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Never since World War II have we faced a situation like this

where we both can be part of this battle but must be

part of this battle. This is bigger than all of us and I am fully confident that Washingtonians will rise to this challenge to get back to a normal state of our life as soon as humanly possible. But all of us have to recognize for the next several

weeks normal is not in our game plan. This is the frontline dispatch. I'm Rainy Aronson, executive producer of

Frontline. We are living in an unprecedented time.

Stark headlines tell our top story again tonight. d'

stark headlines tell our top story again tonight.

Bars and wineries and asking those 65 and older to self-isolate.

Brutal day on Wall Street, the Dow sank nearly three days.

30 day restriction on non-essential

President Trump is closing the border with Canada

and calling himself a wartime president.

Our daily lives are changing with dramatic speed

in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

There are so many questions and right now it's difficult to know what will happen next.

The lessons that have come out of here where it began, where it remains an epicenter of the disease,

the lessons here are crucial.

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