craig? >> kathy park for us there at the javits center, kathy, thank you. >>> let's go 20 miles east of where i'm standing now. ron allen is out on long island, and he's there because over the past 24/48 hours we have seen a remarkable spike in new cases there on long island as i understand it. ron? >> exactly, craig, the governor described this as lighting up on the map because there are so many new hospitalizations, new cases reported. and tragically more deaths reported. in suffolk county, for example, which is the farthest part out of long island, the biggest county in the state, three weeks ago there were no deaths. in the last couple of days there have been as many as 200 the county executive was telling us. that gives you an idea of the scale of what's been happening out here. and they're bracing for it. behind me you can see these blue tents, they're emergency tents. not using them yet but they're getting them ready for covid patients should the need arise. they've been trying to cre

thank you, craig. i just want to point out basically these testing sites, we have half of the patients or population coming back positive. this is an underserved community. if we go back thinking about hispanics live, we leave the grandma, uncles, everyone lives in the house as multi generational. these positive cases, we're sending them out into the community. we need to isolate the cases and place them into a nursing facility or wellness home or hotel, someone where they don't continue to reinfect this community. this is a very important part i want to teach you. just bringing to a basing point for earn to thiveryone to think. we need a place, welcome a coalition where we bring a solution to the problem. otherwise, how are we going to flatten the curve? >> and the cycle will continue. dr. pena, thank you for your time. internist by day but the last few weeks running the drive-up testing facility. we wanted to share with you reflections this morning from the front lines. medical workers who have for t

craig melvin here. we start today with that dire new assessment of where things stand in this pandemic. right now there are more than 189,000 known cases in our country. that's up 24,000 since i reported it at this exact moment yesterday. as of now, the virus has killed roughly 4,000 people. president trump just told the nation to prepare for an even more painful few weeks ahead. his task force now predicting that, even if we do everything right, even if we adhere to those social distancing guidelines, we could see more than 200,000 deaths by the time this whole thing is over. even as we do everything in our power to fight the virus, there's a different massive task at hand for our government right now as well. the u.s. census starts today. it hapts jupens just once a dec. it gives us the critical information that our government uses even in times of crisis like this to figure out how much help each state needs. in a few moments, stacey abrams will join us to talk about how this pandemic has made it har

craig melvin here. it is 6:00 on the east coast now. and right now, the white house coronavirus task force is meeting behind closed doors in the situation room, we're told. we just learned moments ago, we will be getting a live briefing from that task force, roughly an hour from now, 7:00 eastern. the team, the coronavirus task force team, now warning they are especially concerned about colorado, washington, d.c., and pennsylvania, over the next two weeks, i'll talk to the mayor of pittsburgh about how he is getting his city ready, especially as of right now, more than 330,000 of our neighbors and family members have tested positive for coronavirus in the united states. the virus has killed more than 9,460 americans, today the u.s. surge general warning it is going to be a hard week, and he said this coming week will be a pearl harbor, or our 9/11 moment. let's bring in the pa"washingto post" correspondent and msnbc contributor and health and human services, nasa and the white house. ann i will start you with. we will hear from the task

craig? >> all right, stand by again. about 100,000 people going back to work there in minnesota. let's head to pennsylvania now. pennsylvania is reopening state liquor stores for the first time in more than a month. nbc's mara barrett is on the ground, in exton, about 40 minutes outside philadelphia. mara, the state opening most of its fine wine and good spirits stores or curbside pickup, online ordering and delivery. what's been the response there so far? i think i've got a pretty good idea. >> reporter: good morning, craig. and so pennsylvania's interesting, these stores are the only places you can get liquor. when they shut down in mid-march the governor said they were nonlife sustaining businesses. pennsylvaniians disagreed. today they're able to call in, place their order, give their credit card information and show up at stores like these, they pull up, get out of the car, and tell the server here, as the doors are partially reopened and they're able to take their liquor with them that

detectives put her fiance craig thru the wringer. but his story including about his last text to brandy checked out. >> within two or three days we were sure that he was cleared. >> reporter: but craig wasn't a total dead end. the fiance did have a tip for the detectives. he told them they should check out a fellow gym rat of josh daniels, a guy who gave brandy the creeps, someone with an unusual first name, sirius. sirius e. underwood. when they ran the name, investigators found a son of a local preacher, who'd had some juvenile offenses but in the years since had redeemed himself. he graduated from zane state, got a good job with a local manufacturer and seemed to charm every woman he met. four days into their investigation, detective brady hittle found sirius at a girlfriend's place. >> i asked him if i could look at his cell phone. if i could take it back to the office, and download it. he agreed to let me do that. >> how'd he present himself? >> calm. >> he claimed he didn't know brandy was killed. just calm, cool, and collected

