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Cant handle the bodies. Theres so many of them. This is, essentially in my community, queens, new york. Ive seen things ive never seen before. Over the bridge from queens, there is now an emergency Field Hospital being built in central park to help deal with the overflow of those sickened by the coronavirus. This is the new grim reality on this monday morning. Streets lined up with refrigerated trucks, acting as makeshift morgues, while hospital staff and First Responders struggle to keep their ...

Heading down. On a day when the Daily Coronavirus Task Force Briefing cover just about every imaginable topic from expanded testing to a flattening curve of new cases to easter services, and yes, even joe exotic. A new controversy arose. Possible government surveillance of viruspositive americans. I have not heard about that. I dont know if it be okay, i would have to see it. It sounds very scientific. The president was referring to a Health Policy concept being floated by the task force spearhe...

Be protected. Please wait until we have those tests available and validated. People are working around the clock to make those available to the American People. We all understand how important that is, because youve heard us talk about asymptomatic cases. We really want to know how broad that is and how common that is. Telling places like new york city where i described that they had 7 per thousand, sometimes two or three or four times any other place in the United States, being able to know wha...

Jerome adams had a dire and alarming warning about what could come this coming week. This is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most americans lives, quite frankly. This is going to be our pearl harbor moment, our 9 11 moment only its not going to be localized, its going to be happening all over the country. Eric this is going on right now near america. Here in new york city, animal hospitals are donating ventilators to hospitals for humans, using that equipment thats used on cats a...

United states and nearly 7,000 americans have died. The surging death toll is putting pressure on President Trump to issue a nationwide stayathome order. Cnn has learned that dr. Anthony fauci is among the experts urging the president to take that step. We have a lot of news going on today. First to cnns erica hill with more on todays developments. And they are very significant. Erica, update our viewers on the very latest. Reporter yeah, wolf, as you talk about the push for nationwide efforts, ...

Different parts of latin america, south america, and just coming into our country. Now weve got them stopped at the border and theyre trying to do it by sea. We stop them at the border with and frankly with the help of mexico, mexico right now is 27,000 soldiers on our southern border. Theyre doing that because ive asked them to do it. Thats the only reason theyre doing it. They have 27,000 soldiers. So now theyre trying to bring it in by boat and ship the drug lords and the people doing drugs a...

State department and embassies around the world. Weve had three fatalities so far. So there have been some calls on the World Health Organization for a leadership change there. I was wondering what your thoughts are on that. Senator martha mcsally, for example, has called for dr. Teodoros to resign. This is not the time to be doing that kind of change. There will be a lot of time to look back and see thou World Health Organization performed. In the meantime, what our task is to preserve and prot...

Daily new cases may be starting to flatten even as the dust owners 11,000, the number of infected news 370,000. Americas epicenter a glimmer of hope. New yorks democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo says the new data shows the entire state could be flattening its curve. Heartedly is showing similar early signs of improvement. I am Shannon Bream in washington. There are reasons for longterm optimization as the Coronavirus Task force issues grim warnings about what is immediately ahead of us and urges t...

Should be selfquarantining for the next 14 days to ensure the virus doesnt spread to others, no matter where they have gone, whether it is florida, north carolina, or out to far reaches of long island. And that wasnt all for new yorkers. We woke up to a batch of frightening new developments today, including a higher than expected infection rate for young new yorkers. They said last night the bulk of coronavirus diagnoses, 46 of them, have been in patients between the ages of 18 and 44. An ongoin...

Now on wall street, more pain for investors this morning. Stocks plunging in the first halfhour of trading despite an Interest Rate cut initiated by the fed. The three governors of new york, new jersey and connecticut will be making a joint announcement. Were going to bring you that news as soon as we get it. Our nbc news team is live and ready to go this hour. Our reporters are spread across the entire country, have every angle of this story covered for you, joe fryer, kathy park, Gabe Gutierre...