Dying from this than in the vietnam war. That death toll number, 58,220. Well cross that line in the next 24 hours. Governor phil murphy announced that hospitalizations are down from nearly a thousand from this time last week. That is a good sign. He will be joining us later this hour. The Trump Campaign is lashing out against Republican Senate candidates. A memo issued by the nrsc last week told republicans not to defend the president s response to covid19 completely, simply defend his china ban stand and then to attack china in general. Well, the Trump Campaign wasnt happy seeing that memo go public and they say any candidate who follows those guidelines should not expect any support from the president and the nrsc apparently has agreed that, yes, the president s campaign is right about that. Governor Charlie Baker has extended his stayathome order for the state of massachusetts until may 18th. I should say, the commonwealth of massachusetts. The order was set to expire next monday. Baker warns that now is not the time to ease up on the restrictions that we know that are working. My colleague, katy tur is with me from trenton, new jersey, this hour. And katy, you got to experience the flyover. Of course, we were in the middle of a break when it happened. Oh, the timing of our breaks, sometimes. At least give us a verbal explanation of what you saw. Reporter you know, it turns out that the truck i heard in the distance was actually the flyover. It was a familiar sight. Listen, i know people will question the use of money and how much it costs, but as the Brigadier General said, as part of their practices anyway, it was nice to see it. And i think people sitting at home and a little tired of their own personal space would have enjoyed to get out and look up at the sky. Anyone whos been to an air show when they were a kid has got to enjoy Something Like that. It was nice. It was nice to see here. Chuck, just to give you guys an idea of where i am at the top of the hour. I am in trenton, new jersey, as you said. And Governor Phil Murphy is going to be giving a press conference here in just a moment. Yesterday, he outlined what he needs to reopen the state. It was a sixstate plan. Four of the points are the ones you really need to Pay Attention to. Thats a decline in cases. It just mentioned there was a decline in hospitalizations over the past week. He wants to see it go on for two weeks. Hospitalizations and the number of new confirmed cases. He wants to up the testing. Last hour, we spoke to rutgers about a new saliva test that will hopefully help them get at the Testing Capacity they need to be at, in the next few weeks. Cross your fingers for that. Also, contact tracing. Once they get the testing at capacity, are they then going to be able to follow those contacted for each person that has tested positive for covid. And finally, get a place for those people to quarantine. He wants to find hotels and dorm rooms in order to put people who wont be able to selfquarantine for time they need, in order to make sure they do not get the virus, or get the virus and get over it. Once he has those things in place, then he can talk about reopening the state. There is a hope maybe by memorial day, but as of now, the stayathome order in this state is indefinite, which is part of the reason why youre seeing something of a protest behind me. And i dont want to give too much i dont want to put too much weight to the protest, because this is only a few hundred people. The vast majority of new jerseyans agree with the stayathome order. Weve been seeing these protests pop up all around the country. A lot of them seem politically motivated more than economically motivated. And this one, for instance, were seeing a lot of trump 2020 signs, were seeing a lot of weve seen some Second Amendment signs, some other nonpolitically related issues to whats going on right now. I spoke with one of the women who was one of the organizers of this event today, and she works at a bar on the jersey shore. She says she wants to get back to work and feels like this stayathome order is completely unnecessary. Blames the governor for continuing it. Heres a little bit more of what she told me. Absolutely, theres a way to open the beaches. First of all, statistically proven throughout our throughout our history, they dont quarantine healthy people. They quarantine the sick. Going to a beach, and we need to pass antibodies. We need to do that in order to get healthy. It doesnt matter when we open at this point. It doesnt matter. People are going to remain theyre going to continue to get a little bit sick. Its a flu, its a virus. Im following not media facts and not politician facts, im following what im seeing scientifically proven. Reporter and chuck, i just want to emphasize that a lot of that suspicion towards the media, towards Health Experts, towards politicians, its not unique to this protest. Its the same thing that we have been seeing now since the rise of donald trump. We saw it in the during the rallies. People dont want to believe anything that doesnt come out of his mouth. And even when they dont necessarily believe what he was saying, they give him a lot of leeway, a lot of space for it. And thats largely what were hearing at this protest here, as well. Chuck . We have to remember, we have a generation of government letting down the public, whether its on wmd, the great recession, or this. So skepticism at government, you have to understand why its out there. Its out there on the left and the right. And its going to on up even during pandemics. It is something, we have to remember the climate of the last generation and why that has probably complicated the ability of some people to trust certain elected officials. Lets move to new zealand, katy, where the Prime Minister has announced the government has stopped Community Transmission of the coronavirus. She says, we have won that battle, but we must remain vigilant if we