Here's ABC senior national correspondent Matt Gutman.

Tonight, with Louisiana surging as a hot spot, police patrolling the streets of New Orleans but near Baton Rouge, one church has been defiant.

This morning, Governor John Bel Edwards with a plea.

I'm calling upon those parishioners to not go because it is grossly irresponsible.

There is not a setting more conducive to the spread of the virus.

But tonight, the church's pastor disregarding the governor, welcoming 1200 people into multiple buildings on the church campus.

Governor Edwards, your jurisdiction ends at the threshold of my church door.

We're doing the responsible thing and giving our community hope.

Still, on this Palm Sunday, most of the nation's churches observing the social distance and guidelines at Saint Michael, the Archy Angel Church in Virginia, parishioners lining up to receive palm fronds in the trunks of their cars.

We don't want to be guilty of calling people together and spreading this.

Most states have stay at home orders in place.

But the Republican governors of nine states are still resisting and even in places with order, some people are breaking the rules.

In San Francisco, folks play basketball and thronged public parks as officers on four wheelers try to enforce the guidelines in Washington, D.

C.

Hundreds packed in at the city's popular seafood Worf on Saturday.

Today, the city shutting it down.

All right, Matt Gutman joins us now from Los Angeles and met on that last point there in your report.

Some states now imposing stiff fines for people who violate social distancing guidelines.

That's right in Michigan time.

You could get stopped at the $1000 fine for violating any order related to the Corona virus in Boston.

They're instituting a from 9 p.m. To 6 a.m. In nearby Riverside County.

If you are caught outside not wearing one of these, you could get slapped with a misdemeanor charge measures getting more and more extreme.

Right, Matt, Thank you for that.

Hi, everyone.

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