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the heartwarming moment nbc correspondent janis mackey frayer is released from self quarantine into the arms of her young son. we will talk to janis about what she said was easily the best hug ever. today, thursday, april 2nd, 2020. >>> welcome to tods. 7:00 a.m. on the west coast. so happy you're joining us. >> our correspondent in china that worked so hard hnlt seen her son in 49 days until yesterday. so many health care workers separated from families, sacrifices being made. we'll highlight the stories, including hers. breaking news this morning. historic economic pain felt by millions of families in the country brought home this morning. >> check out the latest numbers. 6.6 million filed new claims for unemployment, double from last week's record shattering tolls. >> and unfortunately more grim numbers to tell you about. there are 216,000 confirmed cases in the u.s. rk nearl >> nevada, florida, pennsylvania joined 35 other states issuing stay at home orders. 82% of the country is told to shelter in place. >> in los angeles, the mayor urging residents to go ahead and wear nonmedical

janice mackey fryer, nbc news, beijing. >>> well, something good this morning from the city of alameda. people are being asked to do something simple just to make sure essential workers know they're appreciated. [ cheers ] yeah, everyone can do this one. city leaders are asking everyone to applaud every single day for one minute at 7:00 p.m. the goal here is to thank first responders for putting their lives on the line. >> i'm just clapping for all the people out there. the healthcare providers who are providing essential services. >> some alameda residents are also putting teddy bears in their windows. so people can see as they walk by. this is also to add a sense of comfort. i love seeing that. >>> well, firefighters in the south bay are battling a fire that believes has started in an rv. it spread to two homes. this is video that came to our newsroom this morning during today in the bay. a fire broke out on north 7th street near east st. james street blocks away from san jose university. at one point firefighters had to subdue a man and strap him to a gurney. firefighters say there

janis mackey frayer joining us live from beijing. janis, thank you for joining us. i tweeted out yesterday that was the hug the world needed right now. in so many ways it spoke to so many people around the world. talk to us about the moment you got to hug your son. >> reporter: to be truthful, i was settling into home last night, sitting on the couch, talking with my husband. he said did you tweet that video yet. i said, oh, i'll do it tomorrow. he goes no, no, no, it was a sweet moment. maybe people will like it. and it has resonated. it's overwhelming for us. it was a moment that felt like it was a long time coming, and it was pretty sweet when it happened. my son is trying to get me caught up on things, showing the teeth that he's lost since i was away and since we were separated and wanting to read books and hug and tickle, and all of the things that are wonderful about being 6. it's been pretty magical to be back together after being away for so long. ayman, we all travel for work, and sometimes the trips last a little bit longer. it's just -- i certainly didn'

janis mackey frayer is in there.ockdown has been lifted but life in wuhan, still far from normal. >> reporter: well this reopening of wuhan, this original epicenter comes just one day after the city reported no new coronavirus-related deaths since january. there are some questions about the numbers in china, whether they have been underreported. but the situation has stabilized enough, ayman, where the officials who had imposed all of those harsh restrictions now feel that it's improved enough that they can start to walk them back, that they can send a lot of the frontline workers back to other provinces, they can close down these makeshift, temporary treatment centers and be able to allow people to travel more freely in and out of the city, something they haven't done in the last 11 weeks. as you say, it doesn't suggest that anything is remotely over or close to normal. there are still very strict social distancing rules that are in place, they are enforced, for people to travel out of the city now. they need to be

touched so many people here at nbc news the reunion after 49 days apart between our correspondent janis mackey frayer and her son. janice has been on the front lines of covering the coronavirus crisis in china and japan and the u.k. now back in china and after a 14-day self-quarantine, she's back with her family and we want to thank her and thanks to all of our correspondents and producers and crews working so hard away from their families to bring this global story to you and your families. to janice, we thank you from the bottom of our hearts that was a special moment. >>> coming up as we continue across america, words and images of hope. >>> finally, the pavement artists inspiring america. here is gadi schwartz. >> reporter: across america's abandoned sidewalks, something bright and colorful is transforming concrete into a canvass of hope. there are rainbows and portraits of heroes, collective art therapy many using the #chalk the walk people communicating with those they can't see families in ohio who haven't hugged their grandmother in three weeks. she lives three doors down. >> we left a

