Made. It has its ramifications. Well see whether its worth the trouble. But, again, im here about what we can do to go forward for americas working families, for putting Families First without having a criticism of one of the things the president is doing. I do think, as leader schumer and i said in our comments last night, testing, testing, testing. Thats the only way youre going to learn about how this is spread. I dont want to use that word because not Everybody Knows what it means. Yes, sir. Last question. You said earlier this week that congress is the last line of defense. Beyond the recess, if it came to it the last line of defense . I heard you say that at some point. A main line of defense. I dont know if its the last. Just how prepared congress is to work from home potentially if it were to come to that. We have been briefed by the chief administrative officer, by the chief of police, by the sergeantinarms, by the capitol attending physician, by our leader on the House Admini
Slightly. It is still going on, it is just going up and slower rate. And we have a problem of the procurement process right now. Take a look. So you have 50 states competing to buy the same item. We all whine up bidding up each other and competing against each other where you now literally will have a company thatll call you up and say well, california just out bid you. It is like 50 other states bidding on ventilators and then fema gets involved and fema starts bidding. And now fema is bidding on top of the 50. Fema is driving up the price. What sense does this make . Tennessee is the latest state to issued stayathome order for residents. Three of every four americans now are under stayathome orders. Trump issued his 15day guidance on coronavirus. Today the white house is expected to reissue the guidance. The president wants to extend the guideline to the end of april. In new york, hospitals are ready to receive first patients to the u. S. Naval ship. Have patients begun to arrive . R
Surpassed 50,000 worldwide. That includes 5,000 here in the u. S. And the numbers of dead and sick mount, so do the strain and stress of medical workers. Listen to the nurses from the hospital in the bronx, one who tested positive for the virus. A few days ago, tested positive for covid19. Im coming back now. Make people sicker. Its outrageous. We need to stand against this outrageous, hospital administrators, politicians, and all the health care agencies. Every day when i go to work, i feel like a sheep going to slaughter. My colleagues and i are writing our last will and testament. I am 28 years old. We fear we may not survive this pandemic and yet we show up every day to this hospital to take care of our community. We dont ask of our servicemen and women to go to war without means to protect themselves. Or policemen to work without bulletproof vests, so why, why are we asking nurses to enter rooms with reused masks . Because we dont have enough supplies . Then i say, make the suppli
Governors begging the federal government for more supplies, more ventilators, while the president says nearly 10,000 are being held back because the surge is coming. Part of that holdup this morning, Companies Say theyre just not getting guidance from the federal government on where to send critical supplies. After they were told by the government to make the equipment. Where does it go now . And now staying at home, at least 80 of american, imagine that, 8 in 10, the question on many of their minds is how much longer and will the shutdown soon go nationwide. Those are pictures live from times square. You never see it like that. Lets begin here in new york or in new york, rather, with cnn National Correspondent brynn gingras. Tell us what youre seeing. You have been following the experience of a hospital up there throughout. Tell us what the latest is. Yeah, well, the latest is, listen, we have heard Health Officials saying it. The White House Task force has been saying it. Mitigation
Inspector general. Hospitals are dealing with severe and widespread shortage of medical supplies. These are the facts. This is hampering their ability to test people, and crucially, to keep staff safe from infection. City mayor bill de blasio saying the city is just days away from running out of key supplies. Were following all the breaking news this morning. Lets begin with athena jones. She is outside the Javits Center in new york city. Athena, just to give people the magnitude, this takes up city blocks. Thats how huge it is. But its now this makeshift hospital. Reporter good morning, poppy. Thats exactly right. This is a huge convention center, hundreds of thousands of square feet here on the west side of manhattan. This is a very important part of this whole plan, the city and states whole plan to tackle the coronavirus and the surge in cases they are seeing. 2500 beds at this facility. Today is when they officially opened their doors to covid19 patients, and as of about a half an