard for us to provide some food. we have bills to pay and pay the rent. >> farmers say

abc 7 news laura anthony takes us inside in a story you'll only see on 7. >> reporter: at the lindsay wildlife experience it is all about adapting to a difficult situation. the patients lindsay serves know nothing about the pandemic, that including this young bald eagle treated just this week for a broken bone in his chest. >> for so many years you create that culture of caring for wildlife and now we feel the obligation and responsibility to maintain that. >> reporter: the in-take process has changed dramatically, moving completely outside. once the animal moves inside, it gets the same care by lindsay. since it's still humming with activity, the museum side, the one that hosts thousands of visitors each year is mostly quiet, except for those that make it their home. >> you know, enjoys a good nap like the rest of us right now. >> reporter: that includes woody a 26-year-old woodbecker and three other ambassador animals being cared for by lindsay's staff. >> extended hours to work tirelessly to make sure all the animals get what they need. >> reporter: like regular exercise for the li

. >>> i'm laura anthony. center is still serving its community, while also trying to make sure it survives. >>> i'm melanie woodrow. 39 million critically needed n95 masks for health care workers are now at the center of a suspected federal fraud investigation. >>> if you have got a large supply of ppe, santa clara county wants to know about it. abc7 news at 6:00 starts now. >> now your health, your safety, this is abc7 news. >> good evening and thank you for joining us tonight. i'm ama daetz live from my home. >> and i'm dan ashley. new at 6:00, an update on a cluster of coronavirus deaths at an east bay nursing facility. six residents of the gateway care and rehabilitation center in hayward have died from coronavirus. dozens more have tested positive. abc7 news reporter jr stone is live with the details tonight. jr? >> well, dan, very sad news out here in hayward this evening as we talk about those six deaths. now, there have been 59 covid-19 cases at this facility, and that includes patients and also staff

. >>> i'm laura anthony. putting out a public plea for patients to visit their emergency rooms. that story coming up. >>> i'm kris reyes in san francisco. how the city plans to have the best contact tracing capability in the country, and what that means for the fight against covid-19. abc7 news at 6:00 starts right now. >> now, your health, your safety, this is abc7 news. >> good evening. thank you for joining us. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm liz kreutz. the federal stimulus checks are starting to land in bank accounts this week. today we learned of more help that will be coming from the state of california. >> governor newsom says a couple 100,000 debit cards are being sent out each day loaded with money to help people out of a job. >> for undocumented grimes, the state will start taking applications for a $125 million first of its kind relief program. >> and for self-employed gig or contract workers out of a job, there is a new federal pandemic unemployment assistance fund to send out money fast. >> very delibera

i'm laura anthony.tory coming up. >>> a 36-year-old woman tested positive for covid-19 and later found out she had several blood clots in her lungs. doctors are seeing a pattern. "abc7 news" at 6:00 starts right now. >> now, your health, your safety, this is "abc7 news." >> and good evening. thank you for joining us. >> we know that more than anything, you want to know when the shelter in place restrictions will be lifted. today, we learned most of the bay area, in these counties, plan to extend restrictions through may. the current orders were set to expire this sunday. napa county's order has no expiration date. last friday, sew llano's county was expected through may 17. sonoma county is expected to expire may 3, but will likely be extended. >> today is day 42 of our shelter in place. one california school is making plans to reopen and it's here in the bay area. that school is cal maritime, located in vallejo, part of the csu system. it's training ship, the golden bar, is visible across the bridge. t

. >>> i'm laura anthony outside the gateway care center in hayward, where one more patient has died. others tested positive for covid-19, bringing the total to more than 60. that story coming up. >>> i'm dan noyes. there is yet another outbreak in a nursing home, and that's prompting new questions about the governor's plans. abc7 news at 6:00 starts right now. >> now your health, your safety, this is abc7 news. >> good evening. thank you for joining us. i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm ama daetz joining you live from my home. new at 6:00 tonight, live team coverage on the places that seem to be most vulnerable to coronavirus outbreaks, which house the most vulnerable patients, the elderly. >> late this afternoon, the abc7 news news i-team confirmed another coronavirus outbreak, san rael. at drake terce these continued outbreaks in retirement communities and skilled nursing facilities have some in the industry questioning part of governor newsom's plan to address this pandemic. abc7 news i-team reporter dan noyes is live from his home tonight with that part of the story. dan? >> well, dan a

