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The act yesterday but at the time he said he would only invoke it on the worst case scenario. The position is confusing even to the pentagon. Many Top Health Officials privately pushing for all americans to stay home so as to flatten the curve and reduce the expected surge in hospitals. Governor newsom of california and cuomo of new york are now mandating that citizens with a few exceptions stay home. That is nearly one in five americans told to stay home. Dr. Anthony fauci the top physician said the new reality of staying at home and social distancing will continue for at least several weeks. Cnns Kaitlan Collins is at the white house. And President Trump praised the restrictions put in place in new york and california and as i mentioned privately Health C ....
This morning, President Trump announced hes pushing the food and Drug Administration to fasttrack treatments for the coronavirus treatments. President trump said in a span of minutes that two drugs were especially approved and that he hopes those and other drugs under evaluation could be a big breakthrough. What the president said was either confusing or just wrong because the fda commissioner just minutes later said while these drugs are approved for other uses, theyre not yet approved for coronavirus. Fda will start Clinical Trials to see if theyre effective for the pandemic. And he acknowledged, of course, there are site effects with this these two drugs. And the president to invoke the defense production act the order to make military work to increase critical medical supplies for civilians out there. Today, t ....
Hours since i was on air last, more than 100 people, 146 more people, have died from the coronavirus. I want to take just a second here to think about that so it is not just a number to you or to me. 646, each one of those numbers, someones son or daughter, someones mother or father, their brother or sister. Whether young or old, there are oceans of pain and suffering surrounding each addition to this grim toll. A week ago there were just over 6,000 confirmed cases. Now weve crossed the threshold of 50,000 and the calls for supplies from doctors and nurses on the front lines are getting even more dire. The messages from the white house on forcing industry to manufacture these needed supplies continue to be somewhat contradictory and confusing but today the head of fema told cnn that his team is using the defense production act for the first time to secure more testing kits. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ripped apart t ....
States so far. The governor of new york, andrew cuomo, comparing the pandemic to a slowmoving hurricane and in two days on sunday new york city will run out of ventilators. According to new york city mayor bill de blasio. Today Governor Cuomo acting on that dire need signed an executive order that will enable the state to take ventilators and personal protective equipment from places not currently using them. The mayor de blasio called for the military to mobilize doctors and nurses in uniform to help ease the strain on the new york city civilian medical personnel as hospitals continued to be overwhelmed with patients. In a sign of how dire it is, ems in new york city have been instructed not to bring cardiac arrest patients to the hospital if they can cannot save the patient in the field. I also want to take a brief moment here to note in a im anchoring at this hour because our friend and colleague brooke baldwin, who normally an ....
Dozens kill ed and injured. In dayton, ohio, today, gunman opened fire early this morning at a popular night life district. Nine people plus the suspected gunman are dead. Here is what it sounded like from a car parked nearby. [ gun shots fired ] dude what the [ bleep ]. What the [ bleep ] just awful. Authorities believe there was only one gunman there, that he used an ak47 style rifle and body armor of some sort. No word as of now on a possible motive. 13 hours earlier in el paso, texas, a shooter gunned down 20 innocent people at a walmart near the border. A document posted online is believed to betohave been written by the suspected terrorist. It is filled with White Nationalist language and racist hatred, specifically toward immigrants and latinos. Texas Governor Greg Abbott says the incident is being investigated as a hate crime. State, local and federal authori ....