Been following this pandemic and how its affecting people since it started. Gadis going to stay with us throughout the hour. Hes at a grab and go center in Los Angeles County where the School District is handing out meals to families in need and today gadi, as i understand it, theyre going to be handing out their 10 millionth meal. What are you hearing from families in line there . Reporter 10 million meals, absolutely incredible out here. And this is the moment that everybody waits for. Right now, 8 00, 8 01 and they just opened up the gate. So im going to show you whats going on over here. These are the first cars to come in. Many of these cars have been waiting here for quite some time. What theyre waiting for is to come to stations all around here. About five or six stations, and these are families that will basically be looking to get some bags of food. Were going to go over here and were going to grab one of these bags. I want to show you whats inside. These are the meals that ha
Not until were in the clear. This as the president encourages antishutdown protests. I dont think that the government really has any business telling us what we can and cannot do. Plus, the economy in free fall. 22 million file for unemployment in one month. The average working family is only a couple weeks away from not being able to pay bills. Why some americans are faring so much worse than others. My guests this morning, Vice President mike pence and two governors, republican mike dewine of ohio, and democrat Gretchen Whitmer of michigan. Also, joe bidens big week. Three key endorsements. Im so proud to endorse joe biden for president of the United States. Democrats are unified this time. Will it make a difference . Joining me for insight and analysis are nbc News White House correspondent peter alexander, danielle pletka, and jeh johnson. Welcome to sunday. Its meet the press and our continuing coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. Announcer from nbc news in washington, the longes
Two, not having adequate testing capacity. And three, thinking that the problem to be managed is the economy as if that is somehow separate from the Public Health emergency of fighting the virus. Those mistakes gave us the whole disastrous response from the white house. The failed test kits. The utter inability for weeks to ramp up testing, to know where the virus was. The fact that they took way too long to begin to recommend social distancing. The fact the president during this period would come out and do a series of song and dance are you teens to pump up the stock market as if that was the goal, instead of taking action on the virus, right . All those errors are what got us to this point. Right now there are almost 30,000 americans who have lost their lives. Its an incomprehensible toll. The new york city death toll alone has shot past 10,000 just in new york city, after a revised count added 3700 additional people who had not been counted. And today, the daily total fay silts fat
How and where the virus is spreading. Steve. Reporter kristin, the u. S. Is currently testing about 150,000 people a day. Researchers at harvard say that number will need to triple if the u. S. Is going to be able to safely reopen the economy. Vice president pence said the u. S. Was quickly ramping up the testing numbers. We believe the testing that we have today, chris, across the country, once we activate all of the labs that can do coronavirus testing, is sufficient for any state in america to move into phase one. Reporter not all states are waiting for new tests. The mayor of jacksonville opened up the beaches. He put in Place Limited hours, restrictions on towels and chairs but the crowds came, despite admonitions to keep up social distancing. The mayor of miami said the beaches would open up, he didnt say when. South carolina also prepared next week to reopen its beaches. Texas as well as vermont opening up some limited shopping next week as well with curbside pickup. This comes
A. M. Eastern on msnbc. Of course, weve been beating down the door trying to get him to do an interview with me. Hes been unwilling to talk until quite recently. So im very much looking forward to seeing Stephanie Ruhle go one on one with him tomorrow. Well both be watching tomorrow at 9 00 a. M. , thats for sure. Thank you, rachel. Its all about testing now. Thats how the governor of new york sees it. For him, coronavirus testing is the number one issue. That is why mr. Cuomo went to washington today, to meet with the president of the United States. Heres what Governor Cuomo told Nicolle Wallace on msnbc immediately after his meeting with the president. The meeting went well. And i think it was productive. The big issue was testing, as Everybody Knows thats going to be the next step as we go forward. And how do we separate the responsibilities and the tasks on testing, visavie as stated in the federal government and the acknowledgement that we will need to Work Together on this. It ha