This is cnn tonight. I am don lemon. We got a busy hour ahead coming up. Covering all the angles of the coronavirus pandemic. Today, the president declaring a National Emergency and freeing up billions of federal dollars to combat the outbreak. The pandemics disruption of the economy is leaving millions of americans vulnerable to Food Insecurity. We are going to look at programs meant to make sure that americans in need have access to food during these difficult days. Coronavirus changing life as we know it by the hour. Many schools are closed. Peoples jobs are impacted. Sports and entertainment, shut down. Were going to see if americans are prepared for whats still to come as the outbreak worsens. And well take a look at how coronavirus is having a direct Economic Impact on Household Budgets and on american businesses of all sizes. But what have we all been told, ever since we first heard the word coronavirus . Wash your hands and dont shake hands. Wave wave. Elbow bump. Just dont shake hands. Well, it seems the president didnt get the message. Shaking hands with one ceo after another at his press conference today. But as Cnns Jim Acosta notes, one of those ceos dodged the handshake and opted for an elbow bump instead. That as stocks rebounded today. Probably no coincidence the president paraded those ceos before the nation and said the Energy Department will purchase crude oil to help prop up the industry. Then set autograph print of the stock surge to lou dobbs. That was a top priority of the president to do this afternoon. Unbelievable. Joining me now, staff writer for the new yorker. Our resident fact checker, daniel dale as well. Today President Trump put his support behind a house coronavirus bill. Declared a National Emergency. Is he coming around to how serious the situation is . Well, its been a breathtaking week of the president short of changing tact again and again and again. I just looked where we started on monday was the president of the United States tweeting that, actually, democrats and the media were seeking to needlessly inflame the situation far beyond what it warranted. By the end of the week, he is declaring a National Emergency. So, you know, its hard for americans, i think, at this point to understand why is the president changing his message to the American People so rapidly . And, even today, i felt like it was really hard to watch that press conference. That there was a lot of veering back and forth, you know . It was a little of everythings under control. And then a little bit of this is big. This is very, very big. Yeah. Little of this. Little that. Daniel, the president said today that google is building a site to help people with testing. Take a listen to this. I want to thank google. Google is helping to develop a website. Its going to be very quickly done. Unlike websites of the past. To determine whether a test is warranted and to facilitate testing at a nearby, convenient location. Google has 1,700 engineers working on this right now. Theyve made tremendous progress. Whats the truth, daniel . So this is comprehensively inaccurate, don. A Sister Company of google, not google itself, Sister Companys named veryli is in the early stages of developing a site to help people in the bay area, in the San Francisco area, access testing for the coronavirus. They do not have a timetable for rolling this out nationwide. And, again, they say theyre in the early stages even of the development of the local site. And so the president was exaggerating the timeline and getting the name of the company incorrect. You know, for trump, everything comes back to the obama administration, daniel. Today, he compared the pace of testing to for h1n1 to coronavirus. Take a listen to this. If you go back to the swine flu, it was nothing like this. They didnt do testing like this. And, actually, they lost approximately 14,000 people, and they didnt do the test. They started thinking about testing when it was far too late. What weve done and i think one of the reasons people are respecting what weve done, weve gotten it very early. And weve also kept a lot of people out. Fact check this for us, daniel. So as we have been covering extensively on cnn this week, the testing, in this case, for the coronavirus, has been hugely plagued with problems. But in regard to the h1n1 testing, in particular, the cdc started developing that test immediately upon the discovery of the first u. S. Case in april 2009. Within two weeks, they had a test cleared and ready to go. They started sending that test out to officials, not only in u. S. States but, around the world. A few days after they got that clearance less than two weeks in. So they started thinking about it immediately. They got it out very fast. And, again, trump has tried to cast dispersions on obama to deflect from the errors of his own administration. Susan, i want to bring you back. Lets talk about the president bragging about his administrations response to this pandemic. But says that he takes no responsibility for the shortage of testing. How do you square that circle . Look. Its utterly consistent with donald trump. And, you know, thats the thing about a crisis, right . It reveals sort of the man in full. And, you know, is there anyone after three years of paying attention to his presidency, who is surprised on some level that he would be focused on, you know, his own image and his