It flattens out for a period of time. Nobody knows how long because nobodys been here before. But if you look at the number of total admissions, 18,000, 18,000, 18,000. Thats definitely a flattening. Thats good news. Still going up a little bit, by the way. Go back a second. Still going up a little bit, but a basic flattening as opposed to increasing gaps. The total number of hospitalizations, net down, a little bit up, a little bit down. But overall just follow the line. Dont get caught up in the daytoday. As we say, threeday rolling average, which is more accurate than any one day, is down again. The net change in i. C. U. Admissions is down. Again, i discount this i. C. U. Admissions because the old demarcation of an i. C. U. Bed in a hospital and regular bed in the hospital is gone. Almost every bed is basically an i. C. U. Bed. Net change in i. C. U. Admissions is also down. Intubations is real. Intubations is the worst number. If you go on a ventilator, 80 , when its down its good and that is down. The threeday rolling average is down. So thats good news. We were worried about the spread from new york city to suburbs upstate. And we have been very aggressive when we get a little cluster, a spot thats acting up, we jump on it. This is like watching a fire going through dry grass with a strong wind and its blowing the fire and a couple of embers wind up on one side of the field and thats a cluster and you have to run over to those embers and you have to stamp them out so they wont grow. You see the stabilization and thats good, too. This is a new take on it. We talk about net hospitalizations. This is the number of new covid19 hospitalizations to date. This is how many new covid19 diagnoses or people walking into the hospital that have covid. You still 2,000 People Per Day are walking in or being diagnosed with covid. So you are still increasing the hospital population. Initially, by 2,000 people who are testing positive for covid but on the other side of the Health Care System, people are being discharged on the other end. So the net is what we talk about because weve always been worried about lack of capacity in the Hospital System where you where you pour the water into the glass and the glass overfills. Where the Hospital Systems cant handle the number of people coming in. And thats why weve been studying the net. But this says, you know, take a deep breath. You still have 2,000 People Per Day who are coming into the Hospital System. The worst news i had to deliver to date as governor of new york and the worst news on a personal level, number of deaths is 671. Not as bad as its been in the past but basically flat and basically flat at a horrific level of pain and grief and sorrow. This is 671 people who passed away on easter sunday. For me, im catholic. Easter sunday is the high holy days, in one of many ways, the high holy day and to have this happen over this weekend is really, really especially tragic and they are all in our thoughts and prayers. The that raises the death total to 10,056. Again, for perspective, 10,000, 2,700 lives were lost on 9 11 and 9 11 changed every new yorker who was in the position to appreciate on that day what happened. And the number of lives lost lives lost was horrific after 9 11 and the grief was horrific. And we are at 10,000 deaths. New york, 10,000 deaths, new jersey, 2,000 deaths, massachusetts, 756, and then you have the state of michigan. Why new york . Why are we seeing this level of infection . Well, why cities across the country . Its very simple. Its about density. Its about the number of people in a small geographic location allowing that virus to spread and that virus is very good what it does. Its a killer. Its very good at spreading. Its very contagious and dense environments are its feeding grounds. We learned that lesson very early on. Remember, we had one of the first hot spots in the nation. One of the most intense clusters was new rochelle, new york. New rochelle is in westchester county. Its not in new york city. Why new rochelle . And thats what i was so concerned about early on. We didnt know what we were looking at. Why new rochelle . Because in new rochelle, one person or two people who were infected were in dense gatherings with hundreds of people and it spread like wildfire. So its not just a dense city or a dense community. Its any person in a dense environment. You can be in a very rural county. You know, people think new york. New york city. No, no. We have counties that have more cows than people by population. You can be anywhere. If you have one person who is infected in a room with 100 people, 200 people, 300 people, now you have a problem. This goes back to the spanish flu where some cities canceled parades. Other cities didnt cancel parades. We went through these numbers when we had the decision on st. Patricks day parade which bernadette still will not forgive me for but you can have a parade in a relatively small city but you bring people together and this virus has a feeding frenzy. Where do we go from here . Question of reopening. Which Everyone Wants to do and everybody wants to do yesterday. I am and i am at the top of that list. We have