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The country including clover farms in pennsylvania. little bear farms in texas, ranches in california, and rice lake farms in grant, michigan, where we found rick sibel. >> 600 acre farm grows the onions, carrots and beats typically destined for the smile and dozens of other new york city restaurants. >> normally this time of year im shipping two and three trucks midweek to new york. and now im only shipping one today. >> rick reduced worker hours and is also postponed spending more than $250,00...

$250,000 on maintenance and equipment. money that is now not going back into the local or national economy. there are some estimates that as many as 40% of new york city restaurants wont reopen. what would that mean for you? >> there might be a lot less of us around doing what we do. heaven forbid, but that could happen. just like restaurants. as many as 40%, youre saying. i believe that could happen. >> reporter: back at the smile, all matt can do is wait. are you bracing yourself for this busi...

Wasnt it? to run all that way. >> i wouldnt have been able to run that much. i wouldnt even know what to do. to stay strong the way he did. i just -- i wasnt there and i couldnt control myself. i dont know how he did it. >> reporter: farm accidents are as old as the wheel. bad things just happen sometimes. still, sheriffs investigators scoured the area, taking photos and collecting every bit of debris they could find, whether it looked like it was from an electrical box or not. >> one of our job...

>> us know that, yeah. >> and so you said masks. thats good. but was everybody six feet apart? >> heres the thing. if theres a family group, they are allowed to if they set with their family group. there has to be a ten foot between them and the next group. so they actually have their own area. >> so we node to get this cou country opened up. that was our main georgia goel. we wanted to get these races going and show it can be done. this is the second night.

It keeps the teams separate from each other. and everyone is wearing face masks. i have one on myself. we checked temperatures wp we got them to sign is off. if they got over 100 degrees, we made them set off the side. things are going good. were just halfway through the night. >> let me jump in and ask a question. so you said ten people per car. you think everybody showed up? so you had all those people show up? >> you realize everybody is a carrier is not symptomatic.

Can go into almost any coffee shop or restaurant, and theyre solving it for me. >> reporter: those things can get twisted very fast. >> they get twisted really fast. in this case it was constantly, you know pete moore did it. you know pete moore did it. my response was, well, thats not the direction im going in. >> reporter: not the direction at all. in fact, d.a. pointer was about to put pete on the prosecution team. as a key witness against paul. making pete work with the same people who at on...

California plans to test the entire town nbcs jake ward is there. >> volunteer organizers here say they were shocked to discover how easy it was to buy both tests for their more than 1,600 citizens >> we started to talking to other labs expecting that everyone was going to be backed up, and were surprised to learn that wasnt the case >> reporter: but thats just one town governor cuomo argues states will need millions of tests. the tests require reagents, those reagents are often made in china. a...

It set to expire on may 4th but he has already signaled that he is likely to extend the order. however this is not the time to halt the progress we have made. but his ban on commercial and residential construction has been met with defiance and at least one city. linden has told the elders to go back to work, just do it with smaller crews and social distancing. between 30 30500 people went bak to building homes and offices. the mayor has said he hasnt received a single complaint against any of h...

In florence for us. thanks, amy. leland. leland: trey yingst is following the outbreak in the middle east from our jerusalem bureau. >> reporter: good afternoon. its a mixture of positive and negative news when you look at the spread of covid-19 in the middle east. we did get some striking images out of turkey today. take a look at this, as the country is struggling with the rise in new cases. fresh video shows 1,000 bed hospital being built on the ground of an airport in istanbul. the governmen...

And social distancing. right away between 300-500 people got back to work. among them was a landscaper and his two employees. >> you know, as soon as i shut down, theres no paycheck coming n. and so being able to get back out to work, get my guys back working, you know, just takes that pressure off. >> reporter: the mayor says working at a construction site under distancing rules is safer than going to the grocery store. also he resents the fact that the government projects were allow to continu...