This crossing the wires now. Also, Retail Stores in ohio can open about two weeks from now. Thats about midmay. Covid19 has now killed more than 55,000 americans and infected nearly 1 Million People across the country. We have fox News Coverage beginning this hour the white house. Kristin fisher with brandnew testing guidelines from the white house there. Casey stegall is watching things in texas. We begin with Jonathan Serrie in atlanta where that state is slowly reopening again today. Slowly, it appears. Jonathan. Indeed, bill, good afternoon to you. Today, george expanded the list of businesses that can reopen. That includes movie theaters and restaurant dining rooms. But some Business Owners and customers are choosing to play it safe. Bill, as a former atlanta resident, i know youre familiar with the historic plaza theater, while it is moving operations outdoors, converting its back parking lot into a drivein. While some restaurants are reopening dining rooms with social distancing and enhanced cleaning, many customers say they feel safer sticking with takeout. I think its safer for me so that if i go home and start wondering okay, who else was in there. Hospitals, which temporarily suspended elective procedures are looking to increase Antibody Testing on their workforces so they can safely return to normal operations. The purpose of doing the testing is to prepare ourselves to have a reentry of Health Care Workers into the system so we can get our Business Model back on track. Bring all our surgeries back, our Cancer Patients back. Bell, Governor Brian Kemp has announced a 4 30 News Conference this afternoon. Also some news out of north carolina, the Charlotte Observer is reporting that one of the organizers of a movement against lockdowns, agal distancing in a home guidelines has admitted on social media that she tested positive for covid19 and just recently came out of quarantine on sunday. The Charlotte Observer has said she is not responded to a request for information on whether she attended any of those rallies during the quarantine period. Bill. Bill allowed to watch there, thank you governor, we will 90 minutes away, fox News Coverage continue, Kristin Fisher at the white house now the more on the new plans for testing that we are just the learning of now. Kristin. Thats right, bill, the white house is saying it wants to dramatically increase testing in this country over the next two months in an effort to really try to help the state go comfortable with reopening their economies and getting people back to work. These blueprints were just released about an hour ago, and they really detail how the white house wants to do this, and what the goals are. The blueprint calls for a robust diagnostic testing plan, a timely monitoring system, and a Rapid Response program to isolate those who test positive and identify those that they came in contact with. Just to dig into that a little bit deeper in terms of what exactly this means, the white house wants diagnostic testing for anyone who is symptomatic plus the First Responders and medical personnel. They also want surveillance testing for high risk populations, people in Nursing Homes, and whatnot. So, in total, the white house wants to be able for the state to test about 2 of its population. Some governors may want to do more. If that is the case, like governors in new york, andrew cuomo, if thats the case, the white house as it is going to work with those states individually to try to increase that Testing Capacity even further. But this is a big increase. I mean, right now, according to the covid tracking projects, the u. S. Have tested about 1. 6 of the entire population, the entire country. Now, the white house wants to test about 2 of people per state. So that is a dramatic increase, theres going to be a lot of questions today about how exactly the white house is going to be able to help states do that, and those questions are going to come in a briefing in the rose garden today. The White House Press secretary kaylee mack and annie, she put out a tweet saying though the safely opening up america. Again, President Trump will brief the nation during a press conference this evening. He will likely address all of us tonight. Again, bill, there was going to be a briefing today, now there is not, now the briefing is back on, a lot of questions about these new blueprint, and right now, i should point out then in about an hour, President Trump is going to be meeting with the ceos of Companies Like walmart, walgreens, he may make an announcement about this blueprint at that point in time, if he doesnt, you will hear in the briefing at the rose garden. Bill. Bill Kristin Fisher from the north lawn, that briefing two hours from now. Want to bring an director of the Harvard Global institute to react to this. Doctor, things are coming back. As kristin points out, this would be a massive move forward. What is your take on what youre hearing right now, doctor . To say thank goodness. A look, i look at the blueprints, i dont know the details yet, i will do that after we get off here. But for a lot of us, ive been calling for a lot more testing for a lot more time, weve been pretty flat for the last month. So, i am thrilled to see the white house finally get on board on this, and more testing is absolutely central to opening up our economy and letting people get back to their lives. So im really, really happy to hear. Bill right on. Do we have the capacity, now, or did we have it a month ago . I think weve had a capacity for the last month. Its required, there is a lot of road box that need fixing, and tackling, all of that just requires leadership and a focus on trying to expand testing, i believe weve had the capacity and its great to see the white house now fully on board with the pressure that they can put on the market place, we can get there. Bill okay, dr. Burke at mbc over the weekend said social distancing, in all likelihood will last until the end of the summer. She also said this about a breakthrough, watch here. We have to be able to detect antigens, rather than constantly trying to detect the actual live virus, or the viral particles it self. And to really move into antigen testing. I know corporations and diagnostics are working on that now. We have to have a breakthrough. This rna testing will carry us certainly through the spring and summer. But we need to have a