Business. President trump saying it is up we will explain that. To the states. We will have all your other top 2020. Stories and the forecast coming up at 7 00. The governors are responsible for testing, and i hope theyre announcer from nbc news, we do hope to see you then. Going to be able to use also m this is today with peter alexander, kristen welker, and in the meantime, well send you back to the today show. Dylan dreyer. Welcome to today, and thank you so much for joining us on this saturday morning. Im so happy to be back in our d. C. Bureau. Here with you, good to see you. Im excited for that concert. This will be a big night. Not like anybody was going anywhere. Were all staying home together, but itll be for a good cause this evening. More than 100 celebrities, musicians. Lady gaga, as you heard about there, Billie Eilish, john legend, Rolling Stones. This is going to be one worth watching with the family tonight. It sure is. Were going to break it all down. We cant wait for that. First, we want to get you caught up on the latest developments overnight. The number of coronavirus cases in the United States has risen to close to 700,000. Nearly 37,000 deaths so far. To put that into perspective for a moment, in less than two aea months, coronavirus has taken the lives of nearly as Many Americans as those killed in the whoo iraq, afghanistan, and korean we are back now with another wars combined. Its just staggering. Huge surprise from john its also killed more people so krasinski hosting a virtual prom on youtube on friday night with far than the flu did all of last special guest chance the rapper. Year. When it comes to the most rolling deep in his sweats vulnerable victims, a staggering and disproportionate toll is there. His former office costar rain emerging, with africanamericans accounting for onethird of the deaths from coronavirus. Wilson. I love the fact that hes in thats according to an analysis from the associated press. His tux. They got goodfor so many mis in some states, theyre beginning to announce plans to reopen in what the government was a fun way to celebrate. Lets begin this half hour calls phase one, with texas with a check of the headlines. Saying it is ready to ease some the number of coronavirus cases social distancing restrictions in the u. S. Rising to close to within the week. Our team is covering all of 700,000, several governors it this morning, all across the announced steps to slowly reopen country. Their states. Lets begin with nbcs kathy the announcements come after park in times square. Protests against the stayathome orders erupted good morning to you. Across the country prompting reporter kristen, good calls from the president to morning to you. New york city wont be getting liberate three states led by back to normal any time soon. These masks are now required in democratic governors. Public, with social distancing but people in places like new york and San Francisco should not expect a return to normal not being able to be maintained. The mayor announced any time soon. Nonessential events, like theyre requiring people to ware concerts and marathons, will be face masks outside when they cant practice social canceled for the month of may. In other parts of the country, theyre planning on loosening distancing. The popular comiccon restrictions for businesses starting next week. Overnight, new york and San Francisco tightening the rules, festival is now the latest event requiring all residents to wear to be called off due to the Coronavirus Crisis. This sparks the first time the a Face Covering in public. While some parts of the Country Convention has been canceled in its 50year the yaul may be back in business sooner rather than later, as governors look to lift orders. Draft friday to pay tribute opening texas must occur in stages. Obviously, not all businesses to the Helicopter Crash that are open all at once or may the killed kobe bryant and so many. 1st. Reporter texas announces his 13yearold daughter gi gi first phase will allow product and two others were named pickup at Retail Stores and a reopening of state parks. Honorary picks and given beaches in jacksonville, professionals jerseys. Florida, are now open for limited hours. Bryants widow vanessa thanked and in michigan, some of the them for honoring her. Strictest social distancing saying this would have been a rules in the nation may loosen dream come true for her. Up for businesses on may 1st. Also this morning, a look at an unexpected impact to this this comes after protesters Coronavirus Crisis with billions of people across the globe clogged roads in front of the staying put, the environment is State Capitol, demanding they now thriving with cleaner air get back to work. And wild animals reclaiming the frustration also building in parts of their natural habitat. Nbcs chief environmental new jersey. Lets get to work. Reporter and oklahoma. Affairs correspondent anne why crater the economy when the virus is not, fortunately, thompson has more. Not as bad as what it was anne, good morning. Reporter good morning, peter and kristen. Anticipated to here in new york and in many other cities around the world, reporter new york still tops the nation with the most coronavirus cases. Even underneath the mask, if you take a deep breath, you can tell the air is cleaner and clearer. One of the unintended while the curve is bending, consequences of the shutdown. Deaths and hospitalizations keep climbing. More sobering news. Its a different kind of s yose 19 Nursing Homes of 68 that responded to a state svey reported at least 20 deaths park. Themselves. Linked