Out very quickly. You heard from the president there. The goal of a vaccine by the end of the year. This is an aggressive time line that most Health Experts claim is unrealistic at best. At worse, potentially dangerous. Well have more in a moment from scientists about why they believe overpromising could be detrimental. Theres also a new warning on the number of people who potentially will die in the u. S. As the plans to reopen continue. The director of the cdc is forecasting more than 100,000 people will have died by the end of this month potentially, more on that in a moment as well. Were covering all angles. We want to start with Kristen Holmes whos with us from the white house right now. So the president said the country would return to normal with or without a vaccine. Walk us through what he said. Reporter good morning. Thats absolutely right. He kind of really stuck to this point in the rose garden, continuing to say that the virus is going to go away without a vaccine. This is something top Health Experts, including members of his own task force have said is not true as recently as this week. That wasnt the only thing the Health Experts pushed back on. The other thing was the time line. President trump saying that operation warp speed aimed to have hundreds of millions of doses of the vaccine available to the public by the end of the year. And theres a lot of doubt that that could happen, particularly given coronavirus and the fact that we are still learning some of its impacts on the human body. Take a listen to what President Trump said on how he was going to get that done. Typically pharmaceutical companies wait to manufacture a vaccine until it is received all of the Regulatory Approvals necessary, and this can delay vaccines availability to the public as much as a year and even more than that. However, our task is so urgent that under operation warp speed, the federal government will invest in manufacturing all of the top vaccine candidates before theyre approved. Reporter so two notes i want to make about this. One of them being the manufacturing is a big deal. There is a hold up there. We know the government has already started to procure some of the items needed like needles and syringes but its not just t vaccine, its the science. One point that dr. Fauci made this week while it was possibly that a vaccine could come out in a short time period, there was no guarantee it could work. Which stressed out a lot of people in the medical community particularly given the fact that theres an antivaccine movement. They dont want people to lose faith in vaccinations. Thats one element pushing the tension between the white house and the cdc, what else have you learned . Reporter thats right. We have new reporting coming out about that tension. Its really on both sides here. It surrounds two big things which is how quickly the u. S. Should reopen and how the government collects data. Essentially we learned that dr. Birx, who is very close to the president , has become a key member of the task force has been frustrated with the cdc. She has lashed out at the director, Robert Redfield and said that you cannot trust the data coming out of there. Essentially theyre using an antiquated system to collect the data which she said is dangerous because some of it doesnt come for weeks. So the Community Working off old data as were trying to get a reopening here. But the distrust is on both sides of the aisle. Nick valencia reporting with me, talking to cdc officials in atlanta, who said theyve been disappointed with dr. Birx and her pushing back on some of the comments that President Trump has made that we know are untrue. Kristen holmes, thank you so much. We appreciate it. Be sure to visit our website, cnn. Com, you can get more of kristens reporting there as wetzre getting some of that in now. You might be wondering how realistic is the end of the year vaccine plan, dr. Leigh wynn is with us now. Always appreciate and grateful for your insight here. Thank you for being with us. So that right off the top as we are just getting out of that conversation, do you believe a usable vaccine is realistic by the end of the year . Optimistic, maybe. Realistic, not at all. I mean, there are so many steps that have to work perfectly in order for that benchmark to be met and i dont see it. Even the idea of developing a vaccine thats safe and effective by the end of the year already would be the fastest thats it ever happened in Human History and then talking about manufacturing it, manufacturing 330 million doses is no small task then we have to distribute it as well. We have to administer the vaccine because its not the vaccine that saves lives its the vaccination. And seeing the response of the Trump Administration thus far to try to get widespread testing, weve known for months we need a lot of tests and were not close to getting there. I guess im not sure how were going to ramp up the efforts to get this vaccine, even if its developed in time. I want to ask you about something that you wrote about harm reduction, and you think thats where the country has gone, that we have were not trying to eliminate the virus anymore as much as were trying to reduce the arm of it. You wrote, we failed with the lack of