this coming weekend we here at cnn of course are dedicated to keeping you informed during this crisis. and our viewers thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in the situation room. erin burnett out front starts right now. outfront next, breaking news. 75 million americans ordered to stay home as coronavirus cases keep climbing. this as we're just learning a member of vice president pence's office has tested positive for the virus. plus chaos and confusion as hospital workers across the united states say they don't have the supplies they need. we're going to talk to an icu doctor who's going to tell you first-hand how it is right now. and an ohio restaurant owner just laid off 4,500 people. that restaurant owner is my guest. let's go out front. and good evening. i'm erin burnett. out front tonight, the breaking news stay at home.

that is the order tonight from four state governors as the coronavirus pandemic spreads. new york, california, califoran connecticut ordering people to stay home. new york's governor telling today nonessential businesses in his state to reduce their work force to zero. >> these are not helpful hints. this is not if you really want to be a great citizen. these are legal provisions. they will be enforced. there will be a civil fine and mandatory closure for any business that is not in compliance. again, your actions can affect my health. that's where we are. >> but president trump saying these orders will not go national. >> governor cuomo has done in

new york. is there anymore consideration to a national lock down to keep people in their homes? >> i don't think so. essentially you've done that in california, you've done that in new york. those are really two hot beds. those are probably the two hottest of them all in terms of hot spots. i don't think so because you go out to the midwest, you go out to other locations and they're watching it on television but they don't have the same problems. >> the president today, though, did announce he's closing the border to mexico to all nonessential activity after already announcing the border with canada will close. and the number of coronavirus cases jumped to nearly 5,000 in the united states as testing has eexpanded there are now 18,083 people who have been infected. 236 have died. one of them we're learning in terms of infections is someone who works in vice president pence's office and we're going to have much more on that as we're getting details this moment. nick, how are people there

coping with these ground rules, transformational ones? >> reporter: well, i've got to say, erin, it's strange. most of us have been living under this kind of stay at home thing all week. the schools have been closed. but i must say now that there is an order out there, now we're being told to do it, it does feel different, more restricting. i want to give you a quick view from a drone we have flying above here. that is the 101 freeway in los angeles, which normally at this time of day is a parking lot. not today. >> this is the day everything changed. >> reporter: californians, new yorkers, populations of illinois and connecticut will all soon be under orders to stay home. that's more than 70 million americans. >> to avade the loss of potentially tens of thousands of lives we must enact an immediate stay at home order for the state of illinois. >> these provisions will be

enforced. this is the most drastic action we can take. >> reporter: people can go to the store, get out for some solitary exercise, but stop socializing. >> we're going to go visit mom, i'm going to bring the whole family to see mom. no, not now. >> reporter: essential workers are exempt like food service and health care providers who are still struggling nationwide to find the supplies to keep themselves safe and treat the sick. >> we're starting to see those individuals become sick as well and be taken out of the work force or in some cases become seriously ill. so here's where everything can fall apart very quickly. >> reporter: in los angeles they're erecting tents and hospital parking lots to treat coronavirus patients. midnight tonight the mexican border will join our northern border and also close to all but essential travel. the undocumented will not be allowed to cross. >> we're not sending them to mexico. we're sending them back to their own countries. >> reporter: goldman sachs now

estimates this week 2.25 million americans filed for their first week of unemployment. if that estimate is accurate it would be 8 times last week's figure and an all-time record. all interest on federal student loans now suspended, tax deadline day pushed three months to july 15th. >> this is not a permanent state. this is a moment in time. >> reporter: how long it lasts we don't know. the mayor here in l.a. says a month he thinks could be two. and we just heard from the mayor of new orleans. they are implementing a similar stay at home order. when new orleans stops partying we know we've got problems. >> the breaking news there, someone in the vice president's office has tested positive. obviously something, you know, everybody needs to pay attention to, be concerned about. but what can you tell us? >> reporter: yeah, this is really the closest we've seen it

come to the west wing. we're being told the vice president's office was informed tonight that someone in the vice president's office has now tested positive for controversy. they don't identify who the individual is, though. they say they had no contact with the vice president or the president in recent days, but they say they are following those cdc guidelines, erin to figure out. they're tracing to figure out who it is they did have contact with and if that person came in contact with the vice president, the president and any of the senior staff here, most of the vice president's staff is in the aoe, it's a separate building and essentially walk across the street to get in there. it's not someone necessarily walking around the west wing a lot, but we don't know for certain. we should point out this comes on the same day the president's daughter and senior advisor ivanka trump returned back to the white house after now we're being informed she did take a test for coronavirus. she got results and that comes

