Funds meant for Small Businesses went to Big Companies instead. And pandemic planet. On this earth day, how animals and the environment are reacting to a world where so many humans are staying home. Bet they like it. First, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. We continue to gain ground in the war against the unseen enemy. I see light at the end of the tunnel. I actually see a lot of light at the end of the tunnel. Reporter the director of the cdc says that the next wave of coronavirus could be even more difficult than the Current Crisis because it could hit at the same time as the seasonal flu. You get two bad respiratory viruses for the price of one. Reporter protesters are demanding the economy be reopened. Got some people that are protesting because i took this step, and i may have others that protest because i didnt go far enough. Reporter the details on president Donald Trumps plan to temporarily suspend immigration into the United States are being ironed out. Well help put unemployed Americans First in line for jobs as america reopens. So important. Reporter new york mayor bill de blasio says the first public event after the virus has passed will be a ticker tape parade for Health Care Workers and First Responders. Having a parade in new york city is one of the stupidest ideas ive ever heard. In a shocking nfl predraft trade, Rob Gronkowski unretired traded to the tampa bay buccaneers. The buccaneers are all in. We need gronk. Gronk back in the nfl is amazing. Stanley tucci showed this and sent twitter on fire. Thats good. And all that matters youre in your basement, im in my garage. This is never the circumstances in which i thought wed ever meet. Mine either. Im glad im not in your car because i cant sing worth a damn. On cbs this morning. Brace yourself because in germany, munichs oktoberfest beer fair has been canceled over coronavirus fears. You heard right. Its april, and theyre canceling oktoberfest. Ill give you one guess what month oktoberfest starts. Its september. Whoever named that beer festival was clearly drunk. This mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Welcome to cbs this morning on the 50th anniversary of earth day. What youre looking at right now is a part of the earth we call new york city. Anthony, thats one thing they cannot cancel, earth day. 50 years and counting. And the skies look very clear this morning. Yeah. Despite everything thats going on. Thats still a pretty good looking piece of earth, gayle. I know. I think so, too. Im very happy that we are here and we are staying home because of the coronavirus, doing what we can to stop the spread. Hope are you doing that, too, if you can. But if youre out on the front lines, we cannot thank you enough. There are not enough words to say thank you. Well try with that. We begin with a stark new warning about the future, severity of the coronavirus crisis. In a Washington Post interview, cdc director dr. Robert redfield says this, we could see a second wave of the virus next winter, and he says it could be even more difficult than what is happening right now. Yikes. Because it would hit at the same time as the flu season. Thats just one of many unknowns facing governors as they decide when and how to reopen their states. Mark strassmann is in hardhit atlanta where the mayor says she wasnt even consulted by georgias governor before he decided to partially reopen in a couple of days from now. Mark, how are businesses handling all this . Reporter were about to find out, anthony. And good morning. Georgia ranks in the top 15 of mostinfected states. Nonetheless, this state is getting ready for what you might call a soft open. Certain businesses can unlock their doors for customers if they follow social distancing and sanitation guidelines. As some of the states around the country began to relax social distancing restrictions, the reality of what normal will look like is starting to sink in. Its scary. From all aspects. Reporter lindsey nash owns a georgia hair salon and is getting back to work. Governor brian kemp announced his plan to begin reopening the state this friday. Shutting down for much longer wouldnt be an option. We dont know how long the pandemic will go on. Reporter but some residents and political leaders disagree with governor kemp, including the mayor of albany, georgia. The city has endured one of the highest per capita infection rates in the country. I pray that the number of georgians who are infected and die will not increase significantly in the coming weeks as a result of the lifting of these restrictions. Reporter dr. Deborah birx, the White House Coronavirus response coordinator, says its important for governors and mayors to follow the reopening guidelines. It will have to be on a communitybycommunity opening. I believe people in atlanta would understand that if their cases are not going down that they need to continue to do everything that we said, social distancing. Reporter birx is worried about asymptomatic spread, a concern bolstered by new antibody research. It suggests many more americans may have been infected by covid than first thought. Were not opening up all businesses as usual by any means. Reporter many businesses in South Carolina have already been given the green light in a state where only about 42,000 people have been tested for the virus. Some North Carolina public beaches are now open. Some retail, too, Like Department stores. In texas, Dallas County officials voted to extend their stayathome order through the middle of next month. Texans really want to get back to work. Kind of part of the texas dna. Reporter but Governor Greg Abbott says his fourrthcoming pn for reopening will overall any local policy. To me, im