change the time of the meeting that conflicted with wild wild west on friday night i quit because this is before d.v.r. to anything so i could watch wild wild west and i love the combination of science fiction and wester i think it's it was so up my alley so when i heard that the script was a valuable and i read it and i got will smith to play robert conrad for all i thought everything would be fine and then i get a call from robert conrad who says can we have lunch conrad meets me at the hotel bel-air in l.a. and says i just want you to know something i don't think a black guy should play jim west and if you insist on using will smith to play. well you know who asked i am connected and will smith will be killed by my friends in the mob so you don't want will smith as jim west so i went to well and i said hey listen robert conrad threatened to have you killed i think i need to tell you this well robert conrad threatened to have you killed if you agree to play the role and that he has connections with the detroit mob and will looks at me and goes you kidding i'm from philip cam. philip mayster of detroit looks like lane castor a court c

wild, wild west. amazon as valued as one of the best companies in the world. they have to be careful. real damage could be done during the crisis. a lot of people rely on amazon, but they can't be tone deaf. they have to make certain they optically take the right steps for the workers. i think they sem mies with them-- >> amazon says they'll start taking temperatures and as you pointed out we're in the wildwild west, what they've never been before. in kentucky, a judge ordered people who will coronavirus they'd have to wear an ankle monitor, is that what it's going to-- >> that seems draconian. but state both and local municipalities have a tremendous leeway what to do to keep their border safe and people safe. i don't know if this is a slippery slope. i don't know if we'll see more of this. leland: real quick, we saw national guard troops in rhode island checking people coming off trains and then we heard about check points in florida on i-95, et cetera, and that all went away pretty quickly with threats of lawsuits, et cetera. is there a point that nobody really wants to test these laws? >> well, people don't want to test the laws, but in the same sense like you mentioned, most courts can't opened and that's why i referenced the wild, wild best because we're in a new environment right now. >> new indeed and with you to help us break it down and guide us through, andrew pressure-- appre

. >> this is the wild wild west, were discovering it as we go. >> chris buehrle is the executive director of the theater. he doesn't expect the theater to open for months. he's grappling with how the operate. >> a theater seat is right next to each other. you have to skip two seats and skip every row. >> a third of the house, changing the model. negotiating artist fees. audience members may wear mask, performers can't. >> they play an instrument or say something. >> it's possible with the coaches and students wearing masks. >> at kick boxing the owner like many gym owners are offering workouts online. >> i'm doing as well as everyone les. we're hanging but we're improvising as well. >> we're going to start business again, you will have employees and customers if they get within 3 feet of each other can pass on a killer disease. >> the professor at san jose state says some businesses may keep a few employees working remotely. the gump must strike a balance. restrictions contribute be too strict. >> happily ever laughter sends performers to kids parties. >> that owner had to let go two perf

>>coming up the wild wild west. so that's how some state leaders are calling their efforts to get much needed personal protection equipment to health care workers who needed tonight the questions a state leaders are asking the federal government as they deal with another frustration plus why a southern california nursing home, caring for dozens of coronavirus patients was evacuated today. and our coverage of the coronavirus pandemic continues on kron on the 24 hour local news streaming service is free to download right now so you the best way to predict the future is to create it and change the world. here at abbvie, we're inventing medicines of the future to create tomorrows that will be healthier... ...and happier, while making medicines that help people right now. because that's the present we wanted to live in. and that's the future we all want to see. abbvie. here. now. >>who is in charge says the question many state leaders are asking as they deal with a growing need for personal protection equipment. yeah, th

. >> it is the wild wild west. >> spot scott force it is a professor at the uc berkeley schools of public health division of infectious diseases. >> it can't be used at this point to tell you that you have got agent get out of jail card but it is not the case. >> he says antibody test hold great promise for the future but are not ready for prime time yet. >> let's say the test proves we are immune. how long will it last? we don't know that yet. will it be months? will it be a few years? it can be done and it will be done. right now people are just rushing the test out. >> doctor schwartzberg says small print disclaimer on the company website are not enough. because he claims it is making in bold print about its test our outright false. but that it can regulate detective antibodies are present. >> this is egregious. we do not know that the antibodies that are detected by any test, even the best tests in the world, will tell us that we are protected. >> they risk is that people thinking they are immune from the might take fewer precautions and gets or even unknowingly infect others. especia

the fda is now trying to straighten the mess that has been what one testing official called the wild wild west of anti-body marketed tests. >>the national cancer institute and its testing lab has been drafted to determine which test work which do not that is key says new weinberg who heads up the testing program at new york's mount sinai hospital which was just given emergency use authorization to incredibly important that as we learn more and use these tests. >>2. >>develop our plans and policies to reopen society that we can rely on the results were being given the fda has given emergency use authorization to 4 antibody tests but the very first company to get it hasn't been able to get its test into the united states. >>selex telling cnn chinese export rules have prevented them from shipping their antibody test of the u.s. so far but they hope and expect that this issue will be resolved very soon why so important to have widespread antibody testing and make sure they work 2 big reasons says harvard epidemiologist caroline buckee so the first thing is just to work out how many people have bee

the governor here calling it the wild, wild west. in fact, he says, they just got a shipment from texas, but had to send the entire shipment of masks back because all of them were moldy. david? >> all right, matt gutman in california. thank you. >>> and the staggering new numbers tonight on unemployment. well learned today, 6.6 million americans applied for unemployment benefits last week alone. that's nearly 10 million workers now applying for unemployment in just two weeks. tonight, the workers from iowa to new york, to florida. and here's rebecca jarvis. >> reporter: tonight, the swelling number of people out of work, that parallel catastrophe to the virus itself. the speed of layoffs, unprecedented. the pain being felt across the country. >> i know i was not prepared for this. >> never thought i would have to be in this position. >> reporter: all told, in just two weeks, nearly 10 million americans have filed for unemployment insurance. those numbers don't include the self-employed, or the many americans who've been trying to app

