Why newly surfaced body cam footage of an incident from 2019 could raise new questions in the investigation of his shooting death in february. And safer skies. An inside look at how one airline is taking lessons from hospitals to make people feel safe about traveling again. But first, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. I happen to be taking it. Hydroxychloroquine . Im taking it. Hydroxychloroquine. Right now, yeah. The leader of the free world reveals hes taking daily doses of a drug medical experts and the u. S. Food and Drug Administration warn could have harmful side effects. Hes our president and i would rather he not be taking something thats not been approved, especially in his age group and his, shall we say, weight group. What is morbidly obese. Reporter more americans are heading back to work as states continue to ease restrictions. It never has been about money. Its about our freedom. Monday, new york, california and texas joined the Sunshine State in saying theyre ready to host professional sports as of june. Were ready, willing and able partner. Personal disclosure, i want to watch the buffalo bills. Virginia tech gave an honorary doctorate in medicine to this dog. His name is moose. A legally blond 3 is reportedly in the works. No goalie gloves. No cleats. Just pure catlike reflexes and the added security of nine lives. That is quite the most remarkable piece of goalkeeping i have ever seen. And all that matters. Germans have now found a way to enjoy live Classical Music one on one concerts with a single musician playing for a single audience member. If you love Classical Music and prolonged awkward eye contact, this is for you. On cbs this morning. Elmo, first up, how are you doing with social distancing . Elmo okay. Elmo staying inside with his mommy and daddy. Ive never seen you in a suit before. It looks really good. Thank you. You may be the only person i know who just started wearing pants. Oh, thats true. Youre assuming elmos wearing pants. No, elmo is wearing pants. This mornings eye opener is presented by toyota. Welcome to cbs this morning. Anthony, it seems were all adjusting to this corona. I know you live on the west side, too. Got up this morning. The sky was shining. The birds were chirping. Im thinking its off to a good start here on the Upper West Side. Lets hope it continues. A bright new day. We need one of those, gayle. We really do. And we begin with this. A new day, a new controversy this morning over the way President Trump is fighting the coronavirus. Late last night he tweeted this letter that he sent to the World Health Organization threatening to permanently cut funding and, quote, reconsider our membership in the organization. Now the president has repeatedly claimed the w. H. O. Was negligent in its Coronavirus Response and is biased in favor of china. The president also says hes now taking the antimalaria drug hydroxychloroquine to help protect himself from the coronavirus. This drug is unproven as a treatment for the virus and the fda has warned it could have dangerous side effects. Paula reid is at the white house for us. Paula, this was an unexpected development. What are we learning . Good morning, tony. The president revealed hes taking this drug as he was being pressed by reporters about a series of unfavorable stories. He said that he has taken hydroxychloroquine and zinc but so far, no one at the white house has been able to confirm the president s regimen. The frontline workers, many are taking it. I happen to be taking it. I happen to be taking it. Hydroxychloroquine . Im taking it. Hydroxychloroquine. Right now, yeah. Reporter President Trump says hes taking hydroxychloroquine and zinc, an unproven combination, after hearing anecdotal evidence. Sir, i have hundreds of patients and i give them hydroxychloroquine. I give them the zpak which is azithromycin and zinc. Of the over 300 patients, i havent lost one. Reporter he claims he request tuesday from the white house doctor about two weeks ago after a support staffer tested positive for covid19. He said, well, if youd like it. I said, yeah, id like it. Reporter the fda warned hydroxychloroquine should not be used outside a hospital setting. Warning of serious heart rhythm problems in patients with covid19. So far, the president s tests for the virus have all been negative. As scientists continue to study the drugs effectiveness, the president s endorsement has made it a political flash point. Weve had tremendous response to the hydroxy. Its a very strong, powerful medicine. Reporter speaking to cbs news in march, dr. Anthony fauci expressed skepticism about its benefits. There is not a proven and its the underlined word, a proven treatment or prevention. Reporter and the president s critics say hes once again giving the public bad medical information. Every expert who has looked at it says it doesnt help you against covid. So hes giving people false hope. Reporter in a carefully worded memo monday, the president s physician revealed that the two men discussed hydroxychloroquine and decided that the potential benefit from treatment outweigh the relative risks. But it does not specifically say what it is the president is taking. And the president also does not engage in proven preventative measures. He does not wear a mask and he does not