after she herself spent several days working from home after she came in contact with a senior australian official who later tested positive for coronavirus. we see how close to home it's hitting for people even working inside the white house. >> and i want to go now to dr. willi william shafner. i appreciate your time so let's start with this news kaitlin is talking about from the vice president's office. a staffer there has tested positive. so you know, now, what does this change? does this mean, for example, the president and vice president should not be together from this point on? >> well, it certainly looks that way, erin. you wouldn't want the president exposed. you wouldn't want the vice president exposed anymore than he is already. and i think they should institute 6 feet plus to keep apart, yes. >> and i'm sure on some level

this doesn't surprise you as we know this is much more widespread than any testing indicates because there hadn't been testing. but what is the significance of this you now actually have this in the vice president's office where you know there are meetings of his team and they stand together side by side on the little platform as they do their presentation including dr. fauci who's in charge of infectious diseases. >> well, we always thought that was a bit of a crowd, and now the virus is right there. and if there were unbelievers in the country they must be convinced by now. >> so now we have the stay at home order which affects americans across the country. governors are telling all nonessential works to stay at home and saying this isn't a choice, this is now the law. how long do you think this would need to last to be effective? >> well, it's getting seriouser and seriouser.

a matter of weeks for sure, but i can't predict how long. but i would hope in several weeks we could start scaling back step by step. >> and that's because you think at that point we would have seen this big surge there anticipating how big it is, what really presents at our hospitals. >> yes, that's exactly right and i hope we could dampen that surge, spread out that curve as we have been talking about and see what's happening. that may not be enough. we may have to extend at least some of these restrictions even longer. >> what about a national lock down? president trump says that is not necessarily. he references the midwest and many places where you have seen fewer of these cases. is he right about that or not? >> well, traditionally public health has been the responsibility of each individual state. so i think each state is going to decide that. i know that our governor has received some petitions from many colleagues that we ought to consider doing that here in

tennessee also. >> i want to ask you about something that affects every single person watching, and that is the way they're feeling right now. and it's hard when there's no one to turn to because every single person is feeling that way. the director of the world health organization said, quote, during this difficult time it's important to continue looking after their physical and mental health. this will not only help you in the long-term, it will also help you fight covid if you get it. that's easier said than done for people. i mean, how big of a dern conce mental health and the health and death implications of that risk? >> well, of course it's very, very serious because we have job implications, people having lost their funding. they see people getting ill in their own community, hospitals struggling to manage the illnesses. so these are all reasons as well as being more or less confined within four walls. and you get cabin fever and depression. so people ought to communicate

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breaking news. new york city mayor bill de blasio pleading for critical medical gear and supplies to help fight coronavirus saying the city is just weeks away from running out, and he has not heard anything to suggest his calls are being answered. >> we haven't gotten a single response from anyone indicating that they have a serious plan to get supplies to new york city, the largest city in the nation, the front line of this crisis. >> and he is far from the only one sounding the alarm.

sarah schneider is out front. >> reporter: doctors from coast to coast are afraid and concerned. >> i've been a registered nurse for over a decade. my hospital is in complete chaos and confusion in regards to covid-19. >> do you feel like they were ready for this when it got to the united states? >> no, absolutely not. they're still scrambling. we just don't have what we need. >> are you afraid for yourself and your patients? >> well, it's the first time in my entire career that i've ever been afraid and not heard other physicians say that they're afraid. >> they are worried about their hospitals and government are falling short as the coronavirus sweeps the nation. experts warn we're not even experiencing the worst of the pandemic yet. >> a lot of hospitals are asking us to keep our mouth quiet. >> reporter: this physician asked us to mask her face and alter her voice because she feels she'll be fired for speaking out.

