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KNTV Today July 13, 2024

Yet amidst good news, a harsh reality. Death toll still climbing. Bad news isnt just bad, bad news is actually terrible. Overnight, new guidelines revealed to get workers back on the job. Is that a risky move . Well ask dr. Anthony fauci about that. And this provocative suggestion. I dont think we ever should ever shake hands ever again, to be honest with you. Burnout, senator Bernie Sanders ends his run for the white house. If i believe we had a feasible path to the nomination i would certainly continue the campaign, but its just not there. The question now, will his supporters show up for joe biden in november . All that, plus dangerous storms, overnight tornadoes rip across the south, tens of millions at risk for more Severe Weather today. Al has the forecast. Linda tripp, the woman who played a key role in the impeachment of president clinton, loses her battle with cancer. And out of this world. And liftoff. A nasa astronaut and two russian cosmonauts begin their mission to the International Space station, the extra steps they took to stay safe and healthy for the launch. Today, thursday, april 9th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hey, everybody, welcome to today. It is 7 00 a. M. On the west coast. Were so happy youre joining us on this thursday morning. Hello, miss guthrie. Hello. Well, when youre broadcasting a morning show from your basement its a work in progress. I have a new background. Ive gone from drab to fab. What do you think . We have a lot to cover. Were going to talk with dr. Fauci. And well talk about that comment, should shaking hands become a thing of the past. Well ask him about it just ahead. But first well get you caught up on the very latest. There is positive news on the outbreak, but the number of cases in the United States has risen above 431,000. The death toll, nearly 15,000. Air travel hit a record low. Fewer than 100,000 were screened tuesday. Thats a 95 drop from a year ago. And the smallest number in nearly 70 years. We start with tom costello and the new unemployment numbers. Reporter good morning to you. Economists warned us numbers would paint a bad picture how the economy is doing and thats exactly what we got. Very troubling. 6. 6 million americans filed for Unemployment Benefits last week. Thats worse than expected. And it brings to more than 16 million, close to 17 million the total number of unemployment claims over the last three weeks. Those numbers are record breaking and heartbreaking, each one of those represents somebody that lost his or her job. Unemployment offices overwhelmed with people seeking help, many unable to file. True number is likely higher. Congress has approved Unemployment Benefits for 39 weeks with an additional 600 per week, but the checks have been slow to roll out. Meanwhile, President Trump is asking congress for more money for the new Paycheck Protection Program which provides loans to Small Businesses if they agree to keep employees on staff. Im asking congress to passe digsal funding for the programming, this week, as soon as possible. I think we have pretty good understanding with the democrats, hopefully it will be bipartisan. Reporter also, this morning the Federal Reserve is taking unprecedented action, pumping 2. 3 trillion into the economy. Among its actions, loans for companies up to 10,000 employees, and backing up city and state finances nationwide with a massive lending program. You may recall, states are the ones that paid the Unemployment Benefits. One recent poll found nearly a third of renters were unable to make their apartment or house rent payment for the first week of this month. Guys, back to you. Tom costello, thank you. Savannah, over to you. Yeah, hoda, theres some positive news in fight against the outbreak. In a moment, we talk to dr. Anthony fauci that social distancing is working and having an effect. Theres new guidelines to get some workers back to work. Gabe gutierrez has the details. Hi, savannah, good morning. The world is beginning to see signs that drastic changes in Human Behavior are slowing the spread of covid19. But it has been a simply awful week here in new york where the virus is taking hundreds of lives. Every day. This morning new signs from the White House Coronavirus task force that social distancing, in an effort to flatten the curve, is working. Data is telling us that mitigation is working. Keep your foot on the accelerator. Thats whats going to get us through this. Reporter the National Death toll may not climb nearly as high as once projected. Thats what will change the mortality going forward. Reporter the news comes as the cdc releases new guidelines. For essential workers previously banned going to work if exposed to someone with the virus. For individuals that have been within six feet of a confirmed case, or a suspected case, and so that they can, under certain circumstances, they can go back to work. If theyre asymptomatic. Even in the nations epicenter theres encouraging news, hospitalizations, icu admissions and leveling off in new york. We are flattening the curve because we are rigorous about social distancing. Reporter but the news is not all good. The state of new york has more confirmed coronavirus cases than any country in the world. More than 150,000. 