Correspondent, erica hill, joining us from new york city right now. Erica, most people in the state of new york are now under orders to stay home. Reporter we those orders coming this morning from Governor Cuomo and go into effect sunday night. New york city mayor bill de blasio praising the order saying the fdny, nypd and sheriffs will help enforce that order. Mayor de blasio now saying that new york city is the epicenter for the crisis with more than 5,100 confirmed cases here in the city. New promises from the white house. I invoke the defense production act and last night we put it into gear. We have millions of masks which are coming and which will be distributed to the states. They will be here soon. Were having them shipped directly to states. Reporter critical supplies now on the way. Though its not clear how many, when theyll arrive nor where the white house is getting them. If help doesnt come, we are going to lose people who should not die. Reporter states meantime moving sw
Response. We begin with Steve Harrigan reporting live from cdc headquarters in atlanta. Steve . Reporter jon, georgia and several other states are really taking the lead in attempting to reopen their economies, establishing small retail businesses, allowing them to open and allowing Retail Shopping as well with curbside pickup, restaurants in several states beginning to open. Officials are limiting the amount of people inside those restaurants. The percentages that can go in. But georgia as well as south carolina, alaska, oklahoma and tennessee all really getting a start. Officials continue to emphasize social instancing, but as you look at some of the beaches in california, not everyone is observing that. Many people say we need to get out, we need a break. Open up all the beaches. Let people have a little bit of fun. No work, no i mean, were just dying at home. Working hard to be smart and stay home, but at the same time, like, we need a little bit of outlet. Reporter some states are
Over whether the risk is worth it. The governor of colorado defending his decision not to extend his states stay at home order. We have to make the best informed decisions based on data and science with the information we have. What we know is what matters a lot more than the day stay at home ends is the day Going Forward and how we have ongoing sustainable way, psychologically, economically and Health Perspective to social distance. Arthel lets go to steve harrigan, live outside of cdc headquarters in atlanta, steve. Steve arthel, in many states it has become controversial decision but clearly some states are in the lead when it comes to reopening the economy. You mentioned georgia also, tennessee, south carolina, alaska and oklahoma. Theyve all opened to some extent, retail stores. Some of that is Curbside Pickup and some opened up restaurants with strict limitations on how many people can be inside. 31 states in the next week are scheduled to relax some sort of control over the econ
Headquarters from washington, d. C. , im gillian turner. Leland im leland vittert, secretary mnuchins comments set projection that unemployment will remain in double digits until next year. Mark meredith in the white house. Hi, mark. Mark the white house is confident that the peak of the virus has passed but the president s advicers are trying to prepare for the next disaster and thats the state of the economy. The next couple of months are going to be as terrible and seen numbers that we have never seen and stopped everything and output has gone to zero to huge swaths of the economy. The Congressional Budget Office is projecting with unemployment rate, 14 , gdp sliding down double digits and the federal budget deficit 3. 7 trillion. Senior Administration Official told us that the white house is still trying to come up with an idea of what the next stimulus package should and should not include. While the debate is happening here up on capitol hill House Speaker nancy pelosi push back
Businesses are on the edge waiting for loans to come through so they can reopen eventually. Governors in georgia, south carolina, and tennessee all announcing plans to relax some restrictions while others say they still need more testing to safely reopen. This is the president said he plans to temporarily pause immigration and a deal to get more money to Small Businesses. We begin today with chief White House Correspondent john roberts. He is live on the north lawn for another busy day. Always a busy day here at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. You know that all too well. Looks like the president is not going to sign that executive order today, could be tomorrow at the earliest but two reasons why hes doing this, one is the employment piece of it as you mentioned, unemployment now way up, 22 Million People have applied for unemployment insurance, the other issue is the president wants to stop as many infections from coming in from overseas as possible. Listen to what the National Security adv