>> craig, it's good to be with you. i'm not sure going to the senate is a promotion or demotion, but we are working hard to try to address the coronavirus. i heard secretary mnuchin say we needed another $250 billion for the small business program. i think many of us said earlier that that program, among others, would require more resources. but there are also additional programs that require additional resources right now, which is why senator schumer and speaker pelosi this morning put forward our emergency supplemental plan that includes additional funds for the small business program. also, we want to make sure those funds are really get together the small businesses and not just being eaten up by the bigger businesses, the ones with a lot more people. we want to make sure it gets down to the community. we also need more funds for the hospitals and nursing homes and others. finally, i just got off the phone with many of our maryland local officials and they're out on the front lines here. we've also proposed additio

>> that's right, craig. our single graeft it weapon against this virus right now seems to be staying at home. the big question has been how are we going to stay at home and how well are we doing it? are there places that aren't able to for some reason. how can policy officials and public health workers considering how to flatten the curve. a generation ago, it would have been impossible to find that out. all over the world big tech companies are helping put together a way for following the trends in how we move around. they're doing it using the data on our phones. when you and i look up directions on something like google maps, it turns out that information is incredibly valuable to policymakers and health officials. this week apple announced it is joining both google's project that is going to be giving aggregate data to health officials and to the general public so they can begin figuring things out. for instance, according to google which did a report back in the beginning of april, they were looking at

there are a couple of headlines that came out of this, craig. the javits center was a federal resource as well, and it worked in conjunction with the "comfort." most of the more severe covid patients were being treated on board the "comfort," and then the javits center handled the less severe covid patients. in total, once again, 182 patients, the majority of those were covid positive, but all them were discharged on sunday, and we were told that a lot of them either were discharged to their homes or to nearby hospitals, craig. >> all right. kathy park for us there outside the "usns comfort." kathy, thank you. we talk a lot about how tough this virus can be to deal with and how it's disrupted so many aspects of our daily lives. but we don't often get a chance to talk about the ways it can be treated. today there is a big sign of hope on that front in particular. it's a medicine in trial that even dr. anthony fauci is excited about. >> it's the first step in what we project will be better and better drugs coming along, either alone or in combinat

>> well, good morning, craig. as you'll remember, the last time we were together, i was critical of one piece of the aid package, and that one piece was the $500 billion to large corporations like united airlines and boeing and others. my point at that time was we ought to be prioritizing that money towards small businesses. well, here we are. it turns out that we needed a lot more money to go to small businesses, almost $500 billion worth. so i applaud congress forgetting more money to small businesses. it's what should have happened in the first place. unfortunately, $4 trillion worth of stimulus is important. it's vital. what these unemployment claims tell us is there's just economic devastation. but prioritization still matters. big companies have a lot of tools available to them that small businesses an working families don't. so we should continue to prioritize money to small businesses and working families and individuals and hospitals and testing, not big corporations who have the wherewithal to get throug

craig melvin here in new york city. all week we've been reporting from various locations in the metro area. we were, of course, in central park on monday at that mobile field hospital. we were at the usns comfort. we were also at the fdny ems station 7 yesterday, and we were in long island at the mobile drive-through testing facility. this morning we're on fifth avenue, one of the most famous avenues in this country, typically teaming with tourists on this holiday weekend. as you can see, this has been the case over the past few weeks since the pandemic started. streets largely empty. behind me you can see one of new york city's buses also empty. behind me st. patrick's cathedral. we're here on this good friday. st. patrick's was finished in 1879. on a weekend like this, the holiest of weekends for christians, it would be packed. a striking visual here to show you on this friday morning. this was easter at st. patrick's just last year. and this is the scene this morning. right now the doors still closed, as they have be

