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he stood up for them and they are standing up for final salute for the captain, completed with Lady Leadership to get his 5000 soldiers off the ship stricken with virus and was later relieved of duty.
Crowd chanting his name.
Military leadership says he broke the chain of command.
Speaking of protocol, United no more cities and states across the country Now calling their own shots is Corona virus sweeps across America.
Most states have stay at home restrictions, but others remain defined in New York City.
The mayor says they'll be out of ventilators by Sunday.
Similar reports across the country.
One doctor warning.
We're playing musical chairs with life saving equipment, but as we head into another weekend, hunker down.
Finding balance during a seemingly off kilter time is key staying informed while also staying center?
Good evening, everyone.
I'm Lindsay Davis.
Thanks so much for streaming with us.
Another one.
Another incredibly challenging week behind us.
Another month of uncertainty ahead here, New York officials warn.
We're just days away from what they're calling a D day.
When this pandemic will overwhelm hospitals, the governor is essentially threatening to seize vital medical equipment that death toll nearly doubling in three days close to 3000 dead in New York state Planes in hard hit Los Angeles Spelling it out in this guy Stay at home save lives.
But that's exactly what many residents in some states are not doing tonight.
Their local leaders refusing to issue a stay at home orders.
Dr Anthony Fauci says he does not understand why Alex Perez leads us off with a look at the places in America where there's pandemic may seem distant but looms large nonetheless, from New York.
Stay home to the maxim extent possible to California.
We know what does work, and that's physical distancing.
And we believe very strongly that stay at home order has helped advance our efforts and reducing the stress on the system and many places in between.
A majority of states across the country have issued a stay at home orders to help stop the spread of cove in 19.
The measures have caused unprecedented harm to their economies, but those officials say the decision was made to protect life first.
Not everyone, however, has made the same choice.
Take a look.
10 states have no such order in place in many of those states instead a confusing mix of county and local restrictions and closures.
We know that the best thing we can do to minimize the economic impact on the duration of that as well as the public health throughout the state, is to put a shelter in place mandate in place as soon as possible.
Because Cove in 19 doesn't respect tourist external boundaries, it is spreading.
It will continue to spread.
Salt Lake City Mayor Erin Mendenhall issued her own stay at home order after Utah Governor Gary Herbert on Lee issued a softer directive.
There have been more than 1000 confirmed cases and at least seven deaths in Utah.
We know that when we put in place a stay at home mandate that more people follow it.
Businesses put in place better protections for their customers and their employees, and it slows down the spread of this virus.
In Alabama, where there are more than 1300 confirmed cases in at least 34 deaths, Governor Kay Ivey had declined to impose a stay at home order on Lee, closing 90 central businesses in schools which were not Louisiana.
We're not New York state, we're not California and right now is not the time Thio people to shelter in place.
Ivy, who faced an avalanche of criticism on social media late today, finally issuing a stay at home order.
And although President Trump has been reluctant to urge the state's hesitant to issue a statewide mandate, all with Republican governors toe locked down, the nation's top medical experts on the pandemic believes every state should be implementing one.
But if you look at what's going on in this country, I just don't understand why we're not doing that.
We really should be.
The concern tonight is that if they don't, they may later cause damage to those residents in states that have been staying at home.
They're all slapping us in the face and people losing jobs to a tune that we've never seen before in this country are losing them, and it's because other people aren't cooperating.
Pretty soon what you're doing.
If you're not complying with these rules as a state or is individual, it's hurting all of us, and it's time for it to stop.
Enough is enough and this state by state thing is killing me.
I mean, we're the United States of America and Lindsay.
Medical experts say there's already some proof that in states where residents are closely following those stay at home orders, it's working, helping to slow down the spread of the virus.
Here in Illinois and several other states, the order has already been extended until at least April 30th.
Lindsay Our thanks to Alex Perez Back here in New York City, many of us received an emergency alert on our phones, a desperate plea from a city struggling to keep up with this pandemic.
So ominous to hear that sound and read that message an emergency alert asking for qualified health care workers to come forward to help, or what Johnson is in New York City, where the mayor shared a dire message today, we are running out of time tonight outside one hospital in Brooklyn, a somber walk, a team of doctors moving a covert victim to a mobile, more on increasingly familiar sight in this stricken city.
