Figure out how this is going to play out. All of them, the passengers anyway, quarantined inside their rooms as testing is administer and as they transfer people from one ship to another, theres a sister ship that met them in panama theyre in the process, Holland America the parent ship, to move healthy passengers from one ship to the other. They left on march 6th boarded in buenos aires and they were supposed to end up in chile, this whole thing erupted since then. What they told me, the governor of this state said floridians youre at low risk, continue living your lives, dont disrupt what youre doing. Two days later, on march 6th, President Trump issued a statement to america saying this all was going to be under control. They got on the ship and here they find themselves today, in terms of the number of people potentially affected, ali, ro h roughly 153 passengers and 80someold crew members who have exhibited symptoms. As they try to test as many people as possible throughout this process, how are they going to get those passengers back to florida . Its supposed to come through the panama canal and get to Broward County, but the government of Broward County havent signed up on that. T local government officials right now cant agree on a plan of action u four people have died as you said and who knows how many. Sam, not withstanding the fact that the governor of florida did say go about your loves and florida should have shut down its beaches and spring break, notwithstanding than that, are there more ships out there trying to dock in america that we didnt know about . Reporter theyve shut down operations here for weeks in the florida area, not that im aware of at the moment. But this situation clearly is garnering headlines right now because of just the sheer quantity and the potential of how many people could be sick which is exceedingly unsettling when you consider the demographic of whos on these cruise ships to begin with. People with a little bit older in age. Sam, thanks for your reporting. Well stay on top of this one. Sam brock is in miami. If theres cruise ship of people still looking to dock, please tweet me about this. This is kind of remarkable that the governor of florida would have known there was a cruise ship on the way and theyre now just dealing with this. Help on the way for some people in the america, some businesses, some people struggling to deal with this coronavirus. The house approved 2 trillion relief package. Money for hospitals and states and local governments. The bill heads to President Trumps desk but not without a little bit of drama. Thomas massie tried to force lawmakers to vote on the record but he was rebuffed, an effort to forced lawmakers to quickly returned to washington. Were so pleased today to have passed on the floor this important bill. We want to demonstrate that we do care for the American People in every way. With the passing of this bill, youll see that well fight it together. And we will win together. And i want to thank our colleagues for that type of work. As the house debated that bill, President Trump lashed out at ford and General Motors on twitter not moving fast enough to produce medical supplies. Not clear if hes using his authority under the defense production act. Ford stayed in a statement that, quote, its pulling out all the stops to provide vitally needed equipment for patients, First Responders and healthcare workers. General motors announced that it was bringing workers back to its plant in kokomo to make ventilators. There are now 94,000 confirmed cases in the United States. More than 1400 people have died. Most people who get the virus will recover and most people who die do so because theres an underlying illness. Joe cunningham has become the third member of congress to test positive. Also testing positive for the virus, british Prime Minister boris johnson. Back at home the Navy Hospital ship mercy has arrived at the port of los angeles today to help ease the burden on hospitals that are overwhelmed by coronavirus patients. In theory, these hospital ships are meant to treat people who are not suffering from coronavirus but who are otherwise requiring medical care. Theres a ship headed by the way for new york harbor, too, its leaving tomorrow. Wall street is adding this historic week on a down note, its getting less down as the day goes on. Ill keep you posted. Right now, were just 2 off. Very rare that you actually see these days just a 2 swing on these markets as you can see all major markets are in the same position. Ill bring you up to speed where markets are at the end of the show. Lets get to the house voting to send this pandemic relief bill to the president s desk. Garrett, this drama we talked about, congressman massie of kentucky, he seemed to be determined that everybody who votes on this bill has to do it in a roll call vote, on the record, what was this about in. Well, look, was among the targets of the president today. He said he should be kicked out of the respect party for this. As few as absolutely necessary back from around the country to washington to conduct this vote. They were frustrated that Thomas Massie wanted to have this vote on the record. Heres how he explained his objection by doing this by voice votes when he talked to reporters. Theyre trying to cover up their votes. They had enough votes to pass the bill. They still refused to have a recorded vote. They told me they were