our new correspondent from the nbc news verification unit is live for us in london with what he foundifrt if up, welcome to nbc. some of the video you're going to show us, viewers might find it disturbing. what kind of extreme measures are countries using? >> good morning, kendis and incidence willsy. thank y incidence willsy. it's gra et to be with you. the governor warned the pandemic should not be an excuse. unfortunately our team at the nbc news verification center have found ervel is examples of authorities doing just that. we started our investigation in the philippines where we came across this disturbing image. it shows several grown men locked in a cage. we found a teen image aer locked in a glass face coffin. what is striking here is the police are making no effort at all to hide what they're doing. in fact, they posted these images on social media themselves. we contacted the individual who posted the picture of the cage we asked him, why did you do this? he responded with a thumbs up emoji. we went to paraguay. we found footage of this young man out after dark, out after c

new signs of a surge in deforestation taking place in the amazon. let's go to cal perry with the latest reporting from the nbc verification team.s going to set off a lot of alarm bells that this is taking place in the middle of a pandemic. >> reporter: absolutely. brazil is quickly emerging as the worst-hit country in south america. they're becoming one of the most infectious countries in the world. the president in the best of times is denying it, saying to the media, quote, so what, what a do you want me to do? that's a direct quote. and despite the country faltering, we're seeing that deforestation continuing in the am amazon. not just continuing but increasing. we can show you the figures. they show the level of forest cleaning at its highest level on record. deforestation soaring 55% over the first four months of this year compare today the same time period last year. the nbc verification center has analyzed the satellite images. i'm going to show you on the top image here, the top image from january 21st, the bottom image from april 25th. the images are close to the state capital in northwestern brazil. look at those red

verifications. using excerpts from "catch and kill." publicly stated that lauer sexually assaulted her at the 2014 sochi olympicses. >> nbc felt they checked out. >> reporter: we'll talk live to jen ashton about a newavirus study. >>> some casinos in southern california are getting ready to reopen friday with some changes. casino morongo is one of many casinos closed for two months. when it reopens, required to temperature check. monitoring parking lots ensuring 50% capacity or less and some slot machines will have partitions. >> some of the devices disabled and seats removed, for example, seats removed from our restaurants. >> its fitness center, spa and pool will remain closed for now. speaking of gambling, more than 30 las vegas resorts are accepting reservations for this upcoming memorial day weekend with some really cheap deals. however, it's not clear what visitors would do on the strip with all the casinoslosed.the os caesar's palace has rooms for 90 bucks a night. new york, new york 35 bucks a night and shows like "o" will not return until july 1st at the earliest. >> can you eat? can you get in the pool? can you have pool parties? what is the point? >> i know. that's what is kind of unclea