Viewers like you. Thank you. Ne this is bbc worl america. Coronavirus kills more than 25,000 people in america and there is a power struggle about who has the authority to reopen the country. India extends the lockdown by three weeks, causing havoc for Migrant Workers who are trying to get home. Joe biden gets the keyt. Endorsem Barack Obama Says he is the man for the moment. President obama joe has the character and experience to guide us tough one of the darkest times and heal us through the recovery. Laura ompic dreams deferred. Two athletes generation apart coped with being able to compete. If you are wating on pbs and ound the globe, welcome to world ns america. As the number of Coronavirus Infections in years 2 the u. S. Has more reported cases and deaths than any other country. Over 25,000 people in america have died. The rate of new infections is slowing but californias sgovernor laid out plan for how and when to lift the the president says he has total power reopen the economy. The governor says he is not a king. Porter america isti h. Coronavirus has claimed over 25,000 lives. Nearly 600,000 people have been infected. The economy reeling. 17 million unemployed in three ek schools have closed. President reporter last night at the briefing, the president spent the first 45 minutes railing a the media for being unfair to him. President trump we did a lot. Akyou know you are a you know that . Kethe way you cover it is reporter the Biggest Issue is how to reopen the ecomy, on who say so, and how quickly. President trump we want to bve safe but we o get our country open. Reporter doou think theres a possibility of opening it incrementally . Can we go back to restaurants . President trump i think it is going to go quickly. Our people want to get back to work and there is a pent up demand. Reporter do you want to reopen the bordersople from europe President Trump at the right reporter the president says is total power on ordering the restart of the business. Individual states say he does not have the power. Th president position is absurd. It is not the constitution. We do not have a king. Av wea presidt. Entering this reopveing phase is iortant. Reporter there might be a fight going on on who flicks then switch to reoe economy, but that is a good sign because it suggests social distancing is working. At a grim time, it is a sliver of good news. This afternoon in the cabinet room with chairs set far apart, trumperet those on the oof coronavirus. Jokingly, he told one woman not to come to close. Too close. Prident trump stay away from me. Far away. Reporter President Trump was in listening mode but the big decision about reopening the economy is coming very soon. Laura who has the power tore en america after the outbreak . Lets bring in jonathan talley, onconstitutional law professor at george washinniversity. Is the president a king . No. Have the power . He does not have command authority over the states. The constitutionsp was written ifically to bar that type of claim. Our system of federalism to make that decision, and if the president were to try to force his hand, he would lose. Laura jonathan, why is the president drilling down on this in the middle of what is still an incredibly series outbreak . Jonathan it is baffling. Whate he said in st press conference was alarming. He said he had total authority over the states, ultimate authority, and that he only allowed the governorso order the lockdowns because he let it happen. Ne of that is comprehensible in terms of constitutional law. The constitution in our system leaves Public Health largely to the states. What is fascinating is for three weeks, the president d has arg federalism, said the federal government is secondary and poe primary ribility to with the states. Ent pandemics is then suddenly, all of that was gone. Laura meanwhile, governors are saying the preside should use the defense production act to manufacture millions of vaccines and test. He could do that. Do you think he will . Jonathan he might. I think the criticism on his use of the dpa is a little unfair maybe. Fema and other agencies have done an impressive job in marshaling resources. Most states are saying they have what they need. When it co,s to the vacci if the dpa is needed, i expect he will use it. The other thg, in fairness to trump, there is a growingco ern about opening up the economy. Crashing the economy is not a costless act. Not just economics. Ruins the lives of millions. So this isnt an impor debate to have in balancing the need to get the economy open against Public Health concerns. Why introduced this bizarre constitutionallaim in the mix, i have not the faintest idea. Laura californias governor has outlined his condition reopening the state. Is he on a collision course with the president . Jonathan he may be. Der the constitution, the default position is with the states when a federal shove is made, the states can shove back. The 10th amendment in the constitution says a rights not expressly given to the federal government are reserved to the state individuals. T be more clear the interesting thing is if this were to go to the courts, the biggest problem you would face would be the conservatives on the supreme court, including his own two appointees. They will not like these arguments. Laura jonathan, thank younio much for j us. Te has are keeping a close eye on floridas coronavirus outbreak. Idflis a dangerous menace mix seniors. Breakers and the governor told people to stay home april 1. Suarez became infected and has. Recovered and joins us n thank you for being with us, they are suarez. Ovasou r mayor suarez. As y recover, do you think this has piqued yet peaked yet . He highest rate