Amazon. Cnns nick watt is joining me from los angeles with more on how the country is coping. Nick . Reporter as you say, brianna, it is a question of capacity and supplies right now. We just heard from michigan that one of the biggest Hospital Service providers there is nearing capacity. We just heard from six acute Care Hospitals on long island that say theyre now running out of isolation gowns. New york right now is the focus. It will shift, but for now, new york is the frontline. There are field hospitals in manhattan, College Dorms being converted, upping capacity and Navy Hospital ship coming soon, but new york is still 20,000 beds shy of what they say theyll need. I think were looking at hotels, were looking at former nursing homes. Reporter they had 4,000 ventilators. Bought 7,000 more. Fema delivered 4,000, but new york is still 15,000 short. Were exploring splitting where one ventilator could do two patients. Reporter opening some streets to pedestrians to reduce density in c
President ial election. If you have not yet experienced hard times in the community are you live, it became increasingly clear that this country is indeed headed for very hard times. The United States set a new single day record for coronavirus deaths today, and one prominent White House Correspondent came away from the long White House Briefing tonight saying the president seems scared. Inside and indeed the president , darker in tone and demeanor warned a surge is coming. He said the next two weeks have been there are tough. He called the coronavirus a plague. He went on to assign blame, however, give voice to his own victimization and attempted to change recent history. For starters he said, whatever reason new york got off to a late start then added new york and with a straight face, youve seen what happens when you get off to a late start. About ventilators, he said his team has done a great job, he said some people frankly think they need them and dont need them. He relitigated h
More than 1400 deaths reported just today. Tonight, nearly 96 of the u. S. Population is living under orders to stay at home or shelter in place. That works out to nearly 315 million americans out of a population of 328 million. But eight states are still resisting imposing stayathome orders, despite Anthony Fauci advising that all states should do so. President trumps refusing tonight to issue a national stayathome order, saying hell leave it up to the individual governors. And we had this bit of breaking news late on a friday night. Under cover of a coronavirus, the president settling scores with a perceived enemy from his impeachment. A source on capitol hill telling cnn moments ago that the president has removed Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson, the official who told congress about the anonymous whistleblower complaint that sparked the house impeachment proceedings against trump. I want to get right to cnn White House Correspondent john harwood and cnn just
Administration is attempting to pull off is for between 100,000 and 240,000 americans to die from the virus. Thats right, 240,000. Apparently that is what his administration meant when they said the virus was contained, when the president said it would go away like a miracle, hundreds of thousands dead. Andrew cuomo said today the apex of the crisis in the state is still two to three weeks away and he stressed we are still chasing the virus. And we have been behind it from day one, since it got here. And weve been playing catchup. You dont win playing catchup. We have to get ahead of it. We are behind because the president and his administration did not take the virus seriously from the start. They ignored internal warnings from their own administration. We knew what was coming. We saw it in china. But the president down played the china and dismissed the threat. Two months ago, senator chris murphy of connecticut, senators pressed Administration Officials to request emergency funding
Attempting to pull off, is for between 100,000 and 240,000 americans to die from the virus. Thats right, 240,000. Apparently that is what his administration meant when they said the virus was contained when the president said it would go away like a miracle. Hundreds of thousands dead. In new york state, the epicenter of the virus, there are now more than 75,000 confirmed cases, with thor than 1,500 deaths and more than 10,000 hospitalized. More than 1,000 have died in new york city alone. New yorks Governor Andrew Cuomo said today that the apex of the crisis in the state is still two to three weeks away, and he stressed that we are still chasing the virus. And we have been behind it from day one, since it got here. And weve been playing catchup. You dont win playing catchup. We have to get ahead of it. We are behind because the president and his administration did not take the virus seriously from the start. They ignored internal warnings from their own administration. We knew what wa