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but, easy times don't forge characters. it is a tough time that forge characters. that's what we are looking at right now. people say to me, people are getting tired of this situation. they have been home, it is going on a couple of weeks, they're getting tired. but, the truth is this is not a sprint. this is a marathon. we always said this is not going to be over quickly. i understand people are tired. i understand that people in this situation are really stepping up to the plate and doing phenomenal work. the next time you feel tired, believe me i feel tired. when i feel tired, i think of first responders who are out there everyday showing up.
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i think of the police officers and firefighters who are out there every there, grocery store workers who are working double shifts just to keep food on the shelves because people are buying so much food because they are nervous. pharmacies who have lines going out the door and they're showing up everyday, day after day and transportation workers. we don't have the luxury of feeling tired because they have to get up and drive the bus so nurses and healthcare professionals can get to work. those healthcare professionals, we are dealing with the virus they did not even understand. they still don't understand. they are working and many of them working seven days a week. yes, we are tired. but, look at what others among us have to do and the challenge they are under and how they are stepping up.
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who am i to complain about being tired when so many people are doing such heroic efforts. i think this is going to be transfo transformative for society. you think about our children. i have my daughter with me. this is the first time they face a real national adversity. yeah, we have a whole new generation who never lived through anything like this. they never went to war. they were never drafted. they never went through a national crisis. this is going to shape them. i can tell you just from having my daughter with me, yeah, they are hurt and scared but they are also learning through this and at the end of the day, they'll be better people for it and better citizens for it.
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i believe that. because they're rising to the occasion. as we go through this, let's make sure we are teaching them the right lessons and the right response and those lessons and that response are the lessons we get from our veteran angels. during this difficult time, let's listen to the voices of our prayer angels as individuals, as families and as a community and as a community. -- a society. we are going to get through this. the question is how and when but let's make sure at the end of the day we can say we are the better for it and our children are better for it. i believe they will. questions?
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[ inaudible question ] >> we have stocked our ventilators. they are all across the state. any hospitals need ventilators, we get them ventilators from the nearest stock. >> we are talking to the federal government about more ventilators. we are talking to the federal government with more over flow beds and we are shopping ventilators ourselves and splitting ventilators and converting the normal ventilators. we are all over the ventilators. what's happening? the number of ventilators we need is so astronomical. it is not like they have them sitting in the warehouse of the federal gun shovernment.
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there is no stockpile available. the federal government is doing what we are doing is you have to find ventilators or convert them and get additional companies to manufacture ventilators. there is not a stockpile that's large enough the meet the national. >> how do you write those two? >> when you talk to the projection models, what they'll say is you will get a fluctuation. they don't know if it is a deviation in what the hospitals happen to report -- this is self-reported data from the hospital. let's say the fluctuation from time to time. don't look at one day or don't look at any period of less than three or four days, the
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sequence. we continue to watch. >> excuse me, one second karen. some nurses are in trash bags and improvising that. >> we have called the individual hospitals, there is no doubt that in the past few days you know the distribution is a little start/stop but we have enough ppe and new york officials say they have enough ppe. is that right? >> yes, he assured me that they have all the ppe they need to be checked in. they got all the ppe they need in new york city. as these individual stories are
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popping up, they are reacting them in realtime, they assure us they have what they need at the moment and we reassure them what they don't then we'll get it for them immediately. >> we have enough ppe in stock for the immediate need. what advise would you give to the school district for local government how to cope with that? >> look, we are all coping with the same thing first of all, right? the federal government has a revenue loss, state revenue loss has a revenue loss and city government, no one can say, karen, well, i don't accept this reality of a revenue loss. it is a reality for everyone and everyone has to adjust to it.
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i am sure there will be some people i should not have to adjust to it. i should be held harmless to reality. no one is held harmless from reality. go tell any family out there that reality does not count. so everyone is going to have to deal with reality, i can't protect them from reality. the way the -- we have never done this before does not mean we can't just that we never have. we are thinking about it as something like that adjustments that are almost mathematical reflections of what the revenues are. in other words, you know what the revenue projection is and you know how much money you have made for that, right? whatever that deviation is would be automatically.
