Interestingly enough i dont know if youve heard but we had just learned this morning that officially the United States has surpassed china now in the number of deaths from the coronavirus epidemic pandemic oh wait get this get this there is now a startling development that is sure to send shock waves the world over the United States and russia the United States and russia have agreed to a deal that would allow russian medical supplies and assistance to arrive in the United States this agreement would be historic comes at a time of the United States and russia have been at odds on sanctions Nuclear Deals and a bevy of other issues r. T. Producers right now are trying to flesh out the details of this information and we will update this story right here as it progresses. Now to india remember this this video we showed you yesterday of Police Beating curfew violators in india to persuade them to go self isolate in their homes seemed harsh until you look at some new projections for india this is a model thats been released according to this model created in part by Johns Hopkins researchers 302500 1000000 people in india could possibly end up affected or infected by the coded 19 virus of those about 110th that would be 32000030 to 50000000 people would be in serious or Critical Condition and then would need to be hospitalized but you know how many ventilators which is essentially the breathing machine for patients who cant properly breathe for themselves when they have coronavirus you know how many ventilators india has only about 20000 according to last searches and it only has a total of 100000 intensive care unit beds so if you do the math you really have to begin to understand then what india might be up against go ahead do it right lets do the numbers even if only 10000000 people get seriously ill not the 30000000 or the 50 but just 10000000 with only 20000 ventilators it means more than 9000000 people would go without that outlook is grim and it means hospitals would then have to choose who lives and who dies in other words who has to go without a ventilator right. This is why some are criticizing the Modi Government and its getting backlash with accusations of waiting too long to act heres another piece of information i think is fascinating that you probably should know about india studies from china suggest that people with hypertension high Blood Pressure essentially and diabetes are more likely to really get sick and or die from this virus about a 3rd of indias population of high is hypertensive and one in every 10 adults is diabetic this is why india with a population of 1300000000 people is now a focal point for the corona virus and one of the entire world needs to know that and help out if it can and this is the news with rick sanchez where we do really believe its time to do news again. Ok here we go with a list of the questions we think youll be asking tomorrow is india going to be able to slow its death toll which could reach tens of millions what happens to our elections during a coronavirus pandemic chinas says it beat back coronavirus in 2 months but whats really happening there right now. All this week were going to be bringing you this special coverage of the corona virus with updates from around the world and everything you need to know to protect yourself and your family. So what were learning today is that even supposedly the most sophisticated i mean the most sophisticated Health Care Systems in the world in some of the richest countries on earth like the United States for example and the u. K. Even they are not really set up to meet the challenges of this virus so then you can imagine how difficult its going to be for countries that have even bigger challenges to deal with heres what were going to be doing for you throughout the day we have correspondents set up and key locations john hardy breaking news out of the child as ground 0. West coast alex my hell of educating our aged desk out of toronto all of that for you but were going to begin in india this is where were being joined right now by photojournalist reshad garb who joins us by skype to bring us up to date on whats going on there can you put a story behind some of the pictures of weve seen weve seen day laborers crowding in places where they look desperate and more apt to spread this infestation is that what you have seen. Basically 2 sites of just what youre seeing. The pictures that you have seen about to leave basically dont believe each folks who are rushing to the homes as they dont have a nice old income these. Just. Do the early and small amount of money and cool back to the home eat food and sleep that its usually a process for them but as now everything is locked up its a tough time for. Up i mean to us and treat people. Basically locked up in their homes they have basically stocked up the rishon sound average thing and the end not going anywhere out of their homes theyre just going. To be shopping in all these sections off of the site the who was. To be life have been locked up in and you know in a district of. 200000 people as for rushing. Around india and government has to take a strict action and all the seed borders. And state governments. Basically create shadows on the borders so that youre off those migrant people because a lot of speculation was going on. Im wondering though these numbers that i just shared with our audience about the situation in india it seems startling startling the think that Indias Health care system is simply not prepared its not prepared to deal with this do things why and be should president Prime Minister modi have prepared the country sooner as are saying he should have. So basically. I can see that action could have been taken. But people in india have mixed views regarding the log on even if you ask some industry is like a judge who is on their own big. Market in india he sees dad logged on was not supposed to happen in india 99. 9 percent of the population is 65. 