they tied roughly half of those cases back to that one tyson meat plant.riff there along with the county board of supervisors and the board of health and the mayor of waterloo, they were all publicly begging tyson, the plant's owner, or iowa's governor, kate reynolds, to please shut that plant down given the impact that outbreak there was having on the surrounding community. the sheriff said on this program last week, quote, that plant is the biggest hole in our county defense right now and it's creating a risk to the entire population of my county. two days after we spoke to the sheriff last week, tyson did finally close down that plant. they closed it in part, they said, because so many of the 2,700 workers at that plant were out sick. the sheriff and the waterloo mayor both welcomed the plant finally closing. both of them said they worried it had come too late for their community. that was last week in blackhawk county. here's the sheriff this week. now that just as they feared, cases have skyrocketed. i just said 350 cases roughly when we talked to him

two days after we spoke to the sheriff last week, tyson did finally close down that plant.osed it in part, they said, because so many of the 2700 workers at that plant were out sick. the sheriff and the waterloo mayor both welcomed the plant finally closing, both of them said they worried it had come too late for their community. that was last week in black hawk county. here's the sheriff this week. now that just as they feared, cases have skyrocketed. i just said 350 cases roughly when we talked to him last week. now, the cases are up over 1300. >> 1% of our population is now infected, and that's the 1% that we have tested and that we are aware of that, we know of, and we know certainly there are more asymptomatic and people who haven't been tested that are still out there. i hear corporate tyson talking about how this community covid spread is impacting their operations. and it makes me want to jump up out of my chair to say their operations is negatively, has negatively impacted the covid spread in my community. you can't jump 500 people in testing positive and not have

you spoke to tyson foods a month ago about how to prevent the spread of coronavirus.hat was not enough. >> yeah, you know, we're in an unprecedented time. you know, it's not something that you want to happen and it's not something that you can prepare for. and so you can't -- i don't think we can really point the finger at anybody in this situation. a month ago, when tyson was explaining what they were doing, it looked like it was going to be okay. but, again, unprecedented time, so you're going to see, you know, certain things that are going to come about and we're seeing that all across the world. you know, you can't plan for some things. you know, you can be proactive but, eventually, something's going to come about and you just got to be able to be that leader and react in the right way, at that time. >> did you discuss potentially closing the plant on that -- on that phone call? >> we had talked about working with the county health department. so the health department, the cass county health department has really been the leaders with working with tyson. an and,

tyson: hi, marcus. i'm tyson wehrmeister. lemonis: tyson, nice to meet you.meet you. michael: pleasure. tyson: thank you for coming in. lemonis: now, you're third-generation. tyson: i am, yes. my grandfather and grandmother established the store back in 1947. lemonis: how much square footage is in this building? tyson: 48,000 square feet. lemonis: how many different types of cheeses do you have? tyson: over 1,000. lemonis: so, can you pick out the five things that you think we should carry? tyson: wisconsin cheeses? lemonis: yes. tyson: okay. the 3-year white. lemonis: doesn't taste very sharp. tyson: this is the 7-year. lemonis: it's got more... michael: more flavor. lemonis: ...more bite to it. so, that one i like. tyson: so, this is the 10-year. yep. lemonis: cheese is awesome. tyson: i wouldn't cut it for just anybody. lemonis: don't cut the cheese for me. the thing that i wanted michael to experience is that it's okay to have fun at work. like, lighten up, smile, laugh. what? michael: there he is. there's the cheesehead. lemonis: i'm sorry. what? i have

because tyson is the biggest employer in logansport.ications for your entire community. >> of course. of course. and that's the thing. the reason why we had that phone conversation was because we wanted to make sure that not only tyson, but all of our factories in our community were taking the right steps and being proactive. and the deputy mayor and i, we took those steps during that week and visited with the health department, every factory in the city of logansport that was operating at that time to make sure they were following the cdc guidelines and make sure everything was going as planned. everybody was doing exactly as that. there were a couple of factories who maybe needed a little more guidance so we made sure they had that guidance. eventually what ended up happening is those factories ended stop, stopping operation before tyson did saturday. >> mayor martin, mayor hart, please keep us updated. please come back. thank you, be safe. thank you. >>> if you didn't see this today, you have to check it out. the mayor of las vegas t

