White House Task Force dr. Anthony fauci is among three top doctors now in selfquarantine after being exposed to a person coronavirus. Two people within the white house have tested positive for the virus within the past few days. Some welcome news for sports fans. The ufc held a slate of fights in florida with no crowd in the arena. The night began with a taped address from President Trump congratulating ufc on its return. Meantime, there are now more than 1. 3 million cases of coronavirus here in the United States and the death toll is approaching 80,000. Much more on these stories in a duates trading their gowns for scrubs overnight as they are pressed into service for the fight against coronavirus. In our sunday closer on this mothers day, a National Effort to capture families on their front steps during this moment in history. Later, a favorite sunday sitdown at home with the Barefoot Contessa herself on the extraordinary story of her Career Change from government bureaucrat to culinary icon and her wide range of fans. There was a woman in a big fur coat and she said, darling, i just love your cookbook. A block later a truck driver pulled over and said, hey, babe, i love your show. I thought, thats it, food is everybody. Plus another life well lived later in the show. Lets begin this morning with the overnight news from the white house that dr. Anthony fauci is one of three top doctors now in selfquarantine. Nbcs Kelly Odonnell is at the white house with more. Kelly, good morning. Reporter good morning, willie. Just as the white house is trying to send a message of going back to work with the president and Vice President keeping their travel schedules, three of the most prominent medical voices in this federal response are doing the guidelines they hope other americans will follow. Three of the nations top doctors following their own medical advice, choosing selfquarantine as dr. Anthony fauci once prescribed. The idea about selfisolating for two weeks will be very important. Reporter fauci plans a modified quarantine, mask wearing with limited outside contact while cdc director dr. Robert redfield and fda director stephen hahn will remain home for two weeks. We have a powerful tool, a powerful weapon, that is social distancing. Reporter each taking these steps as a precaution. After they were exposed to a person with coronavirus. New fallout from the second positive case this week inside the white house. Tense press secretary katie miller who works with the task force. A Senate Committee expecting redfield and hahn to testify this week, announced the white house granted a onetime exception allowing them to appear by video conference. Around the white house grounds, new, unmistakable change Face Covering suddenly in use by a number of government employees. As the president conducted a National Security session late saturday weve had a very, very productive meeting. Reporter secret Service Agents near President Trump covered their faces, but the president and military brass, who are all tested, did not. Mixed signals that can cause uncertainty with the virus inside the west wing. The Washington Post reports, aides deemed essential have been encouraged by supervisors to come into the office, not taking 14 days to selfisolate. A white house statement notes, every precaution is taken, listing social distancing, temperature checks, regular deep cleaning and daily testing. But it does not mention selfquarantine. President trump is very invested and encouraging people to get back to life. Maybe even back in the ring. He offered a video message to congratulate the ufc on its return to competition without any live spectators watching. The president , of course, wanting sports to come back, saying thats a necessary part of life and ufc was among the first to get back in the ring. Willie . All right, Kelly Odonnell at the white house. Thank you very much. Chuck todd is nbcs political director and moderator of meet the press. Chuck, good morning. Good to see you as always. You have dr. Anthony fauci, the face of the pandemic here in the United States, imposing a selfquarantine on himself for a couple of weeks. This flies in the face the signal the president has been giving all week which is we need to transition to greatness, as we tweeted, turning the page in the country to looking to open the economy. This is a president who really wants to refocus, as he said that task force is going to be more about looking at the economy than on the Public Health questions. You know, willie, this week you watch this president and it felt like a weird plot twist in a horror movie. He wants to focus on opening the economy and the virus had its own brain and said, oh, no, you dont, mr. Pshgresident, im cog inside your house. Its a stark reminder this isnt a light switch you can have. It sort of, to me, put the spotlight on the president s sort of inattention to the issue of what do you do to help make people feel comfortable opening up the economy. This whole thing, he has been saying, lets go, come on, governors, open it up, without ever acknowledging that its going to take a dramatic increase in testing and tracing. And then, of course, we see the result in his own west ring staff. So, here we are, i think it puts a huge testing. Of course, you can reopen the economy but public polling shows most americans of all political strifes arent ready to go back and resume life as normal until they get their arms around this disease. Well see much more from chuck on meet the press when the topic is Public Health versus the economy. On friday the department of labor delivered the worst monthly jobs report since end of the Great Depression. The Unemployment Rate skyrocketing to 14. 7 in april with more than 20 million jobs lost in the month alone. Experts say that number is probably far worse. Andrew ross sorkin is a New York Times columnist and cohost of cnbcs squawk box. 14. 7 , we knew something bad was coming but devastating to see it actually on paper. The government has poured a ton of money, as you know better than anybody, into this problem, trying to help small businesses. What can be done at some point to blunt these numbers, because a lot of people believe may could be even worse . And, you know, every one of these numbers is has a name behind it and a family behind it. I think oftentimes we get lost in these large statistics. You know, the conversation you were having just before with chuck, its about confidence, its about the Risk Appetite, to some degree, of the American People, and it ultimately should be about the Science Behind getting people back, whether its testing, whether thats a vaccine, whether thats therapeutics. And i think thats the real question here as to when we talk about the statistics as being, you know, are we in a Great Depression . Were not in a Great Depression yet, but if this persists for months, if this persists even longer than that, we will have a demonstrable problem and a real tragedy on our hands. Andrew, is this just a problem, perhaps, bigger than the government can manage . As i said, more than 1 million pumped into the economy and weve seen these numbers. The problem is that at this particular moment its not just about money. It really is about provide iing confidence to people they can go out, go to the store, go to a restaurant and do these things. Until you feel comfortable, and the polling numbers dont suggest it, but until they feel comfortable its going to be very hard to kick start the economy. Unless you believe, and there are people who believe, the American People have a larger, quote unquo quote unquote, Risk Appetite. That Risk Appetite might be desperation. 