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officials in the u.s. are confirming a growing number of coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours alone. the total rose from 4500 to 6100. the death toll is also rising forcing officials to intensify containment efforts. >> reporter: confirmed cases now in all 50 states. more than 100 dead nationwide. unprecedented times. unprecedented measures. >> the president also has us inventorying what you all would understand as field hospitals, mash hospitals that can be deployed very quickly. >> two navy hospital ships could be deployed defense officials tell us. >> there's a federal reserve of medical supplies which is really our last best hope.

you can't buy a ventilator, which is very important because most of these people have respiratory illnesses. we're shopping for ventilators all around the globe. >> there aren't enough gloves, masks stockpiled. >> we would urge construction companies to donate their inventory of n 95 masks to your local hospital. >> reporter: in san francisco's bay area, several million woke to a draconian dawn, now allowed out for only essential needs. three neighboring counties, nearly another million people will join that lockdown tomorrow night. tuesday afternoon new york city's mayor said he might issue a similar order within 48 hours. >> new yorkers should be prepared right now for the possibility of a shelter in place order. >> reporter: new york's governor, not so keen. >> you say shelter in place if you stay in new york city.

i'll go stay with my sister in westchester. i don't think you can do a policy like that just in one part of the state. so i don't think it works. >> reporter: brooklyn's da has stopped prosecuting low level offenses that don't jeopardize public safety. brooklyn knicks star kevin durant said he's tested positive. on tuesday while taughting a $1 trillion stimulus plan, they warned republican lawmakers that without intervention, this virus could up the unemployment rate to a staggering 20%. nationwide a new normal continues to unfold. uber and lyft have stopped all pool and shared rides. in vegas the palazzo and venetian are closing until april 1st. the airlines taking a hit. nearly 1 million fewer passengers in one day compared to a year ago. >> this is worse than 9/11.

for the airline industry, this is -- they are almost ground to a halt. >> meanwhile, amazon is hiring another 100,000 workers to meet online. orange county announced they are banning all gatherings, public or private. orange county is home to more than 3 million people so all eyes will be on orange county and the san francisco area to see if people actually obey these new orders. nick walsh, cnn, los angeles. live to hong kong now. dr. john nichols is there with us. professor, doctor, thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> reporting right now, there's a lot of reporting out there that ibuprofen, whether or not it should be used to relieve the symptoms of covid-19. the french health minister

tweeted taking anti-inflammatory drugs could be an aggravating factor of the virus. a patient who is tweeting daily about what he was going through got quite the following. the motrin which is another version of the ibuprofen made me feel worse. the inhaler made me feel worse. is this anecdotal evidence? nothing imperial to back it up. >> this is one of these stories which spread faster than the virus. it's based on anecdotal, things spreading by whatsapp mainly. it's referring to a recent paper which was published in the medical journals which seemed to imply some medications might

increase the receptor for the new coronavirus. the problem is that study was just -- wasn't actually a scientific study, it was just a hypothetical. it was -- the correspondent and it wasn't reviewed carefully. it's full of conjectures. this is a story that can do more harm than benefit. patients are getting off a valuable medication. this is one of these times where you're getting sort of zero scientific news which is actually spreading faster and people not being able to see what really is true and what's really not true. >> the patient who we mentioned in the tweet about his experiences, he noted this just two days ago as he went through it. today it hurts to breathe so much. walking to the bathroom is like running a marathon. the headache doesn't go away. he talks constantly about respiratory pain and just how this is not like anything else

he's ever experienced. certainly nothing like a flu. is this how this virus develops when it becomes very serious? is his experience typical or is it unique? >> i think what he's describing is something which is actually quite generic and it's not specifically to the virus. when you consider the large numbers of people who have been affected and have these symptoms, then they report, then they get amplified. i think this is, as i mentioned, one of the problems is there's so much misinformation going on out there. some is scientific, some is not scientific. to get good fact checking is not a very big challenge. some of the medical journals having pushed to publishing stuff which that's the long scientific review process which we've had in the past. it's a very challenging thing with how to deal with information in a rapidly evolving period. >> this is a first for this

