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confirmed cases, almost 90,000 deaths. restaurants are serving customers outside. races a races all open their doors this week. you can gamble. automake automakers, ford with 15,000 workers, gm and fca. the president is all in, in caps, to reopen our country in one of his morning tweets. georgia started reopening more than most and its numbers were encouraging. texas is in debate. in truth, experts say we need a few weeks before we know the impact of reopening, and whether, big question, it is wise to do more, to do faster. the president is not in the mood to wait, calling in nbc's first golf broadcast saying the new normal will be back soon. >> we really want to see you get back to normal. we don't want to have to be wearing masks and doing what we've been doing for the last number of months, because that's not getting back to normal. we want to be back to normal. we have the big crowds and they're practically standing on top of each other and they're enjoying themselves. >> but that is unrealistic in the short term, and it is out of step with big companies now debating when it is safe to scale up significantly. part of that puzzle is a vaccine, and a big pharmaceutical company says today that its trials have produced promising results. moderna is the drug company claiming big progress today. they said 80 people receiving their vaccine trial have had positive results. elizabeth cohen joins us. elizabeth, always skeptical when you hear these things, but eight candidates, eight successes. what do we know? >> even the people i talk to who are usually on the more occ curmudgeonly side of things are thinking positive. eight did generate what are called neutralizing antibodies. these are antibodies that bind with the virus and disable it from infecting human cells. i talked with the chief medical officer of moderna. let's take a listen. >> these antibodies were prove be to be able to block the ability of the virus to infect cells. even at the lowest dose, we're seeing immune response at the level of people who are infected with this virus and are believed now to not be susceptible to further disease. >> again, we don't know what this means in real life. speaking of real life, let's take a look at what could happen moving forward. right now moderna has vaccinated somewhere between 60 and 100 human study subjects. that's part of the work we're seeing today. what they plan to do, starting in july, is start large-scale clinical trials which are typically tens of thousands of people, and then they said they can probably have a vaccine on the market between january and june of next year. when he told me that, it was sort of aspirational. he wasn't making promises, he wasn't guaranteeing anything. it was a similar timeline to what tony fauci has said. john? >> always let's be hopeful, but even with aspiration you're still looking into next year. but let's be hopeful on this day and keep on top of it. thank you, elizabeth cohen. more states that are opening are allowing more business activity. massachusetts and connecticut are about to make it 50 states on the road now to reopening. it is complicated. the data we see two or three weeks from now will tell us a lot more than what we see today. if you look at the trend line in cases in the united states, people talk about flattening the curve and starting to come down. it's been a plateau, but the red line is your seven-day average. stubbornly coming down but at least it is finally coming down. you see it there. also you start to see a drop and it is wishful-hopeful, a drop in deaths as well. the number of deaths in the united states starting to come down, especially in recent days. let's all hope that trend continues and it stays down. one state, montana, has a problem right now. relatively low number of cases, but it's having an increase at a high rate. 16 other states, you see them in the lighter orange, also going up in their case count, including texas, which is one of the big reopening experiences we watched there. 15 states in the beige color, they're holding steady. they flattened the curve. but do they go up, do they go down? you need to watch this every day. you have 18 states going down. that's a positive, 18 states going down. you see here the blue is south carolina, the yellow is colorado, the white is georgia and the green is texas. in the case of georgia, colorado and south carolina, you see the dates of their reopening beginning to expand them. they're all flatter down. that's what you want to see, flatter down as activity starts to increase in those states. texas is a question mark because you see texas reopening and you see the case count going up. they say this is because there's more tests, and that's why the rate is going up. this is a debate in the state of texas. the green line is texas. you see a big spike here, it comes down a bit. there are fluctuations when you have a cluster or a hot spot, but as texas starts reopening, they reported the single biggest increase in coronavirus cases since the start. you see it on the screen right there. that is up. still, the governor is going to make a big announcement today about ex papanding that. cnn's ed lavandera is in dallas with the latest. >> reporter: hey, john. the most disturbing day over the weekend was saturday. 