Morgue space is filling up this grim picture outside Bellevue Hospital.
About a dozen of these refrigerator trucks lined up toe hold the death overnight, the death toll in New York state jumping to nearly 3000 highest single increase in the number of deaths since we started.
Funeral homes overwhelmed 60% of them in this room.
Pat Marmo delivering tough news to grieving families could watch, but I don't have that.
I don't have the accommodation again right now.
Tonight across America, the National Guard building field hospitals in Michigan and Connecticut disinfecting nursing homes in Georgia.
But here in New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo giving the troops different marching orders to seize ventilators from medical facilities with lower needs and redeploy them.
Tow hospitals in crisis.
I'm not gonna let people die because we didn't redistribute ventilators.
The Trump administration has criticized states begging for supplies, accusing them of exaggerating the need, The notion of the federal stockpile.
Was it supposed to be our stockpile?
It's not supposed be state stockpiles a day than use.
But today, from the president a pledge.
We will take every action and will spare no resource, financial, medical, scientific.
We will not spare anything well, get back into shape.
The Empire State in New York today.
Staggering numbers.
More than 100,000 people testing positive for Corona virus.
Victoria, a school nurse, is one of them.
I don't want to go out like this, I'm afraid.
But I'm afraid that I'm not gonna get a chance to see my family again.
I'm afraid for what's gonna happen to happen to our country and what Johnson joins us now from outside that temporary hospital, the Javits Center and Tonight, the president announced the new CDC recommendations on masks, and the surgeon general acknowledges the federal guidance has been confusing to the American people.
Lindsay, initially the White House, was against face coverings for the general public.
Now they're recommending nonmedical cloth masks as we learn more about the spread.
But President Trump himself said it is voluntary and that he probably won't be wearing one Lindsay Johnson for us again in New York City tonight.
Thanks so much with, of course, hospital bed shortages are an increasing concern across the country.
Medical workers are trying to find creative ways to stretch their limited resource, and states now have to compete with each other from life saving tools like those critical ventilators.
Tonight, the governor of California says his state will get what it needs.
But will others.
NBC's Matt Gutman, reporting tonight from Sacramento tonight, the virus continues to tear through the ranks of frontline workers.
I see you, nurse Laurie's Anderson, the latest casualty.
The 46 year old mother of two.
She'd been tirelessly treating covert 19 patients in New Orleans.
They're not trying to be superheroes.
They run towards, you know, tragedy.
Like when everyone else funds the opposite way in some states upto one in five covert positive patients, our health care workers.
We've been following up with Doctor at Latham for two weeks.
Now we're losing staff members.
Are nurses air sick?
The toll also emotional.
When I'm coming home, I can take a deep breath and I can fill my lungs.
And and then all I wanna do is cry because I don't know what else to do with the emotion anymore.
In Detroit, doctors say they are already juggling those lifesaving ventilators.
We are running out of ventilators, and I feel like we're playing musical chairs with the ventilators we have on right now that as the scramble for supplies accelerates, So what do you say?
The health care workers adoring trash back.
So they're not getting enough.
It's unacceptable that they are, and all I could say is we hear you, which is why California's governor, Gavin Newsom, is telling us the state is buying as much pp as it can on the open market.
Are you finding yourself bidding against other governors and other states?
For peopIe?
No questions were a bit against the federal government, but that said, we also are one of the largest purchasers in the world.
We're the largest economy in the world on as a consequence, weekend out bid Most what states like California are not doing not waiting around for someone on a white horse to come save the day.
And yet every day flickers of hope that gauntlet of cheerleaders at Phoebe Putney Memorial in Georgia, their second patient off the ventilator.
I love to see that applause.
We are joined now live by Matt Gutman, California's governor said that his state could outbid other states and even the federal government for life saving supplies.
That that all sounds a bit Darwinian.
It is Darwinian.
This is about the survival of the fittest Lindsay or, in this case, the survival of the richest California can afford.
Toe outbid other states, even the federal government, for federal for P P E supplies it is also capable, and the governor is very adept at this, tapping into his vast network of connections and very wealthy people in this state.
Zuckerberg's Elon Musk Richard Branson with his 7 47 full of protection equipment flown in from China and Hong Kong right here to California.
