Our country. This memorial day does come though in the context of a rolling national tragedy, with more than 97,000 dead from coronavirus. As captured by a striking front page of todays new york times, the newspaper paying tribute to some of the people who have died of the coronavirus, writing, they were not simply names on a list. They were us. In black and white the times listing 1,000 names, about 1 of the death toll, and a short line from their obituary. Also this morning, the head of the Wuhan Institute of virology is denying claims by the Trump Administration that the coronavirus leaked from its lab in the city where this Global Pandemic originated. The director calling the charge a pure fabrication. More on that in a moment. And nbc news has learned that the nba and disney are in talks for the league to restart play without fans this summer at walt Disney Resort in florida. We will have live reports with more on those stories just ahead. And later in our sunday spotlight, six fe
[inaudible] i hear you. Punctuality. Man. We have everybody . Do we have folks on the phone again . Yes, sir. Ok, i will just let you know ,ho is here, Ryan Mccarthy chief of staff of the army, surgeon general, director of operations and plans, director of the Army National guard bureau and Sergeant Major of the army. The chief will make some opening remarks, and then we will open up to your questions. I think we have a hard stop at 1400, right . Ok. Thank you, mr. Secretary. The army has 288 confirmed cases of covid19 as of this morning. 100 of soldiers. 64 department of the army civilians. 5 are dependents nine are cadets. 50 are army contractors. This week, the secretary of defense signed orders for three Army Hospitals to deploy to new york and Washington State. Fortive 31st hospital for campbell, kentucky, and the night hospital for fort hood, texas, will deploy to new york city. An advanced party is on the ground as i speak. The main party will arrive at joint base mcguire, dix,
It is difficult to understand the degree to which the world has changed since the last time we met. In just the wink of an eye, a virus that appeared at the other corner of the world has become a pandemic, killing across the world, including here in europe, from one day to the next. Our lifestyles have changed. Shelves empty,e the doors closed, and we have routine toa daily weigh fight for our life. At the moment, we have seen to a fight for our life. At the moment, we have seen the way in which we have come so fragile and substitutable. We have seen a tragedy of the heart of europe at the scale that is completely unimaginable that was completely unimaginable just a few weeks ago. My heart goes out to a of those victims and families. Ourwe would like to pass on best wishes to those who are fighting for their lives at this very point in time or for a land at home. But if the virus is hitting is hard, european citizens are just as resilient. And i would like to pay tribute to those men a
Saying the u. S. Lacks domestic stock. Noting they are hard to restock in a Global Pandemic because they are manufactured overseas. After the 2009 h 1 n 1 pandemic, we did clear calculations and realized that we would need to buy billions of masks. The head of the cdc until 2017 says that they were aware of problems and that the agency warned the government several times since 2010 and this report in october was not the only recent warning. A warning about the u. S. Vulnerability in 2018 and 2019. This comes as richard burr comes under fire for downplaying the coronavirus despite the stark warning from friends two weeks before the u. S. Started to take steps to contain the outbreak. It is much more aggressive than anything we have seen in history and more akin to the 1918 pandemic. Who knew months later we would be dealing with it. The Trump Administration said they issued a executive order in response to that study. This is important reporting. It shouldnt stop here. It should continu
Jimmy oh, hi todays friday thats usually when i meditate a little bit and kind of clear my head over this long, stressful week its also kind of great to embrace the quiet and embrace yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Jimmy all new tonight show, at home edition starts now. [ laughter ] you have lost youre upside down youre upside down jimmy hi, everybody. What a long week its kind of been but thank you so much for tuning in and watching our show and giving to all these great charities. A couple people have asked if i am giving to these charities as well and, yes, my family is donating to every charity that weve mentioned so far during these shows. And thank you so much. Every amount counts. So i really appreciate that. And, man, its been a really interesting week day 15, is it . Day 15, and i just want to say first off, hoda, i feel you, buddy. And everyones just showing their creative ways of dealing with this and being so kind to each other out there and i want to say thank you for that i miss