Capacity. In montana, bars and breweries and some stores can start letting customers in monday under strict social distancing rules. We also have some optimistic news on the treatment front this weekend. The fda has approved an experimental drug to fight the coronavirus. It is called remdesivir, and researchers say it may help patients who have covid19 recover more quickly. The fda issued an emergency use authorization for this drug just yesterday. Now, lets begin in washington, d. C. , where despite a stayathome order still in place there, large crowds flocked to the National Mall to witness the flyover of the blue angels and the Thunder Birds honoring the essential workers. Sarah westwood is on the scene for us at the National Mall. The blue angels and Security Officials asked people not to go there, not to congregate, yet the crowds were substantial. Reporter thats right, ana. Pictures do appear to show a fairly significant crowd did gather here on the National Mall behind me. As you can see, there are still a number of people who are out here today. Its, of course, beautiful, which surely drove a number of people from their houses. As you mentioned, the blue angels and the Thunder Birds were performing this flyover for essential workers, for doctors and nurses. I was there earlier today, it was around noon, i watched from behind the Capitol Building and people did appear to be attempting to practice social distancing where possible, staying about six feet apart but that was difficult once the flyover was over. People started flowing back on to the sidewalks, heading back to their houses. About half of the people that we saw were wearing masks. Now, d. C. Officials say that in this city, it is not at all clear that the peak of cases of covid19 has reached washington. There are nearly 4,800 positive cases of covid19 so far in washington, 240 people have died. Now, we have reached out to the Mayors Office and to the air force for comment on the fact that people did congregate despite the wishes of city officials and of the blue angels and the Thunder Birds who warned people in the three cities where these flyovers took place not to congregate to try to watch the flyovers from home and especially not to go to any monuments or places specific places to gather and watch this flyover. Now, even though, as you mentioned, there are places across the country that are starting to reopen, washington, d. C. , is not one of them. There is stayathome order in place in the Nations Capital until at least may 15th and that could, of course, be extended so that is not the case here in d. C. People have been asked to remain home here, ana. Okay, Sarah Westwood in washington, d. C. , for us. Thank you. The blue angels and the Thunder Birds also flew over atlanta this afternoon. This was the scene there as people flocked to a local park to watch that flyover. They do seem to be giving each other some space, though, at least from our images here. The statewide stayathome order expired in georgia on thursday night and Governor Brian Kemp is still encouraging residents to practice social distancing and wear Face Coverings in public settings. Now to the race to develop an effective coronavirus vaccine. The company that is creating the most buzz got nearly a half billion dollars from the federal government, but it has never brought an approved vaccine to market. Cnns Senior Investigative correspondent drew griffin explains why so many people are pinning their hopes on this unproven technology. Reporter three weeks ago, ian hayden was injected with one of the first possible vaccines across the novel coronavirus. He runs, takes his temperature several times a day, and he has not gotten sick. Today, i feel exactly like i did two months ago. I have absolutely no symptoms. Nothing to report. Reporter hayden was injected with a vaccine using a new medical Technology Developed by a company which has never had a drug or vaccine approved for market. The basic technology, synthesizing messenger rna, a molecule in a persons body, prompting the body to make its own medicine. In this case, directing living cells to kill off any novel coronavirus. In theory, the Science Behind the vaccine should work. In reality, no one knows for sure. Moderna ceo promoted the Companys Technology and speed at this meeting at the white house march 2nd, which President Trump ran like an episode of shark tank. We want it fast, okay . Reporter most of the companies were talking vaccines sometime in 2021. When modernas ceo took his turn, he told the president this. Get the human data that will allow us to stop right away. So youre talking over the next few months you could have a vaccine. Correct. Yeah. You wont have a vaccine. Youll have a vaccine to test. Reporter dr. Anthony fauci tried to temper the enthusiasm. The next day, the fda green lit the product for a trial and within weeks the federal government pledged to give moderna up to 483 million, more than any other vaccine company. Moderna had an edge over other companies. Its scientists had already been collaborating with the nih on a vaccine for another similar virus so it was able to quickly pivot. Professor