Transcripts For CSPAN Washington Journal 05252020 20240713

Let us know what reopening looks like in your part of the country. If you are in eastern or central time zones, 202 7488000. If you are in the mountain or pacific time zones, it is 202 7488001. A special line throughout the morning for essential workers, 202 7488002. You can catch up with us on social media. Message,end us a text 202 7488003 is that number. Good monday morning to you. Here is the headline from the wall street journal last week. All 50 states have taken steps to reopen. Revivers hoping to economies. That is what we are going to talk about this morning, reopening, asking you what it looks like in your part of the country. Here is a map from the New York Times. That map, the blue states are the states in full reopening or partial phases of reopening. The striped blue and yellow lines are regional reopening scum and all states on that map in some process of reopening. , illinois, has had a stayathome order in effect since march 21. That is set to expire on may 29. We are talking about the reopening process in the u. S. , what it is looking like, where you are allowed to go in your part of the country. Pacificm npr looking at states. Dining in at restaurants are allowed. The states in yellow is where it has been buried. That is a map about hairdressers and barbers, reopenings in that sector of the economy. The yellow states are where it d. Varie the gray states where it is closed. Here is what some people are seeing when you are at the beaches this memorial day weekend. This is a frontpage picture from the Washington Times. The mood subdued. Onches on the gulf coast memorial day weekend, screening motorists with license plates from outside of florida with high covid rates for those visitors in the state. Plenty more to show you this morning. We want to hear from you. What does real opening reopening look like in your part of the country . James in new york, what does it look like . Caller happy memorial day. Host go ahead. Same to you. Caller what im thinking is we need to be a little more peoples of asymptomatic who are spreading the virus, not willingly, but still doing so. Our country is very divided. I also think that we should be wearing the masks and doing everything we can to keep our country safe. You talked about a symptomatically go. That was a concern asymptomatic people. That was a concern yesterday on abcs this week. She was asked about those pictures we just showed you of beach reopenings and crowds flocking to the beaches. [video clip] you said people could go out to beaches as long as they stayed distant. When you look at the images of these large crowds on saturday not keeping social distance, does this still make you confident that reopening beaches and parks was the right call . Think it is our job as Public Health officials every day to be informing the public of what is at risk. We have made it clear that there is asymptomatic spread. That means people are spreading the virus unknowingly. This is unusual in respiratory diseases. You dont know who is infected. We want to make a clear all the time that social distancing is absolutely critical. If you cannot social distance, you must wear a mask. These are items that are critical. We have learned a lot about this virus, that we need to translate that learning into changed behavior that stays with us so we can drive down the number of cases. That is my point. You are not seeing it across the country. You are not seeing it at those beaches. That is our job to continue to communicate. , makingto communicate sure our generation and millennials can get that message out there. I think there is a way to do that. Americans are amazingly innovative. We really just need to have better continuous communication on how important that is. Highlighting these issues like in arkansas with this pool party. Thatis why it is important you maintain distances. In phase one and phase two of opening, we have asked you to continue to shelterinplace because we know that comorbidity puts you at a greater risk for more significant disease. Those who see the need for this to continue to happen, those who did not are going out but maintain social distance. Birx yesterday on abcs this week. We are asking you, what does reopening look like . Several of you texting and tweeting at us this morning. Michael writing in, much more outside activities, vermont interesting to see more outofstate license plates over the weekend. Reopening in florida is as idiotic as all the other states. They caved to ceos and stockholders. Profit over lives. This is trumps america. Jim, one of those who tweet about this program near everyday, saying there are sportingmber of boats trump 2020 flags. Aurora illinois, this is can. Good morning. Caller good morning. Good morning on memorial day. With thegreement er as far as the concern with the administration does not seem to be the nation pose a Health Nations health. He seems to want to get the economy in as good a shape as he electioncan before the becomes a little more intense so ,e has a little time to do that but he is not going to be successful. People are already on to him as far as he is obvious in his intent, and that is damaging america. Confidence in america itself. Good. Doing us no justdent sham wow is flailing at anything to help himself. And is all he is concerned about. He is not concerned about the a possibly fatal disease for some people. Host got your point. Sandra is next out of waynesboro, virginia. What does reopening look like . It is pretty slow. The people here are real conservative in the heart of the shenandoah valley. Are mainly they had close churches yesterday. Many of them are closed until the end of june. My husband opened his congregation. They all were thrilled even though they could not hug each other. They had to make themselves not do that because they are a huggy congregation. Host what is your husbands church . Fairview church of the brethren. None of the others have opened. Your husband and his congregation been doing since the shutdown . Did you have the ability to do the Online Services . No, most of these people in this congregation are extremely elderly. They would not know the computer if it walked up and kissed them. Newsletter doing a so they can keep uptodate with each other. Little cartoons he finds to put in it and stuff for them. He was relieved last night. He got a call from one of the hospitals. He was one of the parishioners that was suffering from cancer and not expected to live. That was a change because they were not allowing any of the pastors into the hospitals. He was glad they let him do that. It is slowly but surely opening up. Everybody is afraid there is going to be another way of this happening. If everything dr. Fauci is saying is correct, the virus is not going to go anywhere. For the viewou from waynesboro, virginia. That is what we are hoping to do with our callers throughout this program. As we do that, we are going to be checking in with reporters around the country to also give a view of the reopening process. We mentioned the traffic headed to the beaches this weekend. Here is one headline from transport topics. Despite lower gas prices, aaa expects fewer travelers this memorial day weekend. Us through the expectations of how many people are on the roads this year versus previous years. Guest we are seeing a very different memorial day this year for most parts of the country. Volumes 50 less traffic this time. Forecasted that they are expecting to see record low people traveling this memorial day. 2009 inw has been in the great recession. That was 31 million travelers. Last year, aaa forecasted about 43 Million People. There is an expectation that we will not see anywhere near those numbers. Despite reports of people on the ,eaches around the country traffic Analytics Services are pointing to decreases across the board. We are looking at especially metropolitan regions where not only transportation agencies but also told collectors and the travel industry is suggesting that people stay home. The airlines are continuing to see a drop in people going to airports and the Passenger Rail system and transit are not factors. People for the most part are not taking the subways. Amtrak is expected to commence their fast speed rails next month. Talking to the reporting that i was doing suggests that the transportation agencies expect people for the most part to it here to social distancing guidelines. The website for transport topics, ttnews. Com. You mentioned the toll industry with so many less people on the roads traveling. What does that mean for state revenues as they try to plan for Infrastructure Projects in their state . How is this going to impact them . Guest revenue has been down tremendously since march. You are talking private toll collectors and the Transportation Industry reporting revenue has been down about 30 from this time last year. States are reporting higher figures. Projectshave seen some that were already underway, in virginia on i66, there was a repaving project already underway. States like ohio, missouri, North Carolina, they either have back projects, or they are preparing to hold projects the lackyear because of Traffic Volume means less people are purchasing gas for their cars, and the revenue from the fuel taxes is the primary source of funding for these transportation agencies. That has prompted the represents that state transportation agencies to request from congress 50 to help avoid a description to the transportation system. This will help make up for the lack of revenues they are experiencing now. That willlikelihood be included in an upcoming coronavirus responsibility of we heard nancy pelosi mentioned the possibility last week. Bill, the 3use trillion bill included 15 billion for transportation programs. The senate has not taken up that bill. Senator Mitch Mcconnell has not indicated where he wants to go with the aid for state transportation agencies. Fromard very recently senator Lindsey Graham that they are proposing and would advocate for including some infrastructure components to the Senate Version of the stimulus. We just dont have enough information to know whether that the 50 billion or something similar that the house proposed. Expectation that the next round of stimulus will provide some sort of significant emergency aid for state dot. Host where are we . What are the expectations through the summer . People on the road are going to notice the National Average is less than two dollars. Analysts expect that to stay consistent through the summer driving season. Less than two dollars per gallon. In the major cities such as new york, the National Average will most likely be the same. When you look to the west coast, there is an expectation that could go up significantly throughout the rest of the summer as they are expecting more people to go to the beaches and be out and about. Say that if there is an increase in coronavirus cases in the fall, that would pricese driving, and gas could conceivably go down. Appreciate you joining us this memorial day morning. Stay safe. Guest thank you. Host we are talking to our viewers this morning as we hear from reporters from around the country. We want to hear about what it looks like in your town and state. Waiting in North Carolina on that line for essential workers. What kind of work do you do . Caller i am a nurse. It is very hard. Ithas been hard because strains on the nurses. We have to work diligently. When someone comes in being sick, our radar has to go up and , so to movere forward is hard. It really is. Keeping thedoing is community informed. Dont besk, stay home, around anyone sick, wash your hands, just typical things we know we need to do. Clean the services when you are at home. Try to stay home if you dont have to be out. Rush since they reopened. I know everybody is tired of being home. They just have to look forward and say this is what we need to do. Are you on one of those covid units . Caller yes. Host are there any nurses that have come down with covid, and do you feel you have the protections you need . Caller i feel like i have the protection. There are a couple of nurses that have come down with the covid virus. Now they are back at work. Some of us have to work 14 days straight. 