Good morning, everyone. From new york, this is msnbc. Im ayman mohyeldin. This morning, new records and also new signs for hope. Many states coming off of their deadlie deadliest day to date, but the hardesthit state, new york, is seeing the rate of hospitalizations slowing down. Is that a good sign . Meaning so far, supplies of critical equipment and protective gear seem to be holding up with new evidence on the effectiveness of social distancing guidelines. But the white house warning americans this morning, were nowhere near the end of this crisis. We could see a very acute second wave, very early. So we are really encouraging every american to continue to follow the guidelines. And more guidance could come as soon as today while the cdc looks at whether some people who may have been exposed to the virus but dont show symptoms can begin to return to work. We start with Gabe Gutierrez in brooklyn, new york, one of the citys largest and hardesthit hospitals and Morgan Chesky is in new orleans for us where Officials Say difficult days are still ahead. But the curve could be starting to flatten. Gabe, let me begin with you. Give us a quick situation report on what youre seeing there with the latest numbers from new york and those on the front lines. Reporter hi, there, ayman. This was one of the hospitals that increased its capacity a few weeks ago. The governor requires hospital to up their capacity, their hospital beds by 50 . Theyve done 100 . If you look over here, as this traffic goes by, you can see this triage tent that has been set up here and these ambulances have pulled up here. This is as were seeing that dramatic spike in deaths that were reported yesterday by governor andrew cuomo. 731 deaths across the state. One every two minutes. There is some positive news, the governor reported. That the hospitalization rate in the icu admission rate and intubation rate has started to level off here in new york state and we are waiting the latest numbers, ayman, at the governors briefing in just a short time. Again, the deadliest day in new york, its something that many new yorkers have having to deal with. Mayor bill de blasio acknowledging that the death toll could be considerably higher but many people may not have been counted because they died at home and werent tested. Certainly, some disturbing news here that weve seen here in new york in the last day or so. But, those hopeful signs that we have been discussing, hopefully, at this hospitalization rate seems to have plateaued. Were expecting the latest from Governor Cuomo in just a short time. Ayman . Lets go down to louisiana. Morgan, one of the areas releasing more data about those affected by the virus. What are the Key Takeaways and what are officials bracing for in the days ahead down there . Reporter these numbers are giving us for first glimpse into the impact of covid19 in louisiana, one of the hardesthit states in the entire country. And new orleans, specifically, with that death rate being so significant and what people are pointing to right now is the impact that covid19 is having on specific groups, specifically africanamericans. And we know as it stands from the numbers weve seen so far, that they are at five times more likely to die from covid19 than anyone else who contracts it here in louisiana. And keep in mind that of the deaths reported, 70 of those are africanamerican, despite the fact they make up 35 or so of the population in the state. That is very concerning and the governor addressed that in his press conference yesterday saying that they really do need to take time to dive into these numbers to better understand them. On the flip side, there are some positive numbers that he pointed to, specifically, that the past three days, the number of patients that have needed to be on ventilators has decreased. As it stands right now, they put an order in for 14,000 ventilators. Theyve decreased that to one thousand ventilators. And they say the capacity is no longer at risk of being overrun by patients. However, that was highly contingent upon the fact that people need to keep abiding by the social distancing measures and stay at home, if at all possible. The governor saying that there is a potential flattening of this curve which he attributes to people staying at home, to louisiana having the highest per capita testing rate of any state in the entire country and so theyre saying that now is not the time to let up. Ayman, if they want to continue to see those numbers show a positive reinforcement for the steps theyre taking, people simply need to heed those social distancing orders. Theyve gone ahead and converted that Convention Center to have 1,000 beds at the ready. They can add an additional 2,000 more. Very proactive steps being put in place and a glimmer of hope here for the city of new orleans hit so hard by covid19. Ayman . Thank you both for kicking us off this hour. Lets bring in eric adams. Good to have you with us. Weve gotten an updated set of data, if you will, about this conversation weve been having about Racial Disparities and what we know in new york. New york city fatalities by race ethnicity. Hispanic, 34 of fatalities, they make up 29 of the population, black, 28 , making up 22 of the population, white 27 , 32 of the population. And asia 7 . When you see those numbers, sir, right off the bat, what is your response to how this is affecting our community here . A major impact and i think that whenever you look at numbers like that, as a former Police Officer, i know you need to drill down further into the numbers to get the true story. And i believe the most important part of the data is to look at the early testing when this virus first hit the city. I was told by my of my hospital president s that for every ten individuals that requested testing, only one was approved. Nine were not approved. So should have been able to identify those hot spots early and this way we could have received or issued the proper treatment, the proper social distancing. We could have done better things, wear masks, as i was handing out at the beginning of this entire outbreak, we just learning now about the importance of masks. We should have looked at those areas with preexisting conditions. We know those are in communities of color and we failed to do this. When you look back at this and maybe its a little bit early as youre continuing to gather the data on this, why did this happen . Why are we seeing a disproportionate representation in the minority communities being affected by this as opposed to reflective balance across all racial divides . Whats important is, i dont want to wait until we start doing hearings and producing reports and say what we should have done. We need to do it now. We need to move to a realtime model of analyzing the data to determine how to shift this virus. This virus doesnt standstill. We have to fight the virus on two fronts which i dont believe we did. We need it fight it in our hospitals to make sure all of our First Responders receive the necessary equipment which we call ppes now and you have to fight it on the front of those communities that have preexisting conditions, that have Traditional Health issues. Our public housing, we should have been on the ground there telling people what they need to do in those poor communities. And then, something that we failed to do, we communicated in an echo chamber around this virus with the elite. Everyone does not read the new york times, everyone does not sit down and listen to a briefing by the president or the governor. We should have had our communications in every language. We should have used the traditional census, infrastructures that we had in place, overlay this to coronavirus communication through that and allow people