>>the state have been told you're on your own it's a wild wild west.>we are running dangerously low on pp. >>those supplies are being by the federal government nearly a month after president trump declared covid-19 a national emergency states are still sounding the alarm on supply shortages. and there's another frustration mounting among states understanding who's taking charge

attention has been placed on that and much of what you are hearing is true in terms of it being the wild wild west out there, in terms of procuring the masks, the shields, the glove sets, and the like. currently in california at least as of this morning we have already given out 35.9 million ned 5 masks. we have gotten 189,000 from the national stock pile and apparently we will get another 176,000masks. we were just told about that this morning. we recognize we have to do more as a state. so, for the caregivers out there and for the grocers and police and fire, people on the frontlines broadly defined we recognize our obligation to you to continue to find this personal protective gear and to source n95 masks and surgical masks and the gowns and the cover alls that all of you do deserve. so, our hospital system was slack, not just surge. every day we bring on more beds, we build capacity and every day i continue to be amazed by the incredible leadership with in our hospital sessions system, assisted living facilities, skilled nursing homes where they are anticipating the need to do more and better

>>the state have been told you're on your own it's a wild wild west. >>we are running dangerously low on pp. >>those supplies are being by the federal government nearly a month after president trump declared covid-19 a national emergency states are still sounding the alarm on supply shortages. and there's another frustration mounting among states understanding who's taking charge of the federal response fema has taken the lead coordinating role cope with fema's administrator pete gaynor largely out of the public view one congressional aide tells cnn no one really knows who's in charge who's making decisions. >>we are briefing the president earlier he asked me to come and talk a little bit. >>trump senior adviser and son-in-law jared kushner has taken a more prominent role in the federal response at times taking charge unapologetically i got a call from the president. >>he told me he was hearing from friends of his new york at the new york, public hospital system. i was running low on on critical called a barrel plus check out make sure we have the inve

