willie? >> meanwhile, a senior administration official is telling nbc news the white house is expected to announce a new advisory, a national advisory, that americans living in coronavirus hot spots should wear cloth face masks. officials say the expected move is aimed at reducing the risk that the virus could be spread by people who are infected but do not show any symptoms. initial cdc guidelines advised americans against wearing masks unless they were health care workers or if they were already infected. during yesterday's white house briefing, president trump said the advisory would not be mandatory. >> i think they're going to be coming out with regulations on that. if people want to abide by them, frankly, i don't think they'll be mandatory, because some people don't want to do that. but if people want -- as an example, if people wanted to wear them, they can. if people wanted to use scarves, which they have, many people have them, they can. in many cases, the scarf is better. it's thic

willie. i saw a headline, a headline that's hard to read, from the "la times" this morning, that the u.s. death toll topped 16,000 from the coronavirus. >> incredible. >> this is, again, more people than died at 9/11 plus a 20-year war in afghanistan. plus the tragedy in iraq. add it all up, more americans have died from this than all those wars. this is what donald trump said back on february 26th. when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be close to zero, that's a pretty good job that we've done. 15 people. pretty soon, it will be close to zero. we've done a pretty good job. throughout february, he kept talking about how, in april, we were going to have warm weather, and it was all going to magically go away. well, now we're in april, and almost 1,800 people died yesterday of coronavirus, of a pandemic that he said would magically go away in april. yet, as the "wall street journal," and actually other conservatives are now starting to say, the president is hur

willie geist here. we saw some breathtaking numbers from the white house nationally, projections of deaths in this country and a best case scenario. let's take that down to the state level in florida. you say you're prepared, you say you're ready. what are you expecting in terms of numbers? are you expecting scenes like we're seeing in new york city hospitals right now? how are you looking at this? >> well, willie, if you're talking to me, i'll speak for dr. katz. >> take it, dr. campbell. >> i'm sorry, go ahead. >> all of -- >> all of the facilities are increasing -- >> go, dr. dave. go, dr. dave. >> down here in florida. >> go ahead. everybody listen to me really quickly. i'm going to be traffic cop here. dr. katz, you go first and then we'll have dr. dave respond. what are you expecting, dr. katz? >> again, i think we're in the very early innings down here in south florida. we've taken some measures down here, the governor has put some things in place in south florida that, as you mentioned, he's not

it is just absolutely tragic, willie. our thoughts and prayers are with him, as well as the british people. of course, with those doctors and nurses in new york city and across the country right now literally fighting for their lives and for the lives of their patients. >> yeah. we hope the prime minister has a speedy recovery. we'll have more on that story and details. you're right, joe. think about how quickly this has consumed our lives. we look back at the failings of the governments, state at federal levels. when you think of the human cost of this, the human impact it's had, it's shown there in a month time, the prime minister b bragging about shaking hands with coronavirus patients. one month later to the day, please don't do what i did. it seems quaint, but not long ago we were discussing whether or not to keep the schools open to the end of the school year. whether to have the ncaa basketball tournament. i don't think anybody, going back a couple months, understood how big and consuming this crisis was going to b

willie? >> gene, on the question of a national testing program, the health minister of germany this morning said, quote, we have it under control. which means they'll start to open some small shops in germany. they'll send kids back to school on may 4th. the way they're doing it is through testing. they had a national testing program. they get out 560,000 tests a week in germany. isolation, obviously, a month of isolation, complete national lockdown, combined with testing, got them where they are today. they said it is fragile. as they send people back out, they'll make 50 million masks a week as a kucountry so people cover up and don't spread it again. there is a national push there. it is based in testing. that's how one country, i understand it's not as big as the united states. 83 million people in germany. a pretty darn big country now getting back to life because of a national testing program and a national lockdown. >> yeah. for the love of all that's holy, testing. testing is what we

willie, when do these people learn? donald trump's gut was this is magically going to go away in february. this is magically going to go away. we have 15 cases. it can go down to zero. april, it'll magically go away. we're going to have, probably by the end of next week, more people dead from covid-19 than died in the entire vietnam tragedy. in the entire vietnam war, more americans dead from covid-19. this thing he said would magically go away in april. then we have the president magically say, "this drug, i know nothing about this drug. but my gut just tells me." like his gut told him it'd magically go away, "my gut tells me this drug is going to do greatme great." it killed vets. find out it's not working. he actually fired somebody because they wouldn't promote it -- >> we'll get to that. >> he wouldn't promote it in the way fauci said from the beginning, we have to do clinical trials. he had a gut feeling. he was wrong. his gut feeling now is that it's not going to come back in the fall. when, in fact, as we've sai

