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Cuomo Prime Time
• Governors Disagree with Trump's Rush to Re-open Economy; Outrage in Michigan Over Lockdown Order; Chris Cuomo On His Coronavirus Battle; Rescue Fund Runs Out Of Money; Marine Veteran Wins Battle With Coronavirus; Saluting Heroic First Responders And Health Care Workers. Aired 10-11p ET
• Massive Test a Heated Issue in Reopening of Economy; Virus Targets People of Color; Good People Do Say Bad Things; TV Hosts Dr. Mehmet Oz, Dr. Drew Pinsky and Phil McGraw Have All Appeared on Fox News and Made Misleading Claims About Coronavirus; VA Reports More Than 300 Coronavirus Deaths; Food Workers are Getting Sick Across the United States. Aired 11p-12a ET


Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees
• Coverage of White House Coronavirus Task Force Briefing; Interview with Governor Jay Inslee of Washington; Key Model: Only Four States Can Reopen By May 4; Key Model: About 60,000 U.S. Coronavirus Deaths By Early August; U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Tops 36,000; Senate Dems Grill Pence Over Testing, "Not Given Clear Answers". Aired on 8-9p ET
• Trump Calls For Minnesota, Michigan, And Virginia To "Liberate" During Crisis, Comes A Day After He Said Governors Could "Call Your Own Shots"; Jacksonville-Area Beaches Reopen With Crowds, Despite Restrictions; Wynton Marsalis: My Father Was "Purely About The Music". Aired 9-10p ET


Amanpour
• Economy After Lockdown; Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, IMF, is Interviewed About Economic Crisis; Dealing Relationships While in Lockdown; Interview With Andrew Lloyd Webber; Interview With Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan (D-MN); Interview With Author Esther Perel. Aired 2-3p ET


At This Hour
• Did Not Air 11a-12p ET


The Lead with Jake Tapper
• States vs. Trump; Has U.S. Reached Coronavirus Peak?; New Model Advisers Some States Could Relax Social Distancing As Early as May 4th. Aired 4-4:30p ET
• Health Expert: Contact Tracing Critical for Safe Reopening, Warns of Resurgence in U.S. Without It; Washington Governor Inslee: Trump's "Liberate" Tweets "Unhinged". Aired 4:30-5p ET


