His absolute priority and he is getting working already in the next 24 hours hell be naming a corona virus taskforce that he will be sitting up he has been advised by various experts for a long period of time now among them ron klain who was the a boat and barack obama but we understand as well that this task force is going to be headed by beck murphy whos a former said Surgeon General appointed by obama and then fired by donald trump in 2018 as well as a former commissioner of the food and Drug Administration David Kessler so this is really a heavyweight team that will be advising biden and which will form part of his Coronavirus Task force as he and his. Vice president elect come heris go forward but biden has made very clear through his campaign and hes made very clear since he was spoke as president elect that he believes that the way to combat the pen did make is to follow the science. And to find donald trump has refused to concede defeat and is preparing for a series of legal fi
The numbers have been in the millions for weeks after weeks. We can actually say its worse than we first thought. Take a look for yourself. Not only does 6. 6 million americans file for Unemployment Benefits last week. The new estimates say in the first week of the shutdown, theyve had too revise that number way upwards. It turns out one of the very first things that American Business did in the face of the coronavirus was fire workers. This is the largest number of americans all tolled, receiving Unemployment Benefits in history. Next weeks numbers will likely be bad as well. We know a lot of employees inem. The companys ceo accepting out a memo that reads today we will leave 1,000 people go and furlough approximately 1,100 more. Lets take you outside new york city. You mentioned marcus, more positive movement on the dow. The s p 500 up 23 from its coronavirus lows. Now, there were positive moves this morning as the Federal Reserve announced new maneuvers to get money to banks and ban
Departments dead line itself, to determine bed capacity and covid19 testing. Bob, i know you were listening to that press conference. Tell us a little more about it. Reporter well, the county says its expandible and elastic when i comes to thi beds opened and available in kante scholar ra county. Is that number going to be enough if we do see a surge of covid19 cases . The county Operations Emergency Center wrapped up this News Conference about 30 minutes ago. They announced two new dashboards on the Public Health we believe site, you mentioned, which lets the county know in terms of bed capacity and covid19. Heres the latest numbers as of march 31st. You can see they have over 9 aqueued beds available, just over 90 icu beds, close to 1,500 surge beds. These are beds that theyve added because of this crisis. That includes 250 of the Santa Clara County convention center. They have just under 400 ventilators. Again, thats as of march 31st. As of yesterday, the county labs, commercial lab
Hydroxy chloraquin. It is used to fight malaria. He says it could hold a great promise and could be a game changer. The nice part of it is its been around for a long time so we know if things dont go as planned, its not going to kill anybody. When you go with a brandnew drug. Its a powerful drug in different forms and its shown very encouraging, very, very encouraging early results. Now, its important to know the fda says while the drug is approved to treat malaria, it is not aproed to treat coronavirus yet. And it still needs to undergo clinical trials. Back here in the bay area, some nurses are saying they dont have enough of the personal protective gear they need to serve patients and their hospitals not doing enough to change that nbc bay area Chris Sanchez is joining us live with what the nurses want sand the response from the hospital. Kri kris. Well, hi there, marcus. Reporter they are saying they have to ask for personal masks. They are getingng simple surgic masks and asked to
Meltdown at home just ahead, what is being done to keep your health and your money safe tearful tribute. I miss you, all of you, every day. I love you Vanessa Bryant makes her first public appearance since the loss of kobe and gianna, to lead an emotional and starfilled celebration of life. Kobe was my dear friend he was like a little brother this morning, the powerful tributes to a father and daughter gone too soon, as one of the event speakers joins us exclusively. Those stories, plus, faceoff. Joe biden and Bernie Sanders running neck and neck in South Carolina ahead of tonights debate from hidden to hero. Tributes pour in for the groundbreaking woman who changed nasa and to the rescue. Good samaritans saved a unconscious woman who plunged into a Florida Canal jump out. Inside the race against time with a happy ending. Today, tuesday, february 25th, 2020 from nbc news, this is today, with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hey, everybody welcom