every single new yorker worked so hard to get us here. we have been the epicenter of this crisis. this is the place where it was going to be the hardest to make a comeback, yet new york city is so strong and resilient. we will always remember the heroes of this crisis. the first responders, health care heroes, everybody chipped in and the everyday people who made this possible. the most important thing to remember today is, do not forget the lessons that we learned. we got this far by hard work and is the plan. stick to it so that we can get to the next phase and next phase and the next phase. we have to keep doing the social distancing, washing hands, hand and at times a, face coverings -- sanitizer, face coverings. the brooklyn navy yard such a powerful place in the history of this city. it is a place of working people. it is a place where people fought for their country. things have been created against the odds. here in the brooklyn navy yard, new yorkers came together to things and to build produce things that were not made in new york city a few months ago, but they made them

and help move new yorkers around easier. first of all, i announce today, 20 new miles of bus ways and bus lanes. 20 new miles. they will help over 750,000 new yorkers get around more easily. they will have a faster way to work, more frequent service, less crowding. more service equals less crowding, equals more health and safety. that is what we want to achieve. there will be five new bus ways. just like the success of that we have seen on 14th street manhattan, we will add five new bus ways. they will be launching on an urgent basis. i want to see this happen as quickly as possible because we need the help now. given the crisis we are in, we have to make it easier for people to get around. they will launch between june and october. it will be a one year trial basis for each of these five new lines. if it goes well, as we expect, they will become permanent. again, the launch between june and october. the first one, main street in queens. on top of that, four new bus lanes. new signage to help them achieve the goals that we ha

i am a born and bred new yorkers. -- new yorker. new yorkers heard the message and they did what they had to do. they did it with discipline. if you told me 100 days ago that we would be reopening, when we did not even know how bad it was going to get. we had dire perfections. early productions said it would overwhelm our hospital system by doubling the capacity in the hospital system. beds and,000 hospital they were projecting that we would need over 100,000 hospital beds. it was frightening. new yorkers did it. it is that simple. we lit up the city then marks toh the colors of the state, say thank you. we are not out of the woods, but we are on the others, certainly. that is why we are studying the reopening in new york city and other regions of the state. fornt to thank the people what they did. new yorkers rise to the occasion always. in many ways, new yorkers unity.nt courage and when things are tough, new yorkers are tougher. that is what they did here. i am so proud to be governor of new york. i want to say thank you to the p

okay, take a different topic, one i always say brings up passion in new yorkers. alternate side parking. we have this incredibly important moment. we want things as easy as possible, we're suspending alternate sides parking. it's today through june 21st, and then decide whether to bring it back or not. so there's a lot to do. there's a lot to do, but we're moving forward in the city. everybody should be profit of the-- and it's an appropriate time to talk about the indicators of threshold. the news is very good. such an important day for the say and we also have the health data to continue to give us hope that it's in the right directi direction. >> people, 200 patients admitted. we're well underway at 67 patients. damy number of people in health and hospitals icu. 375, and today the number is 326. and number three, percentage of people tested city-wide who are tested positive. that threshold is 15%, this is the biggest measure in terms of showing us thr i think so thin things-- showing us how things are really at in the city. the lowest number we've seen, 3%, so

and god bless new yorkers.llied, and we now have the lowest transmission rate of any state in the united states. >> reporter: many across the country tuned in to his daily press conferences. >> it's exactly what we said. know the facts. >> reporter: at times he played the role of tough dad like when new yorkers weren't adhering to the stay-at-home order. >> it's self-destructive, disrespectful to other people and it has to stop, tand it has to stop now. >> reporter: but he's been quick to remind new yorkers of their resilience. >> we will get through it because we are new york. >> reporter: a career high 84%. you came in second only to president obama as the most-trusted democratic leader in america. how do you intend on spending that political capital that you've earned? >> well, hopefully, it gets us through this pandemic. we're asking them to do very difficult things. they see other states reopening and people want to get on with life, and i'm saying, you know, not yet, not this, not that. so hopefully, the

