kate reborn. on board the ship was a russian crew man who was amazed how quickly kate picked up his language, which is why months after that trip the newly inspired kate traveled to moscow to meet him again, to explore the city, the culture, and to test drive both a budding relationship and her fledgling russian skills. the snapshots of kate here in moscow were far more than souvenirs, they were portraits of a young woman transformed. the kate who stood here on red square had a new passion of life. the depressions of the past had fallen away. she was consumed by all things russian. in fact, she was making plans, even here, to return to moscow in the summer to take up russian studies. finally, her life was taking off. and that's why kate waring was in washington that fine may morning. she was on her way back to russia, but there was a problem with the visa. a paperwork mixup sort of thing that would have sent her into a tail spin once but now the new kate vowed to try again later. voided the palmet

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and the most divided kate >> keir simmons. thank you. >>> a sudden violent explosion rocked downtown los angeles last night now we know just what firefighters went through trying to get the blaze under control. here's erin mclaughlin. >> reporter: tonight in los angeles, a criminal investigation under way after a massive explosion. >> everybody off the roof >> reporter: saturday evening, firefighters called to a fire at a warehouse. >> you could feel the pressure of the fire >> reporter: a smoke shop packed floor-to-ceiling with materials, highly flammable butane cannisters moments after they arrived, that explosion. >> as that butane ignited, it blew out of that building like a blowtorch. >> reporter: the crew had to go through a fireball, they were coming down the ladder to escape. 12 injured in total, two in critical condition. police now focused on the business connected to the warehouse smoke tokes, a smoking and tobacco accessories business nbc news has reached out to the business and has not heard back the investigation

it's just hard to describe, kate. it was just a very, very disconcerting report. >> and you heard kevin hassett tell poppy harlow he thinks next month is going to be worse. do you agree? >> we'll have more job loss in may. we can already see that, there's been more claims for unemployment insurance, so that's folks being laid off or furloughed, and next week is the week that the bls will run the survey for may, and we'll certainly see some job loss there. it won't be nearly as bad. i expect another 1 million to 1.5 million. it's odd for me to say that, at any other time, that would be crazy to be saying that, but you know, relative to 20 million lost jobs, that feels pretty good. i will say on an optimistic note sort of, with businesses starting to reopen, by june, i would expect to see the job losses turn into job gains, and at least for a temporary period as businesses reopen june, july, august, september, we should see job growth. i disagree with the president. we are not going to get a lot of these jobs back fast.

kate? >> jim, you asked a critical question there, and let's hit on it one more time. when you asked about the imhe model, this is the model the white house has relied on and leaned heavily on all along. and it very clearly assumed mitigation, full mitigation at one point, and the reason the number is jumping, as you well pointed out, is because they're now accounting for states reopening and people not following the mitigation rules that are in place in the states that haven't even reopened. and he still -- i don't know if he didn't get it or didn't understand it, but he's got it wrong. >> reporter: yeah, he certainly does. look, this is how the president has reacted to these models in the past, right? he likes to downplay them, he likes to look toward the modeling that shows a more pa trajectory, but we should know the imhe model has been the most conservative in projecting the number of deaths going forward, and the president we know has shifted repeatedly on the projection of deaths. a

>>> hello, everyone, i'm kate bolduan. thank you so much for joining s us. >>> the white house is making it very clear they want to see states reopen. so why, then, are they rejecting their own expert's advice on how to do that safely? cnn confirmed the trump administration has rejected 23 pages of recommendations for safely reopening places like schools, restaurants, other businesses. just as a new analysis shows only 13 states are reporting a downward trend in new coronavirus cases over the last 14 days, a key benchmark set by the cdc and the task force for states to meet before reopening. 19 states are seeing an upward trend in new cases. yet by tomorrow all those 19 will have started reopening, bringing the overall total to 44 states beginning to open up. none of them meeting all of the cdc guidelines for doing so. and with the death toll in the united states approaching 75,000 people, president trump now has this to say about what he understands opening up could mean. >> there seems little question that by beginning t