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it would be done by the division of the budget. i don't believe the legislature is going to come up here every quarter to go through numbers at this rate with the spread of the virus. i don't know if that would be responsible to ask for a convening of the legislature periodically. that's a general concept that we are talking about. this is all a reaction of what the federal government did yesterday. i was shocked they were so irresponsible in addressing the states and the city's needs. i would never believe they would pass a piece of legislation that did not address it. they did not address the revenue. they provided money for covid, the amount of money we are spending on the virus but they did nothing on the revenues. they know we have to fund
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education. they're all saying in their speeches, education, education, it is our children's future and they do absolutely nothing in the legislation. i want to keep it in check as i said emotions is a luxury to be angry. to be angry is a luxury. we don't have the luxury right now and just deal with the feedback. have i said anything wrong or is that what the plan is? sometimes he has plans he does not tell me about, karen. >> the governor says 10 to $15 million is how much we projected to be low. we project it out per quarter and monthly. we'll adjust spending according to how the revenue comes in. that'll be reflected and everyone will see that, controller will see that. the goal is to transparent up
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front so school district can see this is what would happen if we don't reach the revenue forecast. they would not know what would happen. >> we have hospitals close to running out ppe supplies, is there plans to direct more of that? >> anyone can give you a report they're close to running out of ppe. that's the status across the country. when i said we have enough of the immediate future. we don't have enough of the long-term supplies. the numbers are that fast. but, any hospital and any where whatever we have we'll distribute. we distributed on an as-needed bas basis. to say it i need it in a week
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and a half, frankly we are dealing with hospitals that need it tomorrow or the day after. that's the time frame we are dealing with. we are buying from china and people calling and volunteering private plains to go to china and pick up materials. >> it has been extraordinary. >> anything we have we'll contribute. >> [ inaudible question ] >> the task force -- here is the fact, i said i want to do everything because i want to do a budget and i want to do the policy initiatives that we need to do because my expectation at this point is there is going to be a budget and nothing else. normally we pass a budget and we
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come back for weeks and discuss policy matters. i don't know at this rate that there is going to be weeks of legislative discussions afterwards. so i am trying to get as much done as we can in the budget. the kcaveat is there are some issues we have to talk through and think through and the language is important and the details are important, otherwise, you pass a bill -- it is not about passing the bill. the legislature focuses on passing the bill. i focus on passing the bill that's the smartest and the best that you can pass and not going to have to come back and redo the next year because you did not think it through. i don't believe we'll get the gig economy done in time for the budget. if they do come back and stay for weeks and we talk it
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through, fine. but if you are asking me if we are going to be ready by next tuesday? i don't think so. >> they're saying that we should be testing as much as possible. how do we square the two if we are seeing con flilflicting mes? >> if the city does not have the capacity, it is a capacity issue, right? if you test, how do you flatten the curve? density control, keep people away from each other and tests. how does china and south korea do it or anybody do it? density control and testing. if you don't have the capacity
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to test and you only test people coming to your hospitals then you don't have the ability to do it. if you have the ability to do it then do it, it is a way to flatten the curve. if you don't have the capacity or ability then you don't do it. >> how close are we sending patients upstate? >> we have more overflow capacity within that hospital's system, you would distribute patients, right? so within new york city, one hospital is 125% i would say, distribute within that hospital system because not all the hospitals are at capacity. second, you have overflow facility that we are
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constructing. i am going back to javits tomorrow and the other one we are discussing. you only do the regional distribution once you get pass everything you can do within that area. i am not eager to redistribute people from bouncing state to state, there are just practical consequences, the family would have to travel further to visit them and etcetera, that's the last option. >> there seems to be a migration of new york city to upstate counties. could you consider a travel ban to mandate a 14-day quarantine? >> the counties can come with whatever suggestions they want. i am not going to mandate any travel ban on my agenda.
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[ inaudible question ] >> i am not a doctor. i have a sister who's a doctor. i refer back to dr. zucker's comment yesterday. he has strong opinion on that issue and i refer back to them. >> well, dr. zucker's position is it is not necessary and i would agree with dr. zucker. >> how many days until we run out of ventilators? >> how many days on the most conservative estimate until we run out of ventilators? the maximum projection of an apex number for ventilators was about 40,000, right?
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we have maybe about 12,000 in that range of ventilators. that's before you talk about splitting and that number changes. we don't have an estimate for when we get there. hopefully we never do. >> any hospitals that need more testing kits. hospitals tend to have supplies for a long period of time which i understand so they want to have one month supply or three-week supply. we don't have that ability. if we can provide a few days supply that's what we are looking at which makes them unfortunau uncomfortable. i understand. any hospitals that need supplies immediately, the department of
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health can provide them and anyone who needs a test and if the hospital does not have the supply, we have multiple testing units to test a person. they have to contact the department themselves. >> you were asked yesterday, there is no plan in place for ventilator protocol where certain patients would be prioritized over others. on the issue of construction workers, -- we heard complaints of not sanitary conditions. >> i understand the point and we are looking at that. some construction is essential. but, it is something we are looking at. i understand the point and it sounds right to me. >> it is probably a lot more considering people can't fly,
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what's your message for the people who lost their jobs over the last several days? >> no one has lost their jobs i would say to provoke them. we have all lost our jobs. it is different. when you lose a job tends to suggest maybe you did something wrong or maybe it was your performance, statement of evaluation of you. this is nothing having to do with you. it is the circumstance that we are in. we must correct it. there is a strength in the fact that all of us, when it is just you then you are on your own. when it is all of us that suggests we have to do something about it because the collective demands it. that's where we are.