>> we'd be in much better shape, craig. back when i took over as secretary we didn't really have our public health system was not in very good shape. then 9/11 came. right after that, anthrax and then sars. and we went to congress and congress is very supportive, and george w. bush was as well. we got plenty of money to build up the public health service system, tremendously. and we expanded the strategic sites where medical supplies from eight to 12. and then at the end, after going through sars, anthrax, monkeypox, bird flu and 9/11, i put out a pandemic plan with dr. fauci and had a press conference in march of 2005 and said what i feared the most was a virus coming in and paralyzing the world and causing a lot of trouble, a lot of deaths and having something that we really did not know about, and that's exactly what has taken place. i said what we really have to do is never go back to the situation it was when i took over in 2001. or the country would be in a very serious situation. we had to put supplies in a strategic

>> craig, it's devastating in a word. over the last two weeks, if you total the numbers, it's about 10 for unemployment claims across the country. the states the hardest hit, pennsylvania, massachusetts, texas, california, and every single state has been negatively affected by this. we've been talking to people inside the unemployment offices who are helping process these claims trying to get you your unemployment check. they've been simply overwhelmed. we've talked to agencies that have doubled their staff. their staff is working from home and they're trying to process all of this. just to give you the perspective on how bad this is in terms of the sheer numbers, at the peak of the financial crisis, the jobless claim we saw, the largest was 650,000. today we got 6.5 million. this is a story of hurt for so many americans out there, reflective of the massive layoffs across the board when it comes to theest are raunt industry, retail and everywhere in between. but this pain really hurts. what we do know talking so far, talk

>> reporter: hey, craig. the question that so many business owners across the state of tennessee are asking themselves is how do we open and how do we open safely. the people that we have spoken to, they tell us that it is not an easy decision, reopening, and at this point most business owners tell us they're trying to take things day by day. we are at a boutique. it's actually run by a non-profit focused on helping women who have recently left rehab facilities. they learn how to sew and make handbags and jewelry and they sell it from this store. this store has stopped doing pretty much everything in person in recent weeks. they did switch their business model to making cloth face masks to try to help health care workers and provide those to members of the community who might want them. i'll hope the door up for you so you can see. they actually kept the manufacturing side of their business open throughout all of this. they've limited the number of employees coming in. you can see them in here. they are weari

. >> that's all for this edition of "dateline," i'm craig melvin, thank you for watching. >>> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >> horrible, knowing the person you love is dead and you're being looked at for it. >> imagine you're shaken in the dead of night. >> my ears were ringing, i thought i was dreaming. >> in bed next to you, your husband murdered. >> hard to get that one out of your head, isn't it? >> yeah. >> and here's the twist, you're the suspect. >> worst feeling to hear you're being blamed for your husband's death. >> could she have been the killer? or was someone keeping a secret? >> i said what do you do, what did you do? >> i don't know. >> just the truth. >>> hello and welcome to "dateline," the stuff of nightmares, intruder comes into bedroom in middle of the night and opens fire. for patricia oxley, the bad dream was all too real. she told prosecutors she had been awakened from her sleep to find her husband ben dead from a gunshot blast. strange that nobody else was injured even patricia, sleeping by his side. here's keith morriso

>> craig, it's devastating. we know from the small business association, a small business closes every single minute. something that's hugely important that i don't think is getting talked about, we're addressing corona from a health perspective, who u to live with it for the next year. from an economic perspective, even this paycheck program, the holy grail if you get it, it only lasts two months. two months from now we'll be right back where we started. if you live in south carolina, in a beach town, a seasonal town. if you don't get that business and your business is not up and running this summer or only up and running at a limited capacity, come this fall we could see an enormous portion of our be loved small businesses be gone for good. >> stephanie ruhle, our senior business correspondent, also, of course, a host on msnbc. thanks, as always, for that perspective. >> thank you. >>> meanwhile florida governor ron desantis meeting with president trump. that meeting happening at the white house. let's go ther