to the virus. The new york governor drawing the ire of the president , who for the most part, i think theyre having a party. Tweeted, Governor Cuomo should lions reclaimed the road in a spend more time doing and less time complaining. Get out there and get the job national park. Done. Stop talking. From the Great Outdoors to the cuomo firing back. First of all, if hes sitting world great cities, the virus home watching tv, maybe he shutdown illustrate our impact should get up and go to work. On the economy. Its getting dramatic reporter amid the uncertainty, a possible treatment. Improvements in things like air the experimental drug, quality around the world. He teaches art and science at remdesiv remdesivir, shows a rapid recovery in covid patients. Stanford university. Is this a realtime we do not have enough data right now to conclude that they experiment on our impact on the are, indeed, effective. Environment . It is a realtime experiment. We have a strong feeling that i dont think its an experiment we wanted to run. This is not the way to clean up they are. [ applause ] reporter more encouraging news on the front lines. Our environment. Still, with fewer cars, planes and factories, the change 55yearold soriano got his life is stunning. The murky waters of venices canals now clear. In wuhan china, according to back, becoming the 500th nasa, air quality improved 30 , survivor at this long island almost 50 in italy. Hospital. Thank you. Reporter these days, the skies clearer in l. A. Streets of new york are still pretty quiet because the stay at the himalayas finally visible. Home order is still in effect. There is a bright spot in places like times square. A horrific economic cost. A lot of these Digital Displays clearly, were going to be in a spiral here if we dont find a now have messages of gratitude. Way soon to reopen the economy. The hope is that essential climate scientist bradley workers will look up and now how courtin warns the environmental much theyre appreciated. Kristen, peter . Benefits may not last if we everyone holding on to the return to business as usual, bright spots right now. Especially now with the trump kathy park in new yorks Times Administration rollback of square. Thank you for that. Pollution control, including after announcing the white houses threephase plan for Vehicle Mileage standards and states to reopen, president mercury and soot emissions. Trump is now saying the decision on how and when to do it is up but there is a way to have a Strong Economy and a cleaner to the nations governors. The important question, is there environment. As we go forward, maybe more enough testing capability to do people will only commute into it safely . Work four days a week instead of Nbcs Kelly Odonnell is at the white house this morning. Five. Kelly, nice to see you. Maybe well see people not good morning. Reporter good morning, flying as often to conferences peter. The White House Coronavirus task an video force says the testing of all conferences. Adapting to protect ourselves americans is not actually needed and the planet. Or practical. Reporter now, all this instead, their plan looks at widespread testing of those with cleaner air and cleaner water comes just in time for the 60th the highest chance of exposure, like first responders, and then anniversary of earth day which targeted testing when there are will be celebrated next wednesday and next week is spikes of illness. Some experts say broader Testing National parks week. You can be sure the animals are now enjoying those parks just as is the best way to get people back to work. Much as we do. One key to reopening the peter and kristen. Country, unlocking greater hopefully we all get a chance access to testing. To enjoy them soon. The president puts a burden on anne, thank you very much. Governors. Governors are responsible for speaking of climate, lets testing, and i hope theyre going to be able to use this get another check of the forecast. Maria larosa. Tremendous amount of available i know youre tracking severe capacity that we have. Weather down south. We sure are. Reporter with charts, at least today, theres hail and graphs, and experts, the white what is the wintry weather is house argued that the scrambling happening in the northeast in for coronavirus tests and new england. But today its across the i10 related supplies raised by governors is being fixed. Corridor into central florida, we will have, and there will that area in yellow where we have the possibility of hail, be, enough tests to allow us to damaging winds and a lot of take this country safely through heavy rain. Phase one. Were going to work with the its tomorrow that once again we find ourselves very concerned. States, and were going to help if this looks familiar, it is. Them. Reporter but the president pounded three states with it was this time last week that democratic governors for their this almost same area was under the gun for the strong virus restrictions on twitter thunderstorms and tornadoes and unfortunately, tomorrow is the friday. Same. All those risks on the table liberate, he declared, hitting michigan, minnesota, and from tornadoes, damaging wind and hail and heavy, heavy virginia. I think elements of what theyve done are too much. Reporter the president then rainfall. So dangerous day tomorrow. Praised statehouse protesters, this will continue to move many of whom did not wear masks through with heavy rain today or practical social distancing. And tomorrow along a boundary that next wave comes in and that they seem to be very produces the strong responsible people