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Almost 7 million people are now under orders to stay home for at least the next 3 weeks. people are prohibited from leaving unless for essential needs. essential government services including transit, police, fire along with health care services, grocery stores, pharmacies, banks, gas stations, they will remain open. people can leave their homes to go on walks, to exercise and take a pet outside, but they must maintain whats now become common, this 6 feet of buffer area in social distancing. nbc...

Cross." jon, we dont anything quite that lofty tonight but i was thinking about you today because if were not careful, people are going to start reading history books. people are issuing kind of vague exhortations about all this company has been able to do and pull off over the years, most of it in the name of warfare. and i was thinking about willow run, which was once an auto assembly line, but once it was converted, you can make an argument it helped us win the second world war by producing a...

Right there. is it your view looking at the situation that this level of social distancing will be the norm for 15 to 18 months? >> i didnt say it will be the norm. what i said is if you look at the model from the imperial college, if you want to suppress this, if you want to not have cases occur where we flood the hospitals, then we have to do that. if we decide thats not what were going to do, were basically going to try to protect those at greatest risk of serious illness or death, then we wi...

The president to the side here and hope that the government as its constituted can in fact deliver what we need. at this point, the last couple of days have felt better in that regard. the presidency, as franklin roosevelt once said, is not an engineering job. it is preeminently a place of moral leadership. i think the great lesson tonight of the primaries is that america wants a president who reminds them of other presidents. and there was a novelty factor with the incumbent. but the show, whic...

To some extent, we have to put the president to the side here and hope that the government as its constituted can in fact deliver what we need. at this point, the last couple of days have felt better in that regard. the presidency, as franklin roosevelt once said, is not an engineering job. it is preeminently a place of moral leadership. i think the great lesson tonight of the primaries is that america wants a president who reminds them of other presidents. and there was a novelty factor with th...

Largest city to impose such a mandate early this morning. almost 7 million people are now under orders to stay home. for at least the next three weeks, people are prohibited from leaving unless for essential needs. essential government services including transit, police, fire, along with health care services, grocery stores, pharmacies, bank, gas stations, they will remain open. people can leave their homes to go on walks, to exercise, or take a pet outside, but they must maintain whats now beco...

Much. let me go to san francisco now and dan simon who isnd staing by for us. dan, there is a shelter in place in san francisco. tell us what that means because i see people going out for runs behind you, going out for walks, people strolling along and bike rides. >> reporter: thats right, anderson. we are in downtown san francisco. you can see the bay right behind me. that is the bay bridge which normally would be bumper to bumper traffic right now but considerably less traffic. that is because...

Millions of americans are being told to shelter in place tonight as the coronavirus pandemic spreads. but does that mean you shouldnt go outdoors at all? brian todd is wushlgiorking thi of the story for us. you spoke to experts, what are they telling you? >> reporter: as you mentioned there have been people in the san francisco area, many of them observed walking, jogging out rollerblading. they are allowed to do this even under the shelter in place orders in the city. is it a good idea, though,...

Possible stamp place order pray the governor cannot say no you are not going to do that. >> commuters finding themselves riding alone on a train. thats what would be packed on any other day. the san francisco bay area home to 7 million people still at a standstill with not a lot of traffic as a shelter and home, they can only go out for groceries ainsley youre looking at video, this is the drive for testing locations, appearing all over the country like at west palm beach which is on video right...

>> the department has made 14 certified coronavirus testing labs available to test nondod personnel as well and we will offer two additional labs for that purpose. we hope this will provide access capacity to the civilian population. >> trace: defense secretary also said the military can help take the pressure off civilian hospitals by setting up a military field hospital next to a general hospital to take the burden off trauma cases and let the hospitals focus on coronavirus cases. san francisc...