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lam i am worried about this hot spot say i am worried about this hot spot on the side of town or that specific community year we will do and this is what the administration charged us is what the administration charged us to do. we did not want to ever have an ambulance pull up to the back of the hospital and somebody says we are out of room, go to the next hospital now. we try to make sure that that that space is available and so far everything we have built as i had, two or three days before it is needed. you can stay and watch these wonderful people or you can go back to building things. i have a lot of building things. i have a lot of building to do. ill make really great. thank you very much. he's a terrific gentleman. we have a lot of great people doing that kind of thing, they really have to get recognition for the incrediblejob they really have to get recognition for the incredible job they're doing. because i don't think anybody
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else could do it. nothing like that. and that's on top of thousands of thousands of hospitals. you know, just didn't new york alone, he built for hospitals in 2900 beds, and got them done so quickly, nobody saw anything like it. fortunately we haven't had to use too many of them, and that's ok. that's probably better news than having to use them all, right? because lots of good things are happening in new york and elsewhere. so happening in new york and elsewhere. 50 through the public—private partnerships and deregulation, the federal government has already made immense testing available, but some states need to take action to fully utilise it. to date, the united states has conducted milli— more tests tha n states has conducted milli— more tests than any other country. you could add them all up and they won't catch us. and the numbers are doubly almost on a monthly basis, but almost on a monthly basis, but almost on a weekly basis, we are moving very rapidly. at a number
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nobody thought possible. there will bea number of nobody thought possible. there will be a number of daily tests if governors bring their states online to the capabilities we have. we have tremendous capability out there already existing, and we explained that to the governor today, mike and all the other people explained it very strongly to the governors. they really get it now, i think. as the experts have explained, this capacity is sufficient to allow states to conduct diagnostic testing to treat patients, as well as contact tracing to contain outbreaks to pinpoint potential hotspots in phase one. and we have some hotspots pinpointed, and we think they'll get covered very nicely when they know where to go. they're being told where to go. they're being told where to go. and also these locations where they're going, and some of them are federal, some of the governors didn't allow the mackerel realise they are allowed to use federal locations, they are. we have a booklet of the federal
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locations, we can hold that up. hold that up now. 0k, fine. but you see the numbers... these are all locations where they can go, which is really pretty amazing. this is just one page out of money. look, look at this. these are all locations. $5,000 secular that's a lot of locations. 5000 pieces of equipment. thank you very much. that's more than anybody thought. but it's already there to use, that's what they have to use. some we are very much that's what they have to use. some we are very much aware, that's what they have to use. some we are very much aware, some that's what they have to use. some we are very much aware, some who we re we are very much aware, some who were not aware. might ministration also continues to support states with our massive operation to deliver mass gowns, gloves and other vital supplies. our team at fifa, really what a job they've done, and
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pete, what a job he's done. they're calling on easter sunday to make sure everyone is ok. but they are using detailed data about supply chains to track the deployment of i billion pieces of protective equipment through private distributors, every two weeks. so what we are doing is delivering a number that nobody anywhere in the world is delivering. fema is working closely with doctor burks and the priority to distribute resources where they are most needed, finding the location that they have to get to that location, important to get to that location, important to get to and that they get to them fast. this pandemic has reaffirmed the importance of keeping vital supply chains at home. we cannot outsource our independence or be reliant on foreign demonstrations. let's build it here, let's make it here. we've
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got the greatest country in the world, we've got to start bringing our supply chains back. somebody yea rs our supply chains back. somebody years ago got this crazy idea, let's build all over the place and have a car delivered in a place made far away. let's do this and that, let's put it all together. i like making it right here in the usa. and i think we've learned a lot about that, and especially maybe when it comes to pharmaceutical products. we've also conducted major military operations providing cities and states with additional medical capacity, and the incredible 1800 men and women from the army corps of engineers, whojust met men and women from the army corps of engineers, who just met with todd, thejob engineers, who just met with todd, the job they've done is incredible. but we have nurses, doctors, experts in every field all over. i spoke
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with governor cuomo and mayor de blasio, i think i'm friendly with just about all of them, if you can believe it. but i've gotten friendly with a lot of them. i have a lot of respect for governors, both republican and democrat, during this process. some really good people and talent. but we are sending a lot of our talent. but we are sending a lot of our medical people, not only our construction people like todd, but a lot of our medical people are being sent all over the country to different locations. new york city, new york state, newjersey, i spoke with phil today, he's doing a terrificjob in new with phil today, he's doing a terrific job in newjersey. with phil today, he's doing a terrificjob in newjersey. but new jersey got hit very, very hard. from today, this crisis began, america launched a scientific mobilisation of colossal size and scale. someday they'll be able to write the true story, because nobody has seen anything like it. the fake newsjust refuses to cover it correctly, but