willie? >> and i think it is important to point out the false choice that's being put out. if people will say, what'd you want the president to do when he heard these president's daily briefs? did you want him to shut down the economy? no. what the intelligence community, and what public health experts were telling him at the time, and what they wanted him to do was start what jon meacham described, which is a marshall plan for testing the country, for getting personal protective equipment into hospitals and ventilators into hospitals, for preparing the country. not shutting down the entire country at that point, but taking the threat seriously and getting the country ready. then you didn't spend the month of march chasing what you didn't do in january and february. >>> still ahead on "morning joe," we're going to show you the new polling in the presidential race. >>> plus, when is a test not a test? we'll play for you vice president mike pence's rational behind his promise of 4 million coron

willie. >> and, willie, that's pretty remarkable number too if you look at joe biden on the economy, more americans prefer joe biden handling the economy. donald trump's calling card, what he's always bragged about saying this is the difference between him and other republicans or him and democrats, he knows how do things. well, no, actually americans have seen his failures in developing a strong testing regiment, has kept this country closed longer. and if you look at his own doctors, if you look at his own scientists, if you listen to what nurses and medical providers say, they all say -- by the way, ceos are saying it too. we can't reopen our economy until we strengthen our testing. everybody's saying it. ceo from ceos to nurses. and so i think that's partly what you're seeing in those poll numbers that show americans prefer joe biden to donald trump when it comes to handling the economy. >> yeah. and through all the chaos, as you know, president trump has basically staked his presidency on a strong economy. it's where he always goes when he's in trouble. look at the unemployment

willie? >>> this is how europe is going about its attempt to begin, at least, to reopen some parts of it society. german chancellor angela merkel announced germany will slowly ease restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus. the current measures will stay in place until may 3rd. next week, shops under a certain size could reopen, and schools could gradually begin to reopen by may 4th. large public gatherings, such as religious services, will continue to be banned until august 31st. bars, restaurants, cafes, and movie theaters will remain closed. in her announcement on easing some of the restrictions, chancellor merkel said, "testing will ramp up. germany ca germany capable of testing 100,000 people a day, and more than any other country in europe." that's according to the "new york times." denmark has reopened schools and nurseries for children up to the age of 11. in spain, construction and manufacturing continues, as some non-essential eemplmployees retd to work earlier this week. i

good morning. >> reporter: good morning, willie. president trump said in a saturday night phone interview with fox news channel that he believes the number of deaths in the u.s. could ultimately be below some of the early projected models. his decision to get people out of their homes will be led by facts and instinct. on this easter sunday the president said he will watch church services on a laptop and announced plans to electronically join the first baptist church of dallas, and pastor jeffers. jeffers tweeted he will be honored that president trump will be the first to worship with him online and urged those that want to hold in-person services today to avoid that and inrus. tuesday the president is expected to announce a council to decide some of the next steps for reopening the country's economy when lifting restrictions is deemed safe. we know the federal guidelines run through april 30th. "the new york times" laid out timeline and the disagreement about the administration about the likely magnitude of this outbreak going bac

also, wisconsin, willie. make no mistake about it. >> forgot about that. >> this is a president who feels the walls closing in. pennsylvania is biden country. good luck in scranton, mr. president. good luck in the suburb phillies. i'm sure the suburbs of pittsburgh also right now, very concerned at your poor handling of this. he has insulted the governor of michigan, who is wildly o p lly there. won't call her by her name. then in wisconsin, we'll get to those elections in a second. willie, he kept talking about what he did on his toothless china pan at the end of january, which was pathetic. 40,000 people came in after that toothless ban. just really quickly, i'll run down these quotes quickly. on february 10th, he said at the white house, "we're in great shape. we have 12 cases, 11 cases, and many of them are in good shape now." on february 23rd, almost a full month later, he said, "we have it very much under control in this country." february 24th, "the coronavirus is very much under control in the usa." f

there are other images of willie gillis. this one was never published. willie, the young recruit, remember, he was too young to enlist posing for these pictures and the rabbit's foot for good luck, willie gillis so you know who he is and looking starry-eyed naively as these hardened citizens were eating, smoking, sitting around and looking at the veterans of war and it was thought of as a little bit too harsh a contrast and wasn't published in "the saturday evening post." this painting just to the side of it here, though, is really one of the better willie gillis images and one of the more poignant ones. willie in a place of worship with military superiors in front and behind thinking about what is to come. the painting here, war news was painted by rockwell in late 1944 and it is an image of people in small town america listening to their news, getting their news from a newspaper and the radio in the back. it's really a magnificent composition that the artist takes you to this group of people listening, watching, all hands coming together. we know from

