And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Announcer and now, bbc world news. Amera. Reporting from new york, itr am laurelyan. Tensions in america are rising. Conomy t reopen. The number of coronavirus cases here near 8000. Theri of u. S. Oil goes negative as demand dries up and producers sour on their supplies. After the deadliest mass shooting in canadas history, ime minister called for unity after a gunman kills at least 18 people. I am going to have lunch. Laura plus, storytime with chelle obama. She is trying to distract the kids and give the rents a break. Laura for all of you watching on pbs and around the globe, welcome to world news america. More than 40,000 people have died from coronavirus in the United States. Here in new york, the death toll the lowest it has been in two weeks. 478 people died in the last day. As protestgainst the lockdown are seen across the country, there is growing disagres ent over who charge of testing for coronavirus. The president says it is up to the states monotony federal government. Here is ouredorth america or, jon sopel. Like wildfire, a series of demonstrations has erupted acrosshe country. To protest the stayathome order. To protest the clos. Re of the u. Conomy. To protest what these people see as unacceptable gocernment interfn their lives. And they do not see muc seem much interested so maintaining al dtancing. This person carries a pocket eive me liberty or give m covid19. He may have dealt with both. Now it is time to let the adults make decisions of what businesses they want to open. If they want to open, open up. We should open up yesterday. It never should have closed. It is a hoax. It is facts of life. We live and die. To shutown the economy because of that is insane. Fuel for these protests was provided in a series of tweets by the president , urging citizens to liberate their states from overzealous governments. The governors are aghast that in the midst of coronavus,hey are now having to deal with protesters. This is not the time for protests. This is not the time for diviveness. This is time for leadership. We will stand up and provide that will stand up and provide empathy and understand what is going on in this countrof when i spoke to the president , he was unncerned. There were groups of people planning to protest tomorrow against a government shutdown, what would be your advice . President trump you are allst allowed to pro they were six feet apart. It was an Quarterly Group of people. Orderly group of people. Some of the things that in the end, we will open up our states and i think they will open up well. Protesters, i protesters were also to things. I am with everybody. I am with erybody. A twist, though. In denver, colorado, Health Workers at the front line of the fight against the coronavirus tried to stop the protesters who see themselves as the vanguard for individual liberty. Four weeks of lockdown and tensions are building. Jon sopel, bbc news, washington. Laura lets go to boston now, which the white house is watching very closely as cases in massachusetts surge. Joining me now is a doctor from Harvard Medical School a emergency medical physician. Thank you so much for joining us. Wh is the situation there in boston with coronavirus cases right now . Right now, we have seen a slight decrease in the number of new diagnoses. Come down just a bit the last few days, but that does not mean our hospitals are feeling more and more pressure. Threason for that is these cases, it is not like you get diagnosed and a couple days later you are fine. This virus ts come at days, 14 days before people become critically ill. Every day that goes by, ano cer 1500, 200es, even if it goes down a little bit, the aessure on the Hospital System is not abating a. Laura meanwhile, we are finally seeing the death toll drop here in new york. Dwhyou make of that trend . Well, at some point when you do enough social distancing and people taken very seriously asti k new yorkers have because they confront the realities of what happens when youheo not, then is a benefit to that. We hear calls to reopen the ecomy in places where maybe there has not been as much of a burden. And that makes sense from a sort of human what i cannot see does not affect me kind of thing. In new york, they have been doing the right thing in terms e. Shutting it down and sheltering in pl other areas, people do not see it so they do not believe it. Unfortunately, by the time you see it with this virus, it is too late. That means it is everywhere in your community and there is very little you can do to stop it at that point. Laura how much testing do we really need to safely reopen our economy . Is it millions of tests a week . It is. And the reason for that m is unlit outbreaks, epidemics, and of course a pandemic, doing the usual contact tracing, whi f is to try d out where somebody was when they got the virus, who going to be very feasible in a virus that has such a long window between infection and symptoms and how long you can shed the virus and be contagious. So the only way for us to have a grasp on this is not to do sort of a digging around sort of detective way that we normally do for most outbreaks. S the who eat at it, but it is to test to know where things are because if youo not have an idea what the amount, the prevalence of cases is in every community, you have absolutely no idea when it is safe to reen because you do not know if you are a week or two away from a big spike in illnesses. You get a bunch of positive tests today just through screening, and it will not be until seven or 10 day from now that people might notice it. Laura thank you so much for joing us. My pleasure. Thank you. Laura the very first outbreak heroronavireby. In u. Leaders there acted quicko shut down large gatherings and slow the spread of the virus. Joining me now is the mayor of seattle. Thank you so much for being with us. What was the single most important step you tookow to thrate of transmission . I would say there were three impoant things. First one was we learn from the World Health Organization how important it was for elected leaders of a region to speak with one voice, and i really have to give great tribute to our governor, our county executive, and my fellow mayors here because wwent and hashed out what we thought were the best policiesn to remified. So the public got one message about the important of what they had to do. The second thing weis just as ii relied on thece. As your previous gueste says, by time you see it, it is almost too late to contain it. So by the