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Business leader as well and lawmakers in both parties say it is lacking and widely available testing. Without it, they are telling the president again and again it is not safe to reopen yet. This morning, signs the worst this pandemic isnt unfolding as many thought. Influential model shows the peak has lasted longer in some of the hardest hit states while Southern States may not be hit as hard as initially predicted. One of those places where they think the peak is lasting longer is right here i...

Will surely add fuel to the fire around that debate about how and when to safely reopen the economy. The New York Times writes this, quote, the latest figure from the Labor Department reflecting last weeks initial claims underscores how the down draft has spread to every core of our economy, hotels and restaurants, mass retailers, manufacturers and white collar strongholds like law firms. Theres nowhere to hide according to an con meconomist d by the times, this is the deepest, fastest, most bro...

Suggestions or concerns that this virus was somehow manmade, possibly came out of a laboratory in china . One of the prospects of that . There was a study recently that we can make available to you that a group of highly qualified evolutionary virologists looked at the sequences there, the sequences of bats as they evolved, and the mutation that it took to get to the point they were at now is totally consistent with a jump of a species from an animal to a human. So, the paper will be available. ...

Some governors are skeptical, about the large scale testing, which experts say space needed. I would say one of the shortcomings of the guidelines is that theres requirements, testing for High Risk Health care workers. We have to have a lot more robust testing then just High Risk Health care workers. Youre not going to hear any day soon, its over, the nightmare ends, and we wake up. Its going to be incremental. Harris on the governor of florida, ron desantis, says his state is now weighing its o...

Senator marcia blackburn. Pam bondi, congressman darrell issa and more. Its an important hour but first my open. You cant keep americans down. Born of rebellion and revolution, we are ready to fight. Its in our dna. We are ready to fight the virus and ready to fight to reopen our country in a safe and strategic way. We get it, we are not stupid. We know to wash our hands, wear a mask, and keep our distance. We know to look for signs of the virus. We look to protect the vulnerable. We appreciate ...

Nearly 760,000 americans have now been infected. First, lets start with the latest in negotiations on capitol hill with kasie hunt and Shannon Pettypiece over at the white house. Kasie, give us a quick check on where negotiations stand this hour. Reporter this has been a scramble through the weekend. They were anticipating potentially a deal late last night. As of this hour, they still dont have a finalized agreement. The last my sources told me is that theyre still working on some of the testin...

Response. We begin with Steve Harrigan reporting live from cdc headquarters in atlanta. Steve . Reporter jon, georgia and several other states are really taking the lead in attempting to reopen their economies, establishing small retail businesses, allowing them to open and allowing Retail Shopping as well with curbside pickup, restaurants in several states beginning to open. Officials are limiting the amount of people inside those restaurants. The percentages that can go in. But georgia as well...

Promising in the sense of what it means for where we might be in two weeks or four weeks or six weeks from now, but it also means that what is happening now is as bad as it gets. More than 32,000 americans have died. We had our highest single day death total again today and that devastation is going to continue. It will be dark for awhile. Were going to talk to a doctor on the front lines of that battle in a bit. But the other side of this, of course, is just the unprecedented and very widesprea...

Abbott is announcing a series of executive orders and laying out a plan to begin loosening certain restrictions there. Governor abbott joining us now with more. Governor, we were just listening to andrew cuomo of new york talking about that testing is key to reopening his state. Do you agree with that . And if so, where is texas on testing . First, with regard to future strategies, testing is going to be so important. Remembering this, however, leland and that is the situation happening in new y...

How and where the virus is spreading. Steve. Reporter kristin, the u. S. Is currently testing about 150,000 people a day. Researchers at harvard say that number will need to triple if the u. S. Is going to be able to safely reopen the economy. Vice president pence said the u. S. Was quickly ramping up the testing numbers. We believe the testing that we have today, chris, across the country, once we activate all of the labs that can do coronavirus testing, is sufficient for any state in america t...