willie? >> more now about the health care workers on the front lines, as the disturbing news that covid-19 cases among those workers are growing now at an alarming rate. with the lack of testing, the actual rate of infection is very difficult to pin down. state health departments in ohio and minnesota are reporting that up to 20% of those infectedprof. that's a number in line with italy and other hard-hit parts of the world. new york currently, as we said, the epicenter of this pandemic. one division there tells nbc news they feel abandoned, as they have a shortage of everything and everybody. saying, quote, as an american, i feel ashamed. we are on our own. the government has failed us. that's from a new york city doctor. so far, health care worker deaths have been reported in new york, in florida, in california, and georgia. following the news from the white house health professionals, that the united states could see between 100,000 to 240,000 deaths, the pentagon ordered 100,000 body bags

it's willie geist. the numbers are staggering if you look at it. 3.7 million gallons of milk being dumped every day by our dairy farmers. a quarter of a million eggs being smashed by farmers just because they have excess. they don't know where to send them. they don't have a place to send them. we are where we are. how do we change this? how do we reroute all that food, all that perishable food that as we just saw would be so valuable in food pantries across the country and is sitting rotting in our farms? >> it's, for someone who has worked in the food scarcity and food security environment for 20 years, i have to tell you it's just absolutely heartbreaking to see pictures of those folks on the foot line at that pantry in new york and at the same time pictures of all this food standing there going unused. it is something that the usda and the department of ag can begin to mandate. remember, we have a defense production act. we have trucks. we have drivers. we can do contactless pick-up and drop-off. it

senator sure, willie geist here. >> hi, willie. >> good to have you on. i think most people agree, you need to perform your job of oversight but what small business owners in upstate new york are not hearing. they want their checks. as you pointed out yet, small banks, mid-size banks couldn't even get on to the website. they couldn't get through, let alone get the money and approvals from sba. >> right. >> what do you say to the small business owners who missed the boat on the first round of money and now their banks can't even logon to the website to get them? they can't go on like this. >> well, we got to have the sba straighten it out quickly. i have businesses who have been approved and they're going to go out of business. two things have to happen. tr they've got to straighten out the problem right away. they've got to tell the banks, no more big boycs. no more chains. what i talk about hearings, you need pressure on this administration, you need it because they're not doing it now. why is it 30 days after the first covid law was passed are the compu

and now we're almost at 30,000 deaths, willie. >> yeah. by the way, i do have a monitor so i'm available for any reading that will needs to come up further in the show. >> i like it. >> but the number yesterday is something we talked about actually in new york city just yesterday, you and i were talking about how we don't actually know the number of dead and it's probably far greater than we think it is because -- or at least than has been reported because people are dying at home. they're not doying in hospitals and we have to look into those numbers. coronavirus deaths surged yesterday to mark this country's deadliest day yet in the crisis. according to nbc news, nearly 30,000 deaths now have been reported in the u.s. the number of new deaths tripled within 24 hours from more than 1500 new deaths monday to more than 6,000 yesterday. in the state of new jersey where projections had shown signs of improvement, the death toll jumped by more than 350 people. that is new jersey's largest single day increase since the outbreak began. that grim

willie? >> the news value comes when the doctors eventually speak, or in the periods between the president's speeches and q&a sessions. we get some kernels of information from the doctors. i want to know from the president which is true. is it that your stay at home orders have worked and continue to work to flatten the curve, as he said yesterday? he said 1 or 2 million people would have died if we hadn't have done what we have done, which is lock down many of the states. or is it true the states need to be, quote, liberated? which is it? some of these governors are taking their cues from president trump, obviously, as they have for many years. in the state of georgia, for example, the state of tennessee, south carolina, and liberating themselves. in case of georgia, saying, "by friday, we can open some of these businesses." in tennessee, next week, may 1st, the stay at home order will be through, and we can move on. does the president say to those governors who are moving forward, implicitl

willie, oh my god. he said i should be able to do it, that's allowed because i'm not able to travel and i'm not able to vote. well, guess what? there were a lot of people in wisconsin yesterday that really should have said, we have a pandemic that's killed more people than five wars combined, we can't vote. so we'll just mail in our votes. i mean there are guy is such a liar and a hypocrite on this issue, he does it, he just doesn't want democrats to do it. and especially the wisconsin republicans and a lot of other republicans don't want black voters to be able to do it. let's be -- let's just be honest about it. >> the president either didn't know or didn't remember that one month ago he himself voted by mail. and first of all, joe, i can't believe you're defaming eddie haskell at this early hour in the morning. you'll be hearing from his estate, i'm sblure. >> leave eddie out of this. mail-in voting is going to be important this year. this pandemic is going to keep people away from the polls. we don'

racht, it is willie geist. appreciate you being on this morning. >> morning, willie. >> as we look ahead as where this might go from here, i think you and other doctors said we're sort of at the beginning of this. as we understand the president to be looking around the country, considering places he might be able to reopen the economy because there aren't large incidents of covid-19, what would you say to the president, what would you say to the country about what comes next in terms of rural areas, and whether or not they are, in fact, insulated from this? >> so the rural areas are a unique environment, as you know. the population density is much lower, but the service levels are much lower, as well. given the nature of the environment. i think one of the concerns of emergency medical services is a significant amount of virus or illness in a rural community will overstress those emergency medical and hospital resources very, very rapidly. so they depend on the suburb and the urban environment to move those pat