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that's ok. the people are understanding and that's what matters to me. there are now 72 active trials under way across the united states researching thousands of therapies or treatments, and another 211 are in the planning stages. there are literally mobilising, and also on vaccines. tremendous progress is being made on vaccines and i must say on therapeutics. if i had my choice, give me the therapeutics right now, because that would help people right now. and we have some things that i think are working — not only working, but we have some incredible things that look like they could be an answer. but we will know soon. being tested, working out right now. this includes their therapies designed to attack the virus, as well as others that would hinder its replication, reduce the risk of infection, controlled the immune
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response, or transfer life—saving antibodies from the blood of recovered patients. and one of the incredible things that we've seen, and mike and i were talking about it before, is the fact often time someone before, is the fact often time someone gets before, is the fact often time someone gets very before, is the fact often time someone gets very ill from the plague, from this horrible scorch, and they get better and they recover. the first thing they say is they want to give their blood. doctors tell me it's happened so much. "i want to give my blood, i wa nt to much. "i want to give my blood, i want to get my blood." and they're doing that, tremendous things are happening, you will be seeing that over happening, you will be seeing that over the weeks. i think they'll be talking about it in the not—too—distant talking about it in the not—too—dista nt future. talking about it in the not—too—distant future. johnson & johnson is very well along on vaccines, and again vaccines have to be tested, therapeutics are for now. but ultimately we also hope to prevent prevent the macro infection through a very safe vaccine, and it will be a great thing. and we will have it. with that, i'd like to
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introduce admiral gohar and brent smith to discuss some of the incredible things that have been done. they really are, but they've been able to do in a very short period of time. and equipment, you'll see equipment you haven't seen you'll see equipment you haven't seen before. and if you'lljust come up, brad, you could give us a little display of some of the equipment that we have, and some of the things that we have, and some of the things that are happening having to do with testing. because testing... we've just come away from donald trump's briefing for a moment and talk to katty kay. mr trump sounding quite conciliatory with the governors, they're saying he gets along both with the and democrat governors, the andrew cuomo will be sending him tomorrow to talk to the —— about the coronavirus outbreak in new york? it's been a yo—yo, the relationship
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between the white house and all of the governors, but particularly the governor the governors, but particularly the governor from the governors, but particularly the governorfrom new york, with both the governor and trump trading barbs over the governor and trump trading barbs over twitter over the last week. but we saw over twitter over the last week. but we saw with this yesterday, he's now trying to strike a more conciliatory tone when talking about the governors. tone when talking about the governors. and also to try and show what kind things he saying about him, he started off this briefing by saying some of the things that andrew cuomo had said about him, then the biggest news of this conference at the moment is that cuomo is coming down from new york to visit him at the white house, at the oval office tomorrow. then as he does every evening, updating people on the number of tests that america has carried out and the number of ventilators that are in service around the country in the situation of the different states and where we are on the total numbers, but as far asi are on the total numbers, but as far as i can tell, the biggest news at the moment was cuomo is coming here
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to the white house. why does mr trump feel the need to address the press every day in this briefing? i don't think there are many other world leaders, if any who are doing that. obviously coronavirus is a massive crisis around the globe, but not many world leaders updating reporters every day. it's notjust that he addresses the press every day in this way, it's that these press co nfe re nces day in this way, it's that these press conferences can go on for an hour and press conferences can go on for an hourand a press conferences can go on for an hour and a half, two hours. some have gone over two hours. their mammoth. he does about 80% of the speaking, he brings together the whole task force, and you heard there from a general who's updating people on the construction of hospitals that are taking place there is a bit of a campaign wall there is a bit of a campaign wall there were he's wrong about the construction of the border wall for mexico. and i think that in a way gives you some of the answer to what you're saying, which is that part of this is political. trump sees that
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these tv appearances that he has have big ratings, and he can't get out and hold political rallies. so this is a way for him to communicate directly with his supporters in a way that he likes. he feels that he wa nts to way that he likes. he feels that he wants to be out there, he wants to be seen every day. this is an election year, don't forget that, it is important to remember that trump is important to remember that trump is both fighting the coronavirus and for his reelection. and i think in these briefings, they come together. sometimes there about the coronavirus, which is important, and sometimes they're more about his own reelection bid as it was when he was speaking about the wall with mexico. and there is a distinction there. good to talk to you, thank you very much, katty kay there with us in washington. in the usa, the price of oil has collapsed to a record low, as demand dries up and storage runs out. the price of a barrel of west texas intermediate, the benchmark for us oil, today traded as low as minus $40 a barrel — the first time the price has turned negative in history.