consiststently social distance. Even those around him only started doing so in the past ten days. Gayle . Thank you, paula. Cbs news medical contributor david agus joins us with more on the drug President Trump is taking. Good morning to you, dr. Agus. Any proof that hydroxychloroquine can prevent covid for the president or anybody else . Well, lets just start with the decision to take a medicine is one of the most personal things you can do. And it involves a discussion of the patient to a doctor with the risk, how close and how significant interaction did he have with this staff member. And the risks of the medicine. And they made that decision together given his risk for complication from covid. There was data that hydroxychloroquine could potentially have a benefit in cell culture dishes and its in pilot studies in other countries. It looked encouraging that the nih and universities across the country have started Clinical Trials to say, does it actually work in patients with early covid19 . And the results arent back. So the answer is we dont know yet, but this is a political football. When you talk about this, it defines your politics whether youre for or against hydroxychloroquine. And thats not right. The data have to speak and hopefully the data will be out soon. But as a doctor, would you recommend that a patient take a Prescription Drug for something they say they dont have . Well, the fda, when it approves a drug, as a doctor you can use it for any indication. Its legal. Its called offlabel use. We do it significantly in the cancer space. So what we know with covid19 is the data look and appear that the earlier you treat, the better the outcome. So with each individual patient you look and you say, whats the risk theres going to be complications for this patient and maybe youd want to be a little more aggressive with the president of the United States. There has yet to be a medicine thats been shown to work early. Some have worked late. Remdesivir worked late in the disease and significantly shortened hospitalization in a placebocontrolled trial. Were still waiting for the data from this drug. Do you have any concerns, though, about the president promoting this drug, especially since the fda has said you should not take this drug outside of a hospital or not involved in a Clinical Trial for this. Does this concern you . Well, in general, this is a very, very safe drug. People have taken it for malaria, prophylactics. But i do not think the president of the United States nor any politician should be promoting individual therapies without data. This should not be part of politics. Health shouldnt be political. It is not a republican or democratic issue. Its all of our personal issues. And i think we have to rise above the political nature of this drug and these talking and talk about other things regarding data and not recommending a drug. So i dont think its right that anybody recommend a drug until the data have shown it. So the president doing this does not define that any patient in the country should emulate it because we dont know that conversation with the physician. All right. David agus, thank you very much. Anthony . Thank you both. Chinas Foreign Ministry said this morning that President Trumps message to the w. H. O. Threatening to cut off funding for good is an effort to shift the blame for his administrations failures in responding to the coronavirus. Ram Ramy Inocencio reports on the letter sent in the middle of a worldwide conference on the pandemic. Reporter in his scathing fourpage letter, President Trump slammed the World Health Organization for what he called a failed response to covid19. An alarming lack of independence from china and for ignoring credible reports from wuhan. The president s health and Human Services secretary addressed the w. H. O. Directly as it convened its annual assembly virtually for the first time. There was a failure by this organization to obtain the information that the world needed. And that failure cost many lives. Reporter the president s missive came after xi jinping made a uturn pledging to support an independent probe into the origins of the coronavirus and with a pledge of 2 billion in aid. But washington called xis statements a distraction from what the white house claims to be chinas failure to alert the world and said beijin should pay more. That payment might come in the form of a vaccine. China says it now has five candidates in Clinical Trial with cansino biologics, the first in the world to enter the second phase of Clinical Trials. Typically to go through from phase one to phase three studies can take five to seven years. Given the urgency of the pandemic, those steps have been compressed somewhat. Reporter and the last paragraph of President Trumps letter, he threatened to withdraw all u. S. Funding to the World Health Organization for good. That was 400 million in 2019, unless major changes are made in the next 30 days. For cbs this morning, Ramy Inocencio, tokyo. 