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At least 33 People Killed. Winds peeling the roof off this Sports Complex and shutting down outdoor coronavirus testing sites. Is this the Golden Ticket . Could antibody tests help get americans back to work . Abc news is there as the initial tests are rolled out to First Responders as one of the largest cities in the country is now reconsidering the socalled immunity passports. Gma exclusive. Tony nominated broadway star nick cordero hospitalized for covid19, fighting for his life. His wife now speaking out about his condition and the frightening moment when nick was with their baby. Sounding the alarm, we hear from oprah. None of us have ever seen anything like this before. About the high death toll of coronavirus in communities of color. What i do know is that there is a way to connect to the community in such a way and using language that people stop and Pay Attention to. And what she says needs to be done now. Born in the usa and born in the usa. How the boss is giving back. A big announcement from the one and only Bruce Springsteen only on gma. On gma. Born in the usa born in the usa good morning, america. Thank you for being with us on this Tuesday Morning and its good to have robin and george joining us from home. Robin, were seeing some much needed glimmers of hope this morning. Uhhuh, with the boss in the background. Across the country people who have recovered have recovered from the virus are rejoicing after finally leaving the hospital. It is amazing to keep seeing celebrations like these and the Health Care Heroes cheering them every step of the way. And, george, couldnt help but notice something that ali posted yesterday. I know you have some great news you want to share about her. Yeah, we had a little celebration of our own. She came out of her bedroom and i think she posted that on instagram yesterday. There you see cooper greeting her. She said it was a little bit pathetic the way we greeted her but still pretty happy to come down and shes doing really well. Right now, you know, just taking it slow one day at a time trying not to overdo it but feeling so much better. I guess heading into the sixth day with no fever so things are looking good for her. She will be careful going forward. How are you . I feel great. I feel totally fine. Hope its going to continue and we actually have sun here today so its nice. That helps. But, robin, as you know, the country is not out of the woods. The country is not out of the woods yet, neither is the world. Overseas the number of coronavirus around the world is now closing in on the 2 million mark. Here in the United States more than 580,000 cases, over 23,000 deaths, more than 44,000 people have recovered from the virus. And, george, now officials from new york to california are talking about ways to try and reopen their communities, setting up a showdown with President Trump over who really gets to decide. We begin our coverage with tom llamas in times square with the latest. Good morning, tom. Reporter michael, good morning to you. Here in new york, times square is still very quiet. But now there is real talk of slowly reopening this city, this state and this region. Now, Governor Andrew Cuomo says its a delicate dance. The worst is over but we have to monitor cases. This as there is now a new and clear turf war going on. This morning, as america tries to get the upper hand on the coronavirus, theres a new battle brewing. The president taking on some governors over who has the authority to reopen the nation. The president of the United States has the authority to do what the president has the authority to do, which is very powerful. The president of the United States calls the shots. Reporter overnight new york Governor Andrew Cuomo firing back. The president doesnt have total authority. We have a constitution. We dont have a king. We have an elected president. Reporter at issue, when to roll back restrictions to get the economy moving as new york and other states see hospitalization rates go down. Youll start to open that valve on the economic activity, and youll turn that valve very slowly, reopening the economy. More essential workers, do it carefully, do it slowly and do it intelligently. Reporter new york teaming up with six neighboring states coordinating efforts on ways on how to open businesses. California, oregon and washington announcing theyre going to do the same. But other states like massachusetts still worried they havent hit their peak yet. Really dont want people to start to think today that this is over. I want people to realize that today is the beginning of what we expect is going to be a very difficult period. Reporter but stories of hope are emerging. 66yearold charles schleien, a doctor, becoming a patient himself after he was diagnosed with covid19 on march 10th. For 12 days he says he lived with what felt like burning lungs before being hospitalized. He wasnt sure if he was going to make it. I got scared. So i thought, well, this could be it. I mean, i you know, this could lead to death pretty easily. Reporter a Houston Family of seven has two family members battling the coronavirus under one roof. Mom and daughter, who also suffers from asthma, quarantining away from the rest of the family after testing positive. Theyre now recovering. Since we tested positive, i mean im pretty sure we both still had symptoms for a good, you know, three to five days after that. Five days just managing that with, you know, theraflu, tylenol, vitamin c and stuff like that. Everybody is sectioned off in their individual spaces and we started our family meetings and eating dinner facetime which was pretty unique. Reporter some of the ways so many families are living right now. So back to the issue of reopening some of the states and the country, what would that look like . Well, governors have hinted that they would ease some restrictions and expand the term essential businesses but would monitor infection rates, george, to make sure areas with less infections would obviously get more freedoms. George . Okay, tom, thanks very much. We are going to go to the white house now where we saw that false claim from President Trump that he has total authority to reopen the government. Last night he was defying the constitution and several of the nations governors in that c conference. Our chief White House Correspondent jon karl was at the briefing where the president made that astonishing claim, and, jon, these briefings have often delivered misleading information with the president taking credit for progress, shifting blame for failures, but yesterday he took it to a whole new level. Reporter george, for one thing it broke the record for the longest Coronavirus Briefing yet, more than two hours, and the incredible thing is it really wasnt about the pandemic, it was all about donald trump. He started with a campaignstyle video, Something Like i had never seen before in the White House Briefing room. And he actually told me this is a direct quote everything we did was right. When i asked him if there had been any mistakes along the way, he said, well, the governors made mistakes. But the strangest thing was the president s contention that he has absolute power to make these decisions. That was odd, not only because its obviously not constitutional but it also contradicts everything trump has been saying about this for the past three weeks when he has portrayed the Big Decisions on opening and closing, on distribution of medical supplies to the governors. And he said in a quote at the beginning of this that really defines how he has approached the crisis, if you remember, george, a few weeks ago he said i dont take responsibility at all. Now by saying that he has absolute power, he effectively is taking responsibility for everything. Yeah, but as you said he just doesnt have that power according to the constitution. And meantime, his fractious relationship with dr. Fauci was front and center in that briefing as well. Reporter it was and dr. Fauci said something that is a basic fact which on sunday he said that if social distancing measures had been put in place earlier lives would have been saved. He wasnt blaming donald trump for that. He was just saying that if they had, in fact he was in part perhaps blaming himself for not pushing harder to put those measures in place. But dr. Fauci had to go up there and say that, you know, that he wasnt blaming the president , and then i asked the president if he had no intention of firing fauci and he was such a big fan of dr. Fauci and thought he was doing such a great job, why did he tweet something that said fire fauci. And the president told me that he knew exactly what that tweet said and he said, ah, but it didnt mean anything. So it was a very strange moment. Yeah, it was a confounding press conference in so many ways. Jon karl, thanks very much. Robin . Okay, george, the coronavirus pandemic clashing with that deadly tornado outbreak in the south where they are picking up the pieces this morning. At least 33 People Killed across six states by the severe storms. Victor oquendo is in monroe, louisiana and has the latest for us. Good morning, victor. Reporter good morning, robin. More than 70 reported tornadoes, at least 8 of them confirmed here in northern louisiana. The family that lived here told me they had just finished streaming an Easter Service online when a twister shredded their home. They all survived but these storms were just getting started. This morning, hundreds of thousands waking up in the dark after a punishing line of storms swept across the south to the northeast made even more difficult by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Strong winds peeling the roof right off this Sports Complex and this Historic Hotel in new jersey and toppling this tree onto a familys home just outside new york city. Just came crashing through the ceiling. I was lucky to get out alive. Reporter outdoor coronavirus Testing Facilities desperately needed in the fight against this pandemic shut down across the region. The same system devastating the south, more than 30 people were killed after more than 70 reported tornadoes. People forced into shelters while trying to maintain social distancing. In lawrence county, mississippi, the Sheriffs Department mourning the loss of Deputy Robert ainsworth and his wife paula, writing, robert left this world a hero as he shielded paula during the tornado. Chattanooga, tennessee, taking a direct hit from an ef3 twister with winds of 145 miles an hour and in monroe, louisiana where hundreds of homes were damaged this is a picture of me and my mother. My mother died a couple years ago. Reporter picking up the pieces, they were trapped inside their home with three Young Children until their neighborhood, jared moore, came racing to the rescue. What was your first instinct . Got to help them. Got to get them out. We dont get them out of there, theyre not going to make it. Reporter there are hundreds of displaced families in this area alone including the greysons who lived here. Now being moved into local hotels instead of shelters which should help with social distancing. The way they put it, they no longer have their home but they have their lives. Robin . They certainly do, they. Lets go to ginger at home tracking word that threat is heading next. Good morning, ginger. Reporter yeah, good morning to you, robin. North georgia and florida, ill get to that threat but lets look at what happened the last 48 hours. At least 71 reported tornadoes from texas to North Carolina including tennessee, but you dive into mississippi, where two of the tornadoes we know were right next