Is that right . Thats correct. I think th the term icu beds n this world were living in now is different. The Recovery Room with a ventilator is an icu bed. So i think that is just but we have asked all the hospitals for that information. Reporter but the state only has about 7,000 licensed respiratory services, are there plans to try and increase that number . Would put out a call for about 1. 2 million Additional Health care workers to come to new york state. Thats going on a rolling basis. He will see many of these numbers which the governmen govr presented to the increase asked initially. Its not just instate, we asked for outofstate retirees and Health Care Workers respond from connecticut and new jersey and other parts of the country, as well. We are arranging for them to come to this area as needed. You notice there are respiratory therapists in there who have volunteered, as well. Reporter to piggyback on that question, weve seen reports from federal sources saying basically new york city will run out of icu beds by friday. Are you seeing similar reports and are you reacting to those . I didnt see those reports. Im reacting to the numbers we have. Show the numbers. The current number of icu beds with ventilators, thats one number. If you bring, jesse, the ventilators we have in hand, and add those two beds, that number goes up 14,000. I will that happen . We can move them today. Reporter when you say theres a stockpile, is that in albany . There are multiple stockpiles. Which we did when we ramped up the whole disaster Emergency Management system. We have multiple stockpiles. We have these placed in multiple stockpiles, where you have to go to the city. Its a shorter trip, we have a stockpile on long island, in the hudson valley, in albany, in my basement. Just in case the stockpile runs out. But you arent filling that out as of yet . We have the icu we have the ventilators in the stockpiles. We have not gone from the stockpile to a hospital because we dont have a hospital that is called up and said, i need a ventilated bed. Reporter are they being deployed to the front lines . Are they being sent to work in other parts of the hospital . The workers . Reporter the reserve medical providers being called up and asked to volunteer. They are not yet being deployed. If im incorrect, you can correct me. Which he enjoys doing. I dont believe they are being deployed yet. They are reserve in case well, they are reserved for two purposes. He opened new beds, you now need staff for the new beds. We open up a dormitory, 200 beds. Now you need staff to do the 200 beds. Or you have a hospital that has a severe shortage of workers because of hours or sickness. I dont believe we are now deploying the reserves. Thats correct. Reporter should we be concerned at all about the role back in some regulations, recordkeeping, medical malpractice protections, and other regulations that are rolled back . Doctor . We are looking at those issues, as well. There are concerns that have been raised. As we mentioned, at Previous Press conferences, the governor said we should look at our rules and regulations and adapt accordingly. So were going to do that, as well. I was on the phone with hospital administrators. The department of health im going to say this in a nice way. The department of health has multiple regulations to run the best Health System in the United States of america. And those regulations make it so. The regulations can sometimes get in the way of expedition and facilitation and mobilization. So we said, in this case, we are going to relax many of the regulations so they can staff up, they can increase capacity. The hospital could double capacity. We also have space regulations. You need flexibility for them to do what we are asking them to do. Reporter do you agree with the cure is worse than the disease mentality . Im confused. Reporter [inaudible question] if i rikers is run by new york city. Do you have a point . I was going to say new york city is already doing on their own so its not something they need us on. We talked to new york city 77 times a day. If that conversation needs to be had, itll be had. 78. Reporter [inaudible question] no. I cant. You need to be a congressperson. You need to be a senator. Ive communicated with all of them. I understand the washington bureaucracy. I was there. But i passed bills when i was a secretary, i know how hard it is. But i also know how high the stakes are here. You look at the loss in the revenue, what you guys have been talking about timmy, how do you do a state budget with that dramatic loss in revenue . Theyve been saying the federal government is going to pass a stimulus package that delivers additional funding to state governments. Okay, heres the package. It gives us 3. 8 billion. The whole is as big as high as 15 billion. How do you plug a 15 billion hole with 3. 8 billion . You dont. Thank you, governor. How do you respond to the mentality out there that the cure is worse than the disease, and the suggestion by the president that he might want to open up the country by easter . Look, i believe its part language, right . Nobody will say it is sustainable to keep the economy closed. Its not sustainable. We all got that. China got it, south korea got it, et cetera. Thats point one. 2 two, everyone believes, i believe, in this state that we do everything we can to save a life. We are not going to triage and say melissa you are listening to new york Governor Cuomo saying that the bill that is being considered right now that we are getting ready to vote on in congress does not provide enough relief for new york, saying that it allocates 3. 