craig melvin here. we want to start this hour by getting you up to date with the latest facts as we know them. we have crossed a terrible threshold in this pandemic now. we have now lost more than 50,000 fellow americans to this virus, and for some perspective, that's approaching the number of americans we lost in the entire two decades of the vietnam war which was more than 58,000. about 30 minutes from now we'll hear from new york governor andrew cuomo in his daily briefing. meanwhile, in d.c. about an hour from now, president trump will be signing that nearly $500 billion plan for coronavirus relief that just passed congress. that bill will help small businesses. it will also help hospitals and expand testing as well. also this morning, some states including georgia and texas are starting to reopen parts of their economies, but there are some major concerns that it may be too soon to go back to business as usual. this hour, we're putting the sharp focus on texas, and we're doing that with our colleag

>> reporter: craig, a number of new steps going into effect today. i'm standing outside of this walmart store here in atlanta. walmart along with sam's club and kroger are all stores that as of today are requiring employees to wear some sort of face covering, some sort of a mask when they report to work. on top of that kroger is also implementing temperature checks for employees at some of their stores, and sam's and walmart, while they're not requiring shoppers to cover their faces, they are strongly recommending that they do so before coming into the stores. so, yeah, absolutely some of the changes that you're going to be seeing. but you're going to be seeing some other changes. you talked about those empty shelves across grocery stores across the country, we're already seeing some of those, specifically when it comes to the meat aisle. the national grocers association is saying you can expect to see products temporarily low or out of stock while the food supply chain works to catch up. two reasons. one, experts are concerned about panic buying, pe

i'm craig melvin. yes, it is wednesday. we want to start this hour by getting you up to date with the latest facts. right now there are more than 809,000 known cases of coronavirus in the united states. that's more than 24,000 cases -- more than 24,000 more cases since i came to you this hour yesterday. so far more than 44,000 americans have died. roughly 30 minutes from now we'll hear from new york governor andrew cuomo. he'll be providing the daily briefing. this morning the governor doubling down on the order for new yorkers that wear face coverings in public. meanwhile over on capitol hill, another round of coronavirus relief has passed the senate. that bill now heads to the house. we're going to have a little more on how the legislation would help some -- would provide some $500 billion money for small businesses. all of this while governors in the south are trying to help businesses in their own ways by pulling back restrictions. the cdc director says officials need to stress the importance of social distancing and th

>>> craig melvin here at station 7 in new york city. we're highlighting this morning the work our officers, firefighters, emts are all doing on the front lines here. they have an enormous task. in addition to being the first ones to rush out and save lives, they've been hit by this coronavirus especially hard. just moments ago some new numbers in. 597 members of the fdny have tested positive for coronavirus. nearly 600 members of the fdny. while that is an eye-popping number, the figure is likely much higher because that's firefighters and emergency medical workers, they can't get tests either. this is station 7. you can see the ambulances lined up here. these are the folks who rush out when that 911 call comes in. in the next 30 minutes we've gotten word we'll be getting the daily briefing from new york governor andrew cuomo. we'll get the latest information from new york state. meanwhile, here in the united states it was the second deadliest day of covid-19 so far. so far nearly 15,000 americans have died, more than 432,000 known case

craig. >> all right. morgan radford, thank you so much for that. >>> congresswoman ayanna pressley joins me now, democratic from massachusetts. congresswoman, thank you so much for your time this morning. i understand you've written a letter, along with senators booker, senators warren, senator kamala harris as well. you wrote this letter, as i understand it, and you correct me if i'm wrong here, to the secretary of health and human services. tell me more about the letter, what you and your fellow lawmakers hope to accomplish. >> well, we wrote that letter on march 27 because history has shown us that in the face of combating any virus, that communities of color are disproportionately impacted. we saw that with h1n1. of course, we know communities are color represent a more vulnerable group because they also represent many of those underlying conditions that put someone at risk. so on march 27th, myself, senator warren, harris, booker respectively sent a letter to health and human services to collect data

