Mountain and pacific, thats 202 7488001. We welcome your comments by text. Thats 202 7488003. Nd on twitter we are cspanwj your Facebook Comments are welcome, journal cspan. Org facebook. Com cspan. Members of congress, as we know, saying that the house will be back until may 4. Our capitol hill producer theted yesterday about white house plans, a 10 00 a. M. Conversation with the members of the house. At 11 00 a. M. , president hosting a phone call with members of the senate. Cnbc posting yesterday about the president s briefing and his indication that the u. S. Has passed the pico coronavirus outbreak. Peak of coronavirus outbreak. Host the report says that President Trump says the u. S. Has passed the peak of the infected asich has we mentioned more than 632,000 people in america. We will update those numbers for you momentarily. Heres what the president said yesterday in his briefing. [video clip] American Society is engaged and mobilized in a war against a invisible enemy. We must
How to get businesses back up and running once stayathome orders are eventually lifted. What they are using to help the local economy. Well, good morning. And welcome to mornings on 2, the 9 00. We are looking at a live picture. Dark clouds in the background there. As a matter of fact, frank and claudine, who are filling in for mike and gasia, good morning to you. The weather good morning. It has made it so you want to go outside but you still have to do practice social distancing. How do you do that claudine. Tr less popular, i think. I went on a walk. [ captioners transitioning ] it has changed big time here unless you are really far inland or to the north. We have a lot of low clouds and thats the may grade. Water temperatures 5255. All you need is a system coming down the coast. That will continue tonight. Tomorrow maybe coazzle. Remember those 80s they are on hiatus. Santa cruz 75 and the gilroys 84. Temperatures coming way down in morning drizzle cooler with the mix of fog toward
That nobody would have ever thought possible. It has been incredible. That is why the numbers are so far much better. We want to keep it that way. If you look at the original projections, if we did nothing, it would be disasterous. If we, we decided to do something, we closed it down. Had no choice t was a good move. That was a good move. The early china move was a good move. Early europe move was a good move. We did a lot of good moves. Closing it down was a big statement, an important thing, but were looking to have far viewer deaths than originally thought and i think were heading in that direction but it is too early to talk about it. I dont even want to talk about it now because we want to work and, i think that people are doing an incredible job. The doctors, the nurses, the firefighters, the police, all medical people, what theyre doing, the bravery theyre displaying is just incredible. Every citizen should take immense pride in the selflessness and all of the courage and compas
Joining us now this morning on washington journal is dr. John andrews. Andrus who is an adjunct professor of Global Health at George Washington university. Your take on the president s announcement yesterday after the grim forecast, president is extending the social distancing limits until the end of april. What do you make of that move . I think thats excellent. I think the evidence has to be in the drivers seat and i have to commend him for taking that action. Host let me show you the Johns Hopkins statistics that are out there. Total confirmed cases around the world approaching 750,000. Total deaths approaching 35,000. We have been reviewing the u. S. Numbers this morning. The numberssee in and recent trends and other news from recent days. Put this in perspective for us. When i personally try to put this in perspective i think about my 35 years working in Global Health and there are two events that i think i use personally as touchstones in dealing with this current crisis. One is
Is an emergency hospital. It is a partnership between state and federal government. I want to thank them very much for what they have done. The army corps of engineers did a fantastic job thing in and getting things set up as quickly as possible. It will become operational today. We will start to run the facility and we will take it from there. Let me go through a couple of facts. You seee we are today the number of people testing continues to go up. We want to test and find the positives. We want to find the positives so we can isolate and stop the transmission. We tested 14,000 people yesterday. Out and the to go total number of quiches is 66,000 cases is 66,000. Those numbers are daunting, to be sure. It is continuing to move across the state of new york. There is only one county now that does not have a covid case. Anyone who says the situation is in new york city only is a state of denial. You see this virus move across the state. You see it move across the nation. There is no ame