to me. Thunderstorms through the day you know, theyve been treated a tomorrow. Little bit rough. Especially tomorrow afternoon into the evening. Reporter given the scope of make sure you have a way to get financial hardship, the warnings. President lashed out at this then flies off the coast as democrats, insisting congress we get into monday. Must replenish aid for small that should calm the weather down, bring back the dry and businesses. Nancy pelosi, shes away on sunnier conditions. Again, another facet to this vacation or something, and she story is just how much rain is possible here. Should come back. Were talking 2 to 3 inches of shes not doing her job. Reporter the administration announced a new 19 billion rainfall in a relatively short amount of time. Re farmers in those areas that are still cleaning up after last weeks storm. So there is a definite high risk and buy their products. Mass purchases of dairy, of flash flooding on top of meat, and Agricultural Produce everything else. But eventually as i mentioned, to get that food to the people by monday things will be drying out. In need. Reporter iger eager to rebo the president said he looks forward to one day campaigning again, but would prefer rallies without social distancing. It loses to me a lot of flavor, but i hope were going to have rallies. I think theyre going to be bigger than ever. Reporter the Vice President said hell be presenting this plan on testing to governors monday. In a Conference Call with Senate Democrats friday, things got heated. Maine senator angus king said he was so angry, never that angry on a phone call before. And thats your weather. He called the white house plan a kristen, peter, back over to dereliction of duty. You. Maria, thanks so much. Kelly odonnell at the white house. Thank you. Strong bookshelf, by the way. Indeed. Just ahead, we cant wait for we want to bring in an nbc this segment. News Public Health analyst and getting off the couch and the director of the National Getting exercise in. Center for Disaster Preparedness how you can work out simply by at a university. Using whats around you in the house. Were going to talk to one of he is a formal and informal pelotons most popular adviser over the past decades. I have the power to lower doctor, good morning. Good to see you. My blood sugar and a1c. Morning. We want to dive right in. Because i can still make my own insulin. From a Public Health and trulicity activates my body to release it perspective, are we ready to reopen at this point . Like its supposed to. Well, i dont think so. Once weekly trulicity is for type 2 diabetes. Its not insulin. It starts acting from the first dose. You know, theres many people and it lowers risk of heart attack, stroke, or death who have much stricter ideas in people with known Heart Disease or multiple risk factors. About what is safe and when it trulicity isnt for people with type 1 diabetes will be safe to reopen, which include a lot more testing than or diabetic ketoacidosis. The government is proposing. Im concerned, actually, that we dont take trulicity if youre allergic to it, have a long ways to go before we you or your family have medullary thyroid cancer, get there. Secondly, we do need rules for or have multiple endocrine neoplasia syndrome type 2. Stop trulicity and call your doctor right away how were going to function in the workplace, including more if you have an allergic reaction, social separation, wearing of a lump or swelling in your neck, masks, so on, and making sure severe stomach pain, people who are ill are not changes in vision, or diabetic retinopathy. Coming to work. These things, why theyre serious side effects may include pancreatitis. Taking trulicity with sulfonylurea or insulin theoretically available, the fact is, the president has raises low blood sugar risk. Repeatedly told us theyd be side effects include nausea, diarrhea, vomiting, belly pain, ready. Theyll be ready next week, et and decreased appetite, cetera. We have a ways to go before we which lead to dehydration and may worsen kidney problems. Have enough testing capability i have it within me to lower my a1c. To make sure everyone is safe in the workplace. Doctor, you talk about our ask your doctor about trulicity. Desire to have enough testing capability right now. Roughly 1 of americans have had to all those on the front lines one of these tests. Caring for our sick. The white house says it is not feasible. It is not going to happen, that stocking our shelves. Bringing us packages. Everybody in america can get a test for this. Delivering our food. How many peopleould for it to b those who are there when we need them. Them to feel comfortable going back to their lives . And the millions of americans doing their part, first of all, totally, we should be testing at least 1. 5 our communities are beyond grateful. To 2. 5 Million People every at citi, we are too. Week. Were far behind that goal still. 