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Mishandled the Justice Department is called in to investigate the shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery and the new video shopping him moments before he was chased down and killed today exclusive. My goal was to go home, and that was my only goal. The man known as patient zero in new yorks first coronavirus hot spot tells his story for the very first time. After we entered the emergency room, i have absolutely no recollection of anything that transpired until i woke up from the coma. This morning his harrowing story and the split second decision by his wife that may have saved his life. All that, plus legend lost overnight ben stiller announces the passing of his father, jerry. Well remember that scene stealing role on seinfeld. Festivus begins with airing of grievances. I have a lot of problems with you people. His career ends with laughter today, may 11, 2020. From nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to today on monday morning. Its nice to have you start your day with us. I know a lot of us thought jerry stiller, what a treasure, he passed away overnight, natural causes. When you watch those clips from seinfeld, you cant help but chuckle in the morning looking back at his incredible career. Were going to look back very fondly in just a few minutes but lets get to where things start with the coronavirus cases approaching 1. 4 million. The death toll tops 80,000 also this morning new Safety Measures being put into place at the white house after two staffers, including the Vice President s own press secretary, were diagnosed with covid19. Meantime officials are saying a troubling spike in south korea and india. Today both countries are reporting their highest number of new infections in more than a month. And in china overnight shanghai disneyland reopened for the First Time Since january 25th. Crowd size limited, visitors required to wear masks and also have their temperatures taken, savannah our team in place and spread out around the world to bring you the latest on this Geoff Bennett on duty. Hi, geoff, good morning. Reporter hi, savannah, good morning to you the coronavirus is hitting closer to home in washington, on capitol hill and here at the white house where staffers say they are taking extra precautions to ensure the safety of the president after two aides tested positive for coronavirus. Thats with three Health Officials selfquarantining, all of it undercutting the message that the outbreak is fading. This morning the Coronavirus Crisis affecting both ends of pennsylvania avenue. White house sources shooting down reports that Vice President mike pence, who chairs the Coronavirus Task force, will selfquarantine after his top spokesperson katie miller tested positive shes also married to one of president trumps top policy advisers stephen miller. White house official telling nbc news the Vice President continues to test negative and has no restrictions to his schedule. On capitol hill Lamar Alexander will remotely chair a hearing on safely returning to work and school after one of his staffers tested positive. Three of the top witnesses for the hearing, dr. Anthony fauci, dr. Redfield and fda commissioner hahn are selfquarantining and expected to appear by video conference. It is scary to go to work i was not part of the white house in march i would be safer sitting at home than i would be going to the west wing but its a time people have to step up and serve their country. The discovery of two staffers, including one of the president s personal values prompted to ramp up safety procedures white house tell nbc news. Testing and temperature checks have been boosted throughout the west wing. Senior staff who interact with the president are tested daily some staffers in the president s residence are now Wearing Masks and the entire west wing is being sanitized on an even more frequent basis the difficulty containing the virus at the white house where testing is available highlights challenges facin businesses nationwide that lack those same resources but that could be easier with fda now announcing its given emergency authorization for a new coronavirus test called antigen test Health Experts say its easier to manufacture than current method and results are faster. Fda said antigen tests could scale to test millions every day. It comes as president barack obama is speaking out about the trump administrations handling of the pandemic. During a phone call, audio obtained by yahoo news it would have been a mess with the best of governments it has been an absolute chaotic disaster. The white house is responding to president obamas comments in a statement that reads in part, there has been a bipartisan recognition of president trumps leadership and the American People have taken notice that aside, the president now confronting a coronavirus scare in his inner circle risks undermining his efforts to convince americans that its safe to return to work and regular life hoda. Geoff, thank you. Lets move overseas now to how other countries are handling covid19, including great britain. Overnight Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealing the first steps towards easing lockdown restrictions therenational correspondent keir simmons joins us from london hey, keir, good morning. Hey, hoda, good morning in france this morning you can finally leave your home without one of these, a certificate just to go out. In spain and switzerland, some folks can go out to