petrovsky, whos working with a competitor, is just one of the experts who questioned whether the u. S. Governments investment makes sense. If we want to really have an impact on this pandemic, then we should be using vaccine platforms that have been proved to be safe and effective, rather than an unproven technology. We have delivered on everything that we have promised. Reporter the chief medical officer, interviewed via computer from his base in boston. Actually, the Public Investment proportionally is a small investment on top of what this company has invested in its Core Technology for years now. Reporter for the last decade, the company has been trying to use its mrna technology to cure cancer, restore damaged tissues, even cure Heart Disease and develop vaccines. The research, promising. The results, mixed. Moderna has never brought a vaccine to market, never had a drug fda approved, and skeptics are wondering why your company was able to achieve this contract. Were a Young Company with an Emergent Technology and for that reason, we have not yet brought anything to full licensure. We have time and again demonstrated Clinical Results in phase one across multiple different vaccine applications. Reporter but Vaccine Development is tough. Even the lead investigator for the trial at Emory University says nothing is certain. If its successful, it could allow us to shorten the timeline for developing new vaccines in the future. But it comes with its own challenges. Reporter dr. Evan anderson says challenges for this type of vaccine include that its difficult to store, difficult to mass produce, and no one knows yet whether its effective. The nih is testing modernas vaccine on humans without waiting for animal trials, a speed that was unheard of before the pandemic. The company is already preparing to produce its vaccine in mass quantities on the sheer hope it gets approved and can be distributed almost immediately. The biggest source of pressure is the fact that, you know, this is personal. I think for my colleagues and i who are in the front line of trying to develop the vaccine, its an equal weight of the sense of potential that we can do something about it and a tremendous sense of responsibility that we have to do something about it. Reporter ana, as moderna seeks to move towards phase two and phase three trials of this vaccine, its also partnering with a Pharmaceutical Company to ramp up manufacturing. If this does get some sort of approval, the company says it could begin delivering vaccines as early as late 2020 in the millions of doses a month and tens of millions of doses by 2021. Ana . We all hope its successful. Thank you, drew. Joining us now, dr. William, professor of the division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt UniversityMedical Center and dr. Long, physician in the university of Tennessee Health system. Historically, it has taken years to do human Clinical Trials and get vaccines approved for polio, for instance, in the 1950s, it took about three years, it took about that long for rubella in the 1960s. It took two years for mumps. Many take much longer. So, does it give you pause when a company says it can guarantee a safe vaccine vacciwithin mont . Well, they cant guarantee it. They have to demonstrate it. And yes, were all skeptical. Were looking at the data. But the technology is different today, and this vaccine is being built on the basis of technology thats been explored before, so we do have a lot of safety data on the basis of vaccines that were made in a very similar way and have gone through Clinical Trials. So, were not cutting corners here, but we have the capacity today to move faster. That feels good to hear. Thats for sure. Dr. Long, i wanted to ask you about something we heard from dr. Fauci at the town hall on thursday. He issued a pretty scary warning about many things that can go wrong when testing a vaccine. Lets listen to that. Just say i have a vaccine, throw it into people, what people dont appreciate because theyre so intent to getting a vaccine quickly is that there could be deleterious, negative effects of enhancement of infection. Dr. Long, i have read that most vaccine attempts fail. If that is the case, how far along in the process does it take a company to determine this product works and is safe . Ana, youre exactly right. For all of the vaccine candidates that may exist, very few will actually make it to market. Thats why we have all these different phases of trials. Thats why i think its very wise idea for us to invest in a number of different options and definitely not put all of our eggs in one basket so that we can be sure that something will be able to come to market. I do think that a number of companies are doing something that is wise that they mentioned in the packet ahead of time and that is manufacturing at risk. That means theyre going ahead to determine, lets figure out how to manufacture this vaccine, before we know which one will actually work, its a financial risk, but its going to save us a lot of time in actually getting, once we figure out what works, getting it to market. Doctor, the people in modernas trial are getting injected with