trying to protect members. Theyre trying to protect the members who are there from political ramifications. Like i said in there, i said make sure our republic doesnt die in an empty chamber by unanimous consent. You can almost hear black helicopters circling, the level of Conspiracy Theory thats going on, an effort to protect members from taking a dangerous vote. The Senate Passed this bill unanimously. The how the would have done so without his objection. As the news about Joe Cunningham which you just read, so clearly indicated, this is not a theoretical exercise up here on the hill who dont want to be put in a sealed off chamber for votes unless they absolutely have to. Garrett, thank you for your coverage of this. Garrett haake. I want to continue with our coverage of the house vote coming two days after the Senate Unanimously approved that package. Jo joining us now is jeff merkley, senator, your sense of what this bill is going to do. The market is off today. We have had a couple of recordbreaking days. So, clearly, some people are getting the impression that this may have some meaningful effect, but a lot of people say, it cant possibly be enough. Ali, its a massive infusion of funds into the economy and its for those workers who are laid off, it will give them 100 of their income u it encourages Small Businesses, really up to 500 people to keep their employees employed which will allow the businesses recover faster when we get to the other side of this. This has a lot in it thats going to help on the large and medi mediumsize business and a massive investment in health care. Stabilization fund for state and local governments. Thats just the headlines. There is a lot more things beyond that on housing, agricultural and education. Are there things in this bill that didnt get done that might have to happen in another bill . I think support for our small chambers of commerce is very important and thats not in this bill. Theyre going to play a big role in making sure Small Businesses are able to sign up. I dont think we have enough for our public universities and our nonprofit universities. Those on the quarter system, theyre afraid theyre going to see an a massive erosion of their tuition. And i dont think we have enough on housing. Ive been pushing for a housing package, we got about 7 billion, housings already very stressed across the country. This could put a lot more people on the street. I want to play some of the critici criticism, some democratic circles. Alexandria ocakacasiocasiocort what did senate ma your city fight for, one of the corporate bailouts. Shameful. The greed of that fight is wrong for our families and the option that we have to either let them suffer with nothing or to allow this greed and billions of dollars which will be leveraged into trillions of dollars to contribute to the largest income inequality gap in our future. Senator, there were in fact, no Strings Attached in the initial bill drafted. That has been strengthened to some degree. The president implied that Cruise Companies if they flag their ships in the United States after having not done so for decades might be able to participate in this thing but still some feeling the 500 billion that goes to corporate relief doesnt have as many Strings Attached as some people would like it to have. Well, thats right, it was passed in a senate thats run by republicans. They were going to make sure that this liquidity was there for medium and large businesses. We wanted a lot more Strings Attached to it. We got some. Most important, is massive transparency, details have to be disclosed within a few days. The fact that none of these funds can be used for stock buybacks. That was an improvement. Restrictions on how much executives can be paid thats an improvement but its not Strong Enough but this is going to be a compromise in which democrats were fighting for the Unemployment Insurance and Small Businesses that hit or help families on the ground. The republicans got more leniency. Theres room for abuse, i think aoc is right on that. Senator jeff merkley of oregon. Now that the house has passed the pandemic bill, direct payments will be on their way. Payments will start in about three weeks. Heres how you can get the money as fast as possible. First of all, heres a reminder of whos eligible and how much the payment will be. Individuals who earn less than 75,000 a year will get 1200. Couples who file a joint tax return and made less than 150,000 will get 2400. Individuals who file as head of household, will get 1200. Now, it goes down from there. Individuals who make up to 99,000, couples that earn up to 199,000 will receive money, the amount will be reduced 5 for every 100 of income over 75,000. You must have a valid Social Security number and the kind thats eligible for work. Social Security Card that says ineligible for work without authorization you dont get the money then. The irs will determine how much you get by looking at the 2018 retur returns. If your information is up to date, your address to which your last refund was sent or was on your last tax return you dont need to do anything at all. If you havent filed taxes for either 2018 or 2019 nows the time to do it. The irs will send the money directly to your account. It will take longer if the government needs to send you a check. All of this is on my twitter handle. Go in there. But theres a lot of discussion here and lot of questions