. >>> i'm laura anthony in oakland, where police want to make sure that slow streets stay safe streets your safety. this is abc7 news. >> a hayward facility has the most coronavirus deaths among local nursing homes with more than a dozen residents passing away. it is now under criminal investigation, and the abc7 news news team has learned tonight that the owner is a bollywood actor. good evening. thanks for joining us. i'm dan. >> and i'm ama daetz. it's a bizarre twist to the story, and families with loved ones keep reaching out to him. dan joins us live. dan? >> dan and ama, the owner of gateway care and rehab in hayward has quite a colorful background, and i've learned that his nursing home might not be the only one to come under criminal investigation. adrena rodriguez was shocked to see the lack of staffing at gateway care and rehabilitation as coronavirus erupted at the hayward facility. >> and i was able to get some staff on the phone that let me know that there was only nursing staff member for the building that day, and that may have been why someone didn't answer the phone.

abc7 news reporter laura anthony is live at oakland police headquarters with a story you'll see only on abc7 news. laura? >> well, hi. oakland says slow streets program is less than a week old. it's modeled after other similar programs in cities across the country. and while there is a lot of support, oakland police are warning people that these .tir cart'oo ot forsewulpeally wtreerogram designed to provide. >> is onlily, the slow streets could become an attraction. >> but the oakland police department warns slow streets could become unsafe. if they get caught up in illegal sideshow activity like this one from last weekend. >> these particular streets are smaller blocks, narrower streets. it's not really conducive for illegal sideshow. however, we know that illegal sideshow will often use side streets or smaller streets to navigate their way through the city. >> but on the slow street that is arthur street, the more immediate danger may be from those who speed through the area it seems on a regular basis, like this, just a block away from where we were standing. a speeding driver fail

laura: dr. anthony fauci is sounding optimistic about the prosct of a vaccine by january.hat do you make of that? guest: i think it is certainly possible. the oxford group, they are saying they could have a million doses by september. that is optimistic. i hope and pray that they are rightl but i wlieve it when i see it. but it is true that byefault some health care workers get early experimental doses of this emergency use of the vaccine. hopefully by early 2021 we will have it available for the general public. laura: thank you for being with us. let's look south korea now, which has led the world on testing for coronavirus. earlier this year it had one of the country turn things around through testing and contact tracing. today, south korea had no new domestic infections. reporter: these are the better days. many people across the world are being promised. it isossible here becausepr south korea waared for a pandemic. curve, they've crushed it.the the situation looked critical in february. emedics w battling one of the worst outbreaks in the world. cases spiraled. but th

in concord, laura anthony, abc7 news. >> since the coronavirus pandemic began, calls to crisis hotlines have increased dramatically. in fact, in some bay area counties have have almost doubled from people worried about their health, their families and their jobs. eric thomas reports now from the east bay. >> life before coronavirus was stressful enough to keep crisis and suicide prevention hotlines busy. but now the virus is taking an even bigger toll on our mental health. >> we were previously receiving about 100 to 120 calls per day, and last week every single day we had over 200 calls per day. >> she says the calls range from people feeling anxious about the spread of the disease or possibly being laid off to people thinking about harming themselves. and the staff members answering those calls are also working from home. so they are not immune. >> our callers are really dealing with some of the same hardships as my staff is, and that's a place where it puts additional stressors on folks answering the phone calls. >> and it's not just callss. hol consumption since the start of the cor

