This cell phone video that sparked outrage across the country now charged with murder in the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery after chasing and shooting the 25yearold in broad daylight. Mystery illness. The new warning about that syndrome affecting kids with possible links to covid19. The new cases across the country and this morning, the father of an 8yearold speaking out of how his son nearly lost his life. Colder than Christmas Day in may . The mothers day storm on track for the northeast. More than 75 Million People in the path of freezing cold and snow. Plus, hes back. This morning, an exclusive sneak peek at new episodes of the last dance. Behind the scenes of Michael Jordans emotional return to the court. The electric atmosphere, tension with teammates and why the director was shocked by what jordan is allowing fans to see. Cause im gonna stand by you and mothers day surprise. Happy mothers day. Three Health Care Hero moms honored by three determined husbands. All the kids piling in to help. Its a triple surprise just in time for mothers day. Our gma breakfast in bed event. Youre our hero. Good morning, america. Happy to be with you on this friday morning. We are bracing for that possible record cold and snow in may. Say it aint so. Well have more on that in a few minutes as we get ready to celebrate something to make us all feel good, mothers day this weekend. The cold never bothered us anyway, right . No, it bothers me. Take a look at this incredible mom moment. A new jersey mother meeting and holding her baby girl for the First Time Since she was born more than a month ago. Donna had an emergency csection because she was fighting covid19, and then went into a coma. Baby harley, oh, will be allowed to go home in just a few weeks, george. Thankful for that. Wow. That is a mothers day. That baby is so adorable. Donna is 1 of more than 195,000 americans who recovered from the virus. The total number of cases in the u. S. Approaches 1. 3 million right now and as parts of the country are trying to get back to business at least 44 states have lifted some restrictions. But in our latest abc news poll with ipsos nearly twothirds of americans believe opening now is not worth it because more lives will be lost. About onethird say it should be done because it will minimize economic damage, michael. We begin our coverage with eva pilgrim at a food bank in new york who is tracking the latest on that economic devastation. Good morning, eva. Reporter good morning, michael. People are hurting. 25 Million People lost their jobs just in the month of april. The Unemployment Rate 14. 7 , the highest Unemployment Rate since the Great Depression. This morning, this is the scene playing out all across america. Over 33 million americans now out of work. Economists now bracing for Great Depression level unemployment numbers out this morning. This after more than 3 million in just one week in those new numbers revealed thursday, a snapshot of the unprecedented damage the outbreak has inflicted on the economy and america since this pandemic started. This morning, the food lines growing. 9 million children under the age of 12 suffering from Food Insecurity and hunger. In bridgeport, connecticut, thursday, a food bank setting up shop handing out 32 tons of food to thousands of cars, enough for 50,000 meals. Its overwhelming. Our agencies, we serve 500 agencies around the state and they are seeing people showing up theyve never seen before. Reporter at this brooklyn food pantry organizers seeing people facing painful dilemmas. Your choice is do i pay my rent . Do i pay my bills . Do i feed my children . Reporter in florida christina keegan, her husband and their adult son all lost their jobs due to covid shutdowns. Theyve all filed for unemployment, but no one in her house has yet to see any benefits. Were not wanting all this money to sit home and do nothing. We just have bills to pay and we want to keep above water until we go back to work. Reporter and as for those stimulus checks that are supposed to help make ends meet up to 10 Million People could still be waiting on that money. Amy. All right, eva pilgrim, thanks for that. Now two more states trying to get back to business as the number of covid19 cases are still on the rise in some parts of the country. California is 1 of the 44 states easing restrictions and thats where we find matt gutman this morning. Matt, good morning. Reporter hey, good morning, amy. Those 44 states you mentioned, that means nearly 300 million americans are taking baby steps back to normal and for businesses like l. A. s flower market it is absolutely critical to open for business ahead of the mothers day bonanza in order to stay in business. This morning, with those gates going up and foot traffic going in, the nations socalled soft open. As of today 44 states easing at least some covid restrictions and starting this morning, california now calling on lowrisk retailers to offer handsfree purchasing options through Curbside Pickup. The governor revealing the first known case of covid in the state happened in a salon. This whole thing started in the state of california, the First Community spread, in a nail salon. Im very worried about that and many of these salons with people that had procedure masks on were using gloves and were advancing higher levels of sanitation. Reporter starting tomorrow in nevada where covid has ravaged the Tourism Industry youll be allowed to dine at a restaurant at 50 capacity. Excluding casinos. And in indiana places of worship Opening Doors today ahead of weekend services. In texas, personal