about this. I want to bring in my colleague, ben popkin to answer some of these questions. One of the largest areas people have dont fit into the categories, seniors on Social Security, people who receive Social Security disability benefits, people who get pensions but not Social Security, lowincome americans who dont file enough who dont make enough to file these returns. Talk to me about these groups. Definitely, ali, both of us have heard concerns about these issues. Almost every adult american will receive one of these checks. Thats the bottom line. Now, those questions, on the Social Security, disability, will they get stimulus checks . Yes, no matter what category you pull up on disability that has no impact whatsoever on whether you get one of these checks. Will this disqualify me . No. Theres confusion because the irs is involved and people are scared about the irs on a good day. Here the irs is the mechanism for determining eligible and then sending out those checks. People, though, who do not have enough income to file for taxes normally they should probably go out and file taxes. You can declare zero income, you can send in a tax form that has zero income, you go to irs. Gov, they got the forms there of course, there are Community Groups and a Service Called the irs volunteer income tax assistance and their theyre tax preparers set up to help people making under 54,000 a year, who have disability or issues with english, now of course because of coronavirus many of these tax assistance offices are closed but still worth giving the phone number a call and trying to find out. Lot of information is still up in the air until the bill is completely finalized. The irs has set up a landing page. You got to Customer Service phone number for the irs. The irs has a Customer Service line. 8008291040. Theyll be able to answer some of these questions. So, well see what happens. The other thing to remember is, these may not be the last ill be interested to see if this is just the beginning of extension of the social safety net due to the coronavirus. Ben, do me a favor, tweet out the website for the irs coronavirus and the phone number and ill do the same thing. Ben popken. Worth noting in 2009 it took three months to get the checks out. It will take three weeks right now, there have been taxes, cut to the irs itself. The other thing you should know even if you owe the government money, back taxes that wont affect you except one exception unpaid Child Support that has been reported to the treasury department, this will be deducted from that. Thats the one exception. Unpaid Child Support youre not going to get this rebate the big question is, is this relief package going to be enough . Annie, in peoples spare time, the book theyre buying right now, we know because we did this the last time in the financial crisis, its every 12, 20 years that we get to have this much influence over what ben popken called the social safety net, this might be the time to reconsider all of this . Yeah, absolutely. We saw a major changes to the safety net that came out of the last recession, including eventually in a separate process the Affordable Care act i dont think its impossible that well see pretty profound changes to the safety net through this one, through the provision of public goods, possible changes to things like paid leave and id expect to that happen, to your earlier point, i dont think this is the last rescue bill theyre going to pass, theyll have to come back depending a little bit on how this goes in Public Health terms. You know, annie, when i cover hurricanes, we talk about climate change, people say, this is an emergency, this is not the moment to talk about it, same thing is happening now. This is an emergency, get the checks out. But this may be the opportune because peoples ears are tuned for tuniversal income. Absolutely, so theres been an ongoing conversation about whether the country needs better automatic stabilizers, these are the programs that kick in when families become destress. This did require congress to come together to pass this. They didnt have off the shelf programs for this. We didnt have a ton of programs set and ready to go. If theres another viral pandemic, do we need automatic Cash Payments to go out. Many people on the hill are starting to think about that and structural changes so its not always on congress to do this and remake these policies again and again and again. Thinking about cash policies is going to be a part of that going forward. Do we have to have better, more immediate and more direct support for families . Even when times are good. The United States has much less social insurance than other countries do which is a bit of a irony because we pay so much for health insurance. But never themselves, well relatively uninsure compared to our counterparts. Annie, this is the moment to understand universal basic income and stronger safety nets. Annie, thanks very much. We got breaking news, this is serious, Emergency Responders in new york city are getting more 911 calls than ever before. There are so many calls that people not just a few people, lot of people are being put on hold. The city is strongly suggested that the new yorkers only call 911 if theyre having trouble breathing or having heart problems. Otherwise, call your doctor or call 311. Nbc news correspondent tom witter ares following this. You are constantly hearing sirens and