hello everyone. thank you so much for joining us this palm sunday. we begin with the grim new outlook on the coronavirus outbreak and a dire warning from the white house. this morning the u.s. surgeon general compared this coming week to some of america's greatest tragedies and told americans to be prepared as the death toll continues to rise. >> this is going to be the

hardest and the saddest week of most american's lives, frankly. this is going to be our pearl harbor moment. our 9/11 moment. only it's not going to be localized. it will be happening across the country. and i want america to understand that. >> the prediction comes as the number of confirmed cases in the u.s. rises to over 321,000. more than 9100 people have died so far with over 1300 reported deaths reported on saturday along. louisiana's governor said his state could run out of ventilators by the end of the week. in new orleans, the coroner's office and mortuaries have reached their limits. and new york continues to be one of the hardest hit. nearly half of all deaths in the country have happened in new york. this morning governor andrew cuomo said hospitalizations are down but the challenge to save lives is getting harder. >> we're running short on

supplies all across the board. hospitals are accustomed to dealing with 60-day supply, 90-day supply. we're talking about two or three or four days supplies, which makes the entire hospital system uncomfortable, which i also understand because we're literally going day-to-day with our supplies, with our staff, et. cetera. >> all right. we'll go to new york now. for more cnn jason carroll is there. the governor said the state could be near the apex of the virus but stressed it won't be clear until a few days from now. what does the state know now? >> reporter: well, you heard it there. obviously the governor made it very clear over the past few days there is a need for supplies. a need for ventilators. first of all, i want to start with something. he talked about that fsaid the state has more than 122,000

confirmed covid cases. 4159 deaths. the numbers continue to be staggering. he also talked about -- according to all the research, the apex should be within the next few days or so. that's why he said now more than ever it is essential to get it in those supplies to bring in those ventilators. he said he knows for every ventilator is in the state. there are not enough, he said, and now is the time to bring them here. >> 140,000 beds was the worst case. but 110,000 was more of a moderate case. look, i hope we're somewhere near the apex. right. or somewhere near the plateau. so i would hope that we don't

need anywhere near that number of beds. that's the good news. the bad news is the number of beds doesn't really matter anymore. we have the beds. it's the ventilators. then it's the staff. that's the problem. >> in terms of the beds, a lot of talk about the javitz convention center that is set up here. as you know, it will be able to handle some 2500 covid patients when it's up and running. the priority to get it up and running as soon as possible. once again, the real key here is about the ventilators and the need to bring them down. the governor said he's following the logic. and bring the ventilators where you have the need. once the need is finished, you move the ventilators on to where the need arises next. >> all right. that is the plan thus far. jason, thank you so much. as new york continues to struggling with a dwindling

number of medical supplies and health workers -- so they are also facing this growing crisis. new york mayor bill de blasio is calling for a national enlistment effort for medical personnel across the country to bring more health care professionals to new york. today defense secretary mark esper told cnn that help is on the way. they said the pentagon is sending an additional 1100 military personnel to help cope with the outbreak. >> with regard to the mayor's statement. i've had several conversations with the mayor. we've been working closely. as you know, we have over a thousand doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals deployed now around the united states and certain cities. many of them are in new york city. the mayor and i talked as recently as thursday. i spoke to the governor on friday. what we plan on doing now is deploying over 1200 other medical professionals to new york. the bulk of them will go to the javitz center.

as of late yesterday, we agreed to deploy a few hundred of them to 11 new york city hospitals that are also seeing a deficiency when it comes to medical staff. we will soon be taking over the javitz center a 2500 bed capacity to show you how in we are. the united states military will be running the largest hospital in the united states. that shows our commitment. >> cnn pentagon reporter ryan brown joining me now. who are among the doctors, nurses, medical workers that the pentagon is sending to new york? >> that's right. the pentagon is sending some 1,000 military personnel. it's navy and air force personnel, reservists in active duty, there are doctors, nurses, and other specialists involved in this. as the secretary said, they'll be deployed about 300 sent to the javitz center which is the largest contingent. the remainder will be dispersed

across 11 hospitals in new york city. this is all a bit of a shift from the military. initially the military offered medical support primarily to treat noncoronavirus patients. they were looking to help alleviate the burden of some of those local hospitals. you saw it. it was going to take patients not suffering from the coronavirus pandemic to help alleviate that. that is now changed. the military taking a direct role in combatting the coronavirus. sending medical personnel into some of the hospitals where they're seeing some of the largest numbers of coronavirus patients. >> all right. we'll check back with you. thank you so much. joining me now is deputy in chief quality and safety at sloane deakettering in new york. how helpful might it be for the medical military personnel to assist in new york, whether it be at the javitz center or as

the secretary said about a thousand personnel will assist in new york hospitals, as well. >> yeah. it's a help, no question about it. the biggest problem right now is, i think, exhaustion of the nurses and the respiratory therapists, of the doctors. of the people who clean the rooms. there's physical exhaustion and emotional exhaustion. it will help. it's bringing people who haven't been in the midst of it. bringing them in is is a challenge but this is a good news, for sure. >> when you hear the surgeon general say this coming week is going to be like 9/11, pearl harbor -- that this week could be severe and you heard the president say there will be -- i'm quoting him -- a lot of deaths. how does that poise medical teams for this coming week?

