stimulus package of $2 trillion intended for businesses and workers. our manu raju have been following this on capitol hill. the vote was originally supposed to be held right now. tell us the holdup? >> democratic leader schumer and mnuchin o f the treasury, they have been talking and had intensive discussions all morning long. mark warner of virginia, tells me they are making progress in their talks. they are unlikely to reach a deal boo i the time the senate does try to cap the procedural vote to advance the bill around 1:30 p.m. because they're saying they want more time to negotiate according to chuck schumer, the senator democratic leader are, quote,

"very close to a deal." this could provide assistance where numbers of people are struggling and industries and small businesses and airlines. they were having a number of disagreements of how some of that language to be structured particularly money going into industries and whether or not the secretary should have as much power determining who gets that money or not. those are the types of d discussions that's been having intensively over the past days. motions a emotions are flaring on the senate floor, mcconnell accusing democrats acting recklessly and having choice words for democrats and as well as cosusa collins also criticizing democrats handling this. democrats are pushing and

realizing this is the only time they'll have to pass a bill of this coronavirus pandemic and it is hitting here in the united states senate after rand paul of kentucky announced he tested positive. at the same time when the senate does reach a deal as soon as today which is still possible. what will happen in the house. speaker nancy pelosi is trying to introduce her own measure later today. the question remains whether she's using that as a way to push closer to her demands or the house will pass the senate bill or if they move forward on their own. of course, if they do that brianna, that'll put them of uncertain outcome of this critical moment where many americans and the u.s. economy is waiting for the response. >> manu, thank you for the support. now here in new york city. mayor bill de blasio could run out of needed supplies as soon as next week.

governor cuomo is urging president trump to use the defense production act that he already signed but is not using to direct businesses on how to produce in price supplies. >> we have new york manufactures who are stepping up to the plate and converting factories and etcetera, this is not the way to do it. this is at hawk. i am competing with other states, i am bidding up other states on the prices. because you are a manufacture who sits there and california offers them $4 and they say okay, california offers $4 and i offer $5 and another state offering $6. it is not the way to do it. let's go to shimon prokupecz, tell us about the situation there in new york. >> that's the thing. that's the critical thing.

they need equipment or supplies. all the protective gear that you can think of that nurses and doctors would need in situations like this. he's asking for help in getting some of that. the other aspect is ventilators. we keep on hearing the governor stressed that they need more ventilators. behind me here in new york city they're going to be building hospitals. fema is going to come in here and they're going to build thousands of beds and four sections here basically, four different types of federal hospitals, they're going to have all sorts of equipment, they're going to have ventilators, they're also bringing staff and the governor says that's what's so important in all of this. the equipment and staff and all of these critical systitems thae needed. the governor is going to tour the facility. this facility and this

convention center takes up about 6 blocks here on manhattan west side, the large strong base which will allow fema all the room they need to build these hospitals. hopefully we can take a look for ourselves inside what it is they're going to be doing. of course you know the numbers here in new york and across new york state and over 20,000 people are now tested positive for the coronavirus. >> shimon, i am going to pause you just a for a moment. defense secretary esper is speaking at the pentagon. >> have you slow the number of troops coming out of afghanistan. >> i don't want to get in-depth of afghanistan. i want to speak about coronavirus. i spoke to secretary pompeo today, he's over there trying to keep the process moving forward, he'll be coming back. i am sure he'll speak to us broadly. on your first question, i forgotten what the first question was. >> testing. >> we had 16 labs available.

we tested at least 6,000 a day, i don't know where the 16,000 number came from. i think we are up to 6,000 in terms of capacity. the issue is test kits and more of those come on board, we can test more. we offered those services up to the inner agencies to provide testing as we have excess capacity in our labs. if my numbers are wrong, somebody will clean it up afterwards. that was the last time i was briefed, that was rougherly tly number. >> the one in seattle and new york city is expected this week? >> i want to clarify. there are hospitals being profrdprofr provided by h.h.s. they are hospitals in the sense of bed spaces. those things are profrded to to -- provided and i forgot other locations. we are looking at hospitals and

