President trump boarding. Marine one the helicopter there on wednesday to take him to air force one where he continued on to a rally and then shortly after hope hicks walks across the grass as you can see here to board marine one as well with the president shes there you can see Jared Kushner is part of that as well hope hicks a very integral part of the president s inner circle. Now she has traveled with the president several times this week including flight on air force one for tuesday nights president ial debate. President trump was on fox news last night after he confirmed that hope hicks. Has tested positive for coronavirus and here is what he had to say. Thats very hard when you with soldiers what year airman marines and i would tend to police with him so much and when they come over to its very hard to say stay back he back, you know its its a tough kind of a situation is a terrible thing today. They want to hug you and they want to kiss you because we really have done a good jo
Trump and our wonderful first lady melania they are both positive and they are now in quarantine. And weve also heard from the physician to the president this morning he sent out this statement which reads in part that they are both doing well at this time and that they plan to remain at home within the white house during their convalescent so that the latest now from the president s physician now the president and the first ladys positive test results came hours after the white house announced the senior aide hope hicks had come down with the virus and in this video you see the president boarding marine one. The helicopter there on wednesday he was headed to a rally. In minnesota. And then shortly after youll see in a moment, we have hope hicks walking across the grass to join the president on board that helicopter surrounded by other close aides to the president now says that was winds that was wednesday was wednesday, she gets on the chopper inside at the moment that right feeling f
Hicks and that she definitely was experiencing symptoms and then indeed tested positive so she first tested positive on wednesday. However, the president continued on to events thursday yesterday, a potentially exposing a lot of other people so thats the big story this morning is who else have it and all we know at this point is that Vice President pence has tested so far negative. We dont know if thats the quick rapid test that tends to be a little a false positives or negatives or or if it was a more indepth test that took some time say 24 hours maybe he was tested yesterday he and he tweeted last night obviously his support for the president and well wishes for a speedy recovery. Well of course be tracking that this morning we have heard from the doctors physician or for some sorry, the president s physician and heres the memorandum he sent out in which he said that at this time theyre both doing well they plan to remain at home at the white house while the recovering, he said the W
Thanks for joining 9 oclock, everybody im grant lotus can over and Catherine Heenan in for Vicki Liviakis tonight. Local city leaders they are not taking any chances with the virus. Yeah we are not taking chances either and crown for trying to practice what we preach Health Officials obviously stressing the importance of social distancing to try to slow the spread of this virus. So were doing the same catherine over there about 12 feet away. Lawrence karnow to my right gangs all here so this is will be doing for the foreseeable future yeah and the cdc actually recommends at least 6 were doing better than that to protect ourselves and to stay on the air to bring you the latest information you need to know today residents in 6 counties have been advised to remain at home, leaving only for essential needs and the supplies in the following counties, San Francisco more in santa clara san Mateo Alameda and contra costa. This order takes effect at midnight we know it will last at least 3 week
And welcome back this afternoon President Trump addressed the nation from the white house wrote this garden declare a National State of emergency joe khaleel reports now from washington with how the trump administration. Its trying to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. And i am officially declaring a National Emergency President Trump officially declared the spread of the coronavirus a National Emergency friday in further and so the order emerging every state to set up Emergency Operation centers Effective Immediately his announcement opens up about 50 billion in emergency funding for states and agencies like the centers for Disease Control to help slow the virus can also help states be more nimble with programs like medicaid and provides Disaster Relief funding for states that need it to unleash the full power of the federal government to this effort when the president and his Task Force Spearhead the effort from here at the white house lawmakers on capitol hill are finalizing a deal fo