Services Like salons and barber shops opening today, but texas is 1 of nearly 20 states, most of them in the center of the country, that are opening while covid cases and deaths continue to climb. Rebecca duanes husband works at a meat plant in Corpus Christi which remains open because food plants have been declared critical infrastructure. Its scary seeing my husband like that and hes always like this tough, you know, im fine, im okay, no, this is not okay. People are not taking it serious. Reporter he was diagnosed positive on monday. Now, Public Health officials concede that opening up will likely mean higher cases in some places, but they say that most states are going through this cost benefit analysis because staying closed also has a cascade of dangers including joblessness, addiction and even a rise in suicide rates. George. It is such a dilemma. Okay, matt, thank you. We go to the white house now where one of the President Trumps personal valets have tested positive for the virus, raising questions about testing and exposure inside the white house amid a behindthescenes struggle with the cdc over guidelines for reopening the country. Our senior White House Correspondent cecilia vega has all the latest. Good morning, cecilia. Reporter hey, george, good morning to you. The virus is hitting close to home for the president so this valet is part of a team that serves the first family. He in particular has brought the president his meals. We dont know when his last contact with the president was but do know he was frequently in the west wing so both the president and the Vice President have tested negative. But President Trump is saying theyre now going to be doing daily tests for people coming into close contact with him, even though, you know this, he himself dismissed the effectiveness of regular testing saying someone could become infected right after they took the test and might not know they caught it. He is saying people around him wear masks. Perhaps some of the valets do, george, but i certainly have never seen a senior staffer in the oval office wear them, not regularly, anyway. Okay, and meantime, cecilia, what has been a behindthescenes tussle between Administration Officials and the cdc over these reopening guidelines is starting to break out into the open. Reporter yeah, exactly. Traditionally in a crisis like one, a Health Crisis like this, you would be hearing from the cdc regularly. That has not been happening here. Theyve been working on these guidelines. Theyre meant to clear up all this confusion out there about how to reopen, detailed guidance for things like how to open mass transit, daycare centers, places of worship. The white house was set to release these guidelines but sources are telling us its now not likely happening any time soon. There has been this behindthescenes debate about whether there was really a need for more guidance since the Administration Made it very clear its up to the states to decide. And we know that Anthony Fauci will be testifying publicly to congress this week. Okay, cecilia. Thanks very much. Michael . Thank you, george. Joining us from washington with analysis on states reopening is tom bossert, abcs news contributor and former white House Homeland Security adviser, and tom, some states that are reopening as they are reopening, were seeing confirmed coronavirus cases go up. If theyre going up now where do we expect to see them in a few weeks . Yeah, good morning, michael. So, you know, this is kind of the new york effect is what i call it. The good news is if you add new york into the analysis, then the rest of the country combined is seeing relatively low totals. Thats the good news. The bad news is the Trend Analysis and what were looking for now are red flags for reopening and unfortunately were seeing those red flags, so about a 2 to 4 daily increase in the rest of the country when you take new york out of the analysis and thats bad because that 2 to 4 increase, if its projected out and not contained, could end up with really devastating results in the next 72 days. Definitely a big setback for everybody. Messaging from the white house seemed to change every day. You have the governors and local leaders who give their advice as well. But what do the people need to know . What i think people need to know now are two things, that Trend Analysis that i just spoke about, were seeing it in rural communities. So that increase in trend used to be in urban areas. Now the trend of 2 to 4 daily increases is happening in rural and suburban communities and its being focused on those areas that we consider essential like Meat Processing plants, nursing homes, police and ems personnel and so we need to try to combine these administrative and engineering rules so that we have appropriate testing. Thats kind of an administrative rule, focused on those places where theyre trying to work out the new normal of how to reopen their business for survival with a changed way of doing that business. Definitely affects everyone. Tom, thank you so much. George. Okay, thank you, michael. Were going to go to the department of justice now and that stunning headline. The president s former National Security adviser Michael Flynn, charges against him have been dropped by the Justice Department. He pleaded guilty twice for lying to the fbi about his conversations with russias ambassador. Our chief justice correspondent Pierre Thomas is tracking the story. Good morning, pierre. Reporter good morning. In what some are calling an extraordinary move, the Justice Department essentially blew up the first major prosecution by special counsel bob mueller and the department appears to be saying the fbi should never have interviewed Michael Flynn in the first place. 