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and governors on the east and west coast are working to put together their own plans for how to reopen. cnn has the news on that. reporter: tonight, states across the country banding together to come up with their own coordinated plans to reopen the country in the region. governors from california, washington and oregon announce their plan to work together on an approach to reopen their economy. this after governors from new york, new jersey, connecticut, rhode island, massachusetts, delaware and pennsylvania announce their they re forming a working group to do the same. remember the federal government could have said i want to close down the economy. they didn t. we re going to leave it to the state. now all of a sudden when it s time to open the economy it s back to the federal government as a responsibility. texas governor says later this week he will release a str strategy for a slow reopening of businesses there. this is not a rush the gate everybody is abl ....
comes time to open the economy, now it s back to the federal government as a responsibility? reporter: texas governor greg abbott said he will release a strategy that will eventually be a slow opening to businesses there. this is not going to be a rush the gates, everybody is suddenly able to re-open all at once. reporter: this as president trump insists he will be the one to decide when the country re-opens despite never issuing a nationwide lockdown and leaving that up to states. for the first time in history, every state is under a disaster declaration at the same time. the national death toll numbers are staggering and yet in new york the epicenter of the pandemic there are indications the number of infected is leveling off. here s the good news, the curve continues to flatten. reporter: across the country the number of hospitalizations is down. the u.s. surgeon general says it appears the nation s hot spots, places such as new york, new jersey, detroit an ....
cnn ryan young joins us outside paisley park. ri ryan, set the scene for us. reporter: what we ve been seeing constantly since the singer died. all the people who gathered here coming hour after hour here. watching them come from across country. in fact, family members have been stopping and talking to the people standing here, thanking them for showing up. delivered pizza at some point. seems something is going on. we ve seen the most movement over the last couple of days. and there were people going to the back gate. we re not sure what kind of ceremony is going on today, but we have seen some family. the tributes paid. balloons, flowers. the artist actually drew this picture here several days ago. a lot of people are coming to take a picture of that, but people sharing stories, talking about prince. what he meant to this community and how much they loved him. an all-night dance party lasted until 7:00 this morning. people stepping out to show their love for the man ....
news, a family affair. we have new details tonight here at cnn about how donald trump can legally name his son-in-law jared kushner a senior white house adviser without breaking any laws against especially nep. kushner s attorney says the president has unfetterred and sweeping ability to select his advisors. he s married to ivanka trump. he s a new york real estate developer and newspaper editor. in his new job kushner s editor says he won t take a salary. kushner will resign from his companies including the new york observer. ivanka trump s title likely to be first daughter. in just a few hours the senate will begin hearings into trump s cabinet picks, at least none of them scheduled to testify this week. i want to begin with sara murray, out front with the breaking news. sara, the trump team says jared kushner is ethically cleared to work in the white house. reporter: erin, the lingering question for a while now was would jared kushner get a formal title. they wer ....
special air mission 41. the bush family will be gathering at ellington field shortly. you can see the motorcade there. his casket will be brought into view really for the first time as it will be loaded onto the plane. then this world war ii flyboy will make one of his final flights. he will lie in state in the u.s. capitol rotunda for the public to pay respects starting this evening going into wednesday morning. and then a state funeral begins. also, traveling with his casket from texas to washington will be his beloved service dog sully. we saw him leaving the funeral home a short while ago. this is bush s longtime spokesman who shared this photo of sully laying next to the flag-draped casket. the caption reading simply, mission complete. let s start in houston this morning. kaylee hartung is at ellington air field with a layout of what we re expected to see. this is the first of really a week s worth of ceremonies. what will we see in a few minutes? that s right, k ....