and i'm not an expert on what tyson needs to do. our department of public health and sheriff has done a walk through on april 10th when we were sitting at about 30 or plus cases. since then we're well over 13, 14, probably 1500, relating back the plant for a majority of the cases. they need work with the proper public officials. they need to make sure citizen and worker safety is first. that's why we have several large plants around here. manufacturers because we have an incredible and talented workforce. they need make sure every measure and resource is put into place. there's no debate on the importance of this company. no debate on how important our farmers are. and the products they supply. so, it's not us verses them. this is all of us together. >> i get that and i know you're not interested in alienating tyson foods and all that stuff. let me ask you this. do you have enough testing and contact tracing ability -- not just in testing but in contract tracing and isolating, perhaps all the workers of tyson's plants, end up in a q

with tyson foods taking a full page ad out in "the new york times" and the washington post that the supply chain is breaking, it says chairman john tyson says the closure of meat plants means that millions of pounds of meat will disappear from supply chains he said there will be limited supply in grocery stores until the plants can reopen. of course, we heard about the spread of covid at some of those plants so keep your eyes on this story because it's not just a meat story but something that a few people are concerned about across the wider supply chain over the coming weeks and months >>> coming up when we return, a lot more on "squawk. what we're likely to hear and what analysts want to hear from america's biggest tech companies when they publish quarterly results this week. we'll talk about it, microsoft, apple, amazon. combined market cap, $4 trillion stay tuned, you're watching "sawbo ocnquk x"n bc since 1926, nationwide has been on your side.

it has a tyson. they are separating their employees. they are putting their masks on employees and checking temperatures. i don't think there's any doubt. i'm not accusing them of not doing it. is it a little bit too late to do some of that stuff? i don't think they did it early on because i think anybody understood the magnitude of how quickly this could spread. we were way behind the rest of country. >> there's video from tyson in is their video before the coronavirus. the reason i'm suring it is to show people how close these workers are standing. they usually wear gloves and hair nets. they are dealing with raw food that will be going to the grocery store. you can see how labor intensive this process is. how have they pla-- have they explained how they would not having these people standing side by side? they're not socially distanced? >> i walked around packing houses because i grew up in sioux city. you would have to cut your production dramatically. i'm not sure they are willing to do that. i don't know how you separate your empl

>>tyson is paying employees where the plant is closed.ever, many workers remain angry at the company. but the president of tyson foods did not seem contrite during an interview with cnn and when she said the company is fully committed to employ safety and work were part of that community and from everything we've seen that that the spread of the disease in the community is is affecting us in the plant. >>but the much more common sentiment here is the opposite is true that the spread of the disease. the plant has affected the icelandic or feels that way but will you go back to work once they say it's safe to reopen there. few my family. so we are going back to work. after we met him furness lanik are found out he tested negative a feeling of relief amid the continuing tension gary tuchman, cnn waterloo, iowa. >>that's good news and there's good news for basketball fans the nba is reopening team practice facilities for players in some states full explain what that process will look like and where is kim jong how experts are trying to track

tyson is only now deciding to start testing? i just -- beginning april 22nd, after what we saw what happened to smithfield in sioux falls. today they announced they're going to start testing their employees? that is remarkable. >> reporter: that's what we're urn. the governor is saying they're hopeful to do that on friday. important to note here, iowa responsible for one third of our country's pork production. this one particular plant, a major player in that, and the concern from a standpoint there is the governor is saying that should this shut down for a long period of time places at the grocery store could be going up due to a shortage of product. the beginning of this process, whether or not we want to talk about it or not, farmers raising these pigs to are forced to hold on to them. if they had to do so for an extended period of time, the unfortunate reality here is that hundreds, if not thousands of livestock could be euthanized, because they simply have nowhere else to go. chuck? >> the the food supply stoppage at these

