And keeping the beat. For our series a more perfect union, we visit new orleans where sweet music is helping ease the pain. Always good in new orleans. First, todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. One day they said we have to close our country. Nows time to open it up, and you know what, the people of our country are warriors. President trump has tweeted that the Coronavirus Task force will continue on indefinitely. Will some people be affected yesterday . , but we have to get our country. We have to get it open soon. Reporter i did ask the president at one point whether if they wanulak a first in new york city, with intense cleaning. There is a direct response to how filthy the trains have become. Who heard of disinfecting a subway car . You may be at home, but guac is still extra. All that i find that everybodys trying a 10 to 12 harder to just be nice. Dont you find that . Not really, no. But im watching no . Cnn all day. All that matters good to see you out of the basement. Nice haircut. You like it . The missus did it. Yeah, its clear that she did it. She obviously harbors a deep resentment. On cbs this morning. Reporter according to a survey the cuomo brothers are more desired than the Jonas Brothers. Let me be the first to say, i did not realize those sets of brothers were after the same demographic. Being hot is the Jonas Brothers thing. Were the cuomo brothers also voted more handy than the Property Brothers and more italian than the mario brothers . Oh, whatever brothers you i never think its bad to be compared to the Jonas Brothers, theyre terrific, but the cuomo brothers are certainly having a moment. I will say that. Tony . Yeah. Thats true. It is definitely cuomo fever this season. You know, all fevers break, so they could enjoy it while it lasts. Isnt that right, gayle . We shall see. This comes after one day when President Trump made a trip, touring a factory that the president said is looking at winding down the task force, his word, but in tweets this morning, mr. Trump said the Group Includes his top medical advisers would continue on indefinitely. He said it would focus on safety and reopening the country, but the membership could changes. Tony . Meanwhile, a whistleblower is accusing the administration of ignoring Early Warning signs and downplaying the virus threat. Paula reid is at the white house for us. Good morning. What is it with the turnaround of the president regarding the task force . Reporter it contradicts what the president said to reporters yesterday when he confirmed he was having conversations about winding down the task force and sending the work back to federal agencies the president was also asked about this yesterday and he was in fact looking to the next phase. But we reached out to dr. Anthony fauci, and he told cbs news last night that he heard nothing. The task force has done a phenomenal job. Reporter as he toured a mask Production Facility in arizona, President Trump suggested his Coronavirus Task force of medical experts may be dissolved as the white house shifts its focus from saving lives to reopening the economy. Were now looking at a little bit of a different form, and that form is safety and opening. And well have a Different Group probably set up for that. Reporter the move to disband the task force comes as some coronavirus models predict deaths will increase in the coming weeks as areas around the country begin to reopen. Dire predictions. A report with no mitigation. Frankly, when the people report back, theyre going to be social distancing, and theyre going to be washing their hands, and theyre going to be doing the things that youre supposed to do. Reporter but the models do take mitigation into account and are based on the relaxing of social distancing that the president has been calling for. President trump continued to praise his own response to the pandemic while trying to shift blame to president obama. Dont forget, the cupboard was bare. The other administration, the last administration left us nothing. Reporter pressed on why he didnt do more to prepare, the president said he was busy. Well, ill be honest, i have a lot of things going on. We had a lot of people that refused to allow the country to be successful. They wasted a lot of time on russia, russia, russia. That turned out to be a total hoax. Reporter one government doctor, rick bright, said he tried to raise alarms about the pandemic in january and was ignored. Bright filed an extensive compliant saying the u. S. Was woefully short on masks and suggested putting together a Disaster Leadership Group to address the pandemic. In the complaint, bright alleges hhs official dr. Robert kaldec suggested it was appropriate but was not sure if that is a timesensitive urgency. Brights lawyer, debra katz, spoke to cbs news. The administration was very intent on providing good news, and in sugarcoating how devastating this would be. S. Reporter bright says he was moved to another bright was moved to another department after promoting hydroxychloriquine. He was concerned that hhs actions would seriously harm or kill members of the american public. We reached out to the administration about these accusation. So far its only said that dr. Bright has been moved to a new role on testing, and theyre