Don Lemon Tonight
• Did Not Air 10-11p ET
• Did Not Air 11p-12a ET


CNN Newsroom
• White House Outlines Road Map to Reopen, No Details on Lack of Testing; Jacksonville, Florida to Reopen Beaches with Restrictions; Report: Remdesivir Drug Shows Promise as Coronavirus Treatment. Aired 9-9:30a ET
• Remdesivir Shows Promise; Testing Obstacles to Reopening States; Pence Cal on Small Business Help; Texas Mayor Talks about Reopening the State; Aired 9:30-10a
• Trump Outlines New Guidelines For Reopening Country As U.S Death Toll Passes 33,000; Seven Midwest States Partner To Reopen Economy; Nearly 40 New Clinical Trials Into Treatments Registered In One Day. Aired 10-10:30a ET
• Remdesivir Rumored to be Shortening Coronavirus Recovery Time; New China Coronavirus Case Prompts Quarantine Questions; Interview with SEIU Healthcare President as Nursing Home Workers Concerned for Safety. Aired 10:30-11a ET
• Trump Unveils Guidelines to Reopen U.S. Economy; Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor, John Fetterman, Discusses Governor Wolf Having No Plans Yet to Extend Stay-at-Home Order; Small Business Loan Program Runs Out of Money and No Deal to Fund It in Sight; Dr. Aaron Milstone Discusses South Won't Be as Hard Hit by Virus as Earlier Projections Suggested; Coronavirus and Food Security. Aired 11-11:30a ET
• Coronavirus and Food Security; NY Governor Cuomo Gives Update on Coronavirus Response. Aired 11:30a-12p ET
• New York Governor Andrew Cuomo: Passing The Buck Without Passing The Bucks; Detroit Doctor Speaks Out About Cases In Hard-Hit City; President Donald Trump Unveils Guidelines To Reopen American Economy; West Virginia Governor Jim Justice: The Goal Is To Get People Back To Work Safely; CNN Polls of Polls: 45 Percent Approve Of Trump's Job Performance. Aired 12-12:30p ET
• Fl. Gov.: State In Economic Crisis; Facebook Warning Users About False Coronavirus Content; China Issues "Revised" Death Toll Numbers From Wuhan. Aired 12:30-1p ET
• White House Working To Reveal More Testing Details On Reopening Plan; White House Gives Governors Three-Phase Plan To Reopen, But No Testing Plan; Actor's Organization Conducts Drive-Up Coronavirus Testing. Aired 1-1:30p ET
• Actor Sean Penn Discusses CORE's Effort to Offer Free Coronavirus Testing in California; 33 Coronavirus Deaths at Nursing Home Where 17 Bodies Found; Coronavirus Response Headlines from Around the World. Aired 1:30-2p ET
• Trump's Messaging to Governors is Inconsistent; Interview with Member of Infectious Diseases Society of America John Lynch; Interview with Wolfgang Puck. Aired 2-2:30p ET
• TV Doctors Under Fire for Comments on Coronavirus; Small Business Loan Program Runs Out of Money & No Deal to Fund in Sight; Timeline of How U.S. & China Each Handled Virus Outbreak. Aired 2:30- 3p ET
• Trump vs. States?; Amazon Developing Coronavirus Test For Workers; Interview With Former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy. Aired 3-3:30p ET
• Amazon Is Developing Its Own Coronavirus Test for Its Workers; Desperate for Food on Modern Day Bread Lines; Coronavirus Wreaks Havoc on Food Supply Chain as Demand Spikes; Farmers and Ranchers Say There Is No Lack of Food; Navy Identifies Sailor Who Died of Coronavirus, The First Active Duty Death. Aired 3:30-4p ET
• Trump Unveils Three-Phase Approach to Reopen Economy; U.K. Extends Lockdown Until at Least May 7; U.S. Explores if Virus Spread from Chinese Lab, Not a Market; China Q1 GDP Posts First Decline on Record; U.K. Company Hopes to Begin Mass Producing Antibody Tests; U.S. States Weigh Easing Stay-at-Home Restrictions; Telemedicine Gets Boost from COVID-19 Outbreak; Brazil's President Fires Health Minister; Women Leaders Praised for COVID-19 Response; Gold Medal Skier Opens Up About Father's Death; 99-Year-Old Vet Raises Millions for U.K. Health Workers. Aired 12-1a ET
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• State Governors to Call the Shots; U.K. Ramping Up Antibody Test Kit; Britain Extended its Lockdown; Women Leaders Applauded for Aggressive Action on Health Crisis; Coronavirus Pandemic; Singapore Sees Sudden Surge In Cases; Wuhan China Revises Total Death Toll, Case Count; Singapore Reports 700 Plus Virus Cases In Single Day; China First Quarter GDP Posts First Decline In Decades; Pandemic Ends China's Era Of Uninterrupted Economic Growth; Boeing To Resume Production Next Week In Washington State; Ex-Trump Attorney, Michael Cohen, To Be Released From Prison Early; Trump Associate Roger Stone Denied Retrial; Pollution Levels In Europe Cut Significantly; Banksy Works From Home During Lockdown; AllInChallenge.com, Actors Team Up To Help Feed Needy Families; Play Ball, Taiwan Begins New Baseball Season. Aired 3-4a ET
• Trump Tells Governors They Call the Shots on Reopening; Lack of Testing Complicates Reopening U.S. Economy; U.K. Extends Lockdown Until At least May 7; Prime Minister Boris Johnson Out of Hospital After Being Infected; Singapore Reports 728 New Virus Cases in Single Day; Wuhan Revises Its Numbers, Death Toll Jumps by 50 Percent. Aired 4-4:30a ET
• White House Unveils Three-Pronged Approach to Reopen Economy; Trump Says Some States Are Ready to Reopen for Business; U.S. State Struggle to Ramp up Testing; 22 Million Americans Filed for Unemployment in the Past Month; China's GDP Plunges after Lockdowns; U.S. Struggles to Determine Reliable Antibody Testing; Fans Pay Tribute to America's Dr. Fauci. Aired 4:30-5a ET
• Trump Announces Guidelines for Reopening States; Brutal Economic Data Around the World; China Revises Wuhan Death Toll. Aired 5-5:30a ET
• Protesters Target Michigan's Stay-At-Home Orders; Women Leaders Praised For COVID-19 Response; U.N. Says Millions Of Children Could Suffer Impact Of Coronavirus Crisis. Aired 5:30-6a ET