and our special coverage continues now with kate baldwin. >>> hello, i'm kate baldwin thank you for joining us this hour. at an event billed as a presidential announcement on vaccine very many, the message, this was the message from the president of the united states. vaccine or no vaccine, we're back. as the president named the newly appointed leaders of the government's vaccine effort, the president undermined that very effort. he did call the work ground breaking and hist or ache, once again claiming it will be available to the public before the end of the year and his new vaccine chief stepped to the podium and said that time line of faster than 12 months is doable. >> i have very recently seen early data from a clinical trial with with a coronavirus vaccine and this data made me feel even more confident that we will be able to deliver a few hundred million doses of vaccine by the end of 2020. >> but the very same man, a former top executive at the company glaxosmithkline told "the new york times" in a interview this morning the following: frankly quote 12 to 18 months is a aggressive t

kate. >> absolutely. and you wonder if within the time period they could stem the tide of where that trend is headed with that small town. ed, thank you very much. >>> one of the states on the leading edge of reopening is georgia. this despite the fact that it has yet to meet cdc benchmarks for doing so and the state also is reporting about a thousand new cases in just the last 24 hours. martin savidge is tracking this reopening plans and now as they are in place he's in atlanta. businesses are reopening today, what are you seeing? >> reporter: kate, yeah, it has been a week now of reopening for the state of georgia and it is an aggressive plan. the latest addition is malls starting to reopen. this mall behind us in atlanta was scheduled to reopen today but at the last moment they decided to push it off until monday. but as far as all of the businesses reopening, the reaction of the public is extremely cautious. and now with new numbers coming out from the state as far as new coronavirus cases that are be

doha sorts on barack a professor of conflict resolution of the doha institute and in london by skype kate clarke co-director of the afghanistan and lists network welcome to you all pope out in kabul 1st of all ashraf ghani puts his troops back on the offensive the taliban called it a declaration of war can we ever see a time when these 2 parties will get together around the same table to talk peace there are a few issues to discuss before going to the direct negotiation with taliban 1st off on the power of taliban in and set of understanding on to syria where they have how much could have on the in control of other terrorist groups in the 2nd is the the demands of taliban and also demand of the afghan government but it is asking for releasing of their 5000 prisoners. in the immediate before the agree to sit a time frame for starting the new season and run government is asking for. a cease fire or at least a reduction in violence and also sitting in a time frame or a date for negotiation with taliban so these are the 2 issue can be which is now a kind of barrier to starting to going forwar

lester holt will be back with you tomorrow i'm kate snow. for all of us here on nbc news, stay safe and have a great night. >>> we need to get california open again. >> right now at 6:00, continued calls to reopen the golden state as the bay area prepares to lift some stay-at-home restrictions. news at 6:00 starts right now. good evening. thank you for joining us. we are entering week eight of sheltering at home and changes hours away. starting at midnight, some rules will be relaxed and certain business there's reopen. here's what's allowed. construction projects, all real estate transactions but not open houses, daycare, summer car. s and other programs for children whose parents can't work from home, the centers may

>>> hello, i'm kate bolduan, thank you for joining us this hour. moments ago president trump is announcing that he's declaring churches and other houses of worship essential and demanding that governors across the country reopen them immediately. >> the governors need to do the right thing and allow these very important essential places of faith to open right now. for this weekend. if they don't do it, i will override the governors. in america we need more prayer, not less. >> this is from the president who declared he didn't have the authority to force governors to do anything early on in the crisis when it came to actually shutting things down. and just to be clear, it does seem there may be more at play here than just getting people in the pews on sunday. this just hours after a large study showing that the drug hydroxychloroquine is linked to an increased risk of death and heart disease and heart problems, rather, in coronavirus patients. the president announced this week he's taking the drug himself. he's posed the question what do you have to