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Sinus pressure, and congestion. Dr. Irwin redlener, thank you very much. Appreciate the information. With unemployment rising, the staggering new highs in the country, food banks are seeing we are back on this saturday record numbers serving more morning. As we look for ways to deal with people in need than ever before. In texas on friday, thousands of this new normal, were going to talk about how you can exercise people lined up for hours to get at home. Dennis morton is one of the some help. Instructors with the popular nbcs Morgan Chesky is in plano, peloton teaching cycling and texas at a food bank this yoga. Hes with us this morning to give great workout tips. No equipment necessary at home. Morning. Good morning. Reporter peter, good morning. The folks at the north texas dennis, good morning. Nice to see you. Food bank seeing this need nice to see you. Unlike ever before. Thanks for having me. This is awkward. We checked the numbers. Sometimes ill ask my daughters more than 2300 families able to where mom is and theyll say get muchneeded meals. Shes with dennis, presumably on this is not just an issue here. Millions of families nationwide peloton. I appreciate your expertise here. Help us out. Now coming to grips with a tragic new normal. A lot of people stressed during these times with so much going the images are staggering. On. What are simple stretches to do thousands of families lined up for a food giveaway. At home to loosen up . This one in san antonio. The most important thing we can do is take care of our some arriving the night before to secure a spot in line. Spine. That connects our roots to our i was, wow, so many people in branches. Every so often at your desk, we need. Spend a lot of time in forward hello. Reporter organizers say more than 2,000 families registered. Flexion. To a simple stretch. 70 of them firsttime food bank look at your chest, look up. Visitors. Petra baskin was furloughed from round your spine and look back towards your bellybutton. An auto parts supplier job. First time ive ever done inhale up to get flexion. This. Tens of millions of americans now find themselves out of work. Get yourself moving with scenes like this playing out across the country. Simple things like that is going in florida, new york and to be the best way. Go ahead. Maryland. Dennis, i think you hit the people dont have the money nail on the head. Taking a break is such a so they need to spread their critical part of this. Dollar as far as they can get it so many at home with their kids. Peter and allison have two to spread. They feed 60,000 families in little ones at home. If you have kids, how can you a typical week in san antonio. Incorporate them . Now its doubled prompting a new specifically ex certificate sies. Concern. If you cant get out of it, get can they keep up. Into it. Support is coming from lots make it fun. Of places. I just worry that the support or the most important thing, get the kids moving, make it a game. The supply wont meet this you might be able to take them demand. This weekend would have been outside if you have a yard or the start of fiesta. San antonios equivalent of park, hopscotch, turn it into mardi gras and a huge money sibling rivalry, trick them into maker for local businesses now moving more. Left fighting to survive. Indoor obstacle course, shuttle pete cortezs family owned this runs. When youre 6 or 60, you want to restaurant for generations, be worn out. Famous for food available 24 7. It took me three hours to ko now with employees furloughed, come up with a scavenger hunt. Hes selling groceries just to i got to work on it here. Some people have simple ways stay afloat. I worked here since i was a around the house. Kid. Now i have to put a chain on the what are simple ways to get door every night and walk away. Their muscles going too. It breaks my heart. Im going to step back and show you. Reporter you can hear that frustration echoed in so many my favorite weight around the house is gallon jugs of water. People across the country. Were already seeing the impact the pandemic is having since it most of us have them a gallon settled in, in texas. Weighs about 8 pounds. The north Texas Food Bank estimate how much to use. Delivered more than 6 Million Pounds of food to folks who need you can do bicep curls, front it. Peter . Reporter morgan, for each raises. You can do lateral raises off to the side. Family, how much food are they i recommend varying it able to take home after a trip daytoday. If you do the same thing every to one of these food banks . Day, youll get bored with reporter we talked to the folks here. That depends on how big each yourself. With or without weights, you can family s anyone who shows up do squats. Will get a box loaded with sit down into a squat and stand back up and then maybe take that everything you need for a healthy breakfast, lunch and down into a bear plank. Dinner, shelf stable items. Knees hovering above the ground items that should last and push your way back up. Potentially up to a week. You can do circuits. Take bicep curls or lateral peter, christkristen. Raises and then do 30 of those a lot of people are hoping and then 30 air squats and then for a return to normalcy as soon 30 transitions down to bear as possible. Planks and you can work up from while that may take a while, some sports may be coming back 10, 20, 30. Vary the workout and keep sooner than you think, led by yourself active and keep moving. Professional golf. You dont have to have any nbcs sam brock spoke with the equipment, just your body. Pga tour commissioner. Hes in miami beach with more on dennis, those squats are tough. That. Sam, good morning. You cant fool me. I will try them a few times reporter kristen, good morning. Since you suggest them. Were in april, so of course in a lot of folks dont have a the golf universe, thats peloton. For those who dont have the synonymous with the masters. Bike, though, we know that offe but that historic tournament is thats pretty big right now. Postponed to november. Tell us a little bit about that. The pga tour commissioner with peloton is offering their app good news for sports fans this morning. A target date to return of june free for 90 days right now. 8th