So the governor actually admitted that this is a zero sum game, that California gets these peopie at the expense of other states.
He says he's trying to spread the wealth, but at the end of day, he's got 40 million people to take care of here, like every man for himself here.
Okay, Governor Newsome sounded confident.
But what is he most concerned about?
He's really concerned about the combination of both the health of the citizens and residents of the state, but also the economy.
Two million people have filed for unemployment.
That is an unbelievable number, and we hear about ah possible recession lasting until the end of the fourth quarter, the end of the year, he says.
This is going to last for many years to come, and we should all be bracing for this.
Uh, it was pretty sobering to hear that from the governor of, As you just heard him say, the fifth biggest economy in the world.
Lindsay.
And you've been speaking to medical professionals on the front lines for several weeks now.
Many of you, many as you know, have gotten sick.
It's obvious that they're more exposed than than others, but what specifically could be making them more vulnerable?
Because we see them going in all suited up and then still getting the virus.
Well, there are a couple of things.
Obviously there is the frequency of exposure, right?
They are in the e r or the I C.
U with people who are sick all the time and just one mistake taking off your gloves.
Removing your mask and touching your face exposes you to a viral load of Corona virus and covert 19.
But it's not only that, it's the fact that the people they are right next to all the time are the sickest of the sick.
And they're cough is very different from our cough.
The concentration of the virus in someone's cough, who's in the hospital with pneumonia and, you know, deep stages of covert 19 is full of the virus, and the chances of a tired health care worker, catching it become exponentially higher.
That's why we're seeing one in five health care workers, or one or five people testing positive in places like Minnesota and Ohio.
Health care workers, 800 health care workers just in the state of Massachusetts alone getting sick.
And this is a train.
We're going to see a lot more of Lindsay.
Really insightful and helpful information.
McElman Our Thanks to you another somber note on the job market in this country.
More than 700,000 jobs were lost in March, ending the longest stretch of job creation in American history.
Things are actually worse than the numbers reveal, because most of that data was collected in the first half of March before the country started fully shutting down.
That makes those $1200 checks and new small business loans that much more vital for so many Americans.
ABC is.
Rebecca Jarvis has a closer look tonight after the worst monthly jobs report in a decade.
Those $1200 checks can't come soon enough for millions of out of work Americans, and now America's 30 million small business owners are scrambling to get their share of the 350 billion and paycheck protection loans backed by the government.
We went from having a thriving and 40 year old business, too, had an abuse shattered overnight.
We need help.
We need relief.
The loans a lifeline for small companies to help keep Americans employed.
As long as companies don't fire their workers, they won't have to pay back the loans.
But tonight, many say they're struggling to get access to the money, and I was immediately rejected because I don't have an existing loan with them.
Bank of America started accepting applications on its website at 8 45 this morning.
We're prioritizing we have a 1,000,000 Barring.
Customers were trying to get through the system first.
The bottom line is we can't pay our staff.
Pat Few G owns a toy store in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
He went to his local bank instead of one of the big ones.
The other national change that we work with are even ready to process applications at this point, And Rebecca Jarvis joins us now with more from some of those small business owners about problems or delays in getting these loans.
How is that gonna be fixed well.
And you can imagine Lindsay how important that money is now they need the money now because they're not getting paid their on lock down.
So the banks are working with the government with the S p A.
To first of all, just resolve any clarifying issues around the program itself.
Secondarily, the banks themselves have to put together protocols and the personnel to be responsive to this new loan program.
$350 billion.
I've talked to a number of banks.
They tell me that their programs are being that they're beefing up the staff that they're working toe have the level of personnel that is necessary to be responsive to this.
But if you take just one of those banks Bank of America, which this morning at 8:45 a.m. They started accepting applications.
So far, Lindsay, they have received more than $22 billion in applications for this program.
That just goes to show you the need and also the scope of how many applications are coming in the door.
So it is imperative that banks figure this out, and also that the SP A figures it out with them.
What I will say is I've talked to a number of small businesses.
The ones who have been successful are in some cases going to their local, their community banks.
They have told me they've had an easier time getting them on the phone, and that might be something.