in many ways new yorkers, i think, represent courage and unity and when things are tough new yorkers are tougher and that's what they did here, and i'm so proud to be governor of new york, and i'm so proud to be a new yorker, and i want to say thank you to the people of the state. i also want to thank all the essential workers, the police officers, the firefighters, the health care workers, the nurses, the doctors, everyone who stepped up. you know, if those essential workers hadn't showed up, you would have had total anarchy in society. if the those essential workers said, well, if it's so dangerous i'm going to stay home, too, i'm not going to open the grocery store. i'm not going to open pharmacy. i'm not going to drive the truck to bring the groceries to the grocery store. i'm not going to drive the train. i'm going to stay home like everyone else. the if they had done that and there was no food, no transportation, you would have seen bedlam. so god bless the essential workers. i would also like to thank my team 100 days. they haven't had a day of a. we've done these briefings eve

salt, which pass penalized new yorkers and increased the taxes of new yorkers who were already contribute more to the federal government than anyone else? i don't know. at ok, guys, thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] later today, the white house presser kerry gives a briefing at 2 p.m. >> we were fortunate early on to rulest our old telephone and they are strategically located across the city of new york. that in and of itself provides a puts of communicating that out a predicate of what can be and with sensor technology, there's so much that can be done from that platform alone. >> democratic congressman -- yvette clarke tonight at 8 p.m. eastern on "the communicators." >> this week, the house and senate will hold hearings on law enforcement accountability. tuesday, secretary of labor eugene scalia will testify on the cares act and the role of unemployment insurance during the coronavirus pandemic. and then at 10 a.m., a

. >> reporter: new yorkers give their governor an approval rating of nearly 80%. >> thank you to you. >> reporter: covid arrived with a single confirmed case on march 1st. >> her condition is mild. >> reporter: three weeks later infections now in the thousands. >> new york state on pause. >> reporter: cuomo shut down the state. some say not soon enough. >> the curve is actually increasing. >> reporter: he marshalled new yorkers to battle the curve. >> the virus rate is wholly dependent on what you do. >> reporter: how high and how steep was in their hands. >> we slowed the infection rate by our actions. >> you have a political jiujitsu, you and a handful of other governors asked people to do hard things and got more popular. >> go figure. >> when is it over? nobody knows. >> this was a frightening period. people were afraid for their life. literally. how do i keep my elderly parents safe? >> you personally? >> i felt that also. and i wanted to connect with the people i was talking to. >> reporter: and talk he did. >> today is day 56. >> reporter: from march 2nd until just last friday.

10000 germans are resting and frolicking on their favorite vacation i meant the spanish on and of new yorkers has been getting ready for this summer against spain weeks in porto for instance. c.m. i know because i'm taking my yorka away from the germans they've got a problem. if you take the germans away from us we've got a problem. but that doesn't mean all the islanders are ready to welcome the holiday makers some feel like they're being used as guinea pigs. to move. to. the roof. on a metal slot makes one last check to see that everything's in place from the 2 metre distance to be observed on the terrace to the disinfectant for the bartender she's memorized every new hygiene rule they'll be taking effect in now because her tells the next day. oh yes we're now we've got a little dispensers everywhere that people can take along. the way if that's really the most in their thinking and that's not to take your hands clean at all times that in fact if the virus is around us here as well get it into your system a system that lets. the danish quality manager has spent every day of the past few wee

history from harvard university, among jill's accomplishments she is also a staff writer at the new yorker and the host of a brand-new podcast. she has won prizes for her work as a professor of history and also numerous awards for her books including the international bestseller a big truth the next book how the corporation invented the future published september 2020. talking about the volatile times and how the coronavirus pandemic will go down in history the center from library of congress jill and john it's a great pleasure to welcome you to national book festival presents. >> hello jill. good to have you with us despite the circumstances. >> it would be better to be there but it's nice to be here. said again a fascinating piece in the new yorker of the contagion of fables that the earlier works poses the masque of the red death and the scarlet plague might be relevant to us. >> where the pleasure it is to be at the national book festival in the library of congress. this just isn't a piece from the new yorker and then to have the chance to write it so is this unprecedented? in most cas

