so it meaorld to me. >> and your name -- you're melba? >> yes, my name is melba.eah, i just happen to be the owner. thank you so much. and stay safe. may god continue to bless you. thank you. >> yes, bye-bye. >> okay, bye-bye. >> my grandmother always told us this, too, shall pass. and it's times of trials andtri faith and i lean on my spirit. i don't know how, i don't know >>> as the coronavirus devastates the u.s. economy, there is one bright spot, if you can call it that. alcohol sales are through the roof, and it's not only liquor stores doing business. a lot of restaurants are now selling drinks to go. joy bennedict has the story. rtsft cocktails. but the bar is currently empty. however, the liquor still pours. >> this is a -- the base of the red hot and bother. >> reporter: with liters of vodka, james is mixing martin is in a bucket and bottling them to go. >> the way we're creating the cocktails, it's bottled and sealed. it's designed to be shaken and poured over ice. >> reporter: california is one state that allows be of th coronav shutdown theyse five for

. >> melba wilson: when i look around at my dining room of 109 people.ally see a lot of life. right now, i see despair. the restaurant is normally jammed packed. and this is what we have right now. it's an empty space. >> pelley: three weeks ago, you were lucky to get one of these tables at melba's in harlem. >> wilson: i started melba's 16 years ago with money that i saved up under my mattress. >> pelley: literally, under the mattress? >> wilson: literally, under the mattress. so, i grew up watching my mother doing that. and i emulated it. >> pelley: saving, sacrifice, and carolina cooking made melba wilson a hit. now, she's laid off 24 employees. melba's is restricted to take out and delivery, like new york city's other 27,000 restarants; overall one of the city's largest employers. >> wilson: well, if you're looking at the bigger picture across new york, you're looking at restaurants, you're looking at nightlife and you're looking at almost a half a million people that don't have jobs, that cannot feed their families, that cannot pay their bills. that

with me is melba, author of "melba's american comfort," and dan price, founder and ceo of gravity paymentsnd, i'm going to start with you. have you gone through the loan process and how has it worked out? >> joy, i have gone through the loan process. i was very, very fortunate to be partnered with a company called true fund. there's a community development financial institution. steve barrios, who i have worked with before, he and i spoke, we did the application and we just got approved last week. we have not been funded yet, however we did get approved. so, we're super duper excited about that. we need to look at small community banks as opposed to looking at big banks. cdfis have come through for me before. >> and that's a really good point. i just wrote that down, community development organizations and smaller banks seem to be i'm hearing people are having more success. andrew, what has the hospitality alliance, and there are variance businesses that are a part of it, i assume there's been a range of success when people are trying to get loans, how difficult has it been for folks? >> w

melba's is restricted to take-out and delivery like new york city's other 27,000 restaurants.e of th city largest employers. >> well, if you're looking at the bigger picture across new york, you're looking at restaurants. you're looking at night life. and you're looking at almost a half a million people that don't have jobs, that cannot feed their families, that cannot pay their bills, that don't know where their next meals are coming from. that's despair. that's devastation. >> reporter: how much devastation is estimated by economists as an eventual unemployment rate between 10% and 30%. we found the numbers would be higher if state unemployment offices were not overwhelmed. >> all specialists are busy with other customers. you must call back this week. >> i've done that 50 times every day for two weeks. >> reporter: two w a

melba has begun to call back some of her kitchen staff. alysha navarro, who didn't work in the kitchen, remains on unemployment, caring full-time for her daughter. alysha tells us she received $500 from "60 minutes" viewers. she spent 300 making sandwiches which she gave out to public housing residents and the homeless in her neighborhood. the rest covered groceries for her daughter and herself. i'm bill whitaker. we'll be back next week with another edition of "60 minutes." ( ticking ) captioning funded by cbs and ford. we go further, so you can. captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

on through friday and into was the weekend the western weather will be down towards the southeast melba most struggle to get to around 12 celsius north of that it should turn somewhat dry and bryce at least in parts of queensland say in the sunshine i would force that anyway found a dry perth at around $25.00 degrees celsius we've got some clear weather at the moment into news in a bit west a weather will polish way through as we go on through the weekend meanwhile that sweater weather pulling away from japan at present we will stay one to 2 showers they'll slide across the sea japan as we go on through thursday into friday northern parts seeing some of that wetter weather and turning increasingly well for northern parts of honshu the friday. frank assessment why is italy struggling to cope with the number of coronavirus failure to take really aggressive action with them behind the curtain and in-depth analysis of the day the global headlines inside story on al-jazeera. if you want to help save the world. sneeze into your own. 0. hello i'm barbara sarah this is the al-jazeera news hour

. >> so he went to see carol's parents, her mom, melba, her dad, milt. >> and he looked up at me.d he was starting to cry. i'm like, milt, are you okay some and he said, he goes, i just -- so happy, i can't believe you guys are still interested in this case. >> how much did that have to do with you driving ahead on this case, that conversation? >> a lot. i'm the father of three daughters, as well. and i thought what if this was my middle daughter. >> milt died one month later, never knowing what happened to his beautiful middle daughter. what terri went to her father's funeral and saw mike there, a private thought ate at her -- mike must know something. >> i didn't say anything. i tried to keep away. he was, of course, paying his respects to my family. but i couldn't carry on a conversation with him. >> meanwhile, walt delseen had become a little obsessed. he had many other pressing cases, but something kept pulling him back to carol luban. >> i would shuffle some work away. i got in a little trouble for that sometimes. >> for years, the detective chipped away until final nuclear

of course my good friend of melba we're talking about here, but what got you to want to do this?i never seen anything that is so impactful to the world on th this level. and seeing all of my friends hanging out and wanting to shoot videos and stilt being beingsti wanted to make sure that they had the right info moving forward. because even myself, i wasn't really taking it serious until like i seen one of my friends actually get the virus. dj web star. and he was shooting a video and not coming out of car and i'm like what happened. and then like thank god he didn't because he had the virus. he didn't want to spread it along. so i just want to -- yeah, i want people to take more precaution towards this virus. like i said, like a lot of the black community, they wasn't really hip to what was going on and misinformed on a lot of the information. so i just wanted to spread it through my fan base and like all my followers and just let them know like what i know. >> i appreciate you using your platform for that. and the data is actually scare cannery. younger people also have the idea

you just saw my friend, melba wilson on "60 minutes" last week discussing the financial and emotionale laid off, are currently facing. currently today, easter sunday, marks the day donald trump hoped, with no authority to enforce it, i might add, he hoped the country would be up and running. no one, least of all trump, can accurately predict when the country can get back to usual. but for the 16 million, 16 million americans now out of work, rhetoric like this is decidedly not helpful. >> i want to get it open as soon as we can. we have to get our country open, jeff. >> do you have what metrics you'll use? >> right here. that's all i can do. >> joining me now is congressman denny heck of washington state. thank you for being here this morning. >> you're welcome. >> i'm going to play for you larry kudlow, formerly cnbc anchor, now director of donald trump's economic council, talking about going back to work again and how cool that would be. here he is. >> for a whole bunch of years you can see in the labor numbers people didn't want to work. i think, if i may, it's cool to work, your n