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So some encouraging news there as that eases the burden on the health care system. More on that in a moment, but first to the relief that may be coming for unemployed americans hit hard by the pandemic, struggling to make ends meet. We go to abcs rachel scott in bedminster, new jersey for more on President Trumps executive actions. Rachel, good morning. Reporter whit, good morning. President trump taking matters into his own hands, sidestepping congress on coronavirus relief, setting up the stage for potential legal battle. Overnight, President Trump said hes had enough. Therefore im taking executive action, weve had it. Reporter pushing to bypass congress with a stroke of his pen. Taking to the podium at his private golf club to announce executive action on coronavirus re unemployment benefits, but slashing the weekly checks to 400, requesting states share the cost. Minimizing evictions, suspending interest on Student Loans and enacting payroll tax cuts. President trump placing the blame on democrats after both parties failed to reach a deal. Nancy pelosi and Chuck Schumer chose to hold this vital assistance hostage. On behalf of very extreme partisan demands. Reporter House Democrats passed a 3 trillion stimulus package back in may and offered to meet republicans halfway, but the white house called it a nonstarter. Were not just keep coming back every day if we cant get to a deal. Reporter this is one of 30 million americans out of work and in need of relief. Theres absolute urgency i need the money now. Its going to be really tight at the end of the month if we dont get that stimulus going again. Reporter with the president s executive action, that crucial aid could be tied up in court for months, congress not the president controls federal spending. When this relief gets in the hands of americans, what date . We think its rapid. It will be distributed in a way, whatever the faster ways. There are various methods and it will be rapidly distributed. Youre signing executive order, they want to know when theyre going to see this relief. Very soon. 30 million americans are out of work, sir. Excuse me, there it is right there. Reporter House Speaker nancy pelosi and democratic leader Chuck Schumer are calling the president s executive actions here weak and narrow saying it does nothing to increase testing or help reopen schools and if the president was serious about wanting to help americans, he would return to the negotiating table. Dan . Rachel scott challenging the president. Thank you. Lets bring in our chief anchor George Stephanopoulos who will hosting this week this morning right here on abc news. George, good morning. These executive orders smart politics it makes the president makes him taking action or a problem here potentially when americans dont get relief quickly . Rachel did some good questioning of the president right there. One executive order, the others are president ial memoranda that he signed. There are real questions about whether or not the president can spend the money, that congress has not allocated for these purposes, whether anything can happen quickly. I think this is designed to put pressure on the democrats to stay at the negotiating table and make more compromises. Democrats as you saw in their response feel that theyre in a fairly strong position right now, and they think that the pressure is going to be on the president to come back to the negotiating table, but the bottom line for people who are not getting their unemployment assistance right now, this is not going to happen any time fast. You called this g chicken. . Or manans, this isa gaal the house passed a bill that was little more than 3 trillion about six weeks ago, the democrats say that they were willing to take a trillion dollars off their proposal, republicans saying theyre just playing games with the numbers and theyre not really cutting back with any of the demands theyre making right now. One problem the republicans face, you got half of the republicans theyre not going to vote for any extensions at all which is why the white house has been in a weaker negotiating position, why the president decided to go on his own. I have to tell you i have no idea where this is going to go in the coming days as the challenges mount to what the president did, and as people at home who are not getting their unemployment assistance are facing more pressure. To put a fine point on what you said earlier, if you need the money unfortunately we dont have good or solid news. George, thank you very much. Really appreciate it. I want to remind everybody to tune into georges show later this morning. On this week hell be speaking to Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer exclusively as talks on that relief package stall. Plus, trumps top economic adviser larry kudlow. He responds to the relief executive action. Thanks again. Eva, over to you. Now to the latest on the pandemic and the fears a massive tenday motorcycle rally could cause a surge in cases, tens of thousands of bikers converging on the south dakota city of sturgis. Reporter well, good morning, eva. The sturgis motorcycle rally has been happening for 80 years, an annual tradition for thousands of people, but this year even harleydavidson is sending no corporate representatives because of the coronavirus pandemic. Still, when you spend time among these crowds you would not know a pandemic is unfolding and these bikers say its their decision to act this way. This morning in spite of Health Officials warning against major gatherings, south dakota is riding into another day of the sturgis motorcycle rally. 