austin's mayor steve adler joining us now. mr. mayor, good to see you. this spike comes as testing for covid ramps up in texas. do you think that's enough to explain the huge increases that you're seeing. >> no one knows the answer to that question. we're going to have to try this but then be incredibly vigilant in watching the data and the numbers. we need to look at hospitalizations and the impact these policies have on new admittances. no one knows the answer to that question. what we know based on the last six to eight weeks, if we're on the wrong path, we're going to be able to react in time to fix it. if that happens, i hope the governor is on board for that. at this point, we don't know. we'll watch the numbers and get the numbers out. very transparentally and immediately to the community so everyone can make their individual decision about what is best for them. >> a few weeks ago you had trepidation about opening too soon. some businesses opened and there are a lot of patrons who are happy about that. how has it gone in your city? how has it all

mayor steve adler, thank you for joining us. let me bring in st.missouri, mayor lyda krewson. you're city reported its largest single day increase yesterday. yet your state is starting some reopenings today. how do you plan to navigate this? >> well, in the st. louis area, the stay-at-home order is still in place and we are trying to rely on the data, not on a date. it's very important the people of your community have done a tremendous amount of hard work by staying home for the last six weeks today. and there's only one thing we can do to fight this coronavirus, and that is to change our behavior. we know there's no medicine, there's no vaccine yet, testing is still a major issue in our region of the country and i think across the country and so we are watching the data very carefully. we know that this has been devastating for business, but, you know, in our country, 67,000 people have died from covid-19 in the last couple of months. that's the more than all of the people who died during the vietnam war. and so we just have to put this in a bit

austin, texas mayor steve adler. cincinatti, ohio, mayor john cranley.ou. >> god to be here. >> good to be here. >> first, let's be clear. i wish you both uneventful reopenings. i hope that everything goes way better than any basis for suspicion of the same. i have and nobody should have any interest in seeing bad out comes to make a point. okay? believe me about that. we should be coming from a good place. let's talk about the decisions. cincinatti first. yes, i have talked to the governor. you are being more method cal than texas. all due respect. you can defend yourself in a second. you are still nowhere near declining numbers of cases as the cdc gave guideline. how do you balance caving to the pressure of wanting to reopen with flying blind because you can't test and trace in any big percentage way where you are going to reopen? >> well, thanks for having me. ohio has taken a different approach. we worked in a bipartisan manner. we have generally followed the advice of the doctors and experts and the governor and the mayors of the seven biggest citie

austin, texas, mayor steve adler. cincinnati, ohio, mayor john cranley.ors, thank you. >> good to be here. >> first, let's be very clear. i wish you, both, uneventful reopenings. i hope that everything goes way better than any basis for suspicion of disdain and nobody should have any interest in seeing bad outcomes to make a point. believe me about that. we should all be coming from a good place. now, let's talk about the decisions. cincinnati, first. yes, i've talked to the governors many times. you guys are being more methodical than texas. all due respect, you can defend yourself in a second. but, you are still nowhere near declining numbers of cases, as the cdc gave guideline. how do you balance caving to the pressure of wanting to reopen, with flying blind because you can't even test and trace, in any big percentage way, where you are going to reopen? mayor? >> well, thanks for having me. ohio has taken a different approach. we've worked, in a bipartisan manner. we've generally followed the advice of doctors and experts. and the governor and the mayo

joining me right now is the mayor of austin, texas, steve adler. thank you for coming in. what has you so concerned? >> well it's good to be with you this morning. you know, what's concerning here is that this is an experiment. no one knows what's going to happen. as we begin to reopen the economy here, no one knows exactly the full extent of the virus transfer, the infection we're going to see. so we have to be prepared. we're going to do our best to avoid our hospitals from getting overrun. we don't have any choice now, but i'm going to try my best to make this successful for the governor as i can, which means we're going to really push on behaviors more than he is and what he's talking about, but also a testing and tracing but we also have to prepare for a failsafe. we have to identify what the trigger is that we see, if we see it, of rising hospitalizations that then cause us to do something to get back to where we are now. >> do you know what that trigger is? it's interesting. i've asked that of more than one governor of what that line is that they'll see and know tha

another three weeks, that would be until the end of may we are joined now by that city's mayor, steve adlermayor adler, thank you for joining us your state is opening up, but your city is not yet why not? >> well, we're opening up to the extent that the governor has put it in his order. so we're compliant with the state. but the messaging that we're trying to send to our community is to take this cautiously, and slowly, because no one knows what the impact of this is going to be, and it's going to take us three weeks, maybe four weeks to get the data on hospitalizations that we need to see, to see whether or not our toe dip here is putting us on a path to another surge. so it's more of a messaging element than anything else we have a lot of community members that know that while these things are opening, it doesn't mean we have to go and it doesn't mean that we have to open the governor has allowed those things to happen, but we are urging our community to take this cautiously, and slowly, so that we can measure the impact before we end up with another surge. >> well, what are you seeing on