Unemployment lines jammed. 1 00 a. M. , 3 00 a. M. , 5 00 a. M. , no getting through. In texas, the disturbing images thousands of cars waiting at Just One Food Bank will the economy bounce back our exclusive, live interview with the ceo of one of the nations largest employers, walmart, just ahead. Mass without masses . The struggle to celebrate easter from afar this weekend churches racing to set up live streams even drivethrough blessings, but some staying open. The state of florida is not going to through government coercion close a synagogue or place of worship. How americans are still finding faith in times of trouble. All that, plus, light it blue iconic landmarks from coast to coast lit up overnight a dramatic display of gratitude to workers on the front lines today, friday, april 10, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, welcome to today. Its so this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And hi, everybody. Good morning welcome to today. Its
Need. We are privileged today to have two people who work at st. James Catholic Church who are active, as well as having the food bank. We welcome you. It is good to have you. Thank you. Good morning. Tell us a little bit about your program. We started the program about a year ago. It is actually an Episcopal Church. Okay. It was a little emergency food pantry. We took it over. We knew we had to keep it running. As soon as we began to talk with the food bank, we realized they told us we were at the center of hunger. And that rfid bank has the potential to feed a lot more people. So they asked us to go to the client choice of model, which is a model open to diversity. We began to switch out our model. And very quickly, we grew up to about 220 families. And the families average between four and five people. From 1yearold 27 years old up to seven years old. We mentioned the hunger. And that food stamps are being cut back. Will that affect you . We are expecting that to affect us quite a b
Donald trump is using the powers of his office to try to reverse the results of the election, orchestrating a farreaching Pressure Campaign to persuade republican officials in michigan, georgia and elsewhere to overturn the will of the voters. To recap, the first trump tried telling people that he won on election night. When that didnt work because all the voltes hadnt been counted. Now hes calling on republican state lawmakers in michigan to change the Electoral College volts to subvert the will of the michigan voters, even though he lost the state by more than 150,000 votes. We wont know anything until the state board of canvassers meet on monday to certify the michigan vote. They said theyve seen no evidence to warrant reversing the outcome of the vote in their state but whether or not trump can successfully steal a president ial election and subvert democracy, the effort itself is dangerous. It threatens the basic premise of our democratic system for years to come. Heres former pre