craig melvin here from corona queens, new york. this is the epicenter of the epicenter, if you will. some 30,000 cases in queens alone. 10,000 people in queens have been hospitalized. we are right now standing here in front of a pop-up -- basically a pop-up food distribution center that's been set up here. i want to give you a view -- this is a view on the ground. i want to give you a view from the sky. you can really see the size and scope of the line that started to form at 5:30 this morning. folks have been in line for foot here 5 1/2 hours. last week they had enough food for 750 families. this week they brought more food, enough for 1,000 families. we're told they will likely run out of food once again. this is one of, if not the hardest hit communities right now dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. we'll have a little more on exactly what they're doing here in just a moment, but before we get to all of that, we want to get you caught up on the facts. right now more than 670,000 known coronavirus cases here in the united stat

craig melvin coming to you from a very different final square here in the heart of new york city. you can look behind me because usually you've got roughly 380,000 people who are walking through times square on any normal given day, eating, shopping, just walking about. that, of course, not the case today. it hasn't been the case for more than three weeks now since the governor issued the stay-at-home order for new york state. in addition to it being just a major hub for shopping and tourism, it is also a major transit hub. in fact, that's the times square 42nd street subway station. on a given day, about 180,000 riders. ridership down for the mta, metro transit authority, down about 90% year to year. nonetheless, transit workers are showing up every day, not just the train drivers, but the bus drivers as well. coronavirus, covid-19 has hit them especially hard. more than 60 of them have died. 2,000 have tested positive. more than 5,000 are in quarantine right now. in just a few moments i'm going to talk to the head of the union about covid-19's especially brutal effect on his wor

we've got savannah working from home craig here in studio 1a. isn't that fun, you guys, to see our little plaza come to life again? >> yes, keep them coming. >> i love seeing our crowd we want to hear from you you get extra credit if there's a cute baby like that or a cute animal come as you are. share your shoutouts use twitter or instagram put #mytodayplaza, we would love to put you on the air. >> let's get to our news at 8:00 craig, three things we're watching. announce new guidelir governors to help states start th >>> the white house is expected to announce new guidelines for governors to start the process of easing stay at home restrictions and reopening businesses. >> we'll be opening up states, some states much sooner than others, and we think some of the states can actually open up before the deadline of may 1st. >> dr. deborah birx, a member of the coronavirus task force is urging all americans to continue practicing social distancing here's the second thing we're watching, in new york, a tough new measure to stop the spread of the vir

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i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. . i'm craig melvin. and i'm natalie morales. >>> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >> hopelessness. you know, where did she go? who did she see? i just want to know what happened to my sister. >> a young mother is missing in a case gone cold. >> it was so important to me to know the truth behind that evening. >> then detectives had an aha moment. to solve the case, they would attorney something you probably use every day -- facebook. >> why don't you establish a facebook account? i thought, that could actually accomplish a great deal. >> and that's when everything started to change. >> something happened to her. >> in court, you'll see it all come pouring out. a hidden crime and a son's heart-pounding moment. >> that's okay. this is a horrible crime. i'm glad we know the truth. >>> carol lubon was a restless young mom with two kids when she vanished from her southern california home. heartbroken, her loved ones assumed she'd left to start a new lif as years passed w

craig? >> how many egging are you guys eating, man? >> well, you know, i got -- hey, i got almost 18-year-old here. >> okay. >> okay? >> okay. all right. mr. roker, thank you. >>> up next, something you have to see how jimmy fallon and the roots help sting perform his most fitting hit for these days of social distancing. >>> also, camilla mcconaughey standing by as well. but first, this is "today" on nbc. what we do now will forever change our tomorrow. so let's do the right thing, today. let's stay at home. let's wash up. let's always keep our distance - please, six feet apart at least. let's look after ourselves, as well as others. it will all be worth it. we can all do our part. so those on the front line can do their part. and when this is over, we will all, continue, to thrive. it is 8:35 we're missing carson but "pop start" must go on. savannah, get us started >> i know. i'm going to channel carson piping hot "pop start" in my hands. "the tonight show" we've seen jimmy's doing the show from home with his two daughters doesn't mea

