Breaking news, the white house rolling out its blueprint to ramp up testing across the United States. The number of coronavirus cases close to 1 million. According to the plans unveiled by the president the administration is still putting the burden on the states saying the federal government should, quote, act as the last supplier of last resort. Wehear from governor after governor the lack of testing continues to be a source of deep frustration across states across this country. You hear it from kansas, oregon, from ohio, new york and new jersey, the two hardest states say tonight their plans to reopen are based on the availability of testing. And tonight the number of cases across the country as i said a grim new milestone of close to 1 million. The number of deaths in this country now more than 55,000. Kaitlin, President Trump saying the states keep skyrocketing and it almost doesnt matter when you cant get a result to a test. They just arent able to get those results. Reporter yeah, and what the white house made clear today is they still think the states should be in charge of ramping up testing and making sure theyre in a place they need to be to reopen. Thats what was in these guidelines the purpose of the road garden press conference the president had tonight. If you look through these guidelines which the white house says is a blueprint how to reopen the nation something the governors have been asking for, it still continues to put all of this on the states mainly, saying as you noted the federal government should only act as a supplier, as a last resort basically. The president also faced some questions over the numbers hes put out. He says theyre going to be able to double the number of tests theyve done now, but what he did not say is when theyd be able to double that number. He then called the Vice President to come and talk about, and then called on the admiral whos been handling a lot of the testing aspect from the White House Point of view. So the question is going to be how quickly can they do this. Because what you saw the president doing there, relying on ceos and private labs and the work theyve been doing is something thats been long in the making but its taken a long time to get to where they are now. They were talking about the public, private partnerships in the rose garden and you remember back to march and its taken so long for so many of these companies to unveil these sites where people can go and get tested. Still even as you saw those ceos touting their numbers you have to consider the fact there are thousands of these stores and still a lot of them are not being utilized for this purpose like they initially said it was going to happen in march. The president was asked about the status of the health and Human Services secretary alex azar after reports surfaced over the weekend his job could be in danger. And the president dismissed reports that azar was downplaying, that the risk to americans was low. The president didnt talk about the facts his own health and Human Services secretary was saying that. He just pointed out that other people were saying it as well, erin. Out front now the director of the global Harvard Institute who has been at the forefront of the entire conversation of testing in this country. So doctor, the president said tonight that testing in his words is skyrocketing. He talked about 200,000 tests done on saturday. He says thats double the daily number from a month ago. Obviously a week or so ago you were concerned about a stall, but we have seen an improvement. Is this a skyrocket . Would you agree with that . Thanks so much for having me on. Look, weve been woefully behind this entire time. And i think most americans need to know the reason we are shutdown, our economy is shutdown is because weve had inadequate testing. 200,000 is not a skyrocket, its an improvement. We believe we need to be at least 500,000 tests a day, and most people criticize us for being too low, other people think its a lot higher than that. So, you know, hes saying 200 done on saturday. I know thats a run rate. Youre saying even with your number they need to do more than double that, right, in order to even get to your number. Absolutely. And our numbers are very conservative. Look, if you ask the question where do i numbers come from, were trying to come up with a very basic estimate if you walk into a bar or a diner you want to make sure the guy serving you coffee isnt infected and shedding virus. How do we create a Society People feel comfortable going back outside, and you need at least 500,000 tests but probably a lot more if youre going to create confidence for people to engage in basic economic activity. Which is obviously what this is all about. You mentioned your numbers are very conservative. Youve said, dr. Jha, others i think the Rockefeller Foundation said you need 10 million per day. The white house is now saying theyre at 200. Youre saying you need 500,000 and there are some saying you need 10 million a day. What accounts for that range . Our approach was were trying to come up with whats possible and realistic given this white house, given this federal government. And we said 500,000 if you have a very aggressive Contact Tracing program. Everybody whos got mild symptoms either you test them, you Contact Trace everybody, you isolate everybody. At 500,000 tests a day, you have a shot, a long shot but a shot at keeping the economy open. The Rockefeller Foundation, others saying tens of millions, thats where id love to get to. That lets people actually feel comfortable getting back to economic activity. I have no disagreement with their numbers. And just think we cant even get 300,000 tests a day. I dont