Ever. Despite emergency measures taken by the Federal Reserve on sunday or perhaps even in lieu of them. Because of them. Today, the president also made this admission when asked if the economy is headed today toward a recession. He responded, quote, it may be. Fear gripping the markets. Also worries aboard a jtk flight this evening grounded on the tarmac as we learned the captain is believed to have the coronavirus. More on that as a moment. As washington works on a relief bill, the Coronavirus Task force issued new guidelines to combat the spread of the coronavirus. Among other actions, they ask everyone who can particularly Older Americans to stay home. Critically, they say to avoid gatherings and groups of more than ten, not the 50 recommended just yesterday but ten. Heeding the words of state and local officials is number one on the list of guidelines issued today. New jersey mobilized the National Guard today, instituting a curfew of 8 00 p. M. Pennsylvanias governor has ordered a statewide shutdown. Six counties in the San Francisco bay area have issued a shelter in place order which means residents have to stay home, something similar to what italy, spain, and france have instituted. The president says hes not looking at a nationwide quarantine, but isolated ones in certain areas of the country may occur. But all in all, it was a sobering list of guidelines for all of americans, as the reality of this virus has hit and hit hard. Erica hill starts us off in times square for a look at the impact there and across the country. Pretty dramatic shift in American Life today. Certainly is. Here in times square, anyone who has ever seen a picture of times square knows its normally bustling, certainly at this hour of the day, with tourists and folks who work in the buildings around this area. Throughout the day, its been quiet, but this illustrated what has been changed up around the country, and as you said, many of the changes coming at the local and state level. An eerily quiet times square. The latest reminder that life today is different and will be for some time. This afternoon, were announcing new guidelines for every american to follow over the next 15 days. Avoid gathering in groups of more than ten people. Avoid discretionary travel. The guidelines were announced on the heels of several states enacting new operating hours and restrictions for restaurants and bars. Now shifting to takeout only. Many people get in their car and drive to connecticut to go to a bar, which is the last thing we want. Movie theaters, gyms, and casinos will be closed indefinitely, and new york city mayor bill de blasio made it clear more changes could be coming to his city. I have been asked repeatedly, are we considering travel restrictions . Are we considering curfews . Were considering everything is the answer. Every option, every tool is on the table. We will decide in turn when we want to deploy each. The Surgeon General warns decisions made today will determine what happens tomorrow. Do we want to lean into social distancing and mitigation strategies and flatten the curve,o do we want to keep going on with business as usual and end up being italy . For millions of families starting the week with children at home, it is far from business as usual. Parents are learning to teach while also trying to work. It would not surprise me at all if schools did not open again this year. Former new Jersey Governor Chris Christie calling on the president to close all schools nationwide through may 11th. Ohio announced tomorrows primary will now be held in june. Life on hold. And nearly every industry bracing. Concert tours, sporting events, day care, businesses large and small in limbo. Walmart is cutting back hours to give stores a chance to restock the shelves. While markets ration some of the most sought after items, including milk and cleaning products. Were you able to get everything you needed this morning . Almost. Doctors are increasingly concerned about their own supplies including the nations stock of lifesaving ventilators. The president today recommended states find those supplies on their own rather than wait for the federal government. Erica, when you reported that ohio had talked about delaying it, they said theyre going to go ahead tomorrow with voting. How are hospitals in new york handling the rise in cases . So this is a major concern for the major, and today, he addressed that. He called this a race against time, anderson. He said theyre expediting discharged, canceling elective surgeries across the city, bringing new facilities on line, and retrofitting some facilities that have nothing to do with health care. Hes asking for military medical units to be brought in to help as well and offered a stern warning to residents of new york city, saying if you dont need to go to the emergency room, dont. There will be people outside, theyll be checking. If its not an urge nlt need, you could be turned away, anderson. In fact, what medical professionals are saying is if you can stock up in a reasonable way on whatever medications you need on a daily basis, thats a good idea. If you can get two or three months supply, therefore you dont