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it led to a day of chaos in the oil markets, and has left the world awash with oil and not enough storage capacity. let's speak now to christof ruehl, who's an economist at crystol energy. hejoins us from abu dhabi. and that's it, really, a glut of oil? negative prices, people have to be paid to pick up the oil, which is to be delivered next month. that is the market's way of telling you ta nks the market's way of telling you tanks are full. so talk us through the implications of that and how long you think it might last? technicalities aside, this is for delivery next month. it had in the you just have been in the us, not globally, which is important. in landlocked areas where you have storage facilities far away where you have pipelines — other sorts of
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crude oil which are delivered by ship, they don't have that phenomenon. so this is something which worldwide is a problem, when you have not enough storage but also transport capacity. in the world, the three areas where this is most likely to happen is the us, canada, and russia. because all of them have large pipeline systems in the areas. and it is really also important, it is the market's way of telling producers nobody wants your oil any more, people say we don't need next month, will take it, and that is the signal to producers actually stop producing and shutter productions. so what do you think the global economic implications are of all this? there are two, there was a meeting of opec, the old opec around
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saudi arabia plus russia and its producing colleagues, now also the us, which decided on production cuts two weeks ago of a very large magnitude. they've been avoiding this kind of scenario which we are seeing. now why does this matter for everyone? two reasons. the first reason everyone? two reasons. the first reason is the question, do we want more of these political agreements to limit production in a way, producing what the market shares are between the big producers, particularly the us which is normally the biggest buyer? in saudi arabia back or do we want to have the market reactions resolve the price? producers now have to... in the marketplace i think it would be a bit more efficient and faster, for political cases it leaves the threat that this will become a permanent arrangement, then we will see permanent prices. the second is even
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more important. if economists are right and if as an outcome of the corona pandemic, we see something like the mother of all depressions, a scenario they paint with increasing frequency, then the world really doesn't need more political arrangements to bring the oil price up, as everyone arrangements to bring the oil price up, as everyone seems arrangements to bring the oil price up, as everyone seems to arrangements to bring the oil price up, as everyone seems to assume. arrangements to bring the oil price up, as everyone seems to assume. in the world really will cry out for a much lower prices to keep the economic recovery going. that is something else to keep in mind when we something else to keep in mind when we look at this phenomenon in the us. markets are functioning, too much oil, drop the price, stop producing oil. much easier to understand the political arrangements we understand the political arrangements we have understand the political arrangements we have seen. understand the political arrangements we have seen. very good to talk to you, thank you for the analysis. thank you. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: china continues to revise its figures of how many people contracted coronavirus. we'll find out why
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the numbers are changing. the stars & stripes at half mast outside columbine high. the school, sealed off. the bodies of the dead, still inside. i'd never thought that they'd actually go through with it. one of the most successful singer songwriters of all time, the american pop star prince, has died at the age of 57. it's hard to believe it, i didn't believe it. we just — he wasjust here saturday. for millions of americans, the death of richard nixon in a new york hospital has meant conflicting emotions. a national day of mourning next wednesday sitting somehow uneasily with the abiding memories of the shame of watergate. and liftoff of the space shuttle discovery, with the hubble space telescope,
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our window on the universe. this is bbc news, the latest headlines... tensions in america are rising over the lockdown. protestors want the economy to reopen, as the number of coronavirus cases here nears 800,000. donald trump advises to continue social distancing. us oil prices have plunged to negative values for the first time in history, with global demand for crude drying up as a result of the coronavirus. the main benchmark closed at minus $37 a barrel for deliveries in may. leading health organisations in the uk have repeated their warning that a lack of protective equipment — or ppe — is putting lives at risk and they've called for a clear strategy to ensure a sustained supply. an raf aircraft has flown to turkey
