As youre talking about reopening the economy but also specific to schools, what would have to happen first for schools to open, specifically in new york city, in regards to this plan that youre they have to work together, bernadette. I dont believe you have you cant open one system. Its the gears, which is an analogy and a metaphor that doesnt work for anyone except for me, but thats okay, because it works for me. You have three big gears, okay . You have a transportation, you have economic, you have schools. Lets take just those three. You want to start turning one gear. They all intermesh. You have to turn the other two gears. You cant tell me to go back to work. I live in nassau county. Lets say i lived in westchester county, because i did. You cant tell me to go back to work in new york city if you dont have the Transit System operating. I take the train from westchester to new york city. I cant go back to work until, unless you have a train, unless you want everyone to drive, whic
30 million americans have filed for Unemployment Benefits since the outbreak. Why are so many still waiting for their benefits . 600,000 u. S. Postal employees could be unemployed by september, if the Postal Service doesnt receive financial aid. So why is trump standing in the way . And more than 50 million kids are out of school because of coronavirus. How to make sure they dont fall behind. Velshi starts now. Good morning it is sunday, may 3rd. Im ali velshi. Here are the facts. More than 66,000 americans have now died from covid19, but President Trumps plan to have multiple rapidresult testing machines installed on capitol hill for lawmakers has been flatly rejected by both speaker of the house nancy pelosi and Senate Majority leader mitch mcconnell. In a joint statement, they write in part, our countrys testing capacities are continuing to scale up nationwide, and Congress Wants to keep testing keep directing those resources to the frontline facilities where they can do the most go
Themselves. We got you covered this morning good morning. When you look across the country, just about every state seems to be doing something different. Whats happening here in new york is far different from what youre seeing in places like wisconsin or michigan and even when you look at new york state the governor made it clear that he was going to be taking a regional appropriate to reopening and thats what were seeing happening here today. Five regions in the state now able to partially reopen. And just a little while ago came up to us and its been a lot of pent up demand to get things going economically in this region and now theyre finally able to do that and spoke to a Business Manager that works in construction in a town not far from where we are right now and he said he has been waiting for this day for a very, very long time. Were very excited to get back to work. Everybody is sick of being home. Were able to get back to work and were doing our best to acquire all the ppe for
Thanks for being here. You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im ana cabrera in new york. Tonight, the president versus his predecessor. The Trump Administrations handling of the coronavirus pandemic now at the center of an escalating feud between President Trump and former president barack obama. Look, he was an incompetent president , thats all i can say. Grossly incompetent. Thank you. Those comments come a day after president 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. All of this taking place on a weekend when the u. S. Death toll from the coronavirus is nearing 90,000. And 48 states now are in the process of reopening, at least partially. Lets begin with cnns Jeremy Diamond at the white house and that very public feud now between the president s, Preside
Right now beaches and parks from coast to coast are allowing people to return for the first time in months but in many areas this new found freedom comes with restrictions on capacity and social distancing rules. All of this as the number of new cases in the u. S. Is Holding Steady or rising in 42 states. Some experts worry reopening could cause new spikes of the disease. The number of deaths is now over 96,000. New cases are up over 1. 6 million. Even as states ease some restrictions, President Trump is demanding governors do even more, calling on states to fully reopen houses of worship. Even saying he will override any governor who doesnt comply although it is unclear what authority the president is actually referring to. Cnn has a team of reporters fanned out across the country to cover all of the reopenings this holiday weekend. We begin this hour in georgia where the beaches on taibbi island are packed with visitors. The small beach town made National Headlines when the mayor wen