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The comfort will arrive by monday. See you monday. Be well, its time for the last wor word. Rachel we have thought how were covering stories that journalists like us never covered in our careers and end another week thinking the same thing. Rachel, please be safe. See you monday. You, too, my friend. Tonight, while donald trump was in front of Television Cameras singing the 2 trillion signing, the 2 trillion Economic Relief bill with a 500 billion fund for his businesses, his administration quie...

Americans filed a recordbreaking nearly 3. 3 million unemployment claims. Lets put that in perspective. That is, by far, the highest number weve ever seen. Nearly five times the previous record set back in 1982 when it was just under 700,000. But this morning, the fed chairman Jerome Powell gave a very rare interview on the today show and said he expects the economy to recover quickly. At a certain point, we will get the spread of the virus under control, and at that time, confidence will return...

Claims reported during the financial crisis was 650,000. But the actual number of people out of work is much higher. State unemployment websites have been overwhelmed by the Staggering Number of people who are just trying to file applications. The pandemic relief law extended Unemployment Insurance to people who are normally not eligible, including gig workers and the selfemployed, and added another 600 a week on top of state benefits. How Speaker Nancy Pelosi told my colleague, andrea mitchell,...

Anyone, but congress will exercise its oversight, and we will have our panel of house appointed by the house in realtime to make sure we know where those funds are being expended. But let me just say that the president s statement is indicative of the difference between democrats and republicans when it came to this bill. The bill was jujitsu. We just took their bill and turned it around, so they signed it in the white house as if they had some real prove nance as to what was in the bill. That l...

This virus. This is just among those who were able to get tested. More than 12,000 lives have now been lost. New york city remains the epicenter of this crisis. It has received a shipment of 600,000 muchneeded masks, but there are still shortages of a lot of important equipment like gowns, like ventilators. The state saw its largest increase in deaths so far today, more than 731 souls lost, but experts are cautiously, cautiously optimistic that the state may be close to the apex of this. We talk...

Stayathome orders. If you thought the shutdown was inconsistent and confusing, wait until you see the reopening, a struggle both in the administration between the president and his own Public Health officials and outside of it as state governors across the country plan to make their own decisions. We begin in new york city with our national correspondent, athena jones. Good morning. Good morning, poppy. Youve been hearing the president talk about may 1st as this date certain by which they might ...

Our nbc news team is here with these new developments. Hans nichols is at the white house and Erin Mclaughlin and ron allen. Nbc news reporting the white house is looking at may 1st as a possible day to reopen parts of the economy. Walk us through what were learning. Reporter id swap out possible with planned. Thats the target date that some in the Administration Want to hit. Theyre expecting that may 1st is going to be the day they open up the economy. The question is, on what scale . Will it b...

Through the period through the 36 life month, 39month period and potentially after december 31st could be an additional 600 after that but were waiting for that. For the food and local households, how is that being distributed . Rob . Which 200 million . 200 million announced yesterday and the day before. For the snap funding . Thats going to go through the normal process, through the agencies that will all go out immediately. Is that also backed number a similar way to the unemployment system o...

One many people, pushing back on that approach. Its not going to be we flip a switch and everybody comes out of their house and gets in their car and waves and hugs each other and the economy all starts up i would love to say that is going to happen. Its not going to happen that way. It cant happen that way. Right now, there are over 557,000 cases of the coronavirus across the u. S. And more than 22,000 deaths. For the first time we can report all 50 states are under formally a federal disaster ...

Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in the east with coronavirus now killing more than 1,000 americans a die, well over half a million cases confirmed in the u. S. And the much needed measures to flatten the curve leaving more than 16 Million People across the country suddenly jobless. How to reopen our economy are con suling state and local leaders. Enter donald trump, in a press conference last night shifted the conversation away from thousands of lives at stake and back what it appears to be his number on...