Since i had been doing this. And its this shift that has happened in the news environment in which we work. Its that our friends and colleagues in the conservative media over the years, they have become more and more their own thing. Like i said, ive been doing this for more than a decade. At the beginning of me doing this show, i think it was fair to think of our friends at the fox news channel, and conservative talk radio and other conservative media, i think it was sort of fair at that time to think of at least most of them as our like legit professional rivals. They were people who were coming at the news from a very pronounced right wing view, perhaps a very partisan prorepublican party view, but at least we were all doing the same kind of work, at least we were all covering the same stuff. Thats how it started when i started doing this business. Started working in this business. But over this past decade or so, steadily, that has decreased. Year after year. To the point where now
As of tonight, it is 545 known cases of coronavirus that are connected to this one plant so far. 545 cases. Again, this is sioux falls, south dakota. South dakota has to figure out theyre going to cope with having one of the largest clusters of coronavirus in the country with hundreds of confirmed cases all at once in their state. As of tonight, the cdc has dispatched a team to sioux falls to decide what to do there. We confirmed that with the cdc. South dakota has a republican governor, governor kristi noem who has decided for whatever reason everything is fine in their state. There doesnt need to be any stayathome order there. Last night we showed you the mayor of sioux falls, that mayor also a republican basically begging for a stayathome order given the huge number of cases theyve now got surrounding this one plant in his state. The republican governor kristi noem has refused that request from the mayor just as she refused last week from the state medical association. Instead shes
Hit their peak and would start to consistently drop. Thats obviously what everybody was hoping. But since then, the numbers have been back up over 2,000 deaths each day for tuesday this week, wednesday, thursday, and now for today as well. It is just astonishing to be having that Many Americans killed every day now. More than 2,000 americans every day. But just look at how fast this thing has exploded. If you go back seven weeks ago to the last friday in february, that friday, february 28th, four americans had been killed by coronavirus. A week later, march 6th, it was 26 americans who had been killed. The week after that, march 13th, it was 55 americans dead. The week after that, march 20th, 247 americans dead. One week after that, we went from 247 to 1,574. And the month of april has just been astonishing since then. In that one week between friday, march 27th, and friday april 3rd, we went from about 1,500 americans dead to more than 7,000. By last friday, april 10, that number had
How and where the virus is spreading. Steve. Reporter kristin, the u. S. Is currently testing about 150,000 people a day. Researchers at harvard say that number will need to triple if the u. S. Is going to be able to safely reopen the economy. Vice president pence said the u. S. Was quickly ramping up the testing numbers. We believe the testing that we have today, chris, across the country, once we activate all of the labs that can do coronavirus testing, is sufficient for any state in america to move into phase one. Reporter not all states are waiting for new tests. The mayor of jacksonville opened up the beaches. He put in Place Limited hours, restrictions on towels and chairs but the crowds came, despite admonitions to keep up social distancing. The mayor of miami said the beaches would open up, he didnt say when. South carolina also prepared next week to reopen its beaches. Texas as well as vermont opening up some limited shopping next week as well with curbside pickup. This comes
A guy that had gone for spring break in miami, and he came back and he was admitted in the icu for trouble breathing. And his friend, best friend, was outside the unit, wanted to drop him off some toiletries. And i went and talked to the best friend, and he said, i know i cant come in, but can you please give him this and please tell him i love him dearly. So im in the covid19 unit and i talked to his friend, the patient, and explained we cant have any visitors, that he wanted me to tell you that he loved you, and he started to cry. And i started to cry. And we talked for a minute. And he said, can i ask you something . I said sure. Hes like, no, never mind. Its a dumb question. And i said, no, no, no. No questions are dumb right now. And he said, well, am i going to be okay . I said well, your vital signs look good, youre five days in, and i said, well, youre talking, and just continue to exercise your lungs. And he cried some more with tears of joy and gratefulness that, you know, i