are to keep it that way. There have been more than 1,400 cases and at least 19 deaths in new zealand due to the coronavirus. Sara james joins me now from melbourne, australia. But both australia and new zealand have been sort of cooperating. And even though, ideologically, you couldnt have more ideologically opposite leaders working so closely together, but being island nations, one would understand. Sarah, tell us the good news story out of both countries. And it is a good news story. And one thing to remember about this, chuck, is that these two countries are friendly rivals and they are great mates. And they definitely have been communicating and coordinating across the tasman. First to new zealand, both countries, actually, have shot down the borders. And thats been a big part of this success. And its something you can do when youre an island nation or an island content, as australia is. But another thing they did is that they were swift and decisive. The move happened in new zealand so quickly, chuck, that people were basically frozen in place. I talked to a woman today, a businesswoman, who was stuck in her holiday home. She said, it felt like getting out of purgatory. She was actually driving into her driveway, as i spoke to her, because she had been stuck for the month. But as a result of taking those strict measures, they really were able to stop the virus in its tracks. Another thing that they did, chuck, was that they held these daily news briefings. And they were a measure of like calm and compassion and understanding. I spoke to a University Student who told me, every day i watch jacinda and ashley, firstname basis. Its like they were your friends in the living room. And yet this is the Top Health Official and the Prime Minister of the country. Well, its a fascinating story, sara james. Thanks for reporting on it for us. For now, it is a reminder, citizens, katy tur, that live on an island are generally more open to collective action. Theres sort of this mindfulness that youre on an island and youre all kind of in this together. And it is interesting to me, whether its been singapore, new zealand, australia, we see that mindset and sometimes i wish america would remind itself, hey, lets act like an island, too anyway, katy. Reporter yeah, it would be nice. The island of manhattan, even though technically its not an island, has that same feeling and it certainly has over the past couple of months. Not even just manhattan, but all of new york city coming out and cheering on Health Workers at 7 00 every night. There is a feeling of togetherness. Lets talk more about what it looks like as states start to reopen businesses and what the summer could look like. The White House CoronavirusTask Force Coordinator dr. Deborah birx said that social distancing could last months. And if you look in the calendar, that brings you well into the summer. So lets go down to miami, florida, where we find nbc news correspondent sam brock. Sam, what have you heard from Business Owners down there about what social distancing looks like as they reopen and what the Summer Season gets underway. Reporter katy, tourism here in the miami area is an 18 billion industry. Theres 150,000 jobs attached to it. If youre any kind of business thats tethered to tourism, they are going to have to be working at reduced capacity, maybe in some cases, half of what they normally would. Lets talk for a second about where i am right now and why. Im at a marina in miamidade county. This is one of the governments that started opening things up. The marinas golf courses and parks here in miamidade will be open starting tomorrow, with restrictions, of course, youve got to wear a mask. The boats are at least 50 feet apart and you cant have more than 4 to 8 people on each boat. Im in the city of miami, where miami beach is still weigh its options. Iran desantis saying hes going to be announcing a blueprint for the state tomorrow. But this has been so far a slow transitional process, not what some expected from florida, when you look at other states, that has not happened here. I did have a conversation, as we talk about with hotels with a hotel owner in georgia. They have been given the green light. He is not opened yet. This is from the sea palms resort in st. Simons island, but he talked about what the reality is with social distancing this summer. I think well be running at a max. We could be maybe at 50 , but were building our model for the next few months on about a 30 capaci capacity. Reporter and the other aspect of that, he told me, is that the sanitization process has to be so intense, they are retraining all of their staff members, using highlevel oshaconfirmed sanitizers. Thats something going on there as well. In terms of what were seeing here in florida as we circle back right now, we are, again, waiting to find out how theyre going to be enforcing many of the details here, but this is kind of interesting, chuck and katy. Youve got 400 people who are out of work right now, who are either on security or some sort of persontoperson oversight that are going to be rehired to monitor distancing here. Not that theyre going to be doling out tickets or anything like that, but reminding folks exactly what they have to abide by, and if they flout the rules, then it goes to the police. It could but to 500 fine. Chuck and katy, back to you. Sam brock in miami, thanks. The beach aerials show, that looks like a bunch of people abiding by some social distancing guidelines here. Beach comers have been getting a lot of grief. We ought to praise them when we see them abiding by it, as well. Weve seen some states from coast to coast struggle to handle the crowds of americans getting unemployment benefits. Well focus in on california. It has seen the perfect storm of glitches over the past month. Its website has crashed. Its call centers were overwhelmed. Thats also happened in quite a few states. Lines of residents trying to apply in