They want to live. This includes meat packing workers after President Trump issued an executive order that plants reopen. They work in close quarters and have a lack of protective equipment that could lead to more outbreaks np in a survey conducted by the cdc of Meat Processing plants across the country, nearly 5,000 plant workers have tested positive for covid19 and 20 have died from the virus. With me the cofounder of an Advocacy Organization for poultry workers in arkansas. Thank you so much for joining me. Talk to me a little bit about what these workers are up against, the choice that they are making every day when they choose whether or not to go into work. Thank you for inviting me. What trump did to these workers, they clearly prefer to sacrifice workers for the sake of the bottom line. Lets remember that the majority of these workers are immigrants, are refugees, are blacks, and its clearly an attack to these communities that are often lacking the basic human rights in this co
That sector excuse me, makes up about 11 of the entire u. S. Economy. Employees at some of the countrys largest retailers planned a national circumstanceout today they are doing it in coordinate with what is known as International Workers day, also may day. Lack of benefits, unstable schedules and potentially unsafe working conditions are what they are protesting. The World Health Organization says the organization has not been asked to participate had the origins of chinas covid. While the u. S. Government says the virus was not man made. There are some questioning whether the virus could have accidentally emerged from a lab that was studying coronaviruses from wuhan. Governor cuomo announced today he will be closing all new york schools for the rest of this academic year. Both secondary and ufers and more than 2. 5 million k12 students will continue to remote learn. I am joined by my coanchor for the next couple of hours, katy tur. It feels as if today it is may 1st. Yesterday the lo
Americas most vulnerable our investigation into the pandemics devastating toll on this countrys Nursing Homes. Breaking his silence joe biden denies sexually assaulting a former staffer. The truth is the claims are false. Odonnell but the one question the former Vice President wouldnt answer. Profiles in service, our exclusive takes you inside the historic flyover to honor americas frontline workers. And its friday, so Steve Hartman is on the road with stircrazy kids declaring independence from their parents and making their own rules. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell, reporting from the nations capitol. Odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us on this friday. We are learning tonight this pandemic is far from over. Researchers from the university of minnesota now say the outbreak is likely to last as long as two years and wont be controlled until twothirds of the worlds population is immune. That new warning comes as anger is growing across the country. Ameri
Treating coronavirus patients. The ceo of the company that makes remdesivir told nbc news he expects the fda to act quickly to get the drug approved and out to patients. We have our doctor with us this hour, dr. Cash shah kimmel, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Baylor College of medicine. Well get to dr. Kimmel in just a moment. We start with our reporters covering states and businesses that are reopening literally as we speak. In fact, were going to start with a giant industry opening its doors, the nations largest Shopping Mall operator is reopening some 31 malls across eight states, but doing it with strict new guidelines. One of those malls is in greenville, south carolina, and that is where we find nbcs ellison barber at heywood mall which opened just moments ago, as i understand it, ellison. Whats it look like there . What precautions are being taken to protect customers and workers . Reporter craig, i wish i could let you see closer to the door, but we arent able
Numbers. Department of labor announced today that the Unemployment Rate shot up to 14. 7 in april. That means that 20 million jobs vanished in what has become the worst monthly loss on record. This is something this country has not seen since the days of the great depression. President trump reacted to that news, this morning. Know why . Yeah, its fully expected. There is no surprise. Everybody knows that. Somebody said, oh, look at this. Well, even the democrats arent blaming me for that. But what i can do is ill bring it back. In that same interview, President Trump said the death toll could reach up to 95,000. In the face of this, he and his team tried to remain positive. As awful and heartbreaking as the job losses for the month of april reported today, much of that, threequarters of that, will be temporary layoffs. So that, you know, could be a glimmer of hope. I dont want to downplay the hardship. But it could be a glimmer. I can tell you there is a lot of pentup demand in this c