i interviewed her for the new yorker in the before time which feels like the before time. it is good to be able to talk now. for you and me we are both a little bit -- our brains naturally go to the fact the story of consciousness, the story of labor, this is a single story of our country. but to me i wanted to ask you do you feel like how much do you feel class consciousness has changed, has been at the forefront during the last couple months. >> not enough. i think it is unavoidable. if you can't avoid the fact that the stimulus package is aimed toward the big corporations and the wealthy. how people are absorbing this and how to act on it, that is the story. in this week's new yorker, mutual aid association performing, springing up spontaneously around the country just to help the most basic things like groceries and getting people to the doctor. .. it's interesting because i think is true the stimulus package is laughable the fact that, as in the emergency sort of managing sickleave, i think corporations that employ more than 500 people are exempt from it? there so man

we wanted this to be clearly new yorkers from out this to be clearly new yorkers from our communitiesmprovement since we started in terms of new yorkers feeling comfortable to share their contacts and we are already at in a rate that i'm proud of which is 86% of people have given us contact. contact racing is being used in new york and around the world to track new outbreaks. butjuggling it individuals) with the public good is not easy. 4000 miles objectively, the government there is trying a new approach. search the application. the italian minister in charge of a new app which 4 million people have downloaded. italians with the applicant and alert. if they have been near an infected person who agreed to share their contacts. been near an infected person who agreed to share their contactsm is important to use this application because the quicker you understand that the person is positive, the better you can track this person and the faster you can identify the cluster of the coronavirus in our country. back in new york, americans are wary of sharing the data for the government, even

your own take on new yorkers away from the germans they've got a problem. if you take the germans away for a mug shot we've got a problem. but that doesn't mean all the islanders are ready to welcome the holiday makers some feel like they're being used as guinea pigs. to move their room to. the roof. and a metal slot makes one last check to see that everything's in place from the 2 metre distance to be observed on the terrace to the disinfectant for the bartender she's memorized every new hygiene rule they'll be taking effect in now his hometown the next day. was a good time of year now it's capital dispensers everywhere that people can take on . the let me see if that's really the most important thing that's not the same thing to keep your hands clean at all times so that. if the virus is around it's here that's going to get it into your system a system that lets. the danish quality manager has spent every day of the past few weeks with the hotel chains corona task force it's their job to make sure all the workers put the government's 21 new hygiene protoc

that's what everyday new yorkers working class new yorkers want to see. >> mr. mayor, as we say, you have a lot going on right now and wish you the best of the luck for reopening today. thank you for being with us. >> thank you, john. >>> so the final memorial for george floyd begins in just hours in houston, one of floyd's long-time friends, former nba star steven jackson, joins us next. and right now, is a time for action. so, for a second time we're giving members a credit on their auto insurance. because it's the right thing to do. we're also giving payment relief options to eligible members so they can take care of things like groceries before they worry about their insurance or credit card bills. right now is the time to take care of what matters most. like we've done together, so many times before. discover all the ways we're helping members at usaa.com/coronavirus discover all the ways we're helping members i geh. common bird.e. ooh look! over here! something much better. there it is. peacock, included with xfinity x1. remarkable. fascinating. -very. it

it showed the islanders just how dependent they really are on holiday makers some 3 quarters of new yorkers economic output comes from the tourism sector and that might help explain why the participants in the pilot project are given a royal welcome at the hotel important to alcudia and here to the reporters are ready and waiting even following them all the way to their rooms. quality manager on a matter smart is also in high demand for interviews now much that what is normal night that's news now. breaking news that out of. antonia and tomas trouble the couple from the airport have had a little time to recover from the media frenzy and that hotel is their 1st make asian together for quite some time they've been together for 4 years antonia originally came from ukraine she 1st met tomas in his capacity as a refugee council do you know i love the east but never in my life and i forgot this vacation to go to my mother just told me that i was up and said antonio we just know you are russian television to see if they really did i can hardly believe it this is true one can come loving they've be

