Escape from a lab. No, a it is not proven, so nobody should be saying it let alone the seth of the state or the president , but to their own political point, it is defeating. Anyway, as always, you have mastered the facts and made things make sense for me. Thank you. Appreciate that. Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. Happy to have you with us. So the american correspondence epidemic is now approaching, coronavirus epidemic is now approaching 1. 2 million confirmed cases and well over 68,000, nearly 69,000 deaths. Which means the epidemic in our country is more than five times larger than the epidemic in any other country on earth. That said, in the one state in our country where more americans have died than any other, at least thus far, there have been some sort of positive touch stones that have been hit over the past few day, some good moments, and the javi it. Z center, the gigantic con skren, Convention Center in new york city that was a geeld hospital to take overfl
And good evening, everybody. 43 states expected to be reopen, to some degree, by this weekend. 43 states. I want to show you a map, right now, compiled by cnn of where we are, as a country, in terms of reopening and in terms of the virus itself. There, you see the map. The darker states. Those are states where the numbers of coronavirus cases are actually going down. The orange and the lighter color there are where they are, either, going up or about the same. You can see the vast majority of states, the numbers are still going up or about the same. I want to check in with cnns nick watt in los angeles for a roundup of the latest. Nick. Well, anderson, good news. We just heard, for the 10 Million People here, in los angeles county, it will start reopening on friday. Were told that among the first things to open are going to be some trails, some golf courses, some nonessential businesses, including florists and car dealerships. But we are being warned that it will be slow, and not all t
Convention center in manhattan that was converted into a Field Hospital to take overflow from new york city hospitals, they have closed that down as a Field Hospital site. They treated over 1,000 patients there at the javits center, but theyve shut it down now, new york fire department, fdny, and their bagpipers were on site to mark and cheer for that closing, which does feel like a real blessing. The u. S. Navy hospital ship comfort has also now closed up its new york operations and has set sail. It has started the return trip to its home port in norfolk, virginia, after that ship treated hundreds of overflow hospital patients while floating in new york harbor. Also the popup hospital in central park that was built to take overflow patients from the mt. Sinai hospital system, as of today that central park popup hospital is not going to be taking in any further patients. We understand theyve apparently still got some small number of patients there, but they are not admitting any new on
Claims before this crisis, which was back at the absolute depths of the great recession. Our best week in ten weeks is still more than twice as bad as it has ever been before. Thats how bad things are. The economy is officially in recession. The fed is predicting not only a severe 6 plus Economic Contraction for the country this year. The fed is also predicting that unemployment will stay above 9 for the year and will stay high beyond that. And, you know, we have spent all of this breath and ink having these frankly sort of stupid substancefree, reductive arguments about whether we as a country should work on trying to stop the coronavirus epidemic here or whether we instead shouldnt do that and we should prioritize our economic health. Well, it turns out, guess what, having a raging, out of control coronavirus epidemic thats killing tens of thousands of americans turns out that, tf tf itself, is a terrible thing for the economy. So, yes, the Economic Indicators are bad. They have been
Yeah. To hear the mayor of atlanta talk about it the way that she did tonight in our hour, to hear the police chief who just resigned in atlanta over this incident talk about policing, the need for reform, the need for Community Trust and then for it to happen in atlanta where you know what they are trying to do and you know the unified feel that the police chief and the mayor presented on stuff like this, it is very demoralizing. It is hard to take. And to see atlanta sort of convulsing over this, it is understanding and it is upsetting. Thank you, rachel. Thanks, lawrence. Totally unnecessary, thats what you hear. You hear a witness yelling that at an Atlanta Police officer after the officer shot and killed 27yearold Rayshard Brooks on friday night in a wendys parking lot. You just shot him for no reason. Thats more of what you hear. If you watch and listen to officer rolfes body cam video. You dont see anything when you hear those words because the body cam has fallen off the office