16 ormes we have to work 17 days straight. We have families. Heart is into what i do. I love what i do. I just want to stress to the community, just be safe. That is so important. You cannot stress that enough. Thank you for the call, and thank you for what you do. Rocky is next, clearwater, florida. What can and cant you do . People in florida, they are trying to keep your distance. I see some people walking down with masks on. I think trump is right for. Pening up things he did say be safe and keep your distance. For tryinglame trump to let people have freedom. A lot of people feel like they are prisoners in their own home. I wash my hands constantly. I am 64 years old. Im a retired garbageman. I dont feel like im going to get this thing. I get a shot every year. Isnt there a certain blood type that gets this the most . You mentioned your grandkids. Have you been able to see and interact with your grandkids . Nothing wrongis with them. They are perfect. They have the same blood type is me. To get back to playing baseball. I wash my hands constantly. Host are they going to be able to play baseball this summer . Caller my eightyearold might be able to play baseball. The older one, they are not sure about him. I would love to see them play baseball. They are good at it. The eightyearold hit a home run before it started. He is a lefty. I think hes going to be somebody someday. Host congratulations to him. Thank you for the call. Summer activities and what kids can and cannot do. From washington, d. C. , looking at pool reopening, saying they are possibly out for the summertime. The coronavirus pandemic is coming for summer. Scrapping plans to open their facilities as Health Officials worry about their safety. One more when it comes to what normal life might look like for children in this country. This from the Washington Times, focusing on the push in texas to try to return children to some normal lives. Millions of texas children may get a taste for that somewhat normal summer. Said Governor Greg Abbott child care facilities in the state can reopen immediately and set the stage for a return to summer camps. Guidelines on how to do it during the coronavirus pandemic, including sanitation practices. They require parents to keep their distance from one another while celebrating a home run. That story from the Washington Times this morning. It was the president of the United States yesterday evening, one of his tweets. This one focusing on schools in this country, saying they should be opened as soon as possible. Much very good information is available. Perhaps referring to the guidelines from the centers for Disease Control on school openings. We want to hear what reopening looks like in your part of the country. This is john. Caller can you hear me . Host yes, sir. Cable i dont have television. I cannot afford it. Im listening to you. You have a fascinating program. As far as dod employment, it does look very good. I have been furloughed since february this year. There he anxious to get back. I cannot tell a work. I dont own a computer. Beaches are starting to open up. Sadly, many businesses are still closed. Even jcpenney is still closed. They filed for bankruptcy last week. Host would you go down to the beach . Caller i drove by. It looks very good. We are concerned about spreading the virus. I just want to mention, since i cannot see you, i listen to you on the radio. Your voice is identical. Has anyone told you that . I dont know whether it is john or pueblo . I have to listen. Host i will tell pedro you said hello. Another john from memphis, tennessee, calling in. And essential worker. What kind of work are you in . Caller i work at kroger. I do stocking. I make sure things are in the place when you need them. Host do you feel safe at that job . Have things changed at all in tennessee . Are you still getting the same volume you are getting when it was just the essential workers who are on the job . It has taken an upturn in the past couple of weeks ever since the reopening. To dismiss,nt want but it is like a zombie thing in so far as one person comes in without a mask. They are just getting their things. I can be safe. Because 100lucky people come in without masks, and then they make it a political thing. Im doing my job. They are getting their things. Im doing my part. It is going to be crazy in 2020. There is going to be a physical divide between the people who are feeling like it is a civic duty. Peopleo vote versus the who do not need a mask. They are going to see each other at the polls. I dont know what it is going to be like as a poll worker. As a grocery worker, maybe i dont have the best perspective seeing as how im just stocking things. It is kind of disturbing to see people not taking basic safety into account. Account, because if people take basic safety into account, it is like zombies. Walking dead. It is done. Got yourpoint host point. That is john in memphis. Masks was a topic Governor Mike Dewine of ohio talked about on nbcs meet the press. Here is a little bit of that exchange. [video clip] for those of us who covered american politics, it was hard not to be moved by that message, because how would masks become this political dividing line . You wanted to make it mandatory and you decided to back off. Do you wish the president would help you out more . The governor is right. The governor is spot on. I have watched that clip a couple of times. This is not about politics, this is not about whether you are liberal or conservative, left or right, republican or democrat. We wear the mask not to protect yourself so much as to protect others. This is one time when we truly are all in this together. What we do directly impacts others. We are not saying if you are in a car youre driving by yourself, you do not have to wear a mask. Maskd not have to wear a if youre away from people hiking you do not have to wear a mask if you are away from people hiking or within your own house. If you are around people, we are asking ohioans to do this. It is not about politics. It is about helping other people. Is there a point you will order orour executive do you feel the pushback you got, i will publicly telling you i think you should do it . Our order does say every employee in every business, unless there is some reason they cannot wear that mask, every employee is wearing a mask today. That is a fundamental change in ohio. Stores, out, a lot of ec see 90 of the people are Wearing Masks. You see 90 of people are Wearing Masks. We want to up that. This is a risk. It is also a risk if we do not open up the economy. All of the downsides of not opening up the economy. We can do both. Host Governor Mike Dewine of ohio on meet the press yesterday. Asking you to call in on this memorial day morning to tell us what reopening looks like in your part of the country. As you been calling and checking with reporters around the country, talking about that topic. Here is a recent story from forbes. Americas beaches are open for memorial day. Heres what you need to know statebystate. The contributor who wrote that story joining us via zoom. Lets talk about more restrictive states versus less restrictive states here on the east coast, the difference between a rhode island and georgia. Can you walk through it. Guest is an interesting divide. Rhode island and maine are completely still locked down, the beaches are not open freddie uses. It is the beaches are not open for any uses. Then you have stages then you have states like georgia and South Carolina where it is back to business as usual. Some of the percentage of what you can do with Retail Stores is still 50 , but there is an interesting divide on how states are opening back up. It comes down to the fact that people have been inside for so long and beaches are synonymous with summer and memorial day is the beginning of summer, i do not think you could have gone through memorial day as a governor and not started to open some of these beaches backup. It has been an interesting approach, but generally speaking americas beaches are back open. Host want to walk through a few more states with peter taylor. This is the front page of the Washington Times. It is florida beaches along the gulf coast. The caption noting florida has been screening motorists with license plates from states with high amounts of covid cases. How much of that is happening in other states, this screening process and who is being allowed on and whether out of stators can come to the beach . Guest that is a great question. In march, when a lot of new yorkers fled manhattan, they went to rhode island, connecticut, florida. There was a lot of concern about interstate travel. One of the interesting things when it comes to the beaches is delaware has taken an interesting approach. Delawares beaches are back open. Shortterm rentals are back open. Hotels are back open, but to residents only. There a lot of people i saw over the weekend from maryland and virginia who got in their car, packed up the family, got everything they needed to get wood delaware beach, they were roadblock at the delaware state border turning away residents, looking at license plates. You have to be a state resident or you have to prove youve been quarantined for 14 days. Interstate travel is fundamental in the United States of america. It raises an interesting issue of when certain states locked from one to the other. Think about new england. New hampshire only has 10 miles of beaches. If youre in New Hampshire you can go to maine or massachusetts and still go to the beach. It is a complicated issue for states trying to solve who is coming in and who is coming up. Governor dewine raises a good point. The virus has not gone away. It is still a risk. On beaches, people congregate. That is what they necessarily do, whether it is a boardwalk or gathering together. People need to be cautious. Just because youre back at the beach feeling good, the virus is still there in the virus does not decide where travels. The point about masks is important. Feet social distancing is still required in every state. The guidance from the governor is if you can maintain six feet of social distance, wear a mask, even on the beach. Ocean city opened up the boardwalk. It was contentious with a lot of people, but if you saw pictures from over the weekend. Is ocean city, maryland youre talking about . Guest ocean city, maryland. Host how much is this memorial day weekend a test run for localities like ocean city, maryland and other beach towns for what they will do and how much they will enforce restrictions over the summer . Guest it is a litmus test. A lot of people run the risk of forgetting that. Public Health Officials and state regulators are watching this. That is the other reason, beyond protecting each Others Health that people need to be cognizant about being on their best behavior. Public Health Officials are watching. After memorial day, if there is not social distancing, people are congregating, a lot of states have requirements that gatherings of 10 people or more not permitted. If Health Officials see gatherings of 20, 30, 50 people, they will take notice. Nobody knows what the virus will do, but what Health Officials can do it shut the beaches back down again. There are three months of summer left. People need to enjoy themselves and get back outside and swim, breathe fresh air, see people again, but they need to do it with caution, not just for their own health but also for what the rest of summer will look like. The beaches will open back up, they can shut right down again. I hope people enjoy themselves, but where the masks, stay six feet apart, follow the rules. There are police watching. Host before you go, it is only about 4 30 on the west coast, but we do have callers from this time. Take a tour of the west coast beaches and what we should know. Guest the west coast is interesting. There is a divide in america on who is opening up. Said on theine segment that it has become somewhat political. If you look at the west coast, you have oregon, Washington State, and california. Only Washington State is still completely shut down. No access to beaches. California, very similar to florida. It is so big, it is difficult to have statewide guidance. If you look at each county in each city, even Orange County and los angeles county, the beaches are open. It is interesting how when you look at one sector of the country versus another comet is different. If you look the south, republican states, georgia, mississippi, alabama, luigi louisiana, pretty back open again. Restaurants allowing died in service. Boardwalks open. Beaches are symbolic and how opening the politics that are playing out. Ift the article in forbes you want to know what you need to know when it comes to beach reopening. We appreciate your time joining us from zoom from philadelphia. Guest happy memorial day. Host back to our collars asking what reopened looks like. Sean is in key west, florida. Continuing on the same topic of beaches. What does it look like in key west . Caller it is fairly well closed down. My comment is for those of you that do not believe in the pandemic and wish to exercise your right to suicide, you do not have the right to impose murder on the rest of us to express your beliefs. I wonder if our military is listening to the nonsense of the great leader. If so, we are unarmed against our foes. Host shone in key west, florida. This is pat in connecticut. Good morning. Caller good morning. I am an essential. I am a direct care Staff Home Health provider. I was here in connecticut and we have these phases that governor lamont would like us to go through. One of them is the testing of the residents and staff in nursing homes. They are woefully lacking in that. I believe it could be because if they test they get more positive results, leaving them shortstaffed. We have been working longer and more days than ever. Patientd with inches of as they passed the heroes act, realizing that will never actually passed and wondering why we hear all of these thank yous and that, and everyone bipartisan saying thank you, but im wondering why the issue of hazard pay for direct care frontline workers has to keep waiting . I do not think it will ever be realized. Host thanks for the call. Thanks for what you do in connecticut. He mentioned testing. A story from the Washington Post about testing and recommendations for testing. Congress, the Trump Administration pledging to buy 100 million swabs by years end and disturbing them to states to help expand the countrys capacity to test for coronavirus. The report delivered by a sunday deadline to lawmakers. The deadline lawmakers headset for federal Health Officials to submit a National Testing strategy. Doubled down on the Administration Stance that individual states should bear responsibility for carrying out diagnostic testing to help curb the pandemic. The post obtained the 81 page document, call the covid19 strategic testing plan, that is what they write about in todays story. The testing plans is every state should plan to test at least 2 of the population. The number of tests nationwide has hovered around 400,000 tests a day according to the covid tracking project which publishes state testing data. That is hundreds of thousands of tests fewer. If you want to read that in todays Washington Post. We started the segment noting all 50 states have taken steps towards reopening. Here in washington, d. C. , the district remains under stayathome orders. Gretchen is in washington, d. C. What does the view look like from your part of the district . Caller thank you so much. We are not scheduled to open until friday, and even that is now in question because there has been something of a spike. To say we are in lockdown is an exaggeration. With more people at home, thereve been more people than ever out walking, jogging, walking their dogs, riding their bicycles. Most of them Wearing Masks. Sunday also like to say on the talk shows, there was some question of whether trump was fighting against his own health experts. Been certainly has ridiculously poor in terms of broughtip, but facui this on himself with all of his waffling about whether it would be serious, whether masks were getting. January 20 second is when wuhan, china lockdown on quarantine. My husband started buying supplies in early february. If we knew it was coming, there is no reason for g there is no reason fauci could figure it out. Host coming back to the district of columbia, what will be opening up when that order expires and when we feel safe to go out in the district again . Caller i am retired. I do not know if i will feel safe because it is open. I do not think it will change anything for me. I do not know what is going to be open. That isost host gretchen in washington, d. C. The question we are asking is what reopening looks like for you and your part of the country. Phone lines split up regionally. 