eat tonight. Here in the uk, a sign of just how hard this is the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, introducing a kind of Warning System like traffic lights to alert people if the virus is surging again, underscoring just how nervous people are this morning, as most of europe relaxes the rules, britain reopening more slowly and ready to reimpose restrictions if necessary. The queen may not return to public duties, reports say, until a vaccine is found Buckingham Palace telling nbc news shes taking appropriate advice Prime Minister Boris Johnson himself hospitalized by coronavirus trying to give his country a measure of hope. Welcome back from this devilish illness welcome back to health and robust health. But for now we must stay alert, control the virus, and save lives. Russias president putin, the rise of coronavirus, more than 10,000 infections a day. The small event, a flyover and flowers to mark 75 years since the end of world war ii. In germany, just days after relaxing the rules, the infection rate rising again and anger building protests including far right groups led to clashes with Police Scenes repeated in australia where 10 people arrested and Police Injured in brazil brushing off the risk again, taking to a jet ski and joining the floating barbecue. Rios christ the redeemer highlighting hunger among the pour highlighting the crisis the airline filing bankruptcy. These are anxious days in asia, too. While disney theme park opened in shanghai, only at 30 capacity to allow social distancing another chinese city in lockdown chinas infections increasing for a second day, fueling fears of a second wave in sport, europes famous soccer trying to restart again. Savannah, without spectators another sign of the challenge. Because the uk thinks it might be controlling the virus, it is now imposing a twoweek quarantine on anyone flying in, savannah. All right keir simmons now to breaking news in iran, warships hit by a missile in what was described as friendly fire during a training exercise. Nbc correspondent Richard Engel jones us with this breaking news richard, good morning. What did you learn good morning, savannah. The Iranian State media have put out a statement, also released some images, and the army has put out a statement. This was a Naval Training exercise gone wrong in which an iranian destroyer accidentally fired a missile at one of its own support vessels. That vessel was laying out targets, and according to iranian authorities, it got too close to one of the targets it was releasing. And when the destroyer tried to fire at the target, it accidentally hit that ship killing, according to iranian officials, 19 sailors and injuring 15 more iran is describing it as an ll. Thank you very accident. All right, richard. Thank you very much. Joining us with that breaking news overseas. Ten minutes after the hour hoda, back to you. New developments in a story making worldwide headlines georgias attorney general has now asked the Justice Department to investigate the case of Ahmaud Arbery, thats the 25yearold shot and killed while his family says he was jogging. A father and son arrested last week after a public outcry for justice. Blayne alexander joins us from georgia. Hey, blayne, good morning. Reporter hoda, good morning to you over the shooting itself but by the way it was handled by local authorities. One of the suspects was a former Police Officer it wasnt until state authorities got involved 10 weeks after the shooting that arrests came thats why so many people have been calling for a federal investigation. We will not rest until they are convicted and behind bars. With the nations eyes focused on georgia, the states top prosecutor is calling on the department of justice to investigate local authorities handling the Ahmaud Arbery case. Georgia attorney general chris carr is promising a complete and transparent review of how the case was handled from the outset it comes as big name celebrities demand action, including jay z, alicia keys, and tom brady the february shooting of the 25yearold africanamerican man pursued by two white men is sending shock waves across the country after this recently released video showing arberys final moments. Its heartbreaking that its 2020 and this was a lynching of an africanamerican man. Arberys family says he was out for a jog unarmed. Now in newly public video obtained by jacksonville station wjsc, we see the moments before that encounter a man walking into a construction site and looking around an outside angle obtained by Atlanta Journal constitution shows someone entering and leaving a short time later the videos, both under review by the Georgia Bureau of investigation, appear to show arbery his family attorneys are not disputing that, writing he engaged in no illegal activity, noting this was an empty home under construction he told police he and his son followed arbery because they thought he was a burglary suspect. Both men armed according to police records, the older mcmichael said arberry began to attack his son travis who fired after the two began fighting over the shotgun. Investigators say they reviewed the Surveillance Video before arresting the mcmichaels who remain in custody charged with murder and aggravated assault. Do you consider this a victory . No. This is just the first step. I would like to get all hands involved, every hand that was involved, convicted and sent to prison. Reporter now, nbc news has not been not been able to locate an attorney for the mcmichaels Georgia