craig spencer did recover from that harrowing experience. a the few months later he wrote about being on the front lines of that viral outbreak. he said as a clinician and epidemiologist, i've worked in places just miles from active conflict and managed to grow used to the sight of soldiers and sunday of gunfire. this makes me uneasy. that is ebola. dr. craig spencer is on the front lines again in new york fighting coronavirus. this is how he describes his days now. walk in for your 8:00 a.m. shift. you mask up, walk in. nearly every patient is the same, cough, shortness of breath, fever. you're notified of another real li ly sick patient. patients both in the rooms next to each other both getting breathing tubes. it not even 10:00 a.m. yet. you're afraid to actake off the mask. it the only thing that protects you. in africa you spent hours in a hot suit without water. one more patient. joining us now is dr. craig spencer. he's a new york city emergency room doctor and the director of global health. thank you for making time to be with us. >

craig melvin here, al and sheinelle working at home. before we get started, we should mention s jones that al roker is taking over news stands. early day is next week that means al is featured in not one but two magazines. ladies and gentlemen, you can see him in sunday's "parade" wearing his easter suit there, and he's also in this week's "people. "people" magazine as well, al roker. that's a first even for you. >> thank you very mu

craig melvin in studio 1a, al and sheinelle rking at home. may not feel like spring but we're trying to do our part in the third hour to bring the season indoors you've got the spring graphic behind me, behind al roker as well al, certainly didn't look like spring outside your window. >> no, it didn't woke up this morning, and we had a couple o

craig melvin here from queens, new york. just to recap really quickly what we heard from the governor there, governor cuomo indicating that intubations are down statewide, hospitalizations are down. nonetheless, more than 480 people died yesterday in new york state. governor cuomo heading from the briefing in buffalo, headed down to washington for that meeting with president trump this afternoon at 4:00. we got what appeared to be a bit of a preview of that meeting. governor cuomo saying he's going to be talking to president trump among other things about testing, how to best do it, who is responsible for certain aspects of it. testing, testing, testing. back here in queens from front of elmhurst hospital, we're here because this continues to very much be the epicenter of the covid-19 crisis in new york. elmhurst one of the zip codes -- sits in one of the zip codes with the most cases in new york city. we heard stories a few weeks ago from inside this hospital which has been overwhelmed with patients constantly fighting for

savannah, craig and hoda? >> peter alexander in washington there for us, thank you. >>> update of the brutal economic impact, unemployment numbers today even as congress finishes work on another relief bill. nbc's tom costello joins us with the latest on that part of the story. tom, good morning. >> craig, good morning. already, 22 million people have -- the numbers are concerning. 4.4 million applied for unemployment benefits last week alone. already had 22 million having filed in the previous five weeks. now the number is very high indeed, and it is likely to be an underestimate for how many people are really out of work. the numbers growing by the week. this morning the u.s. economy is bracing for more bad news with new unemployment numbers out showing another 4.4 million workers filed last week, bringing total number of americans seeking benefits to more than 26 million since states began shutting down to stop the spread of the virus. meantime congress expected to president trump saying he'll sign it once

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i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. . i'm craig melvin. and i'm natalie morales. >>> i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline." >> hopelessness. you know, where did she go? who did she see? i just want to know what happened to my sister. >> a young mother is missing in a case gone cold. >> it was so important to me to know the truth behind that evening. >> then detectives had an aha moment. to solve the case, they would attorney something you probably use every day -- facebook. >> why don't you establish a facebook account? i thought, that could actually accomplish a great deal. >> and that's when everything

craig melvin: young girls were being murdered. i can't imagine sending my daughter off to school and never seeing her again.

i was listening to sir craig 0liver, whom we both know from oui’ craig 0liver, whom we both know from our tv days. he said that he detected this idea when dominic raab was speaking, this lockdown could go ona was speaking, this lockdown could go on a lot longer than three weeks. is that what you got as well, that this might not be over by seven may? the honest answer that question is i don't believe the government knows the future holds beyond the end of this week. and you have to say that they are worried sick that it might imply something, promise something, then fail hopelessly to deliver it. where are this hundred thousand tests that they say at the moment that they have the capacity for 30,000 tests, and we are going to be at 100,000 by the end of the month? really? we shall see. but the truth is there is real uncertainty within government. and you know, increasingly there is a team of — i met michael gove during the referendum campaign, questioning our reliance. and here we are again we are relying on experts in the medical communities, when public inquiry that follows this qu

