By record amounts. And why leadership at a time of crisis is on the ballot in six states tomorrow. Donald trump doesnt have a natural ability to understand the coronavirus. I think there is no confidence in the president. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Well, we are in it now. Today we saw wall street have the worst day since 2008. The dow jones fell over 2,000 points, the biggest singleday drop in history. For context, the next largest point drop was short of 1200 points that happened 11 days ago. Well talk about that in a bit. Despite the president s happy talk, despite him waiving away coronavirus concerns, despite the president tweeting today that there is nothing to see here, it is not worse than the flu despite the cases would quote go to zero soon and his hope it would quote disappear like a miracle. The United States is in a coronavirus outbreak. Right now there are over 600 confirmed cases. For comparison and this is sort of important, this
Hello, everybody. Welcome to nbcs special coronavirus coverage. Im Peter Alexander here in washington, d. C. We begin tonight with the white house response to the pandemic. For weeks at this particular hour of the day the conversation has been dominated by those near daily updates from President Trump and his Coronavirus Task force. But there is no briefing today for the First Time Since easter weekend after just a 21minute briefing yesterday. In which President Trump took no questions from reporters for the first time. All of this coming in the wake of the president s comments on thursday that sparked obviously a considerable uproar. 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. Because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number. It will be interesting to check. So that youre going to have to use medical doctors. But it sounds it sounds interesting to
Flags and thousands expressed their objection to the stay at home orders issued by their governor to try and stop the spread of the coronavirus. Some of the protesters even chanted the maga staple lock her up in reference to the governor who spoke to my colleague about the dangers that the ralliers put their community in. When you see a, you know, political rally, thats what it was yesterday, a political rally like that where people arent Wearing Masks and theyre in close quarters and they are suching one another you know thats precisely what makes this kind of disease drag out and expose more people. And lets be clear. These are organized political rallies. Which like the Old Tea Party protests at the start of president Obamas Administration are magically sprouting up all over the country. The ralliers are physically demonstrating their rejection of social distancing as a way to combat the spread of the coronavirus. Like this group of protesters outside the ohio state house in a photo
Yasmin and louis burgdorf. Dead heat just hours before polling begins. Shows doug jones a ten point lead over roy moore. Included land line and cell phone participating when it was conducted, but the newest Emerson College tracking poll shows moore with a nine point lead over jones. Results of todays election may depend on voter turnout. Some republicans weigh sitting out rather than voting for moore. Monmouth University Poll shows if voter turnout is higher, it will give doug jones an advantage. If it is lower, it will give roy moore a four point advantage. Last nights roy moore returned to campaign trail. Message for undecided republicans. One thing i dont like the media has said. A lot of people who are republicans claim theyre going to vote for me and just ignore what they believe. Im going to tell you, if you dont believe in my character, dont vote for me. Last night, steve bannon helped roy moore deliver closing argument. Former white house chief stat gist railroad against the re
No sleep. We certainly hope you went to bed early last night. Losing just 16 minutes of sleep can ruin your entire day. Fox and friends first starts right now. Losing a little sleep may ruin your day but the best way to start it right here on fox and friends first this friday morning. It is april 26th. Thanks for starting your day with us or beginning your weekend. We begin with a fox news alert happening overnight, 1300 migrants escape an Immigration Detention Center in mexico and right now hundreds are on the run is police in right gear try to take back control. Griff jenkins is live with the next steps to protect the southern border. Reporter talk about losing sleep, this is a troubling time mexico is having trouble controlling the mother of all caravans, 1300 migrants mostly cubans escaped on foot from the largest shelter in National Migration center, they were able to get 700 back with 600 remaining on the loose. It is the largest ever for a federal police, and brandnew for having