Of his security detail. The governor says he is not showing any symptoms but he is going into quarantine. Thats the governor. Also on the front page of the star tribune right now, a story about the Lieutenant Governor of minnesota. Her name is penny flanagan. Also on the front page of that same paper right now is the news that her brother has just died from coronavirus. She describes her brother as a tough as nails u. S. Marine, and she says this. Quote, if you feel fine, thats great. But please consider the possibility that youre carrying the virus and dont know it, and then you walk past the next ron, my big brother, in public. Covid19 now has a personal connection to me. Please do all you can to prevent one for you. Also on that same front page, tonight, minnesotas confirmed caseload as a state jumped from 169 known cases yesterday to 235 known cases today. Also on that same front page, the fact that the Transit System in the twin cities is cutting its service two days from now by 4
In his words, much lower than the 200,000 predicted by some models thanks to people staying home. Lets begin our coverage at this hour with our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta. Jim, there are very intriguing comments from cdc director Robert Redfield about his prediction involving the death toll here in the United States. Reporter thats right, wolf. The white house has yet to offer many details about how the Coronavirus Task force arrived at that estimate, that 100,000 to 240,000 americans would die from the coronavirus. But Public Health officials are cautioning that the eventual number of dead could fall well under that figure as americans are practicing social distancing. Were learning a key factor driving the large estimate was a crucial assumption discussed by Task Force Officials that only 50 of americans would observe the governments stringent social distancing guidelines. In reality a much larger, 90 , are observing those guidelines. The director of the centers for D
For a socially distanced mass. Roadblocks in spain and italy as officials worry the warmer weather will undermine lock downs. Japans cases spiked again. Russia posted its daily increase and south korea says it will test all travelers arriving from the United States, a footnote as the case count and death toll climb here. For the first time, all 50 states, now under disaster declarations at the same time. Still, the numbers are stabilizing and the president is agitating to reopen the economy. Im going to have to make a decision and i only hope to god that its the right decision. But i would say without question its the biggest decision ive ever had to make. Theres a detailed and a damning New York Times account today about trump decisions already made to ignore early warnings about the virus and recommendations to act sooner to control its spread. Instead, the president sidelined voices he considered to be alarmists. To the latest numbers now as we take a look in the United States. You
Were covering every angle this morning. Lets begin this hour with our Martin Savidge who joins us again from atlanta. Good morning, martin. That being a city and a state that is open. Reporter thats right. And they continue to every day open up a little bit more. Good morning, poppy. Good morning, jim. There are a dozen states that have either started to open up or allowed businesses to reopen or have announced plans to allow that process to begin. The problem is that there are a number of those states where coronavirus continues to rise. Number of cases. And we should remind everyone of what was the white house and the federal guidance that states shouldnt consider reopen ing again until they had two consecutive weeks of declines of coronavirus cases. So lets look at two states as examples. Georgia is one of those, were talking about it, were here. You know, of course, they have the personal Service Industry on friday, salons and all of this. And yesterday, in place dining in restaura
Face. 437 deaths yesterday. Which is actually a tick up. Weve laid our plan out to meet the phase one criteria. I think its the right move at the right time. One of the Biggest Challenges with respect to coordinating our efforts is where you are with respect of the surge, okay . We in massachusetts are in it. We didnt want people to think there were going to be reopening tomorrow or the day after, the day after. Our country cannot endure the engine not running. We will ultimately drift into a depression and we will lose 100,000 times as many as were losing now. One frustration is that there is still so much we dont know and so much to do to get testing up to speed. One new Study Suggests there may have been thousands of cases here in the United States at a time officials were estimating just a couple dozen. Most internationally connected places are the one that started the epidemic first. We have to think about new york, san francisco, los angeles, seattle. Those places were talking ab