Hospitals. President trump describes two desperate governors this way. I want them to be appreciative. If they dont treat me right, i dont call. The governors of washington and nebraska join me in a moment. Plus Congress Passes a bill to help workers. Every dollar we spend will make a difference in the lives of the american people. Will it be enough . Ill speak with House Speaker nancy pelosi, next. Hello, im jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is staying at home. Today marks exactly one month since the first coronavirus death in the United States. There have now been more than 2,000 deaths in america, a Staggering Number thats doubled in the last two days. For some context, the current number of deaths is more than six times the number of deaths this time last week. More than six times. Overnight President Trump backed off an idea to put an enforceable quarantine on the new york region. Instead the cdc is issuing a Domestic Travel advisory recommending that resident
Our split fox friends show. Were scattered throughout the tristate area. And its good to have you. Good morning to you ainsley and good morning to you, brian. Ainsley good morning to you, steve and brian and to everyone at home. We have dr. Nicole saphier on our show today dr. Mehmet oz the Surgeon General dr. Jerome atkrapls. Adams. Dr. Marc siegel and senator Lindsey Graham. Brian should did you go back to Small Business and take some of these loans. Of course we have three doctors on the show and got to get yeses and nos. Should would he be wearing a mask or not . If we are not wearing a mask if were sacrificing for medical professionals but we would like to know the answer to that we will talk to the Surgeon General because i think it matters so much. And we will talk about all of that as thr is going to lock don and doing what we are we have been doing and its standing in place. In just hours. The usns comfort will begin serving americas covid19 epicenter here in new york city. I
Distancing measures may be working. That are roughly 160,000 diagnosed cases in the us, 3000 is putting the death rate at one. 8 . This is fox news at night. We are bringing the latest facts tonight and every day. Early on critics said it would take weeks for the Navy Hospital ship comfort to reach new york, shes there now and so is rick leventhal. Last time the comfort docked in new york city was just after 9 11 and now she is back offering relief and the morel boost to the medical workers who are overwhelmed by the influx of covid19 patients. Arrived in new york harbor bringing 1000 beds, 1200 doctors, nurses, surgeons and other staff and 12 operating rooms to handle noncoronavirus patients allowing hospitals to focus on the pandemic. The ship arriving is not just an example of help arriving in physical form, not just to get out the beds and the doctors and equipment but also about hope. The soldiers in this phase are our healthcare professionals. The doctors, the nurses, the people
Say it is time to stop sending us dollars to the who until its leader is fired. New reports on how the Trump Administration plans to undertake a medically healthy economic recovery. We will hear from Kevin Mccarthy on that and plans for billions more in Small Business. What steps is the white house mapping out right now to eventually reopen the us economy . Kevin cork is digging into that tonight. Reporter i want you to think of this as a 3step process, you want to slow the virus while keeping americans healthy and safe and get money into the hands of the consumers to keep everybody afloat during the downturn and if all goes well you unleash the full power of the american economy. For days we had a similar refrain, things are tough, will get tougher, painful even, and the highest single day death toll, cautious optimism at the white house. During this painful week we see glimmers of strong hope. Signs are that our strategy is totally working. Reporter working to flatten the curve of ne
Driven by prodirections about the possibility of 2. 3 Million People dying if no serious action is taken, the president s moved the National Social distancing guidelines back to april 30th. Even with those new guidelines, the predictions are sobering. Listen to the key players earlier today. Anthony and deborah have been doing this for years. I rely on them, but the worst thing we can do is declare victory. Weve been seen this. I dont want to see it. Id like to avoid it, but i wouldnt be surprised if we saw 1 hundred,000 dead. If we do things well, almost perfectly we could get in the range of 100 hundred,000 to 200,000. We dont even want to see that. The change in policy is also a reflection of what were seeing, the scenes of refrigerated trucks using as morgues, body bays near trumps childhood home, and viv vitt images of a Field Hospital in new yorks central park. At the joining me is nbc digital shannon pettypiece, and fellow and practices internest dr. Patel, a former director in