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 and a handful of

states with stay at home orders. west virginia added to that list moments ago and many of us hunker down, the number of u.s. coronavirus cases has gone up drastically. now at 40,000 plus and if you just do the math at the right of your screen, at this point, more than one out of ten infections worldwide are american. more than 480 people died from the illness here in the u.s. and rising numbers add more to the urgency from hospitals that are running out of critical gear like masks, protective gear, ventilators, the mayor of new york, a city which now has 20,000 plus cases of coronavirus said supplies likely run out next week. so will congress act this afternoon? the negotiations for the stimulus bill stalled over the the weekend but the leader of senate democrats said he's hopeful a deal will be reached today and in the meantime, republicans are slamming them for the delay. >> we all know time is of the

essence. country is facing the twin crises in our health care system and in our economy. that doesn't mean blindly accepting a republican-only bill. that was the bill we were given. lots of things we didn't even know about. saturday. that means working to make this bill better. better for our small businesses. better for our working families. better for our health care system. >> do we agree on everything? of course not. but surely, surely in this time of extreme crisis for our country when people are getting sick, when people are dying from the coronavirus, when we are facing unemployment rates which could go as high as 20% according to the treasury secretary, surely we ought to be able to pull together and work

quickly to respond to the needs of the american people. >> many governors, republican and democratic, are acting on their own to try to mitigate the explosion of cases, and that includes in new york, where we find our shimon prokupecz. shimon, tell us what's happening there and also, you are there with governor cuomo. >> reporter: yeah, so let me just go right to the governor, just wrapped up the press conference. you're about to tour here. there's a lot of items here. can you just kind of explain, are you satisfied with what you're seeing here so far? >> well, this is going to work well for what it is, right? because we're really battling in very large numbers but what this is going to be is a temporary hospital. actually, four separate temporary hospitals, each one about 250 people that are about 40,000 square feet each and there will be four in this

convention center and hold about a thousand people. 320 medical staff are federally supplied with these hospital beds and this will be a pressure relief valve for the hospital system. so when a hospital becomes overwhelmed, people who need a lighter level of medical care can use this facility. it will be helpful. we still have a tremendous battle against the overcapacity. we have about 53,000 hospital beds. we need about 110,000. so this is a thousand beds. it sounds like a lot, but when you put it in that scope, you see how much further we have to go. >> reporter: do you have enough respirators here? [ inaudible ] >> at this facility, yes. but the great need, hospital

beds, you can always scramble and find. but staff, the real urgent need is the medical equipment. ventilators. 30,000 of them and you cannot find them. and these people will have respiratory illnesses, acute respiratory illnesses. they need the ventilators, and that's why i keep urging the federal government, use the defense procurement act where the president can order a company to actually produce the equipment that we need and do it quickly. >> reporter: the other thing, in terms of the guidelines, in terms of relaxing the guidelines, a lot is being made of the president tweeting about this, talking about this. are you concerned about that? >> we have not even begun to see the influx of patients. this is still the relative quiet before the storm. we're seeing that number go up,

but you're going to see it go up exponentially. you haven't seen the hospitals overwhelmed yet. you will. so all of these, we're still on the up trajectory, and we haven't come close to the apex. and there is a false sense of calm now. let's handle the health crisis. that comes first, right? the health crisis and then get to the economic crisis that we no doubt are creating in this situation, and we can start to plan for that, but don't get ahead of yourselves. >> reporter: are you concerned that the president may be getting ahead of him as he may offering a false sense of calm? >> look, i think the president is right that we have an economic problem. i have a group that's planning on an economic recovery, but that's totally different function. plan the economic recovery, and how to do that and the best way to do that, but focus on this

health care crisis because the weight is getting bigger and bigger and bigger and the wave is going to crash on our health care system. >> reporter: is there concern that people are going to have a false sense? >> basically into the second week of stay at home. are you concerned that there may be a false sense of kaepernicknekaepernick ne -- calmness here? people are saying and tweeting what he's saying. are you concerned about that and what's your message? >> look, you always have to be worried about the calm before the storm, right? the weather forecasters say the storm is coming. you look out the window. everything looks calm. you say, well, they got it wrong or they overreacted. and then you venture out. then you find out they didn't get it wrong. this is the calm before the storm. two weeks inside, that's not enough. it hasn't even started yet.

