Weeks. So think about that, right . My brother is smart. He was acting out of love. Luckily we caught it early enough. But its my family, its your family, its all of our families. And this virus is that insidious, and we have to keep that in mind. Keep in mind matildas law. Remember who is vulnerable here. And protect them. You want to go out and act stupid for yourself, thats one thing. But your stupid actions dont just affect you. You come home, you can infect someone else, and you can cause a serious illness or even death for them by your actions. And people have to really get this and internalize it. Because it can happen to anyone. Two weeks with my mother and christopher, today is a very different situation. Last point, there was nothing i have said different since i started these briefings. And theres nothing that we have learned that is different since i have started these briefings. You know what to do. We just have to do it. It is individual discipline to stay at home. Thats
The u. S. Acrosstheboard, 32000 more cases over just the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of cases to a little bit more than 278,000. Further more the number of death s accelerated by more than 1,100 in just the last 24 hours to a little bit north of 7,150 individuals. Now, we were hoping that there was going to be at least a decline in the rate of increase, but in one problematic country after another, including our own , that is not the case, and it is especially not the case both in new york city and new york state. If new york state were to carve out an individual country, it be the third worst hit on the planet in terms of cases, and accelerating when it comes to the number of deaths. Lets get the latest on all of that from jackie behind rib following it all from the upper rest side in majority in hat an. Jackie . Reporter well, neil nearly 40 of all the cases in the United States come from right here in new york, 103,000 cases in this state as of yesterday, and the crush
Faster than anything else we can do. Some positive news from California Governor Gavin Newsom yesterday. Two weeks ago, he announced the first statewide stay at home order in the United States. It appears to be paying off. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is friday, april 3rd. Joe will be back on monday. Along with willie and me, we have editor in chief of the atlantic magazine, jeffrey goldberg, former treasury official, and morning joe economic analyst steve rattner. And historian and author of the sole of america and rogers profession eal of the presidenc jon meacham. Well dive into the latest numbers. The cases of coronavirus across the globe have now topped 1 million. The u. S. Added almost 30,000 new cases yesterday, with the death toll now approaching 6,000. New york state added more than 9,000 cases yesterday, totaling more than 92,000. More than half are in new york city. The death toll there increased by 188 last night to more than 1,500 total. Hospitals are stretc
Have moved our show outside, across from the Jacob Javits Convention center in new york city, which is a massive facility on the west side of manhattan, it has been turned into this militarized makeshift hospital to treat covid19 positive patients here in new york. The places enormous, more than 2 million square feet, the u. S. Army corps of engineers, they transform to this facility in about three days time to a hospital to facility that can manage more than 2500 beds at once. It is just extraordinary. Inside that building behind me, the number of beds are way up. If they could go up higher if necessary. But it has made it one of the largest hospitals in the entire United States. At the moment, there are 66 patients being treated inside the facility. Again, run by the u. S. Army. I want to bring in major peter kirkendall, major planner for the u. S. Army and Operations Officer for the javits center. Major pete, good afternoon, thank you so much for your time, give us a status update,
Before the pandemic, 37 million americans struggled with hunger. Now, with unemployment on the rise, so are the number of people dealing with food insecurity. And a third way technology, it could be the solution to flattening the curve and ending social distancing, but at what cost . Velshi starts now. Good morning, im ali velshi. Here are the facts. The total numbers of confirmed cases of covid19 across the globe now more than 1. 2 million, roughly 66,000 people have died. The coronavirus only arrived in the United States in mid january. Now there are almost 310,000 confirmed cases of covid19 here in the u. S. 8,405 people have died. New york continues to be extraordinarily hard hit, reporting 630 deaths and nearly 11,000 new cases in just one day. In total, 3,565 people have died in new york and more than 4,000 remain in intensive care. In a show of support and generosity, oregon is sending 140 ventilators to new york. It comes just in time as the state only has days left before runn