they are now overwhelmed. Thats correct. Ill read you a statement from the fire department. The medical call volume for ems in new york city over the past three days is the largest in our history, thats an extraordinary statement, ali, this number is constantly fluctuating. Right now, theres 170 People Holding for ambulances in new york city. Now, i want to make it right away a major caveat, if someone is at home and watching us right now and theyre having a heart issue possibly a heart attack or serious trouble breathing your calls going be prioritize, dont think youre in a hopeless situation, the 9 1 operators in new york city are very good at prioritizing calls. The issue they have right now, these emts and paramedics are being run ragged, people are feeling sick, coronavirus symptoms, flulike symptoms, they want people to get help but what theyre asking you to do to call your physician, or if youre new york city only, call 311, thats an Information Service that this city has and that way, your physician can best advise what to do. If you have those heart issues like i said, or trouble breathing, definitely give them a call, theyll find a way to prioritize the calls. But the system is being clogged for folks who are just feeling sick. While nobody wants anybody to feeling ill theres a lot of illness in new york city. A bit of a concerning situation but a serious situation the Fire Departments asking that we get this message out. So, just a little bit of a Public Service announcement as you will but also an indication of whats going through peoples head, fear, a lot lot of sickness. As youre talking to me, in my home im broadcasting this and im listening to sirens. Its not a common thing you hear in new york as frequently as you do. But this will happen in other cities. Wherever you are, if you have an existing condition, know how to get ahold of your doctor. As you said, theyre responding to emergencies but there are a lot of calls on hold right now. Tom, thank you. Id follow tom winter on twitter if youre in new york city. A distillery in florida using the alcohol its got to make Hand Sanitizer and giving it away for free. Plus, postmates food delivery drivers in new york are now eligible to receive Unemployment Insurance, thats a huge and timely win for them and potentially tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of gig workers across the state long considered contractors. Youre watching msnbc. Hot hot no no no no no, theres no space there maybe over here . Oven mitts oven mitts everythings stuck in the drawers im sorry oh, jeez. Hi. Kelly clarkson. 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When this crisis first began, desperate to get brand names like purell because it had that fda stamp on it. How are you dealing with the fda . The fda last week, lifted some of their regulations to make it easier for guys like us to produce Hand Sanitizers because theres such a need. We have guidelines from the World Health Organization and the fda on the recipe were supposed to be using. The Community Thanks you. Theyre not charging for this. Theyre taking donations. Ali, First Responders because they are the ones who unlike us with our six feet of space between us or a little bit more, First Responders have to go up to somebody. So this is effective, useful and quite frankly, i saw an officer who on his holster, on his gun, had a mask hanging on his dpun and where you would normally see in his utility belt some mace he had a bottle similar to this. Sign of the times. 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Im here, ali, i can hear you. There you go. Im sorry, here we go, we got you. Talk to me about this. Whats the impact on a whole lot of people who are now out of work and who might qualify for Unemployment Insurance . All right, were definitely having a problem contacting with new York State Attorney general Letitia James. Let me move on until we figure things out. Attorney general bill barr could soon rule that some of oldest and most vulnerable inmates be sent home in coronavirus. 10 inmates and eight Staff Members have tested positive for covid19. 20,000 inmates in the federal prison system who are in their mid50s and older. What can be done to protect these vulnerable populations as the virus continues to spread. Joining me associate professor of health and medicine at harvard. Doctor, we were talking about this idea, prison populations, you worked in prison populations before, studying the spread of infectious diseases, this is really dangerous place for people in close quarters unable to social distance. Yeah, absolutely, ali. You know, when you think about it when youre in a prison youre crowded together and you eat together, you move around in very specific ways. You cant control what you clean and how many times youre washing your hands necessarily theres a lot of issues around prisons and we have had outbreaks of a number of diseases in prison. We know that prisons are at very high risk. What can be done, what have you seen done to try and accommodate a prison population short of letting people out, which some people are considering and asking for . Well, you know you mentioned letting people out, i think on a very administrative level, people who dont need to be in prisons or james shouldnt be there. Trouble paying bail but after that you can take a number of administrative steps, you can separate the sick from the nonsick, you