Spread of the coronavirus. Governors and officials from arizona, maryland, virginia, and the District Of Columbia all issued stay at home orders just yesterday. Arizonas governor announced that he signed an executive order that will require arizonans to limit time outside their homes at the end of business today. Maryland virginia and washington, d. C. Stay at home orders went in effect just yet with virginians expected to stay in place until june 10th. In d. C. , those charged with the order could be charged with a misdemeanor and fines up to 5,000. And in the San Francisco bay area, Health Officers in six counties are expected to announce today that they will extend their shelter in place order until at least may 1st. Now, hospitals in new york, theyre on the edge of a breaking point. As more patients swarm waiting rooms, fill intensive care beds and snag already numbered ventilators. That strain multiplied by understaffing issues, sheer exhaustion and Health Care Workers falling sick themselves has forced Governor Andrew Cuomo to call for help for medical staff nationwide. Watch this. I am asking Health Care Professionals across the country, if you dont have a Health Care Crisis in your community, please come help us in new york now. We need relief. We need relief for nurses who are working 12hour shifts, one after the other after the other. We need relief for doctors. We need relief for attendants. So if youre not busy, come help us, please. Some governors seem to suggest the lack of testing kits is a problem. The montana governor explained that officials were attempting to do start contract tracing, tracking down people who have come in contact with those who tested positive for the coronavirus but were facing difficulties because they do not have adequate testing. Nbc news has not obtained a recording of that call. Washington governor jay inslee said there was a desperate need for kits. After the call, the whougs released a statement saying the president told the governors he would make sure that whatever they may need, he would direct his team to provide. Lets talk about some of this. Joining me now, daniel lippman. Good to see you. President trump facing a lot of criticism to say the least over the lack of testing kits that the governors are praising him in many of these phone calls. How is this tension overall with the leaders of states throughout the nation impacting the white house response . Well, i think its indicating the shortfall and the response given that trump is just not seeing realistic things about how there is no problem with testing here any more. Just because he has not heard about problems does not mean that they dont exist. So there is still a lack of test kits and this has doubled the administrations response for months. Its from that early case in Washington State and the cdc not having the proper you know, the tests did not work initially. And if you cant then you cant see where the greatest problems are. So until they fix that, then the response will be a step behind. Lets talk about a possible turning point here, right . Because a lot of the conversation, daniel, yesterday was basically about the fact that maybe the president is finally listening to some of the scientists that are on the Coronavirus Task force alongside him and making a pivot here, especially when you see new york and extending the federal guidelines across the country until the end of the month, i believe april 30th. What do you think here has been the turning point for the president . I think one turning point has been the models of death, potential deaths that he was presented by dr. Tony fauci and deborah birx on that task force. He did not want that to be on his hands, to have helped cause a Million Deaths if he relaxed the social distancing guidelines too early. I mean, we did a big piece on kind of the 15 days in the white house to slow the spread of coronavirus. And i talked to one white house official who said he knew that it was a big problem in mid march, i think it was march 11th. Thats when trump had his Oval Office Address and within a span of a few minutes, did nba canceled their games, tom hajs and rita wilson tested positive for coronavirus so it all kind of hit home then. Talking about those numbers and deaths, though, it is still astounding to think about the fact that the optimistic outlook with regarder to possible deaths from covid19 is possibly 100,000 to 200,000 americans. Just incredible to think about that number. Daniel lippman, stay close, my friend. So the coronavirus death toll in the uk has shot up nearly 200 even as they announced the social distancing measures are actually working. Meanwhile, the nhs nightingale is preparing to open soon. Joining me now live from london, chapman bell. Were seeing some of these hospitals, as well, popping up here in the United States, specifically here in new york city, in central park, as well. Talk to us about this most recent popup Field Hospital and who is going to be staffing it . Well, the nhs nightingale, named after florence nightingale, perhaps the most famous field nurse ever in this massive Field Hospital is being set up in what is a convention and Exhibition Center normally. It is set to be open tomorrow initially and will be providing oxygens and ventilators for beds for those suffering from covid19. The military has been working hard trying to get this building ready. They expect it could increase in size to treat people in london and perhaps other parts of the country. Although other Field Hospitals are set to open around the country. Theyre going to be using Airline Workers. The nhs has appealed to those Airline Workers to see if they would like to work in a lot of these centers. They say a lot of these people are trained in first aid. They have security clearance. They could work in support roles in helping nurses and, doctors through these tesch ewe lent times. Also military medics. The ns has called on retired nurses and, doctors to come out and help this fight against the coronavirus. The chief scientific adviser to the government here has said so far it seems social distancing measures are working, that there are early signs that things like working from home are helping slow the number of cases and flatten this curve. There are fewer cases now than predicted. Although a senior medical adviser to the government has warned it could be up to six months before things return to normal here. First, does the uk believe they have enough personal protective equipment to handle this crisis and secondly, talk to us about Prince Charles endsing his own coronavirus