testing largely to blame instead of individual level containment, which would have had minimal effect on the economy, we had to employ societal level lockdowns to slow the explosive spread of the virus and buy us time until we developed the capacity to rein it in. Would it have been effective to lockdown from the beginning, if we learn from what we do lockdown the 20 of the people who were most vulnerable to this and just let everybody else go about their business and if that is possible is it too late for Something Like that . Christi, what i would have done at the beginning, again hindsight is 20 20, but what i would have done is identify each person testing positive so you dont have to do the societal level lockdown at all. If you can identify every individual who as positive and trace contacts you can rein in the infection at that point. But the point was to get the infection to a low enough level that the testing, tracing, isolation was going to work again. That was our strategy but we decided were not going to follow that strategy anymore. Its too hard. Weve gone halfway and people have made these tremendous sacrifices but somehow we said were not going to do that anymore were going to reopen despite us not being ready to do so. As a result i want for us to be honest about that and say, we just decided were not going to eliminate the virus were going to try to live with it. If thats the case we need to switch to a strategy of reducing the harm. If there is risky behavior thats happening that none of us in Public Health think its a good idea. None of us think its a good idea that restaurants and bars are open, people arent practicing social distancing, but none of that is happening. So we need to protect the most vulnerable and do good hand hygiene, not have Mass Gatherings and social events as much as possible and try to reduce the risk to each other. Youve been such a strong voice in this, doctor, thank you for being with us. Lets go to polo sandoval, in binghampton, new york. One of the regions that can move to phase one now. Whats that look like . Reporter remember, victor, back in late march, when new York Governor Andrew Cuomo issued his executive order and the pause component here that closed all nonessential businesses. Fast forward now two months later to this weekend when about five new york regions, including this place where we are, allowed to begin some of that reopening, phase 1. However, thats only for a small percentage of the population. A majority of them, in fact, many of the people who live in new york city they still have to remain home. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo extending the states stayathome order through may 28th. Maintain restrictions for the more populated regions like new york city which have not hit all seven of the benchmarks by the state to begin the reopen process. If a region hits the benchmark at any time, regardless of the pause order, then that region can open. Were opening phase one in those five regions today. Thats allowing curb side retail, manufacturing and construction work to resume and more sparsely populated communities in the state hardest hit. In upstate new york, this contractor already fielding calls. I think ill have maybe four guys on a job, thats less than normal. Reporter and beaches reopening for memorial day weekend. Neighboring states, new jersey, delaware and connecticut also planning on opening up their shores. By sunday 48 u. S. States will have partially reopened despite recent uptick in covid19 deaths across the state, texas is on track to reopen exercise facilities and expand capacities in restaurants and movie 2450e9 theatres on monday. If youre inside, make sure youre doing the social distance. And then sanitize machines and surfaces after use. Reporter meanwhile the centers for Disease Control and prevention designed new flowcharts to help communities and businesses decide if they can reopen. It came after lengther guide lines were shelved by the white house this week. And a new illness from the coronavirus to children. The agency putting a call out to states across the country asking them to report suspected cases. Theyre hoping to better understand the rare but potentially deadly condition. Were all putting our Heads Together to get an answer to what is driving this, the best treatments and then once we have those answers we can be in a better position to make datadriven recommendations. Reporter back to governor andrew cuomo. He also added that some of the regions that have entered phase one, its important to remember that that doesnt mean the problem is over, its in control and calling on the local governments who decided to move forward with the slow, gradual reopening, to continue to monitor the covid numbers. If theres any up tick, you can expect that region to be put back on pause and the businesses to close again. Polo sandoval, thank you so much. Good to see up. Were coming close to memorial day weekend and some Florida Beach resorts are starting to reopen. This morning we spoke with bill whiteluos, the general manager of the pink shell resort in fort myers. And yesterday they started welcoming back workers and guests, but on a limited basis. What are you eyeing right now . What are you paying real specific attention to as you reopen to try to determine what is going to be your new normal . As victor said, what are guests going to see from this point on in your opinion . The key for us is the social distancing. So we wont be operating the resort at 100 . Based off the chairs on the pool deck, the beach, 6 foot. Restaurant the governor has opened up starting on monday which will be making an adjustment. But those are the new norms for us right now just to ensure social distancing throughout the resort. And our guests are doing it and having a fantastic time. 99 of the employees we called immediately came back. 