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joining us live from beijing with the exclusive reaction is nbc's janis mackey frayer.ered a lot of territory in speaking the the vice foreign minister. what did he have to say? >> reporter: not surprisingly he dismissed the notion that china should be held responsible, let alone financially responsible for the pandemic. this has been the suggestion of president trump over the last couple days, and a growing number of countries calling for an investigation. the executive vice minister said right now an investigation would be far too politicized, that there needs to be a science-based approach to this. on the issue of accountability, this is what he had to say. >> translator: -- rep! s from china are not reasonable and have no legal basis. i think there is no such reason for such demands and blackmail. the attempt to shift blame to china will find little support and end up nowhere. >> reporter: ayman, bear in mind that china right now is launching almost an information offensive to try to shape the global view of how it's handled this pandemic. not only is it the positiv

keir simmons in london, matt bradley in rome, janis mackey frayer from beijing.eir, what's it like in the uk? >> well, the uk, they've announced an extension of the lockdown, and that's challenging for people to stick to. one of the issues that's being talked about in europe is how governments can bring the public along with them, whether they need to present an exit plan, even if there's no data on that exit plan. and, steph, one of the really big challenges it's turning out is confidence. trying to restore confidence in the public is not easy. shall i go to the restaurant? shall i go to a bar or go see my dad in his 70s? these are hard things to persuade people, particularly if there are political arguments. in austria, small stores have reopened. what we're seeing there, according to people living there is many of those stores are empty. people are not going back. in denmark, elementary schools reopened. parents protesting about whether or not their children really are safe. in spain, a different picture. there, they've been reopening factories and sites. so i

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nbc's janis mackey frayer, live for us in beijing.port she will be home to her boy again today. thank you for all your reporting and for the sacrifices you've made with your family in doing it. thanks so much, janis. >> thank you, willie. >>> all right. >> mika? >> joining us now, emergency room physician in new york city dr. calvin sun. he is a per diem doctor, picking up shifts in emergency rooms as needed. he is also a blogger with a following on instagram and has been posting pictures and videos of experiences treating victims of coronavirus. so, i guess first of all, how are you doing, navigating? how many shifts are you taking on? and tell us about what you're seeing. >> i'm pretty tired. i've got to say. as a per diem doctor, i chose this lifestyle so that i could be more flexible and work however much i want. i planned maybe 6 to 11 shifts a month. usually a full-time physician works 11 a month. i worked 19 shifts in the last 22 days. not because i had to, but because it is a calling. like, i needed to. it was something i saw

nbc's janis mackey frayer for us. thanks so much. joe. >>> it really is remarkable.t's as if the chinese government thinks it's like 1957 and we don't know that a doctor in december who tried to warn other doctors that the coronavirus was deadly and could spread like sars and they had to prepare for it, they think the whole world doesn't remember that they actually sent the police after him and said they were going to investigate him for -- let me get the exact words from -- from the chinese government. said they were going to investigate this doctor for making false comments and investigating him for, quote, spreading rumors. katty kay, i'm shocked when donald trump, and i will say on a much smaller level than the chinese, but i'm shocked when donald trump keeps lying about miracle treatments and vaccines being ready and very soon, keeps lying about this magically going away in april, keeps lying -- but, you know, we know he's lying and he's fact checked immediately. but the same holds true of china on a much larger level. this -- this pandemic that has wrecked the

mackey beijing, thank you. let's move to italy where we find matt bradley at the vatican this morning. stunning scene that we've already witnessed, the pope conducting mass to an empty st. peter's square today. of course, it's good friday, easter on sunday. what is easter going to look like at the vatican this year? >> reporter: it is going to look, willie, a lot like this. nobody there. it is going to be the pope, once again, cutting a very lonely figure, doing his mass. probably indoors, once again, without celebrants. he'll be celebrating basically alone. just officients. it'll be beamed across the world, what the pope is calling the beam of love. trying to reach as many people as possible. this isn't just about the actual observance of these holidays. this is easter. this is the biggest day of the year here. this is about the charities, as well. those charities are suffering. as you've been talking about on your program, there's going to be, after the medical crisis passes, everybody is expecting an economi