1800 cases reported in just that one day. there were something like 32,000 tests, the highest numbers we've seen since this pandemic started in terms of testing, and state health officials attribute the majority of most of those cases, about 734 of those cases because of focused testing in meat packing plants around the city of amarillo. but despite that, there is still a sense of concern across the state as today we see even more openings, gyms, exercise facilities can open up at 25%, non-essential manufacturing also getting the green light as well as businesses inside the office buildings can open up today as well. as you mentioned, the governor expected to announce even more openings. but the reason i say this, especially big leaders in the state aztes texas remains in th precarious situation, as medical data remains lukewarm, flat in some cases, not necessarily trending, no spikes upward or downward, but a lot of it causing concern to the mayor of dallas here. >> what's important to me is making sure folks know that whatever is open, they still need to use common sense. we want to be safe, we don't want to be sick, so i think americans have mixed feelings about this. >> reporter: there is still this concern about what exactly is going to happen. we're just now, john, getting to the point where you'll start seeing the effects of the phased reopening which started here on may 1st. medical experts and health experts will tell you that it takes several weeks. this has been a slow, phased-in process in terms of what is happening. we're just now getting to the beginning of being able to sense what the trajectory is because of this reopening. john? >> you're on the leading edge of this experiment. ed lavandera on the ground. thanks so much. testing, as ed just noted, vital to reopening. the govern >> we have adequate testing capacity and we surge that in. we need to make sure anyone who is symptomatic is tested and we have adequate asymptomatic testing as a gauge of testing for positive purposes. you want to be at a rate of 8% or below. nationwide we're at 9%. >> william hanna is an associate professor at harvard. doctor, thank you for being with us. i just want to put it on the screen. let's look at texas. the percentage that is positive, this is the state we're watching for the leading edge of this experiment out there. the positivity rate is down, somewhere around 5%, if you look at that graphic. explain why that is potentially a good thing. >> well, john, it's great to see you digging into the data so much, i really appreciate that. when texas breaks it down, it means you get a better picture of exactly what is going on. if you're doing a lot of tests and more than 10% are coming back positive, then it suggests you're not getting all of them, you're only getting a fraction. if you got under about 10%, asymptomatics are a pretty good measure of the community. unfortunately, this is not a huge amount of people. >> help people in texas right now. they see the case count going up, a record over the weekend, and some people say that and say, slow down, governor. they say, no, no, we're testing more, we're getting more positive results. but that percentage you mentioned, they say that's an unmanageable range. they look at hospital beds and they say we're in the manageable range. who is right and is there a debate? >> if you do 15 tests and fi5% them come back positive, and you do 10 tests and 5% of them come back positive and you do 30 tests and 5% come back positive, you need to look at the number of tests you're doing. there is some lack of clarity of exactly which tests were encountered here. i urge texas and everywhere else to be on top of this? >> i'm not accusing anybody, but it would help if we had more transparency. i want to ask you a reliability question. there is no question the cdc was slow, the information was botched. we're in a position now that even the white house is using the abbott fast test, the quick test. the fda says it has worries about the adequac accuracy. s president says itthe presiden. >> it's a great test, quick test. we have the most accurate testing in the world. >> testing is, frankly, overrated. maybe it is overrated. >> this is a 5 to 15-minute test, the laboratory tests. these tests are highly sophisticated, very quick, very good. >> this is one of the tests being used at what you might argue is one of the most important workplaces in america, 1600 pennsylvania avenue, yet the president's own fda issued an advisory questioning the accuracy. where are we on that? >> i think what we do know is that we need to know more. i think all of the tests we're looking at at the moment is they vary in specificity, especially if you're looking at somebody who is asymptomatic or the specific cause of disease. i and people in my position know that a number of people have always tested negative but have had covid and they have the antibodies. this is a moving target we need to keep track of. we need to keep track of that as we get more testing sites. doctor, thank you. the president's adviser blames testing sites on the cdc, and the cdc official fights back. they're all possible with a cfp® professional. find yours at