tom freeden, about where we are in dealing with the virus. first, let's bring in david spunt with the latest on the reopenings around the country. david. >> reporter: chris, good morning. president trump is at camp david this weekend. on the agenda, vaccine development but any sustainable vaccine is months away and many americans are tired of waiting. the sun is out and so are thousands of restless americans, hoping for a sense of normalcy. >> we don't was to go home anymore. we want to be out in the sun all day. >> reporter: beaches and board walks slowly reopening. in new jersey and maryland, families flocked to the water, greeted by social distancing signs. the crowds are a welcome sight to small businesses owners in the red since february. >> we've been closed for probably the last two and-a-half months so extensively, we got hurt. >> reporter: in new york, governor andrew cuomo announced beaches will open next weekend for memorial day but crowds headed to the beach anyway ignoring social distancing guidelines. >> thank you very much. >>

tom freeden testified before the house appropriations committee yesterday and he said this is the beginning of the pandemic and we are in for a long fight ahead. he predicts the u.s. will exceed 100,000 deaths by the end of the month. >> until we have an effective vaccine and unless something very unexpected happens, our viral enemy will be with us for many months and possibly many years. >> he was brought in as a substitute after the white house prevented dr. anthony fauci from testifying. the white house did not give a good reason why fauci could testify. the republican-led senate next week. the white house also stopped the cdc from publishing a set of documents last friday. the documents contained step-by-step advice to local governments about when and how they should reopen. kumasi, back to you. >> thank you, jobina. >>> birthdays and graduations we know they just haven't been the same since our shelter-in-place rules. now santa clara county banned a popular alternatives to the celebrations. no more drive-by celebrations even if everybody stays in their vehicles. the parades were not al

harris, tom freeden said on capitol hill this may be just the beginning of the pandemic. do you agree with that assessment? >> di do, wolf. this virus is not going away. it's going to be with us for a while. we don't have a vaccine as of yet. we don't have effective treatment as of yet. for now we need to use the tools that we've in our toolbox to mitigate the spread of this disease. and that is, as we talk about all the time, social distancing, hand washing, and avoiding large gatherings. >> you know, elizabeth, what do you see right now, and as i say, you've been doing a lot of reporting on this, as potentially the most promising advancement toward some coronavirus treatment or prevention? is it antibodies, drug treatments like remdesivir, a vaccine down the road, or something else entirely? >> wolf, vaccine is for sure what everyone is waiting for, but that could take a while. dr. fauci said in january a year to 18 months, and some people think that's even being optimistic. monoclonal antibodies, that's what experts are being enthusiastic about. a patient who has recov

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tom freeden, same thing during ebola. we haven't heard as much from the cdc this time. >> why is that? dr. robert redfield, the director and head of the cdc, we don't see him visibly. i assume he's working very aggressively behind the scenes? >> i don't know. i think the concern is they are being sidelined. you do have members of the task force. he is a member of the task force but the cdc has been sidelined. february 26th, there had been daily briefings. dr. nancy made a comment that it's no longer a question of if this pandemic is coming to the united states, it's a question of when. and that was something that she got criticized for by the white house, unfairly because she was right. and i think after that we haven't heard as much from the cdc. there was a question about the flawed test in the beginning. regardless, we need to hear more from them. >> we'll be hearing more from you and a bunch of others later tonight, sanjay, thank you very much. stay with us later tonight for a new cnn global town hall coronavirus, fac

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tom freeden. chris also has an exclusive interview with colorado governor jared polis, why he is casting doubt on the cdc's coronavirus death toll and a chief economic advisor, tonight at 7:00 p.m. eastern, less than an hour from now. i should say a little over -- less than two hours from now, right after the fox report. senate republicans are dismissing a $3 trillion stimulus bill passed by the house while suggesting that discussions on the next round of coronavirus aid will not begin until after memorial day. garrett tenney has more. >> reporter: now that states are starting to open back up, senate republicans want to hold off on putting together the next relief package for a few weeks to see how things go and where the greatest needs are. but today, house speaker nancy pelosi criticized that thinking, saying there is no time to waste. >> they may think it's okay to pause. but people are hungry across america. hunger doesn't take a pause. people are jobless across america. that doesn't take a pa

tom freeden was out front during ebola. now we're not seeing the cdc hardly at all. to side line some of the best epidemiologists in the world? >> i can only come up with a couple of possibilities and of course there's widespread speculation. to answer exactly the question you pose, two stand out for me. the first is they did goof on the test. they developed a very bad contaminated test and it let down the american people. it let down local health departments, and so there must be a sense of, well, they have to pay a price for that error. on the other hand, why was the job of coming up with a test enough to test millions and millions of people put on a tiny laboratory inside the cdc that was understaffed and, you know, not designed for commercial production? the other possibility is that what scientists at the cdc would be saying right now would run contrary to mike pence and donald trump saying we'll be open by memorial day. >> punishing the cdc is punishing the american people. i mean, that's the thing. those guys -- my kids go on that website to look at the guidel