to understand on the reopening, as much as we have this emotion, we want it to of had a, we want it to happen now and we cant take this anymore and everyone feels the same, it is a delicate balance. Remember what we have to do on reopening. And remember, it has never been done before. None of this has been done before. Anyone that says to you, oh, i know what we should do. I know. Yeah, you dont know because nobody knows. And thats the one thing that we have learned over and over again. And this place has never done this before. Also, you look around the world. You see warning signs from countries who have opened. And my point is to our team, i want to learn from those other countries. Frankly. And i want to make sure we know from our studying and assessment whats going on in other countries that what worked what didnt work and lets learn from those lessons. And you can now go back and look at wuhan province and look at italy and look at south korea and see what we did and see what worked and what didnt work so lets learn. So well listen to the experts. Well follow the data. But remember this is a delicate balance. What are we doing on reopening . We are easing isolation. We want to increase economic activity. That will happen essentially through a recalibration of what are essential workers. Remember, we never turned off the economy. The economy is still functioning. You can get in your car, you can get gasoline, you can go to the grocery store, you can shop. You can get on a bus. The economy is functioning. We never turned it off. We turned it way, way down. And its just the essential services that have been operating. But the essential services have all been operating. What you will be doing, in essence, on the reopening is recalibrating what is essential. Right. Youll start to open that valve on the economic activity. And youll turn that valve very slowly, reopening the economy, more essential workers, do it carefully, do it slowly, and do it intelligently. More testing. And more precautions. At the same time that youre opening that valve. More testing so you have more information about who should be coming in, etc. More precautions because you know that works. As youre recalibrating and opening the valve. What is the meter . The meter is the infection rate. The meter is those Daily Hospitalization rates. And there is a cause and effect. You have density. You have more people infecting other people. You will see it within a matter of days in that hospitalization rate. So, yes, open the valve. Slowly. Advised by experts. Keep your eye on the meter. The meter is the infection rate. And watch that infection rate. And if you see that infection rate start ticking up, which would be undermining everything we have accomplished thus far, then you know youve opened the valve too fast. That is the delicate balance that we have to work through. And that is what has never been done before. And nobody can tell you today, i know how to do that, because it just hasnt happened. So what do we do . First, come up with a reopening plan. Im not interested in political opinions. Im interested in what the experts say about this. To the best they can tell you, but you have Public Health experts. They can study south korea. They can study china. They can study all the data we have. You have Economic Experts that can help you decide what is the next notch of essential workers that can actually start the economy back up and have a consequential change, but thats a real plan and that has to be developed and that has to be smart. The why did the Geographic Area for that plan the better . Because this virus doesnt understand governmental boundaries. Along with westchester county, so you, virus, has to stop entering here and you follow my rules. No. The virus follows its own boundaries and its own guidelines and it doesnt have any. The Geographic Area that is an economic area, a workforce area, a transportation area, thats the relevant area that we have to be looking at. You have to coordinate all these systems. You cant start one system without starting the other systems. You cant start the Economic System without starting the transportation system. And if you cant run the transportation system, then you cant reopen the economy. Just doesnt happen. You have to coordinate the schools with the transportation with the Economic System. These systems work in coordination. Theyre big gears and each gear intermeshes with the other gear and you cant start one gear with the other gear stopped, right . Thats the coordination. Youre going to need federal support, and youre going to need smart legislation passed by the federal government that actually attends to the need. As opposed to normal political considerations. Testing is going to be key. And thats a new frontier for us also. This state is probably the most aggressive state in the nation in actually getting the testing up. We test more than any other state. We test more than other countries. We test more than the other states leading states combind in testing. But thats still not enough. And we have to do more. And we know that the precautions work. The masks work. The gloves work. The temperature