By Melissa Macaya, Fernando Alfonso III and Zamira Rahim, CNN
From CNN’s Rosa Flores and Denise Royal
Miami-Dade County is planning to reopen beaches and hotels to guests other than essential lodgers on June 1, according to a news release issued by Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s office.
“The city managers will be meeting with county staff and medical experts over the weekend to create the rules that would be necessary for the safe and secure reopening of beaches and the expansion of hotel accommodations,” the statement said.
Gimenez is planning to review the proposed plan on Tuesday.
From CNN’s Taylor Romine
New Jersey will increase the number of people permitted to gather outdoors from 10 to 25 people, Gov. Phil Murphy announced in a news conference Friday morning.
Recreational campgrounds will open immediately, he added.
While the number of people allowed to gather in groups will increase, individuals are still expected to adhere to social distancing.
Hospitalizations, intensive care unit cases and ventilator intubations continue to decrease across the state, Murphy said.
From CNN's Sheena Jones
New York City continues to meet two of the three thresholds it still needs to meet the state’s criteria to reopen the city, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
There are seven criteria needed in order to reopen. The city is already meeting four of those.
Officials would like to consistently stay under the threshold of 200 people being admitted into hospitals for Covid-19, de Blasio said.
The city is now at 76 people being admitted into the hospital for Covid-19.
New York City is also meeting the threshold for how many people are testing positive for Covid-19, de Blasio said.
Some more data: Officials would like to see that number below 15%. It is currently at 11%. That number is up slightly from the 9% announced on Thursday.
Intensive care unit admissions should remain under 375 people, de Blasio said. However, the city is at 451 people in ICUs in the public hospitals and not meeting that threshold.
If residents continue to social distance and the numbers move in the right direction, the city expects to move to phase one of reopening in the first or second week of June, de Blasio said.
From CNN’s Kay Jones
All restrictions on youth activities in Florida, including summer camps, are being lifted immediately, according to Gov. Ron DeSantis in a press conference today.
While kids are not immune to Covid-19, he said, the state has recorded zero fatalities for those under the age of 25.
From CNN's Adrienne Vogt
There were 109 coronavirus-related deaths in New York on Thursday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a news briefing today.
"This number has been stubborn on its way down," he said.
Hospitalizations are down, as well as the number of new daily coronavirus cases, Cuomo said. He added that the level is lower than when the coronavirus crisis began 83 days ago.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced in a press conference today that the regions of Long Island and Mid-Hudson could reopen next week under two key conditions:
You can see where the other regions are on reopening here.
From CNN’s Natasha Chen
Orange County, Florida Mayor Jerry Demings submitted a letter this morning to Gov. Ron DeSantis, giving his support to Universal Orlando’s plans to reopen its theme parks.
In the attached letter, Demings writes that an on-site inspection of safety procedures and protocols was conducted by a team of medical doctors and senior members of the Planning, Development and Environmental Services Department from both Orange County and the Florida Department of Health.
Universal Orlando has presented a plan to begin a phased reopening of its theme parks on June 1, initially only for its own team members.
Here are some details on their reopening plan:
DeSantis said Wednesday regarding theme park reopening proposals, "Obviously I want to get to yes, so I think if you work with your local [officials], you'll be in pretty good shape."
Universal has theme parks in Orlando, Los Angeles, Japan and Singapore, all of which are temporarily closed. However, the CityWalk portion of Universal Orlando -- featuring shops and dining -- partially reopened on May 14.
From CNN's Pete Muntean and Gregory Wallace
More than 300,000 people passed through airport security checkpoints on Thursday, the first time that has happened since March.
This is also the first time in eight weeks that daily traffic at checkpoints was more than 10% of the number of people screened last year, according to data from the Transportation Security Administration.
TSA said it screened 318,449 people on Thursday, and 2.7 million on the same Thursday in 2019.
From CNN's Adrienne Vogt and Jason Hoffman
White House Economic Advisor Kevin Hassett said “it’s pretty likely that there will be a fourth phase of stimulus” and said we could see it “sooner rather than later.”
Hassett also said that there are some technical things that need to be fixed from the previous stimulus packages.
When asked by CNN’s Poppy Harlow if the need for another stimulus bill is due to economic numbers being worse than initially anticipated, Hassett said no, “but there is still a lot of pain out there.” He added that almost 70% of businesses are opening up and “we are getting back to normal.”
On unemployment, Hassett said a “technical glitch” in the form of a surveying error led to a higher percentage of unemployed Americans in the April report.
He said unemployment could be between 18-22% for the May report depending on whether the surveying error gets fixed.
Hassett also said he expects June’s report could be even worse, but that June could also be a “turning point” and the employment number could “head in the right direction.”
“I think that June will be a little bit higher; we can already tell because of like when the survey happened and what is happening with claims. So I would expect that the turning point will be June,” he said. “We’ll see a very bad number for May, and then I think that in June, it will start to head in the right direction, given the number of businesses open.”
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