Figure out how this is going to play out. All of them, the passengers anyway, quarantined inside their rooms as testing is administer and as they transfer people from one ship to another, theres a sister ship that met them in panama theyre in the process, Holland America the parent ship, to move healthy passengers from one ship to the other. They left on march 6th boarded in buenos aires and they were supposed to end up in chile, this whole thing erupted since then. What they told me, the governor of this state said floridians youre at low risk, continue living your lives, dont disrupt what youre doing. Two days later, on march 6th, President Trump issued a statement to america saying this all was going to be under control. They got on the ship and here they find themselves today, in terms of the number of people potentially affected, ali, ro h roughly 153 passengers and 80someold crew members who have exhibited symptoms. As they try to test as many people as possible throughout this process, how are they going to get those passengers back to florida . Its supposed to come through the panama canal and get to Broward County, but the government of Broward County havent signed up on that. T local government officials right now cant agree on a plan of action u four people have died as you said and who knows how many. Sam, not withstanding the fact that the governor of florida did say go about your loves and florida should have shut down its beaches and spring break, notwithstanding than that, are there more ships out there trying to dock in america that we didnt know about . Reporter theyve shut down operations here for weeks in the florida area, not that im aware of at the moment. But this situation clearly is garnering headlines right now because of just the sheer quantity and the potential of how many people could be sick which is exceedingly unsettling when you consider the demographic of whos on these cruise ships to begin with. People with a little bit older in age. Sam, thanks for your reporting. Well stay on top of this one. Sam brock is in miami. If theres cruise ship of people still looking to dock, please tweet me about this. This is kind of remarkable that the governor of florida would have known there was a cruise ship on the way and theyre now just dealing with this. Help on the way for some people in the america, some businesses, some people struggling to deal with this coronavirus. The house approved 2 trillion relief package. Money for hospitals and states and local governments. The bill heads to President Trumps desk but not without a little bit of drama. Thomas massie tried to force lawmakers to vote on the record but he was rebuffed, an effort to forced lawmakers to quickly returned to washington. Were so pleased today to have passed on the floor this important bill. We want to demonstrate that we do care for the American People in every way. With the passing of this bill, youll see that well fight it together. And we will win together. And i want to thank our colleagues for that type of work. As the house debated that bill, President Trump lashed out at ford and General Motors on twitter not moving fast enough to produce medical supplies. Not clear if hes using his authority under the defense production act. Ford stayed in a statement that, quote, its pulling out all the stops to provide vitally needed equipment for patients, First Responders and healthcare workers. General motors announced that it was bringing workers back to its plant in kokomo to make ventilators. There are now 94,000 confirmed cases in the United States. More than 1400 people have died. Most people who get the virus will recover and most people who die do so because theres an underlying illness. Joe cunningham has become the third member of congress to test positive. Also testing positive for the virus, british Prime Minister boris johnson. Back at home the Navy Hospital ship mercy has arrived at the port of los angeles today to help ease the burden on hospitals that are overwhelmed by coronavirus patients. In theory, these hospital ships are meant to treat people who are not suffering from coronavirus but who are otherwise requiring medical care. Theres a ship headed by the way for new york harbor, too, its leaving tomorrow. Wall street is adding this historic week on a down note, its getting less down as the day goes on. Ill keep you posted. Right now, were just 2 off. Very rare that you actually see these days just a 2 swing on these markets as you can see all major markets are in the same position. Ill bring you up to speed where markets are at the end of the show. Lets get to the house voting to send this pandemic relief bill to the president s desk. Garrett, this drama we talked about, congressman massie of kentucky, he seemed to be determined that everybody who votes on this bill has to do it in a roll call vote, on the record, what was this about in. Well, look, was among the targets of the president today. He said he should be kicked out of the respect party for this. As few as absolutely necessary back from around the country to washington to conduct this vote. They were frustrated that Thomas Massie wanted to have this vote on the record. Heres how he explained his objection by doing this by voice votes when he talked to reporters. Theyre trying to cover up their votes. They had enough votes to pass the bill. They still refused to have a recorded vote. They told me they were trying to protect members. Theyre trying to protect the members who are there from political ramifications. Like i said in there, i said make sure our republic doesnt die in an empty chamber by unanimous consent. You can almost hear black helicopters circling, the level of Conspiracy Theory thats going on, an effort