250,000 bikers expected and for just about all of them, mask recommendations are being ignored. This is a celebration of freedom out here. For us to be bossing people around would be the antithesis of why we here. Reporter wisconsin reported a new record high case total saturday, illinois hit 2,000 cases with the governor saying many counties were at warning level and texas has extended its disaster declaration. Theyre not equipped, they dont have enough do reporter harley garza is traveling across the country to texas to be with his critically ill father. Hes enraged at hopeople avoidi wearing masks. To see my dad go to someone laying in a hospital bed on his stomach, gasping on for air. Reporter in california, just as the state passed 10,000 deaths, officials uncovered a failure in the states data system creating a massive backlog of cases that werent recorded. We expect that over the next 24 to 48 hours, that the backlog that is between 250,300,000 records will be resolved. Reporter for some schools, the impact of inperson learning has been immediate. In suburban atlanta, 260 students and 8 teachers are in quarantine after the first week of class for Cherokee County schools with positive cases in at least 11 students and 2 staff members. It doesnt seem like a great number. When the number could have been zero, had, you know, better precautions been put into place, had we all started digital. Reporter in a letter provided by a parent to abc news saturday, we learned just photos days after this photo of packed students in North Paulding High School went viral, nine people, six students and three staff who were at the School Last Week have since t t tested positive for the coronavirus. And in college athletics, some major dominos are starting to fall. The big sky conference has decided to move their football season to the spring and m. A. C. Has voted to postpone all of their fall sports, including football. Whit . Really seeing those challenges with sports and School Getting back into session. Trevor ault for us in sturgis. Thank you so much. The Coronavirus Crisis is also playing out on the southwest border. Its been closed because of a cdc Public Health order since march, but the number of people apprehended there has been rising steadily while activists accuse the Trump Administration of expelling them without due process. Joining us now is ken cuccinelli, the acting deputy secretary of homeland security. Mr. Cuccinelli, thank you so much for your time this morning. I want to jump right to it. Good morning. Some of the people being turned away as part of these rapid expulsions include children, infants as young as 8 months old, does the United States have the moral or a legal obligation to hear these asylum claims even during a pandemic . So, the asylum system is still up but were operating under the cdcs Public Health order from midmarch. This has been the case for a number of months now and families, of course, are kept together and they are turned over, 80 to your point about the rapid return are now returned in under two hours, they dont come through our facilities. They can and they do make for instance what are called claims, torture claims, those do come to the Border Patrol facilities and those are adjudicated by uscis officers. The others go straight back to mexico. Mexico has been very accommodating in terms of that, and we have set up with mexico for a year and a half now, whats called the mpp, the migrant protection protocols and people who are awaiting asylum hearings wait in mexico as opposed to being released into the United States. Thats the point of that program. It does not end the treatment of asyl asylum, but it changes where they wait, and they wait in mexico. This is a hotbutton issue, strong opinions on all sides. Critics argue that theres more politics than Public Health. When this pandemic is over, and that Public Health emergency is done, will the asylum process go back to normal, can you promise that today . Well, when theres when were not operating around Public Health order and we can safely conduct all of these processes, absolutely. And in fact, were looking at ways to do some of these processes virtually from mexico trying to get those setups so we can get people hearings faster so we can get this process going even before the pandemic ends, which is our goal. We think its in everybodys interest to move forward as efficiently and quickly as we can, of course, we have to balance that with the Public Safety aspect of the covid pandemic. I do want to turn to another topic which is tiktok, and President Trumps decision to ban the chineseowned video sharing app. So many of these apps collect personal data on their users. What makes tiktok so much more dangerous in the eyes of the administration than say, google, facebook and others . So tiktok is owned by a Chinese Company and the laws the communist party have put in place require those companies to share information on demand, no warrants, none of the kind of protections you would see in the