disappointed he has not shown up for his news job. Anthony . Paula reid at the white house, thank you. Across the country were still seeing an overall increase in reported coronavirus cases. So far 43 states have partially lifted restrictions introduced to fight the pandemic. Our lead national correspondent, david begnaud, is in new york city. Are things Getting Better here . Reporter they are. In fact, the number of deaths and hospitalizations have been on a steady decline for most of the last month. I have to tell you, signs of the virus devastation are still very real. Even if you cant see it personally, heres how glaring it still is. This is a stark reminder of the dangers of covid19. A hearse arriving at a brooklyn parking lot. It is lined with refrigerator trucks that hold the bodies of overcrowded morgues. More than 25,000 people have died in the state of new york alone. The faster we reopen, the lower the economic cost, but the higher the human cost because the more lives lost. Reporter that decision is one governors in every state are grappling with. And one President Trump was asked about tuesday in an interview with abc news. Do you believe thats the reality were facing, that lives will be lost to reopen the country . Its possible there will be some because you wont be locked into an apartment or a house or whatever it is. But at the same time, were going to practice social distancing. [ chants ] reporter the state of texas might be the next major test. Governor greg abbott is moving forward with plans to reopen nonessential businesses like hair salons and barber shops. That will happen friday. Even though he acknowledges the potential danger. As a society does begin to open up again, it could lead to increased infections. Are you going to close . No. Reporter some texans continue to resist the States Social distancing guidelines. Dallas salon owner Shelly Luther is going to spend the next seven days in jail for illegally opening up her shop last week after several warnings not to. In michigan, new Surveillance Video shows a man wiping his face on the shirt of a dollar tree employee after she asked him to wear a mask in the store. Also in that state, authorities are still on the hunt for two men charged with killing a security guard, Calvin Munerlyn, inside of a Family Dollar in flint, michigan, last friday. Police say he had simply told the customers daughter she had to wear a mask to enter the store. Latryna Sims Munerlyn was calvins wife of ten years. Tell ig us about your his. My husband was a devoted family man. He did a lot for the community. He did a lot for teenage boys, troubled teenage kids. But the biggest thing that he was was a father, a great father. Reporter 43yearold Calvin Munerlyn had eight children. We also spoke to his mother, bernadett, who called him extraordinary. He was an awesome dad. An awesome son. And im going to miss him. Reporter we can tell you now that one of the suspects is in custody. I dont want to end on the suspects. Let me tell you more about mr. Munerlyn. His nickname was duber, and he was so involved in the community that one of the schools decided to change the name of their parent of the year award. Theyre going to call it the superduper parent award now. Tony, as i toss back to you, its unfathomable that that man died because he simply told someone they had to wear a mask. That is true. We can do better than this as a country. Thank you for that report. As the reported death toll in this country from the coronavirus soars past 71,000, new human trials for a possible vaccine are under way. Our david agus joins us now from los angeles with more. Dr. Agus, good morning. So pfizer is one of the Companies Involved in these trials beginning here in the United States. The method theyre using has never brought a vaccine to market successfully. How promising is it . Theyre using what we call an rna vaccine. Its not a piece of the virus thats classically used, its the instructions for the virus, or the rna theyre injected. The human body make the protein, and an immune response attacks the protein and hopefully prevents the virus. Phaser is clever, theyre taking four parts of the protein and putting that into four separate vaccines. Four shots on goal in the beginning in several hundred patients to see if you can make a good enough immune response to go to a larger trial to hopefully prevent the virus. All right. Four shots on goal. I like the sound of that. The timetable for the vaccine is as soon as the fall. Thats possible. What needs to happen for that to get done . How likely is it . Well, every step has to work. So initially one of those four have to give a good enough immune response that it can provide immunity. And once you have that, then it can be expanded to say does it really prevent the virus from getting in . Each of those take time to do. This is an rna vaccine, so its easier and cheaper to scale and make than a classic vaccine. But as you mentioned, its never been fda approved, the type of vaccine. Its a little bit new. Were going on new ground here. Theres hope and potential as there is with several other vaccine candidates. I pray that one, maybe two, maybe three of them will work and well have them in the fall or in december or in january. Any time as soon as