tyson foods is based in your state.than probably any other governor in this country. when you hear millions of pounds of meat disappearing from the supply chain, how concerned are you? >> well, first of all, it's good to be with you, erin. and the fact that the chairman of tyson's food felt necessary to communicate that to america indicates that they are in a critical industry. and as plants in different parts of the country have had breakouts of covid-19, it is a concern if you have to shutdown a plant even for a bit. we've been fortune in arkansas that we have over 60 processing plants, and they're all operational. they've worked hard to make sure that safety is paramount in those plants. and the most important ingredient is to give the employees confidence that they will be healthy going into that plant and they don't risk having an adverse contagion there in the processing plant. and so they're taking the necessary steps, but it illustrates that we have to be prepared in the event there is a positive case, that we s

they don't think tyson did enough inside there.to give you a look at what one employee told me when he made a phone call last week. >> so you called hr. you said what? >> i was concerned about the coronavirus being in the plant. i was scared for me and my family. >> what did hr say to you? they told me, i was safe and they told me that everything was okay and they told me i'll have a better chance at catching the coronavirus going out to walmart than in tyson, come to work, you're safe. >> reporter: and did you believe them? >> i wanted to believe them. and i needed the money at the same time. so i went to work. >> reporter: that man has been tested for covid on monday. he hasn't gone his results back yet. she very scared. jake. >> all right, gary tuckman in waterloo, iowa. our coverage on cnn continues right now. [ music playing ] this is cnn breaking news. >> welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we are following breaking news. we are standing by this hour to

if we lost tyson, we lose everything. these plants are the lifeblood of many iowa communities. >> yeah, we're scared to death about this plant closing down. we've been scared about it since it was closed in 1980 when it was a hybrid plant and became ibp and opened up a year later. that year interim in 1980 was hell on storm lake. and a lot of people moved out of town. we weren't sure who would be the last person to turn off the lights. i can remember that. and i don't want to go through that again, but on the other hand, all my neighbors are these darling children who come from latin america, and they want to come in and pet our rabbit, and we can't let them because it could kill us. and so we don't want these plants necessarily to reopen until we know that strict protocols are being in place to control the spread of the virus. and it would seem to me, if there were a federal order that said, you know wooer, we are go slow down line speed to x amount and require so many feet of distance in a plant, every plant would have

of the think tank aspen institute germany tyson also worked at the u.s. state department tyson welcome back to the day veteran white house correspondents say what happened yesterday was unprecedented many are describing it as the emperor's new clothes what did you think when you saw the press briefing. well i mean these are kind of i don't know i thought they were meant to be to elicit that kind of emotion that's the point these are extemporaneous rally like events they're not based on fact they're totally emotive aids it's mainly meant to rally the base and to upset the opposition and what we're seeing right now is this fault line in the united states around when to open up the economy again where many people experts many governors are saying we have to wait and the president and many in his base and many republicans in congress are saying this is the lesser of 2 evils open the economy now we're dying by economic stagnation economic depression and that's worse than the virus itself i want to talk about opening a reopening up the economy in just a moment

tyson barker with the aspen institute germany as always tyson we appreciate your time and your insights tonight thank you thank you. performer u.s. president barack obama is one of the most popular political figures in the world with 4 years out of office his voice still carries weight his opinions they still matter to many people especially to the man who used to be his vice president joe biden today obama officially endorsed by giving his support publicly to the candidate and campaign intent on making donald trump a one term president but if there's one thing we've learned as a country for moments of great crisis it's that the spirit of looking out for one another can't be restricted to our homes or our work places or neighborhoods or our houses of worship it holds so has to be reflected in our national government and that's why i'm so proud to endorse joe biden for prez of the united states and i believe joe has all the qualities we need in a president right now he's someone whose own life has taught him how to persevere how to bounce back when you've been knocked down the obama touc

john tyson, the president of tyson foods was very concerned about liability in this litigation in missouri really woke him up. he said we could be liable. he went to president trump and president trump announced that the administration would try to essentially give a free pass, a get out of jail free card to eliminate any sort of liability. that's the same thing mitch mcconnell has said. mitch mcconnell has said there would be no more legislation providing monetary aid to small businesses and the hospitals in the states unless there is liability protection for corporations. i look at this with some shock. you look at what's going on in meatpacking plants. if the meatpacking plants are given a free pass, they can do anything they want and don't have to worry about workers suing them. tyson foods has for many years had a license to kill chickens and now they're asking for a license to kill workers and that's just wrong. host: one of the comments from senator mcconnell on a recent show talking about what you just talked about -- he said imagine your business is going to reopen and lawyers are