>> thank you, governor, so much. appreciate it. so there you go, brianna. the governor here now, wrapping up his press conference here. now going to take a tour around this location. look at the different items that are here, the national guard is here, fema is here. as we said earlier, all sorts of hospital equipment and supplies here now and so that's it for here now and we'll see. thank you, governor, for joining me. >> thank you, governor, thank you, shimon. let's go to the capitol now, with speaker pelosi. >> the members for their extraordinary leadership and work for america's workers and families. the senate republican bill put corporations first. but because of the insistence of leader chuck schumer and senate democrats, progress has been made. we urge the senate to move closer to the values and to take responsibility for workers and families act. we must be bold forward lacking and move swift and evidence based in our actions and we must

be prayerful. god bless the families of those who have lost loved ones and those fighting this terrible illness now. god bless the nurses, doctors, first responders, and men and women in uniform, men and women in our factories making medical supplies, cars, all that and keeping grocery shelves stocked with food. god bless the scientists racing to find a cure. god bless all of you and may god always bless america. thank you. >> let's go live now to phil mattingly. phil, take us through the headlines there. we weren't able to hear all of what the speaker said. what do we need to know? >> reporter: i think what you're seeing right now, brianna, two things going on. the senate just voted once again to block the path forward on consideration of its emergency economic relief package. democrats, again, voting to block that as negotiations continue behind closed doors and what speaker pelosi is introducing today, the house version of their economic relief

package. it kind of goes in tandem with that. what you're seeing right now is kind of a strategy that's going on on capitol hill right now. publicly, you are seeing democrats oppose moving forward in the senate. democrats in the house presenting their own proposal that they say will bring relief to workers, relief to small businesses, paid sick leave and enhancement of unemployment benefits. as the senate continues to negotiate forward on their proposal. let me tell you what's actually happening behind the scenes because i think this is the most important thing right now. over the course of the last several hours, treasury secretary steven mnuchin and eric at the white house have been laying out a path between the democrat leaders office and mitch mcconnell's office as they attempt to find the path forward on this senate proposal. the top line for you, people involved with the proposal, total cost around $2 trillion. however, there are still significant hold-ups that democrats and republicans have been trying to work their way

through over the course of the last two days. at the center of those hold-ups, i'm told is a $500 billion loan proposal and loan guarantee proposal in the republican bill up to this point. democrats want more oversight with that proposal and less leeway for the treasury secretary to essentially decide who gets the money, how they get the money, who qualifies for the money. that's one piece of this. democrats right now i'm told are pushing for perhaps an oversight board to oversee how that money is dispersed. democrats extremely concerned about how funding gets to states and localities. there is money in the republican package for states and localities, democrats to the structure that would be doled out and two key points that are going on right now. there's also a lot of political gamesmanship and frustration. you saw on the senate floor over the course of the last couple of hours, senate republicans repeatedly come to the floor and lambaste democrats for blocking what our procedural motions are just to move forward and you know the senate as well as anybody. these are just motions to

continue forward on the bill. these aren't votes on the actual bill itself and yet democrats are utilizing these motions as leverage basically at this point saying that chuck schumer, democratic leader saying flatly, once we get an agreement, we will move extremely fast to get this done. they want an agreement today but unless it's reached, democrats made clear, they're going to continue blocking votes on the procedural side of things, at least that's the public of what you're seeing. behind closed doors right now that really matters in this very urgent moment in the capitol. >> the last time i saw that path being worn out between the two offices was during the financial crisis. it's really something stunning to see how alarming it is as it goes down. can you tell us more about why are democrats worried about what, i guess, sort of the rules that would be in place for doling out this money to cities? are they worried that it's going to be doled out unfairly? are they worried there's not going to be bipartisan input to make sure that doesn't happen? >> yeah, i think the structure,

and not to get too into the weeds, the caveat that things are fluid right now and i don't want to talk about things that may have been resolved or in the process of being resolved but the size of states matter. the formula is important to how members kind of work through this process right now, the structure by which some of these things are doled out is very important as well. i think democrats have made the point that there are significant budget short fafalls are about hit the states or hit these states in the future and ensure that the states are able to get the money over the course of this period of time as they address this urgent crisis and i think republican point had been, look, we have money in there for states and localities but the structure has been the biggest issue that i've been told to this point and one of the issues i picked up over the course of the last three days is the proposal, the structural proposal the democrats put on the table which was endorsed by the national governor's association is one that