>> we don't have enough staff or protective equipment and we have too many patients. >> reporter: she works in georgia. u.s. health officials are now asking doctors and nurses to do things they have never had to do before. >> we're asked to use things, things used for one time use only to use three times a day and then resave for the next day. >> reporter: if you're being asked to review something over and over going to different patients aren't you putting patients and yourself at risk? >> absolutely. >> reporter: catherine kennedy has been a registered nurse for 40 years. >> we are the front line and if we go down and we're furloughed home, who's going to take care of these patients? >> reporter: they've never talked but both agree their hospitals and government didn't properly prepare for a pandemic. >> some of the hospitals will say, look, we didn't know what this was either, this is new to us, what do you say to that? >> well, we were here before

with ebola. and, you know, various hospitals were ready to utilize that same protocol they did for ebola, but the hospital said, no, they didn't want to do that. so at the last minute they started scrambling. >> kaiser permanente, the hospital system she works for says the system its using to screen, test and care for patients suspected or confirmed to have covid-19 are aligned with the latest science and guidance from public health authorities. these protocols and personal protective equipment have been reviewed and approved by their infectious disease experts and are in use by the major hospital systems. they say they're committed to ensuring health care workers for the voigt levright level of pro equipment. >> i think these lines are irresponsible and i think they're playing with human lives knowingly. >> you don't believe it's now okay to use different masks? >> no.

it's not made for, you know, particles of a virus. it's just a decorative item and may be keep pollution out a little bit, but it's not meant to protect from potentially lethal disease. >> and as you heard doctors and nurses are afraid for their own safety, for the safety of their patients and for the safety of the community because this can spread if they indeed contract it and they're not tested. i do want to tell you this, erin. we just got something from cook county health which is one of the nurses work there in cook county, and this is from doctor robert feldman, the attending emergency physician and director. and he said this in part, i wear the same ppe as our nurses. do we look forward to the day when we have an ample supply of ppe in every hospital? we do. but until the supply chain can

catch up, again, like other hospitals across the country and the world we have instituted tighter controls to ensure that when a suspected or confirmed case of covid-19 presents, supplies are available to protect our staff. erin? >> all right, thank you very much. and i want to go now to the doctor who works in the intensive care unit at boston medical center. doctor, people seeing your face, people are grateful for everything you are doing and the risk you are taking right now. i know you just heard in that piece one nurse say it's chaos and confusion at her hospital. what is it like at yours? >> you know, i have to be honest i'm very lucky and very proud that my hospital is pulling together. i think we're a safety net hospital with the university of boston and i think we to a little bit more degree are eprepared. i think i'm not worried about us

not having enough equipment right now, but that doesn't mean we're all not scared about it running off in the future. and i know my colleagues around the country have told us they're already in the exact same dire straights we heard from that nurse. >> i'm glad to know as of now you have what you need. what is it you foresee being the biggest issue first, if you could get your hands on you would get first? is there something specific that comes to mind? >> it might seem a little strange but the thing i would ask for is testing because so many of these patients are coming in with these very common symptoms right now, and we have to worry. and sometimes it's exactly like described like from italy, south korea and china, and we're looking at these patients and saying this is like we learned it from a textbook. but there's so many other people we're so worried about them

spreading contagion we don't know is there to us, to patients. so we use the same high standards until we're ruling them out. but the turn around time for the tests is just really long. i think it's a problem everywhere. and while waiting for those tests to turn around we're burning through personal protective equipment. >> are you worried at all your intensive care unit could be filled with patients who have coronavirus or people you have to presume have coronavirus because you can't rule it out? are you already at a point here where you're at capacity? >> you know, i think capacity is an interesting word. as part of my academic life i study burn out and i think a lot of our hospitals already have been operating at or over capacity. this is very new strain put on our work force. we are already asking so much more of ourselves and our colleagues it's already at that point. and it's not because we're being

so overwhelmed with this kind of burden of critical illness. it's that a single patient under investigation requires so much time and so much attention and so much equipment that it's a huge drain on the work force. so, yes, we are already pulling in more and more people. and it's already starting to feel very tense. >> and when you say that, very tense, look, you're going out there and you're at risk every day. are the other doctors and nurses you work with are at risk every day, and you're all willing to do that which is an incredible thing. we look at italy, though, more than 3,600 health care workers have been infected as no doubt you know. 8% of all cases in italy are health care workers. how big of a fear is this for you and nurses and other doctors you work with? >> there's different aspects to that fear which i think is in all of us and it's overwhelming.