know how we get to 10 million with this federal leadership. A white house official telling cnn tonight that their goal which is not the 200,000, this is where they think they need to be is allow any individual state, each state be able to test 2 of its r residents. Does that sound way too small, or how would you contextualize that . What ive heard is its 2 per month, thats 7 million a month. Thats way too little. Just to put a number on it, it would take four years to test every american. Like, that is not the level of testing we need. What we need is about 1 again, our very conservative numbers, 1 a week. Even our approach is going to take a long time to test every american. I dont understand why the white house is low balling this. Tis is the thing that is central to getting the economy open, getting our economy open. You would think everybody at the white house would be focused on this 24 7. They keep low balling it. I dont get it. Its fundamental to getting our lives back. Dr. Deborah birx, the Coronavirus Task force advisor obviously is i guess on the on the other side of this now. Shes now saying, look, the United States isnt doing the testing we need to be. Heres what she said. We have to have a break through innovation and testing. We have to be able to detect antigen right than constantly trying to detect the actual live virus or live particles itself. Do you agree . Is that where the focus should be on antigen testing . Weve got to do both. So the way i think about it is the pcr testing, testing for the virus itself to get to 5, 600,000 a day, that requires work. It requires execution, solving a bunch of supply chain problems. Its very clear our federal government isnt up to the task. And deborah birx who i think is brilliant is probably coming to realize this federal government is not going to be able to deliver that. Now shes hoping for a technological break through that gets us to the next level. She has data on what the federal government can do that i dont. I think antigen testing would be great. My sense is dr. Birx is acknowledging the reality on the ground and saying lets hope and pray for a technological break through that lets us do this much faster and much greater. That would be great if we got that technological break through. Thank you very much. Dr. Jha, i appreciate it. Its good to talk to you again. Thank you. And next President Trump saying he does not take responsibility for the spike in people using disinfectants, ingesting disinfectants, even though he suggest people inject themselves with the coronavirus in order to treat. Plus texas opening up stores all at reduced capacity, 25 . 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Maryland, tennessee, illinois, michigan, new york all reporting an increase in calls after the president said this on thursday. And then i see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute, one minute. And is there a way we can do Something Like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning . Out front now with Gloria Borger cnn chief political analyst and dr. Riner officially joining of course he advised the white house for 8 years under president george w. Bush. Hes the one who suggested people somehow inject themselves with these cleaners. So he suggested it and people did it. And hes shocked . Right, hes disowning any responsibility for it, but its remarkable because of course he knows the answer to the question. The answer to the question is, yeah, i know what happened. Yeah, its because i spoke last thursday. And what i said was tell or suggest to people that perhaps ingesting disinfectant might help cure coronavirus in some way, shape or form. So he does know the answer to it. But in keeping with the way he behaves he is saying to us, no, i have no responsibility for that. I dont know anything about that. And thats how he answers a lot of questions he doesnt want to answer, which is when he was asked about dr. Bright saying that he was fired because he wouldnt pursue some science the administration wanted to pursue. I dont know him, i dont know who he is, i dont know what hes talking about, this is the president s m. O. And of course dr. Bright was in charge of a vaccine effort for the white house, so hard to imagine the president would have heard of him or known who he was. Shouldnt the president take responsibility for this issue of people trying to do what he suggested that might work, which is somehow put disinfectants on the inside of their body . Yeah, absolutely. Except, with this president the buck seems to stop anywhere else. You know, the day that he first pitched hydroxychloroquine about a month ago, later that day the number of prescriptions for hydroxychloroquine in the United States filed to pharmacies rose 40 fold, so his words have consequences. And he doesnt. And last week when he pitched completely outrageous proposals, dangerous, toxic proposals they had consequences. People listened to his words. So, gloria, again, when this happens, you know, and you talk about taking responsibility and what the president knew and what he knew it, the Washington Post tonight is reporting that trump was warned more than a dozen classified briefings about the virus in january and february. The office of the director of National Intelligence which prepares the Daily Briefing for the president told the Washington Post, quote, the detail of this is not true. But they say that sources tell them the warnings appeared in the president s daily brief, which is produced daily be u. S. Intelligence agencies. The president , though, gloria, while he was again according to the the post getting more than a dozen classified briefings this is what he was saying publicly