. >> he was drafted and will be mackey frayer had a moment in that piece it was fun watching her. >>h. playing with tom brady. >> janis mackey frayer had a moment in that piece it was fun watching her embrace her son. it was a beautiful moment. >> i love that. >> hoda, when you said eagles, i thought you were talking about philadelphia eagles. >> of course you did. >> i perked up let's get a first check of the weather. al, happy friday >> we made it to friday but it's a soggy one on the east coast. let's look at the radar. you can see we've got wet weather stretching all the way from the northeast into florida where down in florida we have tornado watches, severe weather going on right now in central florida. in fact, we've got a risk for severe weather today there and back through the lower plains where we're expecting some tornadoes possible and hail. look at those storms moving across the florida peninsula the severe threat ramps up later tomorrow heavy rain moves into the ohio river valley. mid-atlantic tomorrow evening. then on sunday this storm system moves into the northeast w

sue mackey made a critical points about how she think humans have an advantage of evolution? sort of problem the problem that maybe we are not using it the wrong way or maybe enough data? >> guest: i don't see it that way. i see this evolution what they did is they build a genome that builds a draft rough draft of the brain pretty look at the development of biology it is clear that brain is not a blank slate. his very carefully structured we don't understand all the structure, but there's in a number of experiments that illustrate and all kinds of ways and you can do different experiences were animals don't have any exposure to the environment and they understand so forth. what evolution is done is shaped a rough draft of the brain us on a final brain that rough draft is actually built to learn specific things about the world. you can think about ducklings looking for something to imprint on the minute they are born. our brains are built to learn about people and objects and so forth. but what evolution is done is given a really good toolkit for assimilating the data we are g

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janis mackey frayer in beijing good morning. >> good morning, savannah. the chinese government is pushing back against the suggestion it pay compensation to the u.s. or anyone for the coronavirus pandemic we sat down with the highest ranking chinese official to address the pandemic with the foreign media here and we asked him who should be accounta china's numbers. in an exclusive interview, the executive vice foreign minister likened the caught t blackmail. >> they represent an out and out political farce. first of all, asking china to make these reparations, they have no legal basis. there is no international law that supports blaming a country for simply being the first to report a disease >> the pandemic has spiked tensions between china and the u.s. with each side accusing the other of downplaying the virus president trump now calling for an investigation. >> it should have been stopped at the source, which was china it should have been stopped very much at the source but it wasn't and now we have 184 countries going through hell. >> but china argues

we appreciate it. >>> let's go next to beijing and janis mackey frayer.ously, china, this hit china first. they're a little further along than italy is with the curve. talk about the return to normalcy and how slow and halting it is, still is, in china. what can you tell us about this weekend? >> reporter: well, every move here is cautious because the numbers haven't gone away. china is still posting new cases every day. in the past day, it's up to 108. nearly half of them are linked to one small city on the northern border with russia. chinese citizens have been returning from russia and testing positive for the virus. there was one flight that landed in shanghai. 60 people on board tested positive for covid-19. these hot spots china is still concerned with, and why they're taking slow and cautious steps in all of these steps are linked very closely to aggressive testing. in beijing alone, they're averaging about 8,000 tests per day. they've done 40,000 tests on people since the 1st of april. even to book a train ticket to come ut out of wuhan, you need

. >>> our nbc news correspondent janice mas mackey frayer spend covering the coronavirus in japan and. and china. when she returned she has to isolate for 14 days and 49 days total apart from her family. now janice is sharing this reunion with her 6-year-old son. >> we are wishing many, many more reunions like that to people touched by this around the world. that does it for our special coverage. i'm ari melber signing off. don't go anywhere, "all in" with chris hayes starts now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. there's a strange time lapse playing out throughout the coup triright now. places that have been hit first and hardest by the coronavirus are further along the curve of growth. and those places are fairly dense urban areas, big metropolises in really bad shape. the grim reality of this virus is everyone, every single state is headed there. here are the latest numbers. we now have more than 240,000

beautiful story from our great reporter, nbc's janis mackey frayer reunited with her son after 49 days apart. janis works as a foreign correspondent. she was covering the coronavirus pandemic from where it all began in wuhan. went into quarantine after that. frayer tweeting, quote, this was easily the best hug ever. we're not about to disagree. sic) - [female vo] restaurants are our family. the cornerstone of our communities. and our family needs help. right now they're facing a crisis. and they're counting on your takeout and delivery orders to help them through. because if we don't treat restaurants like family today.. they might not be around to treat us like family tomorrow. grubhub. together, we can help save the restaurants we love. >>> welcome back. fema is sending emts and paramedics to new york city to help a strained fire department deal with a record number of 911 calls. 3,000 members of mthe fdny have been out sick. at the medical unit in central park, volunteers are helping keep things running, including our two guests. joining me from the central park medical unit is jona