knowledge. we all know exactly what's happening, it doesn't work that quickly. it doesn't work that way. what we've also heard, this virus is unique and surviving on surfaces for up to nine days. that may seem -- the other thing out there is the numbers across asia are coming down. is there a concern that we create a second wave and it seems round one, round two is on its way? >> we'll see. in most of the countries what we're now seeing is that the second wave or more like a ripple is actually of the infected patients who are coming back because of the restricted travel bands and restrictions. so large wave coming back in. that's why there's more attention paid on how these people should be guaranteed or investigated when they come in. what we're actually not seeing is sustained community

transmission in the asian country, which is a good thing. so the social distancing, it worked very well for china, hong kong, singapore. what we're seeing is what we're seeing on the travel restrictions, to try to keep this low -- >> i think we just lost you. a little bit of trouble with the audio. thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. thanks for the advice. the impact of this virus is continuing being felt around the union. the european union is closing its border. for 30 days only goods will be allowed to cross. spain has announced the largest aid package in the history. the government approved $220 billion in aid to protect jobs, companies, families affected by the virus.

the package amounts to roughly 20% of gdp. italy reporting 300 new deaths from the coronavirus bringing the death toll to 2500. it's currently the epicenter of the virus. the government is having anyone with symptoms to self-isolate. we are in madrid. jim bitterman is in paris and delia is in rome. everyone is looking at italy and how the virus is playing out there. maybe a preview of what could happen in the united states. what's happening there? >> reporter: that's right, john. this period in particular is so important. we still probably have not reached the peak. we have a total of 31,000 total cases yesterday. when we say total cases, that includes, john, also those who have died and those who have recovered, but from yesterday a jump in 3,000 new positive

cases. so the experts are saying that probably we're still going to see those numbers rise but that in the next ten days or so they hope to see the trend start to go down. this is, of course, crucial as you mentioned because italy is a test case for the rest of the world. we're now into ten days for the countrywide shutdown, but of course in the northern regions and in the red zones in particular they started two and three weeks -- three and four weeks ago so the numbers that are coming out of there will be very important to see. already in some small towns like codonio which had patient one for the coronavirus, they've seen that the self-isolation that the testing has brought a lower trend, has helped to stop new positive cases. so clearly there is a lot of attention right now on what's happening with the numbers, but the experts saying probably

we're not going to see that yet at least for another ten days. of course, there is an ongoing crisis, particularly in the northern regions in the lombardi region to try and get beds, particularly icu beds. they had 500. they have doubled that capacity but they still have to move some patients out to other regions. they moved a total of 50 patients to other regions and they are quickly trying to build temporary hospitals. they're building one now which they say will have 600 beds with some icu units. there is an american ngo which has come over to build another temporary hospital. they are receiving respirators from china and obviously trying to continue to confront the medical emergency there. john? >> it sounds like a war footing in many ways. delia, thank you. delia gallagher in rome. apart from italy, spain has the second highest number of

cases. al goodman joins us. clearly spain is bracing for the worst. >> reporter: it is, john. the figures that we have are 20 hours old already. the government until a couple of days ago was releasing the figures at midday spain time, in the evening spain time. now we have figures from 20 hours ago, 11,000 cases and nearly 500 deaths. the significant figure there is the death rate shot up pretty significantly from a day earlier. about 300. i'll give you a sense of how this order for the people to stay in is now being enforced. we've had the police, city police and the national police telling people to get out of the square if you don't have authorization to be here. this bus has brought in a unit of army soldiers who are patrolling around here. their idea is to reinforce the police because the idea is to keep people separated and make sure that everybody understands

that you can't go out unless you've got an authorized activity. now the economic worry is growing as people have had time to sit at home. the government announcing late yesterday a package of economic measures trying to calm the people and the stock market as well so there will be measures allowing you not to make your mortgage payments if you can show you're directly affected by the coronavirus. if you get fired from a job, you can collect unemployment even if you haven't been working long enough. the government is juggling not just a health crisis but the economic crisis and they've really got their hands full. john? >> al goodman, live for us in madrid. let's head to paris. senior international correspondent jim bitterman is joining us. the french government is bringing in tough measures for folks off the streets.

