Is famous for the Us Naval Academy and crab cakes. But the seafaring town is struggling to stay afloat. Chick and ruths delly has been here for 55 years, and has the character to prove it, but for how much longer . Its got a long legacy, very, very loyal customers, and were all very committed to coming out on the other side of this crisis. So its been tough . Tougher than anything ive experienced in a really long time. And business down how much . About 75 . Just around the corner on the main square, nothing is moving apart from the flags in the spring breeze. Situated here is the governor calvert hotel. It has 125 rooms and one guest the consequences of coronavirus have been brutal. Oh, its been horrible. So its affected us tremendously. We originally had about 70 people working here, and were now down to three
people working here. Whats happening to the people whove lost their jobs . Well, most of them are applying for unemployment, they re waiting for their relief cheques from the federal government, theyre going to foodbanks, theyre helping each other out, and whatever they can do just to survive this pandemic. Congress, three weeks ago, set up a 350 billion relief fund for small businesses. Today it ran out of money. The urgency to reopen is obvious, but marylands governor counselled caution. We want to get our economy back, we want to get people back to work, but we want to do so in a safe and smart way, because the worst possible thing we could do is to take actions too quickly. Today, donald trump met truckers, essential workers that have been keeping the us economy ticking over. Thank god for truckers. Thatll be our theme thank god for truckers. Hes going to outline tonight his plan for the states least affected by coronavirus to start lifting restrictions in the coming days, and for other regions to follow as quickly as possible. Its hard to overstate the epic magnitude of what has happened to annapolis, what has happened to america with these jobless totals. In the space of four weeks, a decade of Economic Growth has been obliterated. Jon sopel, bbc news, annapolis, maryland. 99 year old captain tom moore has completed his challenge he wanted to raise £1000. Tonight the total stands at more than 16 million, and its still pouring in. David sillito reports. You start at the beginning. Captain tom moore was keen to do things properly on the final leg of a journey that had begun as a family challenge and turned into something extraordinary. I think its a fantastic sum of money, we never imagined that sum of money, its unbelievable that people have been so kind. It began just over a week ago. The target 100 laps to mark his 100th birthday at the end of the month. A world war ii veteran born in keighley, he had served in burma. The family hoped they might be able to raise some money for Nhs Charities and set what they thought was a bold target, £1000. Within a day we had reached a couple of thousands and we thought, are we dreaming of the dizzying heights of £5,000 by the end of the month . We were floored at the thought of 5,000. A week later, it had slipped past a million. Steady, determined, optimistic, captain tom was proving inspirational, and as he began todays final lap, the total stood at more
than £12 million. He stepped towards the finish line to a chorus of congratulations. Ben stokes here. What you have achieved is fantastic. The funds you have raised for the real heroes today are sensational. I want to say thank you for everything you have done, congratulations on a brilliant idea and pulling it off and doing it all before your 100th birthday. On behalf of the yorkshire regiment family, i would like to say thank you to captain tom moore for your amazing fundraising efforts. Thank you, captain tom, from the nhs and then the moment. 100 laps completed. The millions raised honouring both the nhs and captain toms determination and eternal optimism. At the end of the day, we will all be ok again, and we are finding it difficult at the moment,
but the sun will shine on you again and the clouds will go away. However, its not over yet. If people keep giving, captain tom will keep walking. Thats it. Now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. Hello to our viewers in the uk and also around the world. Well be bringing you the latest briefing from the white house when that gets under way, we are expecting donald trump to start that and about 25 minutes time, expected to an announce the guidelines for opening up announce the guidelines for opening up america again. We will cross to that life. But before that, lets have a look at some of the national and international papers. Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are broadcaster david davies and olivia utley, deputy leader writer of the sun. Welcome to you both, good to speak to you. Lets look at tomorrows front pages, starting with. The Financial Times carries a warning from french president macron that the eu could collapse as a political project, if Financial Support is not made available for poorer members. The japan times reports that Prime Minister shinzo abe has decided to declare a nationwide state of emergency. That state of emergency has been declared in five cities so far. The uks Daily Telegraph leads with the news that the government has extended the period in which the country will be locked down. Also in the uk, the daily mirror asks how the countrys lockdown will end. A question that government ministers have been reluctant to address. The International New york times reports on how coronavirus is exacerbating problems faced
by People Living in a slum in the philippines. The uks times says the government has set five tests to be met before the country can loosen the lockdown restrictions. That was all announced in the press conference today. And the guardian carries a picture of war veteran captain tom moore, who will turn 100 this month, and has raised millions for charity by doing sponsored walks around his garden. So lets begin. 0livia, lets start with you, one of your main rivals, the daily mirror three more weeks under lockdown, what then . We were looking through the front pages of the papers, this isa the front pages of the papers, this is a question that government ministers really dont want to address forfear of