22 the real Unemployment Rate for people who dont have a High School Diploma is 22 . If you have a College Diploma the rate is 8. 4 . Absolutely devastating numbers. As i said, they may get worse from here. Andrew ross sorkin, thank you very much. Great to see you, my friend. We appreciate it. Great to see you. One of the most influential artists in the history of music died on saturday of cancer. Little richard was there in the mid1950s as the creation of rock n roll. Raised in a family of 12 children in macon, georgia, Richard Pennyman grew up on the gospel music in his church. He brought the passion of a preacher to his performances, screaming at the top of his lungs, andway at the piano keys. Miss molly blending gospel and the blues in his sound and sprinkling in some sexuality, Little Richard paved the way for the rock n roll revolution. Reporter though Elvis Presley was called the king, many in the world of music considered richard to wear the crown. He was a musical idol to the likes of paul mccartney, mick jagger, elton john and prince. I was wearing purple before you was wearing it. Oh baby reporter the legendary Little Richard was 87 years old. Good sunday morning. It is mothers day and we are going to have another cloudy start throughout the bay area, but well get some gradual clearing for the afternoon. Were still on tap for that cooling trend. A little bit cooler yesterday but today its going to get even c cooler. 76 degrees for san jose. 78 for antioch. 76 in concord. Breezy winds especially around the coastline, but temperatures will be in the 60s for san francisco, Half Moon Bay area. Straight ahead, the highs and lows of the week on this mothers day, including the mom who was critically ill with coronavirus but fought to see the day when she could hug her children again. And the Texas High School principal who spent 12 days and 800 miles on the road to congratulate, one by one, the seniors who didnt get their Graduation Ceremony. Plus, there was barely time to pick up the diploma before many medical School Graduates were fast tracked to the front lines of the coronavirus. When did you decide, you know, i need to help out and i need to come and do what youre doing now . I immediately wanted to come. I just wanted to help from the beginning. Ever since that question of how. Its all coming up on sunday today. As we head to break, our photo of the week. 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Our first high on this mothers day goes to a mom in florida named Ruthie Ramirez who went nearly a month without seeing her children after she contracted coronavirus, became critically ill and was placed on a ventilator. Ruthie beat the disease and was reunited with her kids as she left the hospital. [ applause ] after 25 days and 5yearold i finally got to hug their mom again. Ruthie is a single mother and a patient scheduling coordinator at miami cancer institute, where she was admitted to the icu in early april after falling ill. As her condition deteriorated, doctors administratored to ruthie an experimental stem cell treatment which she credits for her recovery. Her doctors, nurses and coworkers gathered to cheer her on, set up a gofundme page to make sure her children were taken care of while mom was in the hospital. Ruthie says her kids are what kept her pushing through. Welcome home, ruthie, and happy mothers day. Our next high goes to one High School Principal in texas making sure the class of 2020 goes out in style, even without the traditional rituals of senior year. Wylie High School Principal virdie montgomery, great name, has been keeping in touch with students virtually with his morningncements on youtube, but when the school outside of dallas had to cancel its traditional Graduation Ceremony because of the coronavirus, principal montgomery really stepped up his game. He hopped into his car and visited every single senior in the graduating class, all 612 of them, to offer his personal congratulations. Vir he and his wife drove over 800 miles over 12 days to spend time with each student at a safe distance, of course. He took a selfie and handed every student a special note. Im so sorry this has happened. I cant believe ive not gotten to meet with you and to watch you finish this year. I am honored to get to be your principal. Oh, man, principal montgomerys congratulations also came with a corny joke. He said, one of these days were going to look back at this and snicker while handing students a mini snicker bar. Well let that go. He still hopes to hold a Graduation Ceremony when everyone can gather again. Well done, sir. Our next high goes to the return of sports, kind of. From the department of well take what we can get at this point, the gaping hole in the lives of deprived sports fans has been filled somewhat by korean baseball. First pitch of opening day in the korea baseball organization. A new baseball season started in south korea on tuesday, and espn wisely bought the rights so american fans could have something, anything, to watch. Announcers are calling the games in english from their home studios. Theres carl and the guys. There were signs that this was not baseball as usual. Umpires wearing face masks and no real crowd, just rows and rows of cardboard cutouts with some human fans watching on a big screen. In another sign of the times, the korean season began with a socially distanced first pitch a 9yearold boy in a bubble, on inflatable baseball, walked the pitch from the mound to home plate giving the catcher a highfive through the plastic. Back here in the states the best baseball action came from a 4yearold slugger in georgia who became a viral star after he took his dad deep. A pitcher has never been happier to serve up a home run. Go woo that is cory going bananas after serving up that home run ball to his son asher. They have been practicing at their local park for a month before asher absolutely crushed a belthigh changeup from dad. That is a nice swing, asher. Dad might have to brush him off the plate next time up. The highest court in the land conducting business from home, just like the rest of us. This week for the first time in history the United StatesSupreme Court heard oral arguments over the telephone due to the coronavirus lockdown. As an attorney answered questions from the robed justices during wednesdays session, it became clear someone on the call forgot to hit the mute button as he or she took a bathroom break. Listen closely. Maybe there are going to be saying, hey, call