To, quote, go out and do what you have to do. Were also following breaking pandemic news. The u. S. Death toll has topped 184,000 people and more than 6 million confirmed cases. And now a National Institutes of health panel says theres no evidence backing the use of convalescent plasma touted by President Trump to treat coronavirus patients. Lets get more on the breaking news with cnn White House Correspondent Jeremy Diamond. The president s focus is on the unrest in kenosha, not the Police Shooting of jacob blake. Reporter no question, jim. President trump spent nearly three hours on the ground today in kenosha, wisconsin. And he did not say jacob blakes name once. Instead the president focused on surveying the damage of some of the riots that have happened in that city as well as meeting and thanking Law Enforcement there. The president also taking credit falsely for deployment of the National Guard there that was ordered by the states governor. When the president was, though, jim, a
Assistance is available to hourly workers. The dow plunged more than 2,000 points yesterday. The coronavirus pandemic is affect everyday life for people around the world. A u. S. U. S. Health officials are moving to mitigate the impact in various communities in the capital in the middle of the financial crisis. The s. E. C. Has told employees to work from home. More passengers will be unloaded from that grand princess cruise stip ship today. And nearby Santa Clara County announced a ban on large public gatherings until the end of this month. Overseas, all of italy is on lockdown. Thats 60 Million People ordered to stay out of Public Places for the next three weeks. Landmarks like the coliseum in rome look like a ghost town. Overnight, chinas president visited the epicenter of the outbreak in wuhan. President xi wearing a mask while meeting with medical workers. All of this as the first polls opening the second round of super tuesday primaries in six states. Lets begin with the coronavi
Illinois. We will have more on that. But we start tonight with an Important Message from the president of the United States. Take a look. So, its 15 days from yesterday. Well see what happens after that. If we do this right, our country and the world, frankly, but our country can be rolling again pretty quickly. Pretty quickly. We have to fight that invisible enemy that is i guess unknown, but we are getting to know it a lot better. Sean invisible enemy. The president is right. As we speak, the entire world is in a fight against that enemy. Now, major financial help is on the way. The white house, actively working on an aggressive almost trillion dollar stimulus package including payroll tax cuts, money for Small Businesses, Emergency Assistance to Major Industries that are directly impacted by this virus. That would mean, yeah, the Airline Industry, cruise industry, treasury secretary said that the president wants americans to receive checks within two weeks. Look, we are americans. W
Payments of 500 per child. The vote prompting a sigh of relief from Senate Leaders and President Trump. The strange new reality has forced our nation to Something Like wartime. A proud moment of the United States senate. And for the country, and were going to win this war. Hopefully we can have ultimately the same bipartisanship. President trump send to bill to my desk for signature without delay. Ill sign it immediately. Sandra the u. S. Seeing its most deadly out break so far. The deaths are past 1,000. Around 70,000 confirmed cases nationwide. We begin with Fox Team Coverage for you this morning. Kristin fisher is standing by at the white house. We begin with Jonathan Serrie live in atlanta this morning. Good morning, sandra. New york remains the epicenter of the outbreak in the u. S. Accounting for approximately 60 of new cases. Governor andrew cuomo is urging the federal government to flood his state with emergency medical equipment which then can be passed on to other states afte
Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is wednesday, april 1st. Along with joe, willie and me we have former white house adviser for Health Policy professor and advice proboast, doctor ezekiel emanuel. And cofounder and ceo of axios, jim vandehei joins us as well. Joe, that press briefing yesterday was dark. There was some hard truths that came forward in one big dose for the United States of america. That is a press briefing that Health Care Providers and doctors and scientists begged, begged the white house to give two weeks ago. To tell americans the truth. That is actually the briefing the Intel Community begged donald trump to give in january and february. They saw this coming even several weeks ago, doctors i know very well, scientists, Health Care Professionals were saying, mr. President , 100,000, 200,000, 500,000 people could die from this virus if you dont start moving. The president didnt want to hear it. This is, after all, a president who talked about one person dying