In this crisis. More than 1 million known coronavirus cases worldwide. Any minute now new York Governor Andrew Cuomo will be holding that Daily Press Briefing about the escalating situation in his state. He now says that the Javits Center, that convention center, that Massive Convention center originally intended for nonCovid Patients will now be treating people who have the virus. The governor also warning at the current burn rate, new york will be using every ventilator it has in just six days time. Were also continuing to track the surge in cases across the country. Right now there are more than 246,000 known cases in the United States. Thats more than 29,000 cases than this time yesterday. So far, the virus has killed nearly 6,000 americans. Lets go right to nbcs ron allen. Ron is at mt. Sinai hospital in new york city where medical professionals there are still begging for more supplies. Ron, what are you hearing from those workers there at mt. Sinai . Reporter a lot of emotion, c
Today is what the nations top scientists have to deal with every day, a president who now uses these briefings as a reelection platform, an opportunity to lie, to deflect, to attack, to bully, and cover up his own deadly dismissals of the virus for crucial weeks. According to the president today, all governors are getting everything they need and testing is now and always has been great. Reporters who asked fair questions but didnt kowtow or suck up to this president were attacked and belittled and a special convenient i am was reserved for career official at hhs who he doesnt even know who released a nonpolitical study with extensive interviews with doctors and hospitals across the country describing the lack of the supplies and insufficient testing, and mixed messages theyve budget getting from the federal government, all things that have been reported on. I just have to point out this is not normal. And it matters because this is life and death. If you look at the chart, by the way,
Was on a ventilator was dismissed as disinformation. Then dominic robb, foreign secretary, chaired a 9 15 a. M. Coronavirus war cabinet. Now, at the press conference which was only four hours ago, dominic robb stood there and said the Prime Minister was comfortable, he was in good spirits and was continuing to lead the country. The language was incredibly precise. We did note a deterioration in the sense that originally they were referring to the Prime Ministers condition as mild, and now they were calling his symptoms persistent. But robb maintained the Prime Minister was at the helm, giving instructions when necessary. Then, two or three hours later, we learned the Prime Minister had to be admitted to intensive care on the advice of his doctors. Jake, we now await more information but we do know dominic robb will be deputizing for Boris Johnson, making key decisions in this national emergency. Bianca, obviously we dont know a great deal Prime Ministers condition, but if the British G
30day recommendations of the guidelines, thats essentially what it is. I mean i know its difficult but were having a lot of suffering, a lot of death. This is inconvenient from an economic and personal standpoint but we just have to do it. Thats our major weapon against this virus right now. We dont have a vaccine thats deployable. This is the only thing we have. We can get through it. Sandra First Responders have arrived in new york city from all over the country to tackle the unprecedented amount of 911 phone calls in the city. Fox Team Coverage for you this morning, john roberts has more on the white house response. We begin with David Lee Miller live in new york city for us this morning. Hey, david lee. Sandra, it seems that each day here in new york is worse than the last and today is no exception. Statewide the number of people infected with the coronavirus is now approaching 100,000. Just a short time ago here at mt. Sinai hospital in new yorks east side nurses and other healthc
Pandemic. Also new York Governor Andrew Cuomo will join us to talk about his state which is the current epicenter of this fight. This is our fifth global town hall. If youve seen our previous ones, you know the production has evolved to say the least, along with the guidance from health professionals. Theres no studio audience as we would normally have. Sanjay and i are in different studios as will be all of our guests. At the bottom of the screen youll see our social media scroll. Wed like you to tweet us your questions using the cnn town hall. Leave a comment on the cnn facebook page. A lot of you sent in video questions and were going to try and get to those, as many of those as we can tonight. We also have reports from across the country and around the globe on how those at home and abroad are fighting this virus. We start with where the country is in its fight against the virus. The death count increasing dramatically every day according to Johns Hopkins university, 713 people die