over that exact same time frame. Looks like by april, you know, in theory when it gets a little warmer it miraculously goes away. You may ask about the coronavirus, which is very well under control in our country. We have it so well under control, i mean we really have done a very good job. Why do you think, gloria, he was saying that if he was reading or somehow getting these warnings from the intelligence agencies . Well, its really hard to know, erin. What i can say to you is cnns own reporting had him getting at least one president ial daily brief that outlined the dangers of the coronavirus. The question we dont have an answer to is if the intelligence agencies were doing this once, twice, more than that, multiple times, was the president reading the president ial daily brief . Were people briefing him in person about the dangers of the virus spreading in china . Was this something he knew and chose not to Pay Attention to perhaps because we were involved in negotiating an important trade deal with china . We dont know the answers to these questions, but im sure as we peel the layers of the onion, well be able to understand what exactly happened during that month of february when there was an opportunity to try and slow the spread and Pay Attention to the these flashing red lights, why that wasnt done. Dr. Rhiner were also learning the white house the Coronavirus Task force may basically scale back how often it meet. And we know theyve met basically every day since it first started. They havent met in the past two days. Does this concern you at all . Well, theres the task force which we want to meet every day. We certainly dont need the political spin portion of the briefing, the part that tells us how many tests weve done and how many ventilators we need. But the American Public needs to hear a relatively frequent briefing from people like tony fauci and dr. Birx to give us an update on where were making progress, we need more work, what the public can do to continue to stem the spread of the disease. We need to hear from the physician leadership and i think a little bit less from the political leadership. Well see if that happens. Yeah, go ahead, gloria. Erin, thats what i thought foolishly i guess that we were going to get today. Because you saw the and it looks like glorias webcam maybe just froze up. Thank you both very much. And next the city of houston facing two crises right now. Coronavirus and plunging oil prices, oil prices the likes of which pretty which no one can imagine. I remember covering the markets when we were talking 250 a barrel. And houstons mayor out front. And plus doctors testing heartburn medication in coronavirus patients. What could it do . The leading doctor working on this new trial is out front. 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All Retail Stores, restaurants, movie theaters and malls can reopen may 1st. Reporter occupancy will be limited to 25 . The governors new executive order supersedes all local measures. The mayor urging caution holding up a copy of it Houston Chronicle with the headline, local cases more prominent in at risk neighborhoods. I know more people want to open up, i got that. But many of the people who live in these communities, these individuals who are serving the tables and these are the people who were riding the bus, and what they are asking for is not necessarily when we are going to open, but, mayor, tell me what are you going to do to keep us safe . Denvers mayor choosing to delay reopening as the state moves forward. We didnt felt we needed to be ready and more needed to be done. Its going to remain with us for a while. And we need to build the infrastructure for the long haul. Mississippi still urging residents to stay home, yet allowing Retail Stores to open today with restrictions. In florida more beaches poised to welcome residentsads the governor once pushing to reopen adopts a cautious tone. Ohio one of the first states to take aggressive measures announcing today its stay at home orders will remain in place. Though a phased reopening begins friday. Retail, however, wont resume for another two weeks. Get people back to work and keep them safe. Reporter in new york expect some areas including hard hit new york city to open much later. In some parts of the state, some regions you could make the case that we should unpause on may 15th. But you have to be smart about it. There is no light switch where you flick a switch and everybody goes back to doing what theyre doing. More than a dozen states have started easing restricts as Business Leaders and Health Officials warn more testing is still needed. What youre seeing now are governors increasingly putting together economic recovery teams, but its completely delinked to the Public Health component. Tysons chicken processing facility in shelby, tennessee, now closed for deep cleaning amid the questions about the countrys meet supply. The companys chairman warning the Food Supply Chain is breaking as experts note there is enough food though the variety may change. And just in terms of the food supply, too, were hearing different things, erin. Were hearing from hog farmers in minnesota there are concerns there are not processing plants for those animals they may have to consider euthanizing them. And meantime in new york state the governor saying today dairy cooperatives up state have had to dump some of their milk and milk products, so hes now working on an initiative to get some of that product down in this area where there is a serious spike in need at food banks and food pantries, erin. Thank you very much, erica. Of course so much of these suppliers struggling to spliel their restaurants to now individual