to each other. So the National Weather service in jackson has done a preliminary survey, at least one of those was an ef4 with a 63milelong track. The next one, ef3 and will finish those surveys today, north florida, tallahassee, up to south georgia have to look for damaging winds. Michael . Thank you very much, ginger. Now, worldwide coronavirus cases nearing that 2 million mark. China is trying to avoid a second wave of infection and the uk says its lockdown there could last another month. James longman is in london with more on whats happening overseas. Good morning to you, james. Reporter yeah, good morning, michael. Everyone is, of course, eager to get back to a normal life but the fear and possibility of a second wave is very real. Just days after reopening wuhan, china is now scrambling to contain an outbreak on its northern border, its biggest rise there in six weeks. Hundreds of new infections from returning chinese nationals and the town concerned is now in lockdown. In europe, strategies are diverging. Spain is a country thats gone furthest in loosening restrictions allowing those in manufacturing and construction to return to work. Austria and italy are also opening smaller shops but the stayathome order is still in place. For france and us in the United Kingdom full lockdown extensions have been announced. George . Okay, james, thanks very much. We have a reality check on covid19 testing, one of the keys to getting life back to normal. Last night Vice President pence announced that the fda may soon approve a new coronavirus test he claims could be produced at the rate of 20 million tests a month. But right now millions of americans are just trying to get a simple coronavirus test to find out if they have the disease or not. Matt gutman has the story. Reporter a nation on edge and millions anxious to get tested. Cars lined up by the hundreds at the Hard Rock Stadium in florida on monday, reaching capacity by mid morning. In paramus, new jersey, 29yearold kayla codena showing up at her site at 3 00 a. M. To get a test. She took this photo of herself trying to sleep. They only have 500 tests available at the site and make that very well known that they only have that. So if you dont make it within those 500, you dont get tested. Reporter she did make the cut and three days later found out she was negative. But that wasnt the case for California Police detective mary lou armor. She died from coronavirus complications after being denied a test three times. To think that she could have still been here if they just would have tested her, its painful. Reporter with millions still hoping to get tested, focus also shifting to what could help get americans back to work antibody tests. Antibodies are proteins in the blood that show whether someone has been exposed to the virus. And we were there as the first antibody tests were being rolled out to firefighters in manhattan beach, california. Obviously what everyone is looking for now with these antibody tests is to see how do we get people back to wor. So your Golden Ticket as it were is youre not sick, youve had no symptoms at least for say two to three weeks. You get a serology test and you have positive igg antibodies, you can go back to work. Reporter overnight the World Health Organization acknowledging it simply does not know whether antibodies are the Golden Ticket. Its one of the reasons the city of los angeles is reconsidering socalled immunity passports as it works towards reopening the nations second largest city. Well never get an economy going with just 5 or 10 or 15 of the workforce. We have to find a way to get everybody back to work. And so thats what were focused on right now. Reporter so if Antibody Testing isnt the silver bullet, what is . Well, governors and mayors are saying over the coming weeks youll start to see stores, restaurants, bars reopen. Before you can be admitted in there youll have to have your temperature taken and the other key component is massive and repeated testing for the regular virus countrywide. And one thing, robin, only 3 million americans have been tested so far. Thats less than 1 of the population. Robin . Thats the issue right there, youre right about that, matt. Thank you. We do have a ray of sunshine that we hope will put a smile on your face. After a nearly monthlong battle with the virus, this is the moment ellis mckeenie jr. Was finally wheeled out of the hospital. His son, a former Football Player at the university of maryland writing on twitter, this is hope. Hope that with tireless work from medical professionals, support and positivity from loved ones and a prayer army that this disease can be beaten. I believe that we will win as pitbull said to us yesterday, michael. Great scene. All across the country were seeing that, which is great. It is great to see that for sure, robin. I believe we will win too. I love that, quoting pitbull. Never thought id see that coming out of you. Oh, yeah. Coming up, everybody, when we come back, oprah and other celebrities are demanding answers about why communities of color are so hit by covid19. The new warning about our food supply as well after hundreds of workers at the Worlds Largest pork producer tested positive for covid19. But first lets go back to ginger at home. Hey, ginger. Reporter hey, michael. It feels like winter for some parts of our country this morning, just leave you with windchills to say brr. Yeah, thats whats happening and will bleed east to us. The springlike cities now brought to you by zyrtec. Good morning. Im abc 7 news meteorologist mike nicco. Five to ten degrees above average today. This will last through at least tomorrow. Cooler weather, especially for the weekend, and a chance of rain starting sunday. Temperature today, 68 in half moon bay. Most of us in

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