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Francisco mayor london breed about how this is affecting her city. And well meet the owner of a lab that will help process thousands of new yorks covid19 tests every day. Now, testing remains a hurdle but it seems were doing our part to stop the spread, especially social distancing. What this graphic illustrates is the amazing work of the American People to really adhere to social distancing. This was some this was nothing we had ever attempted to do as a nation, and the world hadnt attempted to do. But they were able to decrease the number of cases so that, in general, most of the metro areas never had an issue of complete crisis care of all of their hospitals. Washington is our first stop on this trip across america. Joining us are two of msnbcs political analysts, Phillip Rucker for the Washington Post and eli stokels. Also with us, beth fouhy. Glad to have you all with us. Phillip, lets start with testing. Now, Public Health officials are saying that testing needs to double, or may
Officials before undertaking this decision. And in fact, we also learned at this News Conference that Nancy Writebol or just before this News Conference we learned Nancy Writebol had been discharged on tuesday. The emory doctors were asked why she was roeleased on tuesday an why it was not disclosed to the public. Writebols family wanted privacy and doctors were so confident and stressed so much they felt this was not a Public Health threat that they felt they needed to respect her wishes. And thats their first priority. So its really a remarkable day here at emory. Less than three weeks ago, these patients arrived here, by all accounts, have made a stunning recovery. You made an important point about this not being a Public Health threat. Thats something they emphasized in this announcement. Another thing that came up, the emory doctor who treated them spoke about the experimental drugs. Take a listen to that. An experimental gene is exactly that. They are the very first individuals t
Parts of the city you know many areas use local gas tanks that are filled by trucks you know, that move around the city so there couldnt have been an accident when a gas truck was filling up the hospitals gas tank. You know this happened early this morning. The explosion was huge. It sent a column of smoke into the sky that was visible across the city. The scene at the ground looks absolutely terrifying. About a third of the hospital collapsed. You know Emergency Service personnel, you know are scrambling you know, through the wreckage right now looking to make sure if there are any survivors or any more dead. Again, they are confirming that three adults are dead and four children. And to your point were looking at some of the images coming in where you see the building has collapsed there. Theres still flames visible at least in the images that were getting into us. Give us some perspective on the size of this hospital and the number of people who could have been perhaps even in there