00. And 65 so basically i think this could have been done. But you have to log on means strong hit on the economy and india as a struggling right now. From that point up he could not meet. In the small of the house. On this and i think the action he has taken is good because a lot of people have supported him and yet the system is not prepared but locked off in the us a lot of interests have. To show support and actually acting like. A month so i think. If everyone comes together thank you so much we appreciate that lets stay with this story now joining us is professor locks mean are you on he is the director of the center for disease in dynamics and Economic Policy in washington d. C. And hes joining us now from new delhi i want to start with the numbers once again let me make it very plain if there are only some 20000 ventilators in india and they have lets say even just 5000000 people in Critical Condition sounds to me like some very difficult decisions are going to have to be made about who lives and who dies in india correct. Rick so the situation with the 30500000000 cases with the prior to the current big block and literally the entire country down that should slow down the epidemic quite a bit and remember india law even before that were a huge number of cases and so what we expect to see is probably a 50 to about 80 percent of that number getting knocked down depending on how good the compliances with with this shutdown so we are looking at a smaller number d but still as as you said. Exceeding probably the capacity of the system to take on but i believe that the government is now working on ways to expand that capacity very quickly you know that our beds on treating. You know a lot like what china did to be able to handle that in almost a few large case. Ringback when it does it right but its smaller than what would have been before if the character of the indian people and are the is the government of india comparable to china to be able to do what china did in 2 months and that in get on the other side of the curve to get my drift professor. I do i do but you have to remember you know indias population is poorer than whats things working against india including the quality of the system but india does manage to do things like you know that was biggest elections you know conducted really well or you know immunization campaigns in india have us be bigger than any other country so india can pull off some Amazing Things and you know remember india has gotten rid of polio before most other countries many other countries so i think the better to skin come together to do it but only if everyone takes a seat or study and says the lockdown is done but we still are going to have to deal with some cases here how concerned are you about this model that i read to my audience that was put out by Johns Hopkins and other researchers that really does have some very inflated numbers. You know if you think of 300000000. 00 in the context of india you talk about a country of almost 1400000000. 00 so youre talking about a 2025 percent you know infection rate which is roughly in that range of what and remember these models are you quoting a boat 10 days old yeah and you know and of course now those projections probably come down to under 100000000. 00 ok which still is a lot for india but fortunately for india a lot of those cases will be mild and without symptoms because its a relatively young population yeah 100000000 people infected with corona virus thats still a startling number and you sir are a great guest thank you so much for joining us and sharing your expertise professor locks mine. Thats the latest from going to take you around the world d this is the lives of rick sanchez youre watching our special coverage on air on r. T. America or perhaps youre watching us on the portable either way were glad youre there well be right back. 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And we welcome you back im rick sanchez there is breaking news coming into us right now for that lets turn over to john heidi john is of manning our global coronavirus update desk jobs some interesting developments coming up. Yeah absolutely rick so were getting information we know that President Trump and russian president Vladimir Putin spoke yesterday by phone we didnt really have all the details but now we know specifically what they talked about and according to Dmitri Peskov the kremlin spokesperson i guess putin asked President Trump being the krona vice coronavirus situation being as it is right now if the u. S. Needed help President Trump said yes the u. S. Does need help so now what were hearing is that a cargo plane loaded with medical supplies and Protection Equipment p. P. S. Personal Protection Equipment is departing for the u. S. According to our information it was supposed to be departing by the end of the day tuesday so its already past 10 pm right now local time in moscow so presumably that cargo plane is already en route will try to nail that down but you know russia stepping in to try to help out the u. S. And u. S. Definitely needing help there are now more than 170000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus right here in america the highest now in the world overtaking even china with the death toll now climbing more than 3500. 00 in the u. S. Making it the worst death rate as i mentioned early earlier since sadly the 911. 00 attacks here on american soil and Health Experts warn risk rick that the worst is yet to come they say the virus could kill as many as one to 200000 people even if all those social distancing guidelines. As are followed perfectly and to a t and various models paint really an even grimmer picture i hate to say over the next few months one model by the university of washington suggest that close to 2300 people could die in one day alone on april 15th and that the number of deaths from the virus in the u. S. Will rise rapidly during april from about 4000 to anywhere 260000 even with all the restrictions on movement and stay at home orders nationwide now more states adopting those orders while the Study Suggests that the pace of deaths will eventually slow thats the good news though reaching a total of 84000. 