equipment and medical professionals and my aim is to get them out this week. my due is seattle and new york city and we need fema to validate that. and validating them and prioritizing them. that's important, that was my mission. we'll be moving out this week. >> can you give us details of changing this -- >> right turn, we aall right, w to secretary mark esper as he's talking about resources the military providing to some of these hardest hit areas. i want to bring in dr. peter hotez. to discuss a little bit of what we heard from the secretary there, how important is this for the military to help? do you see a key part of this? >> absolutely, what we are looking at now is call from the

governor increasing our hospital capacity by 50%, preferably 100%. we know what this curve looks like. with that steep rise, we are about to hit a big surge and the big emphasis is to avoid a catastrophic situation like we have seen in italy and other than social distancing the way to to that is massively gear up for hospital capacities especially ventilator beds. the call is out for all city hospitals especially to increase their capacities but with the understanding that may not always be possible so bring in the military, it is the right response to maximize capacities for hospital beds. >> they need more ventilators and more hospital beds and also need more masks and protective gears and certainly in new york they could be running out of this as soon as next week. knowing that we are hearing from

governor cuomo he's putting in a bid and california puts on a bid, he holds back the curtain of how this is going down without the federal government stepping in. do they need to step in here and what happens if they don't? >> you need to allocate resources where the need is greatest. right now there are 20,000 cases of covid 19 in new york. that's more than half the u.s. cases. it is so bad right now in new york that new york is not considering one of the top leading global hot spots for covid 19. i think -- i forget the number of sixth or seventh highest city right now. it is only going to get worse. the governor can't be in a position to broker this thing, it got to be allocated where we

need is the greatest. it means bringing the ventilators and beds. it is not like you are going to see the whole entire country homogeniously infected. new york is probably the worse and los angeles. i think it will have to be until it is geared up. it is going to be focusing on new york and we'll have to play this game of, it is not a game but it is a tragedy where we knock on new york and another one is going to pop up. >> what does it look like if new york runs out of supplies and masks and ventilators. >> i hate to go there with you. let's just, let's look at the risks right now. we are seeing a number of healthcare providers get very sick. they're on the front line. they don't have adequate

protection. i was on your show a couple of weeks ago and i think what i said was it is going to be lights out if we don't have enough healthcare facilities not only taking care of patients but having feelings of comfort and safety that when they go to work, they're not going to be saying good-bye for their family ever if. we have to give that kind of reassurance. that got to be a priority. you wonder of this tragic situation, we are hearing reports out of italy where they are making life or death decision and deciding that individuals in italy over the age of 60s, they're not going to put on ventilators because it is not enough. we can't get into that situation in the united states. we got to fix it quickly right now. the other thing we have to do is get technologies, biotechnology in place for our healthcare providers. i have been pushing hard on

antibodies. look, this is ready to go now if we organize our blood banks and transfusion service. i am having a call about that this afternoon. >> so you came, you have been talking about this for a while and this takes forever of coordination because it is not cheap. even ethically you need cooperations with other entities, why has it not been further along? >> the fda commissioner and steven hahn i have known from texas from our cancer center, he made that commitment so i think that one will move, hopefully we'll have it in place really soon. >> what's really soon? >> basically out of time. >> what's really soon?

>> hopefully we are talking to start this within days. that's what we have to do. br br brianna, we are out of time. i understand for instance yesterday there were 500 positive covid residents and another going to new york hospital. that number is not going down. imagine we are up to a thousand or over. we are already nearly being over run so now is not the time to have any kind of hesitation. now it is absolute urgency. >> dr. hotez, thank you so much. it is great to see you again. thank you so much for your insights. >> thanks again. >> so as more states are issuing the stay-at-home orders, police in new orleans are investigating the gatherings a many are still

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cnn's diane gallagher has more. >> reporter: i am in atlanta georgia, the mayor is working to contain the virus. the governor is citing a study that the state has the fastest growing case of coronavirus growth of any state or country in the world right now. if they don't do anything to slow the curve, they'll run out of beds in the state. at least seven deaths and more than 20 patients confirmed there. they're working to try to control what could eventually be a cluster of what we have seen in other retirement communities across the country. >> on mimely beach, the governor of florida did not close all the beaches.

