pandemic. but let s be clear, it is a pandemic, and i labeled it so a week ago. i don t know what the world health organization is waiting on, and i really don t care. we re americans, and that means we re not a nation of buttercups and daffodils who need to have every official word on the coronavirus pandemic sugar-coated and sweetened for public consumption. we re americans. we and every generation before us has faced threats and challenges without flinching. we will do so as well. today there was, i believe, a new, different and stronger tone emanating from washington as the president himself met with the heads of pharmaceutical companies and challenged them to begin rapidly preparing the manufacturing of needed drugs and pharmaceutical up ingredients necessary ingredients necessary to deal with this public health emergency, and the stock markets roared their approval. after last week s performance, the worst since the 2008 recession, the dow jones industrials today soar
pandemic. but let s be clear, it is a pandemic, and i labeled it so a week ago. i don t know what the world health organization is waiting on, and i really don t care. we re americans, and that means we re not a nation of buttercups and daffodils who need to have every official word on the coronavirus pandemic sugar-coated and sweetened for public consumption. we re americans. we and every generation before us has faced threats and challenges without flinching. we will do so as well. today there was, i believe, a new, different and stronger tone emanating from washington as the president himself met with the heads of pharmaceutical companies and challenged them to begin rapidly preparing the manufacturing of needed drugs and pharmaceutical up ingredients necessary ingredients necessary to deal with this public health emergency, and the stock markets roared their approval. after last week s performance, the worst since the 2008 recession, the dow jones industrials today soar
pandemic. but let s be clear, it is a pandemic, and i labeled it so a week ago. i don t know what the world health organization is waiting on, and i really don t care. we re americans, and that means we re not a nation of buttercups and daffodils who need to have every official word on the coronavirus pandemic sugar-coated and sweetened for public consumption. we re americans. we and every generation before us has faced threats and challenges without flinching. we will do so as well. today there was, i believe, a new, different and stronger tone emanating from washington as the president himself met with the heads of pharmaceutical companies and challenged them to begin rapidly preparing the manufacturing of needed drugs and pharmaceutical up ingredients necessary ingredients necessary to deal with this public health emergency, and the stock markets roared their approval. after last week s performance, the worst since the 2008 recession, the dow jones industrials today soar
county, about 80 miles east of nashville. take a look at the images we re showing you here. 45 buildings damaged or collapsed and, again, as we see with some of the worst tornadoes, you don t know where one building begins and another one ends. this is the nashville area alone. we re standing by, and when that begins we will bring it to you, we re going to bring you the updates as you can be sure more updates are coming in. cnn correspondent amara walker is on the ground. what is the latest? reporter: i do want to update you on two of those deaths. metro nashville police tweeted that two people who were killed an adult female and adult male were killed when they were hit by debris here in nashville. i m going to tell you, being here all morning, talking to the people, they re telling me they re utterly devastated. those are the words that one woman used when she told me about her experience and also seeing the damage here in five points, which is like the social hub of east
for all the doubt, we do know something, and it is amazing. even illness becomes wellness. that saying was from malcolm x. we must be together as ever as one. let s get at it. all right. our nation s top infectious disease expert just said today there is a drug that may be able to block this virus. if you look at the time to recovery being shorter in the remdesivir arm, it was 11 days compared to 15 days. that s a p value, for the scientists who are listening, of 0.001. so that s something that, although a 31% improvement, doesn t seem like a knockout 100%. it is a very important proof of concept, because what it has proven is that a drug can block this virus. okay. let s all say the name of the drug together. ready? remdesivir. the drug is called remdesivir. you re going to hear it a lot. it s not easy to say. but now you know. the fda has reportedly fast tracked it. that s what s happening right now, for emergency use. that was dr. fauci, obviously, talking about the dr