In his words, much lower than the 200,000 predicted by some models thanks to people staying home. Lets begin our coverage at this hour with our chief White House Correspondent jim acosta. Jim, there are very intriguing comments from cdc director Robert Redfield about his prediction involving the death toll here in the United States. Reporter thats right, wolf. The white house has yet to offer many details about how the Coronavirus Task force arrived at that estimate, that 100,000 to 240,000 americans would die from the coronavirus. But Public Health officials are cautioning that the eventual number of dead could fall well under that figure as americans are practicing social distancing. Were learning a key factor driving the large estimate was a crucial assumption discussed by Task Force Officials that only 50 of americans would observe the governments stringent social distancing guidelines. In reality a much larger, 90 , are observing those guidelines. The director of the centers for D
The country, in his words, struggling to control the spread. On the one hand, things are going to get bad and we need to be prepared for that. It is going to be shocking to some. It certainly is really disturbing to see that, but thats whats going to happen before it turns around, so just buckle down, continue to mitigate, continue to do the physical separation because we got to get through this week coming up because it is going to be a bad week. That message pushed by new yorks andrew cuomo. He said there has been a slight flattening of the curve about two days after a slight rise two new report today from the health and Human Services watchdog after talking to hundreds of hospitals, the i. T. Days in a row. The Javits Center with more. Says what weve been hearing for weeks now, hospitals and front erica . Anderson, he was very clear though. Line workers dealing with severe while it could be good, meaning, and widespread shortages of were seeing this plateau, that needed supplies and
Approach to playing music and the intuitive approach to playing music. He was a combination of the two. And i think being in a situation where you had to negotiate both of those worlds definitely made us better musicians. Than it would have been if we had done one or the other. Listen, there is so much to talk about your father. He mentored big jazz names like terrance blanchard, Harry Connick jr. You guys are the royal family of jazz. The alice Marsalis Center for music was build after hurricane katrina. That was part of his legacy. He embodied really new orleans. The mayor has put out a statement talking about him. Im going put up the mayors statement. It says Ellis Marsalis was a legend. He is a prototype about what we mean when we talk about new orleans jazz. For decades your father performed at a weekly gig in a jazz club there until just this past year. And so he meant so much to new orleans. And so i want to this virus that took his life is dangerous and deadly, as we know. What
Task force but still dismissing the threat as a democratic hoax. And polling in wisconsin is taking place at a dramatic reduced number of polling stations. The state Supreme Court intervened at the last moment permitting the election to continue today. Well have more on that. And well have a report on london on Prime Minister Boris Johnsons health after he was placed in intensive care on monday. As far as we know, hes not on a ventilator. Hes turned some powers over to his foreign secretary. The Prime Ministers fiancee, who was pregnant with their first child and lives on downing street, is also ill. We have coverage now beginning with nbcs gabe reuters in new york, the epicenter of the pandemic. What is the latest from new york following up on what Governor Cuomo said from the usns comfort, which to date had about 50 patients but not covid cases yet, is that correct . Yes, andrea. Certainly very sobering news from Governor Cuomo a short time ago. Actually, its a mixed bag in both enco
Understand why were not doing that. We really should be. Harris youre watching outnumbered. Im harris faulkner. Here today, melissa francis. Fox Business Network anchor, dagen mcdowell. Dr. Janette nesheiwat, city md director and fox news contributor. Joining us today, davi david as, host of bull bears on fox business, in the center seat or in the Center Virtual couch. He is outnumbered. Dr. Nesheiwat, i will come to you first on this burst above 1 million, this milestone around the globe. Is this what we anticipated . Have we turned a corner globally, or not . Dr. Nesheiwat hey, harris. These staggering numbers are heartbreaking, and i have to say i dont even think they are accurate. I think the numbers are much, much higher. For example, when im in the office, when im taking care of patients, i am only able to test and swab a fraction of the patients. When i know most of them have it. Out of 50 patients im able to swab maybe five or six, and i know at least 40 or 45 of them are posit