. >> reporter: passing over laguardia, steinmetz snapped the tarmac. >> looking at the gates, they'reto mid town manhattan, they circled over rockefeller plaza. >> want to go over top of that? >> yeah, try and recreate that shot. >> cut right and then left? >> reporter: in 2014 george had captured this image of a crowded observatory and ice skaters. 800 feet below. >> when it's full of people, it's alive. the building looks like ants on top. there were no ants today. you look down below at rockefeller center, the ice rink, it's a total dead zone. looks like a construction site. i was trying to photograph the life of the city. it was interesting how humans were involved in the city, their spacial relationships, where they were, where they weren't. but today there's nobody there. >> reporter: six years ago, movie goers blanketed bryant park. this week it was as vacant as the stretch of 6th avenue beside it. the bus ing rooftop restaurant on fifth avenue now a place to stack chairs and benches until something changes. and the famous snarled traffic of the lincoln tunnel, he captured the

each is different. >> reporter: what does hover is a drone, and steinmetz uses them, too., the cemetery where new yorkers without family or money are laid to rest in unmarked graves. as new york morgues filled in recent weeks, the pace of burials there increased, along with tough questions. >> it's a somber place. there are over a million people buried there. it's a mass grave. it's very depressing. >> reporter: nypd officers soon found steinmetz in a bronx parking lot and asked for his memory card which he refused. >> don't -- >> sir, naugput that away -- >> reporter: you were flying a drone which you're not allowed in new york city. there seemed to be a big response to that. >> yeah. it was curious because the police who came over and conf s confiscated my drone, they weren't local cops. those guys were sent out by the city and not because it was endangeringin but because they didn't want people to see what was happening there. >> reporter: tuesday ended with steinmetz lingering above manhattan. >> let's do one little area. >> reporter: floating freely over a frozen city

. >> thank you, ma'am, for the opportunity to join us today >> john steinmetz with vista bank in texas>> coming up, protests are erupting in states across the country as people want the government to reopen north carolina is one of them. and we'll be speaking with one of their congressmen who says he's got a plan to make these reopenings happen. plus, a number of big-name retailers are caught in the middle of a hot debate should they be rescued if they were close to collapse before coronavirus? we'll get into that. and as we head to break, you can always watch or listen to us live on the go on the cnbc app wee ckn 'rba itw 'rba itw our retirement plan with voya gives us confidence. yeah, they help us with achievable steps along the way... ...so we can spend a bit now, knowing we're prepared for the future. surprise! we renovated the guest room, so you can live with us. oooh, well... i'm good at my condo. oh. i love her condo. nana throws the best parties. well planned, well invested, well protected. voya. be confident to and through retirement. when yowhat do you see?itical issues faci