to protect members from taking a dangerous vote. The Senate Passed this bill unanimously. The how the would have done so without his objection. As the news about Joe Cunningham which you just read, so clearly indicated, this is not a theoretical exercise up here on the hill who dont want to be put in a sealed off chamber for votes unless they absolutely have to. Garrett, thank you for your coverage of this. Garrett haake. I want to continue with our coverage of the house vote coming two days after the Senate Unanimously approved that package. Jo joining us now is jeff merkley, senator, your sense of what this bill is going to do. The market is off today. We have had a couple of recordbreaking days. So, clearly, some people are getting the impression that this may have some meaningful effect, but a lot of people say, it cant possibly be enough. Ali, its a massive infusion of funds into the economy and its for those workers who are laid off, it will give them 100 of their income u it encourages Small Businesses, really up to 500 people to keep their employees employed which will allow the businesses recover faster when we get to the other side of this. This has a lot in it thats going to help on the large and medi mediumsize business and a massive investment in health care. Stabilization fund for state and local governments. Thats just the headlines. There is a lot more things beyond that on housing, agricultural and education. Are there things in this bill that didnt get done that might have to happen in another bill . I think support for our small chambers of commerce is very important and thats not in this bill. Theyre going to play a big role in making sure Small Businesses are able to sign up. I dont think we have enough for our public universities and our nonprofit universities. Those on the quarter system, theyre afraid theyre going to see an a massive erosion of their tuition. And i dont think we have enough on housing. Ive been pushing for a housing package, we got about 7 billion, housings already very stressed across the country. This could put a lot more people on the street. I want to play some of the critici criticism, some democratic circles. Alexandria ocakacasiocasiocort what did senate ma your city fight for, one of the corporate bailouts. Shameful. The greed of that fight is wrong for our families and the option that we have to either let them suffer with nothing or to allow this greed and billions of dollars which will be leveraged into trillions of dollars to contribute to the largest income inequality gap in our future. Senator, there were in fact, no Strings Attached in the initial bill drafted. That has been strengthened to some degree. The president implied that Cruise Companies if they flag their ships in the United States after having not done so for decades might be able to participate in this thing but still some feeling the 500 billion that goes to corporate relief doesnt have as many Strings Attached as some people would like it to have. Well, thats right, it was passed in a senate thats run by republicans. They were going to make sure that this liquidity was there for medium and large businesses. We wanted a lot more Strings Attached to it. We got some. Most important, is massive transparency, details have to be disclosed within a few days. The fact that none of these funds can be used for stock buybacks. That was an improvement. Restrictions on how much executives can be paid thats an improvement but its not Strong Enough but this is going to be a compromise in which democrats were fighting for the Unemployment Insurance and Small Businesses that hit or help families on the ground. The republicans got more leniency. Theres room for abuse, i think aoc is right on that. Senator jeff merkley of oregon. Now that the house has passed the pandemic bill, direct payments will be on their way. Payments will start in about three weeks. Heres how you can get the money as fast as possible. First of all, heres a reminder of whos eligible and how much the payment will be. Individuals who earn less than 75,000 a year will get 1200. Couples who file a joint tax return and made less than 150,000 will get 2400. Individuals who file as head of household, will get 1200. Now, it goes down from there. Individuals who make up to 99,000, couples that earn up to 199,000 will receive money, the amount will be reduced 5 for every 100 of income over 75,000. You must have a valid Social Security number and the kind thats eligible for work. Social Security Card that says ineligible for work without authorization you dont get the money then. The irs will determine how much you get by looking at the 2018 retur returns. If your information is up to date, your address to which your last refund was sent or was on your last tax return you dont need to do anything at all. If you havent filed taxes for either 2018 or 2019 nows the time to do it. The irs will send the money directly to your account. It will take longer if the government needs to send you a check. All of this is on my twitter handle. Go in there. But theres a lot of discussion here and lot of questions about this. I want to bring in my colleague, ben popkin to answer some of these questions. One of the largest areas people have dont fit into the categories, seniors on Social Security, people who receive Social Security disability benefits, people who get pensions but not Social Security, lowincome americans who dont file enough who dont make enough to file these returns. Talk to me about these groups. Definitely, ali, both of us have heard concerns about these issues. Almost every adult american will receive one of these checks. Thats the bottom line. Now, those questions, on the Social Security, disability, will they get