and i think the scary thing first of all is if i get that sick, what if my colleagues get that sick, and it's also scary if i get sick at all, does that mean i'm going to quarantine my family away from me? i'm not going to see my wife, my young kids, and that's hard to come to terms with and the enormity of it all is terrifying it could become like that. on the other hand, i have to say as an intensive care doctor this feels like what we were born for. so we're here for this. i think we're all here for this. we're throwing down against this virus, right? but the challenge is that when we don't feel safe doing that it's terrifying. >> well, i really appreciate your time, and, look, thank you. there are so many people out there who are afraid and you're going to be the person that gets them through this. and, you know, those lives you're going to save, the fact you've got -- you're married, you have three children. i know one of them is only 14

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tonight new york leading the nation with nearly 8,000 confirmed coronavirus cases. nearly half of all cases in the united states. and our next guest is among them. a doctor in new york city at westchester county. out front now dr. cornell, a new york based neuro surgeon with coronavirus. so dr. cornell, i guess first tell me obviously you're here, doing this interview. i know you've been battling coronavirus for more than a week. how did it start for you?

>> it began with a simple cold. at least it felt like a cold. this is way back in the early days of coronavirus about ten days ago when i thought i just had a simple cold. and at that point we didn't yet really realize that it could begin as a simple cold. and i otherwise felt fine with a bit of a runny nose, a bit of a scratchy throat. and at the end of the third day i began to have more flu-like symptoms. i developed a fever and started to ache all over. and that's when i began to think maybe is this more than just a simple cold. we were already taking precautions, of course, with patients and wearing a mask when seeing patients. but i still thought this was simply the cold until the flu-like symptoms came on. when the flu-like symptoms came

on the next morning i called the emergency room where i do a lot of my work and spoke to the er doctor and she suggested i come in and get tested. and she did the other viral studies which were all negative, so we knew i didn't have the flu. and the blood work that pretty typical of what you would see with coronavirus, and so i immediately self-isolated. and for several days had symptoms that were pretty much pretty miserable flu with fevers and chills and achy -- >> so can i ask something, dr. kornel, when you say the blood work was typical, so when you get the test back they're negative, but you're saying there was something in the blood work that made you lean towards coronavirus before you actually got the coronavirus test? am i understanding you right, and if so what was that? >> it was that my lymphocites

were low and my platelet count was low. since we knew it wasn't the flu it made me think likely it was coronavirus. >> that's interesting. it provides a lot for many people. but you do describe this, dr. kornel, like something you've never experienced. as a doctor how strange was that feeling, how unexpected? >> it was strange in that we know all of the possible repercussions, how dangerous this can become. and so if i knew it was just the flu i'd think, okay, i'd be able to get over this in a few days. but since we know that covid-19 can become a very serious and life threatening illness there's

that anxiety in the back of ones mind that is this going to get worse tomorrow rather than get better? and it just sort of lingered on and slowly improved, slowly improved. and i think now i'm pretty clear that i'm in the clear, that it's that nagging fear in the back of your mind that, oh, could this be getting worse. >> i hope you are in the clear, and we appreciate your sharing this because i think it's important for people to understand so much how it started for you, how you got those indicators and of course as you make it clear absolutely anyone this is happening to. thank you so much dr. kornel. >> you're so welcome. >> and i want to go now to our dr. sanjay gupta, your cheap medical correspondent. you just heard dr. kornel's story. first he had mild symptoms and

progressed several days later and also what he said about the blood work, you can get the negative for the flu but there are things in your blood that could indicate something viral, where he had something that he thought was a clear indication of coronavirus before he got the results. >> this is something worth noting that the time between when someone develops some mild symptom tuesday the time when they may develop more serious symptoms can be several days, and i think it's up to nine days. so just something to keep in the back of the mind that you sort of have these mild symptoms but they may either progressively get worse or more suddenly get worse as it sounds like the case with dr. kornel several days into this. yes, there is a blood test. this is different than the test that actually finds the presence of a virus. what happens with this blood test there are certain blood counts, your white blood cell counts and your lymphsites which