was march 31. There have been reports the data might not besu complete. Ng we have complete data, it looks like the peak was march 31. We have been getting less cases than we did that day. So that is cause for optimism. We are lookingt hospital reports that show discharges are twice as great as incoming patients, which is the data. But we still believe we are three weeks away from thinking about opening up our economy. Laura ou took steps very early to close down miami, floridas governor h says wrestling is an essential service. Do you agree . That is a hard argument to hamakewrestling is an essential service. Just likwe have local county mayors saying construction is seial service. I do not know how building a condo in the middle of a pandemic is essential. So it is a bit surprising what is defined as essential. For t us city, we are the first city to cancel events and one er first to put a stayathome order and one of the first to put a stayathome order and curfew. Because of that, we proceeded the rest of the state in hitting the peak one week for they did. Laura what is your own experience of the virus and t wt has ght you and best to deal with it . I was asymptomatic when i was tested so it led me m leads to believe there are a lot ace and thematic people. Ava secondworries me tremendously in terms of relaxing social distancing and opening up and relax quarantine orders in place. The second thing i learned from getting it myself is all the practical decisions i made, i come back to be very grateful i did. Thoseav who criticized me for the practices have since had to follow them. So i think you have to understand in a situationut you have tohe health and welfare of citizens first and listen to medical experts. En ou worry about the economy. Because ifour city cannot function and your residents doin not feel safe back to work , the economy will not function anyway and if you have a second ,wa it will also create a huge problem because it can paralyze e economy for another couple of months. Laura thank you so much for joining us, mayor suarez. Indias Prime Minister has extended his countrys lkdown to may 3. The announcement ce on what was to be the final day of the initial lockdown that started i. Late mar india has reported nearly 9000 concerns the real numbers could be much higher. Rou correspondent reports. Reporter jobless in the city for weeks. All they want is to go back to their families. There is no home to stay inside here. Beaten and chased away, many find shelter wherever they can. This man is a construction workerde and living a bridge. He has been thrown out of his rented room. Food is hard to that is the railway station. The initial three weeks of lockdown and did and lots of workers who live in the city but are from villagesthhought perhap could go home. But the shutdown has been police using all means possible to keep people indoors. We can see if you come out of your home, they announce. Health workers are going from door to door, screaming people with symptoms. Many believe the lkdown has slowed the spread of the virus. But those on the front lines say statistics do not reflect reality. I spoke with the doctor at a state run hospital. He did not want to be identified fearing reprisal from the government. We are under testing and underreporting. Many patients were brought in dead. We did not test them. Thereic is a high sun they had covid19. One of the reasons we are not testing deceased patientser is is a global shortage of the number of kits so you want to use them wisely. Reporter doctors and other parts of the country told bbc numbers were being underreported. Indi s Health Ministry d respond to our questns about official data. Hind the stillness are peoe worried about how indias hospitals would cope. But for the unseen workers, there is nothing more scary than a city that has stopped. Laura questions about indias figures. Ins,ther nharities in britain have accused the government of russian people from the death toll. The department of Health Confirmed outbreaks in more than 2000 care homes in england. U. K. Oes not include deaths from coronavirus in those facilities in the public tally. British chancellor says work is underway to get accurate data. Ains death toll has passed 18,000. Ths e rise in new infectis dropped to the lowest level since the nationwide lkdown last month. Spains Prime Minister says the country is far from victory. Canadas Prime Minister has warned it will be weeks before economic lkdown measures are lifted. Justin trudeau has addedllis country ave to remain vigilant until such time as a vaccine is found. His comments come in contrast to those of President Trump, who has urged a prompt reopening of the country, as we reported earlier. Barack obama endorsed joe biden today, saying he has the character and experience to guide america through one of the ste backing of h former boss gives biding a bs he seeks to unify the party. It comes one day after bernie sanderalso endorsedim. Katty kay has more. Just waiting for her. She is coming up on the significance of barack obama endorsing joe biden. Reporter f i you are running for anything as a democrat, mayor, congressman, the endorsement you really want ithat of barack obama. But the former president realized it was not just enough to say he likes joe biden, he had to remind americers that the former Vice President has experience leading in a crisis. Barack obama joe has the character anguexperience to e us through one of our darkest times and heal us through a long recovery. And i know he will surround himself wi good people. Experts, scientists, military officials, who actually know how to run the government. Reporter if you heard a bit of a dig