If you are a small business out there this struggling with this contact the local bank that you've done business with in the past, they might be able to get you answers faster.
Okay, good option there.
Rebecca Jarvis, Thank you so much.
And as this crisis, Fred's and job losses mount, many Americans are losing their health insurance as well.
Today, Joe Biden demanded that the administration reopened Obama care enrollment during the outbreak.
But President Trump appears to have shut the door on that love.
But if you've recently lost your job and your health insurance, here's what you can do to try to get coverage first.
If you lost health insurance through your job, in many cases you can keep your company insurance under cobra.
But you'll have to pay the full premiums, which can be expensive, and you have 60 days to enroll in Obamacare, so try and check that out ASAP.
Now, if you've never had health insurance and lost your job, you might still qualify for Medicaid.
So check online and see if you can still sign up for that.
And if you've never had health insurance and don't qualify for Medicaid, check with your state.
Many states actually run their own exchanges, and a lot of them have reopened enrollment.
So, please, if you've recently lost coverage, make sure to check all your options.
Next back from the brink.
Two patients 1 44 the other 26 both battled the virus, and one, they're called out Liars.
They are young, healthy, no underlying conditions like so many who suffer the disease.
They were hospitalized, cut off from everyone in their lives.
Now, tonight we hear from those families.
Here is ABC anchor Juju Chang.
That was the last time we saw him with Darryl Ramos.
Young son Taylor is one of the outliers young, otherwise healthy before Cove in 1926 year old flight attendant on a ventilator for nearly two weeks, hardest leases what he's asking.
If I go on the ventilator, Do you know how long I could be bounded?
Taylor's family stayed in touch.
The only way they could hate Taylor.
Um, this is Dad and Mom anxiously awaiting any call from the hospital.
Hello, this is Darryl.
The doctor has good news.
Taylor is now breathing on his own.
Oh, that is on.
And then the moment they're all waiting for Hello, Taylor.
You can you say hi, Mom.
So many families across this country battling this disease together but apart.
Amanda Palmer Chan's husband t two is now home after three weeks in the hospital.
What was that moment like for both of you, It was a most joy, really?
Waas it just It felt like everything this whole.
Finally again through those precious video chats with his wife and his three little girls keeping him going, even the doctors noticed.
But he was still a little earlier.
And it was one of the times called on the phone by year.
And the doctor happened to be in the room.
And my eyes are fluttering when I'm talking to you.
Our thanks to jude you.
And remember, you can catch much more on this ahead on Nightline tonight at 11:35 p.m. Eastern after your local news cast.
And when we come back, the captain relieved of his duties after sounding the alarm on Corona Virus, the rousing ovation he received on his way off the ship.
Also, you might have binged on the Tiger King this week.
Well, now it's re igniting interest in a cold case we talk with.
The sheriff has been getting a flurry of tips on sports fans.
Listen up how you could see some of the best players in the n B A.
Back in action tonight, facing off from their couches.
But first, here's a look at the top trending stories on abc news dot com.
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We turn now to that Navy captain who was relieved of his duties after sounding the alarm about a Corona virus outbreak on his ship.
Thousands are now being evacuated from the virus stricken aircraft carrier docked in Guam.
Maybe she's Martha Raddatz has the latest on the fallout.
If there was any doubt how the sailors of the Roosevelt felt about their captain, it is very clear tonight.
One last look and a wave goodbye.
Bret Crozier walked down the ramp from the carrier for the last time, relieved of duty, a massive sailors cheering him with chance of Captain Crozier.
The letter that got Crozier fired was a plea to Navy leadership to get the majority of his nearly 5000 sailors off the ship as soon as possible, given the rapid spread of Corona virus on board.
The secretary of the Navy didn't accuse him of leaking the letter to the press, but showing poor judgment by not going through proper channels were leaving him of command was in the best interest of the United States Navy and the nation in this time when the nation needs the Navy to be strong and confident in the face of divert of adversity, At least 137 sailors have tested positive on board, but none have been hospitalized.
For Debbie Tough, whose daughter is a sailor on the Roosevelt, the captain's firing is as distressing as the virus.
I was absolutely blown away and disgusted and disheartened, and I'm I'm sad.
Quite frankly, I watched the video footage of his entire crew clapping and cheering as he was leaving the ship and I felt the same and I was leveled to tears.
