Nice to be with you im Frances Rivera friday is here and were ending the week with the coronavirus pandemic it has been over two months since the first covid19 the wall street ending its fatality was reported in Washington State best month in three decades on a now the death toll reached over down note. The dow tumbled 300 points but 63,000 with more than a million confirmed cases. Finished out april up 11 . According to Johns Hopkins the s p climbed 13 in april, university, nearly 154,000 the third biggest gain s patients have now recovered from the virus in the u. S world war ii one out of california, the Navy Hospital ship usns mercy sent some sailors to dry land. The crew arrived in los angeles five weeks ago to relieve stress on area hospitals. After requests of fema, about 40 Service Members are helping to treat elderly patients at a nursing home meanwhile, in northern california, the town of alliance declared itself free of coronavirus. A privately funded study tested the entire population of about 1800 local officials and they say no one tested positive the Uc San Francisco Medical Center said those are only preliminary results. Disney is offering more options for people who need reuseable face masks. The company has created a series of washable face coverings after 1 million of the proceeds will go to the nonprofit med share and 1 Million Masks will be donated to underserved communities. San antonio zoo is making it possible to visit with animals while social distancing. Starting today, theyre launching a drive through zoo experience visitors can listen to an audio tour while they see exhibits from their vehicles. This morning there are signs of hope in the push to test more americans and learn just what were facing as the number of dead keeps climbing. Heres nbcs miguel almaguer. Reporter los angeles, home to 4 million people, becoming the nations first major city to offer free coronavirus testing to all residents the massive move to screen citizens followed by the mayor of jersey city, who says testing everyone is key to getting the economy back on track. With more driveup sites in states like wisconsin, in new york, the epicenter of the national outbreak, free testing for all is not available in an unprecedented move, the governor says starting next week the city subway system will be shut down from 1 00 a. M. To 5 00 a. M. Amid scenes like these of the homeless asleep on trains. Lets clean, disinfect the trucks, the buses and trains every 24 hours why . Because thats the way we best protect the health of our essential workers. Reporter with the National Death toll climbing over 60,000, the state by state approach to reopening night and day. Just as officials in texas announce beaches will reopen, the governor of california ordered beaches closed in orange county, citing scenes like these. But local Officials Say it is an abuse of power, saying residents have been obeying guidelines i think the governor is overstating the concern and as i said, i dont believe this is a wise move. Reporter as protests to end stay at home orders in michigan unfold unfolded, including armed demonstrators who entered the capitol, states like arizona, illinois, maine, nevada and washington all extended their mandates in colorado, Union Officials at this meatpacking plant say a sixth employee has died from the virus. But in pennsylvania, hairdresser nicole masino says shes opening her doors whether she has permission or not. I have employees that are, like, im not going to be able to eat if it is four or five weeks. I had to make the decision that, you know what, im going to open my business. Reporter with roughly eight states that have stay at home orders expiring, no state has reached the white house threshold to ease that restriction. A 14day decline in cases. You cant just leap over things and get into a situation where you really are tempting a rebound. Thats the thing i get concerned about. I hope they dont do that. Reporter with the National Guidelines from the white house advising americans to stay at home expiring, american and delta say all employees and passengers will soon need to wear face coverings. A sign of what could be to come at businesses all across the country. Miguel almaguer, thank you. The Trump Administration allowed the National Social distancing guidelines to expire leaving it up to the states to decide how to forge ahead. The president is fast tracking a new vaccine for the virus. For the latest, lets get to our capitol hill tonight tracie potts. The president is leaving the white house for the first time in a month today reporter right, hes off to camp david this weekend with obviously a lot on his plate, dealing with the federal governments new role, supporting states and also a vaccine. Not a treatment, not the drug that the president s been talking about, not remdesivir that we have been telling you about, but an actual vaccine that people can take to prevent getting this virus scientists had said it would take a year, maybe a year and a half, but there is a federal private partnership called operation warped speed trying to make hundreds of millions of doses in just eight months President Trump is talking about that and who is in charge on this vaccine operation warp speed who is in charge of that and are you overpromising when you say youre going to have 300 million doses of vaccine in eight months . Im not overpromising whatever you can humanly do, were going to have. You know who is the judge of it, honestly, i am ill tell you. Im really a judge of it. Reporter so one of the worlds biggest drugmakers here astrazeneca already trying to get on top of this they are still in the process of research, but their companys ceo says they are trying to get 100 million doses of vaccine ready for the end of the year. The president hoping to fast track approval for that vaccine. Back to you. Tracie potts for us, thank you. Wearing masks when out in public has become the new normal, in order to protect yourself from coronavirus. Guidelines