taking works. Its abnormal, its different, but it works and we have to do it. And while were doing this, we have to remember to stay the course and not jeopardize what we have achieved. And we have achieved much. This afternoon, ill be joined by other governors. We have been talking to other states, connecticut, new jersey, pennsylvania, delaware, rhode island for the past couple of days about coming up with how do we come up with a reopening plan and can we Work Together on a reopening plan, and well be having an announcement this afternoon with other governors about just that, the reopening plan. And as i said, the optimum is to have as coordinated a regional plan as you can. I understand intergovernmental coordination can be somewhat of an oxymoron but, to the extent we can work with connecticut and new jersey and rhode island and delaware and pennsylvania, i want to. It is smarter for everyone, for people of their state and for the people of my state. And this is a time for smart, competent, effective government. Nothing else matters. I want to make sure that we i consider the people of this state, we did everything we could to the best of our ability. And the optimum is a geographically coordinated plan. I dont believe we could ever get to total coordination with all those states because all those states have a little different set of circumstances, in fact. I dont believe we should have a uniform plan without recognizing the statebystate distinctions. But to the extent we can coordinate, we should, and we will. Last point, and this is a personal point. When is it over . I have this conversation 100 times a day. I had it last night with my daughters. When is it over . And its a difficult conversation because people want it to be over so badly, right . I want the fear to stop. I want the anxiety to stop. I dont want to have worry about my brother anymore. I dont want to have to worry about my daughters. I dont want to have to worry about my mother. I want to be out of my house. I have been living under this weird, disorienting, frightening place. I am afraid to touch people. This is a it violates the Human Behavior and needs. When is it over . Its not going to be over like that. Its not going to be, we flick a switch and everybody comes out of their house and gets in their cars and waves and hugs each other and the economy all starts up. I would love to say thats going to happen. Its not going to happen that way. It cant happen that way. Can it happen in some communities across the country where, frankly, they have very low infection rates and they could come up with a testing regimen where if they find one or two cases they quickly jump on those one or two and they isolate and they track . Yes. But is that going to happen here . No. Is that going to happen in any community that has a significant issue . No. Theres no going to be there is going to be no epiphany. There is going to be no morning where the headlines says, hallelujah, its over. Thats not going to happen. What will happen is there will be points of resolution over time. What does that mean . There will be points of resolution. There will be points where we can say weve accomplished something, we should feel better, we should feel more calm, we should feel more relaxed. And it will be incremental. Were controlling the spread. We are controlling the spread. You look at those numbers, you know what it says, were controlling the spread. I was afraid that it was going to infect my family no matter what i did. Were past that. If you isolate, if you take the precautions, your family wont get infected. We can control the spread. Feel good about that. Because by the way, we could have gotten to the point where we said, we cant control this damn thing. We cant control it. Its in the air. It gets into your house. It doesnt matter. You close the door, it comes under the door. You could have gotten there. Were not there. Those numbers say we can control the spread. Feel good about that. The worst is over. Yeah, if we continue to be smart Going Forward because, remember, we have the hand on that valve. You turn that valve too fast, youll see that number jump right back. But, yes, i think you can say the worst is over because the worst here are people dying. Thats the worst. The worst doesnt get any bad than this worst. And this worst is people dying. Thats the worst. And winston churchill, i mentioned the other day, the end of the beginning. Yes, we can control the spread, and we can reduce the number of people who die and our Health Care System can do phenomenal work and rise to the occasion and deal with this beast. Its has not overwhelmed the Health Care System, we have controlled the spread, and theres confidence to be taken in that. And thats an accomplishment. And it was a heck of an accomplishment. Those Health Care Workers for the rest of my life i will say nothing but thank you to them. And i was not sure we could keep the tide from overwhelming our hospital capacity. And they did. Feel good about that. And i believe the worst is over if we continue to be smart. And i believe we can now start on the path to normalcy, and we can have a plan where you start to see some businesses reopening, understanding the delicate balance. I think there will become a point there is an announcement that we have a medical treatment that you can get sick but they found an antiviral medication that can help you treat the disease. So take another deep breath when we get to that point because, ok, you get infected but there is a drug regimen that can help you. And then youll get to a point where they announce we have a proven vaccine. Thats when its over. Thats really when its over. They have a vaccine, its been tested, its been proven, they can produce it, youre going to get a vaccine, this is the thing of the past, dont worry about it, close the chapter, move on. Ok. When do we get there . 