>> absolutely. after a lackluster first few days on the weekend, yesterday at noon the lockdown really began and today they are enforcing with fines and everything else about 100,000 police have been mobilized. there are roadblocks up all over the place, checkpoints for police checking to see if you have this paper to bring along to explain why you're moving about. so it's really -- the teeth are really starting to bite now in terms of the enforcement of this. a lot of things have happened here overnight. the foreign minister here has urged all of the french outside of the country to try to get back. the problem is that a large majority of the airlines aren't flying anymore. so we've gotten a situation in morocco where 7,000 french would like to get home but in fact can't because there aren't any flights. we're working on that.

the government is working on that. in eastern france where the hospitals are saturated, the army was called in to start evacuating people to other parts of france where there are hospital beds. there are still some vacancies for the reanimation beds. the icu beds that they need so desperately when they come down with disease and interesting poll this morning, john, from bfm which is our associated network. they found out in this poll that about 81% of the french now believe this is definitely a serious problem and 93% approve of the government's steps that have been taken to lock down the population. >> those are incredible numbers. jim bitterman live. we've seen a very different donald trump this week serious in tone and demeanor. different than the past few months when he's been saying this virus is all under control.

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in the u.s., fear over the pandemic has sent thousands to the grocery stores and stores. shoppers loading up on everything from antiacceptics to toilet paper and tuna fish. >> reporter: in the predawn hours senior citizens line up to get into a houston area store. the manager opened up an hour early for people over 65. avi caner is giving people priority. but the run on some items is still relentless. >> whenever we do get new rations in of hand sanitizer, we put them by the registers and they go within minutes. >> across the u.s., stockpiling

seems to go anywhere. >> we're trying to buy anything in there you couldn't get? >> yeah. all the toilet paper is gone. a lot of the frozen foods. a lot of the breads. >> reporter: sarah wears a mask and gloves when hitting her local grocery store in washington because she doesn't want to transfer germs to her mother who has an autoimmune disorder. >> are you nervous, scared? >> yes, i am. i've been following it pretty closely and i don't want us to be in a situation like italy. >> reporter: the panic buying binge is exhausting people on the other side of the grocery industry. distributors racing to restock. >> right now we're seeing spikes in demand of a lot of staples. frozen entries, tomato sauce, paper products, dairy items, eggs. >> reporter: but some public health experts say let's slow down a bit. >> they don't need a year's worth of toilet tissue. they don't need cartons of paper napki napkins. they don't need to buy, you

know, food for six weeks. >> reporter: experts say it's important for customers to realize this situation is temporary. focus on simple nonperishables that can sustain us inside the home for weeks, like tuna and peanut butter and jelly. >> maybe getting a three month supply of medications or thinking about if they need to schedule some things out in the community, how they can risk mitigate so they don't go out and actually conduct -- have close contact with folks and be potentially exposed. >> experts on trauma say during this pandemic, people have to fight off some strong psychological pulls. >> people need to be in a sense of control, right? so panic buying is an attempt to gain control over something that they feel uncontrollable around, right? that there's a sense of helplessness. >> but health experts point outgoing out and crowding into your local grocery store just by

itself isn't the healthiest move. standing in those long lines within a few inches of people is not the kind of social distancing that's recommended and they say, however, wherever you shop do it calmly. >> there's no reason to panic. there's no reason to rush out and buy every item on the shelves. first of all, what that does is just increases people's sense of doom and gloom here which will not be necessary. >> reporter: public health and consumer experts have a couple of other tips for people who want to stock up during the outbreak. they say if your favorite store is open 24/7, try going after midnight after they've restocked or if it's available in your area, try a food delivery service to reduce some of the overall stress. brian todd, cnn, washington. so remember how the u.s. president was the first to warn all of us this pandemic was on the way? neither did we. he says he did. more on how the president is trying to rewrite history.

