Beaches. Good to have you with us. Well, for the first time, we are seeing evidence that an experimental drug could help patients recover faster from the coronavirus. According to americas top Infectious Diseases expert, early trial results show remdesivir has improved patients Recovery Time by 31 . U. S. President donald trump called the news positive. When asked if it changes his thinking about reopening the country, he said its a building block. Cnns erica hill reports this comes as more states are trying to restart their economies. Reporter florida ready to reopen. There is a light at the end of the tunnel. This new phase will start on monday, may 4th, and will for the time being exclude miamidade, broward, and palm beach counties. Reporter nearly 30 of the States Residents excluded from the governors plan giving restaurants and businesses the green light. The Tampa Bay Times reports the states death toll may be incomplete noting florida officials have not released information on c
Reporter well, fred, we have been monitoring the amount of information that has been released when it comes to deaths in Nursing Homes for a while now. On april 19th, it was the first batch of information that was released, and at that point in time at 23 of all of the covid19 deaths in the state of florida were related to Nursing Homes. Well, new data was just released and now it is 32. 5. Nearly onethird of all of the covid19 deaths are linked or associated to Nursing Homes. This is residents and staff. It is important to note that for the first time were also learning the names of the facilities that are associated with these deaths. Now, weve been monitoring of course just about every press conference the governor has had on covid19. He had mentioned before that there were two outbreaks in the state of florida. One in swannee county and another in broward county. But now by looking at the new data that was released, we can tell that there have been multiple deaths at certain Nursin
Shot. For the audiences sake weve stopped the video before the fatal shot was fired. This morning the remains of that Wendys Restaurants were still smoldering after its interior was burned to the ground by protesters saturday night. One of the officers involved now fired. A second placed on administrative duty. And the citys police chief now resigned amid the controversy. As Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms as cast the shooting as an unjustified use of deadly force. This latest firestorm comes as cities, states, and congressional leaders begin their legislative attempts to curtail Police Violence after the death of george floyd and nearly three weeks of sustained protest. I was with new York Governor Andrew Cuomo here in new york friday as he signed major legislation to athat tack the problem of Police Accountability or rather the lack thereof. Governor cuomo joins me in just a few moments. But first joining me now is human rights activist and atlanta resident Martin Luther king iii.
Stock of the day today mens warehouse. Retailer getting a boost after they are considering alternatives for its k and g stores. This is one of the companys weaker performers. Jay juror done, you dont wear anything from mens warehouse. Dont think so. Youve been doing business in china for about 20 years. We just saw the big 60 minutes piece about what may and bubble or not. Whats your view . Nobody knows. First place, you cant really trust numbers that you receive. China has to convert an outdated economic model, basically driven by investment and exports to a domestic consumption model. Their export markets are not going to disappear but substantially appreciate. The r an d is going to appreciate and they wont have the same competitive advantage. They have to grow their domestic consumption. Now what we saw on cbs was a building after building, real estate, empty. Thanks for joining us today. Mike, thank you. That does it for us. Right now it is time for squawk on the street. Good morn
Jo hey there everyone t is 5 p. M. On the east coast, 2 p. M. Out west. If you are just joinituning in,k you for joining us. Im Deborah Feyerick in for fredricks whitfield. Danica patrick makes history as the first woman to win the pole for the daytona 500. That puts her in the best starting position for the race next sunday. She clocks a qualifying speed of 196 miles an hour. She spoke a short time ago, giving thanks to those who helped make this moment possible. Im grateful for all those things. I feel like, first and foremost, i feel like i grew up with good values and good goals and i was brought up tonight fastest driver, not the fastest girl so i feel like that was instilled in me from very young and well, from the beginning and then i feel like thriving in those moments where the pressures on is also gonna help for me and i feel like ive also been very lucky in my career to be with good teams and have good people around me and i and i dont think that any of it would have been po