own aggrandizing his own role . Minimizing any failures or casting blame elsewhere. You know, i went back and looked, don, and five weeks from his impeachment trial ending to the declaration on wednesday of coronavirus being a global pandemic. He mentioned coronavirus 48 times in his twitter feed. Guess what . The by far, the largest number, half of them essentially, were touting his own Great Success in controlling and containing the coronavirus. Its all about donald trump, even in a Global Health crisis. And i have to say that this week has just been a breathtaking week for anyone who who has ever observed the american presidency. You really have a situation here where its inconceivable that any president , democrat or republican, would have acted the way that donald trump acted this week. You know, and so clearly showing a concern for himself. His own political fortunes and the stock market, at the expense of even a shred of empathy for americans. Today, you know, he tried to change tact in that in that press conference. I dont think that it really was a different donald trump that we saw today. Its a Pretty Amazing week. Thank you both. I appreciate it. Thank you, susan. Thank you, daniel. I want to bring in now, president of Echo Health Alliance and also dr. Esther chu, associate professor at Oregon Health and science. Good to see you. Dr. Cho, i dont think youve been on before, have you . Have not. Its a pleasure to be wihere. So welcome to the program. The president said today that 5 million coronavirus tests will be available within a month. That soon enough you think . No, its woefulfully inadequ. I mean to really understand the level of infection in the community right now, we need to get out there and test. We need to know who is infected. Whos really where this virus is doing really badly right now. And we dont know that because we dont have the test going on. We were told two weeks ago we would have, what, 2 million test kits by now. Theyre not there. This is not a good response. Six to twelve weeks. What did he say . Developing test to get to the market. Six to twelve weeks. I mean kind of crazy. It is embarrassing, actually, to the u. S. And i think we missed an opportunity when, during the first weeks of this outbreak, we could have gone ready and we didnt. We squandered that opportunity as the virus was raging in china. We squandered the chance to get ready, get prepared, and deal with the problem. I wonder if the president had done earlier what he did on wednesday. Exactly. If if we had been more prepared and people wouldve taken it more seriously. Theres three ways of looking at this outbreak. One of the Public Health risk. Getting the Public Health message wech message. We need scientists, cdc, nhi, w. H. O. , to tell us what the issues are. Then the other is the politics. Clearly, there are politics involved in getting a state of emergency declared. Leveraging the funds. And thats a really gaunt step the president s taken but its too late. And the other issue is communication. The communications been lousy. Weve had mixed messages from the administration, from congress, from different members of congress. Weve had misinformation on the internet. Its its fairly disastrous. If you are worried and youve got fear right now and you can feel it on the streets, where do you go for the honest truth . Yeah. I asked in the form of a question but i believe i should have said if the president had taken it seriously instead of saying it was a hoax, democrats, and a media hoax and all of that. And sat down and addressed the American People and say this is whats happening in these other countries. People are getting sick by the thousands. People are dying. We need you to take this seriously in our country, america, this is what we need to do. I think people would have taken it seriously and we would have been in a better place now. The stock market would have been in a better place and so on and so forth. Dr. Chu, i want to bring you in. What else the president said about testing today. Watch this. We dont want everybody taking this test. Its totally unnecessary. And this will pass. This will pass through, and were going to be Even Stronger for it. So its interesting, dr. Chu, he doesnt want everybody taking this test. Its not necessary. But thats the only way we know who is affected and whos spreading the virus. Why doesnt he want it . Does he not want the numbers to be high . What is going on here . That was a very frustrating and confusing sentence to hear. I mean, i think there might be two issues here. I mean, the truth of the matter is we do not have tests available. So what we are doing right now is testing very sick people who have who have come in sick enough to need to be hospitalized. I mean, in the state of oregon, we can test about 40 people a day across the entire state. You know, so i, as a doctor, in my shift to order a single test is an agonizing decision because its an extremely limited resource. And i have to make sure that we are deploying it to the right patients. So the the practical consideration, right now, is that people who are well, who can be discharged, are not getting that test. But it doesnt mean they shouldnt get it. I mean, how do we know where the disease is . How do we know whos spreading it . How do we start to contain it, effectively . We cant answer those questions unless we have widespread