Lets start in new york where today, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that horse racing tracks, those racetracks will reopen without fans starting on june 1st. And that elective surgeries can now continue in certain counties. Several new york communities have already started phase one of reopening, none of them near new york city. And the governor does say hes working with surrounding states like new jersey, connecticut, and delaware to reopen beaches by memorial day. Cnns evan mcmorrissantoro is beachside. Hes joining us now from ocean city, new jersey, where a socalled dry run is being done in several towns along the coast before next weekend and evan, hows this working . Well, authorities wanted to see what would happen if they opened parks and boardwalks up to people and asked them to be responsible for social distancing. And state police said today that these communities, like the one im in and a couple of the other parks that opened up, theyre seeing a relatively low volume of peop
Data shows the economy is taking a major hit. Reopening the country in haste equals more deaths. That is the stark message from the u. S. s top Infectious Diseases expert. Dr. Anthony fauci warned u. S. Lawmakers at a Senate Hearing tuesday that rushing to get back to normal would turn the clock back, rather than forward. And hes not alone in that thinking. A new coronavirus model now projects 147,000 u. S. Deaths by august, 10,000 more than previous estimate. And the researcher behind that model tells cnn its tied to the reopening of states too early. Take a listen. Were starting to see the effects of two things driving up the numbers. One is the consequence of the relaxing of social distancing, people getting out and about, having more contact. Were seeing, you know, upward trends in case numbers in a number of states and big swings up in mobility. And then some further states have relaxed social distancing, like North Carolina in the last few days as well. All of that, unfortunately
Gift to the audience and to us so we stay focused on the humanity. Thank you, my friend. Have a great night. I am chris cuomo, and welcome to prime time. So, its a monday. Im going to ask you to try Something Different tonight. Lets just try it once, see how it goes. All right . Instead of taking the bait that the president tossed out today about him taking he ining hydroxychloroquine, can we just try looking at why hes doing this today . Okay . Because this is not an accident. This is another day that he wont have the media pointing out that were reopening reckle recklessly. Its another day that hes going to avoid the media, people like me, saying, we dont have proper testing and tracing measures in place. Were the only major nation who doesnt have a central plan to do so . This thing about the drug is a fight he can win because his base believes in the efficacy of the drug. The science is irrelevant. Hes not going to lose anybody that he doesnt have already and he avoids a fight he d
It. Were going to continue to follow this. Actually, we have a message from the mother tonight that youre you guys are going to want to hear about. Someone left a mysterious note on the makeshift memorial for arbery, saying i wish i could have stopped this. Well, the mother has a message tonight that she wants to hear. Anybody in the sound of my voice, i have nothing up on the screen. I hear you. In this room. I hear you right now, don. You sound beautiful. And it is very important to hear from the mother. And this is a really important context to add to that story. That we have a reasonable basis for belief now that the mcmichaels thought they knew who arbery was before the 23rd. Thats why they took off after him outside their house. They thought he was the guy from the 11th, the Surveillance Video there. Even if theyre right, and we dont know that they were, even if they were right, it change nothing except probably makes it a little bit worse for them because they had no authority t
The year. Something many Health Experts say is a long shot. Lets begin in texas where singleday records for new infections are being broken. Its an upward trend that began more than two weeks ago when the state started to reopen. Cnns ed lavandera joins us now from dallas. Ed, where are we seeing these new cases . Reporter well, of these 1,800 new cases reported on saturday, here in the state of texas, more than, a little more than 730 of those cases came around the amarillo, texas, area up in the panhandle of texas, and state Health Officials are saying this is happening because of targeted testing in areas around meat packing plants in that panhandle area, and we have known for several weeks now those counties in that panhandle area where these meat packing plants are has seen some of the highest per capita rates of infection here in the state. In many cases far surpassing some of the bigger cities here in the state of texas as well. 734 out of those 1,800 new cases, state Health Off