Offering free coronavirus testing for anyone with symptoms. The Testing Center is open for all regardless of where they live in the bay area regardless of immigration status. Theyre being conducted at fire station 7 in hayward. Fire fighters and paramedics are prescreening people as they arrive and no referral from a doctor is required to be screened. The screeners is going to ask some specific questions and criteria has to be met. So if youre not exhibiting a fever of anything over 100 degrees, youre probably going to be turned away. I want to emphasize that. We want to treat those and get those test kits to the people that need it the most. Were told those test results should come back in six to 24 hours. The center is open daily from 9 00 a. M. To 6 00 p. M. Santa clara is preparing far surge in patients as more testing becomes available. Theres a plan to turn the Convention Center into a facility and injuries from car crashes and in just the past hour, our crews saw federal officia
Is different. In new york the crisis grows. An Emergency Hospital built in central park to deal with the onslaught. Nightmare at sea. Were in the middle of the ocean. Were stuck. Passengers stranded for weeks on a cruise ship carrying four bodies and more than 100 people with coronaviruslike symptoms just ahead, their long journey home to florida and the growing pressure on the state to turn the ship away. On strike. Thousands of workers at amazon and other Online Delivery Services walking off the job today, accusing their companies of putting profits ahead of their health those stories, plus coming together rise up yeah elton john teams up with his superstar friends for a oneofakind concert. Always be my baby inside the unique benefit for these unusual times, today monday march 30th, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is a special edition of today the coronavirus pandemic with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. Hi, everybody, good morning welcome to you today its nice to have you with u
Currently affected. And james corden returns with a starstudded special. Hell telluous social distancing should not keep us apart. First, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The peak. The highest point of death rates. Remember this is likely to hit in two weeks. No state, no metro area will be spared. President trump extending social distancing guidelines through april. His denial at the beginning was deadly. His delay in getting equipment to where its needed is deadly. The virus has just torn through new york city and its suburbs with frightening speed. Most of the deaths have happened in the span of just a few days. April will be worse than march. May will likely be worse than april. Prime minister Boris Johnson who is quarantined with the coronavirus released a video message on his twitter page. Thank you to all of you and remember, stay at home. People in several states are cleaning up from tornadoes. Severe weather through the central u. S. From texas into the midwe
Of the more than 53,000 cases across the u. S. About 700 people have now died nationwide. Another sign of how dramatically the world has changed the summer olympics have been postponed until next year. On wall street today, the dow had its biggest oneday gain since 1933, after congress signaled it is very close to an agreement on the largest stimulus bill in history. Were talking about more than 2 trillion. So were going to begin tonight with meg oliver, who is at the center of the crisis there in new york city. And, meg, i understand there is some breaking news tonight for people who have been in new york in the last two weeks, right . Reporter thats exactly right, norah. We just heard a stunning announcement from the White House Task force. Anyone who recently left new york city or who has spent time here in the last few days should selfquarantine for the next 14 days, just proving how quickly this virus is spreading. We havent flattened the curve, and the curve is actually increasin
So, Health Care Workers absolutely need to be wearing masks. They wear very hightech masks. We have a shortage of those. But theres a second benefit of masks. If we all wear masks in the public, even if theyre crude masks theyre just made out of cloth then the reasoning goes that we will all collectively breathe less particles into the air and be less likely to infect each other. Odonnell so to answer the question, people will ask, why hasnt the recommendation been clear on this from the beginning . I think there have been a number of concerns. The first is that cloth masks, that they dont really protect the awarer very well from anything. So people should not have the sense that if they go out in public with the cloth mask that theyre suddenly protected. Theyre not. They need to do social distancing, just like everybody else. But there is this recognition that people can spread the disease and dont even know it. Thats why there now is were moving in the direction many more Public Heal