testing. How do we know that all these massive containment measures that we are doing, that we need to do, are even working without testing . And documenting where the disease is and where it isnt and we have succeeded. So it is it is just fundamentally untrue that we do not need testing and this will simply pass. It will pass if we have effective measures, including including scaling up testing so that we can figure out whats going on. How many people are asymptomatic and may be carriers, right, and how many people have had it and may have may have gotten over it. Listen. I just want to say that, you know, interviewed a doctor who had symptoms consistent with this virus. Says that she couldnt get tested. Not even doctors treating patients can get tested, dr. Choo . I mean, is this what youre seeing in oregon 1234 . Yeah, again, with 40 tests per state, i mean, i have 100 doctors in my own Department Just in the Emergency Department at a single hospital. This is allergy season. It is flu season. So it seems like every other person has some sort of of symptom that could be early coronavirus. We, simply, do not have capacity to test healthcare workers. Nor can we yank all healthcare workers from their duties the moment they have an itchy nose so we need to make smart decisions about who should be on the front line, and coming into contact with patients, including elderly and immuno compromised patients who are susceptible to the disease and likely to get very ill. So it is a problem simply with our Healthcare Workforce as well. Wow. I want get to some of the viewer questions. So far, new York City Schools are staying open. Is that counterproductive when you are social distancing to have kids go to school and then come home to their parents who are staying home . Dr. Dashay . Well, there is a tradeoff between what we are trying to do with social distancing to reduce flatten the curve as we heard from chris cuomo. Reduce the spiking cases early on so the hospitals dont get overwhelmed. You mean the governor . Im sure the governor doesnt want to be compared to chris. But, look. The the the tradeoff is between dampening down the transmission early on so the hospitals dont get overwhelmed. And then the negative impacts, which are, you know, some healthcare workers have kids. Theyve got to go home and look after them and they cant be in the hospital looking after patients. So there is a certain point at which it becomes counterproductive and there is a debate on right now about what that point is. And we need to know we need to know more about the outbreak to really get to knowing exactly when to close schools. And what size of crowds to contain. I mean, we hear we shouldnt go to mass gatherings. What is a mass gathering . Is it a bar . Is it a wedding reception . Is it, you know, going around to be with family . Or is it a crowd of a thousand people . Well, what is it . Well, we dont know yet because we dont know enough about this disease because we dont have the testing data. Okay. Facebook question. I think its a really good one because people are concerned about kids being out of school and about childcare and so on. Dr. Choo, from facebook, should grandparents baby sit their grandchildren during School Closures . I mean, i think this is where we need to be very vigilant about symptoms. If grandparents who are more susceptible to the disease may, practically speaking, need to separate themselves. But theres also a massive issue with childcare. And we have a ton of School Closures. And how are people to get to work if if their backup childcare system is not available and there are social and economic consequences for this . So i think communities need to be creative in finding Childcare Options that are afford aable f people. So that they have dont have to lean on grandparents putting themselves at risk. And i think i think if there are situations where grandparents where theres no other option and the only way for children to be safe is to be with elderly family members, then i think you try to do reasonable social distancing in your home. You know, its not a good time for snuggles and openmouth kisses. I think you try to keep people at arms length and use as much hand hygiene and avoid, you know, direct and close contact for sustained periods of time as much as possible. Just real quick. I have to run. But people keep asking me this. How soon before you can test positive . Is it 24 hours . Is it a week . Is it two weeks . Is it three weeks . Whos better who can better answer that . You need to ask a medical doctor. You guys dont know. Do you know, dr. Choo . Yeah. Right now yes, right now, our Public Health lab is taking between one and three days to run the tests. There is a lot of talk about Rapid Testing kits that actually give you an answer on the spot at point of testing. I do not believe we have wide availability of those tests, yet. Dr. Choo, thank you so much. Appreciate your time. For answering the questions as well. For millions of americans, coronavirus means a struggle to feed themselves and their families. Were going to talk about what we can all do to help. Thats next. Want to brain better . Unlike ordinary memory supplements neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. Memory, focus, accuracy, learning, and concentration. Try neuriva for 30 days and see the difference. 9. 95 . No way. . 9. 95 . Thats impossible. 