this vaccine that has not been previously tried out in animals. They got permission from the nih to do that but how unusual is it for a vaccine to be tested on humans without first being tested on animals . Well, mind you, ana, this company has used very similar vaccines in other circumstances, and the fda is using the safety data that has been garnered before to permit this vaccine to go forward in people. If it hadnt been used before, i dont think they would have done that. They would have gone through animals first. But that work has been done previously using other vaccines that are created in an entirely similar way. Dr. Long, what do you think . Would you feel comfortable being injected with that vaccine . I mean, i know that one of the potential risks is that a vaccine thats in development could actually make a virus worse, make the symptoms worse, and thats when you realize, okay, this is the vaccine that were not going to use, obviously, but thats isnt that the whole reason for doing animal trials first . Well, thats the whole reason why we have this series of Clinical Trials and the way that we typically do it. As dr. Schaffner mentioned, this is technology that has existed before and were in the setting of a pandemic which means we may not follow the exact same protocols that we have before but we need to be careful about that. We need to not cut corners in a way thats a kneejerk or emotional way, we need to do it in a systematic way so we dont inject people with something that is risky and end up with some deleterious consequences. I think we need to do that for two reasons. One, we need to make sure that the vaccine that comes to market is safe and effective. And secondly, we need to make sure that our population can trust this vaccine so that theyre willing to go ahead and get it. Thats just as important. Dr. Schaffner, the World Health Organization says 102 potential coronavirus vaccines are in development around the world. Aid of the potential vaccines are already approved for Clinical Trials. Is it possible we could end up with more than one vaccine . Well, exactly as dr. Long has said, were not putting our eggs all in one basket. There are scientists around the world trying to develop vaccines using a variety of different technologies. Its a little bit of a race, and we hope that a number of them are successful. And apropos of taking vaccines as a volunteer, i can tell you ive been a vaccine volunteer in a number of different vaccine trials. There are a lot of people who are willing to do that, fully informed that there might be some risk. Dr. Schaffner, let me just come back to you for a second because you have talked about how the technology being used and this vaccine had sort of a head start in some ways. How long will it take, do you think, before we know that there is some efficacy here . Even if its not, you know, all the way through the process, at what part in the process do you p the largest trial in which you have a group of people who got the vaccine, a group of people who did not. They received a placebo. You dont know whos who. You watch them for a period of time, and then you see who got sick and who didnt and then you have the big reveal. Now, im not close to this trial, so i dont know the exact timeline, but weve heard that it might have information really by late this fall, early winter. Dr. Long, do you believe the coronavirus is going to be like the flu in that vaccine effectiveness will vary year to year, for example, a flu shot might be 60 effective one year and then less than 20 another year. So, ana, that is something that were all looking at. It does not seem that the covid virus mutates at exactly the same speed as flu, which could be a very good thing. But to that point, also, there are some pharmaceutical companies that are aiming to create a vaccine that may be just effective for a year or two, with the thought being that if you do that, its easier to make that vaccine. It can get us to market faster and at least that puts us a year or two ahead and then we can be developing the next solution with time and get back to normal sooner. Dr. Long and dr. William schaffner, its really great to have you both here. We appreciate your experience and expertise on this. Thank you. Thank you. My pleasure. The numbers are completely unprecedented. More than 30 million americans filing jobless claims in the past 6 weeks. When will the economy be able to recover . Well ask the experts next. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. For nearly 100 years, weve worked to provide you with the financial strength, stability, and online tools you need. And now its no different. Because helping you through this crisis is what were made for. Unlike ordinary wmemory supplementsr . Neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. Memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. Try neuriva for 30 days and see the difference. No community has been spared from the unprecedented economic chaos caused by the coronavirus pandemic. In the past week, 3. 