202 7488000 in the eastern and central time zones. 202 7488001 if youre in the mountain and pacific time zones. A special line for essential workers, 202 7488002. The front page of the New York Times, the caller mentioning President Trump spirit this is the lead story. Trump stays quiet on the death toll as the u. S. Nears the milestone of 100,000 deaths from coronavirus. Peter baker with the story, finding time to golf and jab his enemies on twitter while the country near the six digit death toll. The president repeatedly criticized his predecessor for golfing in a crisis spent the weekend on the links for the First Time Since march as the death toll closed in on 100,000. It was a death toll President Trump once predicted would never be reached. If you want to read peter baker story on the front page of todays New York Times, President Trump picking up on some of the attacks on him for golfing. This was his series of tweets last night at about 9 45 eastern , saying sleepy joe bidens representatives have put out an ad thing i went to play golf today. They think i should stay in the white house at all times. What they did not say is it is the first time i played golf in three months and biden was constantly vacationing, relaxing, and making shady deals with other countries and brought alsolso and barak was playing golf, doing much of his traveling and fumes booing 747 to play golf in hawaii. Once even teeing off immediately after announcing the recent death of a great young man by isis. On a somber weekend, President Trump shares posts to meaning his rivals. The picture alongside the story, the president departing the white house on saturday heading to his club in virginia along the Potomac River north of washington, d. C. , where the president was playing golf. That is the president at the motorcade at the white house. Bruces next out of illinois. Good morning. Caller hello . Host what is reopening look like for you . Aller ok t of the National Papers one of the National Papers has it wrong. We are in stage two of our five stage reopening and about to go into stage three. Host what does that mean . What does stage iii mean for you . Barbershops and salons wish thepening and i governor of illinois would stop considering the whole state as chicago. What . Meaning in terms of the level of restrictions . Caller yes. Quadrants. He has with the state up into , but a lot of information they are not letting out. Host bruce in illinois. Of oakne is next out hill, West Virginia. What is reopening look like in oak hill . Caller good morning. I was out yesterday and i have curtailed my ventures out to necessities. Yesterday i noticed that more people are Wearing Masks, believe it or not, and i noticed we are on route 19, and on that a lot of out of stators traveling from new york, pennsylvania, down south. Illinois, even noticed mississippi license plate yesterday. Town, one our small restaurant close already, even though they were doing takeout and home delivery. Opened whitehas water rafting, and restricting eight and a raft and the buses that care the visitor to and from the place of occupancy to the river has been downgraded to nine or 10. Opening and also our health facilities. Host youve been limiting your activities to only essential activities when youre out yesterday. You think Church Services should be considered an essential activity . Heres a story from the Washington Post about church reopenings yesterday after the president s comments calling for those reopenings late last week. Caller yes and no. I have a friend who is a steady but their church did have a videotaping of their sermon, plus also in southern West Virginia we have always had on our tv sunday services from three or four churches, and even during the week on wednesday. The churches, even during regular year, because their congregation is older, have gone to facebook for their sermons. , andon their sunday school also wednesday night services. Is, yes, they missed the camaraderie of going to church and meeting their friends, but as other people on your program , a building is not necessary. You can meet and pray anyplace you want. I have heard this from all of your religious leaders who have been interviewed on cspan. Host thanks for the call. Stay safe in oak hill, West Virginia. It is just after 7 50 on the east coast on this memorial day weekend. I did want to remind you about some of the events we will be bringing to you later today on cspan, including just after this program today, at 10 00, a wreathlaying at Arlington National cemetery. There is a shot of the tomb of the unknown soldier just across the Potomac River from washington, d. C. We are expecting President Trump at that event, at least according to the white house guidance released this morning. Also expecting defense secretary mark esper. The president also expected to head to fort mchenry in baltimore at noon for a flag raising ceremony, and perhaps remarks as well. A troop review is also on the schedule. The defense secretary expected to be at the fort mchenry ceremony today, bringing those events to you on the cspan networks today, this memorial day. Part of the reopening process weve been talking about this morning throughout our program has also involved figuring out how to reopen, specifically for this memorial day weekend. For more on that, i want to turn to john best, contributor with the Lehigh Valley live. Com website. The story you recently wrote last week, memorial day parade in a time of social distancing slate belt township finds a way. John best joining us by phone. Hows the township how has the township in pennsylvania found a way . Guest good morning. Nice to be with you. Parades are tradition on memorial day as a way to remember our fallen shoulders. Upper mountain bethel township has decided to come up with a way to social distancing while having a parade, essentially emotionless parade. Instead of fire trucks and police and American Legion and watchers,ching past the watchers will drive past the paraders. They will have fire trucks, police, honor guard, and vehicles will come to a Municipal Parking lot and drive past the parade and there be sirens blaring, and at the end of the line they would get a bag of goodies, two hotdogs, a bag of chips, and then they are on their way. Host where did you find out how they came up with this idea and how many folks will participate, and the reception it has gotten so far . Guest they will have three different fire departments, state police, american leisure honor guard American Legion honor guard. Leaders from the boys and girl scouts. They are expecting several hundred people to participate. The township supervisors had been discussing ways to honor memorial day, and how can they do it . Since the beginning of april, they have had a program where they have been giving out free food, and local Catering Companies and businesses are donating food and people financially impacted by covid19 can drive through the parking lot, get their readytoeat meal and be on their way. This somewhat mirrors that. They just decided if everybody is going to stay in their cars and be apart from every each can keep separate, why not have a parade in this way . ,ost the website lehighvalleylive. Com. What are other events you have covered in pennsylvania on how people are experiencing memorial day in a time of social distancing . Guest the Lehigh Valley iron pigs based out of allentown, the aaa affiliate of the philadelphia phillies, they had a soldout drivein firework show where you had tickets in advance, and in their baseball Stadium Parking lot, people were able to park, and instead of watching a drivein Movie Theater screen, they just had fireworks and music and all of that going on. They scheduled the second one for june 6 because it was so successful. In addition to that, other places looking to redo things like parades, the towns of bangor and rosetta in pennsylvania, instead of having a parade, they are having a procession where First Responders will lead the procession with American Legion members and drive from town to town to multiple cemeteries. They will sing the national anthem, say a prayer, 21 gun salute. Members from the public are invited to join the procession and stay apart from each other the cemeteries. Have a procession instead of a parade. Host john best, contributor with lehighvalleylive. Com. What are your plans, what are you covering this week as you continue to cover it from the local level . Guest i will be heading to the parade i was talking about. I have a drone photography business and oob flying over the parade and taking pictures. It is easy to social distancing when you are flying a drone. Host will you be posting the pictures anywhere . Guest i will probably get them up on lehighvalleylive. Com at some point. Host thanks for joining us this memorial weekend. We appreciate it. Guest thanks. You have a good day. Host back to your phone calls as we come up on 8 00 eastern. Asking what reopening looks like in your part of the country. That is the topic we are focused on. The phones are being turned over to you to give your view of the part of the country. A special line for essential workers. 202 7488002. To las vegas. This is nathan. Nathan, what does it look like in las vegas . Caller good morning. It looks like a beautiful day. Right now it is about 70 degrees. It will be unseasonably cool. Starting wednesday will be like 105, 106, hot. Heat knocks a lot of people out, they go through the first year and they get out of town. We are opening up everything. There are a lot of people out and about. Number onethe attraction is the casinos. I cannot wait to get back into casinos. I mostly a sport better, i cannot wait for sports to get back so i can occupy my time and try to use my skills to make a little cash. As far as i think we should have been going along time ago. Governor that a lot of people this guy is on a power grab. The lady in michigan gets all of the print, but this guy is pretty bad, too. Still hoping. They are talking about june 1. Restaurants are open. Malls are opening up. We are getting back to it. Host with your interest in sports, is that can be the sign things are starting to get back to normal is the idea of when we can start watching sports together again . Caller absolutely. This thing would be a lot better , this would be a lot better. Town more than any other town. Simply because it,e got to get back to weve got the hospital situation all set up over the country and we are going to have to get out there. I heard the other day about hong kong, then only four people died. How is that possible . I was caller one thing the point host one thing they point to another countries is the live availability of testing and people Contact Tracing those who test positive have come in contact with and putting , doe folks in quarantine you feel like las vegas is doing and of testing and tracing . Crazy aboutnot so the idea of tracing. About the idea of government urges someone following me around. It seems like here we are , they have testers just standing around. I dont know what its like round rest around the rest of the country. Medoesnt make any sense to host that is nathan in las vegas. Program, closer to 10 00 a. M. Eastern we will be joined by the assistant Business Editor of the Las Vegas Review journal. Talking about the gaming industry specifically in las vegas and nevada and what the reopening process will look like. Thats just after 8 00 a. M. This morning. Of sports the caller brought up, i did want to note this headline. This picture from the Washington Times today looking back to this 102yearold photo of Georgia Tech College Football Game published today in the Washington Times. The blackandwhite photo of the scene back in 1918, decades before primetime kickoffs and billions of programs. Billions and program print pandemic provides a snapshot for fans returned to sports. Oregon, goodut of morning. What does it look like in oregon when comes to reopening . Caller its on the north oregon down, everything is closed , the state parks are closed , the beaches are closed down on the weekends. The beach out front of my house you can drive on from the Columbia River down to dear heart which is about 20 miles. Beachcess point onto the are closed on the weekends with gates, that doesnt stop hopeful campers from trying to find a place to camp. I have got a girlfriend that works for the local municipality and besides the commercial fleet being shut down because of covid19 and the canneries, there is no market for fresh fish, the restaurants being closed, every one of these big drag boats, long liners. They are tied up because there is no market. It doesnt stop the people from thising they can hook up behind their diesel pickup and come down here and try to bully their way into a two into a Church Parking lot, its time to go home and dont come back until we say its time to come back. Thank you. Do you trust Governor Kate Brown is making the right decision on when it comes to when to come back. Caller positively. Kate brown has done an outstanding job in the state of oregon as far as staying on