. >> stephen: i believe willie willie. >> his name is willie willie? >> stephen: willie willie because you can do his hair and face, too. >> i would have to lay it flat and do something. i apologize. i think in my head, i thought, since we're all edward snowing it these days, i think maybe i thought i had a flipped perspective. >> stephen: oh. how did -- >> stephen: it goes back way further on this side. >> well, see, that's not a thing i would mention. >> stephen: i'm really ready for, like, a lobotomy scar. i'm like that guy not chuck heston but the other one who gets captured by the apes and they cut out his brain. >> oh, yeah. >> stephen: i'm getting a very sam neil from "jurassic park" vibe in a way. does this work? >> oh, yeah! very much so. >> stephen: ready? ( laughter ) will that work? >> yeah, it did. that was fantastic. >> stephen: good. hold on. my ear thing just came out. >> would you grow beards during things like the writers guild strike? >> stephen: yes. no, i didn't do it during that. i grew out my eyebrows. no, i did not do that. i gr

one of his more famous ones is willie receiving the care package. and it became a light hearted symbol of the military together. life on the base training and this kind of thing. it would have been a cover for the saturday evening post. today sometimes the images change a little bit. i can show you in this one exactly what i mean but it's important for us to know that they were images to be photographed and he was paid for the photograph of the image, the cover and they gave the painting back to him after he did it. so rockwell retained the picture and after they had been published later on, sometimes the image or paintings would have been given to others. and can introduce it in a meticulous manner. his reproductive skills were as good as a photograph sometimes, better. if you look back, you see the background gets murky and you look around and all of a sudden a great painter like this sprayed some paint on the sleeve of his image. rockwell didn't do that. somebody did it later when they painted the background and took out the lines from the saturd

willie, this guy, i mean, he's not dumb. he -- when it comes to politics he's got g have to know that if larry kudlow's saying we've got this dinecontained, g back to work, everything's fine, steven moore's saying if people die, if people on news stations that he's watching seem to put forward the argument, you know what? it's nothing more than the flu. or you know what? let people get back to work. two%, 3% mortality rate, it happens. they have to know that it's supporters of donald trump and it's donald trump himself when he's talking about, quote, liberating people from medicine and science and protecting greatest generation, they've got to know it's their lives that are being put on the line by reckless policies. doesn't -- this is -- this is not a rhetorical question. like, doesn't he understand that? >> well, he understands polls, he understands ratings. he understands a list of numbers that shows how he's doing. that's the one thing can he respond to. and he does respond to and he does talk about all the time. he, of

>> willie? >> add in on testing, the president, we heard in the clip, says again and again the united states has done more testing than the rest of the world combined. that's flatly untrue. not close to true. if we were doing well on testing, governor larry hogan of maryland, republican, wouldn't have to rely on his connections and his wife's connections in south korea, to make a few phone calls to get 500,000 tests into his state. that's where we are on testing. peter baker, you're writing about the cold calculations governors have to make. today is the day in georgia that governor kemp said some businesses can reopen. just a few minutes ago, the mayor of atlanta came out publicly in a national television interview and said, "stay home." contradicting the governor. saying, "there is no bowling match or pedicure that's worth going out right now. they're not essential. those things can wait." what are some of the governors, and it is not just georgia, south carolina, tennessee, colorado, all over

i'm willie geist. this morning parts of america are slowly beginning to reopen after weeks of being shut down by a global pandemic. public health officials, including members of the white house task force, are warning about the risks of sending people out into the world too soon. so, when is the right time? we'll get to that question in a moment. >>> first, the latest headlines. the coronavirus death toll in the u.s. has risen to more than 53,000. the number of cases is inching closer to 1 million. there are 938,000 in this country. >>> the world health organization caused somenn satu reporting there is no evidence that people who had coronavirus would be immune from getting it again. that, of course, would be a major public health setback. the w.h.o. later clarified a bit saying, it does believe people who are infected will develop some level of antibody protection but it's too soon to know for sure. >>> during a webcast on saturday, dr. fauci said the u.s. should be testing twice as many people as it