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This is raising questions after the chairman of the House Foreign AffairsCommittee Said steve linick had opened an investigation into secretary of state mike pompeo. Sarah westwood with us now. With that in mind, is the white house giving any clarity as to the decisionmaking for the president on this one . Reporter christi, theyre not yet. Theres still a lot we dont know about why the state Department Watchdog was removed last night. We know in a letter to House Speaker nancy pelosi on friday evening President Trump wrote he no longer had full confidence in steve linick, that is the state Department Inspector general. And that move is already drawing criticism from democrats, including speaker pelosi. I want to read you part of a statement she issued yesterday saying the president s late night weekend firing of the Inspector General has accelerated his dangerous pattern of retaliation against the patriotic Public Servants charged with conducting oversight on behalf of the american people. He was punished for performing his duty to protect the constitution and our National Security as required by the law and his oath. Elliott ingle said shortly after the firing he had been made aware that steve linick had opened an investigation into secretary of state mike pompeo and a congressional aide tells cnn that investigation was related to allegations that pompeo had used a political appointee inappropriately for personal tasks for him and his wife. Those sources close to steve linick said they werent aware the investigation had been opened. The office of Inspector General did not respond to a request for a comment. So a lot of confusion about that investigation, if it was opened. 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There is a big difference, though, between the different businesses here at Atlantic Station because on this side we have a restaurant thats doing just takeout at their window. You can sit down at those chairs but you wont really have fullservice. Thats a decision this independent owner made. Here is what she said about how she looks at the situation. Im excited to open. But im also, you know, reacting to the Customer Base that comes and dines with us. And were not seeing people running back out into the streets right now. I think youre seeing that out maybe more in the suburbs, in urban environments, where theres a little more saturation, i guess well say, and density. Were seeing a lot more caution and were reacting to that, you know. Reporter and we have heard about certain restaurants in the metro area that have seen a lot of cars or that people are packed there. Remember, this week Georgia Governor Brian Kemp actually relaxed restaurant rules a bit so you can now have up to 10 people per party at a table instead of six. But it is a mixed bag. If you are talking about the suburbs we visited avalon mall about a week or so ago when the retail shops began to open. We got an update from their general manager and staff yesterday talking about how now most of their restaurants are reopened their retail shots and they see an increase in traffic as well. If we want to look at how this is playing out with the health impact, lets take a look at the numbers here. We have a sevenday average graph here showing the general pattern of daily new cases. And what were seeing is that its unsteadily trending downward a bit. The good news youre not seeing a huge spike in daily cases, youre not seeing a huge dramatic decrease either. So good or bad news depending on how you have look at it. And there are officials, like the mayor of atlanta, cautioning people to stay at home if they can, despite the fact that things are open. Because she said if we stop being vigilant about it the graph can change and shift again in the coming weeks. So three weeks is the time to see the good news there hasnt been a dramatic increase but people like her dont want to see that happening in the coming weeks. Preliminary data and were waiting to see the entire picture. Natasha chen there for us, thanks so much. The white house, as weve been talking, is looking to fast track a vaccine. Experts say their end of year time line is unrealistic. But researchers do have tools to speed things along. One of those if they choose to use it is called the human challenge trial. Drew griffin explains what it is. Reporter he donated a kidney last summer now rory is ready to volunteer again, this time as a guinea pig in a vaccine trial to be injected with a virus we have never known. 