And I feel like that's the one person who has shown in the Navy that he cares what happens to my daughter in the 5000 other sailors that are on that ship.
And Martha Raddatz joins us now.
Martha, what are you hearing about how this may be impacting the morale of these sailors?
Well, I think it has tremendous impact, Lindsay, because those sailors, as you saw, are cheering him as he leaves the ship.
This is like a family on an aircraft carrier.
This is a floating city.
They were all going through this crisis together.
Brett Crozier has a really stellar career, and I think all of those sailors know it will probably come to an end.
There will probably not be any promotions in his future and in your career covering the military.
How out of the ordinary is a situation like this?
You know, the Navy is very tough.
They must have a zero tolerance policy for if any.
If any sort of officer does something, they don't think it's right.
But in the middle of a crisis like this, in the middle of something, those sailors are going through a health crisis that the world has never seen before.
And you've got a a ship full of young sailors.
This is a very big deal and a TTE the very least, it is a very bad look for the Navy at this point.
Lindsay.
All right, Martha Raddatz in Washington Next, Martha much more ahead on ABC News Prime.
Just about no one is flying these days and understandably so.
How hard is the airline industry hit way?
Take a look by the numbers and an update on those cruise ship passengers in limbo off the coast of Florida.
But first, our post of the day hand washing and music go roll.
The virus has got go.
Yes.
Can you tell everybody to stay healthy?
ABC News straight forward.
This this morning applications went live.
You know, my banker sent me the link, and it was at that link that it was basically BankAmerica put up a wall, saying, You know, you have to have an online I d which we had.
You have to have a tent down with us, and you also have to have a lending relationship with us, and you have 20 s money.
And that's when I just felt like the rug was pulled out beneath us.
Um, we weren't the one bank we have a relationship with wasn't going to process the Papal Peril Protection Act, uh, tow us a small business.
So basically, the fact that we're a healthy cash flow positive, no debt, no loan.
Small business was held as a barrier to getting relieved to the fact that we don't have income for nine months.
Lots of frustration out there.
Few industries have been harder hit by Code 19 than the nation's airlines, and new data shows just how far reaching the shutdown has been.
So let's take a look by the numbers.
Just over 124,000 passengers were screened by TSA agents at U S airports yesterday.
That's a 95% drop from the 2.4 million screened on the same day last year.
TSA screenings have dropped every day since March 15th and now at their lowest number, screened in more than a decade.
On fewer passengers.
Well, that means fewer flights.
American Airlines has cut domestic capacity 60 to 70% for April and up to 80% for May due to low customer demand Delta Airlines has cut overall capacity by 70% in his parking at least half of its fleet, or more than 600 aircraft.
United Airlines is cutting domestic capacity by 52% Southwestern JetBlue by 40% in the coming months globally, with some 20 million scheduled seats removed by airlines last week.
Travel data provider OMG calculates that aviation industry is now less than half the size it waas in mid January, much more to report out tonight on ABC News crime.
They keep us laughing in these trying times and next famous comedians also using their means to try to keep small venues from going under.
And the battle between 3 a.m. and the U.
S.
Government escalating tonight's neither company pushing back on the president's order to stop sending supplies elsewhere and with many of us under Florentine, were forced to take our workouts inside.
Some studios are doing to help people isolating at home, pal, Just take it out to you Shoulders Wait.
With death row in New York has jumped almost 3000.
That's more than the number of people killed in the 9 11 attacks at ground zero, Governor Andrew Cuomo says New York is entering a critical phase.
He's pushing for war hospital space.
Javits is gonna be converted to Waco VID facility 2500 bets.
So that is a very big deal on I thank the president for doing as testing increases in more states and cities confirmed cases are being detected in Texas, officials say.
Houston and Dallas have the most statewide.
More than 5300 have tested positive in Southern California.
For a second day in a row, Riverside County is reporting a sheriff's deputy who has died from Cove in 19.
The virus is not discriminatory.
Doctors, nurses and E.
M T s are also getting infected at an alarming rate.
Those on the front line say a shortage of protective gear, as well as reusing that gear is making them even more vulnerable.
What are the biggest shortages you're seeing on the day today?