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the treasury secretary has warned the unemployment rate without government intervention could rise to 20%. >> we're looking at sending checks to americans immediately. americans need cash now and the president wants to get cash now and i mean now in the next two weeks. >> and the u.s. president is drastically shifting his tone about the coronavirus. he's now acknowledging the gravity of the pandemic while insisting he's always taken it seriously. as we've seen, the president has been downplaying this crisis for months. cnn's boris sanchez reports. >> reporter: president trump today denying an obvious shift in tone from previous statements saying he has always seen the coronavirus outbreak as a grave problem. >> is there a shift in tone? >> i didn't think -- i mean, i have seen that where people actually liked it, but i didn't feel different. i've always known this is a -- this is a real -- this is a

pandemic. i've felt it was a pandemic long before it was a pandemic. now it's 120 countries all over the world. no, i've always viewed it as very serious. no difference yesterday from days before. i feel the tone is similar. >> though trump only admitting the situation was out of control yesterday. for weeks he downplayed the threat. >> worried about a pandemic at this point? >> no, not at all. we have it totally under control. it's one person coming in from china and we have it under control. it's going to be just fine. >> reporter: sources telling cnn the change in tone spurred by new projections indicating that without drastic action the united states could face a catastrophic loss of life from coronavirus, a death toll topping 1 million. >> we have been working on models day and night around the globe. >> reporter: behind the scenes dr. deborah burks and dr. anthony fauci prodding trump for more address sieve action in

recent days as other officials warn posing major restrictions on americans could further hinder the economy. trump was initially worried about volatility in markets but the rising number of coronavirus cases ultimately pushed him into a stronger response. trump today admitting a recession is possible but adding he is not worried. >> i don't think in terms of recession, i think in terms of getting it out because when we're finished with the virus we will win. we will win. and when that victory takes place, our economy is going to go through the roof. it is so pent up. it is so built up. it is so ready to go in an upward direction but we have to knock out this enemy. >> reporter: president trump also mentioned that he was looking to economically boost the airline and hotel industries. the president yet again defe defending his administration's response to this crisis saying they have done a fantastic job though he did acknowledge there's one area that he wishes

he had done better, relationships with the press. boris sanchez, cnn at the white house. katheryn ranfeld is a cnn political writer. thank you for coming in. appreciate it. >> good to be here. >> if there is a positive here, the senior leadership are all saying the right things. they agree to the urgent need to help families and businesses. republican mitch mcconnell says the senate will pass a democrat stimulus bill from the white house and they'll do it at warp speed. here he is. >> a number of my members think there are considerable shortcomings in the house bill. my counsel to them is to gag and vote for it even if they think it has some shortcomings. >> in that bill there are provisions for free coronavirus testing, paid emergency leave, approves unemployment insurance, increases medicaid funding to

the states. rand paul is not prepared to hold his nose and vote for it. warp speed has come to a screeching halt. it raises the question is there ever a moment when all of these lawmakers from either party can rise above all of this partisanship, even in a crisis like this? >> that is an excellent question. i think the lawmakers need to behave like adults and do their damn jobs on behalf of the american people at this point. look, the house passed a bill in the wee hours of saturday morning this past week end and it was not a perfect bill. there were certainly shortcomings in this legislation, but i think lawmakers in the senate at this point need not to let the perfect be the enemy of the good. for better or worse they will have multiple bites at this apple. it is almost a certain outcome that they will have multiple rounds of stimulus that they will need to pass. they'll do this one. the white house has already called for additional stimulus

and both mcconnell and his counterpart in the democrats, chuck shu mur who's the minority leader, have advocated additional stimulus measures. remember, we saw this multiple rounds in the 2008, 2009 round as well. this should not be a surprise. lawmakers should bite the bullet, pass the imperfect thing and take another crack at it and fill in the gaps later. >> just for example they're talking about getting thousands of dollars, you know, in checks out to families within two weeks. i mean, that's not easy to do so if they can't agree on this first stimulus bill, how are they going to get together on money to families? >> the real issue may not be a political one. there is a fair amount of bipartisan support at this point for getting checks out to individual households. the exact amount is being haggled over of course. otherwise, there's a fair amount of consensus. the issue is more the plumbing of the u.s. government. you may recall that in 2008

