Minutes. Gov. Desantis good morning. I wanted to start by just noting that we are in holy week. Over the last few days, we have been in contact with a lot of religious leaders throughout the state, both at the christian and jewish communities. And we want to discuss with them their plans for these upcoming events, both passover and easter. Our message is basically adhere to social distancing guidelines. I think what a lot of churches have done in terms of online services, some have even done outdoors for people to stay in their car. I think theyve been innovative, i think that will ultimately be something that matters a lot to people, but we also pointed out the risk of having a packed gathering right now, given what we are going through. You look at different parts around the country, there have been different events such as i was talking to the georgia governor, they had a big funeral and that really spread hroughout the folks. It would be a potential to have a super spreader, and th
Additional deaths tied to covid19. By the end of the month. Roughly double what cemeteries normally see in one month. And current social distancing means families are struggling to connect in a time of grief and loss. Good evening. Lets get right to the i team reporter. Live in the news room with the latest on the sad preparations. Grim update we can confirm two of the bay areas largest Funeral Homes are working with county officials to see if space will be available to accommodate a surge. Preparations are under way. It comes with challenges for families mrning ineqoc distanci. Its really devastating. You could have been done something more. You want to be there. You can hear the pain in her voice. Mourning the loss of her mother. Who died alone at the hospital last week. I could have gone. I wanted to be with my mom. She tested negative for the coronavirus. But later contracted pneumonia. Because of visitation restrictions she couldnt be there to comfort her mom. It must be hard. I n
About theinal talks impact of covid19 on the selfemployed. Watch cspans washington journal live at 7 00 eastern this morning. Join the discussion. York we had to new york. We saw those images of the United States Navy Ship Comfort gliding past the statue of liberty to dock in new york to help. We are joined onboard the comfort now by the Commanding Officer of that ship. Captain, can you describe your mission . York we are here in new to relieve pressure on the Health Systems here by taking care of noncovid19 patients. Host how are you going to do that . How many can you take care of and what is the process for getting them to you . Guest the ship was designed for major combat operations. Handleup to 1000 beds to the casualties of war. What we are going to utilize it for would be medical patients that will be coordinated through the city of new york and fema to us. To 80l be able to take up icu patients. We have care beds within these words. Many of those beds are bunk beds. In, this wa
And we are also looking at the data. And we feel that, you know, we need to continue to look at the data, its too early to say that this is completely been taken care of and we have accomplished everything that we want to do with the shelter in place, which again, to remind everyone, is to try to decrease the speed at which people are getting infections with covid19. Primarily so that we dont have a lot of people becoming very ill at once and overwhelming our hospital system. So, were measuring the number of hospitalizations, were measuring the number of cases. And we know that those cases will continue to go up, because one of the challenges that im sure people have heard about is that testing is very challenging and getting enough tests in place. So, as we test more, well see more cases. But were going to keep monitoring how or hospitals are doing, how our capacity is doing, and so far in the bay area, weve been able to take care of patients as theyve come in, which is a good sign, a
Rolling reentry. Warnings ignored. The growing evidence President Trump downplayed the threat of the virus while his top advisers were sounding the alarm, and the president now lashing out, retweeting a post calling for dr. Fauci to be fired. Easter at home. From pope francis streaming to millions online to Andrea Bocellis stunning performance in milan and joel osteens starstudded virtual celebration while some gather in person defying stayathome orders. And honoring our heros. From the amazing detroit nurse with a powerful voice to this starstudded danceathon live from diddys home and pitbullsr Health Care Workers and lifting spirits across the nation. Good morning, america. Hope everyone had a safe and wonderful holiday weekend. Happy to have george and robin joining us from their homes on this monday morning, and robin, like you and us as well so many celebrating easter at home. Thats right. And you know what, you dont have to be in a church to go to church. The world watching pope