I think we're short Gowns are supposed to isolation gals 95 mask.
We're using mass for 5 to 7 ships.
General, 70 cents before this started.
Some hours are $7.
Can't be that we can't make these.
This leads to doctors and nurses getting uniquely high exposures if they don't have proper protective gear.
This is part of the reason why otherwise healthy young doctors and nurses are getting terribly ill with Corona virus sometimes even die thes supply seized from a Brooklyn man accused by federal officials of hoarding trying to sell them at marked up prices, The latest figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the unemployment rate rose to 4.4% in March.
701,000 US jobs were lost in March.
Even with the surgeon unemployment, financial analysts say the rial impact is likely far worse, as most of the nearly 10 million people who filed jobless claims the last two weeks weren't included in Friday's report.
Another massive federal relief bill could be in the works.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, telling CNBC she's hoping for a more bipartisan legislation on 1/4 economic relief package.
I'd like to go right back and say Let's look at that bill what's updated for what with some other things that we need.
Florida cruise ships returned to port as passengers who appear to be healthy are released, the most critical sent to the hospital, while others who show symptoms remain in isolation.
Reports today that one crew member has died on board Celebrity Infinity off the coast of Florida due to undetermined medical issues.
One of more than 50 cruise ships in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico, with crews on board that are anchored with Cove, it 19 concerns tragedy.
Striking the Kennedy family again A search continues for the daughter and grandson of former Maryland lieutenant governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend after a canoe they were paddling in the Chesapeake Bay didn't return to shore as medical facilities in hard hit areas warn that they're running low on critical supplies.
One of the biggest companies that makes end 95 respirator masks is pushing back against the Trump administration.
After the president invoked the Defense Production Act, acquire more respirators.
Three m says that it has gone above and beyond to manufacture enough respirators for the U.
S.
Market as quickly as possible.
But the company also says it will not comply with the request from the administration to stop exporting respirators to Canada and Latin America, saying in a statement Quote ceasing all exports of respirators produced, the United States would likely calls other countries to retaliate and do the same as some have already done.
If that were to occur, the net number of respirators being made available to the United States would actually decrease the president tonight, saying he is not happy with the company.
There was a social media post the other day that said, There is Corona virus and then there is Tiger King and nothing else.
Many people have been taking this time at home to binge watch The Netflix series.
Tiger King The Docuseries follows a society of big cat owners and conservationists.
One of those people is Don Luis, who has been missing since 1997.
Lewis was married to Carol Baskin, the target of a murder for hire plot highlighted in the Serie since the show's premiere.
Theo Hillsborough County, Florida sheriff's office has seen an influx of tips, and that sheriff joins us now.
Chad Chronis Ter.
Thanks so much for being here.
It's a pleasure.
You said that there hasn't been any action on this case since 2011 and now you're getting about half a dozen tips per day.
What did this Siri's due to change all that.
I think it's it's made in the deletes possible that popularity popularity of this series has helped generate leads about 1/2 a dozen a day.
Now I have to say no viable.
Lee's most are people who end up watching the Siri's and wanted to send an email or make a telephone call.
And they just want to give their theory.
Hey, this is how he died and this is who did.
So any of those tips that you've gotten so far have they actually been viable or lead?
You're credible, even nothing yet.
We do have a detective supervisor who's coming through every single tip that comes in.
Nothing viable yet.
But I have to tell you I remain optimistic, I'm sure, hoping as this Siri's continues to gain popularity, someone will feel comfortable coming forward and providing that missing piece that will help us solve this case.
What's the status of the investigation at this time?
It's a cold case.
The leads have been exhausted.
There's no new leads.
And again, I'm hoping if you watch this series you you saw that a lot of times they all thought one was firing on one another.
They were extremely competitive, eccentric, complicated, and they didn't trust anyone.
So you almost had to prove your allegiance on a daily basis.
Some hoping maybe one of those relationship soured now, or someone again feels more comfortable now that it's being talked about and comes forward and helps us bring justice.
And closure for Don Luis is family.
So you're among the millions of people who have seen the show.
What did you make of it?
Anything in there that you haven't checked out already?
No.
No.
Tell you what.
They have some theories that are wrong and some theories that proves suspicion.