living a movie. Reporter texan Susan Morrison lives in dallas. She lost her 39yearold stepbrother and her 83yearold father to covid19 on consecutive days. To not be able to see your Family Member die or to be there, hold their hands, and to just hear, oh, hes gone now, is not how i imagined saying goodbye to my father. Reporter the white house has set certain standards for states to reopen, and one of them is a twoweek downward trend of new covid cases. Gayle, by that standard, georgia fails. All right, mark, thank you so much. The first u. S. Death from the coronavirus happened much earlier than previously thought. Until now, the first known victim was reported to have died in Washington State on february 29th, but new testing reveals that someone actually died of the virus in california three weeks earlier on february 6th. Today the reported National Death toll is more than 45,000 people. Yeah. The actual toll may be higher because many people are never able to get tested because of shortages of kits. Health care workers and First Responders will soon receive the first fdaauthorized athome test. We have dr. Stephen hahn now to tell us more. Good morning. Americans are sitting at home now and theyre wondering two things when can i get back to work, and can i do it safely. This athome test, tell us about it. Where does it fit into the bigger puzzle of testing which seems so important to doing those two things return to normalcy, returning to the economy, working as usual. Good morning. Thank you for having me. So this new test is an athome collection test for diagnostic. That is a test that would diagnose the presence of the covid19 virus. This is a test where its going to focus lab corps, the company thats developed this, is going to focus first on frontline Health Care Workers and First Responders. Those with symptoms can go on line and fill out a questionnaire. The questionnaire will be reviewed by a health care professional, a licensed physician, and if appropriate and consistent with the cdc guidelines, a package will be sent overnight with a swab and a tube. Its very easy and safe to perform. Our data show that its as accurate as having it performed in the Doctors Office or in a clinic. They can perform the test, put it in the tube of say lean, and overnight it to the lab and get the results thereafter from lab corp. It sounds like good news. Lets talk about how it fits into the bigger picture. I was looking at the testing data. The u. S. Has been stuck at below 200,000 tests per day. That is at least half as many we need to double that pace, maybe even triple it to reopen safely according to some experts and their estimates. What are we doing to close that gap . Is the athome test part of it . The athome test is certainly part of it. And fda has issued 59 emergency use authorizations for tests, four of which are the antibody tests. The rest are the diagnostic tests. We have over 300 developers who are working with us to continue to expand that capacity. The other thing that its really important to know and this has been mentioned several times, and weve had calls with the governors about it, there is unlocked capacity in the country. Were working very closely with the governors and the state Public Health officials to make sure that the adequate supplies and the information about where those tests are available are made known to folks so that they can actually unlock that capacity. We believe that based upon that information that we could double the number of tests that are done in a very short period of time. Can you tell us what a very short period of time is . Right now every day counts. People want to get back to work. If we need to double the number of tests were doing, how soon can we do that . Can you give us a date . Sure. I mean, youve seen dr. Birx and dr. Fauci talk about this on the podium. That could be done this week if the appropriate identification occurs at the state level and then the supplies are there for them. And so this is every day working with the states, unlocking that capacity, getting the supplies where theyre needed, and actually informing the state Public Health officials about what alternative supplies are available. And weve issued a number of flexible policies to allow different swabs and different agents to be available. We are disseminating that information very quickly to the states. Doctor, lets talk about something that dr. Redfield at the cdc said yesterday to the Washington Post, that we could see a second wave of the coronavirus next winter. It could make this wave pale by comparison. Do you agree with his assessment . Are you worried about that second wave . I think that its certainly a possibility, and the whole task force set of doctors is concerned about the second wave. Dr. Redfields concern is there also might be flu at the same time. But thats why we have built into the plan the surveillance mechanisms to look for the respiratory illnesses and than do the appropriate tecfting at that time. Thats going to be a critical part of the reopening plan to allow us to move forward. And dr. Hahn, a simple yes or no because i have to go the timetable for a vaccine which would be a game changer, last we checked with you, it would be a year off, march of 2021. Is that still the case . Still the case that the estimate is march. Were trying to accelerate the efforts and will try for sooner, sir. Doctor hahn, a lot of people counting on you. Thank you for spending a few minutes with us. Anthony, over to you. Thank you. All right. Thanks. We heard a lot about testing in that interview. But many people are still in the dark about what to do. Our National CorrespondentJericka Duncan spoke to a detroit family now mourning a man