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i am sure it is a terrible feeling and a frightening feeling for everyone, nick. nobody has been here before. i am out of work, my business is closed. i don't have a paycheck, i can't leave the house. the house has the family in it or i am all alone. no one has been here before. that's why look, this is going to change us. i really believe that. it is going to help form a new generation. i can see in my daughter's eyes when i talk to them about this. i can see the fear. i can see their fears and their eyes opening wide. they're taking it all in. what does it mean? this is going to form a new generation and it will transform who we are and how we think. but you are not alone. you are not alone. nobody is alone. we are all in the same
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situation. >> what's the longer plan for school districts? >> the exams and math and science exams were suspended and cancelled for this year. we are looking at that right now. >> one more. >> we are evaluating, the governor is evaluating that right now and getting the decision whether to extend the closure. remember the 180-day waiver ends
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effectively april 1st. whether to extend it or not, we'll consider the government. >> let's take one more, anyone who has not asked a question? >> do you have a plan for that now or is it still something you are working at. >> something the nation is working at, something that we are working through. i think the smartest way forward is a modified public health strategy that dubbed tails and complement the get back to work strategy. what we did was we closed everything down. that was our public health strategy. close everything. all businesses, all workers,
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young people, short people and tall people, every school, closed out on everything. if you rethought that or had time to analyze that public health strategy, i don't know that you would say quarantine everyone. young people then quarantine with older people was not the best public health strategy. the young people can expose the older people to an infection. how do you modify the public health strategy to make it smarter from a public health point of view but also starts to get you back to work. younger people can get back to work. people who resolved can go back to work. once we get this tested tested -- that's the thing do do it. it is not we are going to do
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economic health. we have to do both. we are working on it. that's the same thing the federal government is working through. i am going to go to work, guys. thank you very much. >> you have been listening to the governor of new york, andrew cuomo. the governor ending there on the economic impact of the coronavirus. early on in the event if you were watching the bed headline. the number of deaths in new york jumped 100 from yesterday to today. 285 yesterday, the governor says the total today is 385 and with that addition, the death toll in the united states because of the coronavirus passed to the 1,000 mark. he also says there is no way which ever projection you look at, it is in etabevitable.
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the hospitals will be overwhelmed and the question is by how much. the governor announced they are buildi building 1,000 beds in the hospitals. let's discuss what we heard and the importance of what we heard. our dr. gupta. when you hear the governor of new york saying his apeck is 14 days or more out there. what does it tell you of the path of this virus just in new york and when you step back and think about the country. >> it tells me two things. new york is considered one of the hot spots and not only do the numbers continue to go up but the pace which the numbers are going up is also increasing. i hope it makes sense to people. we are following the numbers in a day-to-day. what i think a lot of public health officials are trying to figure out is the trend of this.