49 of 50 states have now partially eased social distancing rules, but the pandemic is far from over. The reported u. S. Death toll from the coronavirus has surpassed 90,000 people. Now more businesses are looking for ways to safely reopen while the danger remains. David begnaud is in front of ab an apple store here in new york. Good morning. You know how busy an apple store can be. Everybody inside touching all those devices, pressing something that somebody else just touched. So what are big brands like apple going to do to change the rules . You have to wear a mask before you go in when the store reopens. Mask applies to customers and employees. Thats the rule. Also theyll take your temperature before youre allowed inside. And theyll restrict how many people can go in because they want to maintain a social distance. Thats what the big brand guys like apple can do. Its going to be interesting what the mom and pop shops around the country end up doing and are able to do as more people continue to reopen around the country cautiously. 48 auto manufacturing plants across eight states are back open now. That means tens of thousands of employees at ford, gm and Fiat Chrysler are back at work. My wife is a nurse. My sons are cops. Im ready. Lets go. Lets get this done. Weve got to do it. Reporter video from this chrysler plant in warren, michigan, shows their new normal. Temperature checks upon entry to the building. Two masks are given to each employee. Plastic coverings to keep employees separated. Workers consistently sanitizing their work stations. Even with all of that, some people were a little uneasy about going back to work. I know personally five people that passed away from this. Four of them worked here. One worked next door. So were scared. Reporter the Auto Industry is part of americas economic engine trying to get back on track. As governors around the country continue to slowly reopen. In texas yesterday, Governor Greg Abbott reopened gyms, Office Buildings and Child Care Centers with some restrictions. There are plans to reopen bars and bowling alleys on friday. Washington state announced the reopening of all medical services and massachusetts will be the second to last state in the country to ease restrictions. That states Governor Charlie Baker announced its states strict fourphase plan. These two will be inseparable. Getting back to work and fighting covid until theres a medical breakthrough with treatments or a vaccine. Reporter 21 states are still seeing an increase in new positive cases. Thats why some governors are a little hesitant to open too much, too soon. Open new jersey now reporter among those unhappy with their states slower pace, the owners of this gym in new jersey. Who believe the governors stayathome order violates their constitutional rights. Bigbox retailers, grocery and Liquor Stores can operate with Proper Health protocol in place, so can every single business in america. Reporter back here on the Upper West Side of manthattan, yesterday they shut down an Orthodox Jewish school. About 60 kids were pouring out of the building. Very few of them wearing masks. The city got a tip the school was operating and so they went in to shut it down. The mayor of new york city, bill de blasio tweeted about this saying they were going to issue a cease and desist order. He put out the tweet because he clearly wanted people to know what they were doing and, gayle, he was trying to set an example. The city will not tolerate the defiance of city orders. All right, David Begnaud on the move on the Upper West Side. I recognize that corner. Thank you. Secretary of state mike pompeo said he had no idea his departments outgoing Inspector General was investigating him. Pompeo insists the decision on friday to replace steve linick was not retaliation. Linick is one of five internal government watchdogs to be removed by the president since march. As nancy cordes reports, mr. Trump says firing linick was not his idea. Mike requested that i do it. Reporter President Trump told reporters that it was secretary of state mike pompeo who wanted his agencys Inspector General fired. I guess they werent happy with the job hes doing or something. Reporter now lawmakers from both parties are asking the president for a detailed reasoning for the firing. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi citing reports that linick was nearing completion of an investigation into the approval of billions of dollars in arms sales to saudi arabia. That arms sale by declaring a fake emergency in order to just go forward without the accountability and transparency is something that is worthy of attention. Reporter in an interview with the washington post, secretary pompeo said that linicks work was undermining the state department and that the obama appointee wasnt performing a function in a way that we had tried to get him to. Its simply not possible for this to be an act of retaliation, pompeo said. Claiming that he was unaware that linick may also have been investigating pompeo himself for allegedly directing a political appointee to run personal errands. Hes under investigation because he had somebody walk his dog from the government . I dont know. Doesnt sound i dont think it sounds like that important. Reporter President Trump says hes happy to fire any Inspector General who was appointed by his predecessor. For cbs this morning, nancy cordes, washington. The Saudi Air Force officer who shot and killed three u. S. Sailors last year had significant ties to al qaeda, according to the Justice Department and investigators there. 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