letsmakeaplan.org. they're all possible with a cfp® professional. you get way more than free shipping. you get thousands when you shop for your home at wayfair of items you need to your door fast the way it works best for you. even the big stuff. you get a delivery experience you can always count on. you get your perfect find at a price to match on your schedule. you get free two day shipping on things that make your home feel like you! wayfair. way more than furniture. to deliver your mail and packages and the peace of mind of knowing that essentials like prescriptions are on their way. every day, all across america, we deliver for you. and we always will. can attack anywhere. get fast relief here with primatene mist. available over the counter for mild ashtma. primatene mist. breathe easy again. simmering internal tensions between it is white house and the centers for disease control spilled into the weekend. >> throughout this crisis, the cdc, which really had the most trusted brand in this space, really let the country down with the testing. because not only did they keep the testing within the bureaucracy, they had a bad test. and that did set us back. >> trade adviser peter navarro isn't the only white house aide mad at the cdc. remember, the president tried and failed to get the cdc director say he misquoted when he said he had worries about a second coronavirus wave. nick joins me about how this is going with the cdc. >> reporter: we don't hear this type of reporting by the cdc, even in the background. but what you just heard there from white house trade adviser peter navarro, this is what they had to say in response. we should remind mr. navarro that the cdc is a federal agency part of the administration. the cdc director is an appointed position and dr. robert redfield was appointed by president trump. if there is criticism of the cdc, ultimately mr. navarro is being critical of the president and the man who president trump placed to head the agency. the cdc and the white house haven't been on the same page since the beginning. we should remind our viewers that it was early january that the cdc were holding multiple briefings per week, advising americans there would be a disruption to their everyday life. those briefings were canceled by the white house and the hhs. they went on to say they were frustrated. they expressed a lot of anger saying they continued to get mixed messages. they are giving them science, officials said, but it is not being received. a detailed description of exactly what they're talking about is a 68-page document, a decision tree, that official saying initially we were too specific. they gave the white house a targeted plan within the weeks of the pandemic. that was shelved for a 15-day period. they said they were too specific and now they're being general. >> nick muncie, i appreciate the reporting there. that watchdog fired by president trump? 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>> reporter: we're learning about a new investigation. this is coming from the top democrat on the house foreign affairs committee who launched an investigation over the weekend with the senate democrats also looking into this, because they want to get to the bottom of why secretary pompeo recommended that president trump fire steve linick who was the inspector general at the state department. we are learning there was an investigation that steve linick was carrying out which he had almost completed. i want to read to you a statement that we have from chairman elliott engel about this investigation, saying, quote, i learned there may be another reason for mr. linick's firing. his office was investigating, at my request, trump's phony declaration of an emergency so he could send weapons to saudi arabia. we don't have the full picture yet, but it's troubling that secretary pompeo wanted mr. linick pushed out before this work was completed. so there was a fast track of armed sales to saudi arabia last year that secretary pompeo triggered, and the house democrats were very critical of that decision, saying there was no emergency that really led to that decision. they wanted the inspector general to look into that. they're now learning that steve linick did look into that. and the other piece of the picture here that you mentioned is the fact that there was also an investigation into secretary pompeo and his use of a political appointee for his own personal needs, things like walking his dog. so there are some investigations. the democrats that are investigating this don't know the full picture yet, but they are putting the puzzle pieces together to try and really get to the bottom of why this inspector general was let go so suddenly on friday night. >> obviously the democrats control the house, so one can assume that mr. linick will end up before a house committee. it's 30 days before the firing officially takes place. we can see our viewers on the screen. we know the president has sparred with mr. lini krr ir li spending money. also michael atkinson, glen fine and christi grimm. >> when these inspect or generas speak the truth, they are basically being told by this administration, we do not want to hear it. and if you do speak out, you're going to be admonished. and in these cases, fired. this