they're tagiking on themselves close all beaches, this includes broward and palm beach county. clearing spring breakers was an issue issue early on. hotels being shutdown and a c curfew was being imposed. >> with more cities issuing stay-at-home measures, house of worships across the nation are scrambling to find creunique wa to hold services. that will includes a connecticut church who pastor, bill pike, passed away ten minutes later. his family were all listening on

the line from quarantine. father peter, first thank you very much for joining us to talk about what happened here with bill pike and i wonder certainly it is unusual that you want to be present for something like this. the pikes have been a member of your church community for a long time. i wonder how it came to this that you figured out how you are going to of this unusual time. >> brianna, thank you for having me on. the story i have to tell is really a beautiful story in desperate times. it was clear that we were moving towards the pandemic and the staff that i am on with incredible people. we thought of what to do. bill had gone to the hospital and we all loved bill. we had to figure our way forward.

when bill took the turn for the worse and called dan. okay, let's get everybody on the phone and call the hospital and see if we can do it. the hospital did a great job. they fired up bill's cell phone and we called the phone at the hospital and staff and nurse put the phone right on bill's ear. it was beautiful, i got to read the most beautiful prayer and i got to tell bill that i love them and each one of the family members can say we love you and after we hung up bill died ten minutes later or something >> how does this affect them not being able to be with him but having technology to help them being there in some way? >> well, bill was 91 years old and an incredible human being

and led an unbelievable full life. the family is clear and distraught to lose their pop but it is not a tragedy for them. they understood that life does end and given the crisis and circumstances, they embrace what they had and that was a chance to speak to bill and for bill to hear these prayers. bill is a man of great faith. they always say even people in a coma they can hear. bill was sent off beautifully and went onto the other side of a greater life and he left knowing what he was loved. >> i know you and his family sent him off beautifully. >> i want to talk about how this is broadly impacting folks and folks that don't have coronavirus. tell us about, you also performed last rites for another

parishioners. this one was over face-time, another beautiful man from our congregation coming to the end of his life, we knew that. joe lived in an elder care facility where nobody can entered. joe has two sons, incredibly devoted and wonderful sons. we decided to do this over face-time and they put the camera up in front of joe. i got to tell him that i love him which is also very true and two grown sons, laid hands with their dad and at the end of the prayer where he laid hands in somebody's head and you know that was also incredibly

beautiful. it was incredible. >> it was not what you were used to but it was incredibly beautiful. >> father peter thank you for sharing that with us. we are thinking of you and your congregation and all the people who are going through what you guys are going through. >> thank you. the national guard, hard hit by the coronavirus, what they'll be doing when they hit the ground. an actor from "the walking dead" tested positive for the coronavirus, details on his struggles on getting tested. details next.

as americans are coming to grips with the new reality, many have taken to social media to tell their stories of the coronavirus symptoms and experiences getting tested. my next guest is actor annudani n newman, he tried to get tested. tell us how you are feeling and how many days out you are from the worse of it? >> about four or five from the

worst of tit. i was in the e.r. last saturday. >> so just give us a sense of what were your symptoms and at what point were you thinking i need to get tested? >> ucthis is my biggest concern that we are having here because i heard you know through the media and stuff that people unfortunate and so sadly with this are dying and they can't breathe and move. i was not concerned. i just had a cough. then i started having a little trouble of breathing and it just progressed and it still felt like a cold or flu. so it was not really hit me until i heard somebody in the group tested positive and so i immediately like anyone start thinking how many people have i just shook hands with.

we mardi gras with thousands of people. what in the world i had. i called my doctor and they didn't have the test. i called the urgent cares all over georgia. nobody had the test. they forwarded me to the health department and the health department basically says keep calling around. and it was not until i was able to find this one giant hospital in atlanta emergency room, they went through all the questioning and asking me everything to kind of make sure that i was a fit and they said come in immediately. when i got there, they took the temperature and vitals the they said yeah, we have to test you. $9,000 later they let me know we need the e.r. bed and your symptoms are super mild. we are not allowed to process