00 by the beginning of august now this is just one model so well see if that plays out but doctors anthony Deborah Burks who are on the White House CoronavirusTask Force Team are going to be talking about these models during a press conference believe later today possibly this evening well keep you posted on that all this as the c. D. C. Is revealing its guidelines on whether the public should wear a mask to see if theres additional value you know before this the c. D. C. Had been basically urging people look only those who are sick or those around people who are sick should be wearing a mask well now its reviewing the guidelines to see if maybe all of us should be doing that on the International Front quickly rick china announced more than 1500 new coronavirus cases that have not been previously been made public raising questions about whether theres enough transparency going on there and china at this point that continues to be a big question in spain 849 new deaths were reported today the worst in a 24 hour period with over 8000 close 22008200 people dead there only italy right now has reported a Higher National death toll with more than 11500 and i tell you rick it is definitely really difficult nailing down these numbers because im following this and not only are they changing by the hour theyre really changing in some cases by the minute back to you rick. Boy unbelievable that report about russia sending aid to the United States especially considering the 2 countries have been at odds now for so long on sanctions syria the nuclear deal its amazing to think that it would take Something Like the coronavirus to bring these 2 nations to a point where they can at least be amicable about this one thing great great stuff john. Bring us up to date on all of these stories. Lets do this now john mentioned china just a short while ago on the issue of china we hearing that. They say that it took them 2 months to basically get over the back side of the curve on coronavirus and now what were hearing is apple Opening Stores starbucks Opening Stores a mall apparently opening yesterday in the province lets go over to our host christiane shes been following the situation for us to get a better sense of whats happening there in china kristie what are your sources saying about whether china really is over the hump now and what is the situation there. Well right now today chinas p. M. I. For march came in a 52. 00 which was beating expectations or 45. 00 so its signaling that it is staging a strong recovery post the coronavirus as you mention apples reopening starbucks is reopening and this gives us optimistic data points for a big ship shaped recovery however many analysts still warn that this p. M. I. Reading does not mean that chinas Economic Opportunities have returned to normal levels in february the economy was pretty much full complete stop so it doesnt really take much to rise from such a low base theres still significant drag on chinas economy as a demand for goods and services is nonexistent in the entire consumer space so theres going to be a long tail when and given the lower exports the slump in Global Demand that will actually result in millions of job losses in china for the next couple quarters to come so this march p. M. I. This one our gain in data from a very low comparison base back in february is probably as it is just a one off game i like to always say you and i have always had conversations about this i trust. And i trust starbucks and i trust generally people who make money more than i trust government officials in this case we see these trends where apple in these stores are opening isnt that almost a sure fire sign that things can if nothing else be as bad as they were before. I think its a sure sign that we have reached a low and we have made significant improvements however the problem is that despite the fact that these retail stilts stores are opening where is the demand right now there is a we have a supply shock in where all the business is closed now we have the demand shock that people are still hesitantly coming out and not really spending so the consumer still need to pick up because entire economy is pretty much services and services and consumer driven so theres still a long list of unknowns at this point such as the duration of the after effects of the virus the pace of the economic recovery and once the dangers have all completely passed as he just mentioned we have an additional 1500. 00 reported cases mainly stemming from foreigners and other asymptomatic patients so the size of the timing of further monetary fiscal stimulus is also going to be a huge are known for the economy right now in china let me ask you a question you probably are as capable of answering as anybody else that i know we keep hearing in the news media especially on the far right that china is lying but everything theyre saying should not be believed how do you react to that. I think that right now they are reporting as it is a rapidly changing situation and theyre reporting all the data as it comes so people are pointing to bits and pieces of data and the only thing that we can really trust is all the official data thats coming out where theyre trying to combine or a full picture on the scale of things you can just take bits and pieces of oh the apple opening here that starbucks opening here everything is well and good you have to take of snapshot of the whole picture and that was what were really going to get in april to see whether or not this pop in march is whether its really is a gain simply from a low base or whether theres a steady recovery and theres not going to be a 2nd shock from a reinfection of the crown of virus or the fact that there is going to be other lighting problems that are going to drive the economy down even further thats a good explanation in other words its still kind of a waiting game weve got to put all the pieces together to understand it fully great