ladies and gentlemen, willie, lukas and micah nelson! >> hey, stephen, this is willie and lukas and my cars, and we're glad to be with you tonight. we're going to do a song called "hello walls." i wrote it a belong time ago and a guy who hat the first hit on it was a guy named ferren young. a great friend of mine and we had a lot of fun together. he made a little bit of fun out of the song. he would go around singing, hello, walls, hello, commode, you know, one thing or another. he thought i have to really funny, so we're dedicate this song to ferren young. ♪ hello, walls hello, hello ♪ how'd things go for you today? ♪ don't you miss her since she up and walked away? ♪ and i'll bet you dread to spend another ♪ lonely night with me but lonely walls ♪ i'll keep you company ♪ hello window hello, hello ♪ well, i see that you're still here ♪ aren't you lonely since our darling disappeared? ♪ well look here is that a teardrop in ♪ the corner of your pane? now don't you try to tell me ♪ that it's rain ♪ she went away a

willie? >> let's bring in calvin sun working in hospitals across new york city. we see the graphs trying to flatten the curve but you are on the front lines. you are new york city hospitals and you've been in a bunch of them. what do you see inside those icu and emergency rooms? >> we can only compare it to what we saw the day before. it's all relative at this point. is it worth than yesterday and do we have more deaths? what i'm saying things are sometimes getting worse and sometimes getting better just like every day in new york city. things are getting progressively worse in people are younger and sicker and manifestations of kr covid-19 in ways we never expected such as reports of stroke and other conditions that have nothing to do with respiratory symptoms that are now associated with covid-19 in younger and younger patients. more people who die in emergency rooms waiting for a bed upstairs. at the same time we're seeing help. we're seeing new yorkers responding to things, we're stepping

i'm willie geist. while public health officials and most of the country's governors are urging patients with stay-at-home orders that are working slowly to get coronavirus under control, some americans, president trump among them, are growing wrestless about opening the country for business. >>> first, the latest overnight headlines. >>> this morning there are 728,000 confirmed coronavirus cases with more than 38,000 deaths from the disease. last week at this time, the death toll was nearly half that at just over 20,000. in new york the state hit hardest by this pandemic, governor andrew cuomo reports the state's daily toll of coronavirus deaths hit its lowest point in more than two weeks. meanwhile, the united states and canada say the border between the two countries will remain closed for another 30 daysstar- citizen say more than $27 million has been raised in support of health care workers on the front lines. we'll have much more on those stories just ahead. >>> and later in our "sunday spotlight"

i think the process, somebody has to take the risk and try to move the ball rolling forward. >> willie, i'm wondering how you manage the process with employees and with customers there's some employees when you bring them back in, they're going to be on the payroll again and means there may be some benefits they're not eligible for that's going to require a lot of communication from you, also if opening up does have negative health consequences it's probably going to take at least a couple weeks to see those. what's your plan both in communicating to employees and on watching the results to see if it really is safe to open up more and more? >> so priority number one is employee safety and then guest trust. so employees, we stay connected to them on a daily, weekly basis through great delegation, management, systems, infrastructure so all of that is in place so for me to open, i need 25% of my staff from back of the house to front of the house, all different positions. we are ready, the management, we spoke to our team and we have enough people to be ready to open i want to wait on the

but with david willis are speaking to me a little earlier. —— that was david willis are speaking to me a little earlier. the uk is to remain under lockdown until at least next month in an attempt to contain the outbreak. the foreign secretary, dominic raab, who's standing in for boris johnson while he recovers from the virus said social distancing measures are working. but the government has refused to say when or how the restrictions will be eased, warning it would be a distraction from their core message to the public to stay at home. mr raab announced the decision to extend the lockdown for at least another three weeks at the daily press briefing and said any changes to these measures would risk a significant increase in infections. he set out the government's criteria for exit from the lockdown. first, he said it would require a "sustained and consistent fall in deaths" and confidence that the health service could cope with a second peak. in the past 2a hours, the uk recorded another 861 coronavirus deaths in hospital, taking the total to 13,729. our political editor laura kuenssbe

david willis, thanks for joining back to normal by easter. david willis, thanks forjoining us. let's get some of the days of the news. the lockdown in the city of wuhan in china's hubei province has been lifted. anyone who has a green code on a special smartphone health app is allowed to lead the first time since the 23rd of january. drain, road and rail connections have been established. brazil's help ministry has reported the first coronavirus case, at the dean year old boy in the yanomami tribe in the northern amazon. it's reported that coronavirus could be caddick on tribes. a field hospital is to be built for indigenous communities. the united nations has reported a severe coronavirus outbreak in the south sudan could be disastrous for millions of vulnerable civilians and has asked the transitional government to step up of it. facilities have been destroyed, 1.5 million are internally displaced and people already just —— suffering from disease and malnutrition. bernie sanders has dropped out of the democratic race for president. senator sanders said he could not in goo