it is not just tyson, but you mentioned john tyson in that full page ad said that the food supply chain is breaking. he said it is vulnerable and that consumers should be prepared to see less of the products from tyson on the grocery store shelves as these plants are shut down due to the coronavirus. he's not the first member of a board or a ceo from a meat company to say this. the smithfield ceo two weeks ago said the meat supply chain was perilously on the edge because of these plants shutting down. now look, i've spoken with food supply chain experts who say that that's true kind of. the u.s. is not going to run out of meat. we have plenty of meat but it is quite possible you are going to see less variety in brands, in cuts and in type of meat at the grocery stores, because of these closures, and in part, that's because of the way that the food supply chain is designed. it's kind of like if you think of, according to julie neiderhoff from syracuse university. it's like going through a toll booth and they close randomly without warning and only certain vehicles can go through certain

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this is bigger than tyson. it is the entire community, it is the city of waterloo and beyond the state of iowa. we have to be careful of reopening a state when we are traveling from state to state and have family members traveling from state to state who could be affected and potentially affecting others. this is serious. #. >> this is serious. >> pastor bellinda creighton-smith. keep in touch. please. >> i will. thank you, john. >> thank you for your time and insights. >> education is dependant on the internet. electronic devices and parents filling in as teachers and how schools are addressing the digital divide. - oh. - what's going on? - oh, darn! - let me help. here we go. lift and push and push! there... it's up there. oh, boy. hey joshie... wrinkles send the wrong message. help prevent them before they start with downy wrinkleguard. hey! bud. hey, pop pop! so you won't get caught with wrinkles again. [woman laughs] economy have you worried about your finances in retirement? learn how senior homeowners ar

tyson processing plant in arkansas to see how it is fighting against the spread of covid-19 and what measures are being taken to protect its workers. >>several questions about my health. some hand sanitizer a mask in a temperature 97.9 that got me through the door. now on with the tour alongside tyson group president of poultry chad martin some of the comments th we heard were your leading in the industry first stop was the break room employees cleaning around the clock. the partitions are new this outdoor tents also new giving employees more room to spread out went on break we are doing everything that we know to do and continue to improve upon. >>to prevent any exposure happening with in the facility. >>next there is more gear we wash our hands and head in to see the processing lines this picture from the cdc shows what they recommend it says if feasible space workers 6 feet apart in all directions ideally so that workers aren't facing each other. >>pair that what we saw today workers close together and across from each other partitions do separate most of them. but as we saw not a

tyson foods employs roughly 100,000 workers and closed some of its pork plants in iowa and indiana. last week. we are learning more about the death of the south by woman believed to be the first person in the country to have died from the coronavirus kron four's charles clifford has the latest. >>well coronavirus is widely believed to be a respiratory disease mainly impacting the longs of victims but we know from this autopsy report from a woman who died here in the south bay on february 6th that she actually died because coronavirus infected her heart according to this autopsy report by the santa clara county medical examiner, 57 year-old patricia dowd died on february 6th it also notes that she apparently had been suffering from flulike symptoms in the days prior to her death. >>dowd was slightly overweight but otherwise in good health, the examination of doubts remains found that the left ventricle of her heart had ruptured and that she died of a heart attack at the time of her passing testing for covid-19 was not yet widely available but tissue samples were taken any way includi

tyson ys there will be a limited supply of its prodtsavailable in grocery stores until they can reopen cilities. tyson foods empys roughly 100,000 rkers it closed some of its pork plants in iowa and indiana last week. we are learning more about the death of the south by a woman who is believed to be the first person in the country to have died from the coronavirus kron four's charles clifford has the latest. >>well coronaviruis widely believed to be a reiratory disease mainly impacting the longs of victims but we know from this autopsy repo from a woman who died here in the south bay on february 6th that she actually died because coronavirus infected her hear according to this autopsy report by the saa clara county medical examiner, 57 year-old patricia dowd died on february 6th it alo notes that she apparently had been suffering om flulike symptoms in the days prior to her death. >>dowd was slightly overweight but otheise in good health, the examinati of doubts remains found that thleft ventricle of her heart had ruptured d that she died of a heart attack at the time of her passing te