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to collect a shipment of 400 thousand clinical gowns, the delivery was expected yesterday, and it's still not clear when it will happen. -- 400,000 —— 400,000 clinical gowns. public health england has admitted the lack of ppe is "a concern" — as our health editor hugh pym reports. we have recently got these gowns made locally. one care home's response to equipment shortages, get it made by local contacts. these are the supplies we had in head office. they are very limited. we have ten litres of hand rub. while supplies are coming in, they are hard to get and staff look after residents with symptoms fear they may run out. we are putting notjust our residents at risk, but also our staff, and that makes us feel awful and it keeps us up at night. we are trying our best. josie was a nurse for 30 years, she died with
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the virus on easter monday. she told her family she thought the protective equipment was not the best. i feel like they should protect those on the front lines because they are kind of sending them over there naked. i feel like without the proper protection, then more families will lose a loved one. the trust where she worked said they had implemented national guidance on protective equipment. first of all, we are putting our gowns on. for hospitals, specialist gowns and masks used in intensive care are in short supply. some, though not this one, say they are down to only a day or so of stock. usually staff put on new items every few hours, but the guidance has been changed so they are allowed to wash and reuse gowns. front line staff, though, are concerned about the situation. we want to treat patients and we never expected we would be putting our own health at risk by doing that. not knowing whether you are going
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to be able to protect yourself is a worry we should not have to have. one trust in lincolnshire made up of three hospitals has revealed how much protective equipment, or ppe, they use in a single day. 39,500 surgical masks, nearly 11,500 gloves, around 1,500 gowns and 4,200 specialist masks. that is 72,000 items forjust one day. i raised the concerns about shortages in some areas at the downing street media briefing. are you ashamed as a government that there are so many nhs staff going into work who say they are worried about their safety because they fear their hospitals might run out of ppe? absolutely, everybody working hard on the front line deserves to have the equipment they need to do theirjobs safely and we are working around the clock to make sure we can deliver on that. a billion pieces of ppe have been delivered,
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i think 12 million yesterday, and we are improving our sourcing internationally and domestically to make sure we can get the ppe we need in what is a challenging international context. the chancellor said there were delays with the planned turkish consignment of ppe, but a shipment of gowns from myanmar had arrived. with the new temporary nhs in glasgow ready to take patients, the government said it was working at pace to improve the supply of ppe. the opening ceremony for qadir‘s new temporary hospital, the principality stadium, with room for up to 2000 patients. the prince of wales. ina in a republic statement, the duke of edinburgh said he wanted to thank all key workers and acknowledge the urgent scientific work taking place. tribute have been paid to it in emergency medicine consultant at royal derby hospital who died after
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contracting the virus. there was more uplifting news at the east sussex trust, as staff gave one of their own round of applause today. a nurse who was leaving critical care. hugh pym, bbc news. china's national health commission has indicated that hundreds of people in wuhan were wrongly listed as having recovered from covid—19. in wuhan, the number of recovered cases was reported at 47,300 on friday. on monday, that figure was revised down by almost 1,000 to 46,359. more surprising was the decision on friday by the authorities in wuhan to revise the city's overall death toll upwards by an extra 50%. the total number of confirmed deaths across china currently stands at more than 4,500 — though those statistics are impossible to verify. let's hear more on this from kerry allen from bbc monitoring. one of the things that we are seeing today coming out
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of the official statistics given by the national health commission in china is the number of cured cases and china has been giving daily statistics on the number of confirmed cases, suspected cases, number of deaths, the number of cured patients. we are suddenly seeing this figure of cured patients drop significantly and so, around... previously it was around, for the central city of wuhan, it was around the 47,000 mark, 47,000 people having been cured and this dropped by nearly 1,000, by 941 people. now this was very quietly done and the government didn't make a lot of fanfare about this but what we do know, going back to last friday, is that the government said that around 1200 people had died that it had not reported at the time. it said there were a number of reasons for this. it said that one of the reasons was that some people had died in their homes and they also said that there are some centres where people were being treated for covid—19 that weren't attached to the central network so people were being treated but the figures were not being passed on to the central government