time we saw anak outbn this region, we knew there had already been Community Spread and it was too late to do the typil mitigation. We have a great ry earch communat showed us from actually typing the genome on the virus itself and the positive virus counts how wide it had spread. And it was significant, so we knew we had to act. And so trdhing y thi haiav t s s quickl as you can to shut down the way for the virus toan it, and that is to find people who are not infected. That only happens if we cut down the facetoface contact her but it has been devastating to the economy. It has been devastating to have the society shut off, but it was the only way we have gotten to where we ha gotten, which is where we have flattened the curve. We are on a decline but not out of the woods yet laura you have done yet. So how g careful are young to be about reopening seattle . Mayor durkan we have to be significantly careful. Thain, we have to act as a region because oway people travel. Seattle cannot act alone. We have to act with our county and state. Second, we have to base it on the science. I is a the reverse of wh just said. So we know we are at r plateau than we zero cases because we know we ha cases i our community. When we bring people together again, the virus will start to spread so we have to be very smart about which businessese w open first, what protections they have, and make sure we have the capacity in our health car system so we do not overburden the heahcare worker who have been working so long, so hard. Laura you have seen protests there in washington state. What do you make of the president encouraging some of the protesters who do not like the lockdown . Yor durkan i think it is incredibly unhelpful, unproductive, andto contrar the message his own Public Health people are sending. You cannot say in the one hand that you think washingn state acted as they should to slow the transmission of this virus and to make sure we did not happen in new york or italy happen here and athe sameop time have protest without all the facts. Look, people are tired. People have been economically depleted. Everyone wants an end to this. Ncmyselfded. We want to come out of the shut down. But know we have to do it smart because if we do not do it smart, we will end up noerjust where we two months ago, worse place wit not the same level of ability to fight it. Health care system h already been stretched thin. We are low on testing capability and protective equipment capability. So we have to make sure as we open we are thinking about, what are those partsthf the economy can come back first . At is outside and can take really strong measures on protecting people . We have to be very careful, but we htoav ain, it has to be tied to the science. Laura thanks so much for joining us. Well, u. S. Lawmakers are working on a dealto provide more money for hardhit Small Businesses across america. Thataf ir the initial 350 billion package ran out of money last week. Demand was high, but some of the business is applying for loans were not so small after all as katty kay tells us. It looks like american Small Businesses will get another injection of cash, some 470 billion. They need this because the last big package that went out a few weeks proved not to be enough. The system. Was overwhelm there were far too many applicants, and a lot of the Small Businesses that wanted that money found a just could not access it. It had all been dispersed. So now there are negotiations over the 470 billion and critically safeguards have been put into it so that it is the most needy, the really Small Businesses, people in vulnerable communities who can actually cesshese funds. It is all a b embarrassing because it seems that some of the money actually went toery big c tins,ngs like pot belly, which has franchises all around the country,ha and shack, a hamburger joint across the United States which has hundreds of emoyees around the country. They managed to get 10 million from the last dispersal of funds. They decided to give that back because they whenze liatd ththey can have access tof their own, they did not need 10 million that other small laura katty kay reporting. There. Otherews now from around the world, germany has become relaxing its Strict Lockdown measures. Small shops, car dealerships, and Bicycle Stores are among thosthat can reopen. The country has more0 than 145,00 cases but it has flattened the curve of new infections. Last week, it said it had the spreadnder control. Social distancing remains in force. So Richard Branson says his Airline Virgin Atlantic needs Government Support to survive. The virgin group says he is not asking for a handout but a more than 6 million. Ed to be critics point out he has 600 million. Critics point out he has not paid taxes. Yabenjamin netan has agreed to form an emergency unity government with his ltipo it follows ava year of political deadlock in which a series of general elections failed to produce a stable government. His opponent urgently planned not to go into coalition with mr. Netanyahu but he changed his mind is the intensified. Outbreak the price of u. S. Oil has dropped below zero for the first that means producers are actually paying buyers to take the commodity off their hands. They are worried about running out of Storage Space as demand s dried up worldwide due to the coronavirus outbreak. Michelle has more. It is a simple case of demand and supply. Ever since the coronavirus outbreak, we have seen a sharp drop in demand. Just to put it in context for you, before the outbreak, rohly on average the world had 100 Million Barrelser day. Since then, it has dropped. It means there is an excess pacity. Too much oil in the world being produced right now. 25 Million Barrels per day. That istarting to have a real serious effect on the price of oil. West Texas Intermediate Oil in particular ars paying custoo take the oil away because they cannot afford to store it. Laura michelle reporting on how oil is now selling at negative prices. Canada Prime Ministers as violence has no place in his country. Rujustinau was speaking after a gunman killed at least 18 people in the wor mass in cans history. The gunmens motive the gunmans motive is not clear. Once an unimaginable site, the trail of crime scenes across the cottage country in nova otia. Investigators are searching for answers after a weekend massacre that stands as canadas deadliest mass shooting. The suspect,ld 51year gabriel workman, targeted vicrems and set fio homes in a rural town. He then led police on a chase fire at random. Ince, opening