republicans felt came late in the game, over the top from their perspective on things. democrats, however, have not let this one go. it is one of the two key issues, i'm told, that they're holding out on because it means that much to them, i guess, in this negotiation. look, to be blunt, brianna, as you know in these negotiations, there's a lot of extraneous items flowing around. political items, policy items that don't have to do with the crisis going on right now. people are trying to slam into a bill that is this large. those aren't the big issues right now. the big issues are the loan guarantee fund for the largest distressed firms and the money for the states and local governments. >> all right, hey, phil, thank you so much for walking us through that. phil mattingly from capitol hill. i want to bring in juliette kayyem -- julia chatterley. and richard quest. part of this is about the pressure and the original timeline in the trump administration that some folks said, why would you put a

timeline in place because you signal to the markets if you can't make that tough timeline, they're really going to have trouble. how long can this keep going where there isn't something the democrats or republicans have agreed on? >> it's a very interesting question and you can ask personally for president trump, politically for president trump and economically for this country and there is an evolving mode of thought here that perhaps the number of lives that are trying to be saved here tackling this health crisis are less than those that are being put at peril due to the economic crisis, the sleep that we've put the u.s. economy in and more people are talking about this. i'll pull out what you've been talking about for the last hour and a half. the st. louis fed president said and suggested that we could see a 30% unemployment rate in this country in a worst case scenario. i spoke to him earlier this morning. i said, but what about if we add

all the insurance, the stimulus from congress, the measures that the federal reserve has put in and he wouldn't back away from that percentage. 47 million people could potentially be unemployed, when we've got 40% of u.s. households that can't $500 check. if you compare those numbers to the number of lives that we're trying to save in terms of the health crisis here, it's a horrible conversation, it's a painful conversation, but i'm telling you, it's a conversation that's being had here. >> it needs to be had. and richard, i mean, we're looking at the markets. they're not loving what's going on for sure. how are they going to continue to react without a deal? >> more of the same and similar, and if there's no deal, then expect the worst. everybody is looking for direction and for leadership. that's what the markets want. they want to know that somebody is driving this thing forward and putting in place.

the ability of the u.s. senate to get a deal, however difficult and whatever valid reasons, is a huge negative. it reminds me, of course, back in the great financial crisis when the house rejected tarp and the market fell sharply. we're not quite at that stage yet, but if you look at whatever countries have done and the speed and seemingly ease with which they have put in place, far larger bailouts and with major provisions for ordinary workers and you start to see that the u.s. is lagging, not leading and the market is well aware of that. >> yeah, and that was a bank bailout, right? back in the financial crisis. this, ideally, has so much more for workers who are going to be unemployed. we heard jou, julia, from new y governor cuomo today with the health risk versus the economic

risk. that seems to be a calculation. you can both speak to this, but julia first, that's a calculation we see folks making but look at governor cuomo and president trump. people are making this calculation differently. >> it's interesting. we saw those questions coming up in that press conference today. we saw the president being asked and i think that's what created him sending that tweet out this morning that said, look, we'll review it after 15 days but if you look at the battle that's going on right now in the senate and the fact that the democrats are saying, how is the money ultimately that we're going to give you here be used and a lot of that is focusing on the big corporations and where i think the democrats are getting it right is that they're saying, look, there have to be limits on how the money is being used. you're not going to buy your own stock back. we give you this money but you have to retain employees. we have to stop the unemployment rate rising in this country, where i think perhaps the democrats are getting this wrong

is that they're trying to control executive pay for what i'm hearing for the next ten years. we need to address these asymmetries between worker pay and executive pay, but my argument is, this is the wrong time. right concept, wrong time. so brianna, the point here, as nick keeps coming back to this, the economy needs money, probably more than $2 trillion but this deal needs to get done and petty politics shouldn't be coming into this. richard? >> on this question of the devil in the deep blue sea between what the president tweeted this morning, the cure versus the disease. the reality is it's a solomonic judgment that somebody has to make and if you bear in mind at the time about 28% that the economy is locked down, california, 18%, so on, so forth, about 28% is locked down

with the possibility of going more. there comes the point, a legitimate point but too early to be asking this. look at italy and china, where they've started to open things up again and found the numbers starting to rise again. by all means, raise the issue, but the timing will be what is relevant and it's probably not now. >> and we're not even, i had a medical expert who said we're not out of the woods or even in the woods. i think we have a big wake up call in the next week or so. julia, richard, thank you guys and more breaking news out of the uk. prime minister boris johnson announcing new measures to stop the spread of coronavirus. japan admits for the first time that the olympics may have to be postponed. i'll speak to the owners of a peas re pizzeria who took out a $50,000 loan to keep paying employees during this crisis. [♪]