Huge Technology breakthrough. Bill so go ahead and define with this Technology Breakthrough is or could become a doctor. What is that . So first of all, dr. Burke is completely right. We do need a Technology Breakthrough. Right now, we are looking through that genetic material of the virus to figure out if youre infected, thats fine, thats a good thing to do, but we cant scale it up as much as he would like. Antigen looks for the protein on the virus. A lot of people get the flu swab, thats what that is for the influenza, we need a similar thing for covid. It will allow us to do millions of tests a day and it will be fast, and this is the kind of Technology Breakthrough we need. And again, the market will eventually figure it out, but we need the push of the federal government to get us there much, much faster, and i hope we get there. Bill okay, with regard to the swab, i thought that was the company labcorp, last week when we had their leading medical officer on, they can do that, cant they . But perhaps not to the scale that youre asking for. Yeah, so they are talking about swabs were again, looking for that virus, that is a pcr test, thats a 20yearold technology that doesnt scale super well. What dr. Birx is talking about also requires a swab, it might be able to be done with just a saliva, but its looking for something totally different, a Different Technology called an antigen test, and im hopeful, its not there yet, the science isnt perfect yet, but im hopeful we will have that so we can do millions and millions of tests a day. Thats whats going to give people confidence to go back to restaurants and get on airplanes and get back to work. Bill okay, youre exactly right about that. Now, cdc and the last couple of days, they came with new guidelines about what we look for. Heres what you say chills, shaking, muscle pain, headaches, sore throat, new loss of taste or smell. I think we heard about a lot of those, but what we are hearing in new york is that those admitted to the hospital, only 30 of those patients complained of a fever. We thought all along here that a fever was the number one towel. How do we make sense of that . Yeah, i think this is cdc catching up to things that weve already known. Weve known people with covid will get chills. The loss of sense of smell and taste, weve known about really in the last several weeks, its nice to see cdc update its guidelines. You know, the fever issue is interesting, because when you do careful studies, even when people dont necessarily know that they have fevers, it turns out most people with covid really do have fevers, sometimes theyre not aware of it. 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Bidens campaign denies it, Speaker Pelosi has said that she is satisfied with that response. But there has been criticism for how some members of the media and how some democrats are responding to claims. Jacqui heinrich picks up the reporting today, with us in new york, jackie. Afternoon, bill. Well, pelosi touted bidens work saving jobs after the Great Recession and expanding access to health care while polo sees endorsement marks another pillar of support from the democratic establishment, biden also got the backing of the top progressive from the house today. Washington congresswoman for milledge i apollo said she was encouraged that biden murray reached out to her side, pelosi argued biden represents the besl kinds to advance a liberal agenda. Now, more than ever, we need a forwardlooking battletested leader who will fight for the people, a president with the values, experience, and the strategic thinking. But pelosi is among prominent female democrats who notably did not take questions this weekend over a Sexual Assault climb over the former vp. Polo see, with two women on bidens running mate shortlist made appearances on three television networks. Georges and stacy abrams appeared on cnn and nbc arguing for why biden should pick her. I am the daughter of two ministers, i was raised to tell the truth. So when i am asked a question, i answer it is directly and honestly as i can. Senator amy klobuchar, also on the vp shortlist, also didnt take questions in segment on mailin voting, although she has commented on the issue previously saying all claims should be investigated. Some progressives are accusing the democrats have being silent on the issue. Senator Bernie Sanders former press secretary tweeted a reminder that burning still on the ballot. Meanwhile the Biden Campaign adamantly denying the allegations will being careful not to silence his accuser, former staffer tar read. Bidens Campaign Said earlier this month women have a right to tell their story and reporters have an obligation to rigorously vet those claims. We encourage them to do so because these aqua are false. The dnc has still not responded to our questions on this issue. Bill. Bill so, jacqui, bidens accuser says that media should presser on this, what has she said . Well, tara reade told fox news and Cnns Anderson Cooper didnt ask biden about this issue, not months. But on two occasions. Biden has done nearly a dozen interviews since the claim surfaced, and she believes biden should be question publicly. Tara reade the story has escalated since last year when she told a local paper biden touched her and made her feel uncomfortable, but said it was nonsexual. This march, she alleged Sexual Assault. Reade told the New York Times she didnt initially claim Sexual Assault because she was scared, having faced a wave of criticism following some tweets, and also posts she previously made, some of them praising bidens legislative efforts on ending Sexual Assault, and others praising russian president vladimir putin. Bill. Bill Jacqui Heinrich on that, reporting today, jacqui, thank you, meanwhile the airports in the u. S. Across the country have seen a bit of an uptick in the number of travelers. The tsa screened nearly 129,000 people yesterday, thats the most in a single day since the 3rd of april. But in all, its just a tiny fraction of the usual number, in the same day about a year ago tsa screened more than 2. 5 Million People. At american airports. What a difference a year can make. Nursing homes have been hot spots for covid19 outbreaks, theyve been deadly. Why are some states ordering them to take infected patients . We will look at that and a moment. 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