You know, some of the theories that were proved wrong was Hey, you guys need to check the septic tank.
Check this septic tank.
That's where is that?
The septic tank wasn't installed until years after his disappearance.
Then it the Siri's leads you to believe that Check the meat grinder.
Is that you know you have to take a DNA swab.
Meat grinders.
They had been removed before his disappearance.
And something's group proof.
Suspicious?
Uh, what wealthy person do you ever know?
Or did you Have you ever heard about that?
Leaves and leaves his wealth behind has a relationship with his Children yet leaves is this ship leaves his shoulder behind.
And then one piece that everyone continue talked continues to talk about is the will.
I've talked a lot of probate attorneys.
Have you ever, ever heard of a will that has a disappearance?
Klaus, if I ever disappear, leave my wealth to this person, right?
I when I was watching, I have to admit, I've watched and I haven't gotten through the whole thing yet.
But that was the thing that really struck me is super odd.
I mean, And when you've asked that question, have they said that they've ever seen such a will?
That doesn't say upon my demise.
But it says upon my disappearance, Yes.
And like I said, that's certainly suspicious.
And you go back though, you know, she insists that a lot of others Hey, he left the country.
Well, that's that's not the case that we can see.
He had two passports.
Yes, two passports, but neither one almost flag that he ever left the country.
No passenger manifest on a private plane or commercial plane.
So I'm gonna tell you what I truly believe that that he never, never let the country what's it like to work on a case that has become a true pop culture phenomenon?
I tell you what, it's intriguing.
More importantly, I hope this is spanned over the careers of a lot of sheriffs, almost four shares.
And I'm hoping that I'm the one with the hard work of these detectives and again with the popularity of this Netflix Terry's that we can solve this this case once and for all.
Sheriff Chronis TER Thank you so much for your time.
Pleasure.
Stay safe, everyone.
Last week we told you about the cash crunch facing small business owners across the country, including a comedy club in Washington, D.
C.
And those laid off employees waiters, waitresses and bartenders.
Air certainly feeling the pain as comedy clubs sit empty.
So we wanted to tell you about an effort by a group of standup comedians now raising money for the wait staffs of comedy venues across the country.
Here's a B C's Devin Dwyer deal.
Hugely, Seinfeld.
These air everybody's been here comedy clubs or launch pads for the biggest stars in stand up.
It's depressing to see it totally empty.
But now dozens of those beloved local hangouts like DC improv in the nation's capital have gone silent.
Co owner Allison Jaffe doing all she can to help her staff survive.
I had a lay off my whole team of 50 people, and it's awful, You know, Um, I love those guys and I want to help them and, you know, we set up a staff go fund me page to try to raise money.
We're close to $30,000 now, which is amazing that go fund me Page.
Given a surprise boost by comedian Mike Birbiglia, who got his start at DC improv, he's put together the website Tip your wait staff dot com to raise donations for laid off workers at comedy clubs around the country.
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I don't know how the Cocotte 19 situation is going to adjust what's funny, but this joke was written pre cove it.
So I don't want any judgment from I don't know any black preppers you're asking me to be prepared for when things go back just bad for me now.
Birbiglia launched the effort with Comedy Central's Roy Wood Jr Came about because, uh, you and I were like, How do we help these clubs?
Because these clubs are just shut down right now, there's no revenue.
What we're doing here is actually kind of not what you see as an audience member, which is like comics call each other.
What do you think it is?
His first fundraiser for the Comedy Attic in Bloomington, Indiana, were owner Jared Thompson had to cancel.
Birbiglia is upcoming performance and lay off staff because of the covert 19 shutdown.
He just texted me that he had this idea called tip your wait staff and he was gonna go live on Instagram and, you know, he told me about it.
And then the next day he was like, All right, we're going live in like 30 minutes.
How much is he raised so far for your nine staff?
Do you have a sense?
Yeah, it's almost $4000.
It's so crazy.
Like mean.
Mike is just an unbelievable person, Argo.
And you know, he's at a point in his career.
He could very easily just sort of do things the way that most people do and just kind of, you know, care about himself.
In his family, for the comedy Attic and so many other clubs, it's welcome support at the time of deep uncertainty about the future.
We're gonna do everything we can to make sure that we can reopen once we get, you know, the okay to do so.