president, unfortunately, doesn't want to hear the truth. >> it is hard to argue with that, michael. you can see maybe it's a personality conflict, maybe this one issue. so one inspector general gets fired. when you have four and other examples in other positions in government, there does seem to be a pattern here if the president is not appreciating accountability and oversight. >> right. and i think it's much larger than just the four i.g.s, right? we know from all the reporting we've done over the years but especially since the president's acquittal after the impeachment case that he is insistent on purging the government of people he and the people in his orbit think are not loyal to him. that has been one of his gripes from the beginning, that the deep state, as he sees it, is a raid against him and trying to get him out of office, trying to oppose the policy agenda that he wants to put forward. and i think the firing of the inspector generals fits in with that pattern. he wants loyalty and he sees the kind of accountability that most presidents -- you know, look, inspectors general often irritate a president, right? their criticism makes headlines, their criticism is on capitol hill. most presidents take it as part of the democratic process they have to deal with, and this president has just decided he's not going to deal with it. he's going to view them through a loyalty prism and just not deal with it. >> and, kylie, much like his boss, secretary pompeo ais not the most transparent guy when it comes to media relations. i asked him the context of we've heard some memories, but one from the senator of utah, some concerns by the senator of maine. senator grassley in iowa has been suspicious of these watchdogs. has he addressed the question about saudi arabia? >> no, we haven't heard any comments from the state department himself about these ongoing investigations revealed by the democrats or the secretary himself. you're right, he could come out and say something. but the bottom line here is that they are saying that there is a new person who is in charge. it's steven ackerd. he's an ambassador and sees somebody who is close to the trump administration. he's particularly close with vice president pence. it is clear here they're putting a loyalist into that job and they are getting rid of someone who was carrying out investigations, some of them which irked this state department, which irked secretary pompeo. >> kylie, i'm sorry to interrupt. new york governor cuomo is speaking. >> to the governor to the left, eric rhodes who has been working through this process. dr. candace johnson, thank you very much for the hospitality. i was thinking about our trip to cuba and your great accomplishment. >> it was fun. >> it was fun, and it was productive. it's always a pleasure to be with my friend, my partners, the great mayor of the city of buffalo, byron brown and the great account executive. i'm pleased to report that i took a covid test yesterday and i am negative from that test. so that is good news. you take one of those tests, it's very easy. i showed people how easy it was yesterday. and when you find out you're negative, it's actually a nice sense of relief. i didn't have any symptoms or anything, but you don't need to have symptoms and you can have the covid virus. you take the test, they tell you you're negative 24 to 48 hours, and it is peace of mind. there is no reason why people shouldn't be getting tested. we actually have now more testing capacity than we are using at many of our sites. and we've expanded the number of people who are eligible for testing. anyone who has any symptom for a covid virus, any symptom includes basically the symptoms you would have if you had the flu. same symptoms. if you have any symptoms, get a test. get a test. it protects you, protects your family, protects your colleagues, so get a test. if you were exposed to a person who you find out is positive for covid, get a test. get a test. it takes 30 seconds. we have 700 locations across the state, so there's no reason why you shouldn't do it. go right to the web, it shows you where the location is, you can sign up and go. let's give you some facts on today. number of hospitalizations are down, so that's good news. not down a lot but down. i'll take it. net change is down. net change in intubations is down. the number of new cases per day is down by one. not great, but i'll take it. it's going in the right direction, so that is good news. the number that breaks my heart every day, the number of deaths, is still painfully hyaigh at 10 but it is down, and in this world where we are looking for good news on a daily basis, that is good news. although, in our thoughts and prayers, are those 106 families today. and if you look at where we are, we have done a phenomenal job in reducing the spike, reducing what could have been cat aclysmic in the incline of that curve. nobody could tell you if it would stop. there was no global expert who said, if you close this, if you close this and close this, then we can tell you with certainty it will stop the spread of the virus. nobody said that. all they could say was do your best. try to close everything down and then hope for the best. and new yorkers responded. we had the highest number of