I would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by easter. Easter is a very special day for me and i see it sort of in that timeline that im thinking about and i say wouldnt it be great to have all of the churches full . I think Easter Sunday and youll have packed churches all over our country. I think it would be a beautiful time and its just about the timeline that i think is right. Today images poured in from across the country of what easter looked like in the age of social distancing. And clearly, they are nothing like President Trump hoped they would be. And now as the president eyes another benchmark, 19 days away, the Washington Post reports one of the biggest obstacles to the virus response is trump himself. Advisors spent significant time to manage the president and his whims from successfully dissuading him from seeking to reopen the country at easter to tempering his impulse to push unproven drugs as miracle elixirs and we have a window how we arrived at th
Some 30,000 cases in queens alone. 10,000 people in queens have been hospitalized. We are right now standing here in front of a popup basically a popup Food Distribution center thats been set up here. I want to give you a view this is a view on the ground. I want to give you a view from the sky. You can really see the size and scope of the line that started to form at 5 30 this morning. Folks have been in line for foot here 5 1 2 hours. Last week they had enough food for 750 families. This week they brought more food, enough for 1,000 families. Were told they will likely run out of food once again. This is one of, if not the hardest hit communities right now dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. Well have a little more on exactly what theyre doing here in just a moment, but before we get to all of that, we want to get you caught up on the facts. Right now more than 670,000 known coronavirus cases here in the united states. Thats 30,000 more than this exact hour yesterday. More than 34
Unemployment numbers. 1. 48 million more americans filed new jobless claims last week. That brings the total to some 47 million over 14 weeks. For some context, thats about the combined populations of florida, pennsylvania and illinois. And for americans looking for help from government, this news, painful to report. A Government Watch dog now telling corning that more than 1 million americans that are no longer living received covid19 stimulus payments. Those payments totaled about 1. 4 billion, billion with a b. Well have more in a moment on how precisely Something Like that can happen. We start with the ongoing cases and admissions in texas and arizona. In texas more than 11,000 new cases in the last two days. Houstons mayor says 97 of icu beds there are in use. Meanwhile, in arizona with cases and deaths rising, around 88 of that states icu beds are now full. We have nbcs sam brock in houston. Houston has become the epicenter of this pandemic in texas. Nbcs joe fryer is in scottsda
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