have to test people and you end up with three groups in coronavirus. People who have it. Exposed to people who have it. They should be watch. And then, there will be a group that doesnt have it so you need to have three administrative spaces to put people and then you have to test the people who are exposed and dont have it regularly and you have to make sure new people coming into the prison theyre tested and monitored before theyre let into the general population. I want to bring in joyce vance, former u. S. Attorney, doj leaders, judges who have written a letter urging President Trump to do what you were just doing. Youre talking about releasing vulnerable individuals, commuting sentences. We could turn a whole bunch of people who are thieves into having death sentences because of coronavirus. Well, i think thats true, ali, but we have to be smart and sensible about what we do here, theres good data that indicates once federal prisoners turn age 50 there must a lower risk of recidivism, theres a good reason to take offenders who are elderly, close to the end of the service, remove them from the prison population to make it more possible to take preventive measures in jail. You cant release these folks without a plan. They have to selfquarantine for 14 days upon release to make sure they dont take infection home. They need to have housing and access to medical care. The bureau has a motto says reentry begins on day one incarcerati incarceration. Now we need to put those plans into place in a smart way that benefits communities and people that are in incarcerated. Youve done some work in russia and they for unrelated reasons did do that, an effort to reduce prison populations or just look at how they sentence people they did end up releasing a lot of prisoners, doctor. Yeah, you know, ali within that case it was another airborne disease, tuberclosis. So they looked at people who didnt need to be there and they looked at people who were elderly, infirmed, et cetera, they sent a lot of people home. I agree with u. S. Attorney vance that we have to be sensible about it. If you look at your prison population, about 10 you know are under 50, 55 years old. So, you know, we can look at people that might be safe and then as shes mentioned, we have to think about where theyre going to go and that kind of opens the door to thinking, you know, 600,000 prisoners every year leave prison and enter the community, so we have to do the prisons right, you cant have an epidemic move iining and then a pandemic. This may be one of those things where we have given thought to but we havent implemented and maybe the crisis causes us to get better as we think about incarceration and essentisentencin sentencing. Thank you for joining me. Joyce vance, former u. S. Attorney. Letita james is back with me. When we last time we tried to talk, this has been a long time in the works of postmate workers as employees rather than gig workers, it has new significance now in this moment where people are being sent home and people are going to get unemployment check. Reporter this is a huge victory for postmate workers and potentially thousands of gig workers across new york and across the nation. The courts have affirmed of what we knew was true is that delivery drivers are employees and are entitled to the same Unemployment Benefits that other employees can obtain as the nation battles the spread of coronavirus and more and more employees are laid off, postmate drivers as you know, they have the same safety net that millions others have. How does this is the one big difference, when we compare things to things we remember the recession in 2008 2009, this is one of the big differences, the number of people in our economy freelancers, contractors, gig workers for some who think the safety net is nonexistence. The Business Model has changed and things have changed on the ground and the reality is that a number of gig work rers obviously looking to this decision. I want to thank congress, Congress Just passed the bill that includes gig workers for unemployment, affected by the coronavirus. Very first time in history they will extend payments to freelancers and to gig workers and obviously the courts are catching up with the times and recognizing that these gig workers and postmates and others should be entitled to Unemployment Benefits and there should be a safety net in place for these employees. Attorney general, there has been an issue with price gouging, people hoarding and price gouging, what can you tell us right now about the state of what happens to people who price gouge on essential items right now. Yeah, we have received in the office of attorney general right now around 4,000 complaints related to price gouging, we received a number of complaints around 2,000 related to medical scams, individuals who Online Platforms indicated they have kurs to the coronavirus or theyve got treatments to the coronavirus, and we have also received unfortunately a number of complaints related to hate crimes. I want everyone to know right now theres no cure, no treatments, no antibodies that can cure this virus. And to that individuals who take advantage of the anxiety and the fear that currently exists not only in new york but across this nation, there will be cease and desist orders. Right now we issued over a hundred cease and desist orders. Im glad that a number of businesses have compliecomplied. Most of our employees are operating remotely from home. Some dedicated Staff Members who are handling our phones. I want to thank them for that. Most importantly, i want to tell your listeners and all of your viewers is that everyone should remain calm, everyone obviously should focus on facts and everyone should know as one nation one state that well get. Take a look at the market. It has had a sudden sharp drop, now off about 770 points. 