8 billion for the state of new york, and he says the hole is closer to 15 billion. At the same time we want to take you to washington, where right now Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell is on the floor discussing the very same legislation. Lets listen in. I couldnt be prouder, mr. President , of our colleagu colleagues. Our nation needed us to go big and go fast, and they did. The creative policies are chairman crafted in just a couple days time remain the Central Building block of the proposal we will pass today. But republicans new the nation had no time, no time, for conventional political gamesmanship. So the instant we released our first draft, i created a series of bipartisan working groups. I asked republicans and democrats to Work Together around the clock, literally aroundtheclock, to make the bill even better. By sunday we had an updated proposal that was Even Stronger and contained even more ideas, literally, from both sides. Both sides. Republicans and democrats have worked together to dramatically strengthen and rework Unemployment Insurance during this crisis. We have worked together to make sure lowerincome families can receive the full cash assistan assistance, and on and on. Mr. President , i will leave it to others to compare the bipartisan sunday bill to the final version we will pass tod today, and determine whether the last few changes really required or merited three days of delay. Three days of delay, in the face of this worsening crisis. But that washington drama does not matter anymore. The senate is going to stand together, act together, and pass this historic relief package today. Struggling americans are going to go to their mailboxes and find 4figure checks to help with their bills. Why . Because the senate stepped up. Many American Families who poured everything into a restaurant or a shop or a Small Manufacturer are going to keep making payroll and keep their businesses alive. Because this senate stepped up. Hundreds of thousands of workers in key sectors who might well have been laid off through no fault of their own will instead get to keep their job and continue their career, because this senate stepped up. For the Health Care Heroes who leave their own sleeping children and drive to the hospital for an allnight shift, to spend hour after hour healing the sick, comforting strangers, and literally battling this disease, there will be more masks in their supply closets. More funding for their hospita hospitals. And soon, more treatments to administer to their patients. Because this senate stepped up. So, today, mr. President , the senate will act to help the people of this country weather this storm. Nobody thinks legislation can end this. It cannot outlaw the virus, and note Economic Policy could fully end the hardship so long as we must put the nations commerce n ice. This is not even a stimulus package. It is emergency relief. Emergency relief, thats what this is. No, this fight is not going to be won or lost in washington. Its the American People who will beat this virus. Americans will keep making sacrifices to slow down the spread. Americans will keep pitching in and looking after each other. Americans will keep finding creative ways to stand united, even if they have to stand 6 feet apart. He will win this fight because of people like amy jean tyler, a stayathome mom home mom in kentucky who is leading a drive to so cotton masks for a local childrens hospital. We will win this fight because of people like pastor grant hastie in stearns, kentucky, who has gathered volunteers to distribute more than 550 homecooked meals. We will win this fight because people like peg hayes, who runs a distillery in kentucky, and is temporarily converting her bourbon making facilities to churn hand sanitizer. We will win this fight because National Companies are switching production lines to make medical supplies. Because our largest hightech companies are partnering with the government to through supercomputing power right into the race. We will win this fight because of families, neighbors, and Church Communities that cannot even worship together in person because of small businesses, big businesses, public health, phds, and local entrepreneurs. Its been 18 years since every american was united in amazement and prayer as firefighters and First Responders rushed into burning buildings on september the 11th, 2001. In the coming days and weeks, our nation is going to meet new heroes. Many may be police, firefighte firefighters, and emts once again. Many others will be truck drivers, Grocery Store clerks, and pharmacists who literally keep our supply chains running. Utility workers and delivery drivers, who leave their homes so everyone else can remain in theirs. Teachers who somehow managed to keep educating their students over the internet while looking after their own kids at the very same time. Most of all, we are going to meet a whole lot of american heroes who wear scrubs and masks and gloves. Heroes who rush toward the sick and wash their hands until they bleed, and work around the clock to heal our friends and our families. When our nation comes through this and takes flight again on the other side, it will be because american heroes won this fight. All the senate can do is to give them the resources to do it, and thats exactly what were going to do today. Melissa that was senator Mitch Mcconnell, talking about the 2 trillion stimulus bill that they are getting ready to vote on there. We are awaiting a response from minority leader Chuck Schumer. While we do that, i want to bring in the rest of the group here. Dr. Marc siegel joins us. He was talking right there about where this money is going, to our Health