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Testing capacity to me is like what ventilators were over the past month. Lets start with that warning from Business Leaders to President Trump today that testing needs to be ramped up significantly, it needs to be far more widespread before any discussions of bringing people back to work. Cnns Kaitlan Collins is live at the white house and brings us the story. Kaitlan, this is a phone meeting, i guess, of the president s new business council. Are there any indications that the Business Leaders ...

Try, oh, try, to put it away. Were all staying connected, arent we . Live from atlanta, welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. Im Natalie Allen and this is cnn newsroom. It is 5 00 a. M. Here on the east coast in the u. S. And we want to begin with the latest on the Global Health crisis, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide has sur prpassed 2. 3 million with more than 160,000 deaths. More than 735,000 cases are in the u. S. And more than 39,000 deat...

Professionals about speedy timetables, especially businesses involving close personal contact for people gathered in close quarters. Well talk to one of the authors on the study on the level of testing needed to open the country safely. A heads up, the number according to the survey is a large one, much more than is currently taking place. It will mean a million more people getting tested in a single day than have been tested so far in the entire outbreak. Only about 4 Million People have been t...

Testing. Almost saying the meeting was productive, but theyve butted heads in the past. Take a look. We gave them 2,900 hospital beds. He didnt use them. We gave them a ship, they didnt use them. He sitting at home watching tv. Maybe he should get up and go to work. They should have had more ventilators. They were totally underserviced. For him to say to anyone, you relied on projections and the projections were wrong, they are your projections, mr. President. I wish they did the original order ...

Where you see the front of oil trade negative. Hi, on the issue of the fourth stimulus bill and aid to stays and governments, any thought it should be proportioned to the rate of infection whatever we do, we will do on a bipat san basis. The president listened to governors. I have had the opportunity to be on multiple video calls with the president and the the Vice President. We are reaching a lot of people but its way too early. You mentioned if a Large Company applies for a loan and manipulate...

In the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer in the situation room. Were following breaking news. Were standing by for the White House Coronavirus Task Force Briefing to begin. It should be rather lively today, just hours after a tweet from the centers for Disease Control and prevention urging proper use of disinfectants, the message apparently prompted by President Trumps truly jawdropping suggestion at yesterdays briefing that disinfectant might be used internally to treat patien...

Treatment some are calling a break through. Thousands of family lining up for a food giveaway. The question about whether donations can keep up. A very good morning to all of you. It is saturday, april 18th. Good morning, everyone. Im alex witt. And this morning there are more than 700,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across this country. At least 36,000 people have died. Heres the very latest this morning. A growing push by the white house to start reopening the economy. Vice president mike p...

Where 53,000 people have died after being infected. All of that in seven or eight weeks. A glimmer of hope in some states where governors report the number of people sick and dying are leveling off. Its called the flattening of the curve. In georgia, alaska and other states they are gradually reopening. People in atlanta protested at the governors residence insisting it is too soon for business at usual and that peoples lives are at risk. The World Health Organization issued a warning to people ...

Thanks for staying with me. You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im ana cabrera in new york. And more than a quarter of the worlds confirmed coronavirus deaths are right here in the United States. The death toll at this hour more than 53,000 people. The nations top Infectious Disease expert dr. Anthony fauci said today the u. S. Should increase testing by twice as much and he thinks this will be possible. On the same day warned there is no evidence from having the coronavirus once makes you immune ...

Vulnerable. And i truly do believe the day will soon come when we will heal our land and well be able to reopen america and put this great nation back to work. Thank you, mr. President. Thank you very much. Mr. President mr. President and that was the daily press briefing, a shorter than usual press briefing than we are used to. You heard from President Trump, Vice President mike pence. And the big headline today, the fda saying that it has approved the first athome testing kit by lab corps. So ...