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us in rome, willem marks is live in madrid, spain, and in beijing, nbc news correspondent janice mackeyi'm going to start with you on this one. italy's prime minister announcing that the country is gradually going to start to reopen on may 4th. talk us through how that is expected to roll out. >> yeah. we should know more by the end of this week. that's when the prime minister said they're finally going to come up with a comprehensive plan for just how to lift this lockdown. they said this is going to be done by municipality and by economic sector. so basically, they're going to decide which economic sectors are not going to create a flood of new people rushing in to spot, some businesses that could spark a new wave of infection and they're also going to do it geographical. here in italy, the north has carried this burden far more than the rest of the country. so we could see the south opening up for business a lot sooner. once those businesses open, there's still going to be tons of rules in place. they're going to be regulating that restaurants, which are not going be opening immediat

our colleague janis mackey frayer is in beijing. a second wave.s this due to reopening prematurely? >> well, that is the concern. as the precautions have been taken, as restrictions have been slowly eased, the fear here in china and across asia is that there could be this second wave of infections. we are seeing case numbers edging higher in japan and hong kong, singapore, south korea and here in mainland china. here, they've even taken to beginning to track asymptomatic cases. these are people who test positive for carrying the virus but never show any symptoms of it. certainly with the lockdown in wuhan ending this week, there is the concern that tens of thousands of people will now be traveling from where the outbreak started and fanning out across the country. potentially posing a risk and opening new transmission routes for the virus. what we've seen, stephanie, across asia is a tightening of borders. the imposition of harsher restrictions in countries where the epidemic appeared to be under control. here in china, they've cut international f

. >> and as we go to break, the reunion between my nbc news correspondent colleague janis mackey frayer and her 6-year-old son in china after being separated for seven weeks. e1 >>> welcome back. the panelfá is joining us from >>> welcome back. the panel is joining us from their remote locations. we are practicing our social distancing. capitol hill hill correspondent kasie hunt, the former republican governor of north carolina, pat mccrory, and helene cooper, correspondent for "the new york times." i think we can best sum up the argument or debate this morning in particularly, who's in charge, and kasie hunt, i want to play the president on the cdc mask guidelines because in many ways the mixed messages he sent here sort of sums up the back and forth between the feds and the state. take a listen. >> the cdc is advising the use of nonmedical cloth face covering as an additional voluntary public health measure. so it's voluntary. you don't have to do it. i don't think i'm going to be doing it. i think wearing a face mask as i greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens, i

[laughter] i think being on guard about that stuff, stu mackey avoided alcohol? no i haven't avoided alcohol. [laughter] i certainly have never felt i have been addicted to alcohol sort of ending the ascii with the doctor in one of these once or twice a week type people. but no, i have never felt especially addicted to anything except chocolate chip cookies and ice cream. [laughter] let's see what let's talk about unemployment we talk about in the book people left kentucky to go north but those jobs have not been hollowed out. you see a lot of unemployment in the background you have. can you describe of its getting better or worse what can be done about it? >> guest: at stephanie getting better last couple of years because the economy is picked up a little bit. i don't think it has improved significantly over where it was 30 or 40 years ago. what i mean is that the number of people at the coal or the steel mill industry employed in the 50s and 60s that hasn't returned to the last couple years is maybe not as bad as it was but i think you are seeing a really long

really incredible spectacle that was welcomed by all russian society including opposition figures sue mackey but, when the ring did in open and this was seen as the one embarrassing snafu in an otherwise glorious and successful production ernst himself made fun of it and in the closing ceremony he had one of the rings for a second also not open, wink at the audience are not flash and limited. so that struck me as an instrument interesting queso ernst having that degree of russian power and russian official that sort of self-deprecation and irony are not features you normally see with people who occupy those positions of power in russia sue mike that's a great detail in anecdote. he mentioned this in the book, it's also part of how the state maintains its image and its legitimacy. it has people like you on tv and it has these winks and nods at their mistakes which were not totally dumb, we have some press, we are nice to foreigners which lead me to ask, why did you go on when a lot of our friends i think would say like to legitimize them, don't go near it, what was that choice like for you an