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Its our way of saying thank you just for calling. So call now. The sbrapread of the crow s virus sparking new concerns, including millions of people who struggle to get a healthy meal. One organization responding to help food banks secure resources they need to help those in need. Joining me now, claire, ceo of feeding america. I love that name, claire. Reminds me of home. Thank you. Thank you for joining us. Andpy ho and by home, i mean louisiana. I didnt need a pronouncer for that one. Thank you so much. I appreciate you joining us and you guys are doing great work so let me thank you in advance for doing that. The usda says more than 35 million americans have to deal with hunger in their daily lives, and thats without this crisis. Now, with the pandemic, what are you worried most about when it comes to feeding those Vulnerable People . Well, i think there are two areas that im particularly concerned about. And one of them would be kids. And the other is the fact that the people that we serve, those over 37 Million People who suffer with Food Insecurity every year in this country, they tend to over index with the areas in the areas that are actually more impacted by the virus. So those two groups, in particular, i am deeply concerned for. How does your network of food banks plan to get these meals to people . Is it a mobile operation . Will it be a mobile operation . Well, it might be helpful for me to just give you a little context about what our network encompasses. So we have were im part of a network of over 200 food banks around the United States. 60,000 food pantries and and meal programs. And and on in the normal scenario, around 2 million volunteers. So what i i often tell people is that our Network Serves every community that faces Food Insecurity. And because every county and parish in the United States suffers, has people within it that suffer with Food Insecurity, that means we cover every county and every parish in the whole United States of america. So its a vast network of remarkable people, who Work Together to help serve 4. 2 billion meals a year to people in need. Yeah. So you asked what it is that were planning to do. Well, the good news about the our network is that we we have the agility to be flexible and to do multiple things at one time. Depending upon what it is that the particular community might need. Good. So in this environment, one of the things were doing, for instance, to address challenges around children, is we are finding ways to go and we have mobile pantries that we engage with. We are even looking at the fact that sometimes its really challenging for people to come into larger groups. I think in your earlier segment, you were talking about what constitutes a large group. We dont want people who already vulnerable to face additional challenges because they come together in groups. So we are coming up with some creative ways to address that, as well. We have some drivethrough options. We have deliveries that were experimenting with where we bring the food directly to people. Youre answering all my questions. I have all here. I was ask i said ask her about safety. A top priority for everyone, especially Service Workers who come in contact with so many people. I want to talk to you about the House Speaker nancy pelosi announcing this new legislation that includes 400 million to help local food banks. 500 million in food assistance. How big of an impact will that make you think . That thats a really good start. I its really difficult, as i know all of your guests say and you already know its really difficult to quantify what the ultimate impact of this is going to be. We know that its going to be significant and we are already starting to see that difficulty for people we serve. One of the refreshing things about it is we have reason to believe theres bipartisan support for what they are doing there. So not only are they unlocking funds, theyre unlocking food. Making it more flexible, easier for us to serve those children i was talking about. And they are also extending benefits for people who are being advised not to go to work in environments where they might be putting other people at risk. So its a really, really welcome first start. Claire, thank you so much. We really appreciate you joining us. And, again, what you are doing is so important. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much, don, for having me. We appreciate it. For more information on how you can feed the hungry, protect health professionals, and support Service Workers during the pandemic, go to cnn. Com impact. Again, she is the ceo of feeding america. Claire. Go to cnn. 