wild wild west out there everybody is competing all the states are competing for testing kits for ventilators for masks and this he says is a major problem in continuing to combat this pandemic saying that without the proper data it's quite impossible to be able to isolate trends or isolate where the pandemic is going once again blaming the federal government for not doing enough to support the states pointing out that the states are having to form alliances between themselves in a bid to can come to the pandemic on a joint basis ok mike hanna with the wrap up there from the u.s. and washington d.c. mike thank you. the number of people killed by the crime of virus in canada has jumped by 20 percent to 258 in one day more than 1400 are infected candidates appeal to volunteers to support frontline health care workers and is offering full time jobs to reservists on saturday the prime minister justin trudeau announced millions of medical mask would be arriving from china. or libyan prime minister mahmoud jibril has died from the virus he had been quarantined in a cairo hospital since being diagnosed late last month to real lead the anti-government protest that ousted longtime leader more mortgage off in 2011 he was later appointed prime minister and head of the national transitional council or auto supporting another 151 deaths but also a decrease in new infections for the 5th consecutive day another positive development some iranians are being allowed to go back to work next week same as ravi has more from tehran. we've heard from health officials over the last few days and weeks that things can go back to normal too soon but the president when he made this announcement president rouhani began by saying that all branches of government are on board with the plan that they have moving forward so making it clear that the government is according to him speaking in one voice despite the warnings of normalizing too quickly from health experts saying that that could bring on a 2nd wave here president hassan rouhani did say that in terms of the details of what is considered low risk and high risk those announcements will be made over state t.v. in the coming hours but we can surmise that what they consider low risk is anything that doesn't compel too large of a crowd to form people can work from home they can open small businesses remember this country is a place where the majority of businesses are small to medium so really those environments will begin to see life coming back to life returning to some kind of normal he said that even though those shops and other organizations may begin to start their engines again they have to observe health protocols social distancing that still has to be the key element of how to go about doing this it's always going to balance between fighting a public health crisis and making sure the country's economy does not go bust he also acknowledged that iran and iranian people are still operating in unknown territory they don't know whether or not this will continue for a long period of time whether the country will become a kind of reservoir for the virus so he said things will be taken one step at a time but we have to remember that the country's main concern all along has been that the virus might do what sanctions could not which is bring the country's economy to a standstill and that's really what they're trying to fight against at this time coming up after whether. we had brought home more than 350000. some tourists stranded around the world are finally back home another $250000.00 that were still looking for a way back plus. you tell me the robot one of the many high tech machines now being used to protect medical staff in a battle against iran a virus. that weather set fire across a good part of the middle east that sending the case across iraq and potentially hot sunshine dialogue getting up to 34 celsius over the next couple of days further north of here as well $34.00 in baghdad because such a $24.00 in damascus still a few showers just around turkey pushing over towards the caspian sea somewhat the weather there for a time also into afghanistan as well making its way further race with so we'll see some rain creeping its way towards the north of iran across the peninsula the sunshine continue study for just that could touch 40 in mecca is the heat slowly but surely continues to arise on the warm side see on the other side of the red sea a $41.00 there for katsu showers there into the heart of africa as per usual into the gulf of guinea doesn't rather lively showers just around got a pushing towards liberia maybe into sierra leone as well at least for a time some of those showers also gathering into the democratic republic of congo wanted to show was there creeping they were a little further south was on the side of the riff obviously some wet weather there into tanzania for much of south africa is fine and dry we got some rather brisk winds pushing through the southern cape so making its way further east. i easily test trades and trace frank assessments why is it so he's struggling to cope with the number of her own virus pushed failure to take really aggressive action we put them behind her informed opinions it's going to be much more challenging in a place like haiti where there's one ventilator 3000000 people in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines as india doubling up to nip the spread of a lot of r.'s in the inside story on al-jazeera. watch out there these are the top stories right now because health secretary says he will not ban public exercise for now despite the fact people are going outside to enjoy the warmer weather ignoring the government's advice to stay indoors the cry of virus figures show another 621 people have died in the last 24 hours that is about 80 fewer fatalities the day before. the number of new coronavirus related deaths in spain has fallen for the 3rd day in a row authorities reported 674 deaths on sunday compared to 809 a day earlier new york state has reported nearly 602 deaths and over 8000 new infections in the last 24 hours but in hospitalizations have fallen by 50 percent so u.s. president donald trump has warned americans to prepare for the toughest week yet the kind of virus pandemic. a quarter of a 1000000 european union citizens are expected to be flown home soon in a large scale repatriation effort by their governments and 50000 others mostly tourists have already been airlifted from all over the world by charted airline chartered airliners and military aircraft charlotte dallas reports. it could be a hospital reception but as bolivia's airport the country's airspace is closed part of mission is to contain covert 19 it came back to life on saturday after the french embassy organized an exception to get european tourists home but i'm going to. actually my return date had expired the airline hard freeze scheduled for the end of this month but we know this is going to take longer because kovi one gene is spreading i found out about the repatriation flight and decided to return. history repeats in peru with french spanish and belgian citizens buses bound for an if new space this weekend. the german government has repatriated nearly 200000 of its citizens including this group in south africa on friday all flights have been grounded there but an exception was made this week. i actually think it's a good thing to turn brings their people. because. that way we often. don't have the stomach for africa e.u. governments have been relying on commercial airlines but with fewer flights every day the block is resorting to a mix of charset and military planes e.u. institutions are also helping to cover costs when their passengers have more than one e.u. country they focused only on tourists not a use citizens living permanently abroad we had brought home more than 350000. 350000. 257000 remaining and many operations on the way things become more difficult every day in january daily commercial flights peaked at 118000 around the world now there are just 27000 or $100.00 airlines have completely or nearly completely stopped service it's pushed the burden increasingly on to governments like france which seem to playing for more than $100.00 nationals to the indian cities of coach in the mumbai and chartered an air france flight to pick up nearly 200 swiss belgians germans and british people in moscow leave. some time and probably true leave simply because i'm not 100 percent sure that the information about the epidemic here in russia is reliable unfortunately e.u. citizens looking for security harm even if home is where the global outbreak is at its worst shelob ballasts al jazeera. a spread of the corona virus has been relatively low in africa but the african union predicts the pandemic could lead to the loss of more than 20000000 jobs a study shows the continent's economy could trend by one percent this year and foreign investment gets not by 15 percent trade they fair made to buy up to 35 percent which would lead to a loss of more than $270000000000.00 of the tourism and oil industries could see losses in the billions of dollars. and harry has confirmed 4 tests and more than 200 cases of chronic diarrhea displaced people living in camps across the northeastern region are particularly vulnerable at this outbreak spread the u.n. says it's working with nigerian officials to develop emergency response plans managers in nigeria's capital a position where he tells us about the difficulties authorities are facing. the big major problem is the absence of enough testing kits only a few 1000 people have been tested and the government as we speak now is chasing after thousands of people who came in contact with people who have been infected with the corner by this in nigeria so the government may have defeated it some years back when there was an outbreak in west africa some of the structures are still in place but a major outbreak not because of bladders in nigeria that was filmed do unless the government has some assistance outside the country the government told us just yesterday that they expected some chinese medical experts to come in to help would be willing we think with the with the control of the of of the current of the outbreak in nigeria and there's been some fumigation efforts going on in major cities in nigeria some states have locked down the states from travel from people coming in either by road or by air will by sea but the federal government imposed a lockdown on 3 major states the federal capital which is subject to late may ghost which is the commercial capital of nigeria and a neighboring state in the southwest of the country where we're seeing seoul so some interaction is rising so so far be you know going to governments that it's doing all it can to control the spread of this modest but it will definitely need some assistance outside. it's a big nationwide lockdown and uganda means millions of people cannot go to work and as a result many are struggling to put food on the table aid is being distributed by the government here one and a half 1000000 ugandans designated as most vulnerable public transport is at a standstill the borders are closed and everyone is being urged to stay home to contain the spread. south sudan has confirmed his 1st case of the corona virus vice president riek machar said a 29 year old woman infected with the virus arrived from ethiopia and february she is now being treated in isolation south sudan is the latest african nation to report a case during this outbreak going back to work in getting the economy moving again may take a long time in many countries but there is one idea out there that's already being worked on with the hope that it may ease the lock down it's being called an immunity passport to reports the corona virus has transformed the world were empty streets and shot to business is the norm and billions are under lockdown but researchers around the world are developing tests and conducting clinical studies to explore if people who have been infected and cured are no longer at risk the aim is to eventually allow people to go back to normal life the idea behind this is that if people get him you in school natural infection they would have a similar situation to someone having received a vaccination. and we could use the body tests as soon as possible antibody tests become available we could use antibody tests to document that immunity exists. britain which is struggling to speed up testing has floated the idea of a so-called immunity passport acidic it for those who recover it and declared immune to the virus in the minute a region of italy infected doctors and nurses are being tested to see if they have developed resistance to the virus so they can return to walk and millions more italians will be tested for natural antibodies but it's unclear just how reliable and effective the tests with. early in the pandemic that there are a small number. compared to who had been infected and cleared and will have both be and. we don't know for how long these antibodies will last. time as an all antibodies or tens of drop off time. at a time when government lock downs have dropped so many people off their livelihoods they're also concerns about criminals forging immunity documents this passport can be the equivalent of yellow fever or polio certificates that allow international travel to resume if countries recognize such a certificate but there will be a problem that i see that it's wrong counterfeit certifications because individuals communities urgently want to return to economic activity. there are also difficult ethical questions about whether such certificates will cause more prejudice and further restrict the most vulnerable in society you can ensure that people face a lot of risks and we reduce the death toll from this but you have to. make more decisions about who will be allowed to work and who won't be who will be allowed to travel who won't be the idea attractive and hopefully perhaps but also from with uncertainties asked the wild hunkers down for yet another day of the global pandemic priyanka could go on to 0 countries around the world are looking to all sorts of technologies to help contain the crime no bias or he reports on the doctors and nurses and it's only need all the help they can get including from tommy the robot. that robots like tommy operate in the most infectious wards stuff here hope he'll reduce the risks of catching the disease by avoiding direct contact with patients. it allows us to use less protective clothing like masks and overalls which at this time are in scarce supply the advantage is there for double the northern region of lombardy accounts for most of italy's known coronavirus cases here the robots help relay a vital information between patients and doctors remotely and at any time of the day. chair you'll need this robot helps us monitor some clinical parameters of the patient for example heart rate respiratory rate oxygen saturation blood pressure and also mechanical aspects of re