possible. Yeah. When people hear about it an accelerated timetable and methods, there are going to be worries. What are the risks of moving forward in this way . I guess to sharpen the question, how do the risks compare to the risk of not having a vaccine at all . Well, not having a vaccine means we have a continued death rate in this country which is unacceptable. Vaccines historically have been safe. And were doing the safety studies now. Some steps were skipped with some of the vaccines in animal work. Others had years of animal work to get the vaccine itself ready. So each one had different safety work done and will have Going Forward. There is no way a vaccine is Going Forward into patients in large scale unless its proven safe. I hope this works. The big variable is will the immune response be Strong Enough to prevent the virus. And we should know that for some of the vaccines in the middle of june. All right. Quickly, i want to get your reaction to a troubling headline. Some emerging Research Suggesting that there might be a mutated strain of the coronavirus, particularly on the east coast, that is more infectious and more aggressive. Whats your reaction to that research . Unfortunately, it got more headlines than it should have. There are multiple strains of the virus. About 30 in total. This strain became dominant starting in february in italy and moved to the rest of the world. The researchers in a notyetreviewed manuscript said its more infectious which is why it became dominant. Theres no evidence, theres no evidence that the dna changes which always happen in viruses, that the dna changes will change response to drugs or vaccines at the present time. At the present time, its an observation. All right. Not yet peer reviewed. Important to note. David, thank you very much. Anthony . All right. Thank you both. The Supreme Court hears more arguments over the phone this morning with Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg participating from a baltimore hospital. A spokeswoman says ginsburg was admitted for nonsurgical treatment of a benign gall gladder condition. The oldest justice, shes 87, has been treated four times for cancer in the past. She expects to leave the hospital later this week. Were all pulling for Justice Ginsburg today. In georgia a District Attorney will ask a grand jury to consider charges against two white men who chased and killed a black man who was not armed. More than 100 people protested in brunswick, georgia, last night, after video emerged showing the shooting death of 25yearold ahmaud arbery. More than two months ago is when it happened. The two men say it was selfdefense. Omar villafranca has the video, and we have to warn you ahead of time, it is disturbing. Reporter this cell phone video captures the final moments of Ahmaud Arberys life while he was jogging through his brunswick, georgia, neighborhood. The witness is recording the moment arbery was confronted by Gregory Mcmichael and his son travis who shot arbery twice with a shotgun. [ gunshot ] what do you hope this video proves . Proves that my son was not committing a crime. He was out for his daily jog. He was hunted down like an animal and killed. Reporter arberys mother, wanda cooper jones, says she has not seen the video because it is too painful to watch. Is it something you plan to watch . Its going to take some time. It wont be today or tomorrow. It may not be months. Reporter the graphic video shows travis mcmichael, who appears to be standing outside the parked truck, and arbery struggling over what looks to be a shotgun. Gunshots can be heard on the video within a few minutes of each other. [ gunshots ] arbery is seen trying to run away before falling to the ground. According to the police report, Gregory Mcmichael told investigators he thought arbery was a burglary suspect and ordered him to stop. Mcmichael then said arbery violently attacked his son, travis. The prosecutor who previously had the case says travis acted out of selfdefense and within the scope of georgias citizen arrest statute. Marcus arbery says his son was not a criminal and was just out for his usual jog around his own neighborhood. He stayed a street over reporter Greg Mcmichael is a former Law Enforcement officer who used to work for the local d. A. Due to conflicts of interest, the case is now on its third prosecutor who says he will convene a grand jury once the coronavirus pandemic is over. Lee merritt is one of the attorneys who represents arberys family. After seeing this video, Law Enforcement has no other choice. They need to go out and make an arrest today. Reporter fellow arbery family Attorney Ben Crump says this shooting bears some similarities to another one of his cases from 2012, trayvon martin. This killing was completely unnecessary and unjustified. And like so many people advocated in Trayvon Martins case, people should not try to take the law into their own hands. Reporter its worth noting a florida jury acquitted Trayvon Martins killer, george zimmerman, of murder. And floridas laws are different than georgias laws. Now we reached out to the mcmichael family, they did not want to talk. Also, the fbi says they are aware of the case, and they have been briefed. Gyle . 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