buyers. I want to go now to the mayor of houston, sylvester turner. I heard your reaction in ericas piece about Governor Abbot reopening. So what are you telling to those citizen asking what youre going to do now that the governor said businesses can reopen . Well, were telling them to still be very, very cautious. Were letting them know the virus has not disappeared. How prevalent it is only the testing will tell us. But the social distancing, the wearing of facial coverings, all of those things are important. Erin, just today i announced 74 new cases in the city of houston and four more deaths as directly related to covid19. So the virus has not disappeared. Weve done an excellent job at containing it and minimizing its impact. We dont want to undo what weve successfully done over the last 40, 45 days. So testing, continuing to be cautious, and i too want to open up, but i think you have to ease into it very slowly, it has to be based on the science and data and medical advice. So when Governor Abbot says his order supersedes all local orders i guess what does that mean . Is there nothing you can do at this point but to allow Business Owners to open if they want, and how has he responded when youve told him how you feel . Well, you know, i respect the governors position and his role. Certainly he has the final say in the state of texas. But for the city of houston operation, for those things permitted, produced, authorized, my order will remain in place through the end of may. For those events that we specifically permit. The city employees, for example, will continue to work remotely from home where we can. Well continue to engage in all of the practices, the social distancing. Well continue to do that. You know, if the governor did open up for example the malls and the movie theaters and the retail and restaurants 25 of capacity, thats going to be kind of difficult to enforce. But i give people a lot of credit. I think they recognize if things dont appear to be safe i think theyre able to take the necessary steps to pull back and to stay home if necessary. Well, its a fair point because as this happens across the country theres no way this can be policed. So people are going to do what they think is right and businesses what they think is right. Houston, this is one of the biggest cities in the United States and you have coronavirus, and whats happened to your economy, you had a slow down in oil beforehand. About a third of your regional gdp, a third of your economy comes from oil alone. Last week oil was negative. You basically had to pay people to store it because nobody was using it. Its a stunning thing no one thought we would see in our lifetimes and it happened, and its barely recovered from that. What are you going to do in houston where the situation is oil prices are where they are . Lets put it this way its certainly the super bowl of crisis were facing in this city and ive been mayor 4 1 2 years. When i came in we faced a flood and we faced harvey the storm of all storms in 2017 and now were dealing with this virus. But one thing i can tell you about the people in this city is that we are highly resilient. And houstonians, we pull together like never before, we know how to bounce back, and so this is another one. Were very resilient, and were dealing with the coronavirus, and were dealing the economy all at the same time. But i can assure you there is no city theres no city, no people like houstonians, that we deal with it, we will deal with it head on, we are highly resilient. Well bounce back, and well come out of this. But at the same time as we deal with it its important for us to be very strategic, be very smart, to be very cautious and recognize that this virus is real, and you really dont have to mean opportunities to tell people to stay home, so you want to get it right as much as possible, and you want to respect and recognize the sacrifices that people have already made. I appreciate your time. Thank you very much, sir. Thank you very much. Thanks for having me. And next, could a popular heartburn drug be used as a treatment for coronavirus . The doctor who is leading the research and actual trial on this new study is my guest. Plus the administration warning the u. S. Could see an Unemployment Rate that is comparable to the great depression. That peaked at 24. 9 . Is that going to happen . You know, new customers save over 1,000 on average when they bundle home and auto with progressive. Wow, thats. And now the progressive commercial halftime show, featuring smash mouth. 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And when dr. Callahan and his colleagues studied the medical records of the patients and the cases what they found is that the patients who did better were patients taking which as you say is the active ingredient in pepcid and other heartburn medications. Dr. Callahan came back to the United States and collaborated with dr. Robert maloney on a Computer Program to ask the question what could be the features of this drug, the structural features, the shape of the drug that might align with and interact with proteins made by the virus. And they focused on a protein which the virus needs to replicate, which the virus needs to live. And this protein is called and so what they found is that this was the key and it was like a lock so they fit together. So those two anecdotes framed the question might it be possible to study it and thats how this started. The dosage i understand youre giving in your trial is about nine times higher than what someone would get if they were to get pepcid at the pharmacy. Why such a high dosage, and with such a high dosage what sort of side effects have you seen . Have