8 million americans filed jobless claims. That means that in the past six weeks, a total of more than 30 million americans have filed unemployment claims. These are not just data points. They are Everyday Americans who are now struggling to survive without a paycheck and have no indication when they will be able to get one. With us now is cnns chief Business Correspondent christine ro romans and mark zandy. The next jobs report will be released next friday. Its expected to show 14 unemployment in april. However, you believe unemployment, including underemployment, may actually be closer to 25 right now. America has only seen that one other time, the Great Depression in the 1930s. Explain why you think its that high and have we hit rock bottom . Yeah, thats right, ana. You know, to be counted as unemployed, you have to be out of work and you have to be actively searching for another job. Of course, on these shelter in place rules, many people cant actively look for work. Its just not something they can do. So they wont be counted as officially unemployed. But if you look at the folks that are not counted as unemployed in that situation, add them back in and also consider all of the other underemployed people who have lost hours that they would like more hours but theyve lost hours, i think 25 of the labor force will be underemployed and youre right, you have to go all the way back to the 1930s depression 1933, to be exact, so that gives you a sense of how much stress is out there across the country. Christine, rent was due on the 1st. One other point. You asked me when would just to finish off your question. You asked me when would be when would we see the worst of it . I think april will be the worst of it with the business reopenings were now starting to see across the country, i do think if not in may, with the may report, but certainly with the june july reports we should start to see some job growth and unemployment start to come in. So april will be, i think, with a little bit of luck, and hopefully a vaccine in the not too distant future, april will end up being the very worst month for the economy. Well, im keeping my fingers crossed but not holding my breath because christine, we know rent was due on the 1st. Thats just friday. We know in april, a third of rent payments werent made. How much worse do you expect the may numbers to be . And what do you see as the domino effect of those missed rent payments . Well, i think the money has got to get into peoples pockets, and youve seen millions of people get these stimulus checks, thats really, really important. The Small Business loan program, incredibly important for main street. It has been clunky, there is still a lot of frustration and anxiety about that, but the money is beginning to flow. You have, you know, stimulus and bailouts worth about 2. 5 trillion, more than 2. 5 trillion in the economy right now. As quickly as that money can get into peoples pockets, i think that is going to at least keep people whole. You know, im really concerned that people dont know whats all in the c. A. R. E. S. Act to help them. There was a lot of confusion about whether you could delay your mortgage payment in april and again in may. Talk to your lender. If you have a federally backed loan, you should be able to get some sort of forbearance. There was some real confusion about whether you had to pay everything back then in july, if you had three months of a pause. Go back to your lender and see what you can do. And talk to your, you know, talk to your landlord if you cant pay the rent and explain, i didnt get my stimulus check yet or i havent gotten my Unemployment Benefits. There are Unemployment Benefits that are pretty generous under the c. A. R. E. S. Act and that extra 600 or so a week that the federal government has promised hasnt reached it to everybody yet. That will be retroactive so there could be money flowing soon. Let me play something the president said this week about the economy. Lets listen. Well, i think were going to have a great Third Quarter, and its going to be a transition, so when i say great, i think the transitions going to be really terrific. And were going to take it into the fourth and i think were going to have, potentially, a great fourth quarter. Theres tremendous pentup demand. So, mark, you expressed optimism that with some of these reopenings, maybe we have hit rock bottom, but do you agree there that theres enough pentup demand for the economy to completely bounce back by the end of the year . Well, the president s half right. The Third Quarter should be a good quarter because we are reopening up businesses, 31 states are now in the process of opening up. That should help to lift jobs and growth as we make our way through the summer months. But hes wrong on the other side of that. Once those businesses have largely reopened, those that can reopen, because there will be many businesses that will fail, they wont make their way through all of this, but on the other side of this, unemployment will still be high. I think that its going to feel like the economys in quick sand until we have some kind of medical solution to this. Hopefully that vaccine but if not a vaccine, hopefully a therapy that makes us all feel more comfortable because until that day, i dont see