he evaded capture by blending in toth the very police tryin stop him. His ability to moved surely greatly benefited by the fact that he had a police or a vehicle that looked identical in every way to a marked police car. D beyond that, he was wearing a police uniform. Prime minister Justin Trudeau said violence had no place in canada. P. M. Trudeau this happened in smallowns. Places where people have deep roots. Neighbors and look out for one another. Mourning, and canada is in i mourni with them. The community is grieving while on lockdown due to the coronavirus. Among those killed, a schoolteacher, a nurse, and a police officer. Heidi stevenson was a 23 year veteran of the force and a authorities are still trying to establish the nal death toll and have warned that there may be more victims. Laura you are watching bbc world news america. Still to come on tonight s program, economic devastation brought by the coronavirus, how there in america have beenit hardest by the crisis. Miopions of across india have been allowed to go back to work. Individual states are given the power to ease lockdown restrictions. Rye bbc has more on this s now. Last week when Prime Minister diden e sded the government would look at areas ae sectors wher perhaps some of the restrictions could be eased with view to reduce the economic distress that the lockdown is causing. So the areas that have seen that happening today are largely rural parts of the country, not very densely populated, and where there so far have not been any confirmed cases of coronavirus. Farming, fishing, dairy activities are all but allowed to resume. Work on plantations, any work for Public Utilities like constructing of roads, sewer lis, all of that in these green zones, what the government is calling them. So areas where there is no confirmed cases of coronavirus so far, these activities have been allowed to bin. Laura the Novel Coronavirus has claimed more tn 40,000 american lives, but it has caused economic devastation, too. 22 million americans have lost thr jobs. David grossman has been to baltimore, a city where the poorest are reeling from th impact of the economic contraction. What is always remarkable in north america is its scale. This is a place that used to be the biggest, the strongest, the richest. Right now, though, what is startling is the scale of economic contraction. Down on 2 e ground,llion people applied for unemployment benethts in the past m this is the rult. Food bank lines at an element iy schobaltimore. This is a poor area with little financial resilience, even at the best of times. My son got it. Due to the covid19. Like i say, as far as bills and stuff, you get behind inls b so, yes, make it the best way you can. Putting together bags of produce, bread, chicken, cereal, the american welfare system is not set up for this crisis. This is the work of charitiesvo and lunteers. They work for a film equipment crew in baltimore. Their usual work has driedte up so they vol here. Today they asked us if we can provide some tents and cones and tables so weot all that stuff, pulled it from the warehouse, trucks. Up the and doing this makes me feel like i am notngust sitt home waiting for us to go back to work. E are finding ways to get out there and stilllpful, creative, and just together. That is what this is about. Also playing big role is the Baltimore City school board. Many students would get free meals in school time. Now, two meals a day served to anyone who wants them, child or adult. The cost is growing. According to the head of the school board, is emergency is asking profound questions of american society. A lot of these folks had jobs. A lot of these people ndre getting upoing to work every day. And getting on public crisper to should and working 2, 3 jobs. What do you do when people absolutely have a work ethic people absolutely want to support thei families in much greater numbers are unable to do so . That is a society question. I think we are going to havee o grapth it. Right now, we are doing what we can because we know we need to dot. She lost her job in a university. Have beens finances vastated, and so are those of many of her work colleagues. There are only 12 workers out of 200 workers working right now. My husband, his job, 80 workers, nobody is working. Not one. I did start collecting unemployment around the end of march, but we have corridors. Once thert q is over, you have to reapply, see if you are approved or the additional 13 weeks. In a count with Many Political divisions already, this c virus hasreated another, between those who can work from home and tho who cant. Jobs like cutting hair. Rek burton has watched his thriving barbershop business destroyed in a few short weeks. They would be buzzing me every day but nonstop on saturday. We have a ticket machine like at a losing 40,000 a month. I am not going to stick it out. I am selling my shares off to my partner. I dont want to be involved here anymore. I am walking away. What doesl that fke after all that work . Defeat, loss, turmoil, heartache, stress. He did not votees for the prident last time, but will in the next election. Ru will vote for donald because i think he needs to get us out of this. I dont see any point in stopping and waiting for a sign. What kind of sign are weaing to open up the economy . We still have anno e that oeds to exist regardless of any kind of illnessr defects. Ll a the t while wages that by benefits that are hard tonedd access and uncertain in uration. All over baltimore, you can find the rustic remnants of businesses, a reminder that once lost industry is hard to restart. Right now, the va american economy, for decades, the main engine of global prosperity, is shuttered. Much of it silent,fout how long it, too, cannot be rearted . Laura David Grossman reporti. So many families struggling to make ends meet right now. Lets recap our top stories tonit. Ouprotests have brken t across the United States as people express their anger over stayathome msures. Canada is in mourning after the countrys largest ever mass shooting. A gunman disguised as a policeman killed at l8 people over the weekend. The price of u. S. Oil has dropped into negative territory for the first time in history. Producers aretoorried it w store their supplies. The demand for energy dries up worldwide. Before we go tonight, for all the parents out there who can use a hand with storytime these days, help is at hand. A mavsth took a strolugh the deep dark wood. A fox saw these mand the mouse looked good. 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