>> kate, we really don't. testing has been the key issue that we have been talking about for a couple of months since this pandemic started. you know, testing for the nursing home industry, unlike hospitals, many of whom have their own labs. we must rely on third-party regional or national labs to provide our testing. and at this point in time, both accuracy of testing supplies, as well as the capacity to test and turn around the results in the time frames we need has been a challenge. in certain states, it's been handled very, very well. i would point to massachusetts, rhode island, and west virginia to name a few who got out ahead of this, and we are seeing very good results from pro active facility-wide testing of residents and staff. but that testing ability is not consistent across all states across all markets. >> that is the thing. it's one thing to put our guidance and it may be good guidance but if you can't get there to get the testing done, guidance means bunk when it comes down to it if the federal

good evening, kelly. >> reporter: good evening, kate. today a white house official says the vice president, out of caution, i laying low this weekend and has no restrictions on the schedule for the coming week. he is following the guidance of the white house medical unit after his pres secretary tested positive for the virus. as an example, the vice president was clear to attend the saturday night national security meeting here at the white house but did not participate. i am told mr. pence continues to test negative, himself.are other officials on the coronavirus task force ar taking more aggressive steps by choosing quarantine coronavirus inside the white house. two positive cases among the staff. and tonight, a new effort to stop more infections three medical leaders behind the federal response following the science into quarantine >> the idea about self isolating for two weeks will be very important. >> reporter: today dr. anthony fauci in modified quarantine, limiting contact, cdc director robert redfield, and fda director steven ha

and the outguns know to come up with a road or sooner or stable situation and that's ok kate salt on sees there a window still a narrowing window of opportunity for these for these talks to one day take place but it seems to be all unraveling doesn't it do you see there's any chance for these 2 sides to get around the table. i think in reality it was already rattling if all these 2 absolutely some rich tax karl america her is one of the problems with that deal such as the americans and the taliban are it's. was shorter. from the beginning so that the taliban came away saying it's our hearts let's call it terrorism get the afghan state after course is not going to it's government's not against the foreigners it's the americans clearly understood that they had written understanding that the telecoms would continue with the redactions minds secondary one up today of the taliban regime let's tax. the afghan government forces and the americans that there's much more restraint as they try to cling on to this idea that because the intersection of violence i think that's a confidence buildin

and our special coverage will continue now with kate baldwin. >>> hello, everyone, i'm kate baldwin, thank you so much for joining us this hour. he says he was pushed out for putting science above politics. he then filed a whistle-blower complaint to raise at alarm and the president then called him a disgruntled employee trying to help the democrats and that man is set to lay out his explosive allegations to congress and we now have his opening statement. in it an unsettling warning from dr. rick bright. that is who we're talking about. but the united states is headed for in his words, quote, the darkest winter in modern history with unprecedented illness and fatalities unless something changes now. more on what dr. bright is expected to tell congress tomorrow in just a moment. but here is where the numbers stand right now. the national death toll in the u.s. now tops 83,000 people. 1.4 million americans have been infected but the picture on ground looks different depending on where you live. you could see nine states there on your screen are trending in the wrong direction with incr

brady reporting for us thank you kate. a staying in germany of the country is set to ease border controls with neighboring countries starting this weekend in a further step towards loosening its coronavirus lockdown measures of the german interior minister who says agreements have been reached with france switzerland and austria to ease trouble restrictions starting saturday a border checks of luxembourg will be entirely lifted from that day and similar measures are being discussed with denmark germany closed its borders to all but essential travel almost 2 months ago before the formal. or let's check in now on some other headlines from around the world the u.s. government's top infectious disease expert has warned lawmakers that cities and states could see a spike in coburg 1000 deaths if they lift their lockdowns too quickly anthony expressed his concerns while testifying before the u.s. senate from his home twitter c.e.o. jack dorsey says staff can continue from working working from home as long as they see fit even if

our political correspondent kate brave years covering the story for us kate many here in germany are hoping the government today will announce a further relaxation of lockdown restrictions what can we expect. they seem that certainly will be the case later today there's already been a draft paper doing the rounds here in among the german media this morning and some of the main points that we're likely to see relaxations on today are shots the reopening of shops nationwide regardless of the size so far that's been limited to smaller shops of up to 800 meters squared so it looks like they will be reopened albeit of course on the condition that social distancing measures are upheld by customers and staff also we're likely to see the reopening of schools a gradual reopening of schools for all students by the sum of break interestingly though it seems that it will be up to the individual states to decide whether things like hotels bars restaurants and universities will reopen and to what extent of course it seems that all of these relaxation is willing to be on the condition that the numb