people coming out of the bunker in any significant way and until they do, i dont see this economy kicking into a higher gear. So, q4, early next year, i think, will be a slog. To marks point, christine, even as states begin to allow states to reopen, it doesnt necessarily mean the consumers will automatically be flocking back to shopping malls or restaurants. How much do you think the Public Health piece will impact Consumer Behavior and whether the economy will bounce back . The science is 100 of the Consumer Confidence piece of it. 100 . And people are not going to go and put their own families at risk. I dont think theyre going to go back to the way life was in january or february for some time. It will be a new way americans interact. And if theres any kind of a flareup or any kind of the curve, you know, steepening again, i think that could be devastating for Consumer Confidence. So, i think that every business and i know a lot of Big Companies are being very careful about this, trying to figure out how to bring employees back, how to have shoppers or their customers feel safe, a lot is being done on the business level to sort of bring that confidence back, but the Public Health part of it has to be addressed and fixed first before consumers will feel confident again and all the polls ive seen show that the majority of people are not going to go back to their old habits just because theyre reopening. We talked with a woman from the Airline Industry, the flight attendants association, talking about how the future of travel is going to end up being so different and how right now it is, you know, crickets on those planes. Christine romans, mark zandi, i really appreciate both of you. Thank you. Coming up, data indicates there may be a glimmer of hope in new york citys fight against the coronavirus. As you can see, its a beautiful, sunny day in the city. Lot of people are getting outside. Officials are pleading with residents not to ease up on social distancing. Mayor bill de blasio is emphasizing the city is not out of the woods. Hell join me live to explain why next. Lets raise a cup. To those who donate their time. Who go from making coffee to making masks. And turn their store into so much more. From all of us at dunkin, to all the heroes keeping everyone running. We thank you. To all the heroes keeping everyone running. What did verizon build their network for . People. And when people are depending on you to make an average of over 600 million calls and send nearly 8 billion texts every day. You do whatever it takes. Noticks and fleas . O simplifies protection. See ya heartworm disease . No way simparica trio is the first chewable that delivers all this protection. 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Of course this is at the same time coming on the same week as we heard from new york city officials that those numbers are certainly still alarming. For example, we heard from Governor Andrew Cuomo today say that the number of deaths are still obnoxious least and terribly high, to use his words. Also, the rate of infection, at least 900 a day across the state is also something thats quite alarming. Of course officials here in new york state are trying to turn to those hospital administrators and hospital staff as they try to find out exactly how these people are still getting sick. In the meantime, in the streets of new york, people are out and about. What we have heard from the nypd is that they continue to remind the public of those guidelines that are in place, to cover your face if youre out and about, of course, to have those masks on hand, especially if youre unable to keep that social distancing to social distance and to stay at home if you dont necessarily have to head out, and thats something that were seeing, of course, in some parts of new york, but for the most part, yes, there are people out and about, so officials are certainly recommending if you are going to be doing that, to simply take these precautions to not only keep yourself safe but also those around you as well. Ana . Okay. Paolo sandoval, thank you. Lets bring in new york city mayor bill de blasio. Mayor, good to have you with us. What is your reaction to the crowds out at central park today . Ana, we expected this and prepared for this. Nypd is out in forbes ace and a of other city agencies out there with a very clear message ive been giving people all week which is, if you want to go out for a while, get some exercise, get some fresh air, thats totally understandable. Dont linger too long. Get back home. While youre out there, keep that Face Covering on, keep that social distance. But anyone who tries to resist these basic rules and tries to create a public gathering, for example, or tries to put together a sports event or anything like that, the nypd is going to immediately give them a summons, and these are hefty m summons, and were going to be very uncompromising about it. If everyone follows the rules, thats great but if not, theres going to be very intense enforcement. What does that look like so far . Have people been following the rules . I saw the enforcement numbers from an hour or so ago and they looked, actually, quite