Bureau announced another arrest, a 20yearold taken into custody saying he used facebook to make protests against future arbery protests. Blayne alexander in georgia savannah, over to you. Now to a dramatic rescue that happened in the foothills of nevada sierra mountains an off duty Patrol Officer jumped into action after a man fell into the water. Be careful. It happened over the weekend at angel falls over brent donley, who happened to be hiking in the area used the strap from his backpack and branch to reach out to a man trapped in a whirlpool the hiker misjudged how fast the water was moving and got caught. Eventually they pulled him to safety this is a reminder never to attempt to cross swift water was he there in the nick of time. A branch and a strap, that was incredible coming up on 7 15, time for our first check of the weather hi, al, good morning. Hi, guys, good morning. A little on the chilly side in the northern part of the country, eastern half as well. Lets show you what we have going on right now in the northeast. We may see showers, afternoon thunderstorms as well, and very chilly air is going to be ushered in behind this look at tuesday morning. Frost advisories, freeze warnings for 62 Million People as that cold air pushes in today, below average temperatures for new york, pittsburgh, back to tulsa, rapid city, down to atlanta. 66, thats 13 degrees below average. Tomorrow morning we may see records from columbia, asheville, back to st. Louis, up to buffalo and up north into new york city and during the day on tuesday those temperature highs will, again, be anywhere from 10 to 20 degrees below average. Good news coming we are going to be looking latter part of the week, temperatures warming up. 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And thats your latest weather. I hope you guys had a good mothers day. We did, al. Thank you. Thank you for the mothers day card we appreciate it new cases and deaths from that Mysterious Illness and children linked to the coronavirus. Are we any closer to knowing what causes it dr. John torres joins us with everything every parent needs to know, savannah plus our exclusive interview with the man the governor of new york calls patient zero of the outbreak here in new york. These were early days, did coronavirus even come up when you went to that first visit to the doctor . Not at all. No mention of it at all. This morning after weeks in a coma, he shares his story for the very first time, including the split second decision by his wife he said saved his life, but first this is today on nbc and. Lets get started. music fades in hey hi just ahead, just ahead, reconnecting with her old boss. Remember she got to be amy schumers intern for a series. Her husband will teach her how to cook. 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According to the American Academy of pediatrics a child here at Lucille Packard Childrens Hospital may have been the first case study of a child diagnosed with covid19 and a rare inflammatory disease at the same time being called pediatric multisymptom inflammatory disease, and about 100 children have been diagnosed with it in eight states including california. Three children have died from it in new york. The infant here was diagnosed with covid19 and inflammatory disease back in midmarch and has now recovered. Reporter im kris if youre still waiting for your stimulus money there is a critical deadline this week. If you want that money deposited electronically into your bank account wednesday 9 00 a. M. Is the deadline to make sure the irs has your direct deposit information. You can enter that in the system at irs. Gov and find a link in my twitter feed. If you miss that deadline you will still get your money. Youll have to wait for a paper check later this month or in june. Firefighters trying to figure out what caused this Early Morning fire in concord that started in an abandoned building on mt. Hood circle. Some roads were shut down. Back in february firefighters say there was another fire in the same area also in an abandoned building. Time to check the forecast for this monday morning, see how things are out there. Its starting out nice and clear as we take a live look outside in san jose. We will start to see more clouds moving in today as a storm system approaches and brings us some scattered showers. As we head into late morning into the early afternoon, well start to see that rain first in the north bay and some hitormiss showers across the bay area spreading in as we go into this evening. We could also see that rain not only today but the next couple of days and its something ill be tracking through at least midweek. Marcus and laura . Thank you. Thank you very much. Another local news update coming up in just half an hour. Many many christmases ago with my son i reached for the last one they had, but so did another man. As i rained blows on him, i realized there had to be another way. It was destroyed out of that, a new holiday was born, a festivus for the rest of us. Oh, god, those were the days. Back at 7 30, Jerry Stillers scenes on seinfeld. We did get sad news overnight. His son ben shared the news of his fathers passing were going to look back at Jerry Stillers life and career as we welcome craig. I know this is a weird story i was at a Movie Theater and he was in front of me with his wife i had popcorn. I said hi. He said can i have some of that . He kept eating it. I thought this is the funniest guy. He said ill take a little more. He really was so cool in person, too. An original. More than 62 years of marriage well look back at mr. Stiller first lets get to 7 30 headlines and the latest on the coronavirus. Cases approaching 1. 