I would say that the likelihood that we can have a full pack room with a sold out show that might be a much longer thing than just having a show where we can have 30 40 50 people in there.
We can make that work.
It's just a matter of will we be able to book the high level talent that were used to booking.
For now, those big names are asking for big tips.
Toe laid off staff will giving all of us a good laugh.
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I'm Devin Dwyer in Washington, and we're joined now by a man in a profession that we certainly need right about now.
Veteran comedian Mike Birbiglia.
He started the tip.
Your wait staff effort.
Thanks so much for joining us.
Thanks for having me, Lindsay.
So what kind of response are you getting on helping these clubs and their employees both from your fellow comedians and from their fans?
And do you know how much you've been able to raise?
So far?
It's been just positive.
Across the board, I think the club's feel appreciated and seeing I feel like comedians between their Silverman and John Mulaney and and Melissa obvious.
And you're all willing to do it because we don't know what else to do.
Right now, I feel like if you're not a medical professional, doctor, nurse, a delivery person, a grocery worker, you feel a little bit helpless right now.
And we've seen so many people lose.
Their livelihood is in the past few weeks.
Is this pandemic has taken hold?
How concerned are you that some of these venues, especially some of the smaller ones, aren't gonna be able to make it through.
I think.
I think you know, most comedians were really concerned about sort of, you know, where does this land and where do we go from here?
And, uh and and Ah, yeah.
I mean, I've been going to these clubs for 20 years.
I've been, you know, the DC Improv, which was mentioned, is where I started out when I was a back waiter.
I worked the door there, and it's ah, you know, it's a great group of people who run these clubs, and I think we're gonna do everything we can.
Tow Thio, help him keep going.
We heard some concern from that comedy club owner in Indiana that it may take a while for people to start going back to venues where there were once large crowds.
Do you think that this is going to change the nature of stand up at all?
Even if just for the short term I mean, honestly, I I don't know.
I don't know of anyone knows, uh, anything right now.
And I would say that Ah, well, you know, as comedians in terms of like the tip, your Wait staff initiative.
It's like we don't have any answers.
Uh, we just have jokes and that So all we can do is try to entertain right now in the midst of what is what feels like in an insane amount of uncertainty.
You think that it's possible that the digital venues will be a a good place in the future is that live audience component just critical to the whole experience?
I think that live performance will always exist.
I think we're living in a time where, ah, we're gonna have Thio make it to the other side of this and I think we're gonna have to become smarter as a country about science and fax and paying attention.
Thio Thio What's happening?
Because it's about I think it just a big wake up call for the country.
And, you know, I wish there was a punch line to that.
There's not gonna be a punch line for that for a while, obviously very serious times to your point.
There's no punch line here, really.
But But talk about the importance of humor and laughter getting us through this well, I think you know all of us are.
You were inundated right now with with reading and watching news and really grim statistics and people dying, and it's it's very, very sad.
And I think I think comedy provides whether it's movies or comedy specials or this kind of live stream thing that we're doing is just, uh it's just a taste of of the absurdity, uh, that that can make us just remind us of the absurdity of everything.
I mean, like, it really is like, um, you know, they It's like the old cliches that laughter's the best medicine.
But that cliche came from a real place like it.
I think that really is a degree to which it's it's healing and cathartic.
Thio here, someone really game out absurdity.
Well, as you just said it best, that laughter is the best medicine.
And after all, it is Friday, the end of another brutal week.
So if you have a good joke for us, we'd love to hear well, my whole last special, which is gold.
The new on on Netflix was about having a child and the first, like 13 months of her life, and I don't really my new my new, mature.
I'm working.
I don't talk about my daughter much because she's five.
She's now.
She's adorable, and there's nothing funny about being adorable.
Except, uh, the other day I said, Mommy's gonna put you to bed and she said, She's not your mom.
She's my mom And I said, That's what my therapist keeps telling.
All toddlers have a Boston accent there, like I'm tired on Boston toddlers air like I'm wicked tired and that's that's my one joke I have about my daughter right now.
We appreciate it and thank you so much for your time and your humor.
Mike Birbiglia.
We appreciate you and again his website is tip your wait staff dot com.
Thanks, Lindsey.
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