this tyson food plant has opened tyson has shared a warning about the pandemic on our food supply. >> reporter: signs in a critical link in the nation's food supply link might be cracking as some meat packing plants have become covid-19 hot spots tyson, jbs and smithfield have tested positive for the virus forcing the temporary closure of at least 15 plants some employees are scared to show their face because they don't want to lose their job >> they didn't have enough masks or things like that to provide to us so they would start giving us different types of rags and stuff. >> reporter: tyson closed enough plant due to covid-19 cases. >> this order is necessary to end the threat to the city as quickly as possible. >> reporter: all employees are now provided surgical style face coverings but warning customers that there will soon be a limited supply of their products say the food supply chain is breaking all of it worrying a cattle ancher. >> it's unsettling because we don't know what's going to happen when it comes time for us to sell. >> reporter: in colorado some 6,000 employees wa

he is dealing with a potential outbreak at a local tyson's food plant.ayor, it's so good to have you on. the governors and the mayors have been stepping up, doing a great job. so thank you for the work you're doing and let's talk about this right now. what's happening at waterloo? tyson foods, this processing plant, how many workers there have tested positive for covid-19? >> so the challenge is the numbers that come down from the state don't necessarily end up at my desk. so right now probably april 10th, we probably had about 21 cases. today are about at 192 cases. we've had a couple of deaths also that occurred. but the most interesting part about that, 50 plus percent at least are all cases that have come from the tyson's plant. >> and do you think the numbers aren't accurate? do you think you have more cases? >> well, i think the numbers are -- the numbers have a lag. so you probably have about a day and a half to two days of catching up to do with those numbers. but those numbers, if they were current in all the testing we're in, they would be way

they felt like tyson was blaming them for putting their health first. been saying, talking about these meat packing plants but so many people feel like they're being taken for granted as sacrificial employees expected to put health on the line without continuing the food chain and operation. >> did you say they didn't get a mask until april 6th? >> that is when masks were mandated, so some didnused thein masks, bandannas from home or paper masks given there, but one of the workers we spoke with, he let us use the first name, donald, when he came in, there was a box of rags after the temperature scan they were walking through and at that point, he realized, i'm going to have to bring something from home. i'm not going to put a rag on my face. this is a bloody sweaty difficult job and they get dirty. they're close together. it is difficult to put these measures in effect. we recognize that, they recognize that but they say it's not worth their life. donald told us, i have grandchildren and children and i'm not risking their lives coming homesi sick to cut

she says the tyson plant in indiana where they both work was too slow to respond. says tyson installed plexiglass partitions really late for people working side by side by side. that plant has been closed for a week. there's also a fight between washington and the mostly rural communities where plants are. what do you think of the president's executive order? >> incredibly reckless. >> reporter: leaders in blackhawk county, iowa, are dealing with a large tyson plant and the third highest number of covid deaths in the state. >> the president has no clue what's actually happening on the ground in communities like mine. >> reporter: now, experts say the president's order will not have an immediate impact on the slow-down in meatproduction. prices are already rising, and there are shortages occurring for special cuts, like boneless chicken breast, because there just aren't enough workers to do that job. alt,eaank you.for the coron a-year cruise industry. under c.d.c. orders, u.s. cruise ships are going nowhere for the next three months, which has left tens of thousands

tyson foods -- tyson foods is suspending operations with the coronavirus operate-warns the shutdown will damage the nation's blood supply, the plan accounts for nearly 4% of u.s. processing capacity, tyson is closing another midwest fork plan in the indiana by the end of this week. spotify is letting musicians raise money for themselves. >>> new video this morning shows tornadoes that popped up wednesday. in texas, the same intense storm system ki be hurt. major damagebeen me tode or do anything, all my , bue e it went and i am blessed, i am glad to be alive, i really am.>>> rescue teams have been deployed, the parts of texas to make sure no one is trapped inside their homes.>>> let's get a check on our weather here in the bay area with our weather expert and our birthday girl, mary. >>> feeling the love, michelle, feeling very special on my birthday. well, we are looking at a warm- up in store for ures wl be on t rise if you liked yesterday, you will likely like today, temperatures continue to rise as we had through the week. we are starting off today mainly in the low to mid 50s has a

