Up produced there they are. He also says there is progress on funding for more tests and hospitals and for Small Businesses devastated by the pandemic. Now, the president also defended protesters who are fed up with the coronavirus restrictions, restrictions that his own administration has put into place. He called them great people who have cabin fever and denied inciting such protests to, quote, liberate such states. Now, the president touted his own record, praised himself, and lashed out at the media. Cnns Jeremy Diamond with more. And the president in large part was focusing on the accomplishments of his administration, the president talking about the successes of his administrations response and also playing clips and reading clips of praise from other people for his administration and his personal response. So, the president reading at one point clips from a wall strewa journal entitled trump rewrites the book. And another clip from andrew cuomo praising his and the federal governments response. What you played and what you read earlier was praising you and your administration. All i praised today was Governor Cuomo saying very positive things about the job the federal government has done. Those people have been absolutely excoriated by some of the fake news like you, youre cnn, theyre fake news. Theyre excoriated. You should be praising the people who have done a good job, not doing what you do, even that question. The question is why now . Ill tell you why now. Are you ready . Because these people right now in hospitals. Its dangerous. Its going to be a battlefield. The president s response there isnt truthful. The president wasnt focused on health care workers, doctors, nurses on the front lines of this coronavirus pandemic. Instead the president was talking about praise about him and his response and his administrations response. The president did take other questions, and he was pressed on the issue of testing. The president in recent days has sought to pass the buck suggesting testing is no longer a responsibility but something that states have to focus on. We heard that from the president on sunday. At the same time, we did hear the president say he will be invoking the defense production act. Thats one of the requests weve heard from democratic and republican governors across the country. Jeremy diamond, cnn, the white house. University of california los angeles. Shes done a lot of research into how diseases spread. So, were delighted to have you professor. Thanks so much. The president again praising himself, his own administration on everything, but including testing. Even though per capita the u. S. Is still well behind other countries. And again hes putting the responsibility on state governors. Two questions, how vital is it that testing ramps up, and should not the federal government be coordinating procurement and distribution . Well, absolutely. Testing is so critical to understanding where we are on the curve, where we need to go, and how we need to get there. Right now, we just do not have enough testing in place. And the testing is the road blocks to testing are multiple are significant and from multiple places. But the big things are reagents, swabs, and just accessibility in general for the general public. Until we have widespread Testing Available in the United States everywhere and testing in particular for vulnerable populations and repeat Testing Available for our health care workers, we really are just not in a place to be reopening or even thinking about reopening. Yeah, i mean, do we still we still dont know, right, if having covid, whether youre immune or not. And if youre not, does that mean what does that mean Going Forward for managing this virus in a community sense . Well, this is a very important point that youre bringing up. And over the weekend, the World Health Organization also made a comment about this suggesting that it was just we just did not have enough information to understand what these Antibody Tests mean. This is really what were referring to here. Because all of these Antibody Tests that are rolling out everywhere tell you if you have been exposed to the virus, if you may have been sick with this virus. But it tells you nothing about whether or not you have immunity to the virus, whether or not you can fight off another infection. So, there are some very important questions that need to be answered. These are the things that were answering at ucla right now. Were looking at if you get infected, does that produce immunity . First you have antibodies. Do you have a trace of having the trace in your blood that you may have been infected . But does that mean you are immune to the virus . And if you are immune to the virus, how long does that immunity last . We dont know. And if you do have immunity, does it wane . And can you get reinfected. In these cases of south korea and reports of this in other place really beg the question as to what immunity means in this case and for how long. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So, youve got this situation where the president , the president himself, talking about opening the economy, businesses, and so on, and yet his same task force doesnt know that immunity situation. It seems a contradiction. Surely until we know such a thing, large numbers of people going back to close quarters seems risky. Exactly. Its the idea that everyone is interested to know if you have a immune passport saying youve had this virus, but you may need your visa renewed over time if immunity doesnt last. So, i think its very, very important that we understand these things before we move too quickly. The issue is were going to lose all the gains that weve all sacrificed everybody around the world is sacrificing, taking on a lot of hardship to be able to flatten this curve and to reduce the slow spread. Its kind of like deciding after you jump out of an airplane and youve pulled your parachute now that youve started to slow down, if you say i dont need this parachute anymore and cut the cord. Wah had a good analogy. Havent heard that one. That really paints the picture. Theres more demonstrations monday in the u. S. , organized protest against stayathome. Weve already seen a couple in recent days. As a health care professional, what goes through your mind when you see that sort of thing . Well, i just i think its this whole situation is just so stressful for everybody. And its so fraught. And to think that people are going to be putting themselves at risk in close proximity, we know that this virus is very infectious. I just i think its, you know, something that is not advisable to be undoing all of the hard work because any time you have these large groups of people this is really undoing all the hard work and sacrifice that everybody else has been working so hard and sacrificing so hard to be able to slow the spread. And, you know, we have these phases that the government has said that we need to go through. And, you know, some of these gates include having reduced spread and reduced number of deaths. And this will actually slow the opening of these states as opposed to accelerating it. Yeah, just finally then this is your field, i guess. This is primarily seen as a respiratory illness. But hearing a lot more about other Health Issues for people with covid. Theres reports of a surge in kidney failure among those being treated. But also even after recovery, reports of heart, kidney, lung, neurological issues, thats quite concerning, isnt it . Absolutely. I mean, these are all things that just demonstrate how little we know about this virus. I mean, this is a virus thats new to humanity. Were still trying to learn about it. And as we learn more about what this virus does, the more we realize were just kind of scraching the surface in trying to understand it. Dont forget people can spend decades working on diseases and trying to figure them out and understand. We still dont know everything we need to know about many diseases that have been with us for a very, very long time. So, it shouldnt be surprising that we still dont have this all figured out already. Anne rimmoin, thank so much. My pleasure. A potential ray of hope in hardhit new york state, Governor Cuomo saying if the data holds, new york may have passed a high point and is on the descent. But new york city mayor bill de blasio had some tough words for President Trump. There was that famous daily news cover that said forward to city, drop dead. So, my question is mr. Trump, mr. President , are you going to save new york city, or are you telling new york city to drop dead . Which one is it . According to Johns Hopkins university, new york state has more than 248,000 cases of coronavirus, more than 18,000 deaths at least. Evan mcmoro with more from new york city. Reporter Governor Andrew Cuomo said sunday that theres some good news in the new numbers on the coronavirus in new york. Hospitalizations are down and hes ready to begin a new randomized testing plan to check for antibodies in the new york population. But theres still massive challenges ahead for new york. Testing capacity isnt high enough, the governor said, to allow for broadbased opening of anything. And he says in order to get to that point, you need federal help. Resources from the federal government to help to fill state and local coffers that have been decimated by economic downturn caused by this virus. He called on the president and the leaders in washington to pass a new bill that would send millions of dollars into new york to help to build resources up to move things along to the next phase here in this pandemic. Evan mcmorrissantoro, cnn, new york. Were going to take a short break. When we come back, 16 people dead after a shooting rampage in canada. Well get the latest in the investigation in a live report coming up. Also the u. S. President has kind words for protesters demanding governors reopen for business. Why experts say theyre asking for something dangerous. Only tr an everyday item to become dangerous. Tide pods childguard pack helps keep your laundry pacs in a safe place and your child safer. Align, press and unzip. Tide pods. Keep them up. Keep them closed. Keep them safe. It means being there for each other. 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The shooting began late saturday in the small town of port pique. Police say the suspect is dead. For more on this, lets turn to cnn paula newton who is joining us live from ottawa. Obviously shocking for canada. What more do you know . Reporter where to even begin, michael. Look, this began certainly in the late hours of saturday evening and it turned into a really reign of terror that went on for more than 12 hours. Michael, this is a very small community. The suspect a 51yearold business owner, no inclination that he had ever been violent in his past, apparently at at least one property, police say they found at this one property, several casualties as they describe it both inside and outside. But then what unfolded, michael, were properties several dozen miles away from each other, many of them on fire, police trying to attend multiple crime scenes at once, at the same time trying to track down this suspect. People in the community, you could imagine at this point in lockdown already from coronavirus now told to if they can lock themselves in their basement and be on the lookout for this suspect. The