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The goal is to do the fastest and most scientifically possible way. Reporter multiple vaccines could be used at the same time, controls put in place for all voluntee volunteers. By selecting only young, healthy adults, he says the chances of someone dieing is extremely low. But its not zero. Thats why this is an altruistic act to volunteer for this. Reporter its also the unknown risk says Professor Robert reed, hes in favor of the idea but said there needs to be disclosure. Were not able to quantify the risk for the volunteer. We cannot say exactly what is going to happen to them. Youre going to be infected for something for which there is no treatment for at this time. Right. Does that give you pause . It gives me pause. And i dont want to be naive or arrogant, and i dont want to hide myself from the fact there is a serious not at all trivial risk to doing this. Reporter despite the risk, 16,000 people have already signed an online form saying theyre interested in becoming volunteers. That includes u. S. Army veteran, businessman, husband and father of four, john gentle of alabama. Yes, i am putting more people directly related to me at a greater risk if something were to go wrong. But i feel like the risk is low. Reporter so far the challenge vaccine trial is hypothetical, but 16,000 people say theyre ready if needed to take the risk if it means they can be part of ending the covid19 pandemic. Drew griffin cnn atlanta. Selfless to consider that you would be infected to hope to find a vaccine. Yeah. Theres a group of drivers now making their way from atlanta to brunswick, georgia. Theyre driving right now. The message they want to send with their trip. I have moderate to severe pnow, theres skyrizi. Things are getting clearer, yeah i feel free to bare my skin yeah thats all me. 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So right now there is a protest on wheels making its way from atlanta to brunswick ja, georgia. Its a justice trip for Ahmaud Arbery. They plan to rally at the courthouse this afternoon, demanding the resignation over two district attorneys over what some are calling a mishandling of the investigation. Last week the Georgia Bureau of investigation arrested the mcmichaels and took over the case. Were following all the developments today in glen county. What are we expecting, martin at the rally . Do we know if Ahmaud Arberys mother will be there . Reporter morning. We havent heard about Family Members attending. They often have appeared at events like this. As you point out its a caravan for justice. Many people, despite the arrests made, are dissatisfied with how the original investigation was handled. If you remember back, it was two months from when Ahmaud Arbery was killed before anyone was taken into custody and that didnt happen as a result of local authorities it happened because the Georgia Bureau of investigation that got pulled into the case. It was the governor that originally suggested the gbi was needed and it was about 36 hours from the moment the gbi got involved that they determined you need to make arrests in this case. Many look back at the first two das and say there was something wrong then. Why is it none of them saw what the gbi saw and decided they had to make an immediate arrest once they got on the ground. For the family of Ahmaud Arbery, theyre relieved to see some movement in justice but at the same time so much is being talked about their son. And it wears on them, both physically and mentally. We had a chance last night to hear from wanda cooper jones, the mother of Ahmaud Arbery. And you could tell, as you listen to her answer that it is truly a strain on all of them. Take a listen. It makes me very angry that, you know, my sons life was his life was taken so senselessly and they didnt respect his life at all. He was just a nobody to them. Reporter it is expected that the protest group will show up here around 2 00 in the afternoon. Well wait and see just how many are here, but its bound to be another very emotional day. Christi and victor. Martin, we heard from the attorney for arberys family that there should be a third man, they believe, who should be arrested and its the man who recorded the video of the initial struggle and shooting. Any update on that man . Reporter william rodey brian is that man, the one who took the video, youre right, there are a number of people, in fact, many of the protesters likely to be here believe he should be taken into custody as well. They believe he was not just there as a by stander but he was participating in some way. The reason they believe that, in the initial Police Account and also subsequent statements from law enforcement, they have hinted that he was working or colluding with the mcmichaels on that horrific day. The one thing, though, that is pointed out by his attorney is that there wouldnt be anyone under arrest if that video had not been taken and his attorney denies emphatically that that man was anything but a bystander and witness to a horrible death on that day. Christi and victor. Martin savage for us in glen county. Thank you. Thank you, martin. So no one could expect a pandemic, let alone High School Seniors thinking that it would interrupt their school year and graduation. Of course they didnt see it coming. Theres a few foundations and one special guest trying to make up for that celebration that theyre losing. Thats next. When managing diabetes you cant always stop for a fingerstick. With the freestyle libre 14 day system, a continuous glucose monitor, you dont have to. 