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moments ago, the world health organization warned against the use of untested drugs to treat covid-19. this comes on the heels of six states taking new measures to stop the hoarding of clorquin. texas, ohio, oklahoma, west virginia all issued new rules to prevent doctors from overprescribing the drugs which the president last week touted as promising therapies to fight the coronavirus. the fda released a statement afterward clarifying that the drugs are not approved for use against covid-19. i want to bring in dr. barbara ferrer, los angeles county of public health and doctor, tell us about these drugs.

tell us about how much your county has and if you're seeing any cases of hoarding there. >> thank you so much, brianna, and thank you again for covering this story with such accuracy. i like what the fda said, this is a drug that's being used in clinical trials which means it's in a controlled setting. in order for us to actually have the evidence that says when it's appropriate to use this, i appreciate that so many of us are looking to protect ourselves and our family and when we hear there might be a therapeutic medicine that could help us not be as sick or perhaps recover quicker, we do tend to run out and try to see if we can purchase it or get our doctors to give us a prescription for us just in case but the fda is right. the best way for us to really support each other is to really adhere to all the guidance. this is in the clinical study still, but that means people are trying to make sure that it really does work and they're

trying to decide this which patients is it most helpful, so it doesn't really pay to go out and really stockpile or hoard or ask your doctor to give you a prescription if you don't in fact need it now. our supply for clorquin is quite robust in the country but the question is, it needs to be used when it's appropriate and that's what the clinical trials are trying to establish. >> i want to ask you about something the president tweeted. he said we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself. at the end of the 15 day period, we will make a decision as to which way we want to go. just to be clear, he first announced there would be guidelines of folks not being in crowds of ten people or more on march 16. 15 days from that is the last of the month, next tuesday. does this thought and this tweet reflect the reality of what we are going to see in the next week or two?

>> we've been really honest with everybody who lives in l.a. county about what we're expecting. we're expecting weeks of increased cases and we're asking people to practice pretty dramatic social distancing measures for the next few weeks. i don't think we're going to see the significant drops that we want to see in just a couple of weeks. no other country has experienced that. i think every single thing we do now, using every tool in our tool kit is absolutely essential so that we don't see the huge peak in the numbers of cases that totally can overwhelm our health care system, but we're in this for the long haul and i think it's helpful for people to know what that means. you know, l.a. county and the city of l.a., we've all been working together. we've instituted fairly dramatic social distancing measures. there are no crowds that are allowed anywhere of any number. only essential workers are allowed to leave their homes and that's to go to work and even in

workplaces, we're asking for a lot of social distancing. because we know this is the right thing to do, so that we keep people apart from each other as much as possible to avoid spread. when you don't have a vaccine and you don't necessarily have approved medications for people who are sick, these are the most important steps that everyone can take and it also allows everyone to help us slow the spread. every single person has a part to play. >> what would it mean if people, if some of these guidelines were relaxed starting next tuesday. what would that do to the cases of illness and death? >> well, i'm not sure what it would do in every single place in the country. i know that we have health officer orders which are in effect and stay in effect at least through april 19th. that our schools are closed in l.a. county through the beginning of may and that we'll be enforcing those orders with everyone for as long as we need to to make sure we do infact

slow down that curve, slow down the spread, give our health care system the opportunity to take care of those who are going to need care. >> dr. ferrer, thank you so much. we really, really need this insight and we thank you for coming on to share it. >> yeah, thank you so much and again, thanks to all of the media out there that have done a tremendous job making sure people have accurate information. >> thank you for helping us with that. democratic senator kerstin gillibrand with us now. thank you for speaking us right now. i want to get to the stimulus bill because another key procedural vote has just failed. first though, i want to ask about your home state which has turned into the epicenter here in the u.s., the hot spots across the world. how dire is the situation there? >> it's quite urgent in new york. we do have the most cases at this point. i've been talking to our hospital heads over the last

week and one state hospital is down to the last mask that they have. they're short on gowns. they're short on ventilators. we need the defense production act implemented. we need the medical supply chain into the front lines where they're needed and we also, breanna, need universal sick days and paid sick leave. when a workers has to stay home because the school is closed, they need to be paid during that time period. that's what paid leave is for. if they're sick, they need to stay home. that's what sick days are for. unfortunately, the republicans are not willing to move these basic defense mechanisms forward. this is what keeps us safe. every transmission we stop by keeping a person home by allowing them to stay not only in their family unit but away from crowds and from work, it's