and political correspondent kate brady joins us now for more kate the e.u. wants to transition from lock downs for summer tourist season as we've heard it seems like a lot to ask. it certainly is and it's going to be a huge logistical operation that's going to require a lot of cooperation at the european level so we're going to see lots of cooperation between those different e.u. member states and we could see measures being rolled out across the board or at least agreed on as well when it comes to how and to what extent people travel in the coming weeks and months to take killing as we head towards the summer months and so we can expect for example to see perhaps max masks being made obligatory both on planes and at airports and it's likely to that the number of guests for tells and tours attractions will be limited as well to ensure that social distancing is still a did too and that people have been able to to keep that minimum recommended distance of 1.5 meters from each other on top of that as well the e.u. commission has already recommended that travel

rules ok so clearly the crown of iris is a moving target and all this could change quickly tell us kate we've got some states like varia here pushing ahead live lock down decisions before they're announced on the national level this is a case of german states asserting their independence not being berlin sort of speak . not necessarily snow being berlin but of course this is a federal system and each of germany's 16 federal states has the right at the end of the day to make its own decisions and of course some of that responsibility it seems is going to be officially pushed on to them today after these talks or rather during the talks between angela merkel and the 16 state premiers but there is also i think i feel like a little bit of a competition between the state premiers at the moment which of course is very dangerous considering that we're living through a pandemic but it seems that each state wants to be the one to say look how much we've achieved and and wants to take the 1st steps to let their local people back out into public life and get their economy back up and running again

our political correspondent kate brady is covering this story for us kate germany's coming out of law for the most part what does this say about the state of the pandemic in the country well i'm going macro summarize that quite nicely yesterday in that press conference saying that germany it's safe to say has come through the 1st phase of the pandemic but it is still very much in the early phases of this pandemic and it's something that germany will be facing for a long time to come so clearly the german government isn't taking the progress and relative success that it's hard so far in getting a grip on the pandemic for granted and so i also have the impression in recent days especially from state premiers and also from the business sector to get things back going in especially in the for the german economy to keep that floating a jury in the condemning and in the aftermath so that has had a huge effect on those decisions that we heard from. yesterday but that the granted that these these restrictions on now relax that's all that's all that all depends on whether people actually in da

this is as kate said what eryfe. esdo n protesting earlier peacefully in around civic center and even on the freeway perhaps. this is sometimes a group of people who may come later and stay later, intent on causing problems. we saw earlier very peaceful protest, demonstrations. this is something different that has turned into just vandalism on the streets of oakland, lighting fires and smashing windows. different tone and different kind of action all together on the part of this group of people who are causing real problems in the city streets of oakland. and the iimolice chief has been on the job a few week, susan mannheimer said earlier, very sympathetic and outraged by the video we all watched from minneapolis and the police officer who knelt on the neck of george floyd. outraged by that, but sad about tonight's protest, knowing it was coming. we encourage people express their opinion and their first amendment rights and to protest and to demonstrate what they believe are things that must be changed in this countr

>> yes, kate. we are going to release data that is accounted for wearing mask and we'll release on our web a map as to how many are wearing masks. it is very important to remind everybody that masks do work and we see an effect of masks for reducing the transmission of the virus, and we hope, as we are moving outside of our homes, everybody is doing their part by wearing the mask and keeping a safe distance from each other. >> one part of our conversation last week was talking about how the full effect of the early opening up in the states was not really yet able to bear out in your projections because more time needed to pass. do you think your now in a place where you think the full effects of early opening are accounted for in your projections? >> yes. for some states we could see what is happening in the states. and we talked about georgia and north carolina and we see that effect on north carolina and georgia was flattening and north carolina relaxed when it was going up. so you see a diversio

newsroom with kate bolduan starts right now. >>> hello, everyone. i'm kate bolduan. thank you so much for joining us this hour. at this point, everyone is wishing the pandemic was over and passed, of course, including the president, as he's making crystal clear in a new interview, but the facts on the ground are also crystal clear. it's not over. more than 71,000 americans have been killed. 1.2 million americans infected. and with that in mind, now look at it this way. if you eliminate the new york metro area from the total count of new cases, you can see right there, infections are still climbing in the rest of the nation. still climbing, despite the fact that states across the country are starting to open up. and new hot spots are now popping up in states like minnesota, tennessee, alabama, nebraska. one county in rural tennessee now has the nation's highest per capita infection rate by far. and then there's dallas county in texas seeingilities highest rate of cases for a second day in a row. this is why public health experts are frustrated now, and now leaning on