cases in the country. new yorkers responded with great unity and great discipline, and that's why that curve turned. we hit the a ppex and we're on e way down. you also see how slow the way down is. that's why all the experts always say be careful of the spike, because it's a long time coming down from the spike. you want to avoid the spike because you can't reverse it in a matter of days. it takes a long time to get those numbers back down. and this is with everything we did and with all the loss and pain we suffered. this is how long it took to get those numbers down. we now have a top priority, which we had from day one, which is our nursing homes. we've seen -- we were introduced to this virus in seattle, washington where it attacked a nursing home. the most vulnerable population in the most vulnerable place, senior citizens in a congregate facility. that's how we were introduced to this virus, and i'm afraid that's how we're going to leave this virus. so protecting our nursing homes and seniors has been top priority. last week we put in place a requirement to test all staff at a nursing home twice per week. why? well, number one, it keeps the staff safe. number two, if you see an increase in the positive among staff people, it's an alert that you probably have a real problem in that nursing home. because chances are the staff are getting it from the nursing home or giving it to people in the nursing home. so if you watch what happens with the staff, it's a canary in the coal mine for what's happening in the nursing home. and third, it clearly keeps the residents of the nursing home safe. now, to help nursing homes do this, we worked with all the private labs, identified a number of tests that we can send just for the purpose of testing people in nursing homes. that's about 55,000 per day. they're se we're sending 320,000 test kits to the nursing homes today to help them do this. with everything i'm doing, i know the nursing home operators are not happy about this. i get it. it's very hard to administer. the staff all have to be tested twice a week. okay, we're giving test kits, we set up lab capacity, but it is still an operational issue. i understand that. and i understand that no other state is doing this. i hear that quite often from the nursing homes. no other state is requiring that the staff be tested twice a week. i understand that. i understand we have the most aggressive standard in the nation. but i also know that it is necessary. and, look, from day one, we said this was going to be hard. and we said we drew bad cards in this hand. new york did have the highest number of cases, not because we did anything wrong but because the virus fooled everyone and we were closing down china, and the virus had already left china, hadn't gone to europe, and by the time we closed europe, 3 million europeans had come from europe and landed in new york airports. that was happening and we didn't know, closed china. it was already gone by the time we closed china. and it had left europe by the time we closed europe. that's why new york had that cluster. those flights from europe come here. they land in jfk, they land in newark, people take connecting flights. they're coming here. so that brought the virus here, that's why we have the numbers we have. okay. but we said we're going to do what we have to do, and we're going to do what we have to do to protect the lives of new yorkers. who is in a nursing home? this is your mother, this is your father, your sister, your brother. this is our family who are in nursing homes. that's who they are. and there are senior family members who we owe nothing but gratitude and respect. the one thing we need to be able to say at the end of this is, we did everything we could. we did everything we could. 106 people died. how do you live with that, how do you sleep with that? because we did everything we could. we still can't save every life, but we can do everything in our power that we can do to try to save every life. and that's why i'm comfortable with what we're doing on nursing homes. i know it's hard, and i thank them. on reopening overall, we're opening regions that have hit the data points, hit the metrics. western new york has one metric that they have to hit, which is the number of tracers. they need 521 tracers. they've identified 525. great piece of work that they did over the weekend. i want to thank the mayor, i want to thank the county executive, regional officials who found people to serve as tracers. they're going to be trained tomorrow. that means all the metrics will be hit and western new york will be open tomorrow, so that's exciting. it's been a long, painful period, but we start to reopen tomorrow. new york state department of health is also granting a waiver to restart elective procedures for ecmc. we want to make sure hospitals are in a position to provide care for people who need it, so this is a good step. i also have been encouraging major sports teams to plan reopenings without fans, but the games could be televised. new york state will help those major sports franchises to do just that. hockey, basketball, baseball, football, whoever can reopen. we're a ready, willing and able partner. personal disclosure, i want to watch the buffalo bills, but i'm