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Seating at the same table as the president during a dinner at maralago. Here to discuss now, former Homeland Security juliet ceyenne and new york times, the coauthor of americans looking for hope. Okay so i am just getting this new information in. So thank you both. Nester forester is the gentlemans name. And here is the information. Nester forester shook hands with the miami mayor, frances suarez, who tested positive today, with forester. Right. Okay. So seated at the table. The president has exposure. The president was there, obviously, close to him. He hasnt been tested so far. I dont know. Thats what he said earlier. Who knows what happened in the hours since. So this is what you call containment, right . So from the you know, so what you want to do is isolate the person who has it. We already know who has it. And then all the people that stheld ha they would have been around. He should be tested . Oh, yeah. Please. That is so obvious. How many people do we have from maralago now . Three . So you have some sort of cluster there. You have the press secretary, right . You have nester forester. Yes. And then you have the mayor. Thats right. And the mayor has now gone off back to miami that we know about. So people will get tested. Likely, more people will get it. So you are not just talking about people, you are talking about facilities when they clean places and things like that. Why maralago is still open from a Public Safety side is sort of questionable. I mean, i think if you were looking at it as any other hotel, if i told you there is a hotel down the street, oh, but the by the way, people were there four days ago and now three of them have coronavirus. Do you want to have dinner there . You would be no way, right . I mean, if we were thinking rationally, this would be a place we would look at right now. The brazilian senator was there. The press secretary. This guy, nester forester. And im not sure if the mayor was there but the mayor shook hands with nester forester. Im not exactly sure where. Look. At the end of the day, the average person who has a coronavirus is going to spread it to two or 2. 5 people. So the odds are that President Trump is not one of those 2. 5 people. Having lots of contacts. But still, as a precaution, clearly, he should be tested. The whole point of Public Health is you look whos been exposed and you test. Thats one of the things we should have learned from south korea that we have not. Right. Listen. And it is just modeling, too. I mean youre either a carrier or a burier. Right . Youre one or the other. If hes not sick, its good modeling for the public that you need to take care of yourself. If he is sick, he is around a lot of people that he could get sick. This now now, it becomes about trump, which is so frustrating because we have a pandemic. Its its the way he is that he makes it about him. Its not. Everybody hopes that its not. Its because hes been in contact and hes the president. And as the president , americans deserve to know. And then, today, shaking hands and he shouldnt be shaking hand hands with people. The evidence is what works is indeed testing people and removing from contact. Lets talk about flattening the curve to slow down the coronavirus. Lets take a look at this. The red here, independent daticd things can get if nothing is done. Okay. While the blue shows an outcome if protective measures are taken. Nick, your column today says that thats how this plays out. How this plays out depends on both the actions we take when we take them. Right . Thats right. So we worked with two epidemiologists in constructing a model of the coronavirus. And it it responds to how much action you take against the coronavirus. And when. And when you take it. Its crucial you attack early. How bad could this get . So our our model showed approximately a third of americans getting the virus. And if there arent aggressive actions, then about 1 Million People dying from it. What is you know, look, every model spits out conclusions based on what is programmed into it. But what was particularly striking act it striking about it in terms of flattening the curve is that it showed a peak of 366,000 people needing icus in a country where we only have 95,000 icus, many of them for infants. And more than half used at any one time. And so the real crush is going to be in hospitals and ventilators. We only have 72,000 ventilators in this country. Thoer goi they are going to be gold. So does flattening curve . Yeah. It spreads it out over a larger period of time. We are so much better having it over 18 months rather than 18 weeks. Do you think were doing enough to get there now . Just new york city. You know, i had its happening in cities across the country. Yeah. I had a pretty good americas good moment in the last 24 hours, in the sense that the things that needed to get done were done. You know, these places where people meet, schools, whatever, in terms of the flattening the curve. So you are going to extend youre going to delay the time that capacity hits need, right . So you dont want too many people wanting something at the same time if you dont have the capacity. The thing i think about now, as a planner, is now, how am i going to pace those 18 months . Do i have enough stuff out there . The answer is no. And weve never had the weve never had a 50state disasterresponse apparatus. In other words, we have one state gets a hurricane. Louisiana. And it says oh, i need lots of stuff. I will call mississippi. Or california even has fires. No state every states on their own now. And so we are going to have to think of both private assets, military assets. Probably not likely international assets. With that said, testing. I know it is pont. Has that ship sailed . No. Let me tell you the reason why im just wondering. You know, governors, they dont know what their numbers are so one of the reasons why this week was so jarring was because they simply dont know the numbers theyre reacting to so they just had to move quickly. The second thing is how is this going to end . Thats the next question you always got to think about whenever you get to the other side. We cant do it until we know that the pool of people who have it is contained. And were not going to do that until the tests are here. Flatten the curve, it doesnt mean my gosh, what the news people did or whatever, what the government did was an overreaction. It means that the flattening of the curve actually worked. Larger period of time. But i sort of disagree. I got to go. People arent doing nearly enough. I dont think were doing enough on testing, preparing hospitals, on closing events. And you know, two weeks from now, juliet and i will be six feet apart. 