Care Workers who are right now on the front line trying to battle this virus, and they dont have the supplies that they need. Isnt that at the heart of what congress is supposed to be doing right now . Getting them the money for the supplies . Dr. Siegel yes, i think thats where all of this has to go. I had an off the record conversation with hh the s secretary alex azar a little while ago. I cant give you the details of that. Its clear to me that the focus right now is getting n95 respirator masks for Health Care Workers. The government is involved with that, dealing with the private sector. Its more than that, though. Its also getting the rest of the agreement. Gowning, proper gloves, getting the surgical masks used in different ways, not with the covid19 patients. But one source of real disagreement here is how many ventilators we need. I have to tell you, with about 1. 5 of covid19 patients actually needing ventilators, maybe 3 in icus, i think the numbers the governor is throwing out here are vastly exaggerated. Consider that 300,000 ventilators would probably be enough to take care of 12000000 patients. We are nowhere near that situation. The feds are sending 4,400 ventilators to new york. I think the issue is triaging patients properly and getting Health Care Workers outfitted. Melissa yeah. Harris, i would say, its been astounding to me to watch the explosion in new york overnight. You know, the new numbers weve had in our area. Really, that order that anyone who has left the new york area needs to go isolate themselves, because we are the epicenter. Harris because of our proximity to all of you, melis melissa, in new york city. We are on the same lockdown today. The county i live in is number 12 on the list for the most cases out of counties in the nation. The other, like, 9 on that list are in your estate. Some of it we anticipated, because you and i have been talking about if you test more people you find out more information. There is a Testing Center just up the road for me, and i can tell you its been overrun by people trying to get tested. And the rules are strict. So they are not testing you unless somebody suspects that you have this. Your doctor, you, youve got to have symptoms to come in. So it is a process that is burdened now it got cold, started snowing, people are sniffling. A gift, located over the weekend. I do want to bring this up, melissa, because i want to pick your financial brain on this. So, senator mcconnell just said that no one thinks legislation can end this. You cannot outlaw the virus. Its not even a stimulus package, its an emergency relief. Maybe we can talk, melissa, whats the difference . Melissa well, i mean, thats an interesting question. We heard the governor of new york saying at the beginning of this that the money that is coming to new york isnt nearly enough for the needs. That its 3. 8 billion, the hole anticipates being 15 billion. I dont know what he thinks this is the only money coming his way. I think this is a start. I dont love wild spending, but we have a lot of different moving parts here. Dagen, let me ask you really quickly before Chuck Schumer comes out here. A lot of the plans for getting money into peoples pockets, though, look very promising in this bill. What jumps out at you . Dagen the one word here is speed. I call it a rescue package. This is to ease the financial hardship, literally, of millions of americans have lost their jobs overnight. 3400 to a family of four. We have to get this money to them immediately. Back in 2008 when president bush signed this relief into law, it was in midfebruary. That money didnt start going out to people until late april. The payments not completed until summer. This money needs to get there quickly prayed also, Unemployment Benefits greatly enhanced, additional benefits for four months. Gig employees, freelance employees melissa a lot more details. I dont want to cut you off but we have a break right here, we have a lot more details that we are going to get to as well as Gillian Turner on the other side of the break. We are waiting for the democrat response right now on the senate floor. Well be right back. R . By refinancing your va loan at todays incredibly low rates at newday usa. Newdays va streamline refi is the quickest and easiest refi theyve ever offered. You can lower your payments by this time next month without having to verify your income, without getting your home appraised, and theres no money out of pocket. 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Visit redcrossblood. Org harris coronavirus cases are surging across america. We anticipated some of this, as we continue to do more testing of people, but these numbers are eyepopping today. There are now more than 50,000 confirmed cases, with at least 802 deaths. The death rate has spiked nationwide, and that is something we keep our eye on more than anything. Its up by 35 since just yesterday. Cases in new york city, melissa and i were talking about this a few minutes ago, in new york city alone cases have increased by nearly 45 since monday. A member of the White House Task force with this warning. Watch. Everybody who was in new york should be self quarantining for the next 14 days to ensure that the virus doesnt spread to others, no matter where they have gone. Whether its florida, north carolina, or out too far reaches of long island. We are starting to see new cases across long island that suggest people have left the city. Harris i want to go straight away to dr. Siegel for a couple reasons. No one knows the east coast like you do, and the travel patterns we all have, hopping in our cars. We are now in jersey in new york, in a real ho