12 months to 18 months. I cant believe you said 12 months to 18 months. As cara said to me. Its 12 months to 18 mounts. When dr. Fauci said how long until a vaccine, he said 12 months to 18 months. When the f. D. A. Is asked, how long does it take to get a vaccine . They said 12 months to 18 months. Thats the point when you ask me when can i do a deep breath for the first time in five weeks, when they say we have a vaccine. Thats when it is over. But there will be points between now and then when we should feel more confident and we should feel better. Well, i want it to be over tomorrow. I get it. I want it to be over tomorrow. I want it to be over tomorrow more than you want it over tomorrow. In the meantime, stay the course. Because we have accomplished a lot through heroic efforts of Health Care Workers, police officers, transportation workers who showed up to drive those trains and buses every day. I mean, people just doing extraordinary, brave, generous, courageous things every day. Literally putting their lives at risk for the public. And we have flattened that curve by peoples actions, which, remember, is why those projection models were all wrong. The projection models were high. They werent wrong. Thats a bad word. What they were saying, this is where the infection will go if unabated. Whats the question mark on whether or not you can abate it . You have 19 Million People in new york. I can stand up here all day long and say you must social distance, you must stay home. If new yorkers dont believe it, if americans dont believe it, if they question their government, if i dont have credibility, why do i stand here and go through all the facts. I am not asking any new yorker to take my word for anything. Im not asking any american, take my word for it. Here are the facts. Ill give you the facts. The good facts, the bad facts, the ugly facts, you get all the facts. You tell me, you decide. They decided on the facts they would comply. And theyve done things i would have never dreamed that they would do. And theyve actually made significant progress. Do not reverse the progress that we have made. In our zeal to reopen and get back to normal. Thats going to be the challenge Going Forward. But well do it because we are new york tough and tough not just tough. We know what tough is. But tough is also smart and tough is also united and smart tough is also discipline. And tough, most importantly, is loving. While that sounds counterintuitive. They sound repugnant. No, no, no. No. Tough is people are Strong Enough to say love. The toughest people. And thats new yorkers. Questions . Reporter schools to reopen reporter \[inaudible] is there anything the states can help with . Governor cuomo you are talking about medical equipment for hospitals . Reporter yes. Governor cuomo yeah. Ill ask the commissioner and comments specifically. Just so you know how this works, on a daley basis daily basis, every hospital does an inventory that they send to us that says what they have and what they need. And any hospital that is short in urgent need of anything, we provide them with that material on a daily basis. We do not have any hospital that has said to us, we have an urgent need for x that we have not been able to fulfill. Two caveats. You can have employees in a hospital who say, i dont like this protocol, i dont like what the hospital is telling me to do. Thats a different set of issues. Second caveat, you can have a hospital say, i only have a threeday supply, and that makes me very nervous. I normally have a twomonth supply. Yes, i know that. Nobody has a twomonth supply of anything. So operating on that constrained timetable, thats where we are. We received we reached out and there was one network that would like some new swabs. We are sending them 200 test kits today so they will have that but they are not out, they just wanted some for the future. To the governors, i was on the phone with about a dozen of the Hospital Systems and just what he said, people get a little nervous about running out of masks and things but often they have like a 30 day supply were 25 day supply and we monitor that on a daytoday basis. If they need it, we will send it to them. Reporter [inaudible] is that part of the caveat . I think melissa spoke to that yesterday on the various calls and we are working closely with the hospitals as well as the frontline workers to get them the needed supplies. Theyre talking about reopening the economy