david willis, thank you very much indeed. that was david willis live for us from los angeles. talking about america and how donald trump is treating the coronavirus. the head of the international monetary fund has warned the impact of the pandemic is way worse than the global financial crisis. kristalina georgieva said the world was in recession, and the only way of resolving the situation was for countries to work together. freya cole reports. demand for dairy in supermarkets may be high but farmers in the united states have been left with no option but to throw out fresh milk due to mass interruptions in the supply chain. there are not enough people to package and transport the goods. it isjust one example of the huge economic fallout caused by this pandemic. this is a crisis like no other. never in the history of the imf have we witnessed the world economy coming to a standstill. we are now in a recession that it is way worse than the global financial crisis. sorry, we're closed. this business in the heart of london is one of many which has been forced to lock the doors unt

. >> john, it's willie. congratulations on the book. somebody who's known and covered donald trump like you have back to your days at the "new york post" since 1994, we've learned i think the public learned over the last couple of years to are wary of a perceived pivot or change in tone. what looks like a change in tone of one moment is a series of tweets the next moment and he's pivoted back to where he was. what is your sense with the statistics provided by dr. birx and dr.staggers statistics where the president is on this finally after months downplaying what coronavirus was and how it would have to be handled by him and the country? >> you're right to be wary of a change via tweet, but i think the collection of the information, he's a numbers guy, you know that, whether it's ratings on the shows he on, the number of people at his rallies, the dow jones numbers, he's been paying keen attention. and i think it was a bit of a wake-up call to him. whether or not he pivots back, i will tell you there are very

one of san francisco's most legendary people is the former mayor, willie brown. he said raj, forget this normal stuff we normally do, let's do something colorful, unique, and true willie brown fashion. meet me at the fairmont next to tony bennett. ♪ i left my heart in san francisco ♪ ♪ high on a hill, it calls to me ♪ ♪ to be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars ♪ >> mayor brown like we've never seen him and like we've never heard him. sometimes in a crisis, it brings out the best if all of us. notice even the tony bennett statue has a facemask. mayor brown, 86 years young, and looks as sharp as ever. he's seen almost all of it in san francisco, and is adjusting to the new lifestyle. >> i don't know anybody that stays in the streets as much as i have stayed in the streets for more than 70 years in this incredible city. and if i can stay at home, everybody should be able to stay at home. it's been tough. but it's been the difference between this being a replete of new york, of paris, of some of the other cities in this country and in this

that was david willis speaking to mea that was david willis speaking to me a little earlier. key workers in all sectors are facing enormous difficulties in dealing with the coronavirus outbreak, none more so of course, than frontline nhs staff. our health correspondent, catherine burns, is keeping in touch with some of the men and women battling the pandemic, and asked one intensive care consultant to keep a video diary. this comes from the front line in the fight against coronavirus. joy halliday is an intensive care consultant, looking after some of the very sickest patients. she started her video before a night shift. i've got three children and they're all bathed, fed and watered. i'm just waiting for my husband to arrive home, who's a gp and obviously busy, very busy at work as well at the moment. so, we're a bit like ships in the night. good evening again, it's now nine o'clock and we finished our intensive care handover. my trainee is with me, so we've gotjohnny who's our sho for the night. and steven, registrar. hello. and then another steven, who's restocking our int

willie's funeral was on a friday. but by sunday evening, sunday evening he was beginning to pull himself together. another newspaper reported he had begun to recover from the shock but is now bowed down by his great affliction is no wise afraid of his duties. he moved on. the grief never entirely subsided. he was wearing a little bit of black buntsing on his hat for willie when he was assassinated but he balanced the grief with the need to win the war, to get on with the job, to make all that death mean something. the balancing act seeped into his speeches as well including his greatest words as a president when here in gettysburg he told the nation while it was all important to mourn the battlefield dead it is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the great unfirnished work that they have far nobly advanced. it is dedication to the great task remaining before us that we take that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. here again, was that exquisite act of balance where he again moved

here with more former duck dynasty star willy robertson. willy, we read about the story. i know you go hunting and guns. you said you had guns since you were a little kid but this was something that was jarring. could you bring us back to what happened? i know you were at the store, but what did your family say? >> yeah, i went up to the store real quick. ten minutes before we are all in the yard and just having a nice day on friday and then john luke calls me, dad, i think somebody shot a bullet through my house and i came back and the police showed up. sure enough a guy had just started shooting across the property and one to have bullets went through bedroom window and actually lodged into the wall and he was just in there and they were sitting in there with the baby, so it was -- we were all kind of shook up. brian: of course. what was the motive? do you know this guy? >> i don't know this guy. i don't know what the motive was. i don't know what he was thinking but just glad that they caught him and, you know, tried to find out more, you know, as to what he was thinki