tyson is paying employees while the plant is closed.ever, many workers remain angry at the company. but the president of tyson foods did not seem contrite during an interview on cnn. she said the company is fully committed to employee safety. >> we're part of the community and everything we've seen the spread of the disease in the community is affecting us and the plant. >> but the much more common sentiment here is the opposite is true. that the spread of the disease and the plant has affected the community. earnest feels that way. >> reporter: will you go back to work once they say it's safe to reopen? >> yeah. i have to feed my family so, yeah. i'll go back to work. >> reporter: after we met him, he found out he tested negative. a feeling of relief amid the continuing tension. gary tuckman, cnn, waterloo, iowa. >>> all right. still ahead, pictures of a little coronavirus liberation. children finally able to play outside in spain following weeks of lockdown. a live report how the recovery is going there next. hey mama, what's up? i'm

i want to thank the tyson team members. tyson is a family of more than 10 0,000 people in the united states and we operate globally with more than that, of course. those team members are the most dedicated i've seen to feeding the country. we've taken a tremendous amount of precautions in the facilities whether it's hand sanitizer. i've visited. you mask up, get gowned. you can put on face protection. you walk into your work. your work space and you have barriers on all sides to make sure this disease is not spreading within our plants, and we are fully committed to team member safety. >> but yet it is spreading. so how is it spreading? what you describe is a situation that sounds almost medical in nature, and yet, these are really serious outbreaks happening at plant after plant and people have been dying. >> what we've seen is that our plants live within a community. we participate in a community. we donate food to the communities and we're part of that community. from everything we've seen, the spread of the disease in t

does have a very rigorous system of weibo and slander laws so we want to correct that tyson what do you say about the video that was shown 1st time propaganda has been sold as policy at the white house. well it's a complete merger of you know the campaign mode in the administration and obviously he is a political being all presidents are elected they're all political but this is the kind of stuff that you would expect from a super pac or a pac or the campaign itself and not from the white house and and that that blurring of the lines between the political and the policy has been just defining for this presidency it's much more acute now because we're in the midst of a crisis where all eyes are really on what the administration is doing but this question about the delta between you know early attempts to lock down and on and what happened with the president's primetime speech you know why weren't they right ramping up infrastructure why weren't they doing the testing why did it take so long to invoke the defense production act all these questions are real questions and they need to be as

we just learned that tyson is shutting down a pork processing plant in waterloo, iowa.nt linked to nearly 200 coronavirus cases. protesters rallied outside that plant earlier this week. it has been linked now to nearly half of the known covid-19 cases in that county there alone. >> diane gallagher has been following this story closely and joins us now. it is a plea from the mayor of waterloo again last night saying now 90% of the cases in his -- in his county are from this plant. they're finally shutting down. why? >> yeah, that was an announcement that literally just came down from tyson, in the past couple of minutes here that they are going to be suspending production at the waterloo pork processing plant this week. that around midweek they will stop production. now, it wasn't just the mayor. it was almost all of the local and state elected officials in that area for more than a week now have been asking, i want to read a portion of the statement that tyson sent out about this decision. they said, quote, protecting our team members is our top priority. and the reason

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some employees like the this worker in a tyson plant are scared to show their face because they don't want to lose their jobs but are more terrified of getting sick >> they didn't have enough material and masks and things like that to provide to us. so they started to give us different types on rags and stuff. >> reporter: earlier today in indiana officials declared a public health emergency. >> this order is necessary. to end this threat to the city as quickly as possible >> reporter: tyson food telling nbc news, all employes are now provided face coverings. but warning customers in in a full page ad that will will be a limited supply of products saying the chain is breaking. all of it worrying this cattle rancher. >> the uncertainty of the market is unsettles because we don't know what will happen when it comes time for us to sell. >> reporter: in colorado, 6,000 employees in the meat processing transplant greeley aagre -- processing plant are waiting in line to be tested to start their shift. learning a fifth employee died from coronavirus. >> it's angering me that the company is w