in pay jibeijing, correspondent mackey frayer. matt, around the world, we're seeing spots of unrest growing amid the lockdowns. what trends are you noticing? >> reporter: yeah. mika, we can say there are echoes of the same protests we're seeing in the states, but throughout the world, they're actually more violent. we saw protests in paris, the outskirts of paris just yesterday. these aren't necessarily tied directly to the coronavirus and its effects, but it is part of that. there's poverty increasing. we see from the united nations as many as 500,000 people throughout the world could slide into poverty as a result of the lockdowns. we're seeing riots in lebanon, in iraq's baghdad's sodder city. we saw them in kenya, as many people have died of covid-19 as have been killed by police who are enforcing the lockdown related to covid-19. when we do around and talk about how the economic effect and how the governors are going to be -- in the united states are bucking this -- the president's orders and trying to lift the lockdown when

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rocco mackey.ou're gay. that nana, that nana! give them a wave, nana. these are the sprinklings of gold dust to be found in dark days and there are the unlikely friendships that have popped up in the most unlikely places. hello, nadine. hi. i believe you have an airbnb guest that is now permanently one of the family. yes, here she is. this is nicki. this singer songwriter from new york would ordinarily be touring the world living out of suitcases, but with all gigs canceled, all flights canceled. nicki is stuck in a spare room in essex and the gigs are now virtual. can you give me an idea of how life in nadine's spare room compares to life globe—trotting as a singer? i actuallyjust feel like i'm one of the family right now. it'sjust like i'm one of the kids. how is it having an international singer in the spare room, nadine? it's actually quite cool. sometimes she's doing her concerts at, like, midnight. and the next door neighbours are like, "is nicki going to be singing again tonight?" take care,

after 49 long days spent apart, covering the coronavirus outbreak in japan, nbc news' janice mackey frayeras reunited with her only son. families across america are facing unprecedented challenges. for those new mothers expecting, the anxiety is higher than ever with very little data on the effects of covid, the cdc guidelines have been less than helpful. they just don't know very much. yesterday i wanted to hear from you, to hear your stories aren't how this pandemic turns of what i recently went through, a time of very much excitement into a time of raul encertainty. this is a little from a few of you that i heard from. >> as a pregnant woman in my second trimester. i am worried about the coronavirus pandemic. >> this has been the scariest thing that i've ever encountered. >> i look at all of the symptoms you can possibly get with it. for example, prolonged fevers, and having a prolonged fever is really dangerous to the baby. >> i have continually had to let go of expectations of what i thought my pregnancy was going to look like and feel like. >> the hospitals in new york city where i a

janis mackey frayer in beijing, in wuhan, the place where this all began has ended its lockdown. what gave the chinese government the confidence to end that? >> reporter: well, increasingly the statistics have been suggesting that the situation is under control here, that doesn't mean that the epidemic is completely over. but it has reached a point where the authorities believe they're able to ease some of the restrictions that have been in place in wuhan's case for 76 days. the city has been sealed off. people haven't been allowed to travel in and out. and for most of this 11-week period, they haven't been able to leave their homes without special permissions, special passes, and a time limit to go and get groceries. think about it, 76 days is how long the lockdown lasted in wuhan. new york city is on day 20 of its stay-at-home order and it's been 26 days since the u.s. declared a national state of emergency. so that gives a sense of where china is along this timeline. there are a lot of questions about the numbers, you know, the scope of the epidemic still isn't clear. what we

janis mackey frayer. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. wuhan came a day after the city reported no coronavirus-related deaths for the first time since january now, there are questions about the numbers and whether china underreported cases, but the situation has stabilized enough for officials to impose those restrictions, to begin to walk them back after 76 days of lockdown this morning in wuhan, a sense of freedom at midnight a light show to mark the end of the darkest days of the first epicenter of the pandemic sealed off from the world, highways have now reopened, trains are rolling again, families reuniting 76 days of lockdown now over compare that to new york city, now on day 20 of a stay-at-home order. the life of this city is far from normal. social distancing is in force. to travel requires a green health code through a phone app that confirms a person is virus-free now there's at least a choice. >> i think i never lose hope i always think there will be a day that all of this will end. >> the revival of wuhan will be watched, as