by the time he gave that order, at least 134 new yorkers had already died. ogist, believes thousands of lives could have been saved in new york, had the city locked down earlier. we've modelled that, and if we were to back it up ten days or 1a days, 1a days back from when they locked down, ostensibly here when we started to see it, is when the first death occurred in the united states, we'd see a ten—fold reduction in the number of cases. it didn't have to happen, if people were proactive. closing new york earlier, before any deaths, would have been a huge call. but san francisco's leaders did exactly that. san francisco is a smaller city, not as crowded or poor. still, fewer than fifty people have died there. i mean, it has me screaming at the walls in my house. i'm publishing information that actually shows what the problem is, and... ..we were ignored. in february, there was ample evidence that this thing was spreading very aggressively and that if we had acted earlier and sooner, that we could have ramped up the war production ask, that we could have gott

and i just love that piece. >> thanks. >> buy the new yorker. or -- i don't know -- whatever you do to read these days. >> well, actually, working on the piece it was interesting. i think -- yeah, it's true the stimulus package is almost laughable, it's laughable. and the fact that isn't the emergency sort of mandatory sick leave, i think corporations that employ more than 500 people are exempt from it. there's just so many ways in which the actual legislative negotiation of who is getting help is an obvious nightmare. i don't know if my perspective is swayed from having been seeking to organize but seems to me that so many of these mutual aid networks are springing up because increasingly very mainstream understanding that, like, the state is not doing its job, legislators are not doing their jobs, like these mutual aid is the sort of recognizing factor in disadvantaged communities and now kind of -- it's amazing how main stream this is idea is we're basically living in a failed state, and i kind of find that very heartening, but you think that

among her countless establishments she's also a staff writer at the new yorker and host of a brand-new podcast "the last archives" she's also won numerous awards for her books including international bestseller eaves truths, the history of the united states. her next book is how the cybernetics preparation and better the future will be published in september 2020. speaking to her today about the volatile times and how the coronavirus pandemic will go down in history as my colleague john haskell director of the john w flutie center of the library of congress. it's a great pleasure to welcome you to national book festival presents. >> hello jill, it's good to have you with us despite the circumstances. >> thanks, it's nice to be here, or better to be there but it's nice to be with you. >> some pieces he written recently help us sort through this new and confusing time including the fascinating piece in the new yorker on what you call contagion tables. what are the earlier works in this genre à >> i would like to say what a pleasure it is to speak at the national book festival and on beha

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ofthe way, tens of thousands peas new yorkers came out. i think they rebalanced the equation. protesters who saw someone ready to do violence and turned to the police to stop them. that is the real new york city. always tell you when i think there is something we can do better. i am certain i could have done some things better this week. i want you to know that the points i made detecting life and protecting people from serious injury, protecting against a tax on property. when i was in the bronx, it was tragic to see small businesses by criminals in the community who took advantage of the moment and the anger the residents felt, the pain and sense of loss that they put their whole life into building businesses. when you see something like that, you do not think you can just turn away. you have to make people safe. while at the same time keeping military force and making sure the protests were as peaceful as possible. we will review everything that happened and different tactics. we will change but we're not consistently and only peaceful protests and civil disobedience. the co

. >> this is a triumphant moment for new yorkers who fought back against this disease.s was the epicenter and folks did the hard work, they sheltered in place. they did the social distancing, the face coverings and my message is stick to it. >> but now 100 days to the day after the first confirmed coronavirus case in new york it's still going to be a slow return. today nonessential workers in construction, manufacturing will be allowed back to work. retail stores will be allowed to open for curbside service for in-store pickup. joining me is a councilman. thank you so much for being here. is today a day to celebrate? >> this is an important step forward. it is an incremental step on our road back to reopening the economy. but i want to emphasize that while new yorkers might be ready to be done with this pandemic, the pandemic is not done with us yet. we are still averaging about 500 cases per day of newly diagnosed new yorkers with covid-19. the virus is still here, it is still circulating and we have to take precautions. we want new yorkers to understand that this step

benders, and new yorkers should be proud of that. lighted up in blue and gold in honor of our new york tough new yorkers. this is going to be in manhattan, which is very cool. bridge,o cuomo education building, that's the corning tower on the left. that will be the landmarks will be lit blue and gold to celebrate our accomplishment, because it was an extraordinary accomplishment. because we are new york tough, smart, united, disciplined, and loving. mostly loving, mark. don't you forget that. questions? [indiscernible] times -- time for lost or go into effect procedurally. [indiscernible] >> for example for interracial marriage to catch up to what the law has been. do, is nothat you going to be instantaneous. [indiscernible] it's an interesting question. the legislative change will be virtually immediate. personnel records would be released, the attorney general would operate as an independent prosecutor for police. the legislative changes would be immediate. right, there is still a culture shift, but look, more of what this is about