laura: dr. anthonyauci, he's the topis infectiousse specialist here in america, advising the government. to ays we're struggling contain the outbreak. what should we be doing better? >> one thinge need to be doing is having better messaging. so that we know what l to do. of people don't know what to do. i would like to say for myself that yesterday the messagerom the queen really provided a lot of information for me about the function of the btish monarchy , i found her word to be stirring and essential and many of us were grateful. we would like to see our leership giving us a consistent message bec tse we sengs moving quickly and we fed to see that we are responding tots on the ground and sometimes dr. fauci's been great, bute' sometimes been fighting an uphill battle and that's not the best cas scenario. laura: now the governor here in new york is saying we may be beginning to see a flatteninve f the c that the death rate has dropped a little bit for two days. it's now flat. at do you make of that? >

laura. dr. anthony fauci setting the facts straight last night, beating down misinformation that's often spread on that program by the host herself. for months she's downplayed the virus, cast down on the science behind social distancing and she's attacked advocates of shutdowns, it's a dangerous practice that's taking place all across that network. and let's bring in rev al sharpton, president of the national action network. one level good for laura for having tony fauci on to share facts with her large audience. and the other, he has to say her, look, it's misleading to compare the disappearance of sars and the drug treatments available for aids to this one is just a remarkable commentary on where we are. >> i think tony fauci deserves kudos for going on fox news and for going on laura ingraham who has a terrible track record when it comes to telling the truth and i'm glad that you played the full answer that dr. fauci gave. because i think it's important for the public to hear and it's just been extr

. >> laura: candace, anthony fauci, dr.ci said a variant of that the other day that said we need to tackle the underlying issues, so apparently he's going to move into policy when it comes to health care as well. but he said basically the same thing. >> you know, i think what we are releasing, especially on the left when we talk about these anchors is that it shifted for them. first and foremost it was about fearmongering but now they seem really an opportunity for them to put forth their own policies and to push through their policies because they never want to let something like this go to waste. they say okay, we have a huge opportunity when people that are very fearful, people who have very little information, we can control what information we put out and scare people into getting behind policies that are ultimately going to hurt them. none of these policies that they're offering are going to help black americans or help americans in general. obviously there is no greater killer in the world than poverty. people that a

of that anthony fauci is indeed the latest unexpected start to emerge from the covid-19 task force daily briefings and he helped bring back must-see tv to the masses. smart is sexy. no doubt. laura women a lot of hope if anthony fauci can be the sexiest man alive. >> laura: well, i'd be interested in seeing that photo. this is the people's online reaction to the petition. check it out. >> look, any man that can ease my anxiety about a world's pandemic is sexy in my book. >> laura: totally, raymond, totally, totally. >> smart is sexy, glad to hear it. >> laura: all right, thank you, raymond, we will see you next week. up ahead, the cdc is now recommending everyone wear cloth masks in public. so why now? end of it so important, why did it take so long in the confusion? willett slow the spread. science jeremy howard will answer the questions more. next. ♪ ♪ >> in an ideal world, we would have the public being messed when they go out. >> we don't recommend them for the general public. >> laura: which is that? masks, no masks, halloween masks? while the cdc and settling the debate in recommending and not requiring, people wear face masks while they're out in public in a physical dist

. >> yeah, laura, we just heard anthony fauci on the "today" show talking about that, and this drug, tkeza veer, what they found is it reduced their illness from 15 to 11 days, and that's about a 31% improvement, and they are getting out of the hospital faster, these sickest patients. there's a slight reduction in mortality. bottom line now, the manufacture is ramping up production. >> the company is really committed to get out as much as they can as quickly as they can. i would hope that actually winds up being the case. i am pretty confident that will be the case because i believe they are committed to try and get this out as quickly as possible. >> the president is urging the fda to fast-track it. it has not yet but our sources are telling us that could happen soon and it would make the drug more widely available to more people. that's the latest live this >>> mark zuckerberg's found tkaeu foundation is funding a study to study thousands of residents and health-care workers in the next month, and they are looking at how immunities kick in for those that recover, and he's providing