. >> this is the wild, wild west.re discovering it as we go. >> the executive director at the theater in san jose. he does not expect it to reopen for months. when given the green light he's grappling with how the operate. >> the seats are next to each other. to practice social distancing would you have to skip two seats and every row. >> a third of the house. goshing artist fees and ushers wearing gloves. >> many of them play an instrument or say something. >> it's possible with the copes and the students wearing masks. >> ed carpio is offering workouts online. >> i'm probto be as well as haveel. we're hanging, we're improvising. >> he's considering limited class sizes. >> we're going to start business again, you'll have employees and customers if they get within 3 feet of each other can pass on a killer disease. >> some businesses may opt to keep a few employees work remotely. the government must strike a balance president restrictions contribute be too strict. >> the crisis is a performer. >> happy over laughter se

it's the wild wild west, and what's happening is we're having to secure hopefully if we can get our handsproducts from china, from australia, whether it's ventilators or ppe and paying six to seven times what it's worth, and we're not putting a single american to work, which is disgraceful. >> do you see this continuing? >> they promised us tens of thousands of ppe -- they promised us tens of thousands of tests and millions more ppe. yet we have received about 3% of what we asked for. the president made a big deal about sending us the important masks that we needed, but he sent us a bunch of surgical masks and not the respirators color so critical right now, that he had promised. unfortunately they haven't gotten much of it right. to blame our governor, who has been an incredible leader at the most critical time, i mean really illinoisans couldn't be prouder of the governor and his efforts. if that means it's calling out where it's important to call out, he's going to do it, and i'm going to do it from whoever needs to do it needs to. we're innovating to get the job done, but it's a lot h

different communities will be affected differently by this but we don't need it to be the wild, wild westhat has become. >> white house task forces are worried rural areas could be the next hot spots because they are under estimating their case numbers. i talked to dr. fauci about this last week during our town hall and he said it's essential in states that think they don't have a big problem, it's essential that they are doing a lot of testing to do contact tracing for anybody who does have the time when they think they don't have a large number of people to prepare and get testing in place. your seeing widespread testing in iowa? >> not seeing the level offing that i would desire. we are testing those who present and we're trying to make sure that everybody who exhibits worrisome symptoms do get tested and are isolated and are doing the kinds of things that we've been asking them to do. i think that doctor is absolutely correct. don't think you don't have a problem. it's not because you don't have the problem, it's because you don't have good data and we're fighting very hard to provide

it's the wild, wild west and we're paying more than sticker prices. paying bonus prices to get the equipment needed, including testing devices. so the feds have to take that over as they did during world war ii in terms of the production acts. >> let me ask you about that, because every official we speak to on this broadcast, and i ask republican and democrat that question, do you need testing before you reopen safely, and they say yes. and then their next answer is we don't have the testing yet. because of that, and you're hearing the same from the president's own health advisers, fauci included. because of that, is discussion of reopening right now on a national basis or a state basis or a local basis, is it premature? >> absolutely premature, but more than premature, it's dangerous. we don't have testing. we haven't tested all of the first responders. first you do testing the way we're doing it, and that is for therapeutics to find out who has the disease. but then you have to test a much wider group of people testing for control, and then getting