political correspondent kate pretty. is a roundup of some of the latest pandemic news from around the world more than 3700000 people have been infected or confirmed to be infected with the corona virus globally with more than 260000 deaths of course that's according to data from johns hopkins university thailand has confirmed 3 new cases and no new deaths in the last 24 hours spain has extended its state of emergency for 2 more weeks from sunday and turkey says it has brought the outbreak under control and will set out new social guidelines of business practices to prevent a resurgence. at least 8 people have died after again after gas leaked from a chemical factory in india the factories located in the city of the csicop hundreds of people have been rushed to hospital and almost 3000 evacuated from nearby villages footage shows people suffering from nausea and apparent dizziness or just lying on the street a south korean form that owns the factory says the gas leak has now been brought under control. to find out more we

dan and kate? >> okay, sandhya, thanks very much. we appreciate that. let's take a quick look at live pictures now before we leave you here on air of what's happening on the streets ofoakl ,ig o i front of h that block have been smashed and people are been running in and out of those businesses. >> yeah, dan, i'm a little >> jimmy: hi, i'm jimmy. it is friday night. the end of another bad week in america. last night in minneapolis there was a protest, that turned into a riot, that turned into a scene you'd typically only see in a country at war. on monday, an unarmed black man, george floyd became the latest in a series of unarmed black men to be killed by a police officer. for the crime of trying to pass a fake $20 bill, that he may not have even known was fake, an officer of the peace put his knee on the throat of another human being for eight minutes and ended his life. and many millions of americans are angry. especially in minneapolis. the policeman who killed george floyd, and the three other cops who stood there and did nothing to stop it

thanks, kate. ask questions andrew. i take thanks, kate. ask questions andrew. itake drug, thanks, kate. ask questions andrew. i take drug, 20 mg weekly that is for rheumatoid arthritis. i have tha nkfully for rheumatoid arthritis. i have thankfully been furloughed but i‘m expected to return to work at the end of may. i‘m genuinely scared for my health, life i go back to work. that drug is not a strong immunosuppressant are some of the others that are used for rheumatoid arthritis. some patients are being advised to shield but if this is a weekly dose than that is suggesting this is a well patient so perhaps not experiencing a diseased severe disease episode at the moment. so for those well—controlled patients with none of the other recognised... and they only a single immuno oppression, the advice is for them to self—isolate or maintain social distancing at their discretion. so i do think they have cause for concern if they‘re going back to an area where they maybe exposed but again, all work places where are supposed to be safe. we are going to have

a political correspondent kate brady is covering this story for us kate germany is coming out of the law for the most part what does this say about where the penn demick is right now in germany well i'm going so summarize that quite simply yesterday in that press conference saying that it's safe to say the 1st phase of this pandemic is now behind germany but that we are here in germany still in the early phases in the fight against this virus and that it will be something that germany still has to tackle for a long time to come but of course there was a lot of pressure growing in recent days both from the business sector and also from those state premiers of the 16 states say in germany to ease restrictions and in the end of that pressure had a huge effect on the results of those talks yesterday and the relaxed measures that we're expecting to see put in place in the next couple of days but let's not forget all of these relaxations are in the conditions on the condition that social distancing is still a did too and german people here are expected to still follow those rules and anglo

and we're back now with kate brady kate you know we saw some of the measures there that germany has been undertaking in order to try and control this corona virus pandemic especially the threat of a 2nd wave how well prepared is the country well right now germany's quite well prepared in the case that there should be a 2nd wave of coronavirus here and as we've seen already in the last couple of months and the country is actually benefited quite well from the fact that it had quite a bloated health system going into this pandemic something that's previously been criticized and that will called even to close down some regional hospitals but of course that's helped germany making sure that it's hospitals didn't become overcrowded and of course in addition to that you also had that testing going on and as we had there in the reports as well there already plans in place to increase that capacity even further so that there would be the opportunity to make sure that all medical professionals were able to be tested should there be a 2nd wave and of course that something is still continuing in th