one less transmission. it's perhaps lives saved. >> one of the big hang-ups in this bill from the way democrats see it is accountability when it comes to billions and billions of dollars that will be used to essentially bail out companies. democrats are working for, they'll say, protections for workers, they also are wanting to make sure that, you know, companies are kind of walking away, laughing all the way. we heard from our julia chatterley who said that the democrats may be getting it wrong on focusing on ceo pay, that focusing on accountability makes more sense, but wrapping up something like ceo pay which may be an issue that is kind of unrelated in the view of some folks, that they may be a mistake. >> i think that's one of many concerns about the way mitch mcconnell put the bill forward. we were negotiating very productively on saturday until about 5:30 p.m. and then

republicans pulled back at 9:00 and said our way or the highway. we're not negotiating and deleted and took away all the compromises that had been made that would have had abilities for employees to be furloughed, get their paycheck or had the sick days in there and had accountability for when we do rescue companies, which we fully intend to do, that they are not able to use the funds in ways that hurt employees. we just want the bill to be a worker's first bill, families first bill and not allow the companies to do what they did during the last bailout. we remember quite well what happened during the financial collapse last time. i did not vote for it because the american people did not have the ability to have equity in the companies. same thing now. if they take billions of dollars and pay dividends and have stock buybacks and give money to ceos, not employees, they're making the wrong decision for the common good and for america and to receive that money, taxpayer

money to bail them out in this urgent time of need, we're willing to do that. we just want them to behave in a way that is good for everyone, not just their c suite. >> senator rand paul, as you know, in isolation. he tested positive for coronavirus and as he was awaiting his diagnosis, and up until his diagnosis, he was socializing. he attended meetings, lunches, even went to the gym yesterday morning before learning of his diagnosis. are you concerned about exposure? are your colleagues concerned? >> well, my heart goes after rand paul. i hope he's recovering. there are several senators that have followed the directive of the capitol physician and isolating themselves for the last two weeks because they had direct contact with senator paul. all of us are deeply concerned that the people in our states aren't getting the protective gear they want, aren't getting the masks and the money and the ability to be at the front lines

against this disease. we are less concerned about o ourselves. >> amy thinks more members likely to be quarantined. do you want to see remote voting? >> i think we should absolutely have remote voting. i don't know why senator mcconnell is refusing to create accommodations under these circumstances. i think this is something we can easily do. we are able to do proxy votes in committees. that's no reason why we can't do proxy votes or floor votes. it's not hard to do and i think this reticence is unwise given the age and health of so many of our colleagues. i think it's important to protect everyone and we can do that better through remote voting. we've been holding our caucus meetings at least on the democratic side remotely. republicans chose not to do that and i think that was a deep mistake. >> before i let you go, just a

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prime minister boris johnson with new steps to fight the coronavirus after foreign secretary told all british travelers to come home now. let's go to nick paton walsh with what we're expecting from the prime minister. >> reporter: i think this address, won't be a news conference, that's what everyone is anticipating here. it will be a kind of direct address to the people of the united kingdom, the first time he's taken such a measure and it comes ahead of many day of speculation that the advice the government were giving to people to keep apart, keep out of mass

gatherings hasn't really been sinking in enough. too many photographs circulating over the weekend of crowded public parks and places. we get a slight sense, as you say, just in the hour ahead from the uk foreign secretary dominic releasing a statement essentially advising all uk holiday makers to come home as quickly as possible, not those who are residents in other countries saying they should do it while there's still commercial travel available and warning some airports are being closed sometimes without notice around the world. not an indication necessarily that's going to happen here in the uk but something certainly going to be announced by boris johnson tonight. whether it has legal enforcement behind it, we don't know. they have shied away from that in the uk, giving strong advice of how they should behave but not saying you face jail if you go against that advice, though there is draft legislation that could make the police have powers to actually arrest people if they evade quarantine. advice going out to the vulnerable 1.5 million people

receiving letters from the united kingdom's free health service, the nhs saying to them to essentially stay at home for a period of time and you have to remember though, brianna, united kingdom been an outlier and scientists at the government level, trying at the start to allow the virus to spread in a mitigated way to make sure that people gain immunity across the population of the uk and then possibly more resilient in the seasons ahead when this could possibly return but change their mind radically and saying they're introducing increasingly strict measures and here in the united kingdom like france, italy, spain, such widespread restrictions across society including travel too. brianna? >> could be a major pivot and we'll be watching that along with you, nick. thank you. some business owners forced to take drastic measures during the crisis. the owner of a pizzeria who borrowed $50,000 to make sure their employees are getting paid.