: the fda is trying to straighten the mess that has been what one testing official called the wild, wild west of antibody marketed tests. national cancer institute and its serum testing lab has been drafted to determine which tests work, which do not. that is key for dr. anya wineberg. they were given emergency use authorization. >> it's incredibly important that as we learn more and use these tests to develop our plans and policies, to re-open society that we can rely on the results we're being given. >> reporter: the fda has given emergency use authorization to four antibody toewests, but the very first company hasn't been able to get into the united states. celex says chinese export rules have prevented them from shipping to the u.s. so far, but they hope this issue will be resolved soon. why so important to have widespread antibody testing and make sure they work? two big reasons says harvard university epidemiologist. >> first work out how many people are infected, whether we're close to the peak. >> reporter: the second is what involves herd immunity. if having the virus and recovering

it was like a wild, wild west.ook the program by the federal government was a huge portion of the stimulus bill, $350 billion in loans expected to go out the small businesses. these are businesses with 500 employees or fewer. and they can get if they are eligible they can get loans at a 1% interest rate or they can be loan that can be forgiven if they don't layoff workers and they don't reduce pay of their workers. but the thing is there's lots of questions whether this was even ready for primetime because, you know, from the banks who look to lend the money to small business, there were just a lot of confusion, a lot of frustration and i didn't even get to the technical problems with the application process. i mean the u.s. treasury is telling banks to go ahead and make these loans but banks are concerned about being on the hook. how are they going to recapitalize. who will take on the risk? these questions from what i'm hearing from banks they aren't being directly answered. then small business, there are huge hu

>> it's the wild, wild west, no question about it. we're blessed in california with purchasing power second only to the federal government. we've ordered 101 million n95 masks. i've been able to distribute 35.4 million n95 masks. it's not a critique, just an observation. all of the deliveries from the national stockpile, and there have been three, total 1,089,095 masks. states are getting a little bit of support. we'll have to be resourceful. i reached out to governor pritzker, jay inslee, some of the other governors, to see if we can get our purchasing folks to work more collaboratively. we've got a really good relationship with our regional fema director. we've made sure we're not competing head on, at least regional. this is a huge issue. but i'm going to complain about it, we're going to own it and work around it, and using our purchasing power as a state to avoid price gouging and ultimately get these deliveries in a timely manner. >> governor, the cdc says your state, california, has a testing backlog of nearly 60,000 tests. wha

the fda is now trying to straighten the mess that has been what one testing official called the wild wild west of anti-body marketed tests. >>the national cancer institute and its testing lab has been drafted to determine which test work which do not that is key says new weinberg who heads up the testing program at new york's mount sinai hospital which was just given emergency use authorization to incredibly important as we learn more and use these tests. >>2. >>develop our plans and policies to reopen society that we can rely on the results were being given the fda has given emergency use authorization to 4 antibody tests but the very first company to get it hasn't been able to get its test into the united states. >>selex telling cnn chinese export rules have prevented them from shipping their antibody test of the u.s. so far but they hope and expect that this issue will be resolved very soon why so important to have widespread antibody testing and make sure they work 2 big reasons says harvard epidemiologist caroline buckee so the first thing is just to work out how many people have been inf

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essential services here's a look at the state's rainy day funds, the operating budgets. new york, new jersey, louisiana, these are states slammed by coronavirus that have very little safety net to fall back on the house of representatives yesterday passed a new relief bill that provides nothing for states today governor cuomo just dared mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader, to pass a law allowing states to declare bankruptcy. >> you want to send an international message that the economy is in turmoil? do that. allow states to declare bankruptcy legally because you passed the bill. i dare you to do that. >> reporter: new jersey, louisiana senators have introduced a bipartisan bill in the senate to provide $500 billion in funding for the states, that's exactly what the national association of governors has asked for, kelly. >> oh, but it's interesting. same discussion of states as companies chchlt are the ones to fail anyway. i think, you know, you could take one approach and say it doesn't matter who was in what position and providing a certain omt to everybody but i manage it's much more complicated than that. >> reporter: yeah. you're absolutely right and that battle is taking place both in politics at the national level and then right down at the local level, as well, because all of that money from the federal government, everybody's got a stake in this, and saying but we need direct funding from the federal government, not a trickle down. >> you're right. right down to the towns needing help, as well. thank you. >>> as the states look to reopen the focus shifts to testing, both for the virus and for its antibodies and on a call with reporters today, the ceo of roesh had harsh words for the antibody tests out there. >> look at the performance of these and bodies and i can tell you it's a disaster. it is a disaster these tests are not worth anything or have very little, very little use. you see how emotional i am here but i find it, you know, some of these companies i tell you, this is ethically very questionable to get out with this stuff. >> rarely hear that talk from a ceo these days my next guest said any public health response was doomed to fail on testing. i'm joined by michael olsterholm great do have you here >> thank you. >> if testing isn't the answer, what is? >> first of all, the testing is a very important part of an answer but part of it but i think the real question is, what kind of testing when, where and how? as some of us have been talking about for the last six to seven weeks, we have a major shortage of testing in this country because of the lack of reagents and the lack of the ability to get the test swabs, that's different than not wanting to test we do want to test i think the other thing you just heard from the representative from roche is exactly right. many of the tests aproofed by fda are disasters and shouldn't be on the markets and we have to clean that up to make sure that the tests used are the best ones. >> why would the fda aproprove test that is aren't reliable >> we think in a how shall i say it public relations and the political world. the cdc's inability hampered us and then the fda responded with several different actions where they opened it up under an emergency use authorization, they made it possible for companies to come on that basically almost all they had to do is a shingle saying testing and they could get their particular test at least on the fda list, not necessarily reviewed this is a wild, wide west in testing. we have got to clean that up at the same time to do everything to assure that these reagents and that these other chemicals and so forth we need for the tests can be acquired by the states and the companies doing the testing out there in the states. >> right you are basically saying that the testing could be the way to reopen if we had it at a big enough scale and almost unimaginable scale with a company basically testing everybody every kay. on the issue of not having enough, you mentioned reagents a couple times there's a shortage of chemicals? who produces them? >> yeah. >> how can we ramp that up more quickly? >> think about just the very brief history here before the wuhan outbreak occurred in december, the world supplied bay normal manufacturing process of the reagents call it the garden hose. after wuhan happened and saw the major testing in china, the industry had to respond in a sense with a garden hose to a now fire hose kind of level but then when the