29 months after leaving this courthouse in shame following pleading guilty to lying to the fbi, the Justice Department that convicted Michael Flynn now seeking to throw out the case. In a highly unusual and perhaps unprecedented move that shocked some Law Enforcement officials, the department seeking to throw out a conviction where the defendant had admitted to his crimes twice in open court. Flynns guilty plea centered around lying about his contact to then Russian Ambassador sergey kislyak. He was fired for misleading the Vice President about his communication with the ambassador and when confronted by the fbi lied again. I fired him because of what he said to mike pence, very simple. Reporter no career prosecutor sought to dismiss including the special prosecutor who had worked the case, but attorney general barrs hand picked acting u. S. Attorney for the District Of Columbia concluding that this prosecution was unjustified and that the lie he told the fbi was, quote, not material because the bureau had decided to close an investigation into whether flynn had been compromised by the russians before they conducted the interview. Now the president who forced flynn out is calling him a hero. He was an innocent man. He is a great gentleman. Reporter the president directed more fire at the fbi for a russia investigation that he believes should never have been started. Theyre dishonest, crooked people. Theyre scum and i say it a lot. Theyre scum. Theyre human scum. Reporter critics complaining overnight that barr is simply doing the bidding of the president and trying to systematically undermine the russia investigation. This morning, house judiciary chairman jerry nadler calling for an Inspector General investigation. So far no comment from the fbi but fbi officials have long maintained that the criminal Justice System is severely undermined when suspects lie to them. Former fbi director james comey tweeting that the Justice Department has, quote, lost its way. So far weve not heard from the judge overseeing the case. In the past, hes been highly critical of flynn, amy. Pierre thomas with the latest from d. C. , thank you. Now to that breaking news overnight in the case of the young unarmed black man who was shot and killed while out jogging. The father and son caught on camera in that fatal incident have now been arrested and charged with murder. Steve osunsami has the latest. Reporter the two men in this violent video that has angered most people who have seen it are now under arrest this morning. Gregory and travis mcmichael, a father and son, are seen here being taken into custody in photos from the daily mail. State investigators who came in and took over the case days ago have charged them both with assault and murder of 25yearold Ahmaud Arbery. This is long overdue and this is just one step toward justice with a long way to go. Reporter detectives are looking through every second of the cell phone video that shows the young black man jogging through a south georgia neighborhood near his home in february when he runs into this white pickup truck. Theres a black male running down the street. Reporter according to police, the two men now charged were waiting for him with their guns and say they believe he was the same person seen on security cameras breaking into homes. They chased him here. Theres a guy in a house right now. Was he just on the premises and not supposed to be . Hes been caught on the camera a bunch before night. Reporter gregory mcmichael, the father, used to work in county Law Enforcement and that slowed the investigation. Two current prosecutors recused themselves from the case. One of them in this letter shared that hed seen the video and did not see grounds for an arrest saying that arbery initiated the fight and under georgia law mcmichael was allowed to use deadly force to protect himself. I think it was absurd that he George Barnhill made the statement that ahmaud was the aggressor. He was clearly defending himself and fighting for his life. Reporter arberys friends and family are still grieving. Ahmaud most of all was loved by his family and peers. I mean, ahmaud didnt deserve to go the way that he went. Reporter this states top Law Enforcement agency was able to do in two days what three local prosecutors couldnt. Today this family would have been celebrating their sons birthday. There are tributes around the world. Michael. Also with mothers day coming around the corner, thank you so much, steve, for that. We turn to more than 75 Million People in the path of freezing cold and snow for mothers day. Ginger is tracking the latest from home. Ginger, how can this happen . You know, michael, i just checked. It is may 8th. I dont have a watch on but either way its may 8th and yes, were talking about record cold and also snow. This video from montana, that was the nose of the serious cold air coming in. Well get a kinky jet stream. What that ends up meaning is a deep bit of cold that has frost advisories and freeze warnings all the way through tennessee into Western North carolina. Were talking about not just dozens of record lows for the days for saturday and sunday, but the potential for alltime may records possible in pittsburgh, indianapolis, nashville. Amy, cover those plants. Oh, all right, ginger, ill do my best. Okay. Lets talk about something thats going to excite a lot of sports fans. The nfl releasing its 2020 schedule. The season kicking off with some big matchups. Tom brady and