779 deaths in just 24 hours. Psychologically i just see the virus everywhere. Its changed my life, probably forever. Reporter essential workers have been devastated. Just a week after images like this frustrated many, subway cars packed due to reduced service, at least 41 transit workers have died and more than 1,500 have tested positive. And there are new hot spots, including philadelphia, washington, d. C. , detroit, chicago and new orleans, where the Convention Center retro fitted with a thousand hospital beds is now taking its first patients. Still, amid the heartbreak, triumph. Nurses and First Responders erupting in cheers as this doctor was released from the hospital in new jersey after spending a month battling covid19. We will get through this. We will fight. We will wake up tomorrow morning again. Reporter here in new york and across the country there are fears that warmer weather might lure more people outside but Public Health officials cannot say it enough, now is not the time to stop social distancing. Savannah . All right, gabe, thank you very much. And joining us now is dr. Anthony fauci, the face of the u. S. Response to the virus. Hes a long time director of the National Institute of allergy and infectious diseases. Dr. Fauci, good morning, good to see you again, sir. Good to be with you. Over the weekend on one of the sunday shows you were very direct, you said we are still struggling to get this virus under control. Is that still the case this morning . Yes, it is, i would say because, as you can see, the deaths, the number of deaths and the cases that were seeing right now are really validating what we said, that this is going to be a very bad week on the one hand. But on the other hand as you can see there are some glimmers of hope, particularly when you look at the situation in new york where the number of hospitalizations, requirements for intensive care over the last few days have stabilized and starting to come down so even though were seeing that increase in deaths, as weve seen unfortunately, like yesterday, was the worst day for deaths that weve seen thus far. But what feeds that is the number of new cases. And i believe, and many do, that the mitigation, the physical separation that weve initiated, is starting to have a real effect now. So we are hoping, with cautious optimism, that at the same time were in for a bad week, were going to start to see a turnaround. So we need to just hope that that happens. I think it will. Yeah. Is that the flattening of the curve that everybodys so famously talking about in new york, are we seeing the flattening of the curve in this first initial hot spot . You know, i dont want to jump the gun on that, savannah, but i think that is the case. You want to see a steady, several day program and profile like that. I think thats whats going on. Im always very cautious about jumping the gun and saying, well, we have turned the corner. But i think we are really looking at the beginning of that, which would really be very encouraging. We need that right now. The initial projections, which took a lot of peoples breath away, was potentially 100 to 240,000 deaths in this country. Now we have data, not just models, but actual data to plug in and assess. Do you think the number of fatalities in this country will be significantly lower than the 100,000 to 240,000 first projected . I do. And i believe that the mitigation, i think the American Public have done a really terrific job of just buckling down and doing those physical separation and adhering to those guidelines. As ive told you on the show, models are really only as good as the assumptions that you put into the model. But when you start to see real data you can modify that model and the real data are telling us that it is highly likely that were having a definite positive effect by this mitigation things separation. So i believe we are going to see a down turn in that, and it looks more like the 60,000 than the 100,000 to 200,000. But having said that we better be careful that we dont say, okay, were doing so well we could pull back. We still have to put our foot on the accelerator when it comes to the mitigation and the physical separation. You weighed in on a theory thats been floating around that perhaps the number of fatalities related to covid19 is being inflated because people are actually dying of other things. Whats your read on that theory . You know, savannah, there is absolutely no evidence that thats the case at all. You know, i think it falls under the category of something thats very unfortunate, these conspiracy theories that we hear about. Every time we have a crisis of any sort theres always this popping up of conspiracy theories. I think the deaths that were seeing are coronavirus deaths and the other deaths are not being counted as coronavirus deaths. On the flipside of that, do you think theres a potential that were undercounting coronavirus deaths . Because unfortunately weve seen in new york some people are dying at home, and there has been a persistent lack of testing. Thats a good point. I think theres more of a chance of missing some that are really coronavirus deaths that are not being counted but i dont think that number is significant enough to really substantially modify the trends that were seeing at all. Okay. Lets talk about an Antibody Test. So im not the doctor, you are. But as i understand it this would be a blood test that would tell people if theyve ever had coronavirus. Important because so many people are showing no symptoms at all, and may not even know that they have it. How close are we to having that blood test, that Antibody Test . Are you confident that well be able to test massively, in a widespread fashiwidespread fash people can return to society . Good questions, savannah. Yes, the Antibody Tests are developed. There are several out there. Some are validated to show that theyre consistent and others are in the process of being validated. We are told by the people, the companies that make them, that very soon, when they say soon, theyre talking days to weeks, that wed be able to have a large number of these tests available. And youre right, what they do, they dont tell you whether you are infected. They tell you whether you have been infected. And the answer to that is important because it not only tells you what the penetrance of infection has been in society. There may be people that were infected, asymptomatic and didnt know it. People will have an antibody sensitivity and yet did not get sick. Its likely, we need to prove it, that once youve been infected and you have an antibody profile you are very likely protected against subsequent challenge to the same virus. You may have a cohort of people who are actually protected who have more of a chance to have getting back to the normality of society. And they will be very