new yorkers are arrogant. don't get cocky or arrogant. t all the air owes are pointed in the right direction, and we are going to stay new york tough, smart, united, disciplined, loving. questions? [inaudible question] >> the attorney general is doing an investigation of these situations currently. currently. this is reality tv. as the protests are going on, they are on video, and the attorney general is investigating them as they occur. a flavor who acts wrongfully -- a police officer who a littles wrongfully will be called to task, period. body cameras, videos, cell phones. the investigation is ongoing now. the action will be in real time. the attorney general has to produce the report in about three weeks. there will be all of this that comes to light on a daily basis, and there will be responsibility within the coming days if the local police department doesn't take responsibility. buffalo mayor brown i think acted appropriately and quickly. that was a horrendous situation in buffalo. we saw pictures of that. other police departments a

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one in five in new yorkers and 40 million or unemployed. if the economy had shut down sooner, 80% of deaths could have been prevented. he came back with a bill that gave crumbs to the people. got $12,000 per virus case. nebraska got 379 thousand. we have not listened to the scientist and public health efforts. congressman nadler has played pandemic politics. pandemic politics this entire time. if you look at the first covid case in new york it came line -- online before the congressional primary began. what did the entire democratic party do? it tried to cancel a primary, this is unacceptable, this is politicians denying basic science and intuition about face masks working and telling new yorkers to ride the subway and ae bus, all is well, this is failure. rep. nadler: the fact of the do not knowat -- i where to start. we passed legislation to do everything that i was talking about. i did not interrupt you. the congressman -- the republicans have not pass it. -- past it. one congressman is one congressman. i am not a dictator, i cannot dict

more than 21,000 new yorkers have died since the outbreak began.e, south korean health officials have said they believe they're seeing a second wave of coronavirus infections. south korea has been a success story in keeping case numbers and deaths low, but officials now expect the pandemic to continue for months. the sporting goods maker patagonia is the latest us company to suspend its advertising. facebook has faced heavy criticism, including from its own staff, for chief executive mark zuckerberg's decision not to remove a controversial post by president trump. facebook said it was committed to "advancing equity and racial justice".

more than 21,000 new yorkers have died since the outbreak began. believe they're seeing a second wave of infections. south korea has been a success story in keeping case numbers and deaths low, but officials now expect the pandemic to go on for months. the sporting goods maker patagonia is the latest american company to suspend its advertising on facebook. mark zuckerberg has faced heavy criticism, some from his own staff, for his decision not to remove controversial posts by president trump. he insists facebook is committed to "advancing equity and racial justice".

cnn national correspondent has the latest. >> this is a triumphant moment for new yorkers who fought against this disease. this was the epicenter. >> reporter: today new york city marks a major milestone. phase one of reopening. construction can resume and more than 30,000 sites. there's curb side pick up for retail. >> it's fantastic. >> reporter: some 400,000 people expected to be back on the job. many kmucommuting by train or b. subway riders reminded to wear a mask and try to keep their distance. the city says it will conduct 35,000 tests a day. overall, new york state and much of the northeast trending down when it comes to new cases over the past week. >> new yorkers bent the curb by being smart. >> reporter: the death toll is slowing across the country. yet in a dozen states, deep red on the map, there's a sharp increase. overall new cases are up in 22 states, including florida which added more than 1,000 cases a day for five straight days last week. arizona, california, texas also a rise. the tsa screened more than 400,000 people on friday and saturday. the most in nearly thr