with key conditions that we have everything from cycling have to be met. To yoga to meditation to shadow boxing. We just released some the last time we saw professional golf, the calendar cardiodance and even family programming to get the kids read early march and coronavirus was clearing out not just golf involved like we were talking courses but courts, rinks and about a moment ago. To your point earlier, the stadiums be forcing weighty mental and physical break you offer yourself is a huge and questions about Public Health and safety. Valuable tool to get through weve spent a lot of time these days. Thinking about what is the environment which we would the key to success is just doing it. Dennis, youre a goodman. Return. Now pga tour commissioner jay were fans. Monahan is crafting a we appreciate you getting up and the first four weeks without helping us out. I appreciate it. Spectators and limiting the gad to be here. Number of people on site. Nbcuniversal is an investor monahan says more than a in peloton. After the segment, youre dozen pga tour events scheduled going to exercise more than once a week. Once a week is generous right between now and september can now. Im going to get on it. Only happen if theres make it happen. Widespread testing for players coming up, how you can learn without affecting supplies for to cook at home with the help of the general public. Is it a hard june 8th start some o f or thats tentative at this point . Well, thats a great question. Its our intention to return that week. Suspended sports leagues from Major League Baseball to the nhl describe a similar approach to oh. Whats going on . Reopening with fans unlikely and oh, darn let me help. The blessing of medical experts lift and push and push there. Its up there. Critical. At the same time, it calls for a hey joshie. Fast track coming from the white house. We have to get our sports wrinkles send the wrong message. Back. Im tired of watching baseball help prevent them before they start with downy wrinkleguard. Games that are 14 years old. Sports fans will get the nfl draft next week virtually and i can tell that they used your milk, matilda. 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This morning, a new twist in the College Admissions scandal. Some possible good news for Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband. On friday, the judge overseeing the case ordered prosecutors to respond to allegations investigators bullied an admissions consultant to get parents to incriminate themselves. The judge called the allegations, quote, serious and disturbing. Loughlin and the others claim with so many of us stuck inside they thought their payments were legitimate donations to the and restaurants closed, people e r with their own schools rather than bribes. Kitchens these days. They sure are. Prosecutors call the coercion claims, quote, flatly untrue. As sara harmon shows us, a lot of Celebrity Chefs are we want to take a turn now helping out the cause. And get a check of the forecast. These days, cooking is both mary a la rosa from wnbc has a necessity and kind of the only thing left to do. Social media star Chrissy Teigen that. Good morning. Great to see you guys. Getting into it. Okay, guys. Good morning. A little chill in the air to say the least. Im about to show you how to we still have 24 Million People make my world famous night eggs. Under a freeze alert this morning. That freeze, that chilly weather the pros encouraging us. Has laid the foundation for rachael ray. April snow. Whatever day it is, today is thats stretched from the taco tuesday for us. Midwest in through the northeast and new england. In fact, boston has received a and pad ma couple of inches of wet snow and im going to make sourdough. Parts of massachusetts. Because of that, that heavy wet snow reporting power outages. The good news is, the next even those of us who arent couple of hours, it moves off the coast, taking the rain and top chefs suddenly have a lot of the wet snow with it. Time to practice. We still have a chance of when this started, i need to showers and thunderstorms in the figure out something i can do midatlantic, later on today, the possibility of stronger that i wont go stir crazy. Thunderstorms across parts of for caitlin, that meant a florida, including orlando over to tampa and melbourne. Tortilla soup for the first watching for the damaging wind time. How did it taste . Gusts, possibility of hail and it was great. I couldnt believe it. Heavy rainfall on top of that. Im like, am i good at cooking . But it does usher in an april theres never been more opportunities to learn while stuck at home. Dessert mastermind hosting free live baking sessions. Good saturday morning, bay area. Let the baking club begin. Hope you had a chance to catch the sunset last night. Star chef massimo sharing it was beautiful. Todays sunset will be a mix of recipes from his family kitital sun and clouds. Still no sun just yet, but its hi everyone. We clear and were not really todays dish, pasta made from seeing too much fog. Well get a couple areas of breadcrumbs, parmesan and eggs. Cloud cover and those cooler temperatures on tap through the its up to you. Its up to what you add and your weekend. 65 for san jose. Palate. 