at trump, you are not wrong. There is no love lost between the two. But there was a lot of love for barack obama knows they have to turn a vote for joe biden if they are going to take back thit house. Barack obama bernie has devoted hisin life to g voice to hopes, dreams, frustrations of working people. Reporter this was partly an appeal to Bernie Sanders at a tribute tooe biden but also a an attack on republican politics, wi the former corruption and meanness of the republican party. He ended by saying americans it isor time americans to believe in a better world again. Probably making democrats missing it even more. Laura still to come, why does cod19 make some people so much sicker than others . A new study yi the u. K. Is to find out. The International Monetary fund says thelobalmy ecos heading for the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. This lest report, the Institution Says the pandemic has plunged the world into a crisis like no other. Heres the imf chief economist. More details fmem the asse. We project gbal growth in 2020 to fall to 3 . This makes the Great Lockdown the worst recession since the Great Depression, and far worse than the Global Financial crisis. Assuming the pandemic fades in the second half of 2020, and that policy actions taken around the e world aective in preventing widespread bankruptcies extended job losses, and systemwide financial strains, we project Global Growth in 21 to rebound to 5. 8 . Laura a study of the. K. Is trying to understand why coronavirus symptoms vary so much from person to person. The hope is Genetic Information may explain why some people are so hard hit while others walk around with no symptoms. Rebecca morel has the story. Rebecca it is a big mystery wha the viru strike different people in so many ways. With the lockdown, streetsre empty so we had toecreate a crowd. Ve nopeople infected symptoms or get a mild to moderate disease. One in five has a more severe illness and cano on to need hospital treatment. A small numberill d. Scientists think the answer could be in our dna. What looks like an ordinary warehouse could hold the key. Insi is geneticaterial from half a million volunteers donated. They have followed the help for more than a decade and will we are looking ata the d understand the differences between those individuals. Differences in genetics, are hethere differences inenes related to immuno responses or Underlying Health . It is a uniquely rich set of data and i think we could go very quickly into getting very important discoveries. Rebecca scientists are looking for tiny variations in genetic material. They are examining genes like one that is involved in making a structure on the outside of lls in our airways that acts as a docking site for the virus, allowing it to enter and infect the cells. It could be that differences in peoples dna makest easier for the virus to lock on, resulting in more severe iness. Intensive care unitsre filling up and some patients are younger with no Underlying Health conditions. Th are the focus of a new study starting in new yorkas. For di like flu and herpes, some people carry genetic riations that make them seriously ill and tha could be the case. It was discovered that there are inborn areas of immunity that render huma beings specifically vulnerable to one crobe and this can be latent for decades until infection by that particular group. Sohat our program does is essentially testing whether this idea also applies to covid. Rebecca the rapid spread means there is no shortage of patits to study. It is hoped the work could identify those most at risk and lp in the hunt for new treatments. Laura the Tokyo Olympics have been postponed, leaving athletes uncertain about the future. Alison ackman, canadian swimmer, s hoping for a comeback. Her compatriot paula kelly understands. She had missed outn the 1980 olympics. This is the story of two would be olympians a generation apart. Not being able to swim his like and if she cannot scratch. I know this is heartbreaking for so many people. Athletes, coaes, staff, fans. Reporter at age 15, she was the youngest swimmer in the 1980 moow olympics. People were thinking, where did she come from . Reporter canada had boycotted the games and did not send a team to compete. How can a setback like this affect an athlete . To help answer that, we brought them together to talk. I think a week and a half after the conditiong and going hardcore training, it was hit etionally that it would not happen this year and allf the hard work building up just stopped. It hit me a little harder and iy amg to work more on the mental side things making sure i am staying happy. One thing that can happen, in your case, a virus that is microscopic. We cannot see it but look at the impact throughout the world. In 2016, i had some Mental Health issues but i was an olympic hopeful and set to make the team. Issed it and decided to retire. That summer i had to watch myy ream get metals with times i could have gotten. The bronze medal with times i could have gotten. As i get older, every four years when the olympics rolls around, i look back and i think, that opportunity to participate in the olympics . Laura lets quickly recap the top stories tonight. The u. S. H nearly 600,000 cases of coronavirus and more than 25,000 peop have died. There is a tugofwar between trump and governors over who has the authority to reopen the country. Mr. Trump claims he has total power to lift the lockdowns and others disagree. Barack obama has endorse joe bidens bid for the democratic nomination. Here is a tale of incredible dedication for oneer who sd his country in tough times. 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