to go and speak the various language. I have a korean population that doesnt speak english at all. We didnt go to those africanamerican communities to speak and communicate and handed out the things they need to prevent this. We have a dual Health Care System in new york city where the elite get one level of health care and the other boroughs receive a totally different Health Care System and it has become apparent as we look at coronavirus. Very important point there. Let me ask you, mr. President. Mayor bill de blasio said the supply of ventilators is holding up for now but the city still needs more. From what youve been hearing from hospital president s youve been speaking to, walk us through what this looks like in the next couple of days. How are we in the borough of brooklyn and new york city . Are hospitals going to run out of ventilators and supplies at this point . This is one of the most troubling aspect of this entire coronavirus, there is no shortage of supplies. The shortage that we experience in this city is the bureaucracy thats prevented the supplies on warehouse shelves to get to the people on the ground. Many people that my colleagues and i have turned over to the city and state to talk about how do we get these supplies that which we call n95s, ventilators on the ground to our nurses, our doctors, our Police Officers, our essential employees, they all should have the supplies. Many of these companies have yet to be communicated with. They have yet to have one purchase on them. Almost 14, 18 days ago we turned over individuals and that is going to be one of the most horrific aspects of this coronavirus epidemic that a pandemic that were facing is that supplies are available but they cant do anything for our First Responders on warehouse shelves. And bureaucracy did not adjust to the urgency. You cant have a crisis, but you use a traditional procurement measure and that is what we believe we saw in this city. There are countless number of supplies that are available but never received to our hospital care. We should not have been wearing garbage bags, coffee filters. Every Police Officer should have had what they needed in supplies, every School Safety agent, every person that served our city let me ask you this quickly. Youre saying that bureaucracy is the reason for this. That seems to be different than what were hearing from the cities, mayor and governor. Are you saying there are supplies in the state or in the city of new york but bureaucracy is making it impossible to get those supplies to the workers on the front lines . I just want to make sure i understand that point i want to be clear because ive stated this often. I have sister city agreements in china. I have a number of connections in china that have been willing not only do i have them, but other colleagues. They wanted to get millions of pieces of supplies here. We have yet to close the deal. We have letters that came from agencies in the city that said we dont need your supplies to other organizations that my colleagues have to produce. Why didnt we close the deal on those who wanted to bring supplies out of the country, to our country, to assist us. These are the relationships we developed. Just wanted to make sure i understood that point. Thank you very much for joining us this morning. I appreciate your time. Over the at the white house were following two Major Staffing shakeups. President trump removing a watchdog. The president replacing glen fine in his role as active Inspector General, barring him from that oversight panel. That other big shakeup, acting Navy Secretary resigning after several days of controversial moves involving his firing of then captain Brett Crozier who raised alarm bells about an outbreak among his sailors among the roosevelt aircraft carrier. Good to see you again. Lets talk a little bit about the removal of the acting Inspector General at the defense department. Did the Trump Administration give us any explanation for that . Reporter well, ayman, the president basically gave an explanation for it. The big takeaway was that he essentially said it was because he worked for the Obama Administration and the president was asked about this yesterday and he had been in this job since 2016, since before President Trump took office. But when the president was asked about this yesterday, he said, we have a lot of Obama Administration era Inspector Generals and he hinted that he might even fire or get rid of or sideline more of them. He said that theres questions about whether or not theres bias there and weve seen the president being willing to do this in the last five days. He fired the Inspector General for the intelligence community. He was highly critical of the acting Inspector General for the health and Human Services department who came out with a report from about hospitals and their needs amid coronavirus that said they werent getting everything they needed. And so what youre seeing is the president , you know, even though as hes dealing with coronavirus and a pandemic, and is very preoccupied with that, hes got his sights set on who in the Administration May or may not in his view, be out to get him. Theres also that resignation from acting Navy Secretary thomas modly, what more can you tell us about that. That happened quickly. Reporter it was a lot of whiplash. The firing of the navy captain and then the acting Navy Secretarys comments, disparaging him. And then the president coming out and saying hes looking again at the Navy Captains his career and he may take some steps there to try to make sure that this isnt a careerending move for him. He said he had no involvement in the resignation of the acting Navy Secretary but he did make clear that he thought his comments were inappropriate and so he was not isnt they that he should have resigned. He said it was an unselfish thing to do. The question is, what the president the steps the president may or may not take in terms of that navy captain who was initially fired for sounding the alarm in a letter to a number of people that leaked to the media about coronavirus on the ship. Lots of moving pieces on that story. 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Whats your concern right now as we see pennsylvania emerge as a new hot spot in this country . So obviously covid19 poses a significant Public Health threat to pennsylvania. We are seeing significant numbers of cases. Were going to be reporting today over 16,000 cases of covid19 and over 300 deaths. Our particular hot spots are in the southeast, that would include philadelphia and then the suburban counties around philadelphia. But also in the northeast, in the Lehigh Valley and in the hazelt hazelton area are of significant concern. Let me ask you about one of those hot spots in beaver county. A nursing home there has 42 infections and five deaths. But after consulting with your department, theyre now operating under the assumption that all 450 residents and 300 staff may be positive. Can you walk us through a little bit of what the thinking behind that is to protect this very vulnerable population and how you came to the conclusion that they pretty much all have it without the testing. As you were mentioning, longterm care living facilities such as Nursing Homes and personal care homes are some had some of our most vulnerable citizens. Seniors and those with chronic medical conditions. The department of health in collaboration with the department of health and Human Services is working with all the centers and we have a new contract with a company to do Infection Control, virtual Infection Control for those Nursing Homes. You are correct, though, the home has had a significant outbreak of covid19 and so it gets to the point that dr. Fauci and dr. Birx