We got final numbers. It was chasm. Worst was 700,000. Were an order of magnitude beyond that tomorrow. And i heard you talking about elmhurst hospital, the crisis in new york city. One of the reporters of the four who wrote that just really dramatic and gut wrenching story are going to join us this hour and well have a lot more to say about that tonight. Excellent. Get to it. Thank you. No senator or elected official knows more about the Airline Business than sarah nelson, thats why shes been working closely with the democrats on the provisions in senate. President of the association of flight attendants and now one of the most Effective Labor leaders washington has ever seen. Shell join us end of this hour. And governor Gretchen Whitmore of michigan will join us as the numbers are going up in michigan on reported coronavirus cases. Governor whitmore has closed all nonessential businesses and only the governor can reopen them, not donald trump. Senator blumenthal will join us about th
The ship. We dont know how many have tested positive for coronavirus. Speaking of Governor Andrew Cuomo, a word a short time ago the governor will start the Daily Briefing any minute now in albany. When that happens, well take you there live. We can tell you the governor of new jersey petitioned the president as well to allow new jersey residents to be treated on board the u. S. N. S. Comfort and the president also accek acquiesced. Right now 31,000 more cases since this time yesterday. So far the virus has killed more than 11,000 americans. To give you some perspective on how the crisis has been escalating, the u. S. Recorded more than 1,200 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours. By the way, for everyone watching today who watched yesterday, again, were wearing the masks. Were adhering to the cdc recommendation, wearing the gloves as well. Weve got a very small footprint here along pier 92. I can show you the rest of the folks here are also wearing their masks as well and were social distanc
Next. Good morning to you. It is sunday, april 5th. Im lindsay riser alongside kendis gibson. Before we go into those headl e headlines, were going to look at a very empty times square in new york city. Striking. This is absolutely striking. On an early sunday morning when many people would be walking or many vehicles would be driving around. Theres a car. Theres a car. It is i am legend come to life right there in new yorks times square. In the meantime, just about six hours away from new york city, right now, a live picture in the vatican. Palm sunday ceremonies are taking place right now. These are live pictures. The pope was there just a moment ago. These are live pictures. They are doing a little bit of social distancing. The pope is 83 years old. He had been seen coughing over the last few weeks. Theyre trying to make sure that his health is very, very, very taken care of in these times right now. Palm sunday, one of the big and holiest holidays of the christian calendar there. W
For months and months and months. Were going to open our country again. And the cure cant be worse than the problem itself, right . I started by saying that, and i continue to say it. The cure cannot be worse than the problem itself. We got to get our country open. This country was not designed to be closed. So weve had the greatest weve ever had, and then were paying people to stay home . Think of it. Were paying people not to go to work. How about that . How does that play . And they want to go to work by the way. They dont even want they dont want money. This country is great. But were paying people. We have to get back to work. Thats what im saying. Joining me now, dr. Lipi roy. Shes an msnbc medical contributor and an internal medicine physician. And dr. Schaffner, a professor of infectious diseases. I see lipi. I dont see dr. Schaffner up yet. Lipi, you and i talked this morning and you said maybe donald trump needs to come to new york to see how things are. He vacillates between
Filed for Unemployment Benefits this week. American businesses say theyre not done laying off yet. 1. 7 million coronavirus cases worldwide, and its still barely touched some of the leastprepared nations. And 95 of americans are under stayathome orders, orders many of them simply cannot afford. Velshi starts now. Good morning. It is april 11th. Im ali velshi. The world reached a new milestone surpassing 100,000 deaths from covid19. Here in the United States there are now more than 496,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus, and 18,651 deaths. New york is now the covid19 capital of the world. New york state has more confirmed cases of the virus than all countries reporting positive test results. And new yorks death toll stands at 7,844. In the past two weeks ive probably seen as much death as ive seen in the past three years. Its bad. Its really sad. I feel at this point everybody we intubate, its terminal. I dont it almost feels futile. Almost feels futile. As you can see from this map, th