selfisolation. Any ideas to how symptomatic he was and how exactly hes doing . First, they have put out pleas to have different areas of industry work to maybe manufacture ventilators and equipment and companies are coming together to offer government. Prince charles looks like hes on the road to recovery. Clarence house announcing that he is out of his quarantine and he seems to be feeling better. He only had mild symptoms, we understand. However, camilla, the duchess, his wife, is still in her selfimposed quarantine because she has been advised to stay in for up to 14 days of isolation. This, of course, as Boris Johnson has been trying to rally the country with videos from his mobile phone after he has been isolated after having tested positive for covid19. And do we know how Boris Johnson is doing . The last video we saw, it seems that he is doing pretty well. It seems that he is, like Prince Charles, suffering a minor case of this. Thank you, chapman. Coming up, everybody, the Justice Department investigating at least one lawmakers stock trades ahead of the coronavirus pandemic. Were going to talk about that with danny and coming up on morning joe, Speaker Nancy Pelosi will join joe, mika and willie to talk about a fourth coronavirus package. Much more ahead. Stay with us. S package. Much more ahead. Stay with us all strength, we aint stoppin believe me go straight till the morning look like we wont wait, were taking everything we wanted we can do it all strength, no sweat my name is jonatan and i work for verizon. I totally get how important it is to stay connected. Were connecting with people, were offering them solutions. Customers can do what they need to do, whenever they need to do it online. 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As head of the powerful committee, burr received frequent briefings and reports on the threat of the virus and that between mid february he sold between 628,000 and 1. 7 million worth of stock. The stock market took a sharp nose dive about a week after the senator sold off the stocks. In a statement, burrs lawyer emphasizes the senator asked for the review and believes it will establish that his actions were appropriate. While other senators from both parties sold and bought stock ahead of the market downturn, it is not clear who else the Justice Department is looking into. Several lawmakers are calling for burr to step down over this investigation. Danny, it is great to see you. Thank you. Same to you. Lets talk about this. When this revelation came forth, i think a lot of people were surprised and astounded considering how people have been seeing their 401 k s go down with the market downturn over the last couple of weeks. Talk about the rules that are in place for senators as to whether or not they can actually sell stocks in awful. And danny, do you know if there is ever a directive from intel agencies or from the adm administration or intel agencies like burr that would say you cannot sell stocks . There is a 2012 federal law that is supposed to tell senators and Congress Folks that they need to report any of these covered trades or transactions. But those are ethics requirements and the reality is this. It is very difficult to prosecute Insider Trading and even more difficult to prosecute it against members of congress. After all, the entire reason to get into the stock market is because you think you know something that the other person doesnt know. Its all a form of Insider Trading, arguably. Its all based on a sympathy industry of information. So that is why in the country you have such a split among federal courts as to what the applicable standards are. So in this case, the question is did a Congress Person acquire material nonpublic information . In the case of a company, for example, a president or a member of a board may acquire material and nonpublic information and then either trade on it or tip smen. And so you can see how that information is misappropriated. But it is more difficult with members of congress because arguably, information they gain in public hearings or even among other Congress Folks is arguably not nonpublic. In other words, almost all of the business of congress is arguably public. But then you get into areas where you have committees and hearings that are held in secret and then you have a strorngnger case. So it becomes difficult to sue members of congress for their trading activity. Can you expand on that with regard to difficulties . Say burr received intelligence, he then issued this trade, could that not be seen as a direct connection to the information that he contained in that intelligence briefing . Even if there is a correlation between those two dates, the next step is what was the nature of the information . Was it material . Probably. Was it nonpublic . And that is an important question. How did he acquire that information . And because these laws have been so rarely applied to members of congress, the question becomes is information given to the people and the peoples house and the legislature, is that truly nonpublic or is everything given to congress arguably for the people and argue bably for public . I know a lot of folks wants to see a solution to this. As always, thank you, my friend, and please stay healthy. Still ahead, Manufacturing Companies across the country are stepping up to help fight the coronavirus outbreak. We will talk about those efforts. Back in a moment. Mentat 3m. About that one aha moment. Science is a process. It takes time, dedication. Its a journey. Were constantly asking ourselves, how can we do things better and better . what we make has to work. 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The drug manufacturer says trials will begin in september, several months earlier than expected. That is some good news. The Company Believes it could receive approval and sell the vaccine affordably on a not for profit basis. If successful, johnson and johnson intends to produce 1 billion doses by the end of 2021 for a worldwide distribution. So we will be watching for the development for that, that is for sure. Lets bridge in meteorologist bill karins. Hi, bill. Good morning. Glad youre well. Lets talk about this curve that youve been watching over the last couple of weeks. These guidelines, while gradual, while minimal, they are working. There is definitely good news and bad news. Yesterday was the most deaths and most cases weve had, but the growth rate continues to come down. Yesterday was the first time that we had over 20,000 new cases in the country and you can see as the bars go up there, you can se