68 for San Francisco and mid60s you make this into the con cacord area. Thats a look at your bon appetit. Weather. Peter, christian, back to you. A. Whatever celebrity or chef thank you so much. Youre following. Still to come, an unexpected this is a super good recipe. Simple and quick and anybody can silver lining. Cleaner air and wildlife do it. A reminder that anyone can thriving in parks just about cook and theres no time like everywhere. Plus, one world together at the present. For today, sara harmon, nbc home. A star studded concert tonight news. To support Health Care Workers how fun. Across the planet. Were back after this. I have to admit, i cant really cook. But i do like watching those videos and trying. Were like eight banana breads deep at this point in this crisis. We need other ideas. Still to come, musicians from around the world are coming together later today to help in together later today to help in soft music [female vo] restaurants are our family. The cornerstone of our communities. And our family needs help. Right now theyre facing a crisis. And theyre counting on your takeout and delivery orders to help them through. Because if we dont treat restaurants like family today. They might not be around to treat us like family tomorrow. Grubhub. Together, we can help save the restaurants we love. Still to come on today, working out without ever leaving the house. Tips on how to get your sweat on thanks to items already in your home. Quarantine music. How musicians are getting creative to provide uplift during this time. But first, these messages. Still ahead, music tailor made for this. 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It almost looks like a blanket hopefully keeping us cozy inside our home. We do have a change in those temperatures, but it is a good change. Little bit of a cool down yesterday that will continue into this weekend. I want to show you a look at that temperature trend over the next couple of hours because if you look at the icons, there is sunshine and also that highs is degrees. Well be at 62 by 6 00 and we should be hitting those mid to upper 60s this afternoon. Then guess what . We have rain in the forecast. A live look outside because this shows the incoming showers were expecting now. How much rain, and a look at the sierra snow pack. Well see you at 7 00, thanks. Some bay area Grocery Shoppers are feeling uneasy after finding empty shelves. Safeway stores looked like panic shopping had hit again but it is because safeway shortages are being linked to a coronavirus outbreak at the Distribution Center in tracy. One employee died from coronavirus complications. Nearly 50 more tested positive. Safeway is working to address safety and restock their shelves. Shoppers we spoke with in San Francisco were finding alternatives. Medicine and things like that were gone. But they have it here. This super market was unloading produce last night. They told us they were serving customers who left safeway empty handed and told them about the empty shelves. A new covid19 testing site in San Francisco. The test is at 600 seventh street. The site will test about 200 people every day but by appointment only. You have to have symptoms in order to get the test. They will be available for anyone who has the symptoms regardless of whether they can pay. Coming up this morning, cover your face is no longer just a recommendation in the bay area counties, it is a rule. Well have that, plus all your top stories and weather coming up at 7 00. Right now back to today. Good morning. The american divide. Overnight, several governors announcing steps to slowly reopen their states as demonstrators take to the streets protesting the stayathome orders. President trump calls on them to liberate three states headed by demo places tighten up with new york and San Francisco now mandating face masks outside. Were live with the latest. Testing questions. A big part of when states reopen, getting enough people tested to ensure its safe to get back to business. President trump saying its up to the states. The governors are responsible for testing and i hope theyre going to be able to use this tremendous amount of available capacity that we have. Taking aim at democratic lawmakers as Congress Remains deadlocked over aid for small businesses. And together at home. Lady gaga bringing together more than 100 musicians and celebrities from the Rolling Stones start me up to lizzo. Taylor swift and more in a giant show of solidarity in the fight against coronavirus. Putting on a concert that will be broadcast across the globe and with a special message for our heroes on the front lines. Today, saturday, april 18th, 20 day on a saturday morning. This is going to be a moment this evening. What a moment for inspiration and joy around the globe. This global virtual concert with lady gaga sort of kicking things off. Its incredible to see all of these artists come together. These are the types of moments, i think, that really help to get people through this. One world together at home. Making a difference in the process. We will be watching that tonight. Right now, we want to get to the latest news. Thats where we begin with the overnight headlines on coronavirus. The number of cases ear in the United States is rapidly approaching 700,000 with nearly 37,000 deaths so far. Some states look to ease restrictions. Overnight, new york state and San Francisco tightened theirs requiring all residents who go outside to wear masks, especially when social distancing is not possible. After shutting down beaches across florida last month, some areas are starting to reopen. Local owetati physicians say n only be used for exercise purposes. We want to begin with kathy park in new yorks times square this morning. Kathy, good morning. Reporter peter, good morning to you. Wearing these masks is now the new normal here in new york. Theyre required. To maintain social distancing in public. The mayor announced