good. The vast majority of people have gotten the message and thats the story of new york city over these past weeks, ana. People have heard that we need them to stay home overwhelmingly. They have, even with good weather, theyve gone out for a while, but then they get back home. Our kids, obviously, have been at home. Thats been tough on them. But families have been doing that the right way. And people are overwhelmingly abiding by that social distancing. More and more people putting on the Face Coverings. Were giving them out for free today all over the city to make it easier for people. So new yorkers have been Pretty Amazing in following rules in a place where its tough. Theres so many people in one place and yet new yorkers are doing their job here. And like you said, it seems to be having an impact. There are a number of positive signs that weve seen this week from the Navy Ship Comfort departing to the javits field sternolonger accepting any new patients, the park Central Hospital will stop accepting patients on monday and we know the nypd is getting healthier from at one point having 21 of the workforce out sick to 7 out sick so these are all positive signs. Is it safe to say the worst is behind new york . Ana, i want to say that but i want to also acknowledge this is a ferocious disease. Never turn your back on this disease. Never discount it. The way were going to ensure that the worst is behind us is by keeping up these tough rules. So, we, of course, we all want to restart, but were not going to restart until we have harder evidence that weve turned the corner. I agree with what the governor said earlier. Were talking about new york city alone, thousands more people testing positive each day, hundreds more deaths each day. We are not out of the woods. And were not going to rush it. Were going to make sure that were absolutely certain weve beat back this disease. Now to do that, ana, this month, were initiating a huge testing program, testing people and then tracing their contacts and then those people get tested too and quarantining people who test positive to help reduce the spread. We do not have all the Testing Capacity we need. This is still one of the biggest problems in this whole horrible crisis weve been through, the federal government has still not led the way on testing, even at this hour. We do not have the lab capacity we need to get to the kind of level of testing, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands a day is what we really need. So this is going to be a struggle. And the federal government will do its job, we can do it a lot quicker, but i havent seen that evidence yet. So youre talking about diagnostic testing. Theres also been a lot of Antibody Testing happening in new york, and weve learned about 20 of those tested in new york city have tested positive for antibodies. What do those numbers tell you, and where would you like those numbers to be in terms of making decisions on how best to move forward . The Antibody Testing is imperfect. We know this. Dr. Fauci and others have been very clear about it. So it tells us something. It tells us something about exposure. It does not tell us for sure that people cant get the disease again. We tell anyone even if youve had the test, yeah, i keep taking all the precautions. The diagnostic testing, i think, is, in many ways, more valuable for what we have to do now which is to figure out who needs to be isolated while they might be transmitting the disease so we can really, really squeeze that, you know, the disease and reduce the transmission. So, well be using both, but my goal here is widespread diagnostic testing as the leading edge of this. And yet, time is ticking and people arent getting paid. You told wolf blitzer here on cnn last night that you have a 7. 4 billion gap in your budget and that you, along with mayors all over the country, are having to think about furloughing or even laying off Public Employees like police officers, firefighters, healthcare workers, sanitation workers, teachers. I mean, is that something you are seriously considering . Those jobs are on the table . Ana, its horrible to say, but its not only me considering it. I have talked to mayors around the country, republican and democrat both, some of them already instituting furloughs, some of them are already planning on layoffs, not because they want to. They think it will be horrible for their city. They think its going to hold back the recovery. I can tell you, if we have to make those kind of choices, if we cannot provide basic services, it will be much, much harder to ever get to the day where we restart our economy and lead a national recovery. And new york city and all cities have to be part of a national recovery. Right now, if we do not get stimulus funding that makes us whole, in my case, a 7. 