this is the wild, wild west down here in florida.h hospitals competing against each other to get supplies, with the state desperately trying to buy supplies from all over the world, there's no systematic way of doing this. it's clearly a federal role. clearly we did this during world war ii and we got to have these tests being more uniform and we've got to know that they're accurate. so we're very far away from getting any of that done. can we do it? the states are capable of certainly executing, if they have the supplies. >> but contrast that with the messages you're hearing from the white house where the president says the states are on your own. you should be table to handle this. you have the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell who is saying if it's getting too tough, you know, and you can't rely on the federal government, then you need to consider bankruptcy. what do you say to those messages coming from, you know, your colleagues, federal leaders? >> they're outrageous. and certainly not conducive to solving this huge pandem

across the country, the doctor that advises the fire chief kind of said it very well, it's the wild, wild west of testing. there are 106 different tests or companies involved in coronavirus testing. only one of those actually has operating under guidance by be not only getting the appropriate test, but also getting it in the amountthey need. we know they are working on that, but it will certainly be a challenge.>> another thing, that the governor talked about today as far as the criteria, is the most vulnerable. and making sure they remain safe. talk a little bit about how easing the stay-at-home orders may not actually apply to let's say, older people. >> that is one of the benchmarks he has laid out. he wants to make sure as we go along here, as they start to loosen up in different areas of the state, is are there resources available for seniors who are staying at home? are there social services available, are there meals available for them? those are the vulnerable populations that typically don't have visitors. they may be in a congregant setting, which is a lot of we have to make sure tha

it's a wild, wild west. >> we are running dangerously low on ppe. >> those supplies are being diverted by the federal government. >> nearly a month after president trump declared covid-19 a national emergency, states are still sounding the alarm on supply shortages. and there's another frustration mounting among states. understanding who is taking charge of the federal response. fema has taken the lead coordinating role. but with fema's administrator, pete gainer, largely out of the public view, one congressional aide tells cnn no one really knows who's in charge, who is making decisions. >> we were briefing the president earlier. he asked me to come out and talk a little bit. >> senior advisor and son-in-law jared kushner has taken a more prominent role in the federal response. at times, taking charge unapologetically. >> i got a call from the president. he told me he was hearing from friends in new york that the new york public hospital system was running low on supply. called up the admiral, made sure we had the vinventory. we went to the president and earlier the president called m

it is a wild, wild west. >> we're running dangerously low on ppe. >> those supplies are being divertedfederal government. >> reporter: nearly a month after president trump declared covid-19 a national emergency, states are still sounding the alarm on supply shortages. and there is another frustration mounting among states. understanding who is taking charge of the federal response. fema has taken the lead coordinating role, but with fema's administrator pete gainer largely out of the public view, one congressional aide tells cnn no one really knows who is in charge, who is making decisions. >> we're briefing the president earlier. he asked me to come out and talk a little bit. >> reporter: trump senior adviser and son-in-law jared kushner has taken a more prominent role, at times taking charge unapologetically. >> i got a call from the president, he said he was hearing from friends in new york that the new york public health system was running low on critical supply, called up the admiral, made sure we had the inventory, went to the president today and earlier today the president calle

described to me by several people that i've talked to who are trying to be in this bidding war as the wild, wild west. everyone is trying to get the same amount of supplies, the same supplies as we watch the coronavirus cases here in the u.s. raise. so you're starting to see the situations where, as governor cuomo said, he's working with the state of oregon to essentially borrow some for now while their curve is low so he can give them back when their curve goes up. but this is more of the relationships that are building because there is so much desperation and such a limited supply of these critical items. >> dr. phillips, do you believe there will be enough -- that enough can be produced in a short amount of time to meet te need? >> i do think that enough can be produced by makers both abroad and here in the u.s. i am so impressed by how much private industry has really flipped the switch to go towards making what we need. so while we have to have the raw materials, it's pretty essential to get those, i think that as makers have started coming online, that we are doing an incredible job. that said

there is -- the antibody test right now, it is a little bit of a wild wild west. a lot of tests out there, they're not created equal, and there needs to be a better understanding of what test exactly is being offered and what are you going to do with it. >> dr. del rio, sanjay gupta, thank you, doctors, both very much. >>> okay, we have to get to this other breaking news right now. this is out of north korea. there are serious questions this morning about the health of north korean dictator kim jong-un. one u.s. official tells cnn that kim is in, quote, grave danger, after undergoing surgery. jim sciutto broke this story last night. he joins us now with the details. jim, share your reporting with us. >> so i'm told that the u.s. is monitoring intelligence that kim's health is in danger, following a surgery, this comes from a u.s. official with direct knowledge of the intelligence. also part of this picture is that kim six days ago missed a major event in north korea, that is an event commemorating his grandfather, kim il-sung, the founding leader of north korea. f

