Are doing. Their back and forth just ahead. Arthur on approach the first Tropical Storm of the season inching closer to North Carolina packing heavy rain and high winds millions along the east coast feeling its impact al has the very latest on where it could be headed. Start your engines detroits Auto Industry begins reopening plants this morning. 60,000 workers returning to the line in a new world. This camera gives you a realtime reading of your temperature. Just ahead our exclusive look at new safety precautions in place and our interview with the ceo of ford. What i know is were ready. Why he says today marks a vital step for the entire country. And back in the swing. Major sports return over the weekend with golf and nascar and the crowds go wild. Won the race, and its dead silent out here. We miss the fans. From home today, monday, may 18th, 2020 announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza good morning, everybody.
The golding gate bridge. Top to bottom usually filled with vehicles and tourists. On this tuesday morning, that is not the case. Welcome everyone. We are with you once again from our im curious from both of you to get your perspective of what you expect Governor Newsom to say in just three hours. We will carry at life right here on ktvu. Opening up the state, i dont know if he will throw out a state or say restaurants will open but you have to space your tables. What do you expect from the governor . I expect for sure, some rolled opening. Not everyone come back all at once. Maybe critical businesses and workers come back first. As far as when get back to normal im looking at maybe early fall. I dont know we will see with the governor has to say at noon. Just the talk of reopening has made markets spike up a little bit. Its given people some hope. Yes, one day we dont know what day but one day this will be over. You know its great today is the weather. Lets bring in rosemary. What Beau
In the u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson has severely restricted Peoples Movement to slow the spread of coronavirus also being told to stay home with a few exceptions for work exercise and Grocery Shopping but they still have the power to enforce a new mashes. No Prime Minister wants to enact measures like this no to the damage that this destruction is doing and will do to peoples lives to the businesses and to that jobs and thats why weve produced a huge Unprecedented Program of support both workers and for business and i can assure you that we will keep these restrictions on the constant review we will look again in 3 weeks and relax them if the evidence shows we are able to. But present the ridge just move easy options the way ahead is hard and it is still true that many lives will sadly be lost on the death toll in europe continues to grow in italy the number of dead has passed 6000 double that of china where the virus began and in spain the death toll has risen to more than 2200
Deb. I want to talk very briefly about two or three things. First, the issue of testing and how that has changed the complexion of the approach we are going to be able to take. Testing was an issue, many questions of testing in this room for number of times. Now that we literally have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of testing out there, there are a few things we could do with that. One of the things is when we make policy of what we are going to be doing with the rest of the country, particularly those areas that are not hotspots, we need to know what the infection is there. We need to put a light on those dark spots that we dont know. We have to act policy wise on data. We are going to be getting more data, a lot more data. The other thing is the areas of the country that are not hotspots, that are not going through the terrible ordeal that new york and california and Washington State are going through, they still have a window of significant degree of being able to contain. In ot
The nations governors as he struggles to project hes managing the corona Virus Outbreak. The president has been eager to promote any positive news at his briefing earlier in the day trump announced he was pushing the food and Drug Administration to fast track treatments for coronavirus patients including making available and antimalarial drug theyve gone through the approval process its been approved and they did it they took it down from many many months to. Immediate so were going to be able to make that drug available by prescription but minutes later the food and Drug Administration commissioner tapped down on trumps message telling reporters the malaria drug was not yet ready to treat culbut 19 its already approved as the president said for the treatment of malaria as well as an arthritis condition thats a drug that the president has directed us to take a closer look at as to whether an expanded use approach to that could be done to actually see if that benefits patients the f. D.