. >> reporter: either way lieutenant colonel patrick collins says it's a problem. >> day to day our biggest problem is keeping them in that 6 feet because you tend to tell them, okay, separate, get your 6 feet, you know. couple minutes later kind of natural human behavior, they start clustering again and you have to tell them again. >> move back, move back. >> reporter: nothing at fort jackson is normal any more. the army says it has the best-dressed soldiers in the world. tailors who alter uniforms for a better fit are now turning out face masks. >> these are brand-new, brand-new. >> reporter: and the single-most important equipment he saw on his tour was a pair of high-speed covid-19 test machines. >> that gives us the ability to test 750-plus in one day with a one-day turn around. >> and then they go and we test that bubble also. we continue to expand the bubbles of testing to make sure we cut it off rather than watch it spread. >> reporter: the chief of staff's job is to get the army ready to fight. these days the general says he spends three quarters of his time trying to fight coronav

pat tore patrick collins says the memorial is a somber reminder that we are in this together. as we all know, so important to remember all the lives lost. like the couple whose daughter you spoke to, also important to focus on the hope. you and your son wyatt have given people across the country and world a lot of hope. i'm thrilled for both of you. add my voice to the congratulations. he's a very lucky boy. >> erica, i appreciate that from you. you've got a beautiful family you've createed so i'll be coming to you for advice, no doubt. thank you. joining us, dr. sanjay gupta, dr. osterholm, paper that predicted the virus to spread for 18 months to two years. michael, your report predicting more people need to get infected and become immune before the pandemic can end. how does that square with social distancing measures, the idea to keep people from getting infected or delay them getting infected so health care workers -- the health care system can catch up. >> thank you anderson, and i too offer congratulations to you and wyatt, as grandfather who hasn't seen my grandkids si

every morning, patrick collins, a pastor of the first church of greenwich, places flags you see them on the front lawn of his church. each represents someone in his state as of this morning up to 2400 people in connecticut have died of the virus. he hopes this helps people that can't gather at a funeral. when somebody dice, you cannot have that sense of closure with others that love him, it's a hard thing to let go of. >> i don't know if there is fully closure. that moment of tribute with your family and friends to not have it is certainly a deficit. >>> so, listen, we've got these weeks of speculation over the health of north korea's leader kim jong-un. now we are seeing him. this new video from north korean state media. hear what president trump had to say about his re-appearance, and listen. this is not a plot out of a movie. >> it sounds like it. >> i know, look at it. giant killer hornets have asia. that's what you have been looking at there. they have been speedometered in the u.s. now. they're not a danger to bees, which are already having a hard time with the bee population i

pastor patrick collins calling the memorial a somber reminder that we are in this together. and wolf, here in new york state, governor andrew cuomo announcing today there would be waivers for mental health services for front line workers, which is of course a major concern as we move forward, also partnering with the crisis line to offer services for mental health. the governor also announced all k-12 schools and college facilities are closed through the end of this academic year and the district should start to think about what things could look like in the fall and come up with new planning. >> erica hill in new york for us, thanks for that report. we'll stay in new york, the mayor, bill de blasio, is joining us now. thank you for joining us, i know you guys are incredibly busy now. does the emergency approval of remdesivir give you hope that treatments could help you manage the virus and loosen some of your restrictions? >> wolf, look, we all have to hope and pray that's true. the way we'll find out is through real evidence, an emergency use authorization means something

pastor patrick collins calling the memorial a somber remind er that we are in this together. here in new york city, governor cuomo announcing that they're partnering with the kate spade text line to offer emotional support services for the governor called front line hello care heroes. alhe also said he's instructing insurers to waive fees for mental health services for front line workers. >> thank you very much. and i want to go now to two of the nation's leading pandemic experts. authors of this new report which predicts the pandemic could last up two more years. john berry and mark -- so thanks very much to both of you. welcome back. mark, john, you know you write that this virus will likely keep spreading for 18 months to two years and the forecast you both put in was until 60 to 70% of the population worldwide has it, which i know mark has said is sort of how he defines herd immunity warn this could include another wave in the fall and winter. so could that wave be bigger than what we are seeing right now? >> it could be. what we've seen so r far has been controlled and l

listening to my colleagues, i could not help but remember last monday, when i pastornied senior patrick collins in a ritual he has done every morning. on thees white flags lawn in front of the first congressional church in greenwich, connecticut, and i accompanied him last monday as we, together, placed 69 flags for each covid-19 death in the state of connecticut. afterwards,the day pastor collins placed 41 more right now,erday 23, as we hold this hearing, exactly to the moment, pastor collins is almost certainly placing another 57 new white flags, adding to markers of the first congregational church in greenwich. every one of those flags represent a life in the thousands of lives lost around the country, 70% of them are seniors. seven in 10. many are in nursing homes. havee obligation that we two these vulnerable individuals , pronto very dramatically and graphically by that picture worth 1000 words come literally. that is why i have supported the hazardous duty pay, the heroes fund for our nursing home workers, who too often are risking their lives and making financial sacrifices, and it is m