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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 more than doubled, and now since last friday we are having more than 2,000 americans
Numbers had maybe 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. Or tuesday this week, wednesday, thursday, and now, for today as well. Its 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. Last friday, april 10
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
Basis to start putting people back to work. The Administration Says the decision will be up to individual governors but the president is already undercutting his message by telling virginia, minnesota, and michigan to liberate themselves. Today andrew cuomo called on the federal government to bail out the states which are seeing massive budget short falls in the wake of this crisis. The economic shutdown could leave states with a 500 billion deficit if washington does not provide continued relief. Good afternoon, im katy tur. With me as always is brian williams. Brian . Katy, thanks. We want to start with the sharp escalation of words between the president and the governor of new york. On twitter, the president criticized cuomo saying he should spend less time complaining. You may not have seen cuomos response because it came during the question and answer portion of his briefing earlier. We prepared for you now a large part of what he had to say. He said 11 times i dont want to get in