review board that independently oversees the new york police department, and jelani cobb of the new yorker back with us again. maya, i want to speak to you about this because you were the former chair of the new york city civilian complaint review board. "the new york times" had an article where it reads across the country, civilian review boards generally composed of members of the public have been notoriously weak. they gather accounts but can't enforce recommendations. the review board in minneapolis was replaced by an agency called the office of conduct review. only 12 have resulted in an officer being disciplined, the most severe censure has been a 40 hour suspension. talk to me about civilian review, because cops don't like it. >> you're right, ali. cops don't like it. police departments don't like it. civilian oversight is critical, and here's why. we can't think data and information on discipline into the dark and expect either the ability to understand the systemic issues in the police department or gain public trust about the fact that there's meaningful accountability. because t

sure that the other absolutely crucial piece of the equation, keeping the safety and security of new yorkers all over the city, that that is done properly as well. so that will come out in the course of the budget process. >> next, we have steve from westwood 1 news. >> good morning, mr. mayor. hope you can hear me well. i want to ask a couple of questions. first, i would like to call for a return to in-person press briefings, which i think we can do safely with social distancing in an appropriate space. i would like that to be considered. regarding police tactics for enforcing the curfew, tactics were to box in protesters and essentially without warning, protesters move in and then make arrests. i think we agree these were acts of nonviolence and double -- and in the past the nypd dealt with civil disobedience with numerous warnings. in the past few nights, they moved in on the crowds, chaotic situations and violent conflicts. i am wondering how and why the decision was made to use this police tactic, not seen in new york city with prior nonviolent acts of civil disobedience. my second ques

more than 21,000 new yorkers have died since the outbreak began.ons. south korea has been a success story when it comes to keeping case numbers and deaths low, but now says it expects the pandemic to continue for months. britain's prime minister, borisjohnson, is tomorrow expected to announce changes to the 2—metre social distancing rule in england. it's thought the move will be timed to coincide with a further reopening of businesses including pubs, bars a nd restau ra nts early next month.

>> you know, i'm seeing somewhat on social media, i'm a lifelong new yorker, i have friends in new yorkf all political stripes. affixing this movement among new yorkers to say we don't want to defund the police. we feel safer when the police are there, and it's growing. these crime numbers will not go ignored. when it's happening in white neighborhoods we have these liberal white people decide that they do like the police all. >> tucker: it seems like new york has to listing less than every 3030 years or so. >> that's probably true. that's part of the thing, lifelong new yorkers like me understand that we can't just rest when the numbers are good and, when it's only quality of life crimes happening. i think a lot of the new arrivals have a misplaced idea of what new york city is like and what it's been like. they don't know a time when it didn't feel safe to walk around and they don't understand that there was a time when new york was bad. >> tucker: they think history started yesterday. a lot of people are going to leave new york. it's sad. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: our cultu

and in may, it started to bend. >> governor: new yorkers grabbed that projection curve with two handsulled it down. >> pauley: by june, the state reported the lowest infection rate in the nation. >> governor: we've been on the decrease for the past 60 days. >> pauley: but at such great cost. is it a wonder that people are weary and eager to move on? despite covid cases rising in more than 20 states, the president... >> president trump: it's bad out there, right? >> pauley: ...is in campaign mode, holdly rallies and declining to wear a mask. >> president trump: i would wear one if i thought it was important. >> pauley: masks became an ideology. >> governor: the history books will determine that. i will answer from my actions and then history will decide. >> pauley: history turns on times like this. in rapid succession, three seismic events: the global pandemic, an economic aftershock, and then eight minutes and 46 seconds that galvanized the world. in this social movement against 400 years of racism in this country, there is a moment. how do you capture it and how do you make it last?

david: by the way, new yorkers themselves are not in favor of this. is is, there is a very undemocrattic thing happening. it is not just happening in new york city with the city council. it is happening in places like minneapolis which also has a city council that voted unanimously to defund, completely defund the police. you have it happening in places like san francisco, all over the country. chicago, where the city council is voting against the interests of the majority of the people. the majority of new yorks polled do not want, not only do they not want defunding of the police, they don't want to have any elimination of any funding for the police and here's why. show a video clip of a woman the other day, right here, she is 65-year-old woman who in broad daylight was assaulted by this guy. sneaked up behind her, put her in a chokehold. we've been hearing a lot about chokeholds. here is one by a criminal, put a chokehold on a 65-year-old woman grabbed her bag, walked casually away. most new yorkers don't want any reduction in police force funding.