or more before groom our political correspondent kate brady is following the story for us hi kate give us the latest on this announcement. well that press conference where these measures are being announced is just coming to an end right now a lot of the details still being questioned but what we know so far is that indeed as you say there will be a relaxed border checks the in the coming days out of the 15th of may with friends austria and switzerland but there will still be some checks in place but with look some back however all of the border controls are being lifted and we can expect to see a similar situation with denmark as well for the german interior minister said that that would most likely be possible once denmark has finished its talks with its of the neighboring countries as well so suddenly started to see the next phase an easing of restrictions here when it comes to border controls in which of course have been in place for almost 2 months now in in response to the pandemic kate what does this concretely mean for germans who want to leave the country to go on vacation for

for more on that story and let's talk to debbie use it kate radio kate thanks for joining us kate is there a growing movement to that we're seeing taking place here. well certainly since just a few weeks ago we've seen these number of people attending these demonstrations which are often dumped as high g. demonstrations growing from just a few dozen people in the german capital to the thousands that we've seen in several german city sits a but it is worth noting of course that these people still are a minority and that several local establishment several local businesses close to where these demonstrations have been taking place have also being holding a good sense of of counterpressure as a kind of counter protest against these demonstrations but in placards and posters in the window saying we're not going to stage we're not your background your backdrop sorry and one thing that we could be seeing here by these protesters is something that one of the leading for all ages here in germany christian to us that he's been helping deal with the pandemic here in germany he reverted few wee

correspondent kate brody is one of those in central berlin the softer news what can you run on as. a people where you are being social distancing rules exactly and so on the day i mean one of the parks in east and then here and it seems for the large part people are still a daring to the restrictions that are still in place on social contact making sure that people are keeping at least 1.5 metres apart from people that are not from their households and just anecdotally speaking from this afternoon it seems that a lot of people are now starting to meet with of the households i've seen several small groups meeting at a distance out of the sides of the picnic blankets and a lot of people are out just in different sports together exercising as well and that's something we're expecting to see increasingly in the coming days as most of germany 16 states will start to open more gastronomy cafes restaurants as well but of course there are still social distancing restrictions in place as well as that. masks both in shops and on public transport kate we've heard a lot about how the lockdown

prevailing on testing but, kate, so did republicans. you heard from lorl alexander who is chairing the committee talking about his concern about testing and senator mitt romney doesn't believe it is anything to brag about. so they're trying to give a much more realistic pragmatic like at what things are like right now. officials are careful to say their answers in a certain way and careful to say where they think things are and where they are going and advice they are offering to the president and saying they do not believe they have a confrontational relationship with the president, who often at times they are publicly at odds with. >> as you're mentioning mitt romney and what senators were kind of breaking from the president, this also during the hearing dr. giroir he expected that the u.s. could conduct 40 million tests a month by september and then mitt romney taking issue with not just that but the administration's record on testing to date. let me play that for folks. >> yesterday you celebrated that we had done more tested and mo

well for more on this let's bring in kate brady so kate seems like quite a lot of people turning up to these demonstrations what are they so angry about which restrictions do they object to the most. well it seems that these protesters are effectively accusing the medical workers and politicians here in germany of spreading widespread panic and also infringing their freedoms and their rights juice to the down measures if you will in recent weeks of course germany hadn't seen quite as strict damages as some other countries but there are still contacts restrictions in place albeit that there are plans in place now to ease those in the coming weeks depending on how that reproduction rate that you mentioned that develops which of course we now know is above $1.00 and also depending on how the number of new cases grows or declines or whether we'll see that plateau in the coming weeks but it does seem it is difficult to pinpoint exactly what unites these groups there's a real mix spread of people there from everyday citizens to the extremes of germany's political spectrum with people from th