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craig, good morning. good to see you. >> hey, good to see you, too the first thing we're watching on this friday morning the soaring number of cases across the globe. worldwide that number has now topped 1 million people and the virus has spread to at least 181 countries. about 24% of those cases are right here in the united states. the second thing we're watching, the senior trump administration official telling nbc news some new guidance is coming today, guidance advising americans who live in areas of high community transmission to wear cloth masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. that measure has already been taken by the mayors of new york city and los angeles here is the third thing we're watching the white house still resisting calls for a nationwide stay-at-home order overnight health official dr. anthony fauci weighed in on the need for a blanket policy. >> the tension between federally mandated versus states rights to do what they want is something i don't want to get into if you look a

it's all got time for, doctor craig spencer. we stay safe. doctor craig spencer live us in new york. let's get some of the day's other news. the acting secretary of the navy in the united states, thomas modly, has resigned after criticism of his handling of a crisis in which the commander of a ship stricken by coronavirus was removed from his post. on sunday, mr modly told the crew of the aircraft carrier that captain brett crozier was too naive or too stupid to remain in command. voters in wisconsin are facing long queues to cast their ballot as the state's presidential primary goes ahead despite concerns over the coronavirus outbreak. in the city of milwaukee, only 5 out of 180 polling stations are open due to a shortage of volunteer workers. national guard troops are assisting instead. wisconsin, like most us states, has imposed a stay—at—home order on its residents. the co—founder of twitter, jack dorsey, says he's committing $1 billion of his personal fortune to coronavirus relief through his philanthropic fund. mr dorsey says the

and i'm craig melvin. and this is dateline on mynetworktv. when they tell you your life passes before your eyes? you think about everything that happened in your life and, you wonder am i ready to die? craig melvin: he was a hollywood stuntman, but this was no hollywood stunt. this was a hit. craig melvin: shot four times and left dying on the floor. mark gayman: somebody definitely wanted him dead. craig melvin: but who and why? you'll meet lots of possible suspects. garrett warren: oh, my gosh. craig melvin: including his ex-wife, an actress once married to movie mobster, joe pesci. but she had a strong alibi. do you know who shot garrett warren? i don't know.

craig spencer did recover from that harrowing experience. a few months later he wrote about being on the front lines of that viral outbreak. he said, "as a clinician and epidemiologist i've worked in place just miles from active conflict and managed to grow used to the sight of soldiers and active began-fire but this microscopic virus and invisible enemy made me uneasy." that was ebola, which he survived. now that same doctor, dr. craig spencer, is on the front lines again, this time in new york, fighting coronavirus. here's how he describes his days now. "walk in for your 8:00 a.m. shift there's a cacophony of coughing, you stop, mask up, walk in. nearly every patient is the same, young and old, cough shorktsness of breath, fever. you're notified of another really sick patient. they need to be put on life support. two patients in rooms right next to each other both getting breathing tubes. it's not even 10:00 a.m. yet. "you're afraid to take off the mask. it's the only thing that protects you. surely you can last a little longer. in west af

craig melvin: it's a mystery with a mind boggling twist.

i'm craig melvin. >> i'm natalie morales. >> and this is "dateline". ♪ >>> this was an insane world i was living in. i did what i had to do. >> what if you were ripped away from your family? >> you live in fear. it changes you. >> kidnapped by a killer. >> i came out of that just really messed up. >> held for years as a prisoner. and what if prosecutors never believe you? >> bobbi parker was not the woman she was portraying herself to be -- >> absolutely not. >> tonight, a mystery with a mind-boggling twist. this wife and mom taken hostage. was she really a hostage at all? >> their relationship was not one of kidnapper and victim. it was one of husband and wife. >> his prisoner or his lover? >> i really do love you. sounds like a pretty heartfelt love letter. >> in this hour she shares her side of the story. will you believe her? let us know on the dateline chat >> i was fighting for my life. >>> hello. welcome to "dateline". i'm craig melvin. bobbi parker was a prison officials life, a teacher leadi