but specific to schools, what would have to happen first for schools to open specifically in new york city in regards to this plan . Governor cuomo they have to Work Together. You cant open one system that is the gears, which is a metaphor that doesnt work for and what about me. But thats ok. It works for me. You have three big gears. Transportation, economic, schools. You have to turn the other gears. You cant tell me to go back to work i live in Nassau County lets say i lived in westchester. You can tell me to go back to work in new york city if you dont have the Transit System operating. I take the train from west chester. I cant go back to work until you have a trade, and that she would everyone to drive, which will be pandemonium in four minutes. You want me to go back to work, who is going to watch my children if these are closed . For many working people in new york, the Education System is who watches their children during the day. That was one of the problems with closing the schools in the first place. People were critical everybody is a credit, but people did not want to close the schools because they said than hospital workers wont be able to show up because the children will be at home. In the hospital workers, if they dont show up, then you have a real problem because our major fear was the collapse of the Hospital System. All of these things have to be coordinated and they have to be coordinated on a statewide basis. Look, when i closed all of the schools in the downstate area, there were Many School Districts that disagreed. We have like 700 School Districts in this state. Right now all the School Districts basically make their own decisions. I know. But in a situation like this, cannot allow 700 School Districts to make their own decisions. You can consult and try to cooperate, etc. , but we have to have one plan at the end of the day because then we have to take new york and try to coordinate it with new jersey and connecticut and delaware and pennsylvania and rhode island to the best we can. This virus doesnt understand School District boundaries. And these systems we are talking about dont work on any of these boundaries. Schools, transportation, jobs they dont work on a county basis. It doesnt work out way. Suffolk county, that is a nice delineation for a lot of issues, but none of the issues we are talking about. So the entire downstate area is one area, metropolitan area. Then you have upstate. You could argue there should be a differentiation based on numbers or could be a differentiation and that is going to be the conversation when we bring connecticut, new jersey, pennsylvania. We have rural parts that are one part, metropolitan areas. That is all going to have to be talked through and reconciled. Reporter [inaudible] Governor Cuomo we are talking to a number of states. Again, we want to coordinate as much as possible. But focusing primarily on our tristate area they talked about a tristate area. The more we can but you also have to balance the complexity with coming up with the plan relatively quickly that we can agree on. So that is what were going back and forth on. We are going to try to work with everyone. But you have different states and different situations and you have to prioritize where you really need coordination. We need coordination with new jersey and connecticut first and foremost because that is where our workforce comes from. You have a total interconnection among those states. People lived in connecticut and drive to new york city. They lived in new york city and drive to new jersey. Theres a total interconnection among them. That is the primary place for coordination. Reporter [inaudible] is there a plan . Governor cuomo it could come later today. If i tell you the announcement today, where would you come here at 2 00 . Except for my great sense of humor and wit. Reporter to the city of buffalo be considered a hotspot in upstate new york considering that the highest number of infections i think outside of the metro area . Governor cuomo you could have a hotspot. It depends on how you want to define a hotspot. Hotspot within one mile or five miles or 10 miles or 100 miles . Reporter [inaudible] Governor Cuomo how big is a hotspot . Reporter i am no Public Health expert. Governor cuomo it depends on how you define it. I called them clusters. You have clusters that pop up across the state. As soon as you see some smoke and you see a little fire, run there and tamp it out as fast as you can. In buffalo, weve had clusters that have popped up. Nassau, suffolk, westchester, rockland, right . They have had clusters. Reporter governor, when you say you believe the worst is over, are you in effect encouraging the type of behavior you are trying to prevent . This sort of optimism that might bring people out of their homes . Governor cuomo no. That is why i have said the exact opposite 57 times. Stay the course. Stay the course. It is working. Stay the course. Stay inside. Take precautions. That is why i say that 100 times to an annoying repetitive level. But facts are facts. Im not going to lie to the public. Facts are facts and numbers are numbers. I need the public to believe in the