they say was turned away from getting tested three times. Begging for his life, but flow one would help him at all. They just kept sending him sending him away. Reporter keith gambrel says he was concerned his phelps father, 5 his stepfather, 56yearold gary fowler, had coronavirus. Gambrell took him to the e. R. Three times and each time fowler was not admitted and not tested despite having many of the symptoms. I honestly think its because my father was black they didnt take the symptoms serious enough to give him a test. Reporter the day before fowler died, his dad died of covid19. Shouldnt after fowlers soon after fowlers wife had symptoms of her own, landing her in the hospital. They put her on the ventilator. Im thinking, man, this is it. Im about to lose my mom. Reporter gambrell was concerned other Family Members could be next. He called his cousin, state representative karen whitsett. Whitsett, who visited the white house last week to speak about surviving coronavirus, made sure her family was tested. If not for your title as state lawmaker, do you think your family would have been able to get tested . Absolutely not. And thats that sickens me to have to use that title to be able to have to get my family tested. Come to find out, i tested positive for it. My brother, troy, tested positive for it. My brother, ross, tested positive for it. Reporter on monday, michigans governor created a state tfrs to investigate Racial Disparities in the pandemic. Lieutenant governor garland gilchrest is the chair. One of the things that we are addressing with there task force is the fact that there may indeed be medical bias present when it comes to testing, as in who will even get a test, as well as how treatment is administered. Reporter gambrell is focused on caring for his mother, cheryl. She had been sent home from the hospital but was readmitted last night on what would have been her 25th wedding anniversary. Having been through this, what do you say to people who are losing loved ones back to back . Just pray. You just got to continue to fight for them and live the life that they would live and be their voice. Someone has to speak for the people that cant get medical attention the proper way, and i feel like thats my duty now. Reporter and i just spoke to gambrell this morning. He says his mother is still in the hospital as we speak. The governor there in michigan says that the state has the capacity to test 11,000 people each day, but she says right now they dont have enough reagents and swabs, so theyre testing at half that amount. Such an important part of the story. Thank you very much. Moving to washington, congress is set to extend a federal aid program for struggling businesses after criticism that too much of the money has gone to large corporations. Last night, President Trump called on Harvard University to return more than 8 million in emergency aid. Harvard, which had a 41 billion endowment before the recent stock market downturn, says 100 of that grant money will go to support students. Weijia jiang is at the white house for us with the latest on that, plus mr. Trumps newest plan to restrict immigration. Good morning. What do we know about that plan . Reporter the president just tweeted this morning that he will sign an order today to suspend the issuing of green cards for at least 60 days in order to cut that competition for american jobs as the economy rebounds. Although some people like Seasonal Agriculture workers will be exempt. Critics say this is merely a political stunt. President trump is set to sign executive action that will temporarily suspend applications for permanent residency, claiming the move will help americans looking for work. By pausing immigration, well help put employed Americans First in line for jobs as america reopens. Reporter and democrats have accused mr. Trump of having an ulterior motive fulfilling a Campaign Promise to scale back on legal immigration. No, im not doing that at all. Reporter meanwhile, there was some good news for the more than 22 million unemployed americans. Congressional leaders finally came to an agreement on adding additional funds to the Paycheck Protection Program or ppp. There are always a lot of claims about who won and who lost. I think the American People are the ones who won. Reporter the nearly 500 billion deal includes 310 billion for Small Business loans, 60 billion of which will be set aside for Smaller Banks and lenders. When the first round of aid was distributed, large entities received 10 million loans. Shake shack returned its money, and the administration wants others like Harvard University to do the same. Harvards going to pay back the money. And they shouldnt be taking it. Reporter harvard pushed back late last night saying the money they received came from a different fund meant to help struggling students. The deal also includes 75 billion for hospitals and 25 billion for virus testing. Its unclear exactly what a National Testing program will look like, but the house is expected to pass the bill tomorrow. And the president has already indicated he will sign it. Meanwhile, the white house is already eyeing a brandnew phasefour stimulus package hoping to revive the ravaged economy. Gayle . Lot of people today saying show me the money. Thank you so much. Ahead on this earth day, did we mention its the 50th anniversary . Yeah, we did. How the pandemic has led to dramatic environmental improvements on that. Why theres hope that the gains could last beyond the asaad since my mother got cancer from smoking, ive learned a lot of things. Like how to help her out of bed, how to keep track of her medication, and how to keep her spirits up. 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