social events like concerts and marathons will be closed for the entire month of may. In other parts of the country, theyre looking at ways to ease up restrictions as early as next week. Overnight, new york and San Francisco tightening the rules requiring all residents to wear a Face Covering in public. While some parts of the country may be back in business sooner rather than later as governors look to lift orders. Opening texas must occur in stages. Obviously not all businesses can open all at once on may 1st. Texas announces first phase will allow product pickup at Retail Stores and reopening of state parks. Beaches in jacksonville, florida are open for limited hours. And in michigan, some of the strictest social distancing rules in the nation may loosen up for businesses on may 1st. This comes after protesters clog roads in front of the State Capitol demanding they get back to work. The frustration also building in new jersey. And oklahoma. Why crater the economy when the virus is not fortunately not as bad as what it was anticipated to be. New york tops the nation with the most coronavirus cases. And while the curve is bending, deaths and hospitalizations keep climbing. And more sobering news. 19 Nursing Homes of only 68 that responded to a state survey, linked 20 deaths. The new york governor drawing the ire of the president who tweeted friday, Governor Cuomo should spend more time doing and less time complaining, get out there and get the job done. Stop talking. Cuomo firing back. First of all, if hes sitting home watching tv, maybe he should get up and go to work, right . Amid the uncertainty, a possible treatment. The experimental drug remdesivir appears to show a rapid recovery from covid19 patients. But we do not have enough data right now to conclude that they are indeed effective. But we have a strong feeling that they are. Reporter and more encouraging news on the front lines. 55yearold soriano got his life back and a round of applause becoming the 500th survivor at this long island hospital. Thank you. Thank you. Reporter and while the streets of new york are still pretty quiet these days, the stayathome order is still in effect. There is a bright spot in places like times square. These large Digital Displays now have messages of gratitude and hope for our essential workers who are out there every day. Kristen, peter. Kathy park in new yorks times square. Stay safe, thank you. The white house announced the threephase plan to reopen, President Trump is saying the decision on how and when to do it is up to the governors. Is there enough testing capability to do it safely . Kelly odonnell is live at the white house. Good morning to you. Reporter good morning, kristen. The White House Coronavirus Task Force Says testing is being ramped up and there will be enough to get people back to work in phases. That does not mean everyone will be tested. Instead, theyll be looking at monitoring communities where there are spikes of illness and surge testing there. One key to reopening the country, unlocking greater access to testing. The president put the burden on governors. Governors are responsible for testing and i hope theyre going to be able to use this tremendous amount of available capacity thatve. With charts, graphs and experts, the white house argued that the scrambling for coronavirus tests and related supplies raised by governors is being fixed. We will have and there will be enough tests to allow us to take this country safely to phase one. Were going to work with the states and help them. But the president pounded three states with democratic governors for their virus restrictions on twitter friday. Liberate, he declared, hitting michigan, minnesota and virginia. What theyve done is too much. The president then praised statehouse protesters, many of whom did not wear masks or practice social distancing. They seem to be very responsible people to me. But theyve been treated a little bit rough. Given the scope of financial hardship, the president lashed out at democrats insisting Congress Must replenish aid for small businesses. Nancy pelosi, shes away on vacation or something. She should come back. Shes not doing her job. The administration announced a new 19 billion Relief Program to pay farmers and buy their products. Mass purchases of dairy, meat and Agricultural Produce to get that food to the people in need. Eager to reboot, the president said he looks forward to someday campaigning again. But would prefer rallies without social distancing. It loses to me a lot of flavor. But i hope were going to have rallies. I think theyre going to be bigger than ever. The white house says that monday theyll be talking with all the nations governors about these testing programs. Now, in a Conference Call with Senate Democrats on friday with Vice President mike pence, there was a lot of fire over testing and in fact, one senator maines angus king said hed never been so angry after a phone call and says the white house approach to testing is, in his words, a dereliction of duty. Peter, kristen. All the focus on testing right now. Kelly odonnell at the white house. Thank you. We have other news this morning. Nasa plans to send two astronauts to the International Space station as soon as next month. They are teaming up with elon musks spacex to do it. The mission that is set to lift off from the Kennedy Space center in florida on may 27th will be the first launch from american soil in nearly nine years. It will also be the first crude mission for space kpx that earlier this yeabr 25 of your mouth. Listerine® cleans virtually 100 . Helping to prevent gum disease and bad breath. Never settle for 25 . Always go for 100. Bring out the bold™ no uh uh, no way come on, no no nnnnono only discover has no annual fee on any card. Nnnnono the calming scent of lavender laundry isnt done until its done with downy. How do you gaveeno® happy 24 7 . With prebiotic oat. It hydrates and softens skin. So it looks like this. And you feel like this. 