>> they are takingare of other new yorkers. i believe tt is why we have d improvement. the share of contracts -- contacts. t85% people who have finished the interviews are giving us contacts. laura: contact tracing is being used in new york and around the world to track outbreaks. 4000 miles for mayor in italy, the government is trying a new approach. >> search application. laura: the italian minister in charge of a new app over 4 million people have downloaded. italians with the app get an alert if they have been in contact with a person with the virus who is elected to share their contacts. >> the quicker you understand the person is positive, the better you can track this person and the fasteyou can identify the coronavirus iour country. laura:ack in new york, americans are wary of sharing their data with the government, even an epidemic. for people who will not answer their phone to contact tracers, here is what is next. >> we will have community specialists who will go into our communities and not on the door of anyon get through to on the phone. laura: the police

it's a great day for new yorkers. go ahead and take a look.n't go inside because of capacity issues but we will pecan and show you what's happening. customers have to get there to print your checks before they go in. everyone is wearing a mask. stylists are wearing face cards. you can get your hair processed outside if you don't feel comfortable inside. the owner and the staff are excited to reopen after a very tough 13 weeks. >> we were on record to hit our best record we've ever had ever in 20 years. it all fell apart in three days. not only financial but an emotional loss. a lot of people have moved out of the city. it has been crazy. >> here is a look at what else opens up today. restaurants can have outdoor dining now. some in-store retail will be open with capacity restrictions. some stores are choosing to remain closed. so far no resurgence among covid cases. contact tracing is expanding in the city. 74% have share their contacts. the subway system as you know is a big part of this reopening process. already today ridership has surpasse

we're going to talk with new yorker reporter david rohde about his new reporting that bill barr thinks he's going nowhere and he's going to be with trump to the bitter end. but for now, william barr is still there, but it sort of passed without notice that he has just lost the heads of both major divisions in the justice department. he lost the head of the civil division and the head of the criminal division and the solicitor general basically all at once. and it's all happened very recently and very quickly. and maybe they all just decided to spend more time with their families all at the same time. totally possible. but it also seems like this terrible miniseries we've all been watching about the death of the republic, it seems like its recent episodes have taken some very dark and ugly turns that are now getting sort of not just more worrying but more poorly executed. i mean it has only been three weeks. if you just look at the snapshot of what's happened over the past three weeks, it does sort of feel like bill barr's wheels are falling off. just the past three weeks since attorney

one in five are new yorkers. ew york had shut down 10 days sooner, the former cdc director said that 80% of all deaths could have been avoided. congressman nadler has been on recess. backn eat -- when he came k, he passed a bailout with crumbs for regular people. not listened to the scientists and public health experts. hasact, congressman nadler played pandemic politics. this entire time. if you look at the first case in new york, the first covid case, it came online as ballot access for the primary began. in the entirer new york democratic primary -- party do? they tried to cancel the primary. -- these aremaries politicians denying basic tellingand intuition, workers until mid-march to ride the subway, all as well -- all is well. this is an utter failure. i don't know where to start. dopassed legislation to everything mr. herzog is talking about. mr. herzog: simply false. rep. nadler: the republicans have not passed it. one congressman is one congressman. i am not the dictator. i cannot dictate policy. i can lea

. >> reporter: one huge question will new yorkers fee comfortable enough to continue to mass transit?ide rship dropped officials now trying to convince the public the system has never been so clean. masks are mandatory and available for free. >> it is safe to ride the subways and busses. that's the case we're going to make to our customers. >> reporter: the toll from covid-19 is staggering nearly 22,000 dead last week for the first time a day when no one died from a confirmed case of covid-19. >> congratulations we are back. we are back. we are continuing our decline. the rest of the country is still spiking. >> reporter: 26 states in various stages of reopening have seen covid cases increase during the past week, in part because they're testing more and including probable cases. in texas, the number of patients in hospitals is now at a record high. and cases also still spiking in some minority neighborhoods in new york city reopening is still on hold in some of the city's most exclusive shopping areas, boarded up after a wave of vandalism and looting last week. adding to the anxiety,