top of the issue. Last week east of the mountains we had a veiled republican state,o try to open the and of course that issue went to the oregon Supreme Court, a stay was issued by the Supreme Court to allow kate brown to do the Due Diligence and as far as mr. Mannix on the east side of the mountains, wouldnt you just shut up and press on. Thank you. Host this is david and washington, d. C. Good morning. Caller good morning. Im in Fort Lauderdale right now and it is pouring down rain. Everything is closed down here. Fortunately of got a pool right , everything is shut down. Im not mad at nobody. He just said wanted to just go home and a figure i am home, this is my place. Would you go to the beaches today . Caller i cant go today. Host would you go today . Caller yeah i would go. To the beach stick community, this is ormond beach, florida. Caller good morning. I feel for the guy down in Fort Lauderdale. Of the state is closed down still because of the number of infections. In our area just outside of Daytona Beach and the number of people into tona beach at the beaches was probably obscene at this point. The hotels are at Maximum Capacity and i dont know that we are ready for this. I think our governor is trying to be trump junior. That isg every step recommended from washington, i think we have some problems with that. , the locallooks people i would assume are Wearing Masks, respecting the distancing. Some Grocery Stores still have one lane going one way and another going another. Thats a good thing. We are taking it seriously but there is some clash with the the medicalrsus science. We will deal with it and get through this. Some of us will make it, some of us wont. About ready to cap 100,000 people, that is a terrible number. Thats all i have to say. Thank you. Day heading into memorial , his press conferences throughout the pandemic, Governor Phil Murphy of new jersey has focused on those who didnt make it. Governor phil murphy on his friday press conference spoke jerseyhe locals from new beaches, the jersey shore and two in particular who didnt make it. This is the governor for friday. Wevemust remember those lost throughout this crisis and add to their numbers another 146 blessed lives lost from our new jersey family. 10,985,ewide total at that is extraordinary. Lets think about the few of those we have lost. First up, we remember anthony and Elizabeth George yanni g iorgiani. They were married for over 61 years. They were both born and raised they werenswick and married after rocky returned serving in the United States army in the korean war. Married and after the birth of their first child they moved to North Brunswick they were just there they would raise their two other children. Member ofa proud carpenters local out of milltown for 45 years and betsy worked at First Fidelity bank. They always love the jersey shore and after the respective retirements they moved fulltime to their happy place in ocean county. After hurricane sandy, betsy passed on may 9, her funeral was 15th. To their soninlaw and we had a conversation about both of them and their family and talked about their family bonds with the strong values that rocky and betsy instilled in their children and grandchildren. Especially their love for the jersey shore and overall appreciation for the preciousness of life. May god bless them both and its only fitting we acknowledge them and pale mosh as we pay all my pay homage to them. It is about 10 minutes after 8 00 this morning on the east coast this memorial day, we want to remind viewers the events we are covering today. Expecting President Trump to Arlington National cemetery at the tomb of the unknown soldier bring excited to participate in a recent a wreathlaying ceremony. Also expect the head up to fort mchenry at noon today. We hope you watch with us here andocus on memorial day whats taking place at Arlington National cemetery. Leo, give our viewers some pictures in this year at Arlington National cemetery and as we do that and you explain what flags in is and how it changed this year . This is volunteers putting flags in to the grays at arlington. Because of the virus and. Estrictions, those are limited arlington is closed off except for the president come onto russian Family Members of family entourage, Family Members. Paying respects to fellow soldiers who died. Today is going to be much more subdued day. Limiting those numbers and keeping big crowds from forming. Needat will Family Members if they want to go to arlington or the other veterans cemeteries around the country . Guest arlington is the most visible one. You need to have a Family Member who is deceased and buried there. Theres only going to be one entrance open, it will be pretty restrictive. There will be some traditional ceremonies, the president and Vice President will be there for ceremonies. Cordon through just quite a few to engage the public on that. Those more public tributes, those have been either canceled or changed to sort of private events that will be streamed on the internet. Trying to limit the number of folks. Officials have been encouraging people, discouraging large , so try to visit on off days. Try and keep those crowds under 10 people. So that this not large groups of people gathering. Host youve covered a lot of memorial days. Is there one that sticks out to you today and will you be able to go to this one . Guest i am not going to be going. We are watching this online. Paying tribute where we can. There will be some restful members following the president. Obviously veterans day theres more of a celebration and recognition, todays a recollect remembrance of those we lost. So there is not the same large speeches typically. Occasion. Of a quieter we are trying to encourage people to think about what memorial day means. Everyone. Llenge for i hope people find some time to take a few quiet moments to reflect on what it means. Same,ge is not to be the its good to be done remotely. Host for folks who havent had the chance to go to the tomb of , can youwn soldier talk us through what that experience is like . Cemeteryl of arlington , its hard to put into words. Its one of the most hallowed places in america. There are civil war war dead, world war ii dead. Deceased soldiers from the iraqi and afghanistan wars. Week, he was asking for the v. A. Cemetery to be reopened because he says its important for americans to experience this , to understand the cost of service and war. Know it but dont harness havent necessarily been there. It is hard to describe unless you been out there. , this is a very sacred day for a lot of families to go sit at their gravesite and pay tribute and reconnect with what theyve lost in the memories that were there. Host Deputy Editor at military times. Him at leo shane. Appreciate your time. That to your phone calls this morning as we continue to get your thoughts on the reopening process is all 50 states embark on some level of reopening at this point we are asking what it looks like in your part of the country. Manchester, New Hampshire, good morning. Caller good morning and good morning cspan. I think you are the fairest cspan hosted and ive been waiting for a while to get this off my back. I was listening to these governors earlier this far as im concerned they are all cowards. Let me tell your audience why this is all political. We are more likely to be killed by a Lightning Strike or a car wreck meant to be killed by this virus. What you need to know is every protected group in america, the blacks, latinos, the First Nations people, the disabled, the illegal immigrants, the homeless, the lgbtq plus xyz crowd, all of these protected minority groups are disproportionately affected and dying from this virus. Of the core constituencies of the democratic party. And because they are disadvantaged and protected by law and have additional rights of the rest of us dont have, they feel like we owe them and the rest of us can stay home in home confinement in prison until the sun doesnt shine and fill it and where foolish masks until we die from Carbon Monoxide saturation of our lungs if that saves more of their prayer precious protected lives. Host when you say the rest of us are you talking about white people . Caller no, believe me, the elderly are a protected two. For the Republican Party. These governors are cowards. Because allt afraid these very powerful constituencies and voting blocks are disproportionately affected by these viruses so this is not meant to be racial. This is meant to be the cowardice of the government and are governors as we approach the summer of 2020. Host debbie is next out of murphy, california. Good morning and thanks for getting up with us. Caller im trying to catch my breath after listening to the last caller. That was very disturbing. I live in a is beautiful rural town in alifornia and we have done good job and what we are supposed to do trying to get levels appropriate for our area. The situation we are in is with a lot of secondhome vacationers from the bay area down that way. What happens is like this weekend, they all, our little town of 1000 was packed with people from the bay area who are still technically on stayathome orders. Its going to be interesting to see how it all works. I feel like im just watching to see what happens from all this. Up, ishen theyll come that a good thing for business and the money they bring . Caller i started as a vacationer myself, so i get it and we love our vacationers, the vague the whole community is filled with second homes. All of our industries benefit with it and we want them here, but in this situation i dont know who is coming up here. , dont see always the masking so i stay out of my Grocery Store while they are here and that kind of thing. I dont know which kind of people are coming up. We are you county that had 13 cases in all apparently. See how thisto plays out after our vacation weekend. Host how long do you think that feeling will last . People orar of other of not knowing . Will that last until a vaccine . Caller exactly. , every week weg get a new indication of what we are supposed to be doing and not supposed to be doing. If everyone was in a mask i would feel a lot better, we have fishing and lakes and theres just all kinds of things to do and like i said we love our people from the vacationers that its trying to walk and chew gum. Host thanks for the call from california. Sheila in oklahoma, good morning. You are next. Caller good morning and thank you for taking my call. , i am ayears old librarian and do credit recovery. I do have health problems, my life is kind of resuming in oklahoma, restaurants are open so i got one of these and i do not wear a mask. I just dont wear a mask. Shopping. Ry host can i ask why you dont worry mask . What is the concern you have about it . Caller i dont have a concern about the virus i guess. That anything will happen. I have felt safe and protected. Host host where does that come from . Why do you feel safe and protected . Caller from my faith. I walk by faith and not by sight. The lord has protected me. I pray to him and pray the scriptures of him and feel protected. Just got back, he is a doctor and in the army reserves. He had to go to massachusetts and work at a hospital. Massachusetts, they have to wear a mask if they go outside even in their backyard. I dont understand that kind of fear. They need to do that if they have somebody sick, that kind of fear would never happen in oklahoma and i am so glad and have always believed if you get outside, the virus dissipates. People need to be outside. Host a few more comments from twitter and from your Text Messages as well, this is cynthia writing in. We are still Wearing Masks and not allowing customers inside our store, customers are complaining but having to stay outside for their service. Even the more restaurants are open, our delivery and carry out business is still setting sales records as people remain at home. And about yesterday, the stores are full per no one is wearing a mask. This is lissa saying im. Njoying the outraged comments most people want to get back to failed the news ploy has and biden is their last hope. As we talk about reopening in this country. Ask me what reopening looks like in your part of the country and looking at some of the commentary and some of the articles out there about this reopening process come here is one. Begins that , thatsg to some degree a remarkable milestone and shift in policy, it might be because for celebration if it were rooted in Public Opinion or Public Health data come up with the reopening comes as case numbers in many parts of the country engine to rise. Experts warner further danger and a significant majority remains in favor of social distancing measures. It appears a small slice of the population led by the president has managed to drive this momentous and risky move. You can read davids David Grahams piece in the atlantic. Louisville, kentucky, good morning. The topic hasnt changed, still talking about the reopening . Host yes. What does it look like in louisville . Caller indian opened a little earlier than we had indiana opened up a little earlier than we have. Everybody is practicing social distancing and wearing a mask and the restaurants are doing everything they can. Im getting my haircut for the first time in a long time. Emily is going to get her nails done. We are gradually soaring to open up. Host what precautions will you what precautions will emily be taking as you go about this memorial day . Caller same as we have been doing. Wearing our masks, have our Hand Sanitizer and the place we go to they have been cleaning all week. We are very good about practicing for a long time. Do you have a barber you always go to . Caller about the last 40 years, yes. Name is angela, but my hair is going to be cut by whoever is available. Host do you know have you heard it all from her . Do you worry about her . Caller not at all, everyone is very serious about the situation and we they take care of their customers. Host thanks for the call from kentucky. That map weve been showing you from the New York Times showing