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. >> laura: it was going to be april 25th and anthony fauci is not going to like the curve or there wille a blip which means too many people have been outside the house paddle boarding or jogging. somebody was arrested, i kid you not, arrested in malibu, in california, from paddle boarding. this is what's happening in our country. people being arrested for just walking outside or being on the ocean. do you think you'd ever see that in this country, steve forbes? >> absolutely not. the idea you can't go to church, can't do other things. he most americans -- to be when they can't do anything. >> most americans know that when they have to do social distancing, physical distancing to described it, fine, do it. if we continue this, yeah, there will be another rescue package, another one needed for small businesses. those are not going to get to the real problem. if you take a sledgehammer to the american economy, it's going to take time to bring it back, it'll recover quickly as long as you have a benign environment which gets to the election. hopefully next year we'll have that benign enviro

laura: let's turn to the search for the coronavirus treatment. america's top infectcius disease of said today that there is positive data from the trial of an experimental drug. dr. anthony fauci said the drug, remdesivir, showed a lower mortality rate in its patients. dr. fauci: if you look at the time to recovery being shorter on the drugt ,s 11 days compared to 15 days. something that although a 31% improvement them esn't seem ke a knoout, 100%, it is a very important proofncept. because what it has proven is virus. drug can block this dr. fauci's comments come st the world's biggesy is taking place in the u.k., where thousands of patients are involved. re is our medical correspondent, fergus. reporter: what would the world

. >> laura: despite the mounting evidence that hydroxychloroquine is working for patients, dr. anthony fauci kind of remains skeptical. >> there have been cases that show them there may be in effect, and there's others to show that there are is no effect. so i think in terms of science i don't think we can definitively say it works. >> laura: dr. smith, a premier medicine cabinet member, the promising results to say the least, that you and doctors all over the countries are seeing with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin. so what is dr. fauci saying he here? >> what we are saying is we don't have randomized controlled files and that's true. they developed a treatment for it in the 70s and 80s and it saved lives. but if memory serves there is an article annals and articles in 1873, it was not randomized. they didn't even have contemporaneous control. they used external controls. and i'm not blaming them, i believe they did great work and of the treatment did work. but we needed the data we had to. now the experience that we have had treating patients with a combination of hydroxychloroq

. >> laura: back in early january before he became a global superstar, dr. anthony fauci told cnn that this flu season was on track to be as severe as the 2017-2018 season, which was the deadliest in more than four decades but he said the initial indicators indicate it's not going to be a good season. he said this is going to be a bad season. but after those initial warnings, the story seems to go away. this despite the fact that we know at least 169 children have died this flu season. that's only second to the 188 who died during that 2017-2018 season. at least three children have died to covid. look at the graphs from earlier this year, some of the math. week after week, the mortality numbers in influenza and pneumonia, they call it p and i, were climbing. despite this, though, civilization didn't grind to a halt. schools didn't close. we didn't even talk about it. h1n1, the swine flu, particular vicious this year, where as the b strain hit the young artist. look at this graph at how bad the flu season was. look where it went up. read to, as it goes up, and it goe

laura, good morning. a lot more testing, and that is what we heard dr. anthony fauci talking about on the "today" show this morning with savannah guthrie. states like california, governor newsom has said they have their own plan. president trump said he has total authority but now backing off that a bit saying he'll talk with governors via to better work with them to get the plans in place. meantime the key to reopening anything health experts say could be testing. >> beyond 3 million tests that's really far, far greater than we were a couple weeks ago. right now they're developing the capability of even escalating and accelerate that go even more so that we would have a significant number measured in the millions of tests each week. >> reporter: now president trump has said he wants to reopen things by may 1st or possibly in some states sooner. that's the latest from the d.c. area. i'm tracie potts, "today in the bay." >>> now governor newsom says six things need to happen before california can be up and running again. they include more testing and tracking of

