And today, wall street took a beating. The dow fell about 3,000 points, its largest oneday point drop in history. And tonight, americas streets are empty, from new york city to los angeles. Bars and restaurants have been told to close or only serve takeout. The president admitting late today the country may be headed into a recession. As businesses are forced to layoff millions of workers. And the World Health Organization said there is still not enough testing being done. Eome governors say they dont have enough hospital beds. There is a lot of Important Information to report as we come on the air tonight, and our correspondents are covering it all. Ben tracy is going to lead us off tonight from the white house, and ben, the president says these next two weeks are critical . Reporter thats right. This was a very different President Trump today. Gone was the leader who said the virus will pass and everyone should just relax. Today, the president had stern warnings for all americans. Th
League is the latest coronavirus casualty all games are off until april at the earliest. The us president has declared a National Emergency over the coronavirus pandemic and says likely he will soon likely be tested after possibly being exposed announcement for his a 50000000000. 00 to address this growing crisis that he has actually downplayed hours earlier the World Health Organization said the epicenter had moved from china to europe or italy has the highest number of infections and its spain a sickly are in an emergency as other e. U. Countries close their borders and in 2 hours from now u. S. Travel ban from most of europe will come into effect lets begin our coverage with alan fischer who is in washington d. C. So allan donald trump a spent weeks trying to say that this isnt that big of a deal hes used the term hoax hes tweeted a quick turnaround how effective might this be to really get things done. Well with more than 40 deaths with more than 2000 cases they cleared donald trum
People or assure the American People that we are willing and able to Work Together to get a job done for them. I think this is a really good sign that shows the bipartisan, the working together. We can overcome this virus. Weve done much bigger things before. Tonights vote sets up a senate vote that could happen as early as next week. Also a lastminute scramble at airports around the world. The european travel ban went into effect about two hours ago. Americans racing to get home and europeans rushing out of sfo. 26 countries included in this ban. Heres the map. People from these countries will not be able to enter the u. S. For the next 30 days. This does not apply to u. S. Citizens and green card holders. Nbc bay areas lee lee tan is at sfo with the latenight shuffle for. Lili . Reporter travelers from paris, munich, zurich and other european cities landed just hours before the new travel restrictions went into effect. They said it was surprisingly easy to get through customs, and th
Necessary in order to help reduce the spread of coronavirus kron fours will tran. Is following that part of the story for us this morning, joining us live with the latest on how this is going to be impacting. Everybody will. Its already impacting millions of people on the 7 Million People a lot of them are still out and about but lets face it the bulk of them will be at home look at this and we want to give you this great Vantage Point to show you the traffic and to San Francisco. Yes, thousands of cars clearly but the volume nothing that we would see on a normal Tuesday Morning. But people are still coming in because essential services, including you can see the truck driver because groceries and other goods are heading to the Grocery Store. So you dont have to rush. A lot of places have made drastic changes. Let me show you some video all over the bay area. Restaurants, including San Francisco, san jose all across Alameda County. They are either shutting down our drastically reducing
Covid19 describe what its like to have the illness. Its tuesday, march 17th, 2020. Well have the latest after todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. This is a virus. We can conquer this. But it will be strictly on the basis of our behaviors and what we do. Americans prepare for coronavirus restrictions. President trump says people should prepare for the impact of this pandemic to stretch well into the summer. People are talking about july, august, Something Like that. So it could be right in that period of time where i say wash it washes through. Markets took another big hit because of coronavirus. The dow dropped nearly 3,000 points. Truly sickening day with a horrendous last hour. Its finally dawning on people that were in a real crisis here. Hang in there. Support local. Please. In addition to bars and restaurants being forced to close, gyms and Fitness Centers are temporarily shutting their doors, too. Im against the fact i cant do leg day tomorrow. Thats a sad thing. Despite