there was a similar direct payment that was given out to american households. it varied on what your income was. everybody was knowledgeable. it took several months at that point. i don't know how much the system has been updated in the decade plus since then, but the issue is that if the -- if -- if the senate can't even come together to pass this bill and then you have additional delays in getting the money out, you know, you're just losing precious time as we deal with this very urgent, immediate, now economic crisis in addition to a public health crisis. >> for the past few months there was the coronavirus according to the experts and the coronavirus according to the u.s. president. here's how it looks from donald trump's viewpoint. >> we pretty much shut it down coming in from china. >> in april supposedly it dies with the hotter weather. >> looks like by april in theory when it gets a little warmer it

miraculously goes down. >> we're going down not up. >> we have done an incredible job. we are going to continue. it's going to disappear. one day it's like a miracle, it will disappear. >> yeah. none of that was true and on monday trump's tone was much more serious. so, too, on tuesday. then he was asked why he -- there was this marked change in just how he was talking and how he was basically addressing this issue. this is what he said. >> this is a real -- this is a pandemic. i felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic. all you had to do was look at other countries. >> well then why didn't he say so? i mean, that's so the lightning fast revisionist history going on. >> the issue with donald trump is the most important lesson that he learned both in his private career as a business person and in his political career is that you only care about today. there are never any consequences. tomorrow is tomorrow's problem.

he's been governing during this pandemic in the same way, sort of assuming if he can juice stock markets today, even if that leads americans to, for example, take fewer precautionary measures because they're not so worried about the pandemic, they think it's a hoax, et cetera. if trump says don't worry about it, it's a hoax, it's fake news, go about your business. that might hurt stock markets tomorrow. it's finally catching up that tomorrow has come and americans are getting sick. some of them are dieing and in fact they may be holding the president accountable for those terrible outcomes and for the fact that he played down this crisis for so long. >> then there's the reason behind this. what some have suggested could be a "new york times" story which has the worst case scenario would see 2 million americans dead by the end of this. others have suggested the

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well, the vice president joe biden much closer now to locking up the party's nomination after decisive victories on tuesday. the biggest delegate haul was in

florida where biden beat bernie sanders by nearly 30 points. in illinois by 20 points. >> our campaign has had a very good night. we move closer to securing the democratic party's nomination for president, and we're doing it by building a broad coalition and we need to win in november. >> we have a senior political contributor. i should note she's a biden supporter. thank you. >> great to be on. >> as a biden supporter, nights like these don't get much better. bernie sanders, is there anything in these results which could be seen as a silver lining or did democratic voters send him a very clear message? >> i think democratic voters clearly see joe biden as the one they want to lead the ticket. this is not to say anything bad about bernie sanders. clearly joe biden's got work

that he's going to continue to do to reach out to the bernie sanders supporters, but clearly given the volume of people who showed up even when there is a coronavirus and the amount, the percentage that went to joe biden, it is clear. it is an almost impossible task for bernie sanders to be able to gain the requisite number of delegates to turn this around. >> a regular pointed out joe biden has defeated bernie sanders but the coronavirus has buried bernie sanders. the nomination battle has become a footnote in the media and the public's mind. that's just reality. in some cases it seems the coronavirus, maybe it should have helped sanders. here's part of a web address which he delivered a few hours ago. look at this. >> what i believe we must do is empower medicare to cover all medical bills. our armed forces must be

immediately activated to build mobile hospitals and testing facilities, small and medium sized businesses especially those in severely impacted industries such as restaurants, bars, local retail need immediate relief. >> i'm just going to -- did it end up helping joe biden more when that contrast was made to president trump? >> it's so hard to know exactly how the coronavirus plays politically. i think it gives both candidates an opportunity show they are an enormously favorable con trattro how donald trump has performed. people feel a sense of comfort and sanity. people want results and not a revolution. people feel so unsettled that more great turmoil which supposes a revolution is not really what most people are looking for.

they want to be protected. they do want to have health care. they want to get rid of all of the student debt. they want to see access to college, but joe biden has moved in that direction. the party has moved in that direction and so i think bernie sanders can claim a good deal of credit for how what we call the overton window in policy means that you have enlarged the ability of the democrats to move in his direction, and i think he should feel very good about that. >> there are a number of reasons for sanders to drop out, that's including he has virtually no chance of being the delegate. one of the reasons to say is to get his platform. as you go to this, it already has been. if you listen to biden at sunday's debate, he seems more than ready to embrace a lot of ideas coming from sanders campaign. listen to this. >> i agree with bernie. we are in a situation where we have to now be providing for the hospitals that are needed. i don't disagree with that. you're asking about the crisis.

