In this case, its to press General Motors to make and confidence in our leaders. Ventilators and to do so asap. Basically the news of the last secretary hagel, very hour reinforces the severity of quickly, would you temporarily lift sanctions against iran the crisis facing this country. Right now on humanitarian as we await the days grounds or not . Coronavirus briefing from the i would. White house, which is scheduled i think for a lot of reasons. To start roughly in 30 minutes. I think its a smart thing to do heres where the crisis stands politically. I think its the right thing to at this moment. The u. S. Now has the most do for humanity. Coronavirus cases in the world. And i think it pays off in the were on the brink of 100,000. End. And i dont think when this is weve leapfrogged italy, which quite ominously just had its over it will be over. Well be out of this someday worst single day of deaths, more than 900. That people in history want to the number of deaths in this look back
Beginning. A report this morning that doctors at a Major Hospital right here in new york city are being told to think very carefully about who does and does not get a ventilator. It is another symptom of a nationwide problem hospitals just dont have what they need. Yeah. Rationing, amazing were getting there. In cities across the country, Field Hospitals are now going operational because of the expected overflow at hospitals in Convention Centers, even in new york citys central park. And next hour the Navy Hospital ship comfort will take on its first noncoronavirus patients to help take the pressure off other new york hospitals. Cases are surging across the country, in new emerging hot spots. Three out of four americans now are under stay at home or shelter in place orders. And signs in california that the social distancing guidelines may be working. We have got a lot to get to this hour. All of us here doing our part. Lets begin in new york with cnn National Correspondent brynn gingra
Across ameca pennsylvania, colorado a fm is is nohe groryto, to the ph tonight, british Prime Minister Boris Johnson hospitalized because of his symptoms. The word on his condition coming shortly after Queen Elizabeth delivered a rare address to the commonwealth. Dangerous choices. The social distance battle at the start of holy week. Some churches defying stay at home orders, filling pews for palm sunday services. The wharf in d. C. Overcrowded with people, shut down by authorities. News tonight about the navy captain relieved of duty. The warning about the coronavirus as it was spreading through his aircraft carrier. The captain now reportedly testing positive for the virus. Millions out of work. Americans waiting for direct deposit checks from the government, due in about two weeks. Small Business Owners struggling to file emergency loan applications, hoping to hold on long enough to reopen. Iarng. The pular website w bein used by millions to work and so concerns abo the countrys La
Today is what the nations top scientists have to deal with every day, a president who now uses these briefings as a reelection platform, an opportunity to lie, to deflect, to attack, to bully, and cover up his own deadly dismissals of the virus for crucial weeks. According to the president today, all governors are getting everything they need and testing is now and always has been great. Reporters who asked fair questions but didnt kowtow or suck up to this president were attacked and belittled and a special convenient i am was reserved for career official at hhs who he doesnt even know who released a nonpolitical study with extensive interviews with doctors and hospitals across the country describing the lack of the supplies and insufficient testing, and mixed messages theyve budget getting from the federal government, all things that have been reported on. I just have to point out this is not normal. And it matters because this is life and death. If you look at the chart, by the way,
Approach to playing music and the intuitive approach to playing music. He was a combination of the two. And i think being in a situation where you had to negotiate both of those worlds definitely made us better musicians. Than it would have been if we had done one or the other. Listen, there is so much to talk about your father. He mentored big jazz names like terrance blanchard, Harry Connick jr. You guys are the royal family of jazz. The alice Marsalis Center for music was build after hurricane katrina. That was part of his legacy. He embodied really new orleans. The mayor has put out a statement talking about him. Im going put up the mayors statement. It says Ellis Marsalis was a legend. He is a prototype about what we mean when we talk about new orleans jazz. For decades your father performed at a weekly gig in a jazz club there until just this past year. And so he meant so much to new orleans. And so i want to this virus that took his life is dangerous and deadly, as we know. What