the reopening process in various states, this is kentucky. The governor announced a plan to reopen Retail Stores starting back may the 20th. Houses of worship are allowed to open earlier after a judge intervened and then starting today, salons and barbershops allowed to reopen. Around theking in country this morning with your calls and with reporters as well to talk about reopening in various states. The Buckeye State, we are joined by Seth Richardson of cleveland. Com, the political reporter there. ,ne of your recent stories summer looks like its back on at least a little bit. What is back in ohio . Guest all kinds of things are back. Part of it is because Governor Mike Dewine and the department of Health Director kind of got out in front of this pandemic at least compared to other states. As of today, most of the restaurants are allowed to salons barbershops, nail , tanning facilities. Retail is back on. Reopened in the next coming days we will see places of mini golf, bowling, gyms, fitness centers, public pools. Evening tomorrow and limited Contact Sports leagues which i know has been a big case for everyone is Winter Sports coming back. Contact sports coming back. 1, weddings june have been put on hold for a lot of people. But starting june 1, wedding venues will be allowed to have up to 300 people with some specific guidelines. A lot of the state has really reopened. Host for folks who havent been tracking ohio, how much pushback as the governor gotten on the speed of this reopening process . Guest there has been a little bit for sure. The chief concern i believe with most people is the second wave. The second wave comes along and how do you get people to really comply again . If youve already had pretty much universal complicity for around two and a half to three months. There certainly is some concern but the governor has said we are not afraid to go back to shutting down. If we are not comfortable with the way numbers are going. One of the chief issues, the main pushback hes got has been not requiring masks of customers in retail settings. Employees are required to wear masks in your viewers probably know the way masks work is it works much better when two people are wearing a mask. It protect others from you. Big one been a pretty and the other, Testing Capacity is not where the governor said he wanted to be. It is going up and there are people worried if a second wave does occur that we wont have the Testing Capacity. Host the federal recommendations on one of most vulnerable populations, those in nursing homes, the Vice President recommended states test all nursing home patients within two weeks. On thes the governor testing of nursing home population . He hase has guest been pretty consistent in saying ohio is not can be able to do mass testing of nursing home patients. Its the same problem people are experiencing everywhere. What he has opted for is a more targeted kind of approach to testing nursing home facilities. Symptoms or shows is it probable case of some kind , testing everybody in the facility. And anybody who is coming to contact with them. Governor dewine has basically said we just dont have the best Testing Capacity to go into all these facilities and ensure everyone is tested. That doesnt seem like it will be on the table anytime soon. On your congressional delegation if you want to speak a little bit how they been with the governor as well. Overlooking the United States capital. Guest it is certainly, it has been jarring grade jarring. You are used to people kind of sniping at each other back and forth. The biggest example of unity going on is senator sharad brown , he is been heaping praise on Governor Mike Dewine. Been heaping praise on Governor Mike Dewine. They faced each other in an ugly senate race. They have always been cordial but they did certainly not shy away from criticizing each other at any stretch during their careers. So that kind of shows some of the unity so to speak that has gone on here. The president attitude towards governor dewine has been interesting because you see the governor see the president go after some of these other governors around the country, keeping the shutdown and place our masks or any number of things and these are all things mike dewine either did first or was very vocal about. Notably donald trump leaves mike dewine out of that criticism when hes going after gretchen whitmer, gp just jb pritzker. Thats an interesting dynamic. , the the response messaging from washington is generally at odds with messaging in ohio, there has never been any kind of splashproof everybody i talked to said governor dewine and donald trump have a good working relationship. If you are interested in the Buckeye State politics from the statehouse to the capital, a good newsletter to sign up for is the capital letter. Seth richardson, how folks sign up for that . It out at can check subscription. Cleveland. Com. Host thanks so much for your time. Appreciate it. Guest thank you. Host back to your phone calls asking you this memorial day weekend what reopening looks like in your part of the country. Phone lines in the eastern or central time zones. , mountain or pacific time zones, 2027488001. Laura is next in massachusetts, good morning. Caller good morning, thank you for taking my call. I have a related topic to bring up. I live in an rv fulltime. I have been touring around the host . What has that experience been like . Caller here has been the problem. Home, theremilys is one point 2 million fulltime rv people in this country, this is something ive been trying to draw attention to. The sheltering in place to us means parking somewhere with hookups and staying home. Yet all the state, federal, county parks have closed. The private campgrounds were not deemed essential in the states. People your caller say driving around walmart parking lot need to stay home. He should understand that many of us are trying to stay home but we dont have a home to stay at. I have been trying to draw attention to our leaders, but without a federal policy that mandates or dictates this problem, it has been really difficult, ive been writing to representatives and senators trying to explain this to them that perhaps if there were a policy where fulltime rv people can make onemonth reservations, it would stop the weekend vacationers from traveling around. It would allow the fulltime rv people to hunker down. Were a lotks lodges of us day, those are closed so there is no place for a lot of people and a lot of them are seniors at very high risk. Im hoping especially with possibly the second wave coming this is something the country needs to understand and provided policy. You ared you say currently particular parents property . Caller my brother and sisterinlaw. Host how long can you do that . How is that working out . Beenr i am ok, it has really nice. They have been gracious. Ive been here two months. Biologist. Red ive been wearing a mask for three months now. They have been very careful. I have friends who have nowhere to shelterinplace and they are wandering from place to place. They need water, sewer and electric hookups. The local sewer Treatment Plant has still been open so thats great, i can use that. But for me it has been ok. Im calling for everyone else, for people at very high risk and have no there where they can sit still. Host one more question. Do you go into your brother and sisterinlaws house or are you separate from them . Caller we have been isolating from each other since i got here. Thats not entirely true. We stopped doing that about a week ago. But for over two months we socially isolated. I still havent gone inside and they have not come inside my camper. It works fairly well. We can shelterinplace may be better than a lot of people. I hear people talk about how rv people travel around and go to gas stations and restaurants. No we dont. ,hen i go into a gas station when i was traveling, i was wiping down everything for everyone else to keep it safe. The other faction of our community i see that is still really vulnerable are the Truck Drivers who are going into all of those stores at the truck stops and that is an issue i hope they have brought under control better. Call andnks for the good luck to you. Rvs from the colorado sun, this story more focused on those renting rvs then the fulltime people who are living in them like the caller was talking about. This story, quarantine on wheels. A survey of 4000 u. S. And canadian residents released last week but the Largest Network of private campgrounds showed people eager to find a way to get away and get outdoors. One avenue to a vacation this summer. John is in wilmington, illinois. What is reopening like in wilmington . Caller we are a little south of chicago so we get a lot of so we get a lot of people here who seem to think where we have a whole bunch of people sick and not so many people sick. Here isrtunate part what really bothers me is my wife being an essential worker and the exuberance of people who dont seem to understand how our forprofit Health Care System works. Have enoughnot to beds in case of trouble, the goal is to have just the right amount of beds to increase our profitability. With the problem stupid. God bless you if you think the lord is going to save you, more power to you. ,ow about doing society a favor the smart who refused to believe that this is nothing more than just a flu are willing to forgo all medical treatments. We will not burden the hospitals if we get sick come we will just stay home. I dont hear anybody saying that. Whats really sad about this thee ordeal and i feel for 100,000 people weve lost so far. Ever since our president decided to play dr. With his opioid commission, we have been losing who000 americans a month have chosen suicide, chosen the streets and nobody cares about those people. I dont understand. Now i understand why our president decided not to do anything, because his goal has always been to eliminate the sick and the seniors to show how good our economy is. President touting the lotus the lowest disabled unemployment in history. When this is all over, whenever there is a vaccine down the road, what sort of changes do you think will take place in the u. S. Health care system . Do you think the experience of this is an argument for some form of universal health care . Caller lets look at the facts. Had implemented protections for some type of pandemic response. They learned about this in 2015. Chargeew that if we taxes to buy this medical equipment, we will give you it back if you start maintaining this Million Dollars plus worth of just in case inventory. We we didnt want that, wanted to increase our profitability. Its going to depend primarily on who wins the election. If you have democrats win the election you will have more of a Government Center type Health Care System that will help people across the spectrum versus just those who can afford. Calls asing your phone we ask what reopening looks like in your part of the country. Denver, colorado. Thanks for waiting. Caller just a couple of things. Morning, ane this guy carrying a sign saying selfish and proud and i dont understand that. Host where did you see that . Caller it was on my yahoo webpage when it came up on the homepage. Others with people marching and that was one of the protest signs the guy was carrying. It made me sick to my stomach. The second thing and i have a couple things if youll just be patient. The president talking about banning flights from brazil to help stop the spread of the virus. In the United States we have more people with the virus, more and while our president is calling for a ban to stop the spread, he is encouraging people here to open up and go shopping, go to the beach and play golf, go through this and that go do this and that. Exposes the racism the president has toward certain people in the geographics they come from. You cant say we need to divide they haveghts when less test than we do but hes encouraging everybody here to go out and play. What were your feelings on the previous travel restrictions to those who had traveled to china or iran, the United Kingdom as well . Scapegoat for him to get away with the things he is getting away with here. He always has somebody to blame. There is always a finger to point at when he gets called on his incompetence. Yesterday he was calling peoples gangs. Skanks. Having our kids go to school and practice lockdown drills come we , come bearn bear , we can wearing a mask. To bake adont want cake for gay people, then we can bear making people wearing a mask into cosco. I would like to give a shout out to to my father who was a world war ii veteran who spent nine andhs in a german pow camp was lucky enough to escape that camp with his life. I would like to remember him. One thing id like to remind the president eople, our is not smarter than the scientists. Our president does not know more than the generals. Our president does not have a higher iq than everybody else. He is not a moral compass anywhere to be found on his body. He is not a good man. He is a selfish man. Your point. Thats greg in denver, colorado. The story the caller was focusing on the beginning, President Trump announcing he in thepending travel United States for nonus citizens who have recently been in brazil, a coronavirus hotspot. Saying they arent out of the woods in the fight with this pandemic. Speaking of President Trump, the president on this memorial day remember whyans to we mark this memorial day. The Washington Times noticing the proclamation asking them to pray for Permanent Peace at 11 00 a. M. At whatever time zone you happen to be in and once again at 3 00 p. M. And think of momentost in battle in a of her members that was designated by congress back in 1950. The president noted these moments are particularly appropriate which marks the 75th anniversary of allied victories over nazi germany and imperial japan. Speaking of memorial day, last week on the senate floor, several senators taking the floor to talk about this memorial day and how will be different than those in the past. Here is senator ron wyden. [video