Do i look bright and cheery this morning . It is good to see you. To my right, the head of empire college, our Health Commissioner and to my left our budget director. Lets talk to you about where we are today. This is a situation which none of us have ever seen before and it manifests itself in many different ways. There is economic anxiety, people are out of work, what does this mean . Unemployment insurance, will it cover the bills . There is isolation. There is fear of the unknown. There is misinformation. You put it all together, and it is very disorienting to say the least. If you are feeling disoriented, it is not you. It is everyone. And it is everywhere. And it is with good cause. Today is saturday. You know how i knew today was saturday . Because my alarm clock said saturday when i woke up. But if you drive around, it doesnt seem like saturday. Saturdays are the day that people are off work, except that people were off work yesterday. Saturday is a day traffic is lighter, but
The increase on the trajectory of cases continues to climb. 76, 81. A couple of updates that i would like to make to the local Health Providers. We want to anticipate the situation. We talked yesterday about planning forward, getting ahead of it, that we have been behind on this virus from day one. Rather than be reactive, be proactive, get ahead of it. Local Health Providers should be watching what is going on in different parts of the state and anticipating what is going to happen. This is going to be a phenomenon of a rolling apex. We talk about the rolling apex, the top of the curve. The top of the curve will occur at different times in different places. The curve is a function of the rate of spread, the rate of spread. You will see different curves. You see it all across the country. It started in washington. Now you see new york, chicago, new orleans, parts of california. That rolling apex is happening across the country. It will also happen across new york. The current projectio
Amy europe is the epicenter of the coronavirus. Spain has now thehe second most cases in europe following italy. Spspain had more than 2000 new cases in the last 24 hours and hasnumber of deaths doubled. We will go to madrid for an update. In San Francisco takes the most severe measures in the United States in response to covid19, telling its 7 million residents to shelter i in place. We will go inside the bay area same quinton state prison where two prison blacks are under partial quarantine. We will speak with incarcerated journalist j Juan Moreno Haines. We are well awaware of whatas happening outside the walls abstain quinton, so now when w w house,is coronavirus and worldwide, there is a natural anxiety that exists over here about what is going to happen to us when the public brings this illness to us. Amy with 2. 3 Million People locked in u. S. Prisons and jails, the u. S. Has the largest proportional prison population in the world. Then to seattle to meet a 17yearold boy behind
Package to see what the white house wants to lead on. Paid sick leave is something the white house floated here as well as temporarily targeting tax relief for Certain Industries. That is another thing. Senator Chuck Grassley that is a big thing for him. Representative matt gaetz was actually told later today, that he has to quarantine himself. You see the president there going up air force one in florida. Line him is representative matt gaetz. He was told on air force one that he had to isolate himself because he came in contact with that person at cpac. That is exactly what happened. Matt gaetz sat in a different portion of the plane. No one else was with him, isolating himself. Others, representative doug collins, senator ted cruz as well as representative azar or gosar, im sorry, have all quarantined themselves because of the person they came in contact with at cpac there. States, ohio, new york, latest to declare emergencies related to this. The Port Authority director of new york
Thank you very much we just attended a very important Task Force Meeting on the virus, that everybody is talking about all over the world no matter where you go that is whats on peoples minds and we are going to take care of it happened to be taken care of the American Public and the american economy, we are going to be asking tomorrow we are seeing the senate. We are going to be meeting with past republicans rich mcconnell everybody, and discussing a possible payroll tax cut or relief substantial relief very substantial relief it is a big number. We are going to be talking about hourly wage earners getting help so that they can be in a position where that nikki never miss a paycheck. Will be working with companies and small companies, Large Companies a lot of companies. So that they dont get penalized for something that is not their fault. It is not their fault, our countrys fault. This was something that we were thrown into and we have been handling it very well. The big decision was