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Friends who have businesses here, in the city, especially restaurants, they are way down. Businesses of all sizes being hurt. Do we know what kind of toll its going to take . Well, i mean as we sit here today, when you look at the economy last year, we grew just north of 2 . And unilaterally, at this stage, i mean, don, what most folks are saying is that we are going to have two quarters of negative growth. And when you see two consecutive quarters of declines, that signals it is actually the definition of a recession. I have a friend who owns one of the bigger restaurants in town. Usually, about on a good night, about 60,000. Down to 10,000. Closing at 10 00 p. M. Instead of midnight. So that affects the hostess, the hokt, the waiters, waitresses. People. They need their paycheck, right . Financially devastating, not only for the people who own the restaurants, the big guys, but for the little guys who work there. Oh, its supercritical. I mean, don, let me throw some statistics at you. Number one, 60 million of the jobs in the United States are small businessrelated jobs. It accounts for almost 50 of the private workforce. Number two, 24 of americans, as many as 34 million americans, do not have paid leave. So when you look at the consequences, lets add to it, that the average American Family in the United States, at max, has 400 in the bank. What about childcare . Kids are out of school. Your kids are out of school im sure, right . My kids i think are on the cusp of going out of school. People cant afford to miss work in order to watch their kids. This is a massive issue. As we sit here today, 25 of all schoolaged children are no longer in the School Building. Schools are shutting down. Why does this matter . Because, if you look at it, almost 15 million kids are now, effectively out of school. By the end of the weekend, my guess is that could double. There are 55 million kids in the School System in america. 30 million of them rely on the school meal. In many cases, it is their lifeline or their only meal. So for parents who have kids right now, this is a really precarious time. What we need to ensure in local communities is that we are stepping up, because right now, it is going to be school buses delivering meals. It is going to be mobile trucks delivering meals. Its going to be the local churches stepping up. The issue, though, is we have to be careful were not congregating kids into one location to get those meals. So one of the most critical things about the kind of relief we can get from the government is support for things like snap programs. Lowincome americans, as many as 40 million, rely on that food stamp program. Its about 125 a month for a family. We need to get more dollars to that snap program and programs like it. Can we talk, also, about the frontline workers and recognize the workers out there who like the janitors. The cashier. The Grocery Store workers. Other Service Workers. Who theyre earning minimum wang wage, right . And they are maybe putting their own health at risk so they can provide services for the country. Keep the country moving and they are putting their health at risk and we need to recognize them and they need help, dont they . Let me tell you something i think is one of the most remarkable parts of this story. We tend to look to government for the answers. Whether its the Federal Reserve bank to cut interests rates. Whether it is the fiscal policy we see through Congress Passing a bill to give us paid, you know, home paid leave. Or relief for the uninsured. But one of the things that were witnessing is Corporate America stepping up in a superprofound way. When a company like target comes out and says were expanding our paid leave. When they say that we are going to ensure that any of our workers who are sick or have to take care of their family, are going to be given forbearance and absenteeism is going to be allowed. Those are big moved. We are seeing that from companies all over the country. The only other thing i would add is the nurses. The Staff Members at hospitals. Were going to need volunteers. Think about the educators in the School Building who those janitors who are working with School Nutrition detectorirecto. All of those folks are really sacrificing for us right now. And theres no one who needs a bigger thank you, a big part on the back. I have been saying to folks that kindness goes a long way. And we need to be in the business of kindness right now. Thank you you are so kind to do this. Can we show people how we greeted each other . Thank you for doing this. Tap. Tap. Alexis glick. Everyone. Thank you for watching. Our coverage continues. 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