. >> this is the wild, wild west. we are literally discovering it as we go. >> and chris burrow is the executive director at the hammer theater in san jose, dark for now. he doesn't anticipate this 500- seat performing arts center to reopen for months. when given the green light, he is grappling with how to operate. >> if you could imagine a theater right next to each other, in order to actually practice social distancing, you would actually have to skip two seats at least, and skip every row. >> reporter: a third of the house -- that means changing the economic model, negotiating artist fees. he also thinks ushers wear glovers when handing out programs. audience members may wear masks. performers can't. >> because many of them play an interest or say something with their mouths, it is very possible with the coaches and the students, even, wearing masks. >>> overcondition and competition kickboxing if san jose. the owner like many gym owners is offering work-outs online. >> i am probably doing as well as everyone else

wild, wild west and we're against other states. so we found a -- or they found a supplier who had $1.5 million masks that we needed. our comptroller said we need to do whatever it takes to get things done. so this supplier needed money right away. and we actually had to stop our system and sort of do a manual warrant, as you say, which is a little bit old fashioned. and he was going to come pick it up that day. and he called and said i have to have it in my bank by 2:00. so our procurement person was upset about it and said, you know, we've lost it. i said i don't know, i'll just hop in the car and drive it to him. so that's what i d i hopped in the car and took off down i-55 and she worked with him and we got a meeting spot and, you know, some day i'll tell my grandchildren about the time that i met a stranger in a parking lot at mcdonald's with a $3 million check for, you know, supplies for the coronavirus. >> but will you tell your grandkids that you were speeding down that highway or will you tell them that you went the speed limit? that's the question? >> i was speeding. and while i was speeding i was thinking if i got pulled over, i would just hop in the state policeman's car and you take over and we have to get them this $3 edit gdid get our masks. >> let me ask you this. it seems you're over a barrel with this competition, that you are subject to whatever price this foreign entity wants to put on these masks, which is well above what they normally should be at. you're kpeecompeting with other states, competing with the federal government, you're competing with foreign governments and the private sector. is there a better way to do this? >> well, i think our governor has made it very clear that there should be something done. you are correct, we have actually lost some of our business to other states and it drives up the price that all taxpayers are paying more for it. so we're all at a loss when that happens. and there does need to be a coordinated effort, for sure. >> do you have any way of knowing how many other states have this system that, in your state, governor pritzker has set up, and that is this kind of -- well, in this case, the opposite of a value meal, but this rapid procurement strike force that even though you're bidding up against other states and the feds in some cases, working together, you can go out and get what the people of your state need, at least. >> my understanding is that this is our only opportunity, is that he pulled together procurement people from illinois, the best, and they're looking and they're literally out there looking for masks and ventilators and rae t respirators, gloves, sanitizer, and comptroller mendoza has us ready to make those payments right away, and that's what we're doing. and i don't know that we can even stop and take a breather to do anything else, because people will die. you know, financially speaking, i've been a cfo and i've never had to say that. and if we don't get our work done, people will die. and we don't have a choice. so, i took off running down the highway, although i would like to say i was really not at risk, and it's a little bit embarrassing, because people are out there every day working with people, but this is what we can do to help, is to get the bills paid faster and things like that. >> while it is a wildhat almost seems out of a movie, it is an important reminder that you do have people's lives on the line and you're doing it in order to get them personal protective equipment. illinois assistant comptroller, ellen andres, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> ellen, thank you. and a story from overseas that katy mentioned at the top of our broadcast has to do with british prime minister boris johnson hospitalized due to covid-19. his spokesperson says it's a precautionary measure due to persistent symptoms of coronavirus ten days after testing positive. number ten downing street reiterated prime minister johnson is still the head of british government. >> joining us now from london is nbc chief global correspondent, bill neely. first, any updates in the prime minister's condition? >> hi, katy. not yet, although it does look increasingly like boris johnson will spend a second night in hospital in london. it's 11 days, actually, since he was declared to have

>>the state have been told you're on your own it's a wild wild west.e are running dangerously low on pp. >>those supplies are being by the federal government nearly a month after president trump declared covid-19 a national emergency states are still sounding the alarm on supply shortages. and there's another frustration mounting among states understanding who's taking charge of the federal response fema has taken the lead coordinating role cope with fema's administrator pete gaynor largely out of the public view one congressional aide tells cnn no one really knows who's in charge who's making decisions. >>we are briefing the president earlier he asked me to come and talk a little bit. >>trump senior adviser and son-in-law jared kushner has taken a more prominent role in the federal response at times taking charge unapologetically i got a call from the president. >>he told me he was hearing from friends of his new york at the new york, public hospital system. i was running low on on critical called a barrel plus check out make sure we have the inventor

number two is we have the wild, wild west for testing. has all but given up its oversight responsibility for tests we have on the market. many are nothing short of a disaster, and we got into that place because of had fact once cdc had a problem, the fda just opened the gate, and we have a lot of bad tests on the market right now. the third thing is these tests just don't perform well in low prevalent populations meaning that right now, if you were to test for antibody in most places in the united states, over half the tests would be false positives. so what we need is a major new initiative on testing that gets away from every day just saying how many people got tests. we're misses the mark in a big way right now. >> is this, given what we have now, i mean, it sounds like -- does the federal government, does the president need to use this defense production act in order to force these private companies to make these reagents? >> well, that's part of the answer, but remember, the whole world wants these reagents right now, not just the un

attention has been placed on that and most of what you are hearing is true in terms of it being the wild wild west, in terms of procuring the masks, shields, glove sets and the like. currently in california. we have already distributed 35..9 million. while we have gotten 1 million. apparently we are going to get another 17 ever thousand masks. we were just told that this morning. people on the frontlines broadly defined we recognize our obligation to you to continue to find this personal protective gear and to do more not just to source n95 masks, but surgical masks and the gowns and the coveralls that all of you do deserve. our hospital system was slack, not just surge. every day we are bringing on more beds. every day we are building capacity, and every day i continue to be miss me rised by the incredible leadership within our hospital system, our assisted living facilities, our skilled nursing homes, where they are anticipating the need to do more and better and providing more points of access and more space as they reconstitute and repurpose existing space in order to prepare for our peak in t

