This is new day with Alisyn Camerota and john berm an. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is new day. Its friday, may 8th, 6 00 in new york. Alisyn is off. Erica hill is in. If im not mistaken, wearing slippers. I am wearing slippers. I forgot to change into my sneakers when i walked out the door. I realized wh but theyre comfortable. This morning is jampacked with news. Some of this historically bad, some just hi tore i can. Were awaiting the release of the april jobs report. Theres simply no doubt this will be the single worst jobs report ever. Economists forecast the u. S. Unemployment rate will soar to 16 and that ten years of jobs gains have been erased in one month. Again, no one has ever seen anything close to this. Were going to cover it from every angle. Also, this morning, more than 75,000 people have now been killed by coronavirus. More than 2,000 new deaths over the last 24 hours. Still, 47 states will be partially reopened by sunday. Ove
Cohen with more on these new details. We already had some studies that showed no benefit from taking this for Covid Patients. What is different about this is that it is large, but shows real danger here. Well, actually, one of the ones we already heard about showed danger. The largest study before this one was published and done by the university at albany in the new York State Department of health and that one showed not only didnt it work, but it increased more than twofold the chances of someone having a heart issue. This new one is much larger. This new one looks at 671 hospitals over six continents. The one before was looking at 25 hospitals. So we have gone from 25 hospitals to 671 hospitals on six continents. This is a very, very large study. And what they found was increased risk of death and increased risk of heart issues. These were hospitalized patients, some quite ill. What President Trump had to say about that issue is, hey, i took it when i when i wasnt sick. And so these
Breaking news from the Associated Press tonight about those Migrant Children on the border taken from their families. The a. P. Puts it this way. Quote, Trump Administration officials have been sending babies and other Young Children forcibly separated from their parents at the u. S. mexico border to at least three what are called tenderage shelters in south texas, the Associated Press has learned. We will have more on that later on in this broadcast. Meantime, the president remains firm about sticking to the zerotolerance policy of separating these families at the border. He said this tonight, quote, Homeland Security secretary nielsen did a fabulous job yesterday at the press conference explaining security at the border and for our country while at the same time recommending changes to obsolete and nasty laws which force family separation. We want heart and security in america. Secretary nielsen was treated to a less enthusiastic review when she chose to dine tonight in washington at
Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 516 of the Trump Administration, and we have breaking news from the Associated Press tonight about those Migrant Children on the border taken from their families. The a. P. Puts it this way. Quote, Trump Administration officials have been sending babies and other Young Children forcibly separated from their parents at the u. S. mexico border to at least three what are called tenderage shelters in south texas, the Associated Press has learned. We will have more on that later on in this broadcast. Meantime, the president remains firm about sticking to the zerotolerance policy of separating these families at the border. He said this tonight, quote, Homeland Security secretary nielsen did a fabulous job yesterday at the press conference explaining security at the border and for our country while at the same time recommending changes to obsolete and nasty laws which force family separation. We want heart and
Shelters in south texas, the Associated Press has learned more on that later on in the broadcast. Meantime, the president remains firm about sticking to the zero tolerance policy of separating these families at the border. Homeland security secretary nielsen did a fabulous job yesterday at the press conference explaining security at the boarder and for our country and recommending changes to obsolete and nasty laws which force family separation. We want heart and security in america. Secretary nielsen treated to a less enthusiastic review when she chose to dine in washington at a Mexican Restaurant of all places. [ chanting ] shame on nielsen, shame on trump. The secretary was escorted out to a waiting suv. The Immigration Crisis at the southern border testing the relationship between the president and his party. The pictures of Migrant Children taken from their children are fuelling new fears amongst republicans on the impact on voters in november. Tonight the president met with House