s political correspondent kate brady who has more information for us on that story kate this is not the only outbreak linked to a meat processing plant in germany walk why have these facilities become coronavirus hotspots. well of course i imagine that the close working courses and living courses that many of these workers find themselves in will have played a huge role in how these slaughterhouses have indeed as you say become hotspots of the 19 fires and as such in close felde in north rhine-westphalia that slaughterhouse in particular has now being closed and we're also expecting to see some checks on the hygiene standards both at the slaughterhouse and accommodation for those workers in the coming days and in the meantime there will also be widespread testing in north rhine-westphalia that's the state where close felde lies and that's going to involve some 17220000 workers who are currently working in the slaughterhouses across that state the district of course thought it has now delayed the loosening of lock down restrictions in line with so-called emergency brake greet earlier thi

your response, kate? the leaked documents we found today said they would not be sending workers back right away. those are more vulnerable groups will be sheltered and encouraged to work from home. i would also say, i don't think people are worried about a few profit margins here and there. we're looking at small businesses in particular, so many of which could be out of business in a matter of weeks if the economy doesn't get started again. we are already spending an unprecedented amount money tackling this virus. i think it is the right thing to do because it is the right thing to do because it is the right thing to do because it is an unprecedented situation but it is an unprecedented situation but it is an unprecedented situation but it is not going to be useful for the government to fund an prop of every small and medium—sized business in this country for the indefinite future and social distances measures might be needed before we have vaccines for the virus. there are deaths and tragedies that ar

. >> kate moore, you have this heightened geo political risk. haven't had that in a while to the level we do today. president will give a news conference at some point today you have what many perceived to be a stretched market. you put one plus one, do you equal swoon in june or where do we go? >> i got to agree with josh. i think we're at or close to the top of what feels like a rational -- whether from technical or fundamentals. i think this point around china cannot be underscored enough we are in a much more heightened and much more sort of threatening geopolitical environment. we have no expectation for that to dissipate i believe china will be the core of the debate between trump and biden. each side trying sthoe th iningy are tougher on a perceived enemy than the next. against that backdrop where so many of our bellwether companies are multinational and a lot of the tech folks are reliant on revenue streams or businesses and supply chains. i think we'll see a fair amount of pressure. >> john, let me build off what kate is saying here. it

let's bring in political correspondent kate brady who is standing by with a view from berlin so kate as we've heard the e.u. wants to transition from lockdowns to summer tourist season it seems like a lot to ask. it is certainly a lot to ask and of course there are still a lot of factors to take into consideration at the moment but only the situation in germany but also in germany's neighboring countries as well and how the situation then developed in the coming weeks but the hope is now is to have freedom of travel again throughout the schengen zone by mid june of course the old depends on the situation with the virus at the time and of course it's going to be very difficult a logistical puzzle to solve as well and one that's going to need a lot of cooperation within the european union now the e.u. commission has already started making some recommendations and it seems that if and when tourism really does kick start again here in europe then where of course expecting to see limitations on the number of guests that might be allowed it at certain hotels certainly social distancing rul

brady for more on this story hi kate we heard the chance are there talking about that very difficult balance between controlling the virus on one hand and also easing restrictions on the other does the government have broad support across parliament for its measures. oh the certainly been a large gap between different parliamentary groups in the last week or so when it comes to specifically the easing or relaxation of restrictions in germany and a lot of that comes down to this rather contentious issue of this emergency break which was decided on the last week between angela merkel and the state premiers which means that if a district in germany reports more than 50 new cases per 100000 inhabitants over the past week then action appropriate action needs to be taken so we have seen some place in germany that have put on hold the easing of restrictions there because that has a not knock on effects on the local industry so going forward this will be something that the government and of both federal and state level will be keeping an eye on as you mentioned as well there have been these

i'm convinced kate warren under her dress has a magic lasso. he is wonder woman. especially when she stands into pinkerton's office, she is perfect. >> the job interview. you talk about pinkerton but at the end of the book i think you do a yeoman's task of trying to rehabilitate little bit his reputation. he seems to live to be about 150 because he was married, remarried, kids, tragedies. there were accusations that he wasn't on the up and up but you did a great job telling it and saying we've looked at all these primary sources. >> it's very important to is when you read the book, there is one account of a secret society, they meet in this dark candlelit room and slowly try to figure out who is going to shoot abraham lincoln, who is going to pull the trigger and they are drawing straws and whoever has the short straw is going to kill abraham lincoln and i will say i don't want to ruin it but you will see it is not just one short straw. they want a backup plan and you will see it is fun to watch but when we look at the accounts of it there is only one person who a