4 million, the death toll tops 80,000. Wednesday is the last day youll be able to enter your banking information to have your stimulus check directly deposited into your bank account. After that irs will begin printing and sending paper checks. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson unveiled his roadmap for easing lockdown restrictions on sunday johnson says the reopening of et the country would be conditional on how diligently the public follows the governments advice, savannah well, at 7 31, another major story this morning increased reports of that Mysterious Illness in children, it is thought to be linked to the coronavirus somehow. At least three children have now died because of it here in new york, adding even more urgency to the search for answers. Kristen dahlgren has more. Hi, kristen, good morning. Good morning, savannah. This morning another two deaths under investigation which could bring the total to five as new york citys mayor announces a major change for kids who are showing symptoms this morning a search for answers as 38 kids in new york city are now confirmed to have the Mysterious Illness called pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome. This is every parents nightmare. Nobody knew about it nobody was watching for it. Reporter statewide there are at least 85 cases. On sunday the governor is announcing two more deaths after three children were already confirmed to have died from the rare sickness believed to be related to covid19. The syndrome causes life threatening inflammation in the body and organs with potentially serious effects on the heart nbc news finding cases of the illness in nine states and washington, d. C. The fact it is affecting children is upsetting. 13yearold Anthony Lawson in the icu at seattle Childrens Hospital about a week ago he started showing signs of what his mom teresa thought were allergies. Itchy eyes, fever and a headache but within a few days those symptoms took a dangerous turn. Once we got to Childrens Hospital, we met him in the cardiac icu where we were told it appeared he was in the middle of Heart Failure they ended up taking a blood test that blood test came back positive for the covid19 antibodies. Doctors alerting the public to a range of symptoms including fever, rashes, abdominal and chest pain, change in skin color, rapid heart rate with symptoms often mirroring more commonly known illnesses like kawasaki disease and toxic shock syndrome the cdc and new york state working on developing criteria that can be used nationwide. Here is the bottom line. Its rare and most kids do recover but the symptoms can develop six weeks after the coronavirus even in children who didnt know they were infected theres no way to tell which kids might be affected, savannah. All right, kristen, thank you. For even more on what parents need to watch out for, lets turn to nbcs medical correspondent dr. John torres. Dr. Torres, good morning as a mother, so many of us are paying attention to this i read a pediatrician saying this is something we didnt learn about in medical school. This is new to the medical profession what should people be watching out for and why do they think its related to covid19. Exactly, savannah. This is one of those things that just kind of came on all of a sudden and doctors started noticing it across the country and in europ in particular. They started putting the pieces together saying there seems to be something here and more cases. As of now, as Kristen Dahlgren says, theres only a couple hundred cases around the world but its a concern as parents, theres one thing we want to make sure is our children are healthy symptoms to look for, fever more than five days severe abdominal pain. Blotchy blue skin, pale skin or discoloration. You saw pictures, that type of rash, trouble breathing, lethargy or rapid heart rate if you notice these things, you want to be seen immediately. Remember, this is rare this doesnt happen very often its something new onto the scene. Doctors are taking a strong look at this. Messages are getting out to try to look at patients for this these are people we didnt know had coronavirus because children didnt show symptoms but they can get this a few weeks later so we have to be careful. Its one of those things, the link isnt established its there, but youre not sure if its caused by the coronavirus. Is that right . Its still too early to tell exactly what they are finding out in the vast majority of these children, they either test positive for covid19 or have antibodies. Not all tested for antibodies. Thats whats making it confusing. Its like kawasaki, rare to begin with, but not exactly like kawasaki disease its a big puzzle right now whats going on. Luckily were paying more attention to it. Not just here but across the world. Well find out more information and get treatments and get a better understanding how to deal with these children and hopefully how to prevent it, which is the main thing. Thankfully it is rare well put more information on the website. If you see those symptoms, get right to the er. Dr. Torres, thank you so much. Back to you. Savannah, thank you. Just ahead, remembering jerry stiller, ben stillers father, and one half of that Legendary Comedy team with his wife, he died overnight. 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