You are watching live coverage on cspan. Uomo good morning. Be up withasure to everyone this morning. Cleans. In corona always we are in queens. Theys good to get out of capital and talk to people who are doing the work. I am a queens boy, so this is coming back for me. It was called that before the virus. There is no connection between corona queens and the virus. Let me introduce my colleagues. Pay foy, chairman of the mta. To my immediate left, sarah fienberg, who runs the transit borough. Garrett rhodes to my right, who is the deputy superintendent of the department of financial services, but has been with me for many years and is now helping on this up in albany. The today is saturday. I know that because it is on the slide. Otherwise i may not have known that. Days based on the powerpoint. Everybody talks about this as Uncharted Waters, been here before and that is true. But even when you are in Uncharted Waters that does not mean you proceed blindly. You want to stay informed. E
Or spike again in the United States. This is a gamble as no state has reached the key benchmark the cdc has set forward to meet before reopening, that 14day decline in new cases. But for now its full speed ahead as more states begin easing restrictions today. You can see them right there on your screen. By the end of this week, more than 40 states will be at least partially reopening. With that in mind, here is where the numbers stand. The u. S. Death toll is now approaching 70,000. More than 1. 1 million confirmed cases of coronavirus in the United States. And even President Trump is now being forced to acknowledge the total number of deaths here is going to be higher than previously estimated. Were going to lose anywhere from 75, 80 to 100,000 people. Thats a horrible thing. I used to say 65,000, and now im saying 80 or 90 and it goes up and it goes up rapidly. Rosa flores is in miami. One of the few places that is not reopening. What are you seeing . Reporter were already seeing peo
Deaths. Those numbers should give us all pause and they will keep climbing. But the president focused on a different count. The markets are up today, and the president tweets, states should open up asap. The transition to greatness has started, ahead of schedule. A new york suburb ends its threemonth lockdown today. At the library, you can check out a book. To the president , that plateau is a green light to more activity. To the experts of the world health organization, caution equals wisdom. Were right in the middle of the first wave globally. Were still very much in a phase where the disease is actually on the way up. We need to be cognizant of the fact the disease can jump up at any time. We cannot make assumptions that just because the disease is on the way down now that its going to keep going down and then were going to get a number of months to get ready for a second wave. We may get a second peak in this wave. A second peak in this wave, worst Case Scenario for all 50 governor