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  • in Atlanta, Mary Moore is doing the best to keep her business afloat.

  • She owns Cooks warehouse stores.

  • She's already had to lay off 43 employees.

  • They rely on this business for their livelihoods, and I rely on them.

  • On Capitol Hill, lawmakers are hopeful of $484 billion stimulus.

  • Bill will help small business owners just like Mary.

  • Roughly 383 billion of it earmarked for small business programs, including the paycheck protection program, which drew criticism after an Associated Press investigation reported at least 75 companies helped by the previous relief plan are so big they're publicly traded.

  • The Trump administration says it will ask for that money back.

  • Shake Shack was not alone in being a big company that got money in this region.

  • Another 75 billion for health care providers in 25 billion for Corona virus testing, something critical to the president's reopening guidelines, New York's governor, Andrew Cuomo, says in a meeting Tuesday, the president pledged to help the state ramp up testing we now do on average of about 20,000 tests per day.

  • Our goal, which is very aggressive and ambitious, was to double the 20,000 to get the 40,000 past per day.

  • Illinois's governor says it could now be mid May before cases peak in his state.

  • Chicago's mayor says stay at home orders could extend into June, But in South Carolina, restrictions have been lifted at beaches, crowds flocking in and Georgia's governor preparing to open gyms, bowling alleys, even barber shops.

  • By the end of the week, the president's Corona virus task force health experts saying the states need to meet the criteria before lifting restrictions.

  • Still, if there's a way that people can social distance and do those things, then they can do those things.

  • I don't know how, but people are very creative now.

  • Neither Georgia nor South Carolina has reported a steady to weak decline in Cove in 19 cases, which was a part of those White House guidelines.

  • The worry they're being that if they reopen, it could bring about a surge in Cove eight cases.

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in Atlanta, Mary Moore is doing the best to keep her business afloat.

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