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How did this come together . Thank you, victor and christi, so great to be here. This idea came from one of the most phenomenal School Leaders ive ever met, stacy cane in washington d. C. She and i were talking just a little over a month ago, theyre having their first graduating class and she, like so many of her coleaders across the country, is really wrestling with how to honor young people today, especially in this crisis. And the fact that they were missing out on the time worn tradition of High School Graduation, which is so disheartening. From that, here at the xq institute and the Emerson Collective we partnered with the Entertainment Industry foundation and then the Lebron James Foundation came aboard and so many others to honor and celebrate the nations High School Seniors. Its a phenomenal tribute coming together tonight. Your heart is so in this. I can tell you are chomping at the bit for this. I know all of the kids are going to appreciate it so much. As i understand it, you actually asked young people to submit entries so they could be part of this, and you had more than 5,000 kids do so. So what are they doing . We did. Well, we this was about young people from the start, right. We curated all of the content with young people in mind. We had a Student Advisory Committee to help us secure everyone from the speakers to the artists participating. And yes, we sent an open call out to the nations High School Seniors asking them to participate with essays, with videos, with words of wisdom. And over 5,000 did. So tonight alongside these megastars and notable influencers across our country, you will see well over 1,000 High School Seniors respected, alongside artists and musicians performing and speaking words of wisdom and heartfelt and hard won advise to the nations graduating class. Its interesting. I think most people cannot remember who spoke at their High School Graduation ceremony. This class has former president obama. We dont know what hes going to say, but we know what they need to hear, they need some encourage. Context as well. You mentioned the other celebrities who will be there. Give us a few names. You mentioned lebron james. Theres me laalaa, there is kevin hart, of course president barack obama, we are so thankful for gifting us his words of wisdom. We have olivia wild, the plat brothers, the jonas brothers. Just so many. Just an amazing array of influencers and celebrities and spokespersons on behalf of our generation, this generation sharing their words of wisdom. I dont want to give it all away, victor. I just wanted a few names. Just a that was a few. Tease the appetite. I can keep going. Well stop there. Before we go, just quickly here, i understand that this event is one part of a broader conversation. We dont know what will happen in the fall. But some schools will have to rethink what high school is yes. What that will be. Tell us about what happens after the event tonight. Well, here at xq we have been reimagining the High School Experience for young people for a very long time. We work with communities to help them dream big about what high schools can be. Now in this moment we the entire country will come together to help us use our creative ingenuity to redesign the High School Experience, to meet young people where they are, to ensure that we prepare them with rigor and relevance for life in the future. To achieve all of their dreams. The work is just beginning. And now, more than ever, we must redesign our High School System so that our young people are prepared for an uncertain future. Itll be the first time in 100 years weve done so and the time is now more than ever. Thank you so much for being with us. Thank you, victor. We graduated many moons ago but we will be there tonight with every other member of the class of 2020. Thanks so much and good luck tonight. Thank you. Thank you and solidarity to them. I love her heart is so in this. The special event event is tonight at 7 00 here on cnn. We want to honor the class of 2020, too. We want to wish you good luck. Were hoping for the best. As victor said, its been a long time since weve been there, so i wanted to give a shout out to ben william mara in bell view ohio, wearing shorts under his cap and gown. It was an event to say the least, victor. How about you . I was wearing probably another 75 pounds under my cap and gown. Look at you now. This is my Graduation Day from Milford Mill Academy there in baltimore county. Shout out to the class of 99. Im not afraid to say it. So thanks so much. Congratulations class of 2020 and be sure to watch tonight at 7 00. Youre going to do great things. You are going to do great things we know this. Thank you so much for being with us. Dont forget to tweet us and were on instagram. Much manufactuore ahead in t hour of cnns newsroom. Fredricka whitfield is up next after a quick break. 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