stuff as usual christiane reporting to us thank you kristie lets talk about elections now if we possibly could think about this i mean were in the middle of primary season right now this is a time when people would have been working very hard to figure out who is going to be the next candidate for the democrats for the presidency of the United States well who knows right basically the election seemed to be if not physically certainly figurative lee on the hold lets go to my colleague scott email hughes now shes kind of bringing this all together for us and trying to make sense of it if she can if anybody can make sense of this got it what what what what do you know what can we report. Well thats a thing right like everyone else whos trying to make plans or a schedule in the next few months everything is tentative and nothing is set in stone that includes even the general election and november now the republicans already do have their can it President Donald Trump who reached the delegate threshold on march 17th down in your home state of florida so were mainly talking about the Democratic Party and their candidates now 14 states one territory alaska connecticut delaware georgia hawaii indiana kentucky louisiana man new york ohio pennsylvania rhode island ramey in puerto rico have been affected thus far by this virus 6 of those states have decided to move their primaries or caucuses to june 2nd that is the last state according to current d. N. C. Rules for states to hold their primary in order to be eligible for the Democratic National convention however new york and this is a big one thats the 2nd highest amount of delegates up for grabs to 74 has postponed a selection until june 23rd. So one wonders scotty looking at this i mean theres the hope and theres the reality the reality is that were not going to be done with this situation in the United States the self isolation stuff at least for another couple of months if thats the case what are they doing to change the way we vote so we can even have a vote is that even something that were going to theres gushing about right now. They definitely are talking about that its also about the can its still getting their name out because this is not an ideal time for anybody especially a generation of candidates like we see right now who are used to shaking hands and kissing babies you cant do that so many of these campaigns have switched to virtual campaigns are relying on things like live streams and obviously the president s name of a favorite form of communication twitter now youre starting to see a little bit of want worry among the Democratic Party going hey even if we are able to get our primaries and were able to get theres a Convention Get our candidate were not going to be financially able to compete in the fall in a general election because right now obviously donors are holding on to their dollars and not going to give when theres so much uncertainty in the Financial Markets as well the political system yeah ill tell you its crazy and ill just add by the way i mean im trying to figure out physically how will i vote because to vote you have to get leave your home and go to a polling place which right now in my home state and in the place i live here in maryland is illegal. Cant do it right well not you cant do it and now this is leading towards this convention that were going to have to be a lot easier if there is a clear front runner rick who is going to be the leader but since theres not theyre going to have to have some way to register now the Washington Post is starting to talk about possibly not even having a real can is reporting the d. N. C. Starting about not having a real convention theyre talking about possibly doing a Virtual Convention that brings in a whole bunch of other issues because we obviously have seen what has happened in congress is like iowa and nevada so the magic number to reach is 1991 joe biden is a leading however what were finding now is obviously theres a call for possibly a 3rd candidate if they cannot get this number the Governor Cuomo out of new york has been able to show some major gains obviously in popularity around the country but he last night amongst on an interview with his own brother had did not hide the fact that he might even consider being at the present you cant for the democrats and 2020 you wonder if what you just said that it goes to a Virtual Convention rather a Virtual Convention turns into a brokered convention thats the question right. Lots of questions lots of wondering about when the timing is going to be and if people are even actually going to get their voices heard thank you rick for continuing to shine light on this and keeping people up today not because most people arent even talking about this aspect of american civics its the grades its a great conversation one that has very little clarity but nonetheless were glad we have you there scotty to take us through it while thats our news im rick sanchez they say stay connected with portable t. V. And well see you can i. I. Leg. Length. Because taking the oath all the alternative all. That taking and as i say the stage show that this was called real choices binary choice and the only choice is it he said. And this binary thing is not a chance for the arab states to school to provide a new architecture abides a call ted to start negotiations with them is rather they dont invited to negotiate them to think about whats being put on the table. Greetings and salutation. On a chilly tuesday evening with the full moon high in the sky here at this house of big gambles and long shots the political world here in the United States was shaken to its very core because it was here at Canterbury Park in minnesota that the former wrestler a hollywood actor and mayor of Brooklyn Park minnesota Jesse Ventura shocked the world and became the 38th governor in the state of minnesota today and watching the hawks we will look back on that historic win and take a look at his time in office and the true changes that he implemented and the for