there been any concerns . To pick the dose to do the Clinical Trial again back to models, to make estimations of how much drug would have to be in the body in order to for the key for it to sufficiently turn off the lock, and those calculations dictated or instructed the dose, which as you say is about nine times higher than what you would take in a pharmacy. However, very importantly were using the intravenous form of the drug, the intravenous form of course is because were studying very sick patients typically with bilateral pneumonia, low oxygen in their blood and having to be hospitalized. So under the care of physicians skilled in this Clinical Trial are using it by the intravenous root to see if this approach causes more benefit than harm. We do not know today whether this will be harmful or beneficial on these patients. But when youre standing at the bed side of a loved one whos very sick and doesnt have any proven therapies the safety ratio is actually quite favorable. What we dont know is if it will be beneficial against the disease itself, and its certainly an important question to be addressing right now. So when do you think youre going to get results from this additional trial which i understand youre hoeing to have about 1,200 patients in. The data and safety monitoring board and statisticians who recommended the trial for us randomized blinded placebo control trial so by the time we get to 1,200 there will be about 600 patients treat asked 600 patients in the control arms. What the statisticians recommend we look at the data after the first 400 patients or so, and depending on how fast patients can be enrolled in this trial at Northwell Health in new york we will find out when we can exactly look at the data. We estimate it to be a few more weeks. The fw news is the emission rates in new york are falling, the disease is on the wane and we hope it stays that way,o its hard to put an exact time when well have enough patients in the trial to analyze the data. I appreciate your time. Thank you very much. And i want to go straight to dr. Sanjay gupta. Sanjay, what do you make of this study . Obviously theyre putting it through a formal trial. Well, thats what we need to be doing is putting these things through trials. This is an interesting hypothesis. It has some, you know, biological rationale in that this medication interestingly could help block one of the rep scepters by which this virus enters the body. It sounds like. But, you know, erin, its interesting. We talk a lot about these potential therapeutics and understandably given that were in the middle of a pandemic we would never present this in your program at this stage because its so early. Theres nothing to really know here except an observation out of china that people who were taking this medication seem to fair better than people who were taking another sort of heartburn medication. You know, well see. Theres a lot of trials going on right now. Im a little surprised why we dont have definitive results given some of them started in december and well keep pushing on that but hopefully well hear from more results in. We know there are so many things being tried and i know there are points when people are very ill theyre trying everything they can so its not scientific because youre doing whatever you can do. So youre not able to tell if anything works or nothing works. But to your point there are a lot of things now being studied. Are you surprised weve not yet heard about something being really effective . Because anything theres been an indication of that then we seem to get study after study its not really the case, hydroxychloroquine being an example. Yeah, i am surprised by that. And i know for example hydroxychloroquine there were lots of doses given to the state of new york. A Clinical Trial was going on in five hospitals over there. Governor cuomo we asked him about this in the town hall this past week and he said basically based on the hundreds of patients that they had seen so far it did not seem to have a benefit, but theyre still waiting for the fda to look at this data and have it analyzed independently, so theres lots of steps and there should be could independent analysis for sure. But i am surprised remdesivir is another one weve been hearing one and the World Health Organization posted information on their website last week and immediately took it down. Gilliad, the company that makes the drug said that was premature to release some of these results. Its amazing youve got 3 Million People or so around the world who have confirmed infections. The fact you have an underpowered study on one of the most talked about medications is surprising. So im surprised we dont have data. Im surprised it sounds like we dont have enough people in some of these trials yet. We need to get the information because that could be a Significant Development in terms of how we proceed, all the other issues that we talk about could be affected by it by an affected medication obviously. Sanjay, thank you very much. And next tyson foods warning the Food Supply Chain, is, quote, breaking. Plants closing to stop the spread of coronavirus, so should americans be concerned . Plus the president refusing to take a back seat to his medical experts despite growing measure from aides and allies. So what happened to the promise new look and focus of the briefings . 