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they're going to bounce around, the pace sort of slowed down a little bit and comes backup. the point being, john, we don't know where we are on this curve right now. as dr. fauci says yesterday the virus is the only thing that can dictate the timeline. new york is doing 25% of the total testings for the whole country is happening in new york. what that means is there is a lot of other places around the country that because they have not done adequate testing, they're earlier in the curve but we just can't take our eyes off these other cities. we talked about louisiana hardly having any cases and now well over 1,000 and michigan had 15 case and now well over a thousand and florida and georgia increasing by 20% now everyday. i get the focus on new york. that's by no means of the only
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place in the country we need to think about. >> that's a critical point. as we focus on new york, we need to do what you just did. new york is first in this wave if you will. we need to see what lessons we are learning and mistakes are being made and what are the numbers. i want you to listen to your governor, you are in new york, the governor went from 50% to 75% to 100% shutting down businesses, he lectured young people and gotten on the case of mayor cities, get people out of the parks, everyone is going to make mistakes. listen to him talking about what's inevitable for the state's hospitals system. >> almost any scenario that is realistic will overwhelm the capacity of the current healthcare system. so little reality, keep the curve down as low as you can. you can't get the curve down low
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enough so that you don't overwhelm the hospital capacity. >> dr. jared, the governor says that's coming. he was reasonably optimistic in the short term of what we talked about in the recent days which is masks and gowns. his assessment connects with what you are experiencing? >> we are certainly in new york seeing a rapid rise in number of cases and patients that are hospitalized and many who whined up in the icu. we are at that rising point. we are hoping things we put into social distancing and isolation would be effective and decrease the curve. whether we'll out strip our search capacity is not clear, we probably will, i know the other health systems is working very
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hard to plan for this and build extra surge capacity and using our capacity to repurpose that. i think everybody else is doing the same and hopefully we'll be able to respond in appropriate ways. it is certainly concerning as the governor put it today. >> on the ppe issue, is he right? is everybody good for now? they can get supplies this week and next week, is everybody okay today and tomorrow? >> i think since they brought ppe from the stockpile, i think everybody in new york city is okay but again as he stated, it is very concerning to us to have only a week or a week and a half supply. we don't know the surge the next five days. we are all watching and this
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concept of just in time really does not work well. >> i get that very well. another point the governor made, no question new york will exceed the capacity. he pointed to intensive care numbers, several days have been asking for help from the federal government to get more ventilators into new york. listen to the example in new york here, help me understand if this projects out across the country, the giant, both health challenge and logistical challenge, the ventilators they needed longer because of the nastiness of the virus. >> covid patients are on ventilators for 11 to 21 days. think about that. the more probability of a bad outcome. we now have people who have been
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on ave ventilator for 20 days o 30 days. >> if you need more ventilators and you need them for more time and new york is the first way, this country has a very, very major production problem. >> these details are so important, john. do i have enough ventilators or do i not have enough ventilators. there are all different parts of the equation right as the governor is saying. we saw it in china. they require it for a prolong period of time which means they need to be in an intensive care unit setting. they have to have oxygen and ave a ventilator can't be turned off. you need a therapist who manages patients and taking care of those patients and protective equipment as we have been talking about. all these different things.
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could you run into a scenario where after patients are clearly through the period where they need this mechanical ventilation and the curve of the downward slope, could it be deplin other locations. governor cuomo talking about splitting ventilators. these are the types of things that are now being discussed because we have to discuss them. just on the numbers, john, there are about 15,000 or so ventilators i guess now as the governor was saying, projections are they need 30 or 40,000 but they get in with all the details, the people and right location and all of that, john. >> dr. jarrett. the governor pushed back on no conversations right now in new york state so-called ventilators
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protocol. doctors like yourself have to make a tough call. is that conversation inevitable or can it be headed off. >> well, i think there are two issues. hopefully we never have to reach the point where we have to make those decisions. on the other hand we have to talk to people who have you know advance care of what they want. we have to honor that and look at it and make sure we document it and having a conversation at the hospital level to prepare just in case is just a preparatory thing. it does not mean it is going to happen. we did the similar thing during the sars epidemic and never n d needed it. thinking of these things calmer so you are not making decisions on the fly. >> thank you so much dr. jarrett.
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doctors, appreciate it both. another message from another governor. this time is the governor of michigan. listen to what she said of the dramatic rises in her state. >> this is a novel virus. it is incredibly contagious, there is no cure and there is nov no vaccine. we have too few tests and masks and gloves and swabs and gowns for our medical providers. the only tool we have to fight this is support our healthcare system is stay home. when we do, we save lives. toms y over 200 indoor and outdoor allergens. like those from buddy. because nothing should come between two best friends.
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someone huge indicator of the coronavirus impact of the american economy. 3.28 million people applied for first time unemployment benefits last week. that's by far the highest number in the u.s. history. cnn's business anchor is julianne chatterley is joining us now. >> the population of chicago is 2.7 million people. where he talking about more people than the entire population of chicago in one week claiming for unemployment insurance. it is devastating and southern, too. why the stimulus from the senate is so important here? the hope is getting those up
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will stop the rise in people being fired and adding to these claims on a weekly basis. the critical thing here is the expansion and the rise on unemployment benefits here and insurance number. that's going to capture the economy. the estimate this could be a third of workers in the country are the drivers and freelancers and contractors to be able to claim unemployment benefits. just getting a sense of the downward pressure of the stimulus of the upward pressure of those benefits make this really imperfect signs. you should expect we are continuing to see pretty shocking devastating numbers like this for the next week at least. >> that's the sad part but we continue to expect and as we see the domino effect. julia, appreciate it very much.