clip] we all know this memorial day will be different. Bige wont be the same gatherings and there wont be as many parades. But one of the reasons i wanted to come to the floor of the senate today, and i will be home abouteekend thinking eagle pointe in Central Point, is i want to make sure that our country never diminishes the significance of this day. Country takeour away our determination to honor those who paid the ultimate price in service to america. Memorial day can be hard, very hard on the parents and spouses and children and friends that are Fallen Heroes left behind. I know when i am recognized to eagle Central Point and crowdsi look out in the and i always see Family Members eye,a kleenex by therir trying to remember and at the same time deal with the inevitable grief. This memorial day i will be those whof all of to doear after year something very important. Oregon on ther importance and appreciation we have of those who made the ultimate sacrifice. Wyden on theron senate floor last week leading into the memorial day holiday weekend. The president about a halfhour ago on twitter saying happy memorial day. The president headed to Arlington National cemetery expected to participate in a wreathlaying ceremony at the tomb of the unknown soldier. That is 10 00 a. M. Eastern this morning and that event expected to happen with the Vice President and defense secretary mark esper. The president expected to head up to fort mchenry in baltimore for a flag raising ceremony there, if you remarks expected as well. Thats on the president s schedule today. We are bringing you these events on cspan this morning this memorial day. A series of tweets from the president this morning in the past hour talking about the upcoming convention. The president ial convention and specifically in North Carolina. I insisted on having their Public National convention in charlotte at the end of august. Unfortunately, democratic governor roy cooper is still in shutdown mode and unable to guarantee that by august we will be allowed. In other words we would be spending millions of dollars without even knowing if the democratic governor would allow the Republican Party to occupy the space. Plans are being made by many thousands enthusiastic republicans and others to be in North Carolina in august. They Must Immediately be given the answer by the governor as to whether or not the space will be allowed to be fully occupied. If not we will be reluctantly site. To find another it is not something i want to do , thank you and i love the people of North Carolina. The president and a series of tweets this morning as summer plans continue to be in flux amid the coronavirus pandemic. We are asking you with all 50 states as we head into this memorial day weekend in some form of reopening, what reopening looks like in your part of the country. We want to hear from you on phone lines. Zones, or central time 2027488000. In mountain or pacific, 2027488001 and we have that line for essential workers, 2027488002. We want to hear what your job has been like and what it looks like amid reopening. Cornelius in alexandria, louisiana. Hey jon and all the cspan callers and listeners. Im from alexandria, louisiana. Really enjoy it when you are on. I hope youll allow me long enough to respond to some callers. I was a military Police Officer trained at Fort Mcclellan in alabama. Russiansd against the in the 70s to the 90s. We trained about chemical, nuclear and biological. Believe the, i chinese rigged a biological bomb on us to destroy trump and the u. S. And the world, they were doing this at that lab and a lot of people hate trump and stuff like that i was a democrat and now im a republican. I support trump. People dont realize found she fauci and the chinese were working on the virus over there. Host you think there is a conspiracy involving anthony faucher, president obama, and the chinese . Caller hold up. I consider them to be globalists. Like the russians had planned some of this stuff and we have been preparing for it. Communist china and russia and stuff, communism and stole socialism dont care about their people. American people we care about our people and you can look at flynn, the fbi set him up. This was designed to destroy the economy. We should have been like sweden and even brazil. Should have been like sweden and even brazil. They are going through this stuff. Down travel for any noncitizen is been to brazil . I think it mayy be right, you shutdown china and europe when it spread over there. Its just i think he has been given wrong guidance by the scientists. Everyone is saying respect the scientists. I believe in god like the one call in, i walk by faith not by sight. If im in a dive this virus, i die of this virus but we should have never shut down because if you destroy the economy, you destroy the country. Host if you shouldnt listen to the scientists, who should he listen to . Caller not those scientists. We have been on top of this stuff. This thing here is a biological weapon. Its a cold virus. Host got your point. Jay is next out of arlington, virginia. Good morning. Aller good morning a longtime listener, i have not called in a while. I really dont know where to start. We are in western North Carolina now come weve been here for about a year. Me and my wife we have a baby daughter, so when you go from that initial stage of having a to championship then come inside and out and this breaks out and shut so we have been blessed enough to have a 25 acre it is not as tight as it was in northern virginia. 25 acres in e arlington, virginia . Were in western North Carolina. Host that would be a big plot in arlington. Caller yes. But having grown up there and is and e the area working there a long time, being it is i and how quiet of only question the idea how things are shut down when i look at friends social media you are like 495 empty. But back to what is going on now and the reopening, i worry more about my daughter as things here our county, i think we have which up to 11 cases now is not a lot but it is five not ong ago and on to say you are slowly option you hear theres the cases. E in part or part to do our o stay in the house the 99 except go to the grocery. My main rn is as concern is as we go on and the president s tweet of having arger crowds im not a political person that most people from the d. P. V. Are, but is if we reopen to large crowds and we have a spike and this could be anywhere in the country that folks will feel the shutdown did not work therefore theres rail really no need to go through a and as a first time parent worries for his they say it is ok for kids but sees an infant. Sometimes in the political rhetoric we forget genuinely eople worried for their loved ones and want all the stuff to go away i hope they are more and keep that in mind. Host lukas is in connection virginia. Ricksburg, caller good morning, sir, how are you doing . Host im doing all right. Caller i have been working and we have been open and many we ndemic were required to masks in the masks in the story and i wasable to do that. Do that and work has been busy and whatnot. We are doing our very best every day. Employees parttime our hours are going to be cut dont understand. Im so sorry, bear with me. Host have they told you that your hours are going to get cut . Caller yes. Manager told me my hours were changing and it was then d by three and another manager asked is the general manager ok and later we she told me parttime and flex employees hours would cut. Host with kind of retail . Baserao retail on a marine and department storement on that marine base do ou find people practicing social distancinged a coming two your store Wearing Masks . Your level of comfort with people in the reopening process process . Caller we are required to wear aboard all facilities as per d. O. D. I find it easyng but rather difficult because we and whatnot around aileske there are some we have to walk through and that tricky not an get six feet. N stkpwhost janice is in connect. Next. Caller hi, are you there . Maam. Yes, caller i listened to some or allers and the guy from colorado reflects my thinking. And new e connecticut york city area and we are starting to open and im the people who deny how many who died and say think wearingnd i a mask should be required i think we need a National Campaign to show how to correctly. Sk some wear it just offense their outh and their nose is potentially spreading the virus nd i think it is a disaster that our president calls women weightnd discusses their when he has been diagnosed as obese. Playground bullying values from base him and dont challenge him on it. I dont know how anybody cannot a woman a alling skank. For some areas that are more yourself lucky that you are not looking into coronavirus the beast but for knows who have months it is 3 terrifying and upper northeast nd west coast we are the largest financial generator for this country and the states that taker states are having consideration for the giver states so it is rustrating to have our country people not appreciate what we are going through first of all we have provided to this country over the decades financially. Janice in is connecticut mentioning the president expected in less than to head over to Arlington National cemetery a tomb of theg at the soldier. Skoe tphoepknown you can see some of military onsonnel there have gathered the steps. It is usually much more crowded than that. Changing of the guard just finishing at the tomb of unknown you see some ilitary officials Wearing Masks. We expect the president 10 00 eastern. Take you there. Ntil then we are talking about reopening around country. We want to hear what is the ning in your part of count. Otis, oklahoma city, oklahoma. You are next. Stpwhrao good morning. I was going to mention as far as the most think it is ridiculous thing. Here is why. We have to understand we are the economy. People 30 Million People that get unemployment. Business who is coming . Then you have professionals you they dont know about it disease but here are the only tools we have. To practice social distancing and stay a home. Be a central worker and go to work your able to hould be definitely meet those first requirements. About p. P es it mouth and you should be you should be i believe to get tested. Out of all the states that are none met the guidelines with the examination of two or three. I want to sayhing objective er the valuableon anything is is because we put the value on it. We are not running out of money. Before they devalue the dollar bill and devalue the system they to continue to devalue people. Otis from oklahoma city. Taking your phone calls asking reopenings are look and checking with reporters to talk about what is happening in their states and cities. U. S. Mexico the border to el paso with a border the El Paso Times part of the u. S. A. Today network. You. Morning to what does reopening look like in el paso compared to the rest of Lone Star State . El paso is falling a little behind. Abbott has started the governor but said our hospitalizations were too close for comfort and we are about a week behind the west of state so rest of the restaurants and bars are lowerlly reopening but at capacity than the rest of the state. We are falling behind. Too close for say comfort, what are the levels and what are the levels of testing and year el paso o test in testing is increasing here. Antibody testing and tests for covid19. 2,300 cases and all deaths. E are part of a tristate binational region so we have to parts of mexico cases but 210 deaths which would suggest is weak on the mexico,side. Count continues to go up and we have reported clusters care facilities,ing about becomes stores and el paso just hasnt mounted that peak the way or parts of the state have. Host lets talk about the border are. Ril remind people for what the status is for commerce and the Border Crossing and what happens with illegal pandemic . Amid the illegal crossings have precipitously. Theres not as Much Movement of given that much of Central America is on lockdown mexico. As far as legal crossing trade not stopped inve terms of government regulation. Had an impact. Trump arch 21, the u. S istration closed the u. S. Mexico board to all but essential movement. O Border Crossings that we see on a daily basis, the movement or shopping, visiting family and friends has really come to a crossings and border are way down. Is nonessential travel expected to consume . Keeps pushing back. The original order was april, june 22. Now so we dont know. I think that the government will he picture look at t on above the sides of the border and usual that decision is made announced a least the day before the crossing is supposed it has been extremely disruptive but there of concerns about the wave coronavirus cases. Can you talk about coronavirus in detention facilities both the people who being detained and what we know about the spread and the works who work in the facilities . U. S. Immigration and customs detention facilities where immigrants are detained and there are facilities. Both it continues to grow. There are about 49 detention are ities where immigrants eing held almost entirely on violation of civil immigration outbreaks at are 49 of them. It is a concern for our el paso on lawyers in because detained Court Continues fox are being held in there are detentions where there are cases. Host you are a border reporter for the El Paso Times. El paso times. Com. One of the industries you is sed on in your writing the automotive industry, the chain when it comes to border. Ts moving across an you delve into that and how resilient or nonresilient that supply chain is. Incredibly complicated. The big three in detroit began across north ts america last monday. The Assembly Plants u. S. Uge part suppliers for auto makersment they supply everything from automotive seating, lighting. Hard ey were especially hit at the beginning of this. They had several cases in juarez reopening has been slow. There are automotive suppliers are beginningthat to star productionment that will ram ramp up now through june 1. 