Pres. Trump thank you very much , everyone. Thank you. Beautiful day in the rose garden. Appreciate everybody being here. I would like to provide an update to the American People on several decisive new actions we are taking in our vigilant effort to combat and ultimately defeat the coronavirus. We have been working very hard on this, we have made tremendous progress. When you compare what we have done to other areas of the world, it is pretty incredible. Thet of that had to do with early designation and closing of the borders. As you know, europe was just designated as a hot right now. And we closed that border while ago, so i was lucky, through talent or luck, call it whatever you want, but through a very collective action and shared sacrifice, national determination, we will overcome the threat of the virus. I announced wednesday night, following the advice of our medical professionals, who are doing a tremendous job and we appreciate it very much, that we are suspending the entry o
Hardest. This action will give them maximum flexibility to use the guard against the virus without having to worry about costs or liability and freeing up state resources to protect the health and safety of the people in their state. The federal government has deployed hundreds of tons of supplies from our National Stocks pile to locations with the greatest need in order to assist in those areas. I approved the state of new yorks request for a major disaster declaration, something which Governor Cuomo has been asking for and which i agree. We had it done in very rapid fashion. We approved this on friday evening and were working very, very hard to get all of these things, not only signed up but completed and finished and win. The request from the state of washington for a major disaster declaration was approved just a little while ago. Went through the process and we moved it very quickly. The request from the state of california was just received. We will have it approved very quickly.
Is working on billions of allars of aid to help salve plundering economy. Even elections are being affected. Of of this is in the hope keeping coronavirus from getting worse. Our question for you this morning, what do you think about President Trumps declaration of a National Emergency on covid19 . Late, or soon, too justintime . We are going to open up regional lines this morning. If you are in the eastern or central time zones your telephone number is going to be 202 7488000. If you are in the mountain or pacific time zones we want to hear from you at 202 7488001. Thisve a special line open morning. This will be a line for medical professionals. If you are in the medical field we want to know what you are seeing out there. If you are in the medical field we want to hear from you at 202 7488002. Keep in mind you can always text. S at 202 7488003 and we are always reading on social media. This now, late last night the house of representatives passed a billiondollar aid package for figh
Overnight. Americans overseas scrambling to get out. I just want to be home and were hopefully going to get there. Delta slashing flights, apple shutting down stores worldwide. Theme parks closing their doors and shoppers rushing stores to buy essentials as coronavirus cases arrived in 49 states. Were live with how to prepare and how to protect yourself. Today, saturday, march 14, 2020. From nbc news, this is today. With peter alexander, Kristen Welker and dylan dreyer. Welcome to today. Thank you for joining us on this saturday morning. You might notice our digs look different this morning. To try to limit our travel for us and our team, we decided to stay put in washington, d. C. For todays show. Thats right. We wanted to follow the advice of Health Officials and do our part. Most important,ly, we want to make sure you have your information. The way were greeting each other. Weve got a lot of news to get to. We want to start with the overnight headlines. A few hours ago, the house pa
Washington journal live at 7 00 eastern thursday morning. Join the discussion. Tonight on cspan, President Trump gives an update on the coronavirus outbreak. That is followed by canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and british Prime Minister Boris Johnson on how their countries are responding to the global pandemic. And later, the World Health Organization provides the latest numbers on confirmed coronavirus cases. In response to the coronavirus outbreak, President Trump announced he was invoking defense production act to have American Industries start manufacturing medical equipment but is in short supply. The administration also announced the suspension of foreclosures and evictions until the end of april, and a temporary ban on nonessential travel at the u. S. Canada border. I would like to begin by announcing some important developments in our war against the chinese virus. The chinese virus. We will be invoking the defense production act just in case we need it. In other words i