CNN RIGHT NOW
• Did Not Air 1-2p ET


Connect the World
• Trump Issues Reopening Guidelines; Number of Dead in Wuhan Revised Upwards; Macron's Warning to Europe. Aired 10-11a ET


Erin Burnett Outfront
• Key Model Shows Some States Need to Wait Until at Least Late June, Early July to Start Reopening; U.S. Coronavirus Cases Near 700,000; Deaths Top 36,000; Gov. Mike DeWine (R-OH) Discusses About The Excess Capacity Available for Phase One Reopening of States; Trump Appears to Support Stay-at-Home Protests, Tweets It's Time to "Liberate" Michigan, Minnesota & Virginia; Coverage of White House Coronavirus Task Force Briefing. Aired 7-8p ET


Early Start with John Berman and Zoraida Sambolin
• Did Not Air 4-5a ET
• Did Not Air 5-6a ET


First Move with Julia Chatterley
• Optimism Surges Over a COVID-19 Fighting Drug, But The Owner Urges Caution; China's Economy Shrinks For The First Time In More Than 40 Years; Jeff Bezos Says The Firm Is Building Its Own Testing System. Aired 9-10a ET


Inside Politics
• Did Not Air 12-1p ET


New Day
• White House Outlines Map to Reopen, No Details on Lack of Testing; Report: Remdesivir Shows Promise as Coronavirus Treatment. Aired 6-6:30a ET
• Dow Soars on Drug Promise; Glitches in Stimulus Money Receipts; Coronavirus Pandemic Update across the U.S.; U.S. Grapples with Nursing Home Deaths; New Clinical Trials for Coronavirus Treatment; Sports Return without Fans. Aired 6:30-7a ET
• White House Outlines Road Map To Reopen, No Details On Lack Of Testing; Coronavirus Survivor Shares Story Of Recovery. Aired 7-7:30a ET
• Coronavirus Survivor Shares Story of Recovery with CNN; U.K. Company Works on a $1.20 Home Antibody Test; Healthcare Workers Head to New York City to Help in COVID-19 Pandemic. Aired 7:30-8a ET
• White House Coronavirus Task Force Provides Criteria for States to Reopen Economy During Coronavirus Pandemic; New Treatment for Coronavirus Showing Promising Results; Jacksonville, Florida, Mayor Announcing Reopening of Parks and Beaches in Duval County; How Coronavirus Pandemic is Changing Higher Education. Aired 8-8:30a ET
• Coronavirus Facts; CNN Reporters on Coronavirus around the World; Answers to Your Coronavirus Questions. Aired 8:30-9a ET


Quest Means Business
• U.S. Stocks Rally On Hopes For Coronavirus Treatment; U.S. Lawmakers At Impasse As Small Business Loans Run Out; China's Economy Shrinks After Decades Of Growth. Aired 3-4p ET


The Situation Room
• U.S. Coronavirus Death Toll Surpasses 34,000; Small Business Loan Program Out of Money and Impasse over New Funds; Trump Renews Criticism of China and World Health Organization; New Model: Some States Need to Wait until at least June, Early July to Start Reopening; Trump Attacks Govs A Day After They "Call The Shots", Calls To "Liberate" Dem States With Stay-At-Home Protests; Trump Touts Guidelines To Reopen Economy In 3 Phases; Report: Experimental Drug May Help Treat COVID-19 Symptoms; Many Feeling Pain Despite $2 Trillion Stimulus Plan. Aired 5-6p ET
• States vs. Trump; Interview with Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA); Trump Says, USDA Will Implement $19 Billion In Relief For Farmers; Coverage of White House Coronavirus Task Force Briefing. Aired 6-7p ET


CNN 10
• American Teenagers Discuss the Challenges They`re Facing; A Company Plans Balloon Trips to the Edge of Space; Groundhog Hogs a Piece of Pizza