Its 4 00 on the east coast. You just heard pleas from the governors of new york, new jersey and michigan. Theyre calling for more equipment and better testing. We may hear more about that in about 60 minutes. Theres a White House Coronavirus Task Force Briefing scheduled for 5 00 p. M. Eastern in is are we stand at this hour. There are more than 130,000 cases nation wide. More than 2200 people have died. New york city is the epicenter of the crisis. Doctors are dealing with 33,000 cases of covid19. The city saw 4,000 new positive tests this weekend and there was a stark warning this morning for other communities across the country. We have areas of the country such as the new york area, well be seeing places like detroit and other cities starting to get into trouble. Where the curve did exactly what i said on this show and other shows some timing a. It putters along and it goes way up. New york saw the largest one day jump in deaths, 237 in just 24 hours. 1,175 more people were hospita
Thats it for us. Thanks for watching. Early start begins now. See you tonight. The first full day of pope francis. Were already talking about it. The start of a new era for catholics around the world. Standoff with a suspected killer. Right now, police think they have the gunman what killed four people surrounded in new york. A skydiver lives to tell about his terrifying plunge, after his parachute failed. That has to be one of the scariest moments ever. I cant imagine. Good morning to you. Welcome to early start. Great to see you this morning. It is thursday, march 14th. Its 5 00 a. M. In the east. Were going to start with pope francis. You know this, is the first morning that anyone has ever said those words. This is the first full day on the job for the first latin american pontiff. He was scheduled to meet with a man he was to replace, pope emeritus benedict. Thats not likely to happen today. He will hold a private mass with the cardinals that elected him at noon eastern at the Sis
[ male announcer ] engine light on . Come to meineke now for a free code scan read and youll say. My money. My choice. My meineke. That is early start for this morning. Starting point with Soledad Obrien starts right now. Welcome. Our starring point this morning, the world welcomes pope francis. He is from the first from the new world. The first jesuit, the first latin american to be elected pontiff. Were live in rome this morning and also in buenos aires to a look at a man who will lead the catholics. One month after a karncarni cruise ship got stuck, another one is stuck as well. We will tell you what passengers are saying right now on their boat. A standoff under way in upstate new york right now. Police surrounding the suspect wanted in a t shooting spree that killed four people. We are live on the scene. Hes a man who may have led to the down fall of mitt romneys president ial campaign. Hear from the bartender who filmed the infamous 47 comment. Well tell you why he did it. Work o
Heardgunshots, lets go. Lets run. We ran through the field. As Law Enforcement headed into saugus, students and staff could be seen rushing out evacuating the school in a now familiar singlefile image. Right to cnns Stephanie Elam in los angeles just southwest of Santa Clarita. What do we know about the victims at this point . Reporter one thing we are learning from a statement put out from the School District where Saugus High School is, they put out a press release and in it said in there that several of the students had been taken to the hospital. So that points to the idea that the people in these hospitals we know right now, there is one female has died at henry Mayo Hospital in valencia, california, and be two males in critical, one male in Good Condition there and another hospital holy providence in mission hills. They were students and they were speakingwhat this implies is all of the people shot may have been saints based and what were seeing from the School District and the s