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With more and more businesses shutting down around the country, a flood of new unemployment claims are pouring in. But President Trump continues to downplay the impact of the virus on the economy.

Target, Safeway and others are restricting their opening hours, limiting purchases per each shopper and setting off time for seniors and other high-risk individuals to shop.

Among the young, the numbers shot up: 9% of adults 18-29 have moved due to the coronavirus. Some people moved to avoid catching the virus, while others were forced by the closing of college campuses.

The playwright's first printed collection of plays, published in 1623, sold at a Christie's auction in New York on Wednesday for $9.98 million.

1: Actor CHARLTON HESTON. A consistent lead in the biblical epics of the 1950's and 1960's, HESTON had starring roles in " The Greatest Story Ever Told" and "The Ten Commandments"; HESTON also covered the Roman era in epics like "Ben Hur", "Julius Cesar", and "Antony & Cleopatra." Medieval Spain was not beyond his ken: HESTON had the lead as well in "El Cid." (REBROADCAST FROM 11/30/90). Film Director, MARTIN SCORCESE. He directed "The Last Temptation of Christ" in 1988. In June of 1993, as part of a retrospective of his work by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Department of Cinema Studies at NYU presented "An Evening With Martin Scorcese": a wide ranging question and answer session taped live before an audience at New York University. Scorcese explores some of the special difficulties involved in shooting a biblical epic in the desert with very little money. (REBROADCAST FROM 6/11/93). Composer ELMER BERNSTEIN. He's composed the scores for almost 80 films, including "The Man With the Golden Arm," "The Magnificent Seven," and "The Ten Commandments". Lately he's done the scores for "The Field" and "The Grifters." (REBROADCAST FROM 1/10/91) INT. 2: Actor KIRK DOUGLAS. The star of "Lust for Life," "Paths of Glory," "Champion" and Stanley Kubrick's epic, "Spartacus," the story of a slave uprising during the Roman Empire. (REBROADCAST FROM 8/22/88). Actor TONY CURTIS. In 1960 he starred in the film, "Spartacus" about a leader of slaves revolting against Republican Rome. A restored version of the film has been released that includes previously cut scenes, including one where Laurence Olivier --as a general-- tries to seduce his slave, played by CURTIS. (REBROADCAST FROM 4-19-91).

In their new book, Washington Post journalists Costa and Bob Woodward give the first inside look at the transition of power from former President Donald Trump to President Biden.

AVID BIANCULLI reviews "Dead Man''s Walk" the TV adaptation of Larry McMurtry''s novel which will be shown on ABC on Sunday night. INT. 1: LARRY MC MURTRY is considered one of Texas'' most prominent fiction writers even though he has not lived in that state for nearly two decades. Over his career, he has written 19 novels...including the 1986 Pulitzer Prize winning book "Lonesome Dove". His newest "Dead Man''s Walk" (Simon & Schuster 1995) takes readers to the early days of his "Lonesome Dove" heroes Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call. "Dead Man''s Walk" premieres this Sunday on ABC. (REBROADCAST from 11/22/95)INT. 2: Biographer LAURENCE BERGREEN. Saturday May 11 is the 108th anniversary of Irving Berlin''s birthday. Bergreen''s biography of Berlin, entitled "As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin" , was first published in 1990 and re-issued in paperback (Da Capo Press) in 1996. (REBROADCAST from 6/26/90)REV. : LISA SCHWARTZBAUM reviews "Twoster"

The evacuation was prompted after a plane tied to a planned flyover of nearby Nationals Park entered restricted airspace. The Capitol Police had not been given advance notice of the approved flight.

At least 1,000 people are believe dead in Pakistan and India after an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 hit early Saturday morning. The quake was centered about 60 miles north of Pakistan's capital, Islamabad.

A China Eastern Boeing 737-800 with 132 people on board crashed in a remote, mountainous region of China Monday. There do not appear to be any survivors. Investigators are on their way to the scene.