3. 4 . We were in the rang 2 range. But that is the unemployment claims that came out yesterday. Just look at that chart. That goes laback to 1967. As coronavirus begins to take a toll on the u. S. Economy and after the nation watched the markets crash at lightning speed, lawmakers obviously got the 2 trillion relief package through. But now that the United States is leading all other nations in the number of coronavirus cases, it is not clear whether this is enough do it. Joining me is former u. S. Secretary of labor under president clinton. You and i have talked about the structural problems why tin the economy for year, but now it comes into sharp relief when weve had this shock causing numbers that we have not talked about before, including in the last 12 years when we talked about the recession. What do you make of what you are seeing right now . Well, the problem here is not joblessness. This is joblessness that is necessary in order to protect the public and protect individuals and families from this virus. This is not a matter of stimulating the economy or getting jobs back or doing any of the normal things that we do during a recession. The Public Health issue is the number one issue here. People have got to shelter at home. That is what this is all about. Re seeing these kinds of fears of Unemployment Insurance claims and at the same time, we have a new bill just through congress enacted or at least by the 1234senate and hou and it does not in my humble opinion does not provide nearly enough aid to individuals. That is 1200 for adults . That will take the average family through maybe a week. But this virus is expected to require sheltering at home for at least the next, what, the next two months, possibly the next three months. The more people shelter, the faster we will be through this. But it will not be one week and that 1200 is not going if go far enough. What does it looks like . If gr enough. What does it looks like . So is it a reeal conversation about basic income, what we can go that is more structurally in nature rather than an emergency in nature to take us through for months . Well, the good thing in the bill is an increase in Unemployment Insurance using the Unemployment Insurance system that questiwe already have in p and making it far easier for people including gig workers and contract workers to get Unemployment Insurance. Now, that is the good news. And it is also good news that it is for four months. That is a 600 above what people can ordinarily get. But we have to make sure that the system is capable of reaching people very rapidly. I hear over and over again because i know how this Unemployment Insurance system works, i hear over and over again that people cannot get into the system. Phones are jammed. It is very people are overwhelmed. And it is very important that we gear the system up rapidly. You know, 80 of americans live pay check to paycheck. So being without a paycheck means that you have huge numbers of people that wont be able to pay their bills and their rent and get the food that they need. The othether thing that is vita important is to expand medicaid assistance to anybody who needs it so nobody is deterred from hospitalization because of the costs. And i thank you for your time and we know that you have been spending a lot of time on our air. And this is a time when we need that an analysis. Robert reich, now chancellor professor of Public Policy at the university of california. Were now off 4 for the day, about 900 points on the dow. That doesnt put us just taking a look at my charts here, were not just into the top ten point drops of the history of the dow, but were getting there very close. We have had three solid days where markets have been cheering on congress in their ability to get a deal done. This is sometimes what you call buying on the rule are on, sellisel rule organization selling on the news. And at 900, if we cross 970, weve made itruleorganization s news. And at 900, if we cross 970, weve made it into the to whip. And let me bring you perspective. This is bad, were probably off about 21 for the year, 21 . You are supposed to be making 7 , 9 in the average year and were off three times that right now. But i assume most of you didnt start investing just a year ago. Over five years, this market is up 25 ,o over ten years, still p 110 . And you will see that despite a very sharp drop in the 2009 recession, that market is up stanktsly higher than it was even over 20 years. So i just want to give you perspecti perspective. Im not cheering or blaming investor, just giving you long term perspective which is hard to do minute by minute. Ill be back here at 10 00 a. M. Eastern for the last word and of course saturday and sunday 8 00 a. M. Eastern for velshi. Thank you for watching. aurelia i did have hearing aids from another company. I was just frustrated i almost gave up. With miracleear, its all about service. Theyre personable, theyre friendly. 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