Dr. Birx pleading with americans to stay home, avoid simplest tasks trying to contain the spread. And Surgeon General providing an assessment of what country must endure in the next two weeks. This is going to be the hardest and saddest week of most of americans lives. This going to be our 9 11 moment all over the country. Lou as nation prepares for the worst, President Trump is expressing hope, tweeting this morning he sees light at the end of the tunnel. Steep rise in deaths in new york from wuhan virus seemingly leveling off, a hopeful sign that president social distancing guys lines are working in the mostly thamost lethal hot spe country new york, markets responding positively to the news, dow closing ahead, a big rally 1627, and s p gained 175, and market gaining 2 trillion dollars in market cap today. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo sharing in some of president s optimism, but adding there is a real danger to being over confident too quickly. The 7 state still faces a dire medal
Teleconference. The white house woking on new guidelines with those governors to put restart plans into operation. The cdc and fema reportedly coming up with recommendations. Advising states to come out of mitigation in a controlled way with robust Monitoring Systems in place to contain new cases and outbreaks. Adding leaders at all levels will need to prepare communities for occasionally returning to mitigation measures for a brief period to continue containing the disease. President trump is suggesting some states that are the least hard hit may be able to reopen by the end of the month and some perhaps sooner. President trump it will be very, very close maybe even before the date of may 1. So that will be for some states. Actually there are over 20 that are in extremely good shape. And we think well be able to get them open fairly quickly. Others will follow. The federal government will be watching them closely. And well be there to help. Lou the deadly wuhan virus that shut down mu
Toll on the economy, labor deputdepartment announcing 6. 6 million americans filing for unemployment last week. The Senate Adjourn until monday after the radical dimms blocked effort by g. O. P. To raise funding by a quarter ther trilln for the paycheck protection program, a program that has expended 500 thousand loans to Small Business worth 128 million, and securing hundreds of thousands of jobs. On the floor today, senator Mitch Mcconnell blasted the dems for Holding Americans paychecks hostage. Country cannot afford unnecessary rangling or political maneuvering, treating this as a normal kind of partisan negotiation could cost americans their jobs. Lou earlier today treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin said he believes that United States will be back open for business next month. U. S. Surgeon general jerome adams laying out tw two metrs required before that can become reality. Number one, standing up testing, make sure we have testing availablable rapidly, and we have testing for surv
Were starting week four of staying at home to try and prevent the spread of the coronavirus. And as you may have noticed, yes, ive decided to move to a different spot in my apartment. You see me and that other part of my apartment had a big fight so im trying to make it jills. Yeah, im in a new spot now, and shes treat ming right. Anyway, here is your quarantine tip of the day. If you are running out of deodorant, there is an easy way to smell nice. Its you called a shower, yeah, i dont know whats no are. Anyway, on tonights episode we will show learn how tho make a mask at home. Some people say jesus can protect you from coronavirus. And donald trump finally admits is he not a doctor. So lets get into it. Welcome to the daily social distancing show. From trevors couch in new york city to your couch somewhere in the world, this is the daily social distancing show with trevor noah. Trevor lets kick it off with the big news. Here in the United States the country is bracing for a week tha
Distancing show. From trevors couch in new york city to your couch somewhere in the world, this is the daily social distancing show with trevor noah. Trevor lets kick it off with the big news. Here in the United States the country is bracing for a week that the Surgeon General jerome adams said is going to be our pearl harbor moment and our 9 11 moment. Adding that this is going to be the hardest and saddest week of most americans lives. Yeah, that say really, really dire warnings. But despite these warnings, there are still people who are not taking social distancing seriously. For some cities good weather was all it took to draw out the crowds. People gathering in san francisco, flooding washington d. C. s famous seafood whatever saturday and strolling new yorks central park. In los angeles officers breaking up a celebration for a oneyear old little girl calling in reinforcement after the crowd became agitated. Across the country religious leaders are Holding Services and risking the