We are going to go through a very tough two weeks and then hopefully as the experts are predicting, as i think a lot of us are predicting after having studied it so hard, we will start seeing real light at the end of the tunnel but this will be a very painful, very very painful two weeks. Stuart the president s top medical advisers project a death toll in america of up to 240,000. Everyone is now paying attention. Now weve got to focus what will likely be the worst Economic News coming at us in generations. Millions of people will not be paying their rent this month. How will that ripple through . Millions of people have just been laid off. New unemployment claims coming out tomorrow will again show millions added to the jobless list. The airlines, they are reporting passenger traffic levels down 88 in two weeks. And Mortgage Applications down 24 from last year. The market, of course, reflects these new uncertainties. The dow dropped over 400 yesterday and this morning, its likely to o
Just too big. Her music videos are watched online. You cant believe the numbers. Shawn 100 million. And she has a new video out now, too, so well talk to her about that today. Shawn welcome in. Today is the first day of september. The beginning of Childhood Cancer awareness month. Today is all about shining gold, and today were wearing out gold. Candlelighters of Southern Nevadas campaign today. Were giving them shoutout because we feel strongly about this cause, and you might notice today theres going to be some illumination events, city hall, fremont street, the high roller, town square. Shawn downtown. Over time. You would think trump bought the whole valley. As far as the eye can see. Youre starting rumors, be careful. Shawn hell be on the bottom of cnn until next friday. So thank you to candlelighters, and wear gold today. Were behind you. First up, shawn, grewed in a good nights sleep. Shawn every day. The folk at best mattress would like you to look at this. This is the mattress
Faster than anything else we can do. Some positive news from California Governor Gavin Newsom yesterday. Two weeks ago, he announced the first statewide stay at home order in the United States. It appears to be paying off. Good morning and welcome to morning joe. It is friday, april 3rd. Joe will be back on monday. Along with willie and me, we have editor in chief of the atlantic magazine, jeffrey goldberg, former treasury official, and morning joe economic analyst steve rattner. And historian and author of the sole of america and rogers profession eal of the presidenc jon meacham. Well dive into the latest numbers. The cases of coronavirus across the globe have now topped 1 million. The u. S. Added almost 30,000 new cases yesterday, with the death toll now approaching 6,000. New york state added more than 9,000 cases yesterday, totaling more than 92,000. More than half are in new york city. The death toll there increased by 188 last night to more than 1,500 total. Hospitals are stretc
Karl rove reacts to all of that in a moment, but first, another 3. 8 million americans filed for Unemployment Benefits just last week bringing the total to more than 30 million in the last six weeks alone. On tuesday, President Trump ordered meatpacking plants across the country to stay open during the pandemic to prevent shortages. More than 20 plants have shut down at some point over the last few months has hundreds of workers tested positive for the virus and one Industry Group says at least 20 workers have died. Lets bring in agriculture secretary sonny perdue to talk about all of this. Mr. Secretary, i know that youre trying to do all the right things here, theres that meatpacking aspect that you want to get those plants up and running because we dont want a shortage in the country, but what are you able to do to ensure worker safety at the same time . Obviously, thats paramount and there are two tracks here, both employee safety and health is the primary one and what we are doing