Hello and welcome to fox news at night. I am Shannon Bream and washington. Night 58 of the coros hitting the u. S. Good evening. President trump now says he has a wartime president and a war against the coronavirus. That gives them a lot of authority. Offering perhaps air support if it is necessary as commander in chief he and out to help private industry what to do. We will be invoking the defense action act. He can now control american manufacturing. And giving suppliers access to loans and special guarantees. Millions of masks are on order to replace the 5 million respirator masks. 2,000 ventilators, and other personal protective equipment released from the defense departments strategic reserve. Crews are now working to ready the u. S. Ms comfort hospital ship. Its what does wood bugs gumbo 12 operating rooms, its icus, it has radiology suites. That is literally a huge floating hospital. The u. S. And us is also available with similar capabilities. And the army corps of engineers ar
Thank you very much, mr. President. I want to just talk very briefly about two or three things. First, the issue of testing and how that has really changed the complex of the approach that were going to be able to take. Testing was an issue. We had many questions of testing in this room for a number of times. Now that we literally have hundreds and hundreds and thousands of testing out there, there are a few things that we can do with that. One of the things is when we make policy what were going to be doing with the rest of the country, particularly those areas that are not hot spots, we need to know what the pentrants of infection is there. We need to put a light on the dark spots that we dont know. We have to act policy wise on data. And were going to be getting more data, a lot more data. The other thing is the areas of the country that are not hot spots, that are not going through the terrible ordeal that new york and california and Washington State are going through, they still h
The cdc says all depend on how much contact reduction americans practice. As more than a dozen states like georgia, florida and texas begin to open businesses, one model cited by the white house raised injections. The model new fears as many as 74,000 people will die. Moments ago Florida Governor defended his response to coronavirus. Hes in washington meeting with President Trump. The most sirconian orders in some states and compares to florida. Gough from d. C. , maryland and new jersey and new york and connecticut and massachusetts and michigan and illinois. You name it. Florida have dos done. Everyone in the media said that florida is going to be like new york and other city. Thats not happening. We understood the outbreak. The United States is on track to reach a million infections the next day or moatter how states reopen, experts say coronavirus will return this winter. I am certain that the virus will come back, it is slowly spread and right now as we start to stabilize Southern
Im stephanie ruhle. It is friday, may 8th. Welcome to a very special hour on msnbc. Today i am joining you live from the Atlantic City boardwalk in my home state of new jersey. Im going to explain why im here in just a minute. But first, we must get to this mornings breaking news. The april jobs report just came out and it is as bad as anything we have ever seen. We are looking at 20 million jobs lost in one single month. The Unemployment Rate jumped nearly 15 . Thats up more than 10 points in a month. Remember, it wasnt natural. We turned our economy off. This morning, i am in Atlantic City. I chose this town because it has been hit typically hard. Why . It thrives on tourists. It thrives on people coming here for a big night out. Tourists, travelers here to gamble, here to spend money. Whats the result . This citys nearly 3 billion gambling industry is at a dead standstill. On march 1st, the nine casinos in ac employed nearly 26,000 people. This morning, almost all of them are furlou