300,000 in juarez and bear housing and logistics that move those parts throughout the country. Nd you have plants that employ 1,000, 5,000, 13,000 people so social places where distancing is hard to maintain. The plants are taking precautions lake taking emperatures and improving sanitation. So we will have to see how that goes. Unemployment rates are something everybody is watching more data getting about individual states. El to we know about the paso side and mexican side about he jobless rates and how many peoples jobs have been impacted . Of there are a huge number people furloughed in juarez. It is hard to count unemployment in mexico because so many work economy. Formal millions have applied for unemployment. It is a huge concern. The street in wn el paso last week i ran into a and i thought rs what is going on here and it was a mile long of cars waiting to pull through a bank. People are relying on free meals school. Clearly the governor here in reopen the nted to economy for just this reason. A again in el paso we have ontinued rise in the covid19 and it is not clear how soon we can on thinking. Stkpwhost part of the u. S. A. Network. If you want to follow her work she is on twitter. Time. Preciate your thank you, john. Host back to phone schools reopening looks like. Here are phone lines. We have about 45 minutes left in the washington journal before nationale to Arlington Cemetery where we expect wreath t trump in a laying ceremony. Jackie on the line for essential ruckersville, virginia. Caller good morning. Kind of work do you do . Facility manufacturing near charlottesville. We are a supply chain so we have been working since the pandemic hit we have not stopped working. Say what kind of what part of the supply chain or industry . Caller a manufacturing facility i cannot hings divulge. It is now emerson. To being on comes job and you talk about that xperience but also what . Eopening has meant for you caller things have been slowly eopening and we are doing soeb absorb and they are requiring masks and it is difficult to wearer eight hours. It is warm in the facility. I feel like i have trouble breathing. Asthma so it has been a hard transition. Y frustration is our governor was down at the Virginia Beach oardwalk saturday and had no mask on and was taking selfies. Social distancing but they said he went to see if they were following the rules. A pwebit draconian. He wants to mandate wearing inside and we are 10 to 12 eeks in and it seems late and it frustrates folks because he was to the following any social distancing. They are all over the web and internet and he did do this and frustrating. Host i will show viewers the has the picture i believe you are referring to Virginia Governor criticized for wearing mask after urging citizens to cover their faces. Time. Com their lead story. Caller yes. Taking selfies. That is not social distancing. We have been doing where i work 11 weeks now and while we are trying to stop spread and other picture as well as that one you are showing up it is like ok, what is he to . It seems he didnt want Churches Department of he justice backed a lawsuit but he not going to until the is d. Got involved so it is frustrating and i have friends ons and he ir sal numbers are the mixed up. They have mixed up antibody with positive case testing. Data isologized but the not correct. E need it right and open safely. Host it sounds like you would not give him high marks on how handled the pandemic. Is there a governor you think is doing it well . Caller i think if you look at desantis. D ron he has people social distancing and his case numbers Vice President been north p but governor tam thapl gets a big f. Stkpwhost that time piece note beach a spokesman for Governors Office said he should ave brought a facemask during the visit and according to a local outlet he was outside to be ay not expecting within six feet of anyone said a statement. Son in this is an important reminder to in case coverings things situation. T said it is important to be prepared. Northam suggesting he will thisnce a statewide policy week on face coverings. Barbara, pittsburgh, is reopening what looking like this in pittsburgh . Are, i think, leaving their homes because to good to shop, have a time. Im afraid there is a generation interested in pleasure and not giving realization that the still going up. To open up nted hese Retail Business people because he needs the money. Money. Ds the tax e sounds like he is giving monday out to everybody in the nati nation. He does the money and not he is not thinking of the people. Host one thing that the has talked about is some sort of tax cut responsehebnext coronavirus legislation. Is that something you would be in favor of . Caller no. Host why not . You know who ends everything that goes on in government that doesnt work . The working people. There are a lot of things that as soon as are the government cannot do we willk, all you ust lay it out on the working peop people. As a column from today lewis gton times by stir by left with you must be countered with tax sense. And common that is the Washington Times. Here is a little bit from that piece. Only answer is restore booming growth. We cut taxes for workers and reform andn the 2017 we need to build on that by tax holiday ayroll until end of career cutting it them and employees and employersment it is time to america back to pod modelment ish every day we wait we hurt our nation. Want to read that, the Washington Times. Next out of tampa of essential workers. Do you do . F work caller im a registered nurse in tampa. Host do you work on a covid unit . What we are doing now is virtual Critical Care. I. C. U. Patients in all the facilities. Bedside f being at the directly were monitoring them rom the camera and we have physicians sitting in with us in the virtual Critical Care corps tpw give orders and take care of anything that needs to addressed like a doctor at he bedside but without being physically present. Host is that something that was possible two or three months ago . You do those kinds visits for people . A ler it has been around good 10 years. But because of the coronavirus a normally the Critical Care physicians are in the corps and take kaecare patients we 7 00 p. M. To 7 00 a. M. Physicians have gone home and are not on call. The covid unit we have physicians this during day as immediate ing the situations of those covid supporters we are all the time and it is the bedside w with nurse we are going in and they and they are on ore lonely and we talk to patients and support tell more physical presence. At mid ere was concern arch of hospitals being overwhelmed. Did you share that concern and o you continue to have that concern amid the reopening process . I definitely showed a concern and we see it in the an influx here was hat was uncontrollable and the nurses didnt have the proper equipment. He stress of dealing with that nd watching people feel so scared and desperate to be saved nd the nurses are terrified themselves. So it is a situation that we are planning to happen again. Our meetings weekly we have more more es now and ventilators and to get ready for another influx. Beaches and restaurants are open and i drove down yesterday pickup of b side groceries and i was amazed at the people that were out like virus has gone. Because metimes we see the worst of the worse ases so the reality is in our face every day. Are these people just tired of willing to ed and take the risk . Hey dont know how their body is going to respond. Hen we had a meeting thursday and nurses are not getting 401k matches, no bonuses and talk of to le who are close retirement or working parttime being laid off early because of hospitals loss of money this year. Elective surgeries off. Electives are down. I. C. U. Nurses are there, nurses are there. Those working with Covid Patients are there and they are you are not getting a raise because the hospital is not making money. Is a catch 22. You want help but you want as well. Host we have had other nurses talk about that of concern about losing a costconcern about losia costofliving increase this year at a time when everyone is saying thank you, essential ,orkers we appreciate your essential workers, thank you so much for what you do. How do you feel about that . Caller well, last week, the week before last was annual National Nurses week. Not one word was said. Nothing. There are some hospitals across the state of florida having policemen and firemen standing outside of hospitals cheering nurses that are leaving their shift. It is so touching and it is wonderful to see that. I am aware every day that people are losing their businesses. Y heart goes out to them i feel like we are here doing the work that is required to be done, and we are being told thanks, but you are not going to get recognized this year for it. This is 2020, the year of the nurse, and doctors as well you will have to take a decrease in pay because you are not seen as many patients. It is really shocking. It is really i dont want to say unfair, but it is unfair. Host liz. I appreciate the call from cap and the view from inside those hospitals. Thank you so much. Kerri is in las vegas. You are next. What does reopening look like in las vegas . Caller well, walmart has always been open, so there were no rules there. Other places are open, and some places you have a limit of how many people can go in. Caller, if anyone wants a pay raise and not a cut to my we will have to open up the country. We know now who is at risk and you people that are calling in and want things closed, you are acting like it is a 10 death rate. It is less than 1 . A couple of months ago when we were looking at italy, we did not know that, so i understand that, but now it is different. There is going to be a second wave when it gets cold, so why dont we work and make things while it is warm . This is our opportunity before it gets cold, before it spikes again. The whole country will fall apart if we dont have any economy. Keeping the economy shutdown is not an option, and everyone is acting like it is. It is not. For us who have kids at home right now this is stupid. If you are worried about your child dying of of the coronavirus, you should not be putting them in a car ever. Lets look at the numbers. Lets quit with the hysteria and the fear mongering, and recognize if we do not open this economy, everyone will suffer. Home they dont have to work a job. Host i will give you a chance to talk. You say everybody is focused on the numbers. There will be a lot of focus this week as we are approaching that 100,000 death toll in the United States from coronavirus. Do you think we focus too much on that number . Theer do we shut down entire country for the regular flu . No, we dont. This is a nursing home disease. Lets focus on that and keep the old and the sick safe, and the healthy and the strong need to work so that we can support the rest of the country. Keeping it shutdown is not an option, so quit acting like it is. This is stupid. It is not it is not about trump, you guys. You guys are acting nuts out there. Host kerri, in las vegas. In derby, connecticut. Good morning. Caller good morning. Hi. That last caller really got me. It is really crazy. I dont understand. Anyway, i used to work for instacart, and it when it was first beginning in midmarch. Ieived a doctors note received an emailed from instacart stating that if you have to be contained, isolated by a doctor or official, that we will give you sick pay. You will get 14 days sick pay, and lo and behold, after they heard about the Unemployment Benefits that we were supposed to be receiving, which i dont backtracked on that and said no, you go to the unemployment to get your relief. Still, to this day, instacart has not held none of their employees at all. If anything, help none of their employees at all. If anything, they lowered the rates of getting groceries for people. Like,now it would be, almost 80. When i look in there now, it is like 10, and they want us to shop for 60 products at one time, and they want us to go from melford two, maybe, norwalk, or something, for 10. No ppe, no nothing. Nothing at all. They just tell us that is the way it is. Mind you, they are making a lot of money off of essential workers going back and forth and going inside those stores, and they are not compensating us for anything. So, i dont see where this last lady was on here talking about we need to open up and everything like that. I dont understand her. There is a lot we dont know about this disease. This in connecticut morning. A reminder that the president is going to be at Arlington National cemetery in about 25 minutes or so. We have been showing you the president who has been up and tweeting the past hour and a half or so, started around 8 00 a. M. Eastern. A new set of tweet started from the president , and it has to do not just with this headline in New York Times, but the stories and the pictures of the president golfing. This is the headline of the times,ge of new york president on the twitter talking about those stories focusing him on him golfing. President of the United States from about five minutes ago. Margaret inbreeding can, florida. You are next. Inbreeding 10, florida. You are next. In florida, but i am a resident of Saratoga County in upstate new york. I agree with the last caller that we should be very cautious about this virus there is a lot that we do not know, and some of the things that are impacting children is just horrible. I would also like to let the previous caller who commented that sweden did a good job if you look at the swedish newspapers now, they are having a severe increase in cases of covid. So, it did not work. And, as far as florida reopening , and praise for the governor, i will say smaller businesses down here are following every precaution, and customers are behaving very well, but as soon as one goes into the bigger you see people not with masks, with their gloves off, walking closer to you. Those bignd that stores cannot supervise every single customer, but people andly want to just get back do what they want and they