The World Health Organization declares covid19 a pandemic so far, there are over 120,000 cases in over 114 countries. With over 4,300 deaths shocking news in the entertainment world, hollywood legend tom hanks and his wife rita wilson reveal that they have both tested positive for the coronavirus. Hared the news. He said they felt a bit tired, like they had colds and some body aches he said rita had some chills that came in wet, slight fevers as well. As for whats next, the couple is now in isolation and are being quarantined in australia centuries old tradition in peril, the st. Patricks day in new york was postponed for the first time in 258 years. The event was cancelled in chicago, as boston and dublin also drop the festivities. Meanwhile, in new york, the state is taking matters into its own hands hiring private labs to help with testing. More than 200 people have tested positive so far in new york. And millions of americans could get a tax break. The feds are reportedly considering pushing back next months filing deadline to give taxpayers a break as they grapple with this virus. Starbucks experience could be changing the companys reportedly preparing to modify store operations and could be switching to mobile orders and drivethrough only and the basketball world, including mark cuban, rocked when the nba announced it will be suspending its season until further notice after utah jazz player tested positive for the coronavirus. Meanwhile, the ncaa ma made the unprecedented decision to continue with march madness at all venues but without fans in the arenas. President trump announced that the u. S. Is banning foreign travelers from europe as a precaution however, u. S. Citizens are exempt during a Rare Oval Office address, the president outlined the new travel restrictions and economic measures to combat the crisis nbcs tracie potts join us us with the layest from d. C tracy, the president also hinted at other measures as well. He is asking for billions of dollars from congress for Small Business loans he wants to defer tax payments but that travel ban from europss over the next 30 days or will be in place for the fleknext 30 das it will not include the uk but President Trump says for the most part, he doesnt think europe has taken precautions to prevent that virus from coming here. The European Union failed to take the same precautions and restrict travel from china and other hot spots. As a result, a large number of new clusters in the United States were seeded by travelers from europe. We will be suspending all travel from europe to the United States for the next 30 days the new rules will go into effect friday at midnight. There will be exemptions for americans who have undergone appropriate screenings and these prohibitions will not only apply to the tremendous amount of trade and cargo, but various other things as we get approval anything coming from europe to the United States is what we are discussing these restrictions will also not apply to the united kingdom. At the same time, we are monitoring the situation in china and the south korea. I will soon be taking emergency action, which is unprecedented, to provide financial relief. This will be targeted for workers who are ill, quarantined, or caring for others due to coronavirus. Effective immediately, the sba will begin providing economic loans in affected states and territories. I am asking congress to increase funding for this program by an additional 50 billion using emergency authority, i will be instructing the Treasury Department to defer tax payments, without interest or penalties, for certain individuals and businesses negatively impacted. And calling on congress to provide americans with immediate payroll tax relief hopefully, they will consider this very strongly now, while the president focuses on the overall Financial Impact here and the Financial Impact as he said to families, democrats say they have a package of measures that are specifically family and worker focused. You will hear more about that today. Theyre talking about paid sick leave, free testing that you were mentioning earlier. Unemployment insurance and food aid for people without paychecks. Democrats plan to bring that to the house floor for a vote today. Back to you. Besides the worry of getting sick, there is that worry, too, of that kind of impact tracie, thank you. President trumps Coronavirus Response did little to inject confidence on wall street. Dow futures are deep in the red again after last nights speech failed to quell concerns about an economic slowdown stocks are hemorrhaging in the wake of the outbreak the dow plummeting nearly 6 , entering baremarket territory and capsizing the historic 11year bull run the other major indices arent faring any better, either. Nbcs Stephanie Ruhle is following the economic impact. Stephanie, good morning. This extends far past wall street good morning, phillip as the coronavirus continues, more and more people are being told to work from home but for millions of americans, in Service Industry jobs, thats just not possible. And those businesses, Small Businesses, are really getting hit. Deborah miller started her Catering Company 24 years ago. Hughes everything going . Most orders are for Corporate Food Services like office lunches. So the push to work remotely hurting business. People are not flying in from out of town for meetings offices are just closing up. Fewer corporate orders means less money to pay her 30plus employees. Right now, how many people are working today . I think about six its a challenge i mean, weve weve had to send people home. Can you do your job from home no, i cant work from home. I am a cook. I do my work here in the kitchen. Working remotely is not an option here. And theres the you understaundg stress providing a living wage for longtime staff. Its painful for me to think about these families that im responsible for. A responsibility Business Owners dont take lightly. Especially, in the Service Industry thats good information. Where working from home is not an option. I dont want to lose clients and i dont want to lose barbers. At denny moes barber shop, clients are cancelling. I looked