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one industry that's hitting it hard during this crisis is the automobile supply industry. ford, gm and chrysler all closing their plants until the end of this month. that affects 150,000 union members, automakers. gm says still does not have a date when it will reopen those plants. this comes of course as the economy is predicting autosales could drop 15% this year. i want to bring in dustin walls. dustin, take us through here. is that a realistic target at ford? when can you flip the switch and come back to work, do they believe that's a good hard realistic date? >> we don't know yet. at least they are giving ideas of when they can come back and
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whether it is solid yet. we don't know. >> take us through someone who does not understand. the domino effect in the industry especially where you are when it comes to suppliers and all the people who do and whether the dry cleaner and the pizza guys and the gyms around those factories. walk us through the domino effect. >> sure, automotive jobs have the highest multiplier from an economic standpoint. from every auto supply job, in this case, we have seen thousands of lay-offs and among the automotive supply sector. it is four times more than automakers themselves when you add them up. we are talking about a big hit. i heard we seen that in the great recession and things can get gnarly very fast.
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we see them picking up and holding on a little longer than in past recession. >> what makes it so unique is that it was an economic problem. it was a giant economic problem but it was just an economic problem and institutional problem. this you have the public health factor which is why i ask does ford think it is realistic. your governor talking about the strike in michigan. the big concentration there is in the midwest. the uncertainty of that has to be huge complications, not just for companies but all supply chains and workers. >> the uncertainty in the auto state is what's happening over the last two years with trade issues and this predicts and puts more uncertainty and way more pressure on that system. it is going to come down to demand. the supply side will be there if the demand is there. it depends on how quickly we can come out of this and how quickly
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the coronavirus numbers continue to climb across the world. more than 22,000 deaths. as of today about one-third of the world's population are living under coronavirus related restrictions. no country lost more than the country of italy. in spain, health officials say they are starting the see some stabilization in the number of new coronavirus cases. the death toll there are soaring in nursing home. the panic in japan as the governor there as residents avoid all non-essential travels.
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moscow shutting down all cavfes. p iran which has the worst outbreak in the middle east today imposing a country wide travel ban. i want to circle back to the dire situation in spain. the country reeling is the total number of coronavirus infection now soaring to 56,000 with more than 40,000 deaths. scott mclean is reporting the story for us in madrid. scott, the number is depressing. >> reporter: they are not great. the increase of the number of coronavirus deaths in the country was less today than
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yesterday. there is some signs that the crisis is reaching a stabilization, that's where the good news ends. there were more confirmed cases than there were yesterday. keep in mind that the true number is probably much higher than the numbers actually shown which are catching up with italy, i should mention. spain does have a test that could get results in 15 minutes. it is struggling to get enough of those tests. even just today officials confirmed a batch of thousands of those tests been imported from china does not work. so they'll have to be sent back. there are more than 30,000 people at this moment who are inside hospitals or hotels turning into hospitals or convention center being used as the hospital. that's a size of a small city. hospitals they are over crowded or under resort that three union healthcare workers demand they get more protection and
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protective equipment. some doctors are actually using a full face type of snorkeling mask mask. spanish sporting goods outlet is blocking the sales of those masks just in case they were for use here. >> yscott appreciate that reporting from spain. turning back here to the united states, the record morning here, 3.28 million unemployment filed just last week. cnn speaks to some of the workers impacted by the closures and lay offs in new york. >> reporter: millions ordered to stay home and a growing number across the country out of work. now more and more businesses have been forced to close.
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>> pressure is one word and impossible is another. >> reporter: conner zach was laid off his production job, his savings will last until next month or so. he's worried closures won't help people like him because he's a renter. >> if you have any sympathy for people like me, please, god, you know at least 90-day rent, just let us back on our feet. >> reporter: the uber driver is still working but with no passenge passengers, he's not sure he'll make his car payment. >> it is a big problem right now. i have no money in my hands right now. >> reporter: some businesses hiring have trickled in. pizza hut aimed to hire more employees given more demand of delivery.
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instacart is hiring more. the national outlook is staggering and for many people they are counting on federal help. >> everyone need ths that money quickly as possible. you want it to be well and to reserve. close businesses like the iconic new york city restaurants, cafeterias have a go fund me page for employees. >> it has been two weeks of sheer financial devastation. >> reporter: stacey pisone says she had to lay off the entire staff from both restaurants. >> how much longer can you sustain this? >> well, you know, that's the question, that's the million dollars question and we can't sustain it. jason carol, cnn new york.
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