your test so they just let me and a lot of other elderly and young people go home to self-quarantined without being able to process the test. >> okay, so eventually you get tested, right? >> we physically did the test but they were not allowed to process the test. >> i see. >> i think they're ruling with the government is you have to be elderly or severe symptoms or just came back from italy or china in order to be able to have the government or the cdc to process the test. >> you were one point nearly turned away entirely until someone recognizes you from your role of "the walking dead"? >> yes, at the entrance hay had a tent and they were telling everybody after taking temperatures, you probably have a cold and you probably have the

flu, go home, go home. self-quaranti self-quarantine. it was not until -- the fact that our healthcare system is turning everyone away and that even after i got tested and had this huge bill, i could not process the results. my point is that we are going through, we have iceland and we have germany and south korea who are doing thousands of tests and in america we had all these kids partying at the beaches right now, everybody is out at the park or basketball games, it is not until a society can get tested that people can really hold themselves responsible and accountable to self-quarantine and knowing and also contacting all the people that you come in contact with. we had this with the aid

pandemic and hiv, testing is so essential to be able to lockdown the virus and stop it from spreading. so now two and a half months later it is unacceptable to not have tests. >> daniel, thank you for sharing your story with us. we hope you feel better and we'll follow up with you. i think that $9,000 bill that you got socked with is something a lot of people are experiencing. >> my pleasure, you guys. stay safe and wash your hands and treat people with love. we are all going through this at the same time. really, thank you so much. >> very good words, daniel. thank you. >> president trump is heeding the plea of u.s. governors of hardest hit. he activated the national guards. the troops are going to assist california, new york and washington states of these hard hit areas.

the same states will be getting large amount of much needed medical equipment. let's go to barbara starr. defense secretary just made some news. tell us about this. >> he did. we did a briefing and you know on reflecting on what this young man told everyone about his circumstances is so interesting. mark esper noted that the u.s. military has a number of medical labs, a significant number, they could process tests only for those who needs their tests to come the military lab. the military could potentially offer but the secretary went through a number of things. i think what was so striking is when he talked about the use of the national guard, he felt he needed to openly say and i am quoting him "this is not marshal law." a remarkable moment that a

secretary of defense would even have to say that. what the national guards are going to do under the state's control is try and help and providing assistance in communities around the country. there will be a number of military field hospitals being sent to various areas. the secretary says he expects to go to seattle. these military will stopgap measures if you will. as the army corp. of engineers, get these facilities converting into bed spaces. they may be able to move onto other areas of the country where they are also desperately needed. so really trying to spread out

the capability and trying to get everybody taken care of. it kind of really underscores that they expect this to go on for some time. one of the biggest indicators as this continues, he's now beginning to see the possibility of an impact on military readiness, that's is extremely significant for what may come to down the road. brianna. >> barbara star from the pentagon. thank you so much. >> the senate as the standoff as the clock ticks. live picture coming from the senate floor, we are expecting this vote any moment. american doctors are warning of new symptoms for the illness including the loss of smell and taste. we'll be taking a look at this. this is cnn live coverage. memory, focus, accuracy, learning,

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new york is at the epicenter at the outbreak and local hospitals are being set up in manhattan. i want to go live to shimon

prokupecz right now inside the javed center. >> i want to show you behind here. they are received equipment and hospital beds and they are now inside the building. they'll treat it as a hospital. there will be a thousand beds. we have seen respiratories in here. as you can see a lot of items that are here. huge ship pmments that are here. people from fema and homeland security and as we go over here where the governor speaks, you can see respiratories and other items behind the governor, there is a hospital bed and there is other items that you can see all around and you can see partitions which they'll be e s using as rooms they'll place

potential patients or people who are going to need respiratories. things are here, this is as good sign as much as we can get good signs right now. at least these items are arriving. there is supplies here. there are hospital beds and respiratories here and other critical care items that are needed for doctors and nurses who are going to be ultimately treating people as many as perhaps 1,000 people inside this facilities ay and the national is here, they'll be putting all this together. you can see behind me there are dozens and dozens of boxes of items and the key respiratories. it is so important that we keep on hearing respiratories, they are here. this is just a start of what the governor has been asking for brianna. >> let's hope it is just a sh t start. shimon, thank you so much for