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the station are growing more and more frustrated as he may relax the 15 day self-distancing guidelines. i wan to go live to kaitlan collins on the north lawn of the white house. if you look at what the president has re-tweeted, relaxing the guidelines, it looks like something he would be considering to happen next week. but every medical expert that i've spoken with today said that is a terrible idea. what is the thinking at the white house behind this? >> reporter: health experts do not seem to think that 15-day period that the president announced a week ago today is going to be sufficient. they think the measures could get more extreme in a week but that is changed at the white house and now the president is considering easing the guidelines after the 15-day period is up. and what you have going on here at the task force that the president is listening to is you've got the economic -- the economic aides telling the president how devastating this is for the economy and warning

changes need to be made and health officials saying if you do start sending people back to work and opening restaurants and what not, that is devastating not only for our efforts to contain the spread of the virus from going any further than it already has because of that slowdown in testing but worried about the effect on hospitals. if there are so many people getting this and then the hospitals continue to be devastated, they're warning some pretty -- making dire predictions about what that could look like. so the question here is really which side is the president going to be leaning toward. and there is a lot of time between now and next week for people to change the president's mind. you see people like lindsey graham saying it won't matter, there won't be any virus if this continues out of control but then other people like larry kudlow saying it is a difficult tradeoffs are going to have to happen because the economy has to be spared at some point, brianna. >> what is that tradeoff? what is the bargain that folks are willing to make.

it differs depending on who you talk to. kaitlan collins at the white house, thank you. as restaurants across the country are struggling with closures, layoffs, dwindling customers, the owner of one new jersey restaurant decided to take out a $50,000 loan to pay employees for the next months. i want to bring in the owner from belmar new jersey. brian, this is amazing to hear you doing this when we hear so many people without work. tell us why you decided to go this route. >> yeah, i'm very -- i really needed to take care of my staff. i know a lot of other restaurants are doing a lot of layoffs. i saw it in our own community and i really want to take care of my staff so i made it a point, both my brother and i, that we were going to take the hit.

i would go across the street and take money out of our credit line and donate that money to telling employees that no matter what happens, if we're completely shut down, don't worry about the money, your salaries, you're going to get paid for at least two months. >> so restaurants in new jersey, of course, are not allowed to serve food, dine-in, you can order takeout and delivery. is that something that you're doing. is there enough demand for that and how much of your staff is able to work doing that? >> well, obviously the delivery drivers are still involved. the kitchen help and our pizza makers are still working for us currently. unfortunately our waitresses are -- the people that are really taking the hit, because we can't have dine-in service, but we're definitely going to make sure that they get some form of payment just to cover their living expenses over the next couple of weeks, couple of months. just to make sure that we

protect our families who i consider them to be an extension of my own family because some of these employees have been working for us for 12, 15, even 19 years. so i really owe a great debt to these individuals. >> they are family when you've been -- you know them. you've been around them. you probably spend more time than some of your family members. i know that people heard about your promise to your employees. they've been donating money. and that is led you to donate pizzas to hospitals. tell us about that. >> so, people starting yesterday started calling up the restaurant saying how can i help. how can i help? well, i said you know what people just ordered ten pizzas through medical, if you want, you can -- whatever you want to donate, we're offering discounted pies. we'll just add some more pies on to the order. so it is a ten-pie order and

someone added ten more pies and then five more pies and another ten pies and all of a sudden we delivered a total of 40 pies to medical for 12:00 today and then we're going to jersey shore later on tonight with 15 pies and then we're going back to jersey shore tomorrow with another 30 pies. it is just -- the outpouring of support from people in our local community and from even people from as far away as colorado, california, kentucky. i mean, it's a very humbling experience to know that people do want to help. but i do say one thing, i see all of the support for us and i do really appreciate it, but i want people to know, you don't have so just support us. support your local restaurants, your local pizzeria and your local hardware stores. we're all going through this together and we need to stay together and we need to

self-promote -- i mean, we need to promote shopping local. >> that's right. brian, such goods to end this hour on. brian warren, thank you so much. and special coverage continues now with jake tapper. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. welcome to "the lead," i'm jake tapper. today the world health organization issued a stark warning. the coronavirus pandemic is not only continuing to spread, it is accelerating. and every day in the united states the numbers get even more staggering. right now we know of more than 41,000 confirmed cases in the united states. that is up more than 10 times from the 4,000 cases just one week ago today. look at that trajectory. the death toll in the united states also exploding at this hour we have passed a grim milestone. we're now up to 501 deaths, passing 500 in the last