at my own schedule and i had 17 clients and when i got to work, i only had five my fear is that these doors wont open and people wont come through. A concern for many of americas 30 million Small Businesses. We are, honestly, more worried about whats going to happen to the business than we are about catching the virus at the ness, most exercise classes were capacity just two weeks ago. Now, theyre hovering around 40 . People are definitely worried about staying home and being around other people. Worried about staying afloat. Im on roller coaster. For their businesses and their employees. Theres not an easy answer. You obviously want to take every precaution necessary but you also want to help out your neighborhood. So try to think out of the box get creative maybe take a virtual fitness class or instead of going to a restaurant, consider ordering in when we get through the other side of this, you want to hope that your local businesses do, too. Something to think about, stephanie, thank you. The nations hospitals have no choice but to prepare for worstcase scenarios with some Health Experts questioning whether the system is ready to treat a flood of patients. If thats what this eventually comes down to. Heres nbcs tom costello. In the Incident Command Center at Johns Hopkins medicine, they are preparing for a sudden surge of patients who need immediate care. Big news we have our inhouse tests that our micro biology colleagues have developed. Hopkins now approved to conduct its own coronavirus tests, no longer reliant on the cdc. For months, hopkins coronavirus website has been tracking, real time, every case worldwide like all hospitals, its now ensuring its ready. Enough beds, medicine, ventilators, protective clothing, and personnel. One big challenge, planning for a scenario in which doctors and nurses, hospital staff, become sick and then need care themselves. We are on the front lines. Nurses in several california cities complained their hospitals arent prepared. Some hospitals now setting up tents to screen patients outside before they enter the er the concerns, an onslaught of patients could push the nations medical system to the breaking point. Unable to care for patients with other conditions, too. We have a finite number of icu beds and a finite number of ventilators. And there is only so much we can do to augment that capacity. Experts do believe that more than 80 of those who contract the virus will experience mild symptoms. Just because you have coronavirus doesnt mean you need to be in a hospital absolutely. In fact, that really isnt where you should be. Unless you have severe symptoms or have some kind of medical emergency. The goal now, say experts, slowing the spread of the virus so hospitals arent overwhelmed with patients all at once. Tom costello, nbc news, baltimore. All right lets take a breath and get a check on our wermeteorologist janes janessa webb. Good morning. We have some activity happening across the southwest into texas. We do have this surge of moisture that is going to race across the plains into the ohio and Tennessee Valley and unfortunately, this enhanced the Severe Weather risk. We currently have 17 million urnds thunder that risk and. This runs from nashville into memphis. We ever going to watch that closely. Also the damaging winds, hails up to an inch in that area so forecasted totals look at this through saturday afternoon, there is potential from little rock all thea little snow starto form across colorado daytime highs for texas, thats going to spark up the storms back in the mid80s. So watching this storm, its unfortunate, nashville under the radar again. So watching this for this afternoon. They certainly need the break much thank you, janessa. Pope francis held his weekly general audience in the Vatican Library amid italys drastic coronavirus lockdown measures. 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Good morning, frances announced the government is going to step up the already draconian measures imposed by the lockdown by closing down all businesses across the nation im talking about shops, shopping centers, restaurants, bars, pubs, hair dressers, you name it. The list, of course, is long only pharmacies and Grocery Stores to will remain open to allow italians to shop for basic necessities. Also, the Prime Minister said italians should not expect the benefits of the lockdown to be visible over night but they should wait at least two weeks to see the number or slowdown in the number of the italians who are getting infected, who are dying and who are dying of coronavirus. So in a way, with this new measures, with the new draconian measures, you could say that its until yesterday, italy was in partial lockdown or from today, it is in total lockdown frances. As we can see behind you, not a singley thousands of years that things been there. 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Avoid any people and places where its possible to come in contact with germs by droplets, direct contact, or on any potentially contaminated surfaces whether it means cancelling conferences, avoiding crowded public transportation, postponing events both big and small, and in more and more cases, closing cools. We are a little nervous, at least i am but i think columbias handling it in a in the way thats, you know, protective of all students. In education, many colleges and universities closing down campuses, suspending inperson classes. Harvard, ordering undergrads to move out of their dorms by march 15th saying it would conduct all Classes Online through the spring semester. While some sporting events are playing to empty stadiums, nba superstar lebron james reversing course after these comments from earlier this week. If i show up to an arena, there aint no fans in there, i aint playing. Now, saying hed be disappointed if fans werent 4 30. Good morning to you. More developments in the coronavirus outbreak. Before we get to traffic, over night gavin newsom made an announcement recommending gatherings of 250 or more be canceled. Santa clara has the most cases with 48, and there are two more cases of marin county. Across the country there are more than 12,000