| By Dan Donahue, NBC Nightly News | |
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| Good Monday afternoon. Here's what's in our Nightly Rundown tonight. | |
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Grim new projections as coronavirus deaths near 70,000 | |
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| The coronavirus pandemic has left at least 68,533 people dead in the United States, but grave new modeling from the federal government shows the toll could skyrocket to 3,000 fatalities a day in the coming weeks. Here are the latest updates: | |
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- The Supreme Court made history today by hearing oral arguments over the phone for the first time. The pandemic forced the court to take a two-month hiatus. Today’s case involved a trademark dispute over the hotel reservation site Booking.com.
- The U.S. Senate reconvened this afternoon with new social distancing measures. Senators will only be tested if they are showing symptoms. Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected the administration’s offer for rapid testing machines because many Americans who want to be tested still can’t get them.
- The FDA is cracking down on manufacturers of antibody tests, after many on the market turned out to be inaccurate. The agency will require companies that sell those tests to submit emergency authorization requests along with data showing their tests work within 10 business days.
- Delta, United and JetBlue passengers must wear masks beginning today. Frontier will require passenger masks beginning on May 8. American and Southwest will require them beginning May 11.
- Uber will begin requiring both drivers and passengers to wear face masks, and will roll out the new rules in the coming weeks.
- Live baseball is coming back to TV. ESPN has announced it will broadcast Korea Baseball Organization games from South Korea, starting with Tuesday’s opening day.
- J. Crew has filed for bankruptcy protection. It’s the first major retail casualty of the pandemic, though the chain was already experiencing financial distress before the coronavirus forced it to shut down many of its stores.
- Carnival Cruise Line says it will resume service on Aug. 1, with ships setting sail from Miami, Port Canaveral, Florida, and Galveston, Texas — though the CDC has said that cruise ship travel “exacerbates the global spread of Covid-19.”
- A group of global experts has now defined a rare, mysterious condition in children that’s been linked to COVID-19. Dr. John Torres will report tonight on “pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome” that has cropped up in coronavirus hotspots around the country.
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| Coronavirus: U.S. saw its deadliest 24 hours last week |
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Trump administration projects 3,000 deaths a day in U.S. | |
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| The number is staggering. The Trump administration is projecting the country will suffer about 3,000 deaths per day by June 1, according to internal documents obtained by The New York Times. | |
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| That's nearly double the current daily level of about 1,750 deaths, the Times noted. The projections are based on modeling numbers collected by FEMA, according to the report. | |
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| Responding to the Times report, White House deputy press secretary Judd Deere said, "This is not a White House document nor has it been presented to the Coronavirus Task Force or gone through interagency vetting." | |
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| "This data is not reflective of any of the modeling done by the task force or data that the task force has analyzed," Deere continued. | |
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| President Trump warned on Sunday that as many as 100,000 people could die from the coronavirus in the U.S. — a sharp increase from the 50,000-60,000 he predicted on April 20, levels that have already been surpassed. | |
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| We've got Peter Alexander on this story for us tonight. | |
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Florida joins growing list of states reopening | |
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| Florida is allowing restaurants and stores to get back to business, except in the three hardest-hit counties, Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach. | |
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| Businesses will have to operate at 25 percent of their indoor capacity — though schools, bars, hair salons and gyms will remain closed for now. | |
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| Most counties in Indiana are moving to "Stage 2" of the state's reopening plan today, allowing retail and commercial businesses to operate at 50 percent capacity. | |
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| After a county has been in "Stage 2" for a week, restaurants can reopen at 50 percent capacity, and personal services like salons can resume with proper social distancing measures. | |
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| Ohio is allowing manufacturing and construction businesses to reopen today, but retail and consumer stores will have to wait until May 11. | |
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| Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine had initially ordered shoppers and workers to wear masks last week, but reversed that mandate a day later. DeWine said the order went "too far" in an interview on Sunday. | |
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| Miguel Almaguer is reporting tonight on the new wave of states taking steps toward reopening today — including Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and West Virginia. | |
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China covered up severity of outbreak to hoard medical supplies, DHS reports finds | |
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| The DHS document, first reported by the Associated Press, concluded that China had delayed telling the World Health Organization that the coronavirus "was a contagion." | |
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| "We assess the Chinese Government intentionally concealed the severity of COVID-19 from the International community in early January while it stockpiled medical supplies by both increasing imports and decreasing exports," the report says. | |
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| President Trump has been highly critical of China's handling of the crisis. | |
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| "My opinion is they made a mistake. They tried to cover it. They tried to put it out. It's like a fire," Trump said on Fox News on Sunday. "They couldn't put out the fire." | |
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| Trump also said last week he has seen evidence that the coronavirus originated from a lab in Wuhan, China, though he did not elaborate. | |
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| On Sunday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo doubled down on that claim, saying in an interview there is "enormous evidence" that the virus came from a Wuhan lab. | |
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| China's state-owned newspaper Global Times ran an editorial today pushing back on Pompeo's comments. | |
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| "Since Pompeo said his claims are supported by 'enormous evidence,' then he should present this so-called evidence to the world, and especially to the American public who he continually tries to fool," the editorial said. "The truth is that Pompeo does not have any evidence, and during Sunday's interview, he was bluffing." | |
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| The office of the Director of National Intelligence last week issued a statement saying the intelligence community has concluded the virus was not man-made — but has not determined whether it emerged accidentally from a lab or was transmitted to humans from animals. | |
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| Pompeo says 'evidence' ties coronavirus to Chinese lab |
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Legendary Dolphins head coach Don Shula dies at 90 | |
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| Kerry Sanders will close our broadcast tonight with a celebration of the life and legacy of Don Shula, the legendary head coach of the Miami Dolphins, who died today at age 90. | |
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| Shula led the Dolphins to two back-to-back Super Bowl wins in the 1970s. He was the winningest head coach in NFL history, and guided the Dolphins to the only perfect season in NFL history in 1972. | |
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| Shula turned to coaching after playing in the NFL, as a defensive back for the Browns, Colts, and Redskins. He also served as defensive coordinator for the Lions, and head coach of the Colts. | |
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| The Dolphins announced in a statement on Twitter that Shula had died "peacefully at his home" this morning. | |
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| "Don Shula was the patriarch of the Miami Dolphins for 50 years," the statement said. "He brought the winning edge to our franchise and put the Dolphins and the city of Miami on the national sports scene. Our deepest thoughts and prayers go out to Mary Anne along with his children, Dave, Donna, Sharon, Anne and Mike." | |
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 ———Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula is carried off the field after his team won the Super Bowl game with a 14-7 victory over Washington, in Los Angeles on Jan. 14, 1973 file photo. Anonymous / AP | |
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