nbc news has not been able to independently confirmed ambulances at the tyson plant. the waterloo plant joining a growing list of others in eight states shutdown by companies trying to contain outbreaks. the impact on pork immediate, the processing rate down 25% what does it mean for the consumer the longer these plants stay closed? >> what it means for consumers is there might be temporary stock outs at the grocery store, but you may not find your favorite cut of pork or your favorite cut of beef at the grocery store. but this is temporary. the supply chains will adjust >> reporter: back in waterloo, the mayor stressing the importance of providing food to the country and protecting its workers. >> so there's the human factor where if you don't protect the workers that are working there, you can't put food on peoples tables >> reporter: the fight to feed america on top of a deadly virus. morgan chesky, nbc news >> the backlash is building following controversial comments the president made at a press briefing this week about dangerous coronavirus treatments, and it co

coronavirus out break at the tyson food plant has local officials demanding the company and governor close it down. i spoke with the mayor sunday who says it's a huge risk to worker safety. why is it still open when 182 of the county 374 cases are linked to it? mayor heart is back with me. he's next. i got this mountain bike for only $11. dealdash.com, the fair and honest bidding site. an ipad worth $505, was sold for less than $24; a playstation 4 for less than $16; and a schultz 4k television for less than $2. i won these bluetooth headphones for $20. i got these three suitcases for less than $40. and shipping is always free. go to dealdash.com right now and see how much you can save. - my family and i did a fundraiser walk in honor of my dad, who was alzheimer's. i decided to make shirts for the walk with custom ink, and they just came out perfect. - [announcer] check out our huge selection of custom apparel for every occasion. you'll even get free shipping. get started today at customink.com. they have businesses to grow customers to care for lives to get home to they use stamps.

plants, now, the e tyson they do not have any masks or gloves.other plants, the workers have to pay for masks or gloves. soso they are not t even being granted those basic protetective gear to do their work. amy: can you talk about the picking up of the pressure to raise the processing line speeds at tyson? >> yes. this issue -- workers have been battling this issue for so long. used tonow workers process 140,000 chickekens per minutete. that led to injuries for workers. areight now the workers more in n danger by the lightspd increaease. as well as the consumers. amy: we want to thank you for being with us and we will revisit this issue. magaly licolli executive , director of venceremos, an advocacy group for poultry plant workers. democracy now! is working with as few people onsite as possible. the majority of our amazing team is working from home. we ♪ >>> hello. welcome to nhk "newsline." i'm yamamoto miki in tokyo. >>> we begin with news from the united states. president donald trump says his officials will consider cutting off funding for t

oversees a tyson chicken plant in georgia where four employees have died from coronavirus. the company has refused to say how many workers there have tested positive for covid-19. that plant closed for 48 hours, but has now reopened. another tyson facility in waterloo, iowa remains closed tonight after 180 workers tested positive for coronavirus. one of those workers has died. the congresswoman who represents that congressional district in iowa will join us in a moment. that plant could be reopening soon after president trump signed an executive order last night requiring meat plants to stay open. president trump said that he had a conference call with owners of the meat packing plants who were so thrilled with his executive order that they were cheering. that's donald trump's report of the phone call. the president did not speak to anyone whose life is at risk by working in one of those plants. joining our discussion is democratic congresswoman abby finkenauer. thank you very much for joining us tonight. what is happening in your district? you have more than one plant ther

he says he called the tyson hr department last week. >> and you said what? >> i was concerned about the coronavirus being in the plant. and i -- i was scared for me and my family. >> and what did hr say to you? >> they told me i was -- i was -- i was -- i was safe. and they told me that everything was okay. and they told me i have a better chance of catching the coronavirus going out to walmart than in tyson. coming to work, you safe. >> and did you believe them? >> i wanted to believe them and, then, i needed that money at that same time so i went wito work. >> this employee doesn't want to reveal his identity, fearing retribution by the company. he waited hours in this line to get tested. he say he also got tested on his own last weekend and was negative but felt if he didn't do it again at the plant, he might not be able to come back to work. but he's angry with how the company daeltd with one of his co-workers. >> she was sick. asked to go home. was told she couldn't go home because she didn't have a fever at the time. couple days later, she ended up tes