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so they could report them in the daily statistics. also they said there were some errors in factual reporting problems but, you know, it is very significant today that the government has very quietly, i mean this 1,200 death count, around 900 people potentially were reported as cured, even though they had died and that is very, very significant and there's not a lot of noise being made about this in the media but china does censor content on social media anyway and one before we go, for all those parents out there who could perhaps use a hand with story time these days, here is some help at hand. "a mouse took a stroll through the deep, dark wood. a fox saw the mouse, and the mouse looked good." michelle obama will narrate a classic kids book online each monday for the next four weeks. the first offering was that much loved tale "the gruffalo", byjulia donaldson. the project is a collaboration with penguin random house and pbs kids. the idea is to give children
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a chance to practise their reading, and give their parents a much needed break. hello. through our window on the weather, it's nothing but blue sky at the moment. and a few more days of that to come. but there is that complication of the brisk easterly wind. it does make it feel rather cool wind. it does make it feel rather cool, especially on north sea coast. it will ease down later in the week, and all parts will turn a bit warmer. and all parts will turn a bit warmer. but the isobars still squeeze together as we look at the big picture for tuesday around the area of high pressure close to scandinavia. we start tuesday fairly chilly, but particularly in scotland where there will be sheltered glands that have dropped a few degrees below freezing. frosty parts of scotla nd below freezing. frosty parts of scotland to start tuesday, and a bit of cloud for the channel islands, cornwall and silly may produce a
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rain sometime. that won't last long until the sunshine. these are the wind speeds, costs up to 30—40 mph in places, and just as we saw on monday, that has an impact on the temperature in north sea coast, some areas temperature in north sea coast, some areas just around 10 celsius or so, whereas most areas just around 10 celsius or so, whereas most areas near areas just around 10 celsius or so, whereas most areas near 20 celsius in the warm spots. overnight and into wednesday morning, a bit of patchy cloud here and there. the breeze stays up, meaning we will avoid a frost again bart 1—2 spots in scotland, getting... there may be more clout on wednesday for northern ireland, parts of western scotland, northwest scotland, the outside chance of catching a shower. but if you want some rain on the garden, you'll be disappointed because much of the uk, nearly all of the uk will stay dry. some sunshine, maybe not quite as breezy, a little bit warmer
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bya quite as breezy, a little bit warmer by a degree or two. - more so by by a degree or two. but more so by the time we - up opening up, meaning the isobars opening up, meaning the winnablel isobars opening up, meaning the winnable ease. isobars opening up, meaning the w ease. 1—2 isobars opening up, meaning the winnable ease. 1—2 mist isobars opening up, meaning the w ease. 1—2 mist and isobars opening up, meaning the m ease. 1—2 mist and fog winnable ease. 1—2 mist and fog patches, but on friday morning, parts of scotland in northeast england back thursday will be another day of clear skies, the wind isn't strong, even alongside the north coast, but the warmest parts of england and wales will be approaching the mid—205. just a few su btle approaching the mid—205. just a few subtle changes going into the weekend, perhaps a bit more clout around, a slight chance of a shower, around, a slight chance of a shower, a little bit cooler by then.
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this is bbc news. the headlines: president trump says he's going to meet the new york governor, andrew cuomo, at the white house on tuesday. mr cuomo and the president have clashed over how best to handle the coronavirus pandemic. new york has been the hardest hit state in the us. the price of american oil has dropped below zero for the first time in history. that means producers are paying buyers to take supplies off their hands. demand has dried up worldwide due to the pandemic. the uk government says it's working around the clock to get protective equipment to front line health workers. it's facing sharp criticism over its dwindling supplies. and germany has begun relaxing its strict lockdown measures. small shops and car dealerships stores are among those that can reopen.
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