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A good friday morning to you. Craig melvin here coming to you live once again from the home office out of an abundance of caution after coming into contact with someone who has tested positive for covid19. A lot of you who are watching and listening have been working from home for the better part of a week. These are unnerving times, uncertain times, unusual times to say the least, but we will get through this together. Lets get you up to speed on where we are right now, millions of americans are either in or heading towards a shelterinplace order, a saferathome order, whatever you want to cal...

A good thursday morning to you. Craig melvin here. Just this morning new weekly unemployment numbers are out and theyre terrible. More than 6. 6 million americans filed for Unemployment Benefits just last week. So to give you perspective here, thats more than the entire population of missouri. It also doubles the previous weeks 3. 3 million jobless claims, and that was considered a record at the time. It shows just how quickly things are moving. This morning were also watching this, the surge in coronavirus cases here in the United States. Right now more than 217,000 known cases. Thats almost ...

Working in hardhit places like new york and louisiana but officials remain cautious. While none of this is good news, the flattening, possible flattening of the curve is better than the increases that we have seen. We are starting to see real signs that the mitigation measures that we put into place weeks ago are starting to bear real results and we are hopeful that we are beginning to see the flattening of the curve. Stick with the mitigation measures. Sandra Fox Team Coverage, we begin with David Lee Miller, he is live for us in new york city this morning. Good morning. Its still too early t...

Were going to close down the city playgrounds and leave the open spaces available. So use the open space in a park. Walk around, get some sun, great. No density, no basketball games, no close contact, no violation of social distancing period. Thats the rule. Governor cuomo and others have warned that anyone can get the virus including young people. There is confirmation of that at the state of connecticut. An examination of the remains of a 7 week old infant showed the child had the coronavirus. Authorities say the cause of death is unknown. Sandra. Sandra so many difficult stories to hearing ...

The ship. We dont know how many have tested positive for coronavirus. Speaking of Governor Andrew Cuomo, a word a short time ago the governor will start the Daily Briefing any minute now in albany. When that happens, well take you there live. We can tell you the governor of new jersey petitioned the president as well to allow new jersey residents to be treated on board the u. S. N. S. Comfort and the president also accek acquiesced. Right now 31,000 more cases since this time yesterday. So far the virus has killed more than 11,000 americans. To give you some perspective on how the crisis has b...