david willis reports. from the white house came the d i rest from the white house came the direst warning yet, the worst is yet to come. i want every american to be prepared for the ha rd american to be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead. we are going to go through a very tough two weeks, and then hopefully, as the experts are predicting, as i think a lot of us are predicting, as i think a lot of us are addicting after having studied it so hard and we will start seeing some real light at the end of the tunnel, but this is going to be a very painful... very, very painful two weeks. apocalyptic predictions from white house advisers point to between 100 thousand and 240 , 000 advisers point to between 100 thousand and 240,000 americans dying from the coronavirus. more if social distancing guidelines aren't followed. as sobering a number as that is, we should be prepared for it. is it going to be that much? i hope not, and i think the more we push on the mitigation, the less likelihood it would be that

>> willie nelson is the only one to ever get me. he got me once upon a time on 4/20 in amsterdam and i couldn't take it. i couldn't take it, jimmy. >> jimmy: with snoop and willie nelson -- you figure out a way to have fun no matter what is going on. you've been hosting these roller skating parties from your house on instagram. and people come and -- are you -- have you been roller skating your whole life? >> i mean, since i was a kid. but you know, i had to stop for a time, but i'm back on it like i want td. you know, just to do it it feels good for people to, you know, be able to skate with us virtually and to feel like they're really at a skating rink and really get their groove on. to good music, to good vibes, to good roller skating. >> jimmy: what's the best song to roller skate to? >> "bounce, rock skate" by von mason. >> jimmy: nice. i know you've been playing a lot of video games. in fact, you -- this is a video that i'd like to ask you about. >> ea sports. y'all [ bleep ] server's down. get that [ bleep ] back up. we're tr

. >> reporter: willie gordon was a world war ii veteran, a family man that helped raise his azalia. the coronavirus combined with underlying health issues left him lying helpless in a hospital bed. >> it's heart warming and also heart-breaking at the same time. i believe that he's at peace. >> reporter: this visit was made possible through a pop-up program created by heart of hospice. the agency rented out a vacant wing inside this hospital exclusively treating covid-19 patients. you're bringing healthy family members in to a place where eir health ronavirus. how do you ensure their health and safety? >> so, we took that very, very seriously. our staff members are actually educating them on the proper utilization of the p.p.e., how to put the p.p.e. on, what is safe, what is not safe. they're fully gowned out. >> reporter: arkansas nurse melissa moody was part o team treating arzalia's grandfather. >> i think the best medicine that we're giving them right now, better than anything i can give them through their i.v., is to bring their son, their daughter or their grandchild to their

david willis, bbc news, los angeles. pressure is mounting on the government to publish an exit strategy from the coronavirus lockdown from the leader of the opposition, sir keir starmer, and from within the government. the government has said that talking about an exit before the virus had reached its peak risks confusing the public. let‘s speak now to the former conservative leader iain duncan smith, mp. you don‘t agree, you also share the view that we do need to start thinking about an exit strategy? yes. i think the real issue here is not whether, it is when. and of course, absolutely, the government has been right so far, completely right about the lockdown and i also believe they are right to see this through properly by extending the lockdown. there is no issue about that. i think the real issue is the government having to do two things. first is absolutely plan as to how we will bring the economy out of lockdown and secondly, to, i think, bring the british people into his confidence over this because i think t

that comes close to extraction, the new chris hemsworth movie that's not to be confused with the bruce willis stinker of the same title which critics have argued is about as fun as having a tooth removed. you're hoping if you spin the chamber enough times, you're going to catch a bullet. originally entitled dakar, this film finds hemsworth enlisted to kill a frankly staggering number of people with guns, knives, bombs and occasionally with his bare hands. turns out he's very good at it, although inevitably he's haunted by the ghosts of the past, in particular the memory of a child whose loss has left him with a death wish. can't you trust me? no. good. no. written by joe russo, co—helmer of avengers: infinity war and endgame, and directed by stunt specialist sam hargrave, the main selling point is some virtuoso action sequences against eyecatching backdrops. labyrinthine chases that appear to play out in single shots, following characters out of windows, down streets, into cars, all without obvious cuts. during these adrenaline—fuelled set pieces, you can just about forget about the empti