stimulus checks . Yes, no matter what category you pull up on disability that has no impact whatsoever on whether you get one of these checks. Will this disqualify me . No. Theres confusion because the irs is involved and people are scared about the irs on a good day. Here the irs is the mechanism for determining eligible and then sending out those checks. People, though, who do not have enough income to file for taxes normally they should probably go out and file taxes. You can declare zero income, you can send in a tax form that has zero income, you go to irs. Gov, they got the forms there of course, there are Community Groups and a Service Called the irs volunteer income tax assistance and their theyre tax preparers set up to help people making under 54,000 a year, who have disability or issues with english, now of course because of coronavirus many of these tax assistance offices are closed but still worth giving the phone number a call and trying to find out. Lot of information is still up in the air until the bill is completely finalized. The irs has set up a landing page. You got to Customer Service phone number for the irs. The irs has a Customer Service line. 8008291040. Theyll be able to answer some of these questions. So, well see what happens. The other thing to remember is, these may not be the last ill be interested to see if this is just the beginning of extension of the social safety net due to the coronavirus. Ben, do me a favor, tweet out the website for the irs coronavirus and the phone number and ill do the same thing. Ben popken. Worth noting in 2009 it took three months to get the checks out. It will take three weeks right now, there have been taxes, cut to the irs itself. The other thing you should know even if you owe the government money, back taxes that wont affect you except one exception unpaid Child Support that has been reported to the treasury department, this will be deducted from that. Thats the one exception. Unpaid Child Support youre not going to get this rebate the big question is, is this relief package going to be enough . Annie, in peoples spare time, the book theyre buying right now, we know because we did this the last time in the financial crisis, its every 12, 20 years that we get to have this much influence over what ben popken called the social safety net, this might be the time to reconsider all of this . Yeah, absolutely. We saw a major changes to the safety net that came out of the last recession, including eventually in a separate process the Affordable Care act i dont think its impossible that well see pretty profound changes to the safety net through this one, through the provision of public goods, possible changes to things like paid leave and id expect to that happen, to your earlier point, i dont think this is the last rescue bill theyre going to pass, theyll have to come back depending a little bit on how this goes in Public Health terms. You know, annie, when i cover hurricanes, we talk about climate change, people say, this is an emergency, this is not the moment to talk about it, same thing is happening now. This is an emergency, get the checks out. But this may be the opportune because peoples ears are tuned for tuniversal income. Absolutely, so theres been an ongoing conversation about whether the country needs better automatic stabilizers, these are the programs that kick in when families become destress. This did require congress to come together to pass this. They didnt have off the shelf programs for this. We didnt have a ton of programs set and ready to go. If theres another viral pandemic, do we need automatic Cash Payments to go out. Many people on the hill are starting to think about that and structural changes so its not always on congress to do this and remake these policies again and again and again. Thinking about cash policies is going to be a part of that going forward. Do we have to have better, more immediate and more direct support for families . Even when times are good. The United States has much less social insurance than other countries do which is a bit of a irony because we pay so much for health insurance. But never themselves, well relatively uninsure compared to our counterparts. Annie, this is the moment to understand universal basic income and stronger safety nets. Annie, thanks very much. We got breaking news, this is serious, Emergency Responders in new york city are getting more 911 calls than ever before. There are so many calls that people not just a few people, lot of people are being put on hold. The city is strongly suggested that the new yorkers only call 911 if theyre having trouble breathing or having heart problems. Otherwise, call your doctor or call 311. Nbc news correspondent tom witter ares following this. You are constantly hearing sirens and they are now overwhelmed. Thats correct. Ill read you a statement from the fire department. The medical call volume for ems in new york city over the past three days is the largest in our history, thats an extraordinary statement, ali, this number is constantly fluctuating. Right now, theres 170 People Holding for ambulances in new york city. Now, i want to make it right away a major caveat, if someone is at home and watching us right now and theyre having a heart issue possibly a heart attack or serious trouble breathing your calls going be prioritize, dont think youre in a hopeless situation, the 9 1 operators in new york city are very good at prioritizing calls. The issue they have right now, these emts and paramedics are being run ragged, people are feeling sick, coronavirus symptoms, flulike symptoms, they want people to get help but what theyre asking you to do to call your physician, or if youre new york city only, call 311, thats an Inform