Tackle the outbreak mike hanna has more from washington a number of u. S. Governors have been pleading with the federal government for bowl medical supplies in particular ventilators a state like new york says it needs as many ventilators as possible to stockpile for when the 8 picks of the epidemic hits which current projections show by the end of the month yet President Trump continues to insist that there are enough ventilators being supplied to the various states in fact he says that many odd being produced now so many that at some stage in the future the u. S. Could export a ventilators to countries in need were soon going to have more ventilators that we need were building thousands of ventilators right now takes a period of time to build and. And again nobody could have known a thing like this could happen were building thousands we will fairly soon be at a point where we have far more than we can use even after we stockpile for some future catastrophe which we hope doesnt happe