ministers really dont want to address for fear of mixing the messages. Yes, which is quite interesting because it is a very different approach from what france has done. Emmanuel macron came on the tele 3 4 days ago in france to say a lockdown would be on until seven may, then they would start using restrictions. He gave some idea about how those restrictions would be eased, like people having to wear facemasks would be eased, like people having to wearfacemasks in public. The uk for the second time has decided to ta ke for the second time has decided to take a very different approach and not explain at all when or how these lockdown restrictions might be lifted. And as you can see, the papers have been critical of that. Personally, i can see the point of not mixing messages, i can imagine if dominic raab were to say we would be out in three weeks, then the science showed that the virus actually had not peaked, for example, it would be difficult to ta ke example, it would be difficult to take that back. So i can understand not putting a date on it, but what
is hard to understand, and what a lot of pavers have picked up on, is why there is no explanation of how these restrictions might be lifted. So might younger people be going back to work first or in rural areas . Things like that which could really help people plan their lives, which would be very helpful from the government. David, you have a long career behind you in broadcasting, also in columns and advising institutions about how to deal with the press. I was listening to sir craig 0liver, whom we both know from oui craig 0liver, whom we both know from our tv days. He said that he detected this idea when dominic raab was speaking, this lockdown could go ona was speaking, this lockdown could go on a lot longer than three weeks. Is that what you got as well, that this might not be over by seven may . The honest answer that question is i dont believe the government knows the future holds beyond the end of this week. And you have to say that
they are worried sick that it might imply something, promise something, then fail hopelessly to deliver it. Where are this hundred thousand tests that they say at the moment that they have the capacity for 30,000 tests, and we are going to be at 100,000 by the end of the month . Really . We shall see. But the truth is there is real uncertainty within government. And you know, increasingly there is a team of i met michael gove during the referendum campaign, questioning our reliance. And here we are again we are relying on experts in the medical communities, when public
inquiry that follows this questions all those experts. I fear we may find huge divisions within the experts. Olivia, looking at the japan times, because one of the latest countries to address the seriousness of this pandemic, but now Emergency Powers to be extended nationwide. Whats interesting here is that because of the constitution, the state of emergency in the five cities before this were only guidelines, because constitutionally they were unable to impose that. Did you also pick up on that . Yes, and quite interesting that japan has held off so long from Something Like this, similar to sweden over in europe. And in this case, it is the constitutional thing and kind of incredible that the Prime Minister has managed to change the constitution or adapt the law quickly enough to impose these restrictions. I think the International Community will be quite relieved that japan is
International Community will be quite relieved thatjapan is now imposing these restrictions, because ijust keep thinking that if it turned out that japan, ijust keep thinking that if it turned out thatjapan, sweden ijust keep thinking that if it turned out that japan, sweden and other countries which did not impose such draconian lockdown measures had just the same sort of death rate as the countries which did, that i think quite a lot of people in populations with extreme lockdowns would say, look at them, look what japan did. They didnt wreck their economy or shut down the country, and there are no worse off than us. Soi and there are no worse off than us. So i think it will come as quite a relief to our government that serious lockdown measures are coming in andjapan serious lockdown measures are coming in and japan and possibly sweden soon, but obviously for horrible reasons that their death toll is rising. David, shinzo abe humbled by Coalition Partners who have slightly different views about how to deal with this. But again, japan looking at this helicopter cash idea which many other countries are looking at . They are, but one must also say, i
was quite surprised when i looked at the latest figures at the number of cases injapan, it was still around 9000. And only i think up to yesterday, 146 deaths. Now the wider point is trying to get to this balance, which we are going to have within weeks if we havent already got it, of on the one hand saving lives, on the other hand saving the economy. In the Prime Minister in japan is battling with that as we speak. Yes, and they have been blighted with economic woes the last 1520 blighted with economic woes the last 15 20 years, and reluctant to take on more debt. 0livia, on to the telegraph, because when this whole thing blew up, certainly in the uk, didnt it appear that the government was looking, even their chief
scientific officer was talking about herd immunity . But new Research Deals a blow to hopes of that working . Yes, the Research Suggests that it would take it may be 8 10 waves of coronavirus before there was a high enough percentage of herd immunity for that to work, suggesting that in the netherlands, where the virus peaked three weeks ago, and by the peak only 3 of the population were immune. Now there does seem to be so many studies from all other places into the effectiveness of herd immunity. There was one study from italy. It suggested that 60 65 of the population were already immune before the peak, wejust population were already immune before the peak, we just have no idea how many people are getting this a symptomatically. 0bviously thatis this a symptomatically. 0bviously that is so important to know, but i think the idea that we can rely on herd immunity was dismissed a long time ago