You are. Ainsley Governor Andrew Cuomo over 30,000 ventilators for his state the state we are in right now. Thousands will be ships to new york next week. The big headline this morning is we have a deal. If you make less 57,000 or less, you are getting 1,200 in a check there are also big benefits for hospitals, for airlines, its a done deal. House, senate, they have come to an agreement and the president says he will sign it when it hits his desk. Brian yeah. I think its also kind of interesting we are going to go into detail and griff hat has te details. Im a speed reader i dont read that fast. New york has over 50 of the cases as you have heard Governor Cuomo yesterday. Hey, were the canary in the coal mine, we could be coming to a city near you. As much as we want easter, i dont know if easter is possible. On our show today dr. Oz will be with us to talk about the encouraging results from. So therapies that are out. Senator tom cotton will be with us. Dr. Nicole saphier and dr. Will
Good afternoon. Its 11 00 a. M. Out west and 2 00 p. M. In washington where the house of representatives cannot act soon enough. There are more than 75,000 confirmed cases of covid19 in the united states, more than 1,000 americans have died so far. And as the Health Crisis dwrogr were getting our first look at the economic toll of this virus, a staggering 3. 3 million americans applying for Unemployment Benefits last week. That is more than double the estimate. And nearly five times more than the previous record set back in the. 80s. Some economists are now predicting if current do hold, that unemployment could surpass that scene during the 2009 recession. The Senate Passed its, quote, phase three. It includes temporary expansion of Unemployment Benefits and direct payments to americans making less than 99,000 a year. President trump has indicated he will sign the proposal, but first it needs to pass in the house, which is currently still in recess. Speaker nancy pelosi confident about
More than 1. 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases here in the United States, and that more than 67,000 americans have died. And we can all agree that the economic toll is staggering with more than 30 million americans filing for unemployment. But what americans and Public Officials cant seem to agree on is how and when to reopen the country. By tomorrow, 33 states will have begun the process of at least partially reopening. A recent gallup poll found that 44 of republicans and just 4 of democrats said that theyre ready to return to normal activities. And this week we watched as protests broke out in states like michigan where a statewide stayathome order remains in effect. Of course, it was just two weeks ago when the president called for the liberation of certain states, michigan included. And this week the president tweeted his support for those protesters calling them, quote, very good people, and urging Governor Gretchen Whitmer to give a little. The disagreements and the divides
Their clinical studies into hydroxychloroquine. That, of course, is the drug President Trump said he was taking to protect himself from the virus. The decision follows a report in the medical journal the lancet that said hydroxychloroquine did not im going to say it again did not help infected patients but it did lead to more heart issues and more deaths. Weve also got positive news coming from novavax which said human trials have started for a potential vaccine. Theyre expecting the first results in july. State and local leaders got a firsthand look at what summer may look like with crowds gathering from coast to coast for memorial day weekend. In some places, people were Wearing Masks but in many places it looked like the pandemic never even happened. While we wait to see what happens in those areas medically, there was a jump in new cases in washington, d. C. , and parts of virginia. But local leaders are moving ahead with plans to reopen anyway. Ali vitaly is in d. C. Some people m
The cnn newsroom, im randi kaye in for don lemon. In just a few minutes, well tackle a problem president s have had for years. They get bogged down by political paralysis or even scandal. For president obama its benghazi and the v. A. And the irs, and the disastrous rollout of obama care. Can he get anything done . Or are we all doomed to two more years of bickering inside the beltway. Well tackle all that in a moment. In a federal courtroom in washington a short time ago, a libyan terror suspect pleaded not guilty to charges he killed four americans in benghazi, including the u. S. Ambassador. Things are moving quickly for Abu Khatallah. He arrived in the u. S. On a slow moving u. S. Navy ship while he was questioned. Justin perez was inside the courtroom and watched the formal indictment happen. How did it go down . It was a very surreal scene. He came in, was wearing a gray twopiece track suit, he wore the same beard and long hair weve seen in photographs previously, he was very sub