. >> laura: despite the mounting evidence that hydroxychloroquine is working for covid-19 patients, dr. anthony fauci remain skeptical. >> there have been cases that show there may be in effect and there are others to show that there is no effect. i think in terms of science, i don't think we can definitively say so. >> laura: cannot definitively say. dr. stephen smith, director of the smith center of infectious diseases and urban health joined me now. dr. smith, from your medicine cabinet member. you told us night after night the promising results, to say the least, that you and doctors all over the country are seeing with hydroxychloroquine mixed with azithromycin. what is fauci saying here, really? >> what he saying, laura that is we do not have controlled randomized trials, that's true, but we have plenty of diseases including the disease that dr. wolf and dr. fauci got famous for, they developed a treatment for it in the ' 70s and '80s and save lives. if memory serves in the annals of 1973, they didn't use -- he was not rabbit randomized. it was not controlled. i'm not blaming them. i beli

laura? no, this is me. >> no, it's us together. you start. >> together again. >> first it was dr. anthony fauci who got his own bobble head.nor newsom is getting one as well. >> i know exactly. isn't this funny? this is from the national bobble head hall of fame and museum. it costs $25 and $5 from every purchase goes to buy masks for frontline workers. there are bobble heads of new york, ohio, wisconsin governors as well. he has raised more than $100,000 for charity so far. >> i love that. anything for a good cause. >> we have to find levity where we can. >> it's going to be warming up. lots of sunshine for most of the bay area. as we're starting out this morning look at this beautiful shot checking out san francisco. as we go through the day expect more sunshine just like this quickly warming temperatures away from the coast. you've probably been calling your friends and family a lot across the country and i just wanted to show you what kind of weather they're facing today. severe weather in parts of the south where temperatures will be warm today but we are seeing that severe weather threat calming down reaching into th

laura: let's turn to the search for the coronavirus treatment. america's top infectcius disease of said today that there is positive data from the trial of an experimental drug. dr. anthonyci said the drug, remdesivir, showed a lower mortality rate in its patients. dr. fauci: if you look at the time to recovery being shorter on the drug, it was 11 days dmpared to 15. something that although a 31% improvement them dolin't seem a knoout, 100%, it is a very important proof of concept. that a drug can block this virus. laura: dr. fauci's comments come as the world's biggest study is taking place in the u.k where thousands of patients are involved. he is our medical correspondent, fergus walsh. reporter: what would the world give for a cure for the coronavirus? spit has turned al wards into alien landscapes. stf at this hospital in cambridge must be shielded from the highly infectious virus. patients like peter, w is 89, must rely on oxygen, the one thing own to help. >> i was fighting for breath. that was on about day three. i was on it. i can brief. rerter: the toll on individuals and their families has been enormous. >>gh i feel that it at one point take you away? >> yes,

laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle." this may be one of the most important shows we've done during the coronavirus. dr. anthony powell she is here he tell us specifically explaining some differences. watch within the d states belown new york. dr. phil will join us for his first fox news appearance in years with a message to america about why it's so important to return to normalcy. plus she's become the liberal poster child for liberal hate. south dakota governor kristi noem is here and she's going to tell us why her refusal to mandate a stay a stay-at-home order was her way of preserving the public's health and liberty. and devin nunes says a key democrat blocked his effort for an intel hearing on china. he reveals what happened later in the hour. but first, my thoughts at the end of day 31, america in shutdown. the media seems to be a little caught off guard by the president's announcement tonight of a three-phase plan to reopen america. >> do you think these are pretty good touchstones for states to decide when to start slowly easing restrictions? >> in the absence of widescale testing, i'd say they are pro

laura ingram failed in that case as well. >> one thing i liked about ingram's show that day, she had dr. anthony fauci on. been on every show. he's been everywhere. she asked him some questions which i thought were ignorant, it's good to see fauci responding, trying to get the facts out there everywhere he possibly can. that's a good thing. i need to take a break here. thank you both. quick break on "reliable sources." much more coming up including the view from the white house press briefing room, what it's like to be socially distancing and challenging the president. ♪ ♪ it only takes a second for an everyday item to become dangerous. tide pods child-guard pack helps keep your laundry pacs in a safe place and your child safer. align, press and unzip. tide pods. keep them up. keep them closed. keep them safe. balanced nutrition for strength and energy. whoo-hoo! great tasting ensure with 9 grams of protein, 27 vitamins and minerals, and nutrients to support immune health. anin how they craft tatheir orange juice? the corporate executives of coke and pepsi, or the farmers of florida's natural? only florid