New medical items being made as we speak and purchased. 4. 3 million surgical gowns. 22 million gloves and 8,100 ventilators. We have moved rapidly to mobilize every instrument of american power. This week i invoked the defense production act to compel General Motors to carry out federal contracts for ventilators and i think theyre going to do a great job. I have to say that. Were also working with the major Ventilator Companies in the United States, all big name companies, all companies that do ventilators so they wont need extra time and theyre gearing up and theyll be working 24 hours, around the clock, and they have been. Theyve been doing a fantastic job, to accomplish a historic rampup and a rampup in the kind of numbers were talking about and if we make too many, thats going to be okay because i spoke with the Prime Minister of the u. K. Yesterday, boris johnson, he tested as you know positive and before i even was able to get a word ott of him, he said i said how are you doing,
Especially worrisom worrisome fe with preexisting conditions. There are half a million known coronavirus cases in the United States. Experts say there are likely millions more americans who have or had the virus but have not gotten tested. Steve harrigan is live in atlanta outside of cdc headquarters where they continue to track the spread. Hi, steve. Reporter the u. S. Death toll as of this morning was 20,00 20, up just under 10 in the last 24 hours. Over the past five days, just under 2,000 americans dying each day. Last night, President Trump gave some insight into the decisionmaking process behind the next step to reopen the u. S. Economy. And its going to be its going to be based on a lot of facts and a lot of instinct also. Whether we like it or not, there is a certain instinct to it. But we have to get our country back. People want to get back. They want to get back to work. We have to bring our country back. And so ill be making a decision reasonably soon. Reporter a stay at ho
Reporter we have new details of that incident about the u. S. Reaper drone that was fired on by the iranians on thursday. A senior u. S. Official tells me just minutes after the first distress call went out from the tanker at 6 12 a. M. Local time, the u. S. Military moved an unmanned mq9 reaper drone over the tanker. The drone alived at 6 20 a. M arrived at 6 20 a. M. Local time. At i 6 45 a. M. Local time, prior to the Second Attack on the second tanker, a missile was fired at the u. S. Drone on station over the au pair. Thats a norwegian flagship. It missed. U. S. Officials have assessed it was a modified sa7 surface to air missile fired from irans mainland. It was fired after the u. S. Drone arrived on station to assist the norwegian tanker. Separately, weve learned from u. S. Officials that an american mq9 drone was also shot down over yemen by Iranianbacked Houthi rebels in recent days. The British Government has issued a statement blaming irans revolutionary guard corps for the