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With concerts canceled and album releases pushed back, artists have had to get creative. Some leaning into the quarantine scene. Bored in the house. Others reworking lyrics to fit the times. Bye corona. People around the world entertaining or just passing the time. These roommates t in their barc homeas. Rocking out with whatever is around. Normally, play the trombone and now the bucket . Yeah. In about a month they racked up nearly 300,000 followers on instagram and millions of views on youtube. I just want to see my friends proof that sometimes music is the best medicine. If we cant be helpful for two minutes a day and, like, smile for a few minutes, were glad to help. For today, savannah sellers, nbc news, new york. Amazing. Just fantastic. If you get a big smile listening to them, imagine how excited people are going to be for tonight. L not leave for hours with some of get a check of the forecast with maria larosa. Maria, good morning. Good morning, guys. Good morning everyone. Feeling a bit of a chill in many places across the country right now. Take a look at the shades of the dark blue and purple. Were at least 10 to 15 degrees below average today. Of course, on top of that, some of that snowfall we saw this morning. That gets us to 50 degrees in pittsburgh. Into the midwest, a good 5 to 10 degrees below average. 59 in cincinnati. Near 50 degrees in chicago. But the good news, as much of the chill is this weekend, as we head into next week, a bit of a warmup. Closer to average. This time of year in april, a lot of places from the south to the midatlantic, that gets you into the 60s and 70s. Its dreary in the northeast today. Below average across the west coast. Its a little gray over the bay area this morning. A live look in San Francisco. You can see the gray skies. Not a lot of fog, but peeks of sunshine at times through the afternoon. Our temperatures will be running a few degrees cooler compared to yesterday. 65 in san jose. 68 degrees in concord. 67 in napa. Expect a dry saturday with rain chances after the weekend. Details on that coming up at 7 00 a. M. And thats a check of your weather. Weather. Kristen, peter, back to you. Maria, thanks very much. Still ahead, you can call still ahead, you can call him dj soft music [female vo] restaurants are our family. The cornerstone of our communities. And our family needs help. Right now theyre facing a crisis. And theyre counting on your takeout and delivery orders to help them through. Because if we dont treat restaurants like family today. They might not be around to treat us like family tomorrow. Grubhub. Together, we can help save the restaurants we love. Were back on a saturday morning with pop start. Peter, its your turn. Ready for this . Im going to channel my inner carson daly. Kick things off with the Rolling Stones. The lenl dairy rockers are the latest act to join one world together at home tonight. Coronavirus benefit. A special meant to support front line Health Care Workers and the world health organization. This is going to be hosted by jimmy fallon, Stephen Colbert and jimmy kimmel. The huge lineup curated by lady gaga is made up of 100 actors and artists. Lady gaga, taylor swift, alicia keys, j. Lo. Brad pitt, lizzo, Billie Eilish, a cavalcade of more stars and special starts with a pre show at 2 00 p. M. On nbc now. You can watch the full special at 8 00 eastern on the networks of nbc. John krasinski rescue of High School Students who have had their year cut short. For many it means no prom. Krasinski wanted to make sure they had something. He hosted a virtual prom as part of his good news. Breaking out the tux. Chance the rapper, the jonas brothers, Billie Eilish and office cotar rastar rain will im actually one of the best djs around. Thank you soap for coming to prom 2020. It happened. 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You made a good carson daly. You can always turn to. Good morning. Im kira klapper. Coming up next, a new requirement for bay area residents shelters at home. Well tell you about it. It has to do with face masks. Plus the Antibody Test out of stanford showing a Surprising New revolution. There may be 50 times more coronavirus cases than are on record. And cloud cover as we start our saturday. The cool down we saw yesterday continues for the weekend. Vianey arana has your forecast coming up. Teammates help each other find a way to win, just like covered california helps you find Health Insurance you can afford. Theyre the only place you can get Financial Assistance to help pay for Health Coverage. Plus, this year, the state is providing more help than ever before. And because a new law requires californians to have Health Coverage or pay a penalty, covered california has made it easier to get financial help, but times limited. Visit coveredca. Com or call to enroll today. Good morning. It is saturday, april 18th. We are taking a live look outside. Cloudy skies over the Golden Gate Bridge as we look from our future tower camera. A cloudy start to the weekend. And we really appreciate you starting our weekend with us. Thanks so much for joining us. Im kira klapper. Vianey arana is continuing to work