have to go into the pharmacies, you dont have to keep going back and occupying time. Erica, thanks very much. Im joined by dr. Sanjay gupta, former Baltimore Health commissioner lena winn, who is also an emergency room physician. Sanjay, according to cnn, cases of the virus rose by almost 1,000 in the last 24 hours, more than 4,000, meaning people are being tested and now we know more about cases, not that those cases just suddenly came to got transmitted today. Last monday, the cases were somewhere just over 500. That is i want to make sure this is just because people are being tested now more. I think so. We expected the numbers to go up as the testing went up, for sure. One thing to keep in mind as well, the timeframe exposure to the time someone develops, would test positive, is usually about five days on average. So this is a little bit behind the curve, if you will. Were catching people a few days after their exposure on average. Yes, i think testing is going to cause these numbers to go up for some time now. Doctor, the president said life may not return to normal until july or august. Dr. Fauci indicated theyre going to recess how these new guidelines are working in 15 days. It sounds like its certainly going to be an incremental process. I think a lot of people are hanging on to the notion, this is a 15day period in which were going to have to stay at home, a 15day period that life is interrupted this way. The truth is we really do not know how long this is going to go. Thats exactly right. We have no idea what the trajectory of this disease is going to be. Part of it depends on how we react to it. Are we able to implement the social distancing measures, are hospitals able to do their part to increase capacity . We have to see how all of this goes. But i do think that there was a change in tone today, again, from the president , that in his press conferences, hes gotten progressively more serious. And today, for the first time, he talked about millennials and young people, and its not just, well, young and healthy, dont worry about it, but young and healthy, we need you to be part of this, too. Dont gather, dont going to bars. You could be part of the solution because you know Technology Better than anyone else. Sanjay, so the cdc last night were recommending no gatherings of more than 50 people for eight weeks. Today, the white house suggested no gatherings of more than ten people. It seems at times the white house has more than ten people on that stage doing briefings at any one time. These are obviously guidelines. Theyre not mandates, but how important is it that there are nationwide recommendations . It seems it seems kind of ad hoc if the cdc says, oh, yeah, 50 or larger. Now its 10 or larger. Yeah, i mean, look, these numbers are a bit arbitrary. As you point out. I mean, the numbers have been shifting all over the place, and you know, ultimately, i think the goal is to get people get as much space, the social distance between people as possible, and i think that to the doctors point, you get a sense from a strategic standpoint instead of making all these recommendations at once, because it might be too shocking maybe for the country, theyre sort of slowly layering these things out. Like two weeks from now when i saw dr. Fauci come up to the lectern and talk about that. In two weeks, we might see the recommendations become a little more stringent. Who knows . Were going to get through this, but its not going to be just two weeks. I think were going to see a gradual tightening of some of these recommendations. Frankly, gradual or not, its better to have things tighter sooner because the more the less chances this virus has to spread longterm, the better we will all be. Yeah, its really true. And if youre going to do these types of measures, you want to do them early because thats when youre going to have the most impact. Its really interesting to see this play out in realtime, because that is the sort of right Public Health thing to do, but i think we have seen this all along. Theres this balance between what is the Public Health sort of best thing, Gold Standard to do, versus trying to, you know, not shock the country, sort of coordinate that with the messaging overall. I just want to point out, earlier i said it was believed an Airline Captain may have tested positive for the virus. Thats not the case. Whats happening, according to two passengers, is while the plane was taxiing for takeoff at jfk, a passenger learned someone they had been in contact with had just tested positive for the virus. That passenger alerted a flight attendant. They immediately stopped on the tarmac, and heres what the captain just announced. If you have been in the presence of somebody confirmed to have covid19. No symptoms. The passenger is being questioned. The information will be supplied to the cdc. They will make a decision when it comes to this flight and the rest of us. So at this point, all i can say is please be patient while we work through this and figure it out. Well give you as much information as we know as soon as we know it. So this incident raises the issue about planes, and we all talked about this yesterday. You