Go in and relook at the pressures in the building. Javits space is sectional, there are areas we can actually change the pressure in some. We just heard from new york governor andrew cuomo, who has now requested the change because he said there were not enough noncovid patients from the popup field hospitals. The governor announcing today new york has had more than 100,000 positive cases of covid19 and more than 2,900 deaths from the virus. The Governor Also Announced hes signing an executive order today allowing states to take ventilators and ppes from institutions around the state who do not need them immediately in order to get them to the front lines. Todays jobs report for march showing 700,000 jobs were lost last month when the virus was just beginning have spread, increasing the jobless rate to 4 had the 4 , numbers that will skyrocket a month from now reflecting the growing impact, of course. Nbcs ron allen is with us now outside sinai hospital. I know youre following the guide
Predicted in earlier models. The larger singleday increase in deaths in new york was just yesterday. Nick watt joins me from los angeles, where we look at the efforts nationwide. Reporter anderson, it was listening to the cdc director talking about that terrifying 200,000 model, and the fact they think it will be much lower, because more of us are taking social distancing seriously. They thought only about half of us would pay attention, and we are doing much better than that. But listen, the message from everywhere pretty much today is weve got to keep at it. New york state just had its deadliest day. 731 people who we lost. Behind every one of those numbers is an individual, is a family, is a mother, a father, a sister, a brother. Reporter but here on the front lines, the new case count appears to be flattening. As of the past couple days, discharging more patients than admitting, this is a time to redouble our efforts. Reporter the battle is not over, the war gotten on. Aboard the u
Good friday morning from new york. Im ayman mohyeldin. This morning, several new developments on the coronavirus all breaking this morning. The u. S. Economy shedding hundreds of thousands of jobs for the first time in nearly a decade. And economists warn its just the beginning in all of this. Not a full picture of the pandemics toll on our economy. Also this morning, the aboutface about your face. The white house expected to reverse course today, preparing to tell millions of americans in hot spots around the country, to cover your face when youre out in public. Because of some recent information, when youre out and you cant maintain that 6foot distance, to wear some sort of facial covering. All of this as the number of global cases surpasses 1 million prompting more hospitals in the u. S. To reup pleas for equipment. With our new reporting on why experts say to the leave it to the states approach coming from the white house will cost lives. We dont want to be your body bags. I dont w
In daily deaths. That could be a start of a primmipri promising trend. Number of deaths are up once again. Number of people we lost and number of new yorkers, 4,758 which is up from 59 but which is effectively flat for two days. While none of this is good news, the flattening possibility of the curve is better than the increases that we have seen. Cnns Shimon Prokupecz is live for us. He would like them, the Javits Center to take Covid Patients as soon as possible. Reporter yes, he did. That ship thats here docked on the highway not far from the Javits Center behind me, that ship is going to take Covid Patients. The governor says hes going to speak to the president this afternoon about it. Remember they said theyre not going to take Covid Patients. Thats going to change. Over the week the president gave some indications that he would be willing to do that. He would tell the military to go ahead and open the ship up to Covid Patients. The reason for this anderson is the strain on hospit
There are more than 263,000 confirmed cases in this country and over 6,600 people have died. New york continues to be ground zero where every day the news is worse than the day before. This morning we woke up to find out in just the last 24 hours it has been the deadliest so far. 562 more lost souls. Each day it seems Governor Andrew Cuomo is forced to take another drastic step. He is authorizing the National Guard now to commandeer medical equipment across the state and then redeploy it to hospitals that need it most, most urgently. And once again, he is calling on the president to do the same across the country. This is an n 95 mask. This is it. It was 70 cents before this started. It is now as high as 7. But this is all that an n 95 mask is. Its fabric. Its material. People want to say, well this is a states rights question versus federal interference. Who should decide what is done on a state level . There is no governor who is arguing that their states rights are being trampled. T