credibility of what we are doing. Credibility comes from two elements, in my opinion. Are you giving me all of the information or are you spinning me . Are you deciding you cannot tell me facts because, become too optimistic . Are you manipulating me with information . No. You get all of the facts. I am not worried that. You cant handle information. You get all of the facts. Second, what i am proposing we do is drawn from those facts. Heres some of the information. I work for you. I give you all of the information was not no spin, no gloss, no sugar, no glazing. Here are the facts. Im not worried that you cant handle the facts, are going to get depressed, you are going to get irrational. Heres what i propose based on those facts. I think it is the intelligent response to those facts. I hope you agree with me that it is the intelligent response and you follow the proposal because i need you to follow the proposal because it is all about you. If you the public, if the people dont decide to do social distancing, then nothing works. If the people decide not to stay home, nothing works. I could never mandate 19 Million People, you must stay in your house. And if they say, as new yorkers can say, i think youre being overly dramatic or you are too political or you dont know what youre talking about, what do i do when 19 Million People defy the order . Go out and arrest 19 Million People . They have to believe it. They get all the facts. Im not going to shape the information they get here all in numbers. Here is my policy based on the numbers. And heres what i suggest and i hope you think it is not only credible, but competent and smart and i hope you accept it will stop that is the best i can do. Reporter the amount of people hospitalized our record high what makes you feel confident the worst is over . Governor cuomo im not confident the worst is over. I said if you look at the numbers, 18,000, 18,000, 18,000, 18,000, 18,000, the numbers suggest a plateauing, slight increase, but a plateauing, which is what the experts have talked about. That is what the numbers say. I also say whatever those numbers say is a direct result of what we do. I have said if we do something stupid, you will see those numbers go right back up tomorrow. Period. The worst can be over, and it is over, unless we do something reckless. And you can turn those numbers on two or three days of reckless behavior. It is like being on a diet. You get on the scale every morning. I lost five pounds. Ive lost five pounds. Oh, youre declaring you have lost five pounds forever. No. I lose selfdiscipline today and i go home and i eat like a horse and i will get on that scale and it will give me a Different Number tomorrow. It is directly a result of what you do today. The number is down because we brought the number down. God did not do that. Fate did not do that. Destiny did not do that. A lot of pain and suffering did that. That is why we lost five pounds. Because we went out every day and we exercised and we burn more calories than we ate. That is how it works. It is math. If you dont continue to do that, you will see that number go back up. And that will be a tragedy if that never goes back up. Reporter [inaudible] declined to provide a list or number of cases in each nursing home in new york city. Can you explain how in the recent days of confidentiality, just release the total number of cases that each facility . Governor cuomo john, i dont know that details of the Health Care Privacy law but i know the Health Care Privacy law is very expansive. Health officials are always very protective patients help. I can get you an answer today. Reporter [inaudible] generally prevents the release of personal information. How to person identify [inaudible] Governor Cuomo just so were clear, commissioner zucker is a doctor and i respect doctors. But he is not a lawyer. Let me get your legal opinion, medical doctor. I understand the hippa law. This is their home. Nursing homes are there home. We want to make sure we protect their privacy in that sense as well. It is not just an issue of sort of saying that there is a hippa law. We dont want to put information out about that. [inaudible] Governor Cuomo it is a long. But we will get you the legal we will get you the law on the matter. At the law is also tied to the spirit of the law and ethics, right . You dont want to invade peoples privacy. We give you everything i have that doesnt invade someones personal privacy. Otherwise, there is no secret to the number of deaths in nursing homes, right . To the extent you can release it without invading peoples privacy cant release it. Reporter [inaudible] upstate, would you consider starting the reopening upstate to see how it goes . Governor cuomo were going to talk to the other states. Whatever we do, were going to do in combination with other states and we will talk about that at 2 00. Could i see a distinction in places that have different caseloads . Yes. You have your hand on the valve. Youre watching the meter. Your opening the valve a little bit and then youre watching the meter. The meter is the infection rates. Will the meter respond differently in a rural county than a dense urban county . Yes. How do you calibrate that into a reopening plan . That is what we have to think through. Reporter we have countless people contact us about unemployment. How is the new platform working and how long is it taking for people to get their checks . Governor cuomo the new platform is working much, much better. The department of labor website basically crashed when it was overwhelmed by the number of callers for unemployment. Unbelievably we had 1000 people working on the website handling the calls. 