taking us inside what is going to become a hospital conventional center there in manhattan. >> president trump's own general gave us a somber warning this morning. >> this week is going to get bad. everyone needs to be taking the right step right now. stay-at-home. >> despite this though, aids to president trump say the president is itching the scale back social measure after the 15-day ends, it is going to impact the health of the american economy. for his part the president has been retweeting various messages calling for a return to normalcy at the end of this week. joining me now is the professor at ucla department of -- right now professor, i want to look into the future before we go

back to what the president is saying. you have hong kong seeing a spike of new cases after relaxing their strict guidelines. how are we dropping measures we see in u.s. and we are not at the worst of it here. how would that affect the spread of the virus. >> you are right. we are seeing a spike in hong kong from imported and it looks to be this comes from imported travelers coming back to hong kong who have not been quarantine overtime. and any relaxing of containment measures is going to result in a spike of cases. we are not out of the woods, we are not even in the woods yet.

they have hospital beds that's available. they have had the ability for contact tracing that's linked to the massive upscale testing that's available in other places. we are not there. we are worse off in italy tentering where tente entering where we are on the curve right now. this is a difficult situation and everybody has to be doing their best to be controlling spread by social distancing and managing to keep hospitals as quite as possible. >> i wonder when you look at what is a desire on the part of the president to start backing off some of these restrictions bausz t because the economy is taking a beating and others are saying there is no way around it if you are talking about human life. here in the coming weeks, we see

some of the worse of it and it becomes clear that there is no way these measures can be relaxed. the problem of our ability to control this virus is pred cricd this virus is how well we can keep people from being together and spreading the virus. having any kind of measure is only half way, we'll be propagating the spread of the virus, we have to do our best right now. we'll pay for it now or we are going to pay for it later. the price is going to be much bigger if we pay for it later. a good shutdown movement right now will benefit everybody in this country in the long run. i know it is difficult. i know it is complicated for people but the more we can restrict movement and keep people in place and reduce

spread, in the long-term the sooner we'll be out of this and we'll see light at the end of the tunnel. are there other measures >> just give us a sense of when you've seen people social distancing, are they doing it the right way? >> these are all very good questions. the first issue that we're talking about is, is there anything else we can do besides social distancing and in the absence of personal protective equipment available for everybody on a mass scale, there's very little else we can do. if we had masks and gloves and hand sanitizer and clorox for every person in the united states, there might be, you know, other solutions, but we do not have those things available to us. we need to protect our health system first. we need to keep people in place

for now because we have no other tools at our disposal. we need testing to be able to determine who needs to stay, who needs to be isolated and who doesn't. we don't have those things in place and it's because we're so far behind, there is literally nothing else that we can do at this point. social distancing is our only hope. >> our only hope. well, keep it up, staying far away from other people. professor anne ramoin, thank you very much. this pandemic is accelerating and officials are rebuking the president, pushing drugs that are not yet approved to treat coronavirus. stand by. (worried) i'm not picking it up. you pick it up! i'm not picking it up!

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the family of an atlanta girl hospitalized after testing positive for coronavirus said her condition is not improving and that she is fighting for her life. the 12-year-old girl tested positive last week after first contracting pneumonia. her family tells cnn and atlanta affiliate wgcl she did not have any preexisting conditions and she is now on a ventilator. >> she did not go back to next day. it's quite common it happens in kids. sent her back and just kind of deteriorated. by sunday, the fever has not broken and she started coughing, and so they admitted her. the doctor checked her out and admitted her with pneumonia and she kind of deteriorated from there, to be honest with you.

>> the family said they do not know how their daughter contracted the virus, but they want to stress to the public that children can indeed become infected and this girl right now is remaining in isolation. family members tell cnn and affiliate wsb that they are now concerned about the girl's younger brother who is also under quarantine. poem moments from now, whether to move forward on the stimulus and wall street is watching closely. a somber warning that unemployment may hit 30%.

hello, i'm brianna keilar and this is cnn special live coverage of the coronavirus pandemic. the world health organization is now accelerating. the senate voting on whether to move forward with trillion dollar legislation that's supposed to bring major relief to the nation. 11 states now