Regeneron, four of the greatest in the world for doing exactly what theyre doing. And currently 10 different therapeutic agents are in active trials an some are looking incredibly successful we have to go through a process. It will be a fairly quick process, i tell you based on what the fda told me. 15 are in plans for clinical trials. Theyre advancing rapidly. A Second Company announced that the fda authorized it is vaccine candidate to begin clinical trials. Johnson johnson is already there. I believe theyre the one thats first and now we have a Second Company that Just Announced and we were just, was just approved. So we have two companies at that level, for the vaccine itself. We have you no performed 100, well, if you think of this, 1. 79 million tests. That is one million, 790,000 tests nationwide. I think were going to put up a screen here someplace that theyre on cue, just on cue. And here it is. This is the process starting on 5 march and ending right there, right about now, r
Us president has declared a National Emergency over the coronavirus pandemic and says likely hell soon be tested after possibly being exposed trumps announcement freeze a 50000000000. 00 to address a growing crisis that hes been accused of previously downplaying hours earlier the World Health Organization said the epicenter had moved from china to europe or italy has the highest number of infections and deaths spain is declaring an emergency as other e. U. Countries closed their borders wall street meanwhile ward back from huge losses the day before european stocks were also up capping a rollercoaster week alan fischer has more on the new steps taken and washington d. C. From the u. S. President a dramatic announcement officially declaring a National Emergency. 2 very big words with more than 40 dead and the number of infected growing the president has opened up funding include states to take important steps to blunt the spread of the virus emerging every state to set up Emergency Oper
League is the latest coronavirus casualty all games are off until april at the earliest. The us president has declared a National Emergency over the coronavirus pandemic and says likely he will soon likely be tested after possibly being exposed announcement for his a 50000000000. 00 to address this growing crisis that he has actually downplayed hours earlier the World Health Organization said the epicenter had moved from china to europe or italy has the highest number of infections and its spain a sickly are in an emergency as other e. U. Countries close their borders and in 2 hours from now u. S. Travel ban from most of europe will come into effect lets begin our coverage with alan fischer who is in washington d. C. So allan donald trump a spent weeks trying to say that this isnt that big of a deal hes used the term hoax hes tweeted a quick turnaround how effective might this be to really get things done. Well with more than 40 deaths with more than 2000 cases they cleared donald trum
A 30 day banned by the u. S. And old flights from europe excluding the u. K. And ireland has just come into effect theyve been reports of long queues at some european airports as people try to beat the deadline President Trump announced the ban on wednesday in a bid to combat the spread of coronavirus he says the e. U. Has been too slow to react to the outbreak and blame travelers from europe for infections in the u. S. Lets go live to rob reynolds hes in los angeles for us now rob so youre there at one of the busiest airports in the u. S. Tell us whats been happening. There and im at the Los Angeles International Airport International terminal of the tom bradley terminal things are fairly busy right now despite the ban having gone into effect just moments ago many of the people that you can see behind me inside the doors of the terminal are lining up for ticket counters at korean air thats not one of the countries yet that has been affected so a lot of people seem to be. For whatever
Changing. We want to provide you depth and understanding during this pandemic. The full scope of the coronavirus outbreak is coming into focus, and it is a bleak picture. Schools in entire cities and states have been ordered closed, including in ohio and maryland and in the cities of atlanta and san francisco. Millions of students will now have to stay home, and wall street had its worst day since the 1987 crash. Nearly all major sporting events have also been called off, including march madness. And tonight the death toll in the u. S. Now tops 40. More than 1,500 cases have been confirmed in nearly every state and washington, d. C. And then new york city, which is home to more than eight million people, just declared a state of emergency. Meg oliver leads off our coverage just north of there in new rochelle where one of the largest virus clusters is located. Meg, i know you have been reporting there for several days. What changed today . Reporter a lot changed today. The National Guar