Opening. We are having a Different Group set up for that. Harris the president added this morning that the team will remain very focused on vaccines and therapeutics. Vice president mike pence says he expects agencies like fema to eventually begin spearheading more of the administrations response to the pandemic. Youre watching outnumbered, im harris faulkner. Here today, melissa francis. Dr. Nicole saphier, new york city physician and fox news contributor. Carley shimkus is with us today, fox news headlands 24 7 reporter. In the center seat, the man with the biggest resume daily that youve ever seen. Brian kilmeade, cohost of fox friends, radio host, and author of sam houston in the alamo avengers, which comes out a paper book next week hes outnumbered. Good to see you, everybody. Happy wednesday. Great to be here. Harris lets get started with where the task force is going. What do you think well need going forth, this force that has been there to give us daily briefings briefings on
New york tiles first reported today a leaked draft from the centers for Disease Control that suggest 3,000 deaths per day by the beginning of june. That is nearly twice the daily death rate were currently experiencing and forecast 200,000 new cases each day by the end of the month up from 25,000 cases a day currently. Now, that sounds very high and we should note here modelling the future course of the virus has been notoriously difficult. You never really know what to make of anything that comes out of the Trump Administration. Today the white house distanced itself from that document saying this is not a white house document nor has it been presented to the Coronavirus Task force or gone inter agency vetting. This is not done by the task force or data the task force analyzed and the numbers are unfinished, projections shown to the cdc as a work in progress. While the exact numbers and charts in the cdc document may differ from the final results, they show accurately how covid19 cases
An ebola drug. Well talk as well to the mayor of boston where coronavirus is spreading among homeless bostonians who are not showing any symptoms, confirming the worst fears about this virus. And in a number of states ohio, north carolina, virginia, michigan, people are protesting the shutdown of their economies. This is sources tells cnn President Trump is pushing back on calls for greater testing before states can reopen. Thats where were going to start today at the white house with cnns katelyn holland. This was on a call where the president was pushing back on these calls for more widespread coronavirus testing. Tell us about this call. Yeah. It was a call the president had today with senators. It was a Bipartisan Group both democrats and republicans. This is part of this larger Congressional Task force that the president is building to help focus on reopening the country. But one concern that were told by sources that did come up during that call today was testing. Which is exactl
End of the year. Sobering new projection, the director of the cdc now predicting the death toll in the u. S. Will top 100,000 by june 1. Plus the American Economy taking it on the chin. A historic collapse of retail sales while Grocery Stores prices recording the largest increase in almost a half century. Were coming to you live from cnn World Headquarters in atlanta. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and all around the world. Im natalie allen, cnn newsroom starts right now. Thank you for joining us. Ready or not, america is open for business. And that was the message friday from the trump white house. The president said that he is optimistic a covid19 vaccine will arrive in record time and he formally launched operation warp speed to make it happen. But even if it fails, mr. Trump was adamant the u. S. Would return to normal. As most states begin to relax restrictions and reopen businesses, there is no assurance that millions of laid off workers will get their jobs back
The First Time Since the end of march amidst the coronavirus pandemic. Hes headed to arizona where hell be visiting a facility thats making masks for health care workers. Arizona is one of the states reopening in some way this week. As of today at least 42 states have relaxed at least some of their stayathome restrictions just as dr. Anthony fauci offers this warning. Expect a rebound. When you have mitigation thats containing something, and unless its down in the right direction and you pull back prematurely, youre going to get a rebound of cases. And with that, dr. Fauci says the country is facing a choice that is honestly tough to stomach. Its the balance of something thats a very difficult choice, like how many deaths and how much suffering are you willing to accept to get back to what you want to be, some form of normality, sooner rather than later . Cnns Jeremy Diamond is live at the White House Joining me now. We just heard from the president speaking to reporters as he was on h