Confusion, let alone panic. And heres why. The facts and the science provide a clear path for us right now. There are facts that you can gather that will guide your decisions in the days and weeks ahead and focusing on the right facts while avoiding misinformation can help prioritize what you do and literally what you do to make you and your community safer. So that is our spirit tonight as we begin. We have the latest facts and medical guidance for you throughout this broadcast. Here we go. Right now there are over 4300 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the United States which have led to over 80 deaths. We can now report 33 states have closed all Public Schools plus additional districts across the country. And slightly more in 35 states declaring formal emergencies. These measures and the wider concerns have the markets tumbling again today. The dow down a whopping 13 . That makes this and you may have heard this last week, but now this is true as of today. This is the worst day for the markets since 1987. This is a crash that also comes even after the fed took new stimulus actions like severely cutting interest rates. Now, across the globe more and more countries are closing their boarders to noncitizens. Here in the United States were seeing all sorts of new measures. High of high literally postponing a president ial primary for tomorrow, the latest to state to do so. In cities from paris to los angeles, officials shutting down restaurants and bars and movie theaters. Health experts at the White House PressConference Today releasing new guidance. Avoid groups of ten or more. If you can, just stay home. No matter who you are, please stay home. If someone in your household is diagnosed with this virus, the entire household should quarantine in the house to prevent spread of the virus to others. President trump also struck a somewhat different tone today. He cited experts a bit more. He acknowledged a recession may be coming, and then he credited the role of the press during a National Crisis like this. These are notes from the president that are certainly different than usual. Were going to get into that more later in the hour. He also said Something Big picture. Whatever your thoughts, whatever your politics, whatever views you bring to the way america normally runs, he said something that i bet you can understand or relate to. That we are in a new reality, and its a reality that could last quite sometime. Is this the new normal until well see what happens. They think august, could be july, could be longer than that. Ive asked that question many, many times. The truth is no one knows exactly how long this will go. You can name a month, july, august, or later. We do know, though, that experts have told us the nature of the spread of this virus in other countries, which is a very recent type of precedent, suggests that those of us here in the United States are currently still in the early stages of how our nation adjusts and reacts. What comes next, though, depends on several factors. Some we cant control. We know that. But others are behavioral and policy choices that the nation can control. Some of them are at an individual level, limiting interactions, following cdc guidance. Some of them are at the local level. The rules set by local authorities, and some relate to National Decisions that the president and the congress will continue to make. I want to kickoff our broadcast tonight with rick burke who runs the website stat, all health news. A long time Senior Editor at the new york times. An epidemiologist, and anchor for bbc news. Rick, when you look at the available facts, what is most important in understanding where the United States is at right now . Well, let me say, ari, i thought it was very important what you said at the outset about the spirit of facts and the truth. And i was really struck by the president today when he said a month ago nobody ever heard of it. I was i almost fell out of my chair because our lead Public Health reporter Helen Branswel wrote about this january 4th. We had a month ago, we had written over 100 stories. Not just us, but other reputable news organizations. So the facts were out there. And the sad truth is people werent looking at the facts. And its important for us to know, for us to all keep putting them out and being, as you said, not being panicked, but sort of taking the right steps, and knowing what we dont know. We dont know if hospitals are going to be overloaded. We think that could happen, but theres a model, we wrote about it where a Data Scientist today said, well, if we do proper social distancing, the hospitals may not be overloaded. So there are a lot of unknowns here that we have to be aware of. You think about, as you said, the known unknowns, to use a phrase. And then the known knowns, doctor, we have a lot of things we can do. Thats been an emphasis on this. I want to play for you dr. Fauci talking about the levels of reaction were seeing and what is not an over reaction. Take a listen. When youre dealing with an emerging Infectious Diseases outbreak, you are always behind where you think you are if you think that today reflects where you really are. Thats not word speak. It means, if you think youre here, youre really here because youre only getting the results. Therefore, it will always seem that the best way to address it would be doing something that looks like it might be an over reaction. It isnt an over reaction. I appreciate the nuance of what hes asking us all to consider, the doctor using his bedside manner to speak to us all like adults. What is it to us to mean to understand, things that seem, quoteunquote, drastic . Because they ask a lot of us are not necessarily a, quote, over reaction . Exactly. When Public Health methods work, that is when we think afterwards, this was all a big over reaction. We all have to do everything we can to limit spread, to flatten the curve. Social distancing, all of the things that everybody is telling us to do, this will limit spread here in the United States as it has in other countries. The other thing we have to remember is that epidemics have happened all over the world before in countries where they can pull together between business, between government, and between communities. They are all able to flatten the curve of epidemics before. Weve seen this other places. We have to do the same thing in other places on a large scale. Were just not used to it here in the United States. Katty kay, thinking about other places in the United States, whats happening in other places, the stress in air travel, take a listen to people our reporters have talked to if its unfolding. It felt like a scary movie because of all the people wearing masks. No consistency in questioning. No temperature check. No swabs. Nothing. So its just been a lot of confusion to the point i wanted to come home because its not even worth the stress. What do you think we can learn about this from the global side, catty . I think theres quite a lot we can learn. I was due to fly in sunday night into the states. I changed my travel plans to come back early. When i flew in there was no temperature testing and no swabbing going on Dulles Airport at all. The temperature testing does seem to be key. If were not going to give people swab testings, what happened in china that seemed to work effectively is you got your temperature taken everywhere. You got on the bus your temperature was taken. You went in your own building your temperature was taken. If