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hoda kotb. >> all right, craig. thank you. just ahead, olympic legend michael phelps on the impact of a delayed olympics and how the battle of the coronavirus, how it strains your mental health. but first this is "today" on step by step, we're going to figure this out. we're gonna find a way through this. we're working really, really hard in hospitals, our nurses are techs, all the docs. it's about staggering when people get sick so that the hospitals can cope. we're gonna go through an awful lot of these all across puget sound. people have been stepping up and donating personal protective equipment. we stay at work.for you. you stay at home for us. just no know we're all with you. thank you,thank you so much. thank you doctors & nurses s >>> we are back, coming up on 8:40 >>> we are back, coming up on 8:40 with perspective of an unparalleled athlete on an unprecedented situation. in a moment we're going to talk to michael phelps on the postponement of the olympics, how it impacts athletes who have trained their whole life fir

savannah >> all right, craig. thank you. good news for british prime minister boris johnson, he's heading home, released from the hospital where he was being treated for the coronavirus and had three days in intensive care "today's" senior national correspondent keir simmons in london witrts this morning that keir, good morning to you >> reporter: savannah, good morning. reports this morning that boris johnson may not be back at work for several weeks, and that this country may be one of the hardest hit in europe. but there is also in the uk huge pride in the national health service, many of where doctors and nurses are not from britain, which saved the lives of the british prime minister. >> a glimpse of boris johnson leaving the hospital reunited with his pregnant fiancee. first a video message unlike any seen from a political leader doctors and nurses saved my life, he said. >> it's hard to find words to express my debt. >> prime minister praising jenny and louise from portugal who cared for him overnight, where it could

craig melvin here. we have reached a new milestone in this crisis. more than 1 million known coronavirus cases worldwide. any minute now new york governor andrew cuomo will be holding that daily press briefing about the escalating situation in his state. he now says that the javits center, that convention center, that massive convention center originally intended for non-covid patients will now be treating people who have the virus. the governor also warning at the current burn rate, new york will be using every ventilator it has in just six days' time. we're also continuing to track the surge in cases across the country. right now there are more than 246,000 known cases in the united states. that's more than 29,000 cases than this time yesterday. so far, the virus has killed nearly 6,000 americans. let's go right to nbc's ron allen. ron is at mt. sinai hospital in new york city where medical professionals there are still begging for more supplies. ron, what are you hearing from those workers there at mt. sinai? >> reporter: a lot of emotion, craig,

i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. i'm craig melvin thank you for watching >>> what evidence doesn't lie? it actually tells a story. >> you're there at the crime scene. >> you can almost recreate the crime. >> right there on the wall, a mystery scrawled in blood. three cryptic letters. what would you make of this? >> is that a word? is that a person? >> the clues pointed to so many directions that it was a mystery. >> the case, the murder of a former model and flight attendant. >> when she got dolled up, oh my god, gorgeous. >> did she write these letters?, is this a hint? s to who killed her. >> this is a message saying this is my killer. >> like you would see in a movie. ll >> and the ending, that was just like a movie, too. >> i can't believe what people do to each other. ♪ hello, welcome to "dateline." >> roc, in this case, those three letters would tell a story all their own. when karen pannell was found murdered in her south florida home, the letters scrawled in blood above her body seemed like a beacon that co

craig melvin joins us from pier 90 where the "comfort" is docked for now. what is the navy saying about the crew member and how that might impact their operations? >> we can tell you that the navy says that the crew member's condition won't impact the mission at all. we can also tell you that at last check, that the staffer who tested positive for covid-19 is in isolation. those who came in contact with that person who tested positive, they are also, some of them, regardless of the outcome of their test, they're being kept in isolation as well out of an abundance of caution. a lot of folks have probably seen the "comfort," but we'll give you one more look here. this was a one-time oil rig. it's been positioned here for the last few days. initially, this ship was not going to be accepting patients who tested positive for coronavirus. that all changed on monday at the request of governor cuomo. governor cuomo asked the president to change the ship's mission, to allow covid patients to come on board. the president agreed. we do not know at this point whether a