important. Its very important to know that regarding Health Care Workers because they are the most vulnerable. And if theyre protected they can do their job much better. Do you envision some scenario in which you attempt to have every american take this Antibody Test and on that basis theyre permitted or not permitted to go back into society . You know, something approaching that, savannah. Im not so sure its every american. But i think when we get to the surveillance studies, really flooding the society with the availability of the test, i think something akin to what youre saying is possible. Lets end on a note. I heard you say in an interview, and youve said a couple times that we may never really return to the normal life that we once had before coronavirus but in particular you said youre not sure we should be shaking hands anymore at all. I like a fist bump as much as the next guy but are you really suggesting handshakes should be a thing of the past in our culture . You know, in a perfect world, when youre dealing with the potential for this terrible ordeal that were going through right now, knowing that hands and hands to face do it, that would be something that i think would hopefully be attainable. But i dont think it will be. I mean, i said that. I said that, you know, somewhat serious, and somewhat realizing that that likely will never happen. What i really wanted to tell people is that when youre talking about getting back to normal we know now that we can get hit by a catastrophic outbreak like this, the whole world can, weve been talking about this, you know, whats your nightmare that keeps you up at night, a new respiratory infection that is easily transmissible and that has the capability of high morbidity and mortality. Here we are. Thats what i meant by the world not getting back. We know in realtime it has happened and it can happen again. We really need to be prepared to respond in a much more vigorous way. Yeah, and i said that was my last question, but really, im always reminded of this, all anyone really wants to know from you, dr. Fauci, is when are things going to get back to normal . Do you think by summer . Well be able to be out and about again . You know, i hope that thats the case, savannah. But the virus and how it responds determines the timetable. We can do things to influence that, and i think were doing a good job. I hope, and im cautiously optimistic, that were going to start seeing that turnaround and that curve not only flattening but coming down. If that occurs, and we have in place the ability to respond appropriately and effectively, when the virus wants to start to come back, because its not going to disappear. Its not going to all of a sudden be eradicated which means that when we attempt to get back to normal we have to have in place the ability, when it starts to try and rear its ugly head, we can absolutely suppress it. By identification, isolation, contact tracing, the kinds of things weve been speaking about. Dr. Fauci, its always good to be with you. Thank you very much, appreciate it. Thanks for having me. 7 18, hoda, nice to have a few glimmers of hope here. Back to you. It was encouraging to hear him. All right, savannah, thank you. Thousands of Grocery Store shoppers in atlanta and new orleans got a surprise wednesday. When it was time to check out, shoppers found out all their groceries had been paid for. The person responsible for the remarkable act of kindness, actor, movie producer tyler perry. He picked up the tab for early morning, senior hours at Kroger Stores in atlanta, and wynn dixie in new orleans. And this comes after perry gave 21,000 in tips to workers in atlanta and tyler perry has known his share of hardship, has given back like you would expect him to do. In a big, big way. I love to hear that. Lets check the forecast. We have wet weather out west. Lets show you what was going on overnight. You have transform ergs blowing. This is harrisburg, arkansas. Lot of damage. Two reported injuries, hopefully thats about it. Meantime, lets move out west, take a look on the radar now. Youll see some pretty heavy rain and snow make its way through the sierra, heavy rain throughout los angeles, san diego, rounds of rain for southern california, urban flooding and mud slides possible. Were looking for storms. Tomorrow drifting south and east. San diego is under the gun for heavy rain. Looking at anywhere from two to three inches of rain from l. A. To san diego, mountain snows as well pushing on into the sierra. Were going to get to your local forecast coming up in the next 30 seconds, but first were going to look at the rest of the country. Record highs through florida. Look for mountain snows out social distancing doesnt have to make us socially distant, right . I mean, humans need other humans. Even if we cant stand closer than six feet, or touch each other. Theres still ways to. Touch each other. Like picking up food, or supplies, or, dropping them off. After all, cars were invented to bring us closer together. So, carmax is doing everything we can to keep you going. And thats the way it should be. Good thursday morning. I am meteorologist, kari hall. We have a cloudy start to the day as we take a live look outside in san jose. We are also going to have a slight chance of rain today with our temperatures that will reach in the upper 60s for the south bay. Some low 70s in the north bay where we could see a little more sunshine. As we go into this forecast we will see upper 60s for our inland areas, as well as tomorrow, still a slight rain chance and then it dries out and we will clear out and warm up in time for the weekend. Ladies all right, al, thank you. Coming up, new questions about your safety at Grocery Stores workers across the country are joining forces to demand better protection for themselves and their customers. Then kate snow takes a look at where things stand when it comes to testing for the coronavirus, how much progress has been made, and the uphill battle still ahead but first, this is today on nbc

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