suspect himself, they then reported, had a Police Uniform on and perhaps even a police vehicle. That was not how he was eventually apprehended though. He was in another type of gray vehicle. He was spotted at a gas station, and lpolice are not saying exactly how he died but did report in some kind of stand off he did die. And what he left in his wake is just incredible at this point in time, michael. The grieving continues. The heartbreak continues. And just one personal story, there will be so many more. Rcmp confirmed at least one constable lost her life, heidi stevenson, mother of two, 23 queer veteran. I cant begin to tell you how much these stories of heartbreak will come out in the coming hours. Coronavirus, people are just coming to grips with trying to mourn for these people when funerals, proper ones, arent really possible. And its fair to say this is one of the largest most devastating mass tragedies in canada in history. This will be a day of National Mourning that will not be able to happen at least in the near future because of the coronavirus. Michael. Yeah, when you cant even have a funeral. Paula, appreciate it. Cnns paula newton in ottawa. Lets bring in cnn Law Enforcement analyst from middleton in new jersey. I mean, what do you make of what happened, especially the suspect was wearing something similar to a Police Uniform, driving something that was made to look like a police car. That suggests preplanning. It absolutely does. Unfortunately what were left with is a lot of Unanswered Questions right now. And having the suspect deceased poses a challenge for Law Enforcement where theyre not able to question the suspect any longer. So, we actually dont understand the full motivation and actually what had happened leading up to this. So, that leaves investigators with an uphill challenge where they have to now go out and they have to reassess who this individual was. They have to go out and look at this persons network, everything from their friends and relatives, coworkers. They have to do the digitial forensics, looking at everything this person looked at online, trying to piece together a motive to understand how somebody could undertake this horrific act. Yeah, police said that they believed he had an initial motivation that turned to randomness. So, i guess that sort of complicates, initially his apprehension. He went on a 92kilometer journey afterwards. And sort of the breadth of where he carried out these crimes, that complicates the investigation as well. Theyre still looking for bodies a little while ago. Youre making a great point here. The size and scope of these crime scenes is immense. Just the distance between the crime scenes that we actually know are significant. But im just concerned of what dont we know. I mean, this person left a path of destruction in his wake until he was finally stopped. But what dont we know . And thats going to be the challenge for Law Enforcement over the next few hours and coming days is to actually trace back every actual step this person took, every interaction to see if there are additional crime scenes out there, any other victims. Again, just try to piece together why this happened, how this happened, again, a lot of Unanswered Questions. And so often people in retrospect look for red flags as well, whether he gave off any signals. We dont know much about him yet. But in your experience in the field which is considerable, what sort of commonalities are there among mass shooters like this . Well, listen, first of all, lets just put a baseline out there that shooting and killing somebody is not a normal behavior. And behavior runs on a continuum. And what we have seen in research that has been done by the u. S. Secret service has indicated theres always commonality in mass attackers in what they do. And what they have seen and research has proven that in over 50 of the time theyve researched attackers, some sort of grievance has been at the core, whether thats a domestic issue, a workplace issue, but some sort of grievance has been a trigger to an act this horrific. Then, more telling is over 75 of the time the attacker has telegraphed some sort of communication that they were going to actually undertake this type of violent act. So, thats what investigators are going to look at. Theyre going to look at the digit digit digit digital forensics, was he in a chatroom, influenced by anybody. What are the key indicators based upon the patterns we know, does this individual fall into that and how do we find out that information . Great to have your expertise jonathan. Thanks so much. Thank you so much. All right. Italy is now looking to adopt Antibody Tests designed to see if someone had the virus in the past. This is a quick test. It could be a key to reopening the country, but there are questions about reliability. Cnns ben wedeman and his team tried one of the tests under consideration with mixed results. Just three drops of blood are enough for a chinesemade Antibody Test for the coronavirus now going through a trial run in italy, just one of several tests being examined by the italian government. Other countries have had mixed success with such quicklydesigned tests but we gave it a try. We were up in the north of italy in the red zones for 17 days, so we are very anxious to see the results of this test. Unlike swabs, this test gives results in just 8 minutes. [ speaking Foreign Language ] the result, says dr. Jean dominique, can tell us three things, that you never had anything, or that you are currently infected, or that you had the infection, overcame it, and have antibodies that are no longer contagious. [ speaking Foreign Language ] i received a clean bill of health. Nothing. Negat