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Mexico. There are now 159 confirmed coronavirus cases nationwide with ten deaths in washington state. Also throughout the u. S. , 57 schools are closed today. A majority of those in washington and new york. Amazon is recommending all 50,000 of its employees in the seattle area work from home until the end of this month after an employee there tested positive. Several airlines including united and jetblue are scaling back domestic flights. And new forecasts shows the Airline Industry as a whole c...

Good morning. Welcome to morning joe. It is thursday, march 19th. Along with joe, willie, and me, we have White House Reporter for the associated press, jonathan lemire. Former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst, Steve Rattner is with us. So reports of new cases of the coronavirus in this country seem to be coming in by the minute. There are now more than 8,900 confirmed cases here in the u. S. And more than 150 deaths. The number of cases in the state of new york alone jumped 44...

Alert. Tonight, only moments away with my interview with the president of the united states. Donald trump donald trump will joining us live on this program. But first as i said last night, this pandemic brings out the very best unbelievable Inspiring Stories of so many. And then unfortunately the very worst in our society. The good news, the best far out to get the worst. We talk about the amazing businesses in this country, the amazing doctors, medical researchers, scientists, nurses, health ca...

Production act, that is a law that was enacted in 1950 during the korean war. It gives the president the authority to mandate that private industry produce and manufacture certain things for the national defense. The president and the white house lurched to the invoication of this. As weve heard, he hasnt triggered it yet. My guess is that when they announced that they were going to be invoking, the president probably heard from his friends in private industry to say please hold off on this. And...

For the great job youre doing. Its really incredible, frankly. Many of the states are stocked up. Some of them dont admit it, but we have sent just so much, so many things to them, including ventilators. You know, theres a question as to hoarding of ventilators. Some hospitals and independent hospitals, and some hospital chains, as we call them, they are holding ventilators. They dont want to let them up. We need them for certain areas when theres big problems. Cant hold them if they think there...

We may have more still to endure. We have to open our country up. We have to get going. We have to open our country up. Using the great advances of science. What do i know . Im not a doctor. Im not a doctor, but i have common sense. And our instinctive compassion to heal. If it does help, great. If it doesnt help, we gave it a shot. What a contrast from leadership. There you have Queen Elizabeth talking about a common cause, and then you have donald trump, who had an unscheduled press conference...

So far of the outbreak in the u. S. , top new york Officials Say the state could run out of ventilators there in just six days. Patients have been flooding new york citys hospitals forcing the Javits Convention center now to take in those infected with the virus. Remember this was meant to be overflow for other patients. And sparking questions about why that Navy Hospital ship, the comfort, so far has just taken on 20 people. Why so slow . We have a lot to get to this morning. First, though, let...

Governor cuomo this morning about what the governors plan do. John, just to reiterate those numbers, more than 23,000 americans have died. I mean, that number is just shocking to say and its shocking to hear. 23,000 americans. Hundreds more die every day. And beyond the medical crisis, of course, is the financial crisis. Millions of americans suddenly find themselves without paychecks. But President Trump did not focus on those issues at mondays press briefing, he focussed on defending his own r...

When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total. And thats the way its got to be. And the governors know that. He declared himself king trump. The governors are in charge because the president put them in charge. The governors on both coasts this morning are pushing back and say they will take a regional coordinated approach in restarting their economies. Were going to talk to one of those governors straight ahead on the program. Our team is here as we provide our con...

Especially worrisom worrisome fe with preexisting conditions. There are half a million known coronavirus cases in the United States. Experts say there are likely millions more americans who have or had the virus but have not gotten tested. Steve harrigan is live in atlanta outside of cdc headquarters where they continue to track the spread. Hi, steve. Reporter the u. S. Death toll as of this morning was 20,00 20, up just under 10 in the last 24 hours. Over the past five days, just under 2,000 am...