still objective. i'm acting as governor. there is no personal agenda here. yes, i do want to fulfill my role as governor. i think this is in the best interest of the state of new york, even though i have a coincident personal agenda because i want to watch the bills, but they are separate agendas. some would say i have a conflict of interest. i want to disclose it. judges and staff will be returning to courthouses in the 30 upstate counties that are open this week. what will reopening mean? that's a big topic of discussion now. what does reopening mean? this is not a subject that is a political subject or where political opinions really matter. i don't care if you're a democrat, republican, libertarian, independent, i don't care. i don't care. this is not a political exercise we are going through. people say, i have a personal opinion. i don't care about your personal opinion. i don't think you should care about my personal opinion, because it's not about a personal opinion. it's not about an idealogical opinion, it's not about a geographic opinion. it's not even an opinion that's relevant, right? this is about facts and science and data. these decisions are being made as a matter of math. it's numbers. it's math. that's all it is at the end of the day. you start to increase economic activity, you have more people coming out of their homes, more people contacting other people, and then you measure the impact of that increase with numbers. not with opinions, not with politics, not with partisanship, with numbers. and then you just measure the impact. you make sure that you don't go above 70% of your hospital beds so that if a large number of people get infected, you have the hospital beds to take care of them. you make sure you don't go over 70% of your icu bed capacity, because when these people are infected with covid, they do need icu beds. we learned that the hard way. you have testing up and running, 30 tests per 1,000 residents. where did that come from? that's the white house coronavirus task force, dr. birx. you have 30 tracers ready for every 100,000 residents. that comes from the experts. and then you watch the infection rate and you make sure that you don't get near 1.1 on the infection rate. it's math. and there is a liberation in that. at a time of such division and politics and elections and all this garbage, this is an exercise in science and math. and it's data that we can all share and we can all participate in. i encourage people to go look at the data and look at what's happening in your region, because that's how we're going to get through this. on the numbers, on the math, on the facts. we're going to bring in advisers to the state advisers who are international experts, global experts who have dealt with these kinds of diseases, right, this is not just a state of new york issue, it's not even an american issue, it's a global issue. and i want to make sure we have people reviewing and then reviewing the reviewers, and then as many opinions of experts that we can get are the best path forward. dr. osterholm is a nationwide expert in this field, and he has agreed to review our data, what we're doing, what's happening, and to advise us as to how our progress looks on the numbers. i want to thank him very much. we also have dr. semir bott who has agreed to serve adviser to the state of new york. he is the professor of geostatistics the the university of london. geostatistics is not my field of endeavor. i never heard of geostatistics before -- >> trouble with the feed there. governor cuomo for his daily briefing. we'll wait one second and see if we get it back. i guess we're not going to get it back. back to buffalo. let's see. >> we have had a number of projection models that were done early on by a number of very prestigious universities, and we've been watching all these projection models since this started. as you know, many of the models were not 100% accurate because they couldn't calculate the effect of the social participation and what people actually did to change the curve, and in a state like new york, what the people did dramatically changed that curve so it affected the projections. but the imperial college model, as we have been following this for weeks, was the best, most accurate model. and, therefore, i think dr. bott deserves all our thanks because they really helped us through this to date, and i want to thank him very much for taking the time to advise us, not just on how we constructed our model to date but what happens going forward as we increase the economic activity and we thank you for being with us and it is a pleasure welcome you today. >> thank you, governor, professional honored to work with new yorkers. your state have already shown what can be done. the leadership during this crisis should be commended. your approach should be followed. we have a huge covid-19 response team. you and new york have successfully contained the virus for now. new york is not out of the woods now. new york must continue to watch the data and follow the signs. we are here for new york. new york is leading the way with data collection and this will help tie together many sources of evidence together to reach scientists consensus which could be used for decision making. our team is focusing