thanks so much for your political correspondent kate pretty. here's round up of some of the latest pandemic news from around the world more than 3700000 people have been infected with the coronavirus globally with more than 260000 deaths according to data from johns hopkins university thailand has confirmed 3 new cases and no deaths spain has an extended state of emergency for 2 more weeks from sunday turkey says it has brought the break under control and will set new social guidelines and business practices to prevent a resurgence. at least 8 people have been killed after chemical gas leaks from a factory in india the factories located in the city of visa capa in under pradesh on the east coast hundreds of people have been rushed to hospital and more than a 1000 evacuated from nearby villages footage shows people suffering from knowledge a parent dizziness or just lying on the street the plant is owned by a south korean firm l.g. chem it's released a statement saying the leak is under control. to find out more we're joined now by d.w. correspo

or let's go to correspondent kate brady who's standing by kate the chancellor's press conference has been delayed for half an hour is that an indication that negotiations are actually quite tough. oh certainly i mean they have plenty to be discussing today 'd whether it's exactly how the different states have been behaving inches say in the last few days taking matters into their own hands and already announcing that some restrictions in some states would be relaxed before other states and then on top of that of course there's a lot of intricate details to be discussed here to in and then we might even see of course on top of that a decision about the bunda sleeker as well plenty of football fans around that table i presume as well today among the politicians or rather on that video call with machall because no one's around the table at the moment so they'll be a lot of things to discuss and we're expecting to hear from merkel within the next few minutes but already as we've mentioned there has been a draft document doing the rounds today here in germany where are expecting to see a

>> i was just going to say, i want to add on to what kate is saying. presidents are supposed to grow in office. they're supposed to get larger, not mahler and petty. we see a president who resentence everybody who came before him, because he thinking no that none of them suffered the what i he suffered. they're supposed to share the burden of the office. no one else knows what it's like. this president has segregated himself and said you guys didn't know what it was doing, i'm doing it so much better, so you guys are terrible at your jobs. >> they generally get larger, not smaller, that's an interesting point. thank you all so much. >>> next, the tense moments on capitol hill as the treasury secretary took tough questions about loans to small businesses. >>> plus graduations, block parties, beaches, and then later the story behind the sudden firing of the woman who build florida's hailed, esteemed covid-19 website. (female vo) when it comes to longevity, who has the highest percentage of its vehicles still on the road today? subaru. when it comes to be

our political correspondent kate brady is covering this story for us kate many here in germany are hoping the government today will announce further easing of law of the law what can we expect . certainly does seem that we'll see another easing of those restrictions today at least according to a draft paper that we've been doing the rounds here in germany this morning it looks as though from maybe as early as the next couple of weeks all shops in germany could open regardless of the size of a city that's something that's been limited so far to the size of the store and if they are indeed to open they will still have to make sure that customers and workers a daring to social distancing rules we could also see all school students returning to school before the summer break here in germany but it seems that it will be up to the states the individual 16 states to decide when and to what extent places like restaurants universities and also their says are opened and it seems as well that all of these easing of restrictions are limited regarding the increase of new cases in germany should there

kate? >> it's so important to roll through what phase 1 looks like where you are, because it is different everywhere, in every state. everyone is different. rosa, thank you so much. i really appreciate it. >>> with the vast majority of states reopening in part this week, in states where stay-at-home orders remain in place, things are getting heated. in california, large crowds gathered in huntington beach and other orange county towns over the weekend to protest the governor's decision to shut down the beaches once again. two other counties in california are defying the statewide restrictions by making moves to allow some businesses to reopen. cnn's stephanie elam is in los angeles. she's been tracking all machinations of this as it's progressed. stephanie, what is going on there? >> reporter: a lot of different things, and it's sort of the tale of two different californias, one of the most popular states in the nation, kate. you have northern california counties, three of them so far, one