want to be done with it. So, it is a bit of a mix down here in florida. Host margaret in florida. You are seen live pictures at the Arlington National cemetery, the time of the unknown soldier. It is the changing of the guard right now at the time. Let you just watch and listen for a little bit this morning. Halt. [indiscernible] host that is the same at Arlington National cemetery at the time of the unknown soldier. We are expecting President Trump re at the unknown soldier at the tomb of the unknown soldier at a relaying ceremony wreathlaying ceremony on this memorial day. Until then, we are talking with you this morning, asking you what reopening looks like in your part of the country. About 20 minutes to do that. Phone lines split up reasonably regionally. If you are in the eastern or central time zones, it is 202 7378000. Mountain or. Pacific time zones, 202 7378001. And keeping open the line for essential workers, 202 7378002. Throughout the morning we have been checking in with reporters from around the country to talk reopening process and talking about the states. We are joined by the assistant editor of the Las Vegas Review journal joining us via zoom. The question for you, sir, is the gaming industry in las vegas. What do we know about the reopening process and when that will take place . Guest well, it was just on friday that governor Steve Sisolak announced that the target date for the reopening of the Casino Industry would be june 4. That is the big day we have been circling on the calendar, getting ready to come back. The fact is there is still a lot of work to be done on that. There are several different reopening plans that have come from more than 400 casino licenses that have gone to the state gaming control board that need to be reviewed before reopening happens. Casinos will be a lot different than they were before we closed down, and that includes capacity reduction. The number that they have established is 50 of the capacity that the fire codes allow. It will be drawn down by half. Table games will have a only three seats at them at the blackjack table. The poker tables, four seats. Every other slot machine is expected to be shut down to promote the social distancing that is required. Host and what is the response from the gaming industry . Have they been pushing for more than that . Guest the gaming industry has been pretty supportive. They wanted to open a lot sooner. They were hoping to get memorial day weekend with some of the people that are going to be coming. The expectation is that the volume of people coming from Southern California will be great. It is not quite certain what the flyin market will look like because there are still a lot of flights that have been canceled. At the same time, because these are licensed properties, they, kind of, have to comply with what the regulators say. They are not pressuring too hard to get things that they want that would be different than what is being required of them. Host the Unemployment Rate we found out in the state of nevada, a staggering [indiscernible] guest right. Host [indiscernible] on the ground in las vegas . Guest what it looks like, many of the casino workers, we are talking about Hotel Workers as well, people working in the resort industry have either been laid off or furloughed. A number of them are not coming back because many of the resorts are going to actually close. They will not be able to survive this. Right now there are a lot of union discussions going on to try to keep it fair in terms of how they hire people back, how things get started again. That there are a lot of people that are unemployed. Right now the system that the state has set up has been kind of, bulky, at best, in terms of being able to serve the number of people trying to get benefits. So, that is not looking too good either. Right now they are doing the best that they can. They have hired extra people to man the call centers that are necessary to provide these benefits, but at this point in frustratedare a bunch of people that are it is a pretty frustrated bunch of people out there. Then there is people that want to open a lot faster. We have states in louisiana, mississippi, that have already opened a lot of their properties, and i think a lot of people dont understand why it could not have been done faster here. On the gaminged industry. Could you talk about the broader Tourism Industry and the impact on the ground, and what this all has meant as well for tax revenue and how that is going to impact the state . Guest well, tax revenue is going to fall off a cliff, obviously, because we have been able to we have not been able to get any sales tax, and in addition to that, hotel room are used really is used primarily to market the city of las vegas. So, with that gone, it is virtually zero. Wins, revenues, gaming that is gone. That has been gone since march 17, when the closure began. At this point in time everyone is looking at how they can fix the budget. It is not going to be an easy sell in some regards. There are a lot of question marks in terms of how they we would recapture some of this, the servicesovide that are necessary in the community. Host what is the status of some of the major building projects out there in las vegas . The raiders have been building their stadium in las vegas, correct . Guest that is correct. One of the things that governor have thek did was Construction Industry be an essential business. They have been able to continue. There was a meeting where the raiders discussed the progress of the stadium. It is still on target, on budget. 65,000seat, stadium. It is beautiful. I have driven by it, but have not been able to go inside. It will be a stateoftheart stadium, but the irony is we do not know what it is going to look like in terms of whether people are going to be able to go to games. The raiders are scheduled they have 10 games, two preseason, and the unlv team is scheduled to play their. It has not been determined what the crowd will look like, if any. Host were there any other casinos being built or other Major Products projects underway, and what is happening there . Guest there is a project on the strip called resorts world that is being built. One of the things that they are doing is continuing on as well. There is a project called the sphere at the venetian the ms sphere built that the venetian, built by the Madison Square garden company, and it will be a performance venue. At this point in time, i should say that the Las Vegas Review alsoal, which employs me owns Las Vegas Sands and the venetian, which does not influence our coverage on those projects either. Host i appreciate you doing that and appreciate your time this morning. Lasvelotta is with the vegas review journal, assistant Business Editor. Thank you for your time. Guest thank you. Host back to your phone calls. About 10 minutes or so before we expect President Trump to arrive at Arlington National cemetery on this memorial day morning. There is the live scene at the tomb of the unknown soldier. The president expected to participate in a wreathlaying ceremony. We will bring it to you live. We will also cover the president later today at noon heading up to 40 mchenry in four to mchenry in baltimore. He is expected to be joined by defense secretary asp or as well. The first esper. The first lady will be with the president as well. There is the scene, the reef the president will be laying at the time of the unknown soldier. Before the president shows up, time for more of your phone calls as we ask what reopening looks like in your part of the country. Mike in somerville, massachusetts, the line for essential workers. Mike, what kind of work do you do . Aller good morning, jon i work in the sauna industry, and we have been deemed essential, but not many of us have been going into work and limiting our hours. Things are starting to pick up a little bit. Masks of people wear when they are outside. Most people around here mandate it now. It is nice to see people trying together to slow this virus. People are pretty good about it, there is 10rprising or 20 of people that do not and if thosetside, people walk by you at one or two feet, if you are not careful. For the most part, people here are in it together, it seems, and once you go outside the city that changes, depending on whether you are in trump territory or not. I wanted to say thank you to the nurse in tampa. This has been pretty eyeopening for me. You know, it is military times, it is memorial day, and it has been said to see the reaction of a lot of people. To see the reaction of a lot of people. I have seen this virus is displaying itself differently throughout the country and the response to containment is valid. When you have callers who act downpeople want to shut forever, and this virus is no different than the flu, they are just factually incorrect. It is sad. I dont know. I grew up and relatives talked about the Space Program in the banding in together together as one. Sad at how much unwillingness there is to trust public figures. Host mike, you are going in and out of little bit, but i think we got your point of this memorial day morning. Appreciate your call from massachusetts. Nancy is waiting in franklin, North Carolina. Nancy, what does reopening look like in franklin . Caller hi. Thank you for taking my call. I will make this quick. our last reading of porus ustweet or any of his tweet makes my Blood Pressure rise. I am 70 years old. I take the bus. All the people working there wear masks, but it amazes me how many people dont wear masks, from 40pluses. Hrough 60 plus years of age i can see where they are coming from because of their attitude. Host you think younger people are taking the maskwearing more seriously . Most, thereuld say are a few that come through, but overall most people are Wearing Masks. About Hand Sanitizer, because they do not have that anymore. The people that work there get frustrated because people dont wear masks, but there is nothing they can do about it because it is what it is. By a quick question the way, roy cooper is doing a great job. Keep the rnc out of here for their convention. They can go elsewhere. Find another red state to go to. Yous a question i had have shown the Capital Building and the Supreme Court building with the flags at half staff. You show that quite frequently, but lately i have not seen the white house. What amazes me is last week in particular, the flag, before it was put at half staff, there was it,her flag hanging beneath a very black, darkcolored flag. Is it there, and why is it there . There should be no other flag other than the american flag. Can you show it before you go off the air . Host i do not know if we have shot of the white house. I know that the flags are being flown at half staff, as the president said in his tweet toore memorial day weekend, remember the victims of the coronavirus. That is the Capital Building. Our crews are at Arlington National cemetery this morning because that is where we are expecting the president and the wreathlaying ceremony. I do not know if i can get that shot up for you. We are right here at the capitol building. The white house is a little bit further away. We cannot have the camera on the roof turn in that direction. You would not be able to see it. That is the scene right now at Arlington National cemetery and the tomb of the unknown soldier. Back to your phone calls as we wait for the president to arrive. Paul is in lebanon, connecticut. Good morning. Caller hello. How are you doing . Host doing well, paul. I would like to say thank you to the nurse didnt happen. I have a lot of friends in convalescent homes. I am up there in years myself. I dont understand, these nurses aides that are in there, they feed them, change the diapers, and theyre getting 12 to 14 an hour. That is crazy. They are doing more than most people wouldnt even think about doing, yet they get such a small amount of money for it. They want to give money to other people that are laid off, making more money than they are, and they wont help them. Our governor lamont was asked about what he was doing for these nurses in the convalescent homes, and he said they were getting combat pay, which is the National Guard going in there and help teach them how to use ppe. I mean, he is doing nothing for them. Nobody is doing anything for them. It is crazy. Host paul, do you think that it is time for congress to pass some sort of legislation that has that hazard pay in it . Caller well, of course they should. They are giving money to everybody else. I mean, they are giving it to people that aint even doing anything. Host paul, is it just the medical field that you think deserves that . What about the folks that are working stocking Grocery Stores, making sure the Food Supply Chain stays caller i mean, if you wear proper ppe in those places, your job has not changed and. I dont see where it is any. I dont see where it is that big of a deal. Host this is priscilla in california, west hills, california. Good morning. Caller good morning. My mom just tested positive for the virus last week. She is in a convalescent home. She has been there almost six years. Im 74 years old. I have lung cancer. Cancer in the lungs. I cannot see my mom for three months. I have three grandkids. They say i should not be getting a hug from them. I have a husband. His hours got cut from 40 hours to 25 hours, and they think i think the country should be open up. They closed it in one day, they should open it in one day. For me, as far as i am concerned, whether i die from cancer, or the virus, or i get hit by a car i just had chemo on wednesday. I go in every four weeks and every week to the hospital. Whether i die one way or the other, i am saved. My mother is saved. What i dont like is you have a couple of people telling the whole world was to do, turning their world upside down. It is breaking your heart. You cannot hug a grand cay. Your kids cannot go to school. This needs to stop. People are angry with the president. He is doing everything he can. Were expecting one Million People to be dead by now. The president