you had a high fever you were separated from your family. One of the important things we heard from the white house today, and actually the u. K. Government, was the stress on family clusters because many of the cases, a large proportion of the cases in china were actually in family groups. So trying to steparate people from their families in theyre sick, but isolate whole families so they dont go and infect other people. To some extent the United States has the advantage of being able to learn from other countries. Theres a tragedy the Trump Administration didnt seem to want to learn for the first month or so of this. Today we saw a different tone and hopefully they are looking at what happened in other countries and taking lessons from those. On that point, brings us to Something Else we wanted to get to, rick, which is take a listen to the Surgeon General discussing the examples from other countries. I think youve got several different models and, yes, there is a potential for us to become italy. Were doing the right things now so that in two weeks we dont become italy. But were all in this together. Rick . I think we do have the benefit of seeing other models and how its playing out in other countries, but that last quote, were all in this together, its really interesting to me. I think back to this crisis and i think back to 9 11 when we were all uncertain and panicked and not knowing where to turn. And i remember as a political reporter, i didnt have much to write about because we were all in this together. We werent this country, the political leaders were not attacking each other. Everyone thought theres a common goal here. And now we have a situation, because of what were hearing from members of congress, members of the white house about the performance and the reaction of our leadership in this country, its become political and partisan in a way that doesnt serve anyone well. And its really striking to me because this feels like it should be a moment when people are together, are in this together and there should be common goals. And i worry that thats not happening. Catty, do you share that concern . Or do you see any evidence that, again, this has been happening so quickly for some, although as rick says, many scientists, doctors and folks who write about this full time, what we might call the em pier cpirical community, do you see washington catching up to this today versus say a week ago . You do see a new tone from the white house today certainly. It didnt receive seem to reass markets. The markets now think the alarm that is being expressed in the white house and in the Federal Reserve made the markets investors even more anxious. I think the real issue the whole country has become politicized. Its alarming to see the degree to which even the coronavirus and how serious you think it is depends on whether you support the administration or you dont support the administration. Thats kind of fatal. We have to get people on board with realizing this is a serious problem because otherwise people wont make the sacrifices necessary and they have to have that from leadership. Theyve got to hear it from the white house and they have to hear it from republicans on the hill. As you said go ahead, rick. I thought it was an encouraging tone at the press conference. Youre all right about that. For the first time i cant remember the last time the president complimented the press for its handling of anything. And he complimented the press after being very critical of the coverage for a while. So i think thats progress. You mention that. It caught our ears as well, not strictly because we happened to be in the press, but both on that and the name of one of his well known twitter foes jeff bezos who has been trying reportedly to be part of the solution. He skipped the usual petty reactions weve seen in almost every other setting about the press and beyond. Were going to show some of that later in the broadcast because its so relevant. Rick burke and katty kay, i want to thank both of you. Were going to bring you back, doctor, for something coming up special this hour. Donald trump telling people they need to get respirators on their own. The governor offer rhode island is here for a local perspective later in the hour. I have a live interview coming up with a volunteer who just received the very first test of the potential quirCoronavirus Vaccine. That is Important News we want to get into. 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We heard from that federal officials sunday, and the president reiterating it today. A federal quarantine not on the table. Are you considering instituting a nationwide lockdown, a nationwide quarantine . The nsc knocked that down, but there are still some questions about how it all at this point not nationwide, but well, there are some places in our nation that are not very affected at all. We may look at certain areas, certain hot spots as they call them. Thats the public position of the federal government. But and this is important. I want you to know. If you looked on twitter and certain parts of the internet over this weekend, you would have seen the opposite of the fact we just reported because there were all kinds of vague rumors and tweets about a lockdown. This is a reminder to treat unsourced information very carefully right now, and there are new reports that foreign governments may have been pushing the online talk of of a federal u. S. Lockdown to both scare and divide americans. Now, having said thats correct you should also know in todays press conference we saw a president we were discussing this before the break, a president who struggled with his response to this crisis. At one point disclaiming any responsibility, and last week still poking, stoking and trying to poke at rivals with all sorts of petty fights. Well, we did see an attempt at a different tone today. The president saying uncharacteristically measured things about the media, about the owner of the Washington Post who has personally locked horns with the president before. Amazon founder, jeff bezos. I think a lot of the media actually has been very fair. I think people are pulling together on this. I really think the media has been very fair. We heard jeff bezos has been in contact with the white house daily. Can you say what hes been ive heard thats true. Some of my people as i understand it have been dealing with them or with him. As we look at the government response were joined by rhode island governor who shut all bars and restaurants in rhode island. That begins tomorrow. There are reportedly 21 cases or more in the state and the former chair of the republican party, michael steele. Good day to both of you. Appreciate you making time. Hi, ari. Good to see you. And im on a slight tape delay, tell you, and viewers. Sound delay. Governor, what you heard from the president , does it stouound constructive to you, does it sound like a shift . And how does it deal with what youre doing locally . What were doing is taking action locally. Here in rhode island we tried to stay in front of this. We were one of the first states to deploy our National Guard to help us do some of the testing. I would say at this point the federal government is trying to catch up. We had a call today with the president and the vicepresident , all of the governors. I appreciated the call. I appreciated that they are listening to us. But right now states are leading and the federal government needs to continue to speed up the urgency with which they a