Mexico. There are now 159 confirmed coronavirus cases nationwide with ten deaths in washington state. Also throughout the u. S. , 57 schools are closed today. A majority of those in washington and new york. Amazon is recommending all 50,000 of its employees in the seattle area work from home until the end of this month after an employee there tested positive. Several airlines including united and jetblue are scaling back domestic flights. And new forecasts shows the Airline Industry as a whole could lose more than 100 billion in revenue. Members of the house of representatives will have a briefing today on coronavirus. And as the number of cases grows, we continue to hear from the president use iing incorrec language. He has said things about the Obama Administration thats not true. And the president also down played the severity overnight. Listen. Well, i think the 3. 4 is really a false number. A lot of people will have this and its very mild. Its important to note the World Health O
Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is thursday, march 19th. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have White House Reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire. Former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst, Steve Rattner is with us. So reports of new cases of the coronavirus in this country seem to be coming in by the minute. There are now more than 8,900 confirmed cases here in the u. S. And more than 150 deaths. The number of cases in the state of new york alone jumped 44 over the last 24 hours. Now close to 2,400. Thats more than double Washington State, which has the second highest number of confirmed cases. A top official on the White House Coronavirus Task Force Says the number of confirmed cases in the u. S. Is expected to dramatically increase over the next few days. At a White House Briefing yesterday, dr. Deborah birx urged americans not to overreact, noting that the spike will occur as testing accelerates. They were individuals who had been tested. Who
Alert. Tonight, only moments away with my interview with the president of the united states. Donald trump donald trump will joining us live on this program. But first as i said last night, this pandemic brings out the very best unbelievable Inspiring Stories of so many. And then unfortunately the very worst in our society. The good news, the best far out to get the worst. We talk about the amazing businesses in this country, the amazing doctors, medical researchers, scientists, nurses, health care workers, first responders, other americans coming together and working nonstop around the clock to be back this deadly disease. Now, these are the people in the companys please keep them in mind, we think all of them for what theyre doing. The people of this country are amazing. Greatest people in the world. And we are going to beat this back. I noticed that fema has distributed 20 million face masks, nearly 6,000 ventilators, 4,000 this week, 2. 6 million gallons, 14. 6 million gloves, addit
Production act, that is a law that was enacted in 1950 during the korean war. It gives the president the authority to mandate that private industry produce and manufacture certain things for the national defense. The president and the white house lurched to the invoication of this. As weve heard, he hasnt triggered it yet. My guess is that when they announced that they were going to be invoking, the president probably heard from his friends in private industry to say please hold off on this. And i think that what is required here is not so much the invocation of these things but what is it were actually going to do to surge mask equipment, test kits, hospital beds to state and local communities to address this very, very serious crisis . Kristen welker is at the white house. Of course, was part of that briefing. Kristen, we have a number of issues to cover, but i also wanted to just touch base with you on the state department announcing this professional alert which is stage 4 as i und
For the great job youre doing. Its really incredible, frankly. Many of the states are stocked up. Some of them dont admit it, but we have sent just so much, so many things to them, including ventilators. You know, theres a question as to hoarding of ventilators. Some hospitals and independent hospitals, and some hospital chains, as we call them, they are holding ventilators. They dont want to let them up. We need them for certain areas when theres big problems. Cant hold them if they think there might be a problem weeks down the road. So, weve delivered a lot, and this group has been really fantastic. We want to thank you. U. P. S. And fedex in particular, youve gone absolutely out of your way, so we appreciate everything youve done and delivered. The federal government continues to mobilize every resource to make sure our frontline doctors and nurses have the equipment needed to save american lives. Yesterday i visited naval station norfolk as the usns comfort departed for new york th