United States, with the Chinese Communist government there, and that is a major security concern. If the chinese owner were to divest the foreign partners with say microsoft, then that obligation for the Company Operating in the United States would go away. So theres a major concern here, and as you noted, this is an unusual product or service in that it collects an awful lot of personal information including beyond just the users. The users pile in other information of other folks as well. Forgive me because were running out of time. A quick followup question, tiktok is threatening to sue the administration this week, as this Legal Process plays out, what do you tell parents, youre a parent. I have kids at home. Should parents go out and delete this app on their kids phones and devices . Ive actually had that conversation in my house. Ive let my kids know what theyre dealing with and so my preference as a parent and that they do more listening and viewing than posting if you will, and i mean thats one way to be passive about it, and still protect the information. You know, the problem is, it happens on a mass scale. It suspect one particular kid or one particular person. Its the existence in the United States of a multimillionperson Data Collection effort that the essentially the spy agencies and the military of communist china can tap into. So its really more of a meta problem on any given day. So hopefully there will be a positive constructive free Market Solution to this, but the president is well within his authority to take the step he is to protect the United States, and, you know, india already banned tiktok as well. Were not the only country in the world that has this concern but we have a president obviously whos willing to take action which i think is somewhat unique from our americas history recently. Definitely a process to be played out in the coming days. Mr. Cuccinelli, thank you so much for your time this morning. We appreciate it. Have a great day. Thank you, whit. We head overseas now to beirut where there were huge protests overnight. Demonstrators calling for the government to quit, accusing them of negligence that led to the deadly explosion there on tuesday. Abcs Julia Macfarlane is there from our london bureau. Julia, good morning to you. Reporter last night, thousands of people gathered in beirut in anger and frustration at the government, groups of people storming Ministry Buildings some were carrying nooses and banners saying, resign or hang. For the lebanese, this tragic explosion is emblematic of the government mismanagement. Lebanon suffers acutely from corruption. The Prime Minister last night announced he intended to hold early elections. But lebanese want more, they want an end to the old system. News this morning that the information minister has now handed in her resignation. Beirut is a city that has seen so much trauma over the decades. In the meantime, there are hundreds of thousands of people there who have been made homeless. Huge damage. Whats the latest on International Aid efforts to help rebuild . Reporter so President Trump has announced he is joining an International Aid summit for lebanon this afternoon hosted by french president emanuel macron. He has stated that Everyone Wants to help. Now its hope that International Aid that will only help Fund Reconstruction efforts and profound political reform. Meanwhile, in the meantime this morning, new pictures have emerged. These appear to confirm that the warehouse located at the port was storing that deadly Ammonium Nitrate and that it had been placed there several years ago. Eva . All right, julia mcfar lane for us. Thank you. Lets switch gears now and turn to the weather and rob marciano. The big question this morning, where is rob . Did he find a razor . No. Im not going to tell you where im. Im in new york somewhere at a friends apartment in day three of isolation after coming back from the hurricane zone. Several states i was in were covid hot spots. Were taking our time sliding back into things and getting tested today. Check out this shot or whats happening across the midwest, Severe Weather yesterday with isolated large hail and damaging winds today. Well see similar action, and we seen some action across parts of st. Louis and down towards the south with some heavy rain with this. Later on today though as this front pushes off towards the east, we look for storms in sioux falls, and madison. This will slide good sunday morning. Im meteorologisten from frp. Another sunny day with above average warmth. The fog will stick around the beach where things are coolest. 63 half moon bay. 76 in oakland, and san mateo, but inland areas will get quite hot, near 100 in antioch and 100 at ukiah and lakeport. This pattern sticks around with slightly cooler weather early this week. I know where my razor is and i may or may not have showered. Rob, thank you so much. He also replaced the mini bar with the monitor this morning. Yes, yes. Baby steps. We want to turn now to 20yearold nascar driver whos living out his childhood dream and providing inspiration to anyone whose life has been touched by autism and janai is here with more on that story. Janai, good morning. Reporter hey, guys. This one will keep you smiling. Armani williams is getting behind the wheel in his first postcovid race. Today hoping to raise