from the cdc say adults should don some type of face covering. But what about children . And infants . Some parents are asking that question how young is too young to mask up kids . Here is nbcs sarah dallof reporter even in a pandemic, life goes on in indonesia, nurses pictured holding newborns in tiny face shields. In the u. S. , a new dad in illinois announcing the birth of his baby to relatives waiting outside. Worldwide, parents wondering how to keep little ones safe once they leave the hospital. While more and more areas are recommending if not requiring face coverings to be worn in public, the cdc says cloth masks dont belong on children under 2. We worry about suffocation. Reporter dr. Jaky mackline is a pediatric hospitalist. If the mask is on too tightly there is that risk parents might think lets have them wear the mask more loosely. That kind of defeats the purpose of wearing the mask in the first place. Reporter instead, dr. Mackline advises parents to keep babies six feet from others in public and consider draping a blanket over an infant seat or carrier. The baby can still breathe comfortably but there is a barrier there. Reporter thats what mom erin ziegler is doing with 7 week old jack son on the rare occasions they venture out. Whatever we cover his car seat with is immediately washed when we get home or anything else we bring in the house is getting washed as soon as we bring it home. It is chaotic. Reporter big sister jayline is five, she has a mask. At the very least it is keeping her from putting her hands near her nose and mouth out in public. Reporter safely shielding kids and babies from the coronavirus. Sarah dallof, nbc news. A lot of families and kids needing masks if they head outside this weekend with some improvement in the weather in the northeast. Here is nbc meteorologist bill karins huge storm yesterday on the east coast windy conditions and heavy rain and we still have Power Outages that were dealing with in the midatlantic region. A lot of trees came down were looking at it right now, we have plenty of heavy rain moving through the northeast, eventually this will begin to clear out. Just going to take a little while. Looks like the rain is ending around new york city, more showers as we go throughout the rest of the afternoon. Heaviest rains shifting northward up toward boston as we go through the upcoming 24hour period, still showering in the northeast, but the weekend looks so much better it is going to clear out and we will be looking at a decent amount of sunshine saturd is perfect, bayareas frot is down pushing into texas could be near 100 near lubbock you guys are going to love the weekend forecast for the east coast it is about time april was ugly thankfully may is here. All right, it is indeed may 1st. Bill, thank you very much, appreciate it. Arizona cardinals star Larry Fitzgerald is giving back during the coronavirus pandemic he supported the community by teaming up with local restaurants to deliver food to front line healthcare workers in the phoenix area fitzgerald made deliveries to both hospitals and homes of healthcare workers who were more than happy to see him. 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Youre worried youre going too set them back because theyre going to miss something fundamental. Sometimes you have to have a good cry in your closet. You just at no time in Human History have parents been asked to do full time schooling alongside their jobs it is impossible. Reporter full time professor and mom sarah park decided to pull her 7yearold son out of online classes entirely, tweeting we cannot cope with this insanity. Survival and protecting his wellbeing come first. Her tweet quickly went viral. I think it touched a lot of nerves, it spoke a truth that a lot of parents were feeling. Reporter now, some states are taking action, Public Schools in washington, d. C. And many in georgia and texas announced theyll end the school year as early as friday. Many new York City Schools are dropping traditional grades. California may start its next school year as early as july with precautions like desks six feet apart and student lunches and classrooms los angeles says it will wait for widespread testing but until all schools reopen, many are teaching kids through online videos and work sheets, leaving parents to wonder how much learning is going on here one recent poll found 56 of higher income parents worry their kids are falling behind academically lower income parents, 72 . Tare wa burgess runs a nonprofi i have a loving partner, plenty of financial resources, a full fridge, and a stable Internet Connection and im going out of my mind how does my situation compare, do you think, to other people . We have families who are faced with making decisions, do i leave my 12yearold home alone or do i not go to work what if i only have one tablet in the house and ive got three kids. Hopefully employers are really taking those things into consideration. 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He continues to film the daily social distancing show with trevor noah from home. Spectacular golf trick shot is swinging through social media. If you havent seen it, here it is the golfer tosses his club in the air, thats gravity doing the rest, the club flips head over heels and knocks the ball into the hole, redefining that sports are games of momentum. Thats great to have somebody there actually shooting it and getting it on videfriday safe weekend im david gura. Im Frances Rivera. Great being with you thank you for watching early today. On the today show, three of Michael Jordans children are dropping by to talk about their good morning. Its the 1st of may, may day. And in just a few hours, employees from Companies Including amazon, target, walmart and insta card plan to hold strikes over what they say are unsafe work place conditions amid the pandemic. Plus this is not the total answer by any means, but its a very important first step. 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