tyson released a statement this morning. said in part, quote, protecting our team members is our top priority and the reason we've implemented numerous safety measures during this challenging and unprecedented time. despite our continued efforts to keep our people safe while fulfilling our critical role of feeding american families, the combination of worker absenteeism, covid-19 cases and community concern has resulted in our decision to stop production. that production is expected to stop around midweek, so starting today, and it's going to go on essentially until they determine it is safe for them to reopen the plant. they said they are going to be testing according to the governor of iowa, each one of the 2800 employees who work there before trying to get back into the swing soft thiof thing. this is something we've seen across the country, plants shut down after cases explode in those areas. what we haven't seen is what we saw in waterloo, a concerted effort. in fact, the health department board, blackhawk county, passe

what does tyson say about all this? they released a statement, many people in this community, including politicians have been calling for many days to close this factory, they asked the governor, they asked tyson. the statement, while we understand the necessity of keeping our facilities operational, so that we can feed the nation, the safety of our team members remains our top priority. the combination of worker absenteeism, covid-19 cases and community concerns resulted in a collective decision to close. worker absenteeism, many were afraid to come here for weeks because they heard about other meat plants around the country and they have a right to be fearful because so many have gotten sick. the mayor said the decision needed to be made earlier. >> i believe it needed to be closed. they went ahead and did that today, which will give us an opportunity to close, clean, test the employees, put in stronger preventative measures and get this plant opened back up. it is a very credible need for our entire country and the w

foods toeither cut back or shut down becauseof this the ce of tyson is sending out a warning to eect less pork beef and chicken at the grocery store that doesn't seem to be on the horizon but but we have had some disruptions those disruptions says daniel sumner a u c davis agricultural econost will not create a shortage of meat even after the country's largest meat producers, including tyson along with smithfield and jbs have recently shutted processing plants you and i may see our favorite supermaet low on something. >>but they'll be plenty of meat ah ah, a beef pork at we all like they'll be plenty of meat in the supermarket's some bay area supermarkets have been seeing chunks of out. meat section standing >>especially when it comes to bacon sasage and ground beef. >>oakland buher shop for engn farms has so f avoided any issues with meeting meetdemand. advocate said sometimes smaller. >>might be better off of army comes fromwithin 200 miles of the shopping a our facilities are doing fine in our farms are doing fine of all and impmenting their own measures for protecting themselvean

and here at a tyson plant in early april, workers sitting around open tables. but this is what tyson, which says it is committed to protecting its workers, say break rooms like lie now, adding those dividers. in arkansas today, police called to escort protesters off the property at this poultry plant. labor organizers saying these essential workers are in jeopardy. >> they are just waiting to see, when are they going to get sick, and if they're going to get sick, they're going to die. and if we don't protect them right, we're going to see a food crisis, we are going to see a health crisis, we're going to see an economic crisis. >> reporter: across the country, more than 6,500 meat packing workers with covid-19. at least 22 processing plants shut down nationwide just over the past two months. concerned the shutdowns will trigger food shortages in america, the trump administration on tuesday giving meat packing plants wide latitude to reopen as long as they follow federal guidelines. >> i think we're having these plants repair to open in days, not weaks. some may

tyson is paying employees while the plant is closed. however, many workers remain angry at the company. but the president of tyson foods did not seem contrite in a interview on cnn, in which he said the company is fully committed to the employee safety. >> we are part of the community, from everything had that we have seen the spread of the disease in the community is affecting us in the plant. >> reporter: but the much more common sentiment is trhe opposie is true. the spread at the plant is affecting the community. will you go back to work once they say it's safe to reopen? >> yeah, i got to feed my family. yeah, i will go back to work. >> reporter: after we met him, ernest found out he tested negative. a feeling of relief amid the continuing tension. cnn waterloo, iowa. >> up next, we are learning more about the health of north korea an leader next. hi, i'm bob harper, and i recently had a heart attack. it changed my life. but i'm a survivor. after my heart attack, my doctor prescribed brilinta. it's for people who have been hospital