david willis for us. elsewhere, the governor of new york state, andrew cuomo, has said the healthcare situation there has stabilised. officials have recorded another 752 deaths related to coronavirus but there's been another fall in the number of hospital and intensive care admissions. 0ur correspondent in new york nick bryant sent this report. to a city known for its energy and life, the coronavirus has brought an overriding sense of fear. new york's number of dead has soared past 10,000. more victims than all but a few countries and three times as many people as were killed in the attacks of september 11th. sirens still we wake to the sound of sirens, still new yorkers worry that the ambulances outside their windows might soon end up outside their doors. but hospital admissions are down and after one of the most awful months in the city's history, the spread of the virus has slowed. almost everybody is on oxygen and almost everybody is a covid patient. at a hospital in brooklyn, dr melanie malloy has be

willie geist sent this to me. he's not really my best friend but he sent it to me. and -- >> i just wanted to show my san francisco mug but continue. >> it all came from everyone working from home. vianey is working from home so always has her mug. everyone has been sending you their mugs. whthing. they're letting us into their homes. let's let them into ours. we will start next sunday showing everyone their mugs. to share coffee, they're like our family. >> exactly. it. >> send me a message. >> we hope everyone does. thanks to you all for making us a part of your morning. we will see you back here next weekend, the first weekend of may. have a great sunday. >> socially distancing must continue. our economic shutdown cannot. >> some states reopening their economies. >> we are going to have to see our cases continue to go up, but we are a lot better prepared for that now than we were over a month ago. >> this as millions more file for unemployment. >> we can't hide in fear of the rest of our lives! >> and as the u.

willi "washington post" reports in the daily briefings. >> have you been getting warnings about the -- >> i'd have to check. i'd have to check. i'd have to look to the exact dates of warnings. but i can tell you this, when i did the ban on china, almost everybody was against me, including republicans. they thought it was far too harsh, that it wasn't necessary. professionals, republicans and democrats almost everybody disagreed. and that was done early. i think we save -- whether it was luck, talent or something else, we saved many thousands of lives. anthony said that, you were saying that. a lot of people said it. i think you have a much different situation right now. >> again, just want to reiterate here, according to reporting and the president was repeatedly informed about the growing threat of this pandemic during his intelligence briefings. also, the president blasted house democrats after they decided to not return to washington next week due to the continuing threat of coronavirus infection. here's the president's jab at house speaker pelosi in particular. >> the democrat, th

david willis there. dr patrice harris is the president of the american medical association. she says easing lockdown restrictions in the us should only happen under certain conditions. certainly, as we began to loosen stay—at—home restrictions, we need to do so keeping the science and the evidence in mind. at the ama, we recommended loosening restrictions only when we have the capacity to test and trace, when we have a good capacity in our medical infrastructure, and certainly, when we are able to test more — and that is both diagnostic testing and anabolic testing — and we are still on our way to getting there, so we have great concerns about loosening these restrictions too early. we do not want to see a rebound in the number of infections. as things stand at the moment in the us, the testing regime just is not where it needs to be, in your opinion? no, we have been behind and certainly we are improving, but we still need to be able to make sure that the diagnostic testing is getting particularly to the hot spots, those areas that seem to have the most rate of infe

that is our north american correspondent david willis speaking to me earlier. latest figures show that 847 people who'd tested positive for the virus have died in british hospitals in the past day. it brings the total number of dead in the country tojust over 1a,500. the british government is setting up a new task force to back the development of a vaccine, but it'll be many months before one is available. 0ur medical correspondent fergus walsh reports. more than 70 scientific teams across the world are trying to do in months what would normally take many years — develop a coronavirus vaccine. one of the leading groups, at oxford university, says manufacturers in europe, china and india are set to produce their vaccine so it's ready to roll out in september, if by then it's shown to be effective. it's pretty clear the world is going to need hundreds of millions of doses, ideally by the end of this year, to end this pandemic, to let us out of lockdown and ensure we can do that safely. a vaccine is the exit strategy for this pandemic. the government has announc

david willis, think you very much. in the united states, there have been more than 400,000 cases of coronavirus, with more than 14,000 deaths. there are no official statistics which illustrate the demographic context of the figures, but it does seem the virus is infecting and killing black americans at a disproportionately high rate. 0ur north america editor jon sopel has more details. coronavirus is totally indiscriminate in who it infects, but in the us, it's highly discriminatory in who it's killing. at this intensive care unit in new york city, nearly every patient is black. stefan flores is an emergency room doctor in the city. the people we are seeing most are those african—america ns, are those latinos, those black and brown people who come from low socioeconomic backgrounds. these are the patients that are coming into my emergency room that i am taking care of, people who really need to be admitted, who we are seeing in icu and critically ill. this is also a story about inequality. the black community tends t