The president of the United States, against governors from both sides of the aisle. The white house claims they have all the testing that they need to reopen their states. But ask these governors and the answer pretty much is, what are you talking about . To try to push this off to say that the governors have plenty of testing and they should just get to work on testing, somehow, we arent doing our job is just absolutely false. Thats just delusional, to be making statements like that. We have been fighting every day for ppe and weve got some splice now coming in. Weve been fighting for testing. It would be nice if we had a National Strategy that was working with the states, so every state knew, precisely what was coming in. In the meantime, frustration with social distancing rules is growing across the country. Protests popping up in places like california, texas, maryland, and wisconsin. Officials warning these demonstrations could lead to a spike in infections. And force social dista
Announcing a number of different groups, advisory councils, task forces, and a commission to get the countrys largest city back to work. Theyll begin meeting in may and come up with a preliminary plan by june 1st. Meantime, from the white house today, mixed messages on the state of the u. S. Economy. One official, economic adviser, Kevin Hassett, says the situation is grave and we are fating Unemployment Rates rivaling the great depression. The other, treasury secretary steven mnuchin, says the economy should start to bounce back by summer. Christine romans will join us for pa reality check on that, but first, lets go out west. Lets head to colorado. One of the states experimenting with a gradual return to something resembling normal or maybe a new normal. Cnns gary tuchman is in greeley, colorado, and gary, the database we use here at cnn shows about 13,000 cases of coronavirus in that state, in colorado, yet the governor is relaxing some quarantine restrictions. Whats this going to l
Ainsley. Ainsley thats right. The white house unveiling a plan hoping to help all these States Louise lockdowns and get americans back to work. Brian. Brian jiff jenkins is live in washington as the sba Unprecedented Demand for loans under the paycheck protection program. Sadly it crashed and it crashed and it crashed yesterday. Griff oh boy did it ever. Round 2 opened up and they got crushed almost immediately. Sba administrator had to take to twitter ensuring frustrated applicants. Writing this Unprecedented Demand is slowing response time. Currently double the number of users accessing the system compared to any previous day during the first round of paycheck protection funding. That first round, thats when 349 billion went to 1. 6 million Small Businesses. Now this 310 billion of replenishment, even with the system in place was in such high demand any one of the more 30 million Small Businesses across the nation it, just couldnt hold it. The sba is now asking for patients. Meanwhil
Statemandated 50 capacity. In montana, bars and breweries and some stores can start letting customers in monday under strict social distancing rules. And in a welcome sign of hope this weekend, the fda has now approved the emergency use of a drug, remdesivir, to treat covid19. While not a cure, dr. Debra birx called it the first really positive step forward and dr. A Anthony Fauci said it shows a clear cut, positive effect in diminishing the time to recovery. But in parts of the country where stayathome orders are still in place, patience, it seems, is wearing thin. This was the National Mall today. A large crowd gathering to watch a flyover of the angels and the Thunder Birds, even though officials asked them not to congregate. We begin this hour in florida where phase one of the states reopening strategy will begin on monday. Restaurants and retailers will start welcoming customers at limited capacity while bars, gyms, and salons will remain closed. Cnn correspondent rosa flores is i
Thank you. The president s comments come a day after obama sharply criticized how the Trump Administration has handled the pandemic. More than anything, this pandemic is fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what theyre doing. A lot of them arent even pretending to be in charge. Lets get right to cnns jeremy diamond, at the white house. Jeremy, weve got a rising death toll, and historic unemployment, and what we are seeing is now the president reverting to an old strategy of attacking obama. He certainly is. And what we have seen from President Trump in this last week, as we have heard those criticisms from the former president barack obama, is that weve seen President Trump attempt to, you know, lay all of these claims about the former president , including conspiracy theories, suggesting that president obama was leading a conspiracy to undermine his presidency, essentially, from the start. President obama also, you saw him today res