1000 people could not handle the input, which is just phenomenal. But we changed the system, changed the website. Melissa can speak to that. The new platform got up and running on friday. We have gotten a lot of positive feedback. I think it went from 150 questions down to 20. As of about an hour ago come the latest numbers i got from dol was 200,000 calls were made between friday morning and last night. They are on the phones again this morning. I can get the information about the checks going out to you so we can get back to you after this. Reporter [inaudible] 200,000 calls were made. Not everyone answers the phone. By the way, for the public listing, if a call comes up and youre on the list and it is private, answer it because it is the department of labor calling to finish the process. 200 of them were made and then there is the percentage of that where they have actually connected. The calls were they connected they do close out the applications. I understand that is been successful. I can get you the completed never after this. Reporter are you worried that President Trump is going to fire dr. Fauci . Governor cuomo i think dr. Fauci is great. I think Americans Trust him. He has been helpful to me as governor. I have called him numerous times. He is very good at getting back. As youre walking through these Uncharted Waters and trying to feel your way and since what the bottom is like, i think he has been extraordinary. I think it would be i cant imagine as crazy as things get in this world and in crazy washington, i can imagine that would happen. Did i say anything we need to correct . Anything that i didnt say right . Weve been following up look closely. There are 200 positive cases, hospitalizations right now in buffalo. That is up from 225 a couple of days ago, so it is pretty stable right now. We are watching numbers locally out of our almost. Buffalo is pretty stable right now but if it pops, we will definitely have more people on it. Governor cuomo melissa . Rob . Im going to be back at 2 00. Hold it for 2 00. Im going to be back at 2 00. 2 00. Jesse, i know you wont be back if i tell you. I will see you at 2 00. Thank you guys. Thank you. Coverage frome states dealing with the covid19 pandemic continues this afternoon with new Jersey Governor Phil Murphy with an update on what is happening in his state. President trump will also be having his briefing from the white house at 5 00 eastern. Live coverage here on cspan, cspan radio, and online at cspan. Org. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] specialr tonight, a evening addition of washington journal on the federal response to the coronavirus crisis. Join us at 8 00 p. M. Eastern with dr. Anthony fauci, director of the National Institute of allergies and Infectious Diseases and a member of the White House Coronavirus task force. And then director of the Infectious Diseases division at the university of alabama at birminghams school of medicine about his own experience contracting and recovering from the disease. Join the discussion. Washington journal prime time, tonight at 8 00 eastern on cspan. Announcer cspan has aroundtheclock coverage of the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic, and it is all available on demand at cspan. Org coronavirus. Briefings, house updates from governors and state officials, track the spread throughout the u. S. And the world with interactive maps, watch ondemand, anytime, unfiltered, at cspan. Org coronavirus. Announcer the Supreme Court announced it is going ahead with oral arguments in may, but justices will hear the cases via conference call. Among the cases announced, a lawsuit to force President Trump to release his tax returns and other financial records, and whether Electoral College electors are locked into who they can vote for based on the states popular vote. Washington journal. We are joined next by a representative from rockland county. Welcome to washington journal this morning, thank you for calling in. Want to get your thoughts about how your community is doing. We hear so much about new york, new york city in particular, so tell us about it. Guest as you know, too many neighbors, Community Leaders have been ill. People have been laid off. At unprecedented rates. I have spent too many hours on the phone trying to access uninsurance benefits. Access insurance benefits. My district has received hundreds of calls, emails from constituents who just cannot keep their businesses afloat. Others, as i said, trying to get unemployment. Now i am proud of what we have done so far in the congress with three bipartisan bills that i have helped to shepherd through congress, providing