Inspector generals hearing on the administrations response to the coronavirus. You are watching live coverage on cspan. Who has served under four president ial administrations, both democratic and republican. It issued a the hhs ofort covering the gravity challenges hospitals have faced during the Coronavirus Crisis from caring for patients to obtaining protective gear for staff and stocking basic medical supplies. This report was intended to help policymakers understand these challenges and to help hospitals overcome them, which benefits us all. Unfortunately, President Trump personally attacked this grant for no valid reason. Andcriticisms were baseless it seems clear that he just wanted everyone to pretend that there were no challenges in our Health Care System. Of course, we all know that was wrong. Grimmm should not have had to endure these personal, senseless attacks. Nevertheless, we thank her for tolerating them with dignity washing continued serving the American People. Hsit o
Good Tuesday Morning, everyone. Theres hope this morning that we may be starting to flatten the curve of this coronavirus crisis. But experts say were still in the middle of this historic fight. Heres a map this morning. The u. S. Death toll is approaching 11,000 people with more than 4,000 deaths in new york and over 1,000 in new jersey followed by michigan and louisiana. Officials in california say cases there may not peak until next month. This morning the New York Times reports President Trumps trade adviser Peter Navarro warned back in january the virus could cause hundreds of thousands of deaths. Also overnight we lumped a cathedral in new york may be used as an emergency field hospital. But there is some encouraging news. The cdc director says thanks to social distancing hes now expecting a much lower death toll than many feared. Abcs andrea fujii begins our coverage. Reporter a look inside the now largest hospital in the nation. New york citys javits center, once a Convention C
The crypt will be used as a staging agent. Its dean says cathedrals were often used this way during the plagues in the middle ages. For the third sunday in a row so many americas churches have been closed and its particularly hard this week, holy week leading up to easter. Not for one church in baton rouge, louisiana, where more than 1,200 people turned out for palm sunday services. The churchs pastor, tony spell, spoke business abcs linsey davis, telling her why he believes his congregants are safe. We screen everyone who comes through the door. We check their temperatures. We ask them a series of questions that has been given to us from the center of disease and control, i believe. So we disinfect our building on a daytoday basis because we operate seven days a week. So we would have to prove that people who have only left their homes and come to our church got the sickness here. We practice better social distancing in our sanctuary than is being practiced in the hundreds of stores t
this is new day weekend with victor blackwell and christi paul. beautiful start to the day across atlanta. good morning to you. and this morning, we re going to balance the happy talk and the sunny optimism we re getting from the white house, with the reality in the race for this vaccine. researchers around the world are rushing to develop this working coronavirus vaccine. president trump, though, formally unveiled his administration s operation warp speed. its objective is to finish developing and then to manufacture and distribute a proven coronavirus vaccine, as fast as possible. again, we d love to see if we could do it prior to the end of the year. i think we re going to have some very good results coming in very quickly. you hear the president there doubling down on his goal for a vaccine by the end of the year. it s an aggressive time line, most health experts are claiming it s just unrealistic at best. potentially dangerous at worse. more on my scientists be
worldwide there are more than 5.5 million cases and almost 350,000 deaths. also breaking, the cdc has just posted new guidance advising that antibodies tests used to determine if people have been infected with the coronavirus might be wrong up to half, up to half of the time. this hour, the presumptive presidential nominee, joe biden, talks to cnn s dana bash about the breaking coronavirus news and the race for the white house. he has some very strong words for president trump who mocked biden for wearing a mask. the former vice president says his rival is a fool who, quote, is stoking death. it s biden s first face-to-face interview since the coronavirus pandemic upended the 2020 presidential campaign and it s coming up in just a few minutes right here in the situation room. first, the latest on the breaking news out of the centers for disease control and prevention. our national correspondent jason carroll is working the story for us. very disturbing news, jason, about