Welcome to our viewers in the United States and all around the world. This is new day. Its thursday, april 2nd, 6 00 in new york. Step back this morning. Think about how much america has changed in one month. One month ago, there are fewer than 100 confirmed cases of coronavirus. Now 90 of the country is under a stayathome order, 5,000 people have died. Well get a report that could show up to 6 million americans filed for unemployment last week. The president has still not issued a national stayathome order. Five more states did add or expand theirs, including now finally florida. 12 states still have not imposed statewide orders. The message from californias governor, what are you waiting for . The nationwide death toll has doubled in the last three days. New this morning, the stockpile of much needed protective equipment is nearly depleted. President trump says the supplies are being sent directly to hospitals x but governors across the country are reporting critical shortages. New y
Million square kilometers. Today they are focusing on 80. Why that particular area . Reporter its an area that they have looked over before. If you look at the latest map from the search coordinators, the area of interest is within that much bigger zone. Its about, its several hundred kilometers to the east of where the flights route indicated the plane may have gone. If the plane did come down looks as if the drift would have taken any debris towards the east. This is of particular interest. Its where both the chinese have spotted objects in the past few days which have not been relocated by surface vessels or other aircraft looking. Its been searched before. This is the area of greatest interest there. There were two search zones. Todays search is the bridge between those two plus over the search zones that have been looked at before. They are combing over the same sort of area. Thats a sharp focus on the search today and the search continues to ramp up. The australian Prime Minister
Search equipment leaves for the search zone shortly. The next airship leaves in two hours. Search planes will take off and search crews havent retrieved anything so far they see things that are interesting have they picked up anything yet that they can investigate to see if they are part of the plane . Well, there have been some items picked up by sea. We are not clear on whether those are objects that were spotted by the planes. We can tell you that specific item that you were talking about. Those four orange objects have not been retrieved yet. They are intriguing. They are six and a half feet long. They are orange and the pilot when they stepped off of the plane yesterday, said that theet were quite intriguing because they are all together and bright orange. Dont know what that is. There have been a number of items. There is a lot of sea junk out there, jim, very difficult to tell until they are picked up by the sea vessels whether or not they are actually connected to the plane. On
Knowledge as to what happened to flight 370 . New claims coming out claiming the flight was still in the air some four hours longer than previously thought. The revelation could force a further expansion of the search that already spans 27,000 nautical square miles. This as american investigators are on the ground trying to find answers. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning. Im carol costello. Thank you so much for joining me. The search for Malaysia Airlines flight 370, more twists, more doubts. In an investigation that seems mired in confusion, this morning new claims that could vastly stretch the already sprawling search area. The wall street journal reporting an engine on the missing airliner sent data for four hours after the plane vanished from the radar. That means the plane could have traveled another 2500 miles in any direction. Malaysia is dismissing that report, though. Those reports are inaccurate. The last transmission from the aircraft was at 0107 which indicated
From brooke baldwin. We have breaking news from austin, texas, where the annual south by southwest festival takes place. Two people were killed, nearly two dozen injured when a car plowed into a crowd of people waiting outside of a nightclub in downtown austin. The driver, who police say was intoxicated, is now in custody. In just a minute, well talk with an eyewitness to what youre watching right now, but first, rosa flores is following developments. Rosa, what do we know . Well, at this hour, were learning more about how the suspect was apprehended. According to police, this individual was tasered before being taken into custody. Now, we dont know the name of this person, but we already know that he or she faces two counts of capital murder. Multiple people down. Reporter one minute of peril leaves two dead as a driver under pursuit crashes into a crowd of people at south by southwest. People scattered in the streets with serious injuries. Police rushed to the scene, performing cpr a