change. turned out to be coronavirus. >> i think this might be helpful for people to understand. i also want to ask you, sanjay, because we just found out a staff member in the vice president's office has tested positive for coronavirus. every day you have have the president, the vice president, members of the coronavirus task force all standing closer together in the daily briefing, including dr. fauci. i know they're working together closely, but they're standing there as well. does that need to stop now? >> well, it's interesting. and i'll tell you i spoke to dr. fauci about this. it's interesting, people have probably been on the website trying to figure out the guidelines for all this and it can be complicated. what the guidelines specifically say, erin, is you cannot be 6 feet of someone who is known to have the coronavirus infection. so no one on that stage is known to have the coronavirus infection. i think to your point how does that jive with the fact we're

all told to socially distance ourselves, to break the train of transmission, that is also true. so from a medical standpoint, you know, they say the 6 feet really applies to diagnosed coronavirus patients, but all of us should be practicing that sort of social distancing regardless because we have to assume that we may, you know, be carrying the virus even if we don't have any symptoms. so, yes, they should be separating themselves or maybe not have as many people on the stage when they're giving those press conferences. >> all right, sanjay, thank you very much. >> you got it. and next the unemployment situation in this country. it is -- it is dire. and it is -- you know, this is very, very serious thing. could be a life threatening thing as time goes on. i want to talk to a man next who has just laid off 4,500 people who work for him. and the olympic torch arrived today as pressure to cancel the summer olympic games ramps up.

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tonight millions of job losses. goldman sachs is estimating that 2.25 million people filed initial unemployment claims this week. now, if that number is right it would be clearly the highest level on record. these job cuts are coming across the board among the hardest hit areas restaurants. out front now is cameron mitchell. he had to layoff 4,500 people across his 37 restaurants because of the coronavirus. and cameron, look, i'm sorry. i know that your world has completely changed in the past days. a few weeks ago you were employing thousands of people and now you're down to 6? >> that's right. erin, 17 days ago on march 3rd i was talking with my bankers in

washington, d.c. and told them and reported them i had the best start of the year january and february and up 7%, same store sales and laid out my plans for 2020 and 2021. and 17 days later our company has been eviscerated, we're down to 6 people. i effectively put the company to sleep. we've got a couple of hr people, couple of county people in our office, and that's it. and we'll just go as long as we can, but it was devastating. you just don't have a contingency plan for the unimaginable. it just doesn't happen. >> no, i mean you talk about the best year you've ever had and 17 years later -- 17 days later you've had to lay everyone off. it is incomprehensible and ununderstandable for anyone to really grasp. you have people, cameron, i know who have built their lives working in your restaurants. what was it like having to tell them what was going to happen,

that you were going to have to let them go? >> well, you know, we didn't have the choice really, and we had to move swiftly. i wanted to move swiftly to get our people moving, to get their benefits, and it was inevitable. so we made the decision. monday morning we laid off 4,200 of our people. we left a couple of restaurants open in florida and tried a couple o couple of our restaurants to do carry out and so forth. and by thursday we realized it was over and we wrapped up business operations as of last night and closed our office officially today. and we now are just lying in wait to hopefully get the opportunity to reopen when this national tragedy passes and we come out of this horrific situation as a country today. >> i want to ask you about carry out because i know this has been

positioned around the country that could try to stave off some of the worst for the industry. you're saying you tried that and it wasn't going to work. >> right. i really think it's a misnomer. i've used the analogy as if i'm shaving this morning, i happen to cut my jugular vein. carry out is like trying to put a band-aid on that. and frankly our safety of our people is paramount and joining the nation to try to stop this virus, i couldn't in my right mind ask your people to go in and work in the restaurants and engage in public transactions and so forth all to maybe make a dollar or two. but it really it just wasn't worth it, and i felt much better and our team felt much better about having our associates stay home and weather the storm and be safe and think about coming back to work later at a more appropriate time. >> so what are you trying to do to help your employees now?

>> well, this happened so quickly as i said, and like i said we just -- the best laid plans, our contingencies were wiped out, et cetera. so we're able to make payroll and make our obligations here for the people for the hours they worked until they were laid off temporarily. we've got enough money to just keep the lights on effectively for the next several months and just, you know, pay for security for the restaurants and internet and phones and so forth. but that's about it. we're able to pay our associates their health benefits through april. and we've just started a associate relief fund. we're selling gift certificates for when we open. we're putting 100% of those dollars forward to an associate relief fund for people at least to help put some groceries on the table during this difficult

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