4 billion budget deficit, just for the next year, let alone for the future, and the same is happening to cities and counties and states all over the country, if were not made wheewhee whole, we cannot be a part of this recovery because well be laying people off just when you want to be hiring more and more people, and ana, i remind you that last stimulus three gave 58 billion to the Airline Industry alone. How on earth are americas cities and counties and states being left out . We cannot let that happen if we expect to see a recovery in this country. Well, according to the white house economic advisor, that may be what happens. He said there may not be another stimulus bill. Here he is just this morning. Right, well, the president has said that he categorically rejects the idea of a bailout for states that have been irresponsible for a long time but to the extent that the costs of covid on states, you know, blue and red, you know, all of them, are high enough that maybe they need financial support, then hes willing to negotiate about that should there be a phase four deal. I think right now, because theres been good news, really, that the opening up is starting to happen, you know, faster than we expected, appears to be doing so safely, then there is a chance that we wont really need a phase four. Whats your reaction to that . Ana, its outrageous. And it really disgusts me. You have cities and states, it is not their fault that this horrible coronavirus came to our country. The only fault lies in washington that when we could have stopped it with testing, our federal government did not provide it to us. And so now you have cities and states that are suffering, people are suffering, and our is this guy serious . If we end up without the support we need and we have to lay off firefighters, police officers, healthcare workers, teachers, sanitation workers, is he saying its our fault that the coronavirus came to our shores, to our city . Thats outrageous and thats inappropriate, and anyone who says that bluntly should be fired because its disrespectful to the First Responders and the healthcare workers who have been the heroes in this crisis and now have to wonder if their jobs going to be there in a few months. Mayor, we appreciate you taking the time. Its a tough task that you have ahead of you. Thank you, and we wish you all the best and of course all the people of new york city. Thank you. Breaking news. After days of speculation about his health, north korean state media has released this image. They say its kim jongun smiling and waving and cutting the red tape there. President trump has just reacted to this. Well bring you the latest next. To everyone navigating these uncertain times. Whether youre caring for your family at home or those at work, principal is by your side. Were working hard to answer your questions. Like helping you understand what the recently passed economic package can mean for you. Were more than a financial company. Were a together we can get through anything company. Now, more than ever. Now to some breaking news, President Trump tweeting on the status of kim jongun. After weeks of speculation about the north korean leaders health. The president saying, i, for one, am glad to see he is back all well. That tweet comes after north korean state media released this image of kim that they say is of him attending the opening of a new factory. Cnn cannot independently confirm the photo or the date when this was shot. Cnn correspondent will ripley has been to north korea 19 times. Hes joining us live from tokyo. Will, we heard he was seriously ill, had missed some big public events. What should we read into this photo . Reporter well, ana, its not just a photo, but north korean state media released a very long video that does seem to show that kim jongun is alive and as President Trump put it, hes back. But the unanswered question, the question we may never get the answer to is, back from what . Kim jongun vanished from public view for three weeks. He was last seen in public on april 11th at a bureau meeting. He missed the day of the sun holiday several days later, the celebration of his grandfathers birthday, the north korean founder. That has never happened in his nearly nine years of ruling north korea and that led to cnn reporting intelligence that kim had a surgical procedure and may have been in grave danger. A lot of people are looking at this video and photo as proof that that reporting was completely incorrect. Im not convinced and a lot of other medical professionals who are looking at the video in the photos arent necessarily convinced either because you can see, for one hand, all the people in the crowd have surgical face masks on along with kims security detail, even though north korea has denied having a single case of coronavirus inside the country. Kim is driving around on a golf cart, which is the same golf cart that he was seen using back in 2014 after he reportedly had surgery on his ankle. Theres even doctors looking at every frame of the video, trying to see are there any marks on kim that could indicate some kind of a surgical procedure . Weve had our health team look. They say its inconclusive but in a country as secretive as north korea, ana, we have to look at all these little clues to try to figure out something that north korea isnt telling us, why was he gone for so long. Thank you as always. Thank you for your reporting. A quick programming note now. 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