what are we going to do with the crisis. i agree with bernie, someone should have gone to jail. that was the big disagreement i had in terms of bailing out. >> a lot of agreeing with bernie. it seems like there are really when it comes to policy, is there any reason for bernie sanders to stay in? is it just coming down to ego? how do you see it? >> i think the main issue for bernie sanders is really the fight he's fought for medicare for all. whether you have a government takeover of the entire health care system and whether you are for a public option, joe biden said after the last super tuesday that health care is a right. so the question is they've got a different way of getting to that point but they both agree that health care is a right. joe biden has moved towards bernie sanders in terms of college. public colleges and university. he's moved in terms of bankruptcy, they both want to see a $15 minimum wage.

they both want criminal justice reform. there isn't a huge amount of daylight in between them other than medicare for all. >> the result in illinois seemed especially telling. bide bi biden won it. sanders did not win there and he did not win by a mile. that's a midwest state. michigan, ohio, washington all narrowly went to trump in 2016. the illinois result if it's repeated in these three states, you're looking at that and thinking of the electoral college. if you're the biden campaign, things looking good. that's a good omen. >> it absolutely is. he won michigan by a very large margin last week, illinois. if ohio had gone tonight, which it was supposed to have gone but the governor there canceled that, too, at least according to the polls going in would have gone significantly for biden. pennsylvania is still to come as

is wisconsin, but the polls in those two states also significantly favor biden. for the general election tonight and the past super tuesdays have been a hope for democrats. those voters who voted for obama once and then voted for trump can be persuaded to come back into the democratic fold and that's very encouraging. not a given, but it's very encouraging. >> governor, we're out of time. thank you very much. i hope to see you again. >> thank you. well, for eight weeks the message was no need for social distancing, keep calm, now stay home, don't come out. we'll look at what's behind the sudden whiplash in advice. hey allergy muddlers... achoo! ...do your sneezes turn heads? try zyrtec... ...it starts working hard at hour one... and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day.

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showed it was too soon to push, johnson did that. the new advice, don't socialize anywhere, work from home. quarantine in your household for two weeks. if anyone shows symptoms of a high temperature and cough,le elderly and vulnerable should isolate for 12 weeks. other countries had already committed to tough social distancing policies. >> earlier or later bringing this very draconian measure, the answer is that we are asking people to do something that is difficult and disruptive of their lives and the right moment, as we've always said, is to do it when it is most effective. >> reporter: the government's initial response resembles what the scientists doing the modeling is called mitigation. you don't stop it, you slow it down. something that's manageable.

then immune knit if i grows in the population over time and eventually transmissions achieve it. now the latest modeling estimates it would result in the deaths of 250,000 people in the country. the british government is not warning people to stay away from pubs, bars and restaurants. a polite request will be enough. while closing schools will help stop transmission, it's keeping them open. the prime minister's early efforts and grave warnings were mocked online. >> many more families are going to lose loved ones before their time. >> reporter: sounding a little too much like shrek's lord farquan. >> it's some of you may die but

a sacrifice i'm willing to take. >> lectures on hand washing. now he's finally made some big, difficult decisions and will ultimately be judged on whether he made them early enough to save lives. phil black, cnn, london. join anderson cooper and dr. sanjay gupta for a third cnn town hall. "coronavirus facts and fears" thursday at 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. in abu dhabi and 10 a.m. in hong kong. the program will be played a few hours later 8 a.m. in london and 4 p.m. in hong kong. thank you for watching "cnn newsroom." i'm john vause. "newsroom" continues right after this. (sensei) a live bookkeeper is helping customize

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♪ hello, and welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you're watching "cnn newsroom." and i'm rosemary church. just ahead, millions of people in the u.s. have been told to stay home, but some are not taking it seriously, and hospitals are already overwhelmed with one doctor telling us he and his colleagues are scared. the white house wants to send you money soon, as it tries to save an economy struggling under the weight of the pandemic. and as the crisis reshapes u.s. politics, joe biden pulls a hat