Threatening to halt much needed checks to millions of americans. Desperate times. Some hospitals now forcing two patients to share a single ventilator this morning a look inside one of new yorks busiest hospitals where doctors are doing anything they can to fight the virus. Those cases plus danger zone, deaths in louisiana. The dramatic spike blamed on new orleanss most iconic celebration. People werent only catching beads here, they were catching the coronavirus. Just ahead, desperate plea for help from louisianas governor and the nfl star stepping up in a big way. Drew brees joins us live january 27th, 2020 from nbc news, this is a special edition of today, the coronavirus pandemic with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb hi, everybody, good morning. Welcome to today. It is friday morning thank you for being with us. Im home again hoda, its been a lot week a lot of developments and that continues. A busy morning. Major developments on the coronavirus. The 85,000 cases in the u. S. , now t
Quarantine it, will be a pretty strong enforcement of quarantine. The key is you have to have separation. We have to have separation or this thing takes longer to go away. But the real, really important, and i think you can say this for your country, i think we can say it for a lot of countries, for all countries hope fullly it is going a way. We want it to go away with very, very few deaths. You know, we call it cases, how many cases do you have . Relative to other countries we have very few cases. Relative to certain of major countries that really have a bigger problem than us. Interestingly i think we have the greatest doctors in the world. We offered iran assistance. Iran is having a tremendous problem and we have offered iran assistance if they would like it. We will help them. We would be glad to help them. Reporter mr. President , pentagon determined that iranian backed militia fired rockets that killed two american solders in iraq. Should they expect a response . I would rather
Now, latest numbers. The house is preparing to vote on multiple dollar package. What you need to know coming up. The nba suspending season, suspending season until further notice. March madness to be played without fans. Selloff extending across the globe. European markets deep in the red followed by travel announcement by President Trump. 1. 7 . Cac quarante down 258 and dax in germany lower by 588. Almost 6 . Italy tightening lockdown even further allowing Grocery Stores and pharmacies to stay open. The European Central bank out with latest Rate Decision this morning. We will have that for you as soon as it hits the tape. Investors are looking for news of stimulus to battle the Economic Impact of coronavirus. In asia red across the board. The shanghai composite down 1 and a half percent but japan worst performer down 4 and a half percent. Lets check Interest Rates right now. We are talking about a decline of 15 and a half basis points on the 10year yield now sitting at. 718 . This, t
A lot of people say we were due for for selloff and people taking money off the table. The nasdaq ending in the green and positive territory for the years. In a few hours President Trump an medical members of his Coronavirus Task force will hold a News Conference at the white house. Well bring you any headlines from the president this hour. Fox Business Team coverage. Kristina partsinevelos on floor of new york stock exchange. Phil flynn is watching the action in oil and gold at the cme. Edward lawrence is on capitol hill. Blake burman at the white house. That is a lot of people. Well start with blake. Reporter melissa, we heard from the president he would be having a News Conference as he put it at 6 00 tonight. However we learned from the white house moments ago the president will be joined with members of the Coronavirus Task force for a News Conference at 6 30. Will do it in the brady Briefing Room. If that happens, that will be a first for the president , stepping into the Briefin
White house whistleblower complaint over the president s phone call with the leader of ukraine, and questions grow about this new narrative. A white house coverup of that phone call. We take that on and debate it. Also on the show the 2020 democrat roadmap for the white house getting clearer by the way and its getting different. Democrats are dodging important questions about how their policies will slam americas pocketbook. Tonight wall street anxiety grow s over a president Elizabeth Warren, and democrats now blast the bold and wildly out there, new idea by Elizabeth Warren. A Big Government push to take over a giant economic sector that powers both growth and Consumer Confidence. That story tonight. A shouting match broke out between former i. C. E. Director tomorrow as homan, and representative, weve got more on how thomas homan refused to be shutdown and he fought back. Well ask a local sheriff who just met with the president all about that and weve got another Trump Victory on th