. >> the states have been told you're on your own, it's the wild, wild west. >> we are running dangerously low on ppe. >> those supplies are being diverted by the federal government. >> literally a month after president trump declared covid-19 a national emergency, states are still sounding the alarm on supply shortages. and there's another frustration mounting amongst states, understanding who's taking charge of the federal response. fema has taken the lead coordinating role but with fema's administrator pete gainer largely out of the public view, one congressional aide tells cnn no one really knows who's in charge, who's making decisions. >> when we were briefing the president earlier, he asked me to come out and talk a little bit. >> reporter: trump's senior adviser jared kushner has taken a more senior role. at times unapologetically. >> i got a call from the president that he was wearing from his friends in new york that the new york public hospital system was running lee on critical supply. i called the admiral, make sure we had the inventory, we went to the president today and earli

out to the states instead of telling the governors go fight each other for it, let it be the wild, wild westarmers who are flushing milk down the drain because they are not allowed to ship them to the food pantries. we've asked the department of agriculture to please change the rules at least during the pandemic to allow some of the food to be donated to food pantries. but we still haven't heard anything back. it is very unfortunate. >> senator, brian and i spent two hours focused on the questions around testing. and one thing that everyone agrees on in the scientific community, without testing, it is impossible to have an informed conversation about opening up anything. where do you think we are right now and where do you want to get to for your state and for the country at large on testing? >> we need widespread testing that should be available and right now we don't have it. and we've asked the white house time and again, something as simple as how many tests do we night or how many te need or how many tests do you have. and they can't answer the question. the trump administration does no

right now it is the wild, wild west for what is available for testing. s s assure highest quality tests. and even then, they are not per effect tests and right now if you were to use the antibody test in most locations in this country, half of all the positives you would find would be false positives. telling people that they are protected when they are not. imagine if i told you and you were a health care worker going into a room full of covid virus that you wanted to be sure you are protected, you have positive antibody, but one out of two chances it is not real. we have to do better on these tests. so again, just test, test, test isn't the answer. we have to have tests and they have to work and we have to know how to use them and we're not having that discussion yet. it is all about what the numbers of date are and that is not getting us it an effective and comprehensive testing program in this country which we desperately need by the way. >> so doctor, once again let's talk about the roadmap as we move forward. we're at 5% now. it will end up around

is that belief harkin and back to the wild west, is it -- harkening back to the wild west, is that threatened now to a more socialized america? jeffrey: good morning. we are in a pretty dramatic moment, a frightening one. we have to understand that we need a society level response to epidemic,is terrible so in one sense if we go it alone, the amount of suffering and death would be horrendously high. that is why just about everybody , including the administration now very late has come around to the idea that we need public health, not just private health. the absence of public health monitoring and contact tracing and identifying cases of this disease and taking it nonchalantly from mid july into march hasy led the united states into an utterly disastrous situation. now we need to get on top of this epidemic to contain it, and that is the most urgent matter right now. tom: right. scoop jackson or hhs of minnesota. we have a set of democrats with a wide view of centrist and left and liberal politics. wideo they ensure a population of americans who were scared stiff? what can the democratic lea

wild west dueling? >> interesting question, the relation between dueling and sort of wild west gunfight, certainly the similarity of idea and method is really striking, right, if you think of a southern shootout, two guys facing each other and, you know, and a signal and they both grab a gun and shoot, so there is a -- it feels very similar to a duel, but what is striking, at some point early in my project, i was looking to see how dueling and death and duels progress across the country, right, they're happening on the east coast and what happens as the nation moves west. what i found was just before statehood, there would be more gun fights, more duels, there would be more violence. if it's coming from the same sort of idea, the reason why is because people knew that statehood was coming and people were going to claim power so there was like this shuffle of a moment where people are like, oh, yeah, i'm better to you, no, i'm better to you. we better show it now. soon there will be a government and it's going to matter. i think the idea of it and the culture of it is similar, but i don't necessarily think that p

around massacring other people, you know, in the west things -- we talked about the wild west but it was not nearly as wild as some given reconstruction given the terrorism going on but you know some people say there should have been a at marshall plan and if you really wanted to boost up the south, black-and-white, but the northerners had paid a lot of money for the civil war and more that interested in digging into their pockets and pouring more money into the south. yet, westward expansion is going on in this part of the greater reconstruction and it is diverting resources maybe that might have been directed to the south but after reconstruction he did not get a giant flow of money into the south and what you did was buy up southern railroads andin southern factors until the south became what woodward said, a colonial economy. the south was absorbed into the national economy as a second rate region and that lasted a long time and in the 30s franklin d roosevelt said the south is the number one economic problem of the nation. african-americans who were at the bottom of the poorest part of the nation suff

wild should deal with the virus. and play is another friendly football match in sweden get death threats as the global sports shutdown exposes them to online gambling. now the united states has suffered the wilds west single day of the corona virus pandemic with close to 1200 deaths on thursday the total number of fatalities there has now surpassed 6000 the number of reporters infections wild wide as now also more than a 1000000 wartime powers are being used in the u.s. to get the needed equipment to hospitals president donald trump has invoked the defense production act ordering private companies to make mosques ventilators and other medical equipment while i white house correspondent can be health that has more on the range of new measures announced by president trump. as the number of corner virus cases in the united states continues to rise so does historic unemployment as a result the u.s. president announcing 350000000000 in small business loans to help small businesses retain employees who are staying at home right now as a result 1 of social distancing the u.s. president also saying americans can expect guidance soon whether or not they should be wearing face mask when they leave their homes now there is in the midst of all this still strict social distancing guidelines and stay at home orders in a majority of u.s. states that is something that is in place to try a