on models to track the virus. we are committed to open science and data and understand our conclusions and limitations and of course uncertainties. today my team from brazil and italy and we have data -- thanks to these tools and our research, the coaches are available for everyone to see, tests to improve. as country around the world and states around the u.s. may come to this. we'll see cases rise once again. for new york, we must continue to be vigilant and follow the data. i think governor, thank you for this opportunity thank you for the work you have been doing. >> thank you very much doctor, thank you for being with us. i look forward to speaking with you in the days ahead. look i am eager to seek the advise of a college but i can tell you this, this is a global pandemic and what we are now doing other countries have done before. we tend to think we are always the first. we are not the first to deal with this virus. other countries have dealt with it and other countries have gone through reopening and learning all sorts of lessons on reopening. i want to make sure what he we are doing is the best informed approach. i want to thank our dr. bhatt very much and we'll be looking at what happens with our data and metrics going forward. what's the impact of the reopening? we don't know what the road ahead looks like. it is a function of what we do. you tell me how responsible are the employers in following the guidelines that have been put forward. we talk about reopening and cracking and agriculturing and fishing and manufacturing and there are safety guidelines that employers must follow. how scrupolus they are in following the guidelines, you tell me if the employees are following the guidelines and wearing the ppe and using hand sanitizers. you will tell me how individuals react and now the weather are getting warmer and others are wearing masks, are they staying in social distancing requirements? i will tell you what's going to happen. you tell me how effectively a local government enforces the guidelines. and i will tell you what's going to happen. none of this is predetermined. this is a function of what we do today going forward. the smarter and more discipline we are, the lower the infection rate will climb. the lower the infection rate climbs, the more you will increase economic activities. it is a formula and it is math. it is liberating because it takes politics out of it and personal opinion out of it. it is something you can measure and interact and you will know exactly what's going to happen because it is a function of what we are doing. it is up to us, it is up to you and it is the collective we are going to decide the future that starts today. we are coming back from our closing. what is our goal? i say it should not be about we are dpoigoing to reopen. reopen suggesting you go back to where you were before the closure. we'll go back before the date of the closure. no, life is not about going backward, life is about i want to get back to where i was. it has to be about building back better than before. we want to go forward and advance. that's what we have to think about going through this. yeah, we took a hard blow. we got knocked down, no fault of our own, whoever created that virus, mother nature, god, who ever. no fault of our own. welcome to life. things happen. outside of your control that you could not do anything about but it just happens. the question becomes are you strong enough to get backup once kno life knocks you down and are you smart enough to learn through life. when you get backup, you will be the better for it. i believe that. that's my story. that's our story. that's the story of buffalo, getting knocked down and changing the economy but we'll get backup because we are strong enough and we'll learn from it because we are smart enough. that's the story of buffalo. that's the story of new york. that's the american story. it is what made this country the best country on the globe. not that we didn't get knocked down. we got knocked down plenty. but we were smart enough to learn and strong enough to get backup. and that's where we have to set our sites. not about reopening. we'll make this place better than before. what we went through is a transiti transformative experience in life. we'll be smarter and we'll be stronger for what we went through. we'll be a stronger society for what we went through. i believe it and we are going to have a stronger buffalo and stronger new york and stronger america. that's what it means to be new york tough, smart, united and disciplined and loving. thank you. questions? >> the state presets some of the metrics make new york eligible to reopen. can you explain that. you have been listening to andrew cuomo in new york today giving his daily briefing, saying all the case numbers are down, defending his administration respond to the nursing home crisis there and laying out the complexity of the opening path. he hopes this will go forward. the state and local community will have it if the infection rates go up. we'll be back in just a moem. i am john king in washington. back to our big coronavirus news in a moment. the investigation into the last year's shooting at a military operation in
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