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At least 22 meat processing plants already shut down in this country. 6,500 infections among workers. again tonight, matt gutman. >> reporter: tonight, a first glimpse inside a meat packing plant. workers crowded shoulder to shoulder at a george's poultry plant in arkansas. you can see them pushing through that plastic sheeting, masks down, no social distancing. worker advocates say this was shot just this week. and here at a tyson plant in early april, workers sitting around open tables. but this is what tyson, which says it's committed to protecting its workers, says break rooms look like no...

Tonight, as the u.s. death toll now nears 63,000. we're across this country tonight with several states set to reopen, but how do you do it without risking a second wave of the outbreak? this evening, some states, including illinois still several days from their peak. american families, workers in dire need of help. the new numbers tonight. 3.8 million unemployment claims in the last week. now 30 million americans since this started. tonight, workers who have filed for unemployment but still haven't heard. we're with one worker, the error message she received just today. and what if you're...

They say his removal from that post was retaliation, plain and simple. and they want to see him reinstated. >> terry, thank you. there are real concerns about the food lines in the country. the father of three waiting in two lines today, still not getting any food to put on the table. and the virus, and the growing impact on the food supply. tyson foods suspending operations at one of the largest meat processing plants in the country. nearly 200 infections linked to that one facility alone. here again tonight, matt gutman. >> reporter: they're crammed bumper to bumper from ohio to west palm ...

Ends. juana has not been able to figure out what detention center he is in, what processing center he is in. at this point she's run into nothing but dead ends. she has not heard from him since his workplace, one of those meat processing plants, one of the seven that was raided around the jackson area last wednesday. so we're going now, brianna, on almost a week since she last spoke with him. so many other people in the community have either gotten a phone call or have been reunited with their loved ones who were detained during that raid because they were released for various reasons. she sti...

Workplace enforcement operations. >> the directive comes after 680 people were detained at seven meat processing plants in mississippi. these factories, they're the economic epicenter for these communities with so many now unemployed, the entire region is feeling the effects. cnn nick valencia has this. >> reporter: 680 undocumented immigrants detained on the outskirts of jackson, mississippi, all workers from food processing plants in what the u.s. attorney here called the largest single state operation in i.c.e. history. >> now, while we are a nation of immigrants, more than that, we are fir...