know, planes right now, domestically, are exempt from the guidelines that 10 or 50 theres no mandatory guidelines. If theres 10 or 20 people on a plane, thats more than the guidelines. So do you think its inevitable that domestic plane flights will stop . Ill take that. You know, i think thats been something that people have sort of they thought that might even be announced today. They said they didnt get there, although they didnt table it either. Its still on the table in terms of a possibility. It is interesting, right . Gathers of ten people, but planes have more than ten people typically. Again, this is a bit arbitrary, but i think gatherings of ten people, people mingling with each other, having closer contact versus sitting in rows on a plane, theyre making a distinction here, but we may see some increased recommendations even with regard to airline travel. One of the things they said in the actual guidelines is avoid discretionary travel. Shopping trips and social visits. They said, you know, try to make your travel only for essential things. But again, so just a recommendation. Doctors, if you can sorry. Go ahead. I agree, too, about the question of discretionary. I think maybe whats been happening is so many people are saying oh, well, now we dont have to go to school, so were going to do play dates, were going to do parties. Thats what we should be cutting out. Yeah, a good point. Doctors, stay with us. For most of the show tonight, dr. S gupta and wynn will be here answering your questions about the coronavirus and how to protect yourself. Something we have been doing to combat the fear and misinformation. So many rumors floating out there. I literally have people coming up to me on the streets today within three to six feet and asking me questions, and im certainly no expert. So were going to keep the doctors around. We also have a live report from the white house, a different President Trump we saw today, thankfully, compared to previous news conferences on the coronavirus. Well have reaction when we return. 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But its something that we have tremendous control over. Youre not saying its under control, right . Im not referring to it, meaning the yeah, if youre talking about the virus, no, thats not under control for any place in the world. I think i read no, i didnt. I was talking about what were doing is under control but not the virus. He said we have tremendous control over it. Jeremy diamond is at the white house for a possible reason for the preds new tone today. What do you account for the tone . Its certainly different than what we heard from President Trump in the last many weeks. It certainly is, anderson wrarb look, we have seen this president repeatedly downplay this pandemic during the course of this outbreak, including yesterday when you saw where he was saying this was totally under control. And we saw that dramatic shift in tone today, where the president really seemed to acknowledge the gravity of the situation, acknowledging how bad this virus is and the impact it will have on americans daily lives. Thats whey we saw him issue that guidance to americans on what they can do to mitigate the spread. What im told is the president s shift in tone really underscored a shift among top officials inside the white house over the last couple of days. As officials saw those number of cases surging over the weekend, after the number of tests that were being issued and carried out were also rising, the administration really began to understand how bad this situation was. One Administration Official telling me that the scale of the problem really became more apparent. As the scale of the problem became more apparent, we saw some of the administrations top Public Health officials really increasingly making the case to the president s Coronavirus Task force that they needed to do something beyond travel restrictions, beyond what we have seen them do so far, and instead, now taking that topdown approach to encourage americans to really make changes to their daily lives. Youre also hearing the president s been very focused on how further restrictions could affect the economy. Yeah, well, listen, we know the president has been extremely concerned about the economy throughout all this. This is a reelection year, anderson, and the president knows he needs a Strong Economy in order to get his next four years. That is very much in question now as a result of all this. And so the president at times has been spurred on by bad economic news, seeing that as a reason to act further. But over the weekend, were told there were some officials arguing these more severe restrictions on daily life for americans, that could really have an even worse Economic Impact, but the president apparently, were told, was swayed ultimately by the argument these steps need to be taken now. If not, the economic ramifications in the long term would be much more severe. Is the white house considering stricter guidelines, like a National Curfew . Look, the president was asked about that today, whether he was considering some kind of a National Quarantine or a National Lockdown of some kind. The pres