person have stretched along unemployment offices across the state, and that was before another group of workers could apply, one that includes gig workers, selfemployed, independent contractors, free lancers. That changes today. People that have never been able to file for unemployment before. Lets go to jo ling kent, joins us from california where the pressure is on to help these americans struggle to pay their bills. So joe, start with the first part here, which is the additional people that are eligible to file for unemployment, who have never been able to file before. Yeah, thats right. Its the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Program that is going into effect today here in california. Were talking about the selfemployed, the contract workers, the gig workers, and right now, the labor secretary here in california, she is working with their team 24 7 to get this information and infrastructure into place. Now, this comes as 3. 2 billion in uninsurance im sorry, Unemployment Insurance has been filed along with 3. 2 million claims. Now, this is a very large number. They continue to lead when it comes to unemployment claims, state by state. But california still very much struggling, because they have the seemingly universal problem of very Antiquated Software that the labor secretary says is very inflexible to fix. So, of course, we called up the Tech Companies. Intalked to executives at google and microsoft, who say they are working with states like california to try to update their systems. Now, the issue is, they cant put in a whole new system, given the demand on whats currently happening, right . So, instead, theyre adding technology. Were talking about chat bots, on the websites, when you try to file for your Unemployment Insurance, to get those claims, phone lines and cloud and artificial intelligence. So theyre trying to figure this out, as they go along. But its certainly a big challenge, considering the fact that were in california, the Tech Companies are here, and yet these systems are still so out of date and difficult to fix, chuck. Well, joe, i appreciate that you just wrapped up your report with that reminder that california is the home to basically every smart tech firm in the world. Anyway, jo ling kent with that report for us. Jo, thank you very much. Katy . The baton is yours. Reporter well, chuck, we are, again, in new jersey, there are over 100,000 confirmed cases of covid in new jersey, and the state is really right to ramp up testing. We just talked to that Rutgers University professor about the saliva tests. Lets bring in congresswoman Bonnie Watson coleman, who is representing the district that we are in right now in trenton. You voted for the second cares act, and you said it didnt go far enough. What else did you want to see in it . Well, were not getting down to the people who need the resources to continue to be safe and to be healthy and to take care of their families. Were not getting the ppe to the sort of front line people, other than the doctors and the nurses, which, you know, and the hospital workers that we really need to do that. But weve got transit workers and people who pick up our trash. Weve got people who are working in stores. They need to be protected, as well. We didnt give any money to the states, so without giving direct aid to the states, then those folks that we call heroes, those nurses in the state facilities, those Police Officers and all, they could get laid off. Tell us about that. Why was it not pushed to give money to the states, so the health care workers, ems, firefighters, cops get paid . Reporter well, we had a hard time getting the senate controlled by Mitch Mcconnell to look at this realistically as it relates to whos being hurt and how this economy will be hurt, because so many people will be left out of the support. But they dont seem to be able to see beyond the wealthy and the corporations. So we pushed nancy pelosi and the negotiators from our committees, all of our committee chairs, they have pushed. Whether its for the smallest of businesses or our nonprofits or just individuals. Getting that one check to individuals for 1,200 and 500 for their children, if theyre under the age of 17 . Thats nice, okay. But its got to continue until we get out of this. What can we expect to see Going Forward from congress . There are a lot of people who are suffering, a lot of people looking at the money youre talking about, that 1,200 saying, thats not enough. There are people who are trying to file for unemployment or not having success, but trying to file for sba loans and not having success. What do you foresee congress needing to do and for how long do you think youre going to need to end up supplementing the incomes for Everyday Americans . Well, in answer to the last question, i dont know how long. But i know that at the point that we declare that this episode, this actual pandemic is over, we still have to support families to get them through it and beyond. We need to fight for those individuals that are showing up every day so we can stay home. And we need to be giving them hazard pay. So we need to see essential worker definition expand. Essential worker pay expand. We need to protect even our federal employees who are not protected under the coronavirus bills, and protect the people from the tsos who work with the tsas are at the airports every day. Theyre on the front lines. Weve got to really look at supporting those at the very bottom, because they are the ones who spend the money to lift up our economy. And we cant open up our states or our cities until we do enough testing to really determine, katy, where is this virus and how extensive is it . You are on the same side as all of the Health Experts we talked to. We need more testing, more testing, more testing. Congressman, thank you so much for joining us. Let me just say one thing. One thing. You may hear in the capital of new jersey, this is the turning p