Practice medicine. The state is looking to add at least 50,000 hospital beds and other sites. I hope the state can add as many as 37,000 more doctors, nurses, and specialist. We are hopeful with the effort we will see a surge of individuals to be paid and compensated to participate in the workforce and distribute throughout the caregiver system around the state of california. Reporter new retired professionals can find more information on the state covid 19 website. A bay area leaders preparing to extend stayat home orders until at least may 1. Christian captain joins us live from San Francisco where the mayor is expected to make an official announcement tomorrow but city officials there are stressing social distancing is still the best tool to combat the spread of the virus. Thats right. Most of the bay area under a state order to stay at home for two weeks. Now they expect the order to run all the way through april. Empty streets and closed businesses a common site the last two weeks
They were down yesterday on the weakness on the dollar. You can see this morning theyre back up by 1. 5 . Wti sitting just below 39. U. S. Crude stockpiles grew last week by 2. 6 Million Barrels. Thats less than the 3. 3 Million Barrels analysts had expected. A couple big stories this morning. The economical dar. A lot going on. Were going to get an early read today on fridays job numbers. Economists expecting an increase of 200,000 private sector jobs for march. Following that data, chicago fed president Charles Evans is going to join us here on the set in a cnbc exclusive interview. Also, an update on the fight between apple and the fbi. It aint over yet. A california judge has officially vacated the order asking apple to assist the fbi in hacking into that iphone of the San Bernardino terrorist. Nbc now reporting an Israeli Company is the firm that provided the tool. The fbi now owns proprietary rights to the method used to get into that device. Also reports out that they signed a c
You, craig melvin here. Today is National Doctors day and before we get started here lets start by thanking all of our medical professionals who are out there on the front lines putting their lives at risk to fight this virus. We are so very thankful to you today. Meanwhile, right now, the United States tops the world in coronavirus cases. This hour there are more than 143,000 known cases here, almost 2,500 fatalities so far. And as the number of cases continues to surge, the white house is responding by extending those social distancing guidelines. They had hoped to pull back by easter. Members of the White House Task force predicting millions of americans could be infected and as many as 100,000 to 200,000 could die. For the epicenter of this crisis in new york some new help, new help has arrived. Its the usns comfort, it docked in new york city a short time ago. It is a floating naval hospital, more than a thousand beds. Its going to help relieve some of the strain thats on the city
Jillian with hundreds of thousands of anticipated deaths, the growing list of states pleading to President Trump for help. Were taking care of each other, looking out for each other. People on the front line, knowing they dont get to run. Darling, because youll always be my baby. Rob more than 1 million raised here on fox with help from some of musics superstars. Jillian Fox Friends First starts right now. Jillian a very good morning to you. Youre watching Fox Friends First on this monday morning. Im jillian mele. Rob i im rob schmitt. The u. S. Could see more than 1 million covid19 cases and possibly 100,000 deaths. Jillian the cdc imposing new travel restrictions to try to stop the spread. Reporter dr. Anthony fauci making clear its not a certainty well hit the numbers rob mentioned but cautioning it could happen. I think its entirely conceivable that if we do not mitigate to the extent that were trying to do, that you could reach that number. You could make a big sound bite about it
Driven by prodirections about the possibility of 2. 3 Million People dying if no serious action is taken, the president s moved the National Social distancing guidelines back to april 30th. Even with those new guidelines, the predictions are sobering. Listen to the key players earlier today. Anthony and deborah have been doing this for years. I rely on them, but the worst thing we can do is declare victory. Weve been seen this. I dont want to see it. Id like to avoid it, but i wouldnt be surprised if we saw 1 hundred,000 dead. If we do things well, almost perfectly we could get in the range of 100 hundred,000 to 200,000. We dont even want to see that. The change in policy is also a reflection of what were seeing, the scenes of refrigerated trucks using as morgues, body bays near trumps childhood home, and viv vitt images of a Field Hospital in new yorks central park. At the joining me is nbc digital shannon pettypiece, and fellow and practices internest dr. Patel, a former director in