Hey everybody, im chris cuomo. Welcome to prime time. We have a load of breaking news for you tonight. Heres the biggest headline. California has just issued an unprecedented statewide order telling all people to stay home. Obvious reason coronavirus cases are surging there. What does it mean . How will it work . Youve got 40 million residents there. The big question for them will of course will how long. Here in new york city cases nearly doubled overnight and theres a dire new warning that hospitals could be just two weeks away from running out of essential medical supplies. We have one of the president s top lieutenants here to address the needs and the threats and youre going to hear from the leader of the senate tonight, a cnn exclusive with Mitch Mcconnell on what congress is doing for financially strapped americans. We know the problem. What are the solutions . Were a big part of it, so lets get after it. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. California governor gavin newsom orde
Tonight as if america could be ready to open up shop as soon as a week from today. What is the reality of where things stand in the home of wall street . The new york governor knows the answer and we will get Straight Talk from him on where are we really . How long are we looking at . Most likely . We also have the former acting Homeland Security chief to lay out how hard is what government is trying to do. How hard is it . And what still needs to be done . Now, for the rest of us, we know the remedy for what ails us, dont we . We have to be informed, we have to be ready and we have to be our best. Together as ever as one. Lets get after it. President trump says he will not let the cure be worse than the problem. The problem is, there is no cure yet, and the only thing that every expert from everywhere in the world, the only thing they say we can do to stop the spread is what, isolate. And it seems like the president thinks he may have a better idea. Our country wasnt built to be shut
Im chris cuomo this is special dbl hour of prime time. Theres a ton of news the big headline the biggest story in coronavirus since it started. In term of moous to fight it. Governor of california making his state the first state to issue a stay at home order for everyone in the state. That is 40 plus Million People. Governor of course is and says this is not about us lewisinosis is how we win the war. Slow the spread and build capacity to treat the worst cases. Remember, four out of every five cases so far someone got this from someone else who didnt know they it. Well get into that. First, erica hill is tracking the other fast moving developments. Alarming prediction from california governor. More than half of the state, 25. 5 Million People will be infected with the virus over an eight week period. Hes calling on the president in a letter to station the Navy Mercy Hospital Ship in l. A. To aleve the stress in the healthcare system. Meantime the Nation Largest city offering its own s
This morning, President Trump announced hes pushing the food and Drug Administration to fasttrack treatments for the coronavirus treatments. President trump said in a span of minutes that two drugs were especially approved and that he hopes those and other drugs under evaluation could be a big breakthrough. What the president said was either confusing or just wrong because the fda commissioner just minutes later said while these drugs are approved for other uses, theyre not yet approved for coronavirus. Fda will start Clinical Trials to see if theyre effective for the pandemic. And he acknowledged, of course, there are site effects with this these two drugs. And the president to invoke the defense production act the order to make military work to increase critical medical supplies for civilians out there. Today, the president said he had not yet actually triggered it. And that states should be picking immuch of tpick picking up much of the work and supplies to where they need it. As ho
Media is hyping the pandemic to hurt his election chances. He was then asked about it at the briefing. Mr. President , you tweeted earlier, linking the closing of the country to your election success in november. Is this easter time line based on your political interests . My election success, no. You tweeted you said the media wants the country to remain closed to hurt no, the media would like to see me do poorly in the election sir, lawmakers and economists, both sides of the aisle said reopening the country by easter is not a good idea. What is that plan based onds . Just so you nunderstand ae you ready . There are certain people who would like it to not do so well quickly. They would like it to do poorly because that would be defeating me at the polls. I dont know if thats so, but i do think its so that there are people in your profession that would like that to happen. I think its very clear i think its very clear that there are people in your profession that write fake news. You