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Also warning from the company, quote, as pork, beef and chicken plants are being forced to close even for short periods of time, millions of pounds of meat will disappear from the supply chain. Out front now, the republican governor of arkansas, issa hutchinson. I appreciate your time. Tyson foods is based in your state. You know more about this than probably any other governor in this country. When you hear millions of pounds of meat disappearing from the supply chain, how concerned are you . Well, first of all, its good to be with you, erin. And the fact that the chairman of tysons food felt necessary to communicate that to america indicates that they are in a critical industry. And as plants in different parts of the country have had breakouts of covid19, it is a concern if you have to shutdown a plant even for a bit. Weve been fortune in arkansas that we have over 60 processing plants, and theyre all operational. Theyve worked hard to make sure that safety is paramount in those plants. And the most important ingredient is to give the employees confidence that they will be healthy going into that plant and they dont risk having an adverse contagion there in the processing plant. And so theyre taking the necessary steps, but it illustrates that we have to be prepared in the event there is a positive case, that we sanitize, we clean, and we get back to processing because our country cannot do without this supply of food, and it starts poultry, beef, pork, all of that is critical to supply chain. And look, you know, you talk about having to have tyson close plants in your state. They, of course, have closed plants in other parts of the country. Iowa, indiana, two cases linked to the plant in iowa closed in waterloo. Today the chief medical officer in indiana said 963 new cases in the state, a majority of which are related to an outbreak at the tyson plant. Does that concern you that this is happening in other places and it is linked to these plants where, of course, the Food Processing processes, people are very close together. But it does indicate some pretty serious break downs in whether it be ppe or how this is being managed at the plant level. Well, it does concern you, of course, and it concerns the plant operators. And thats why theyre investing so much in safety precautions. We have been fortune in arkansas. Weve had a break out in one of our prison facilities, so we can see how that virus infiltrates and expands so rapidly. You dont want that same thing in the close environment of a processing plant. The key thing is once you get a positive case, that you go in there, do your Contact Tracing very quickly so you can stop the spread and have that capacity. Thats what were building in arkansas. Hopefully that will be sufficient. But also were really working to avoid that community spread. Weve been somewhat successful here in this state, and we want to keep on that same path. So the white house official today said new testing guidelines, they want each state to have the ability to test 2 of their residents per month. We were talking to one of the most prominent testing experts in the country and he was just pointing out that that adds up to taking four years to test everybody in this country. He thinks its woefully short of what is necessary. Are you comfortable reopening your state if you get anywhere close to that number, 2 of residents tested per month . Well, we set our criteria, and were looking at it for may 4th. Of course, we never shutdown completely. We close restaurants, bars, those type of personal contact businesses. But weve been open beyond that. We are looking at what we need to do may 4th and whether we can reopen some of those contact businesses. Though were going to be very careful about that. In terms of the testing, weve had a testing surge this last weekend. Were going to continue to build that base of testing in our state. And so im comfortable with where we are. We obviously want to continue to build the testing capability, but all of that revolves around the Contact Tracing so that we can find out where we have an outbreak and nip it and take control it. That takes that investment of resources which we are doing, and were comfortable with that right now. All right, governor hutchinson, i appreciate your time. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Good to be with you, erin. All right. And next, President Trump back in front of the cameras today after complaining on twitter that it was a waste of time. So why . Why come back out . Plus young and middle aged people with coronavirus are dying of strokes. Why . A doctor studying an alarming trend is out front. Its best we stay apart for a bit, but youre not alone. Were automatically refunding our customers a portion of their personal auto premiums. Learn more at libertymutual. Com covid19. [ piano playing ] im erin burnett. Welcome to a special edition of out front. The breaking news, deaths related to coronavirus in the United States is more than 60,000. Its a grim milestone reached this past hour and it comes as President Trump rolls out the administrations plan now for ramping up testing across the country. The president trying to paint the United States as a Global Leader on coronavirus testing. But according to a white house official, the goal is to help each state reach the ability to test at least 2 of its residents over a month. I just spoke to the director of the Harvard Global health institute. He said at that rate it would take four years to test every american. He says at minimum, the Administration Needs to be doing at least double what it is doing now per day. The administration is now trying to shift the focus to testing after last thursdays briefing where the president suggested injecting disinfectants into the body as a possible treatment. Tonight the president was asked about the spike in people using disinfectants since he said that. I know you said they were sarcastic i cant imagine why. I cant imagine why. Yeah