Trace gallagher 1 00 p. M. , and updating you on the latest developments around covid19. The latest numbers indicate cases are growing exponentially. At this hour, we know more of 40,000 confirmed cases in our country and i believe 610 people have died. Prediction from the Surgeon General it will get worse throughout the week. In washington monday, second procedural vote on a 2 trillion rescue plan failing to pass congressional muster and democrats argued the package is tilted towards the corporate veil of the nonAmerican Workers and the fate of the stimulus still uncertain. At the same time, president hence he wants to see americans back at their jobs and a lot want sooner than the period suggested by doctors. Is he looking for acid solution to save lives the 112020 games will certainly be put on hold to my. Or nations expected to follow suit. 6 of all cases in the world are there in the governor calls for emergency medical procedures as hospitals report their overflowing with patient
Tomorrow 8 p. M. Our town hall. Now over to chris cuomo. Appreciate it. All good. Im chris cuomo. We need to fight through as much of the uncertainty as we can. I know youre asking how did this go from 15 days to hearing about plans for more than 18 months . And yes, we are now hearing that the young arent in the clear. We are seeing cases pop up abroad and here too and some of them are bad cases. What changed . Heres the good news. We have the nations top coronavirus medic, dr. Fauci is here tonight. Okay . Hes a trusted source for information. Hes always been straight with me. Ive known him a long time. We also have obama Homeland Security chief jeh johnson here. Another trusted source. What does he say about what we can do to build capacity . How big a problem are we facing . He knows. And Dallas Mavericks owner and business titan mark cuban weighing in to help us understand whats going on in the markets and what he wants you to know about what the right and wrong fixes are Going Fo
New york, receiving additional help. President trump deploying 1000 military personnel as oregon and china sent 1000 ventilators to the state. We say good morning on palm sunday, im jillian mele. Along with pete hegseth and Griff Jenkins. Pete thank you. Well get to the aspects of and parallels of palm sunday. It is holy day for people on this sunday. Normally people heading to church but not today. Griff we have great guests coming up. We have congressman devin nunes. We have congressman Jeff Van Drew. We have nfl star ben watson. The president talking with the nfl yesterday. We have got the doctors full on deck, you see them right there, neshiwat, safire and siegel. Well take answers and try to get them to you as best we can. Jillian u. S. Recording most number deaths so far in 24 hour period. That is the highest weve seen. This is as we refined people every day right now this to be expected until we hit the apex, until we hit the threshold we start to see the curve flatten were goin
I would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by easter. Easter is a very special day for me and i see it sort of in that timeline that im thinking about and i say wouldnt it be great to have all of the churches full . I think Easter Sunday and youll have packed churches all over our country. I think it would be a beautiful time and its just about the timeline that i think is right. Today images poured in from across the country of what easter looked like in the age of social distancing. And clearly, they are nothing like President Trump hoped they would be. And now as the president eyes another benchmark, 19 days away, the Washington Post reports one of the biggest obstacles to the virus response is trump himself. Advisors spent significant time to manage the president and his whims from successfully dissuading him from seeking to reopen the country at easter to tempering his impulse to push unproven drugs as miracle elixirs and we have a window how we arrived at th
It is wednesday, may 6th. Im yasmin vossoughian. We have a lot to cover on this morning. Despite the u. S. Death toll from coronavirus now topping 71,000, the president continues his push to reopen the country. Nbc news has learned that over the coming weeks, the white house plans to wind down the Coronavirus Task force. Two sources saying the tasks for no longer meets every day. And discussions in the situation room have been shorter recently. Doctors, deborah birx and dr. Anthony fauci are still expected to be at the white house each day. But other members of the task force may not appear as frequently. Vice president mike pence told nbc yesterday that there is no set date for the task force to formally complete its work. But the panel expects to begin shifting its response back to individual federal agencies later this month or in early june. And heres what President Trump had to say about the task force just yesterday. So, i think as far as the task force, mike pence and the task f