>> i think the people who have been working front lines on this know this to be true two weeks ago. the acknowledgment is very important nashly. it's not just a new york problem. my one concern is that i don't want this tragedy to become a statistic. we don't want to be playing the numbers game. it's only 3,000 today is only 4,000 tomorrow. these are individual tragedies. i think we have to remind ourselves to not play the numbers game so much. this is terrible everywhere. >> it is. what are your greatest concerns and fears now? >> i think the stories of the urban parts of america, detroit,

new orleans, new york, that story is familiar. i continue to worry about less populated areas. i've written about a county in arkansas with a big outbreak. the indian reservation in arizona. there's outbreaks elsewhere that no one is speaking of. that lack of high-tech solutions and treatments for this. i think the next scary part of this is going to be as it ramifies across smaller towns. it's never going to have personnel or equipment. >> is there a national plan that you see could allay those fears or assist in those areas you just mentioned? >> i wish i could say yes. i think we're all aware that this is hard to do in real time

under the best circumstances. >> okay. this is an emergency. it's hard to be organized and adjusted. i wish i could say that and have confidence that we have a national plan that is clearly being executed. >> all right. thank you so much. i appreciate it. >> thank you. all right, next a grim warning from the white house. more on that. president trump said there will be, i'm quoting him, a lot of deaths in the coming weeks. as the president pushes americans to try a new drug meant for malaria and lupus. does the science back up all of that? we're live next. at t-mobile, we know that connection is more important than ever. so we're making big moves to help those who need it most. introducing t-mobile connect. a prepaid plan to help keep america connected. starting at just $15 a month, it gives flexibility for uncertain times.

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president trump is predicting a tough week ahead in the fight against coronavirus. he told reporters saturday that during the next two weeks, quoting now, there will be a lot of deaths. cnn sara westwood is at the white house. so, sara, what exactly is the president bracing people for? >> reporter: well, president trump and other top administration officials are setting expectations for what could be a very difficult couple of weeks ahead for the coronavirus outbreak. for example, you heard the surgeon general this morning on the sunday shows saying the next couple of weeks could be a pearl harbor moment. a 9/11 moment in terms of the devastation and the nation's top infectious disease expert also said on the sunday shows this morning that the u.s. is struggling still to contain the coronavirus despite the mitigation efforts that we have seen from the administration so far. the president's somber tone yesterday was a shift from where we saw him about a week or so

ago when the president was saying that he saw, perhaps, a light at the end of the tunnel. he didn't want the cure to be worse than the disease. he was talking about the economic fallout and the president throughout the week have been citing models that predicted potentially hundreds of thousand of deaths even with mitigation efforts. and now the administration is really turning to its efforts in the hot spots like new york city, like louisiana confronting what could be shortages of key supplies. ventilators, for example, are becoming a serious problem in new york city. we've heard white house officials talk about taking supplies from other parts of the country that haven't yet hit by coronavirus and moving them into the hot spots. >> and, you know, the consequence of coronavirus and how house speaker nancy pelosi and chuck schumer sent a letter to steve mnuchin today about the airline industry. elaborate on what other items they said. >> that's right, fred. pelosi and schumer are concerned

about the part of the phase 3 stimulus bill that congress recently passed. that has to deal with the airline bailout. they wrote in the letter to the treasury sec their it is not in the interest of anyone, especially not the u.s. economy, and especially not those workers of the industry for the airline companies to declare bankruptcy. what they're worried about is the administration could impose too many restrictions on taking that bailout money, which is meant to keep people on the payroll to have people still getting their paychecks who work for these airline companies while so many of these planes are parked. they don't want the restrictions to be so severe that the airline companies try to go on their own and dissuaded from taking the bailout money. they were encouraging mnuchin not to drag out the negotiations and not to be too strict about what the companies can and cannot do as they take the billions of dollars in what is essentially bailout money. >> all right. sara westwood, thank you so much. we'll bring in a physician and assistant professor at george washington university hospital, dr. james philips.

doctor, good to see you. >> hi. >> what is your outlook and frame of mind today? >> it changes day-to-day. right. so as a physician who works in washington, d.c., we know we're on the upslope of the pandemic and there's some suggestion that this week and next week will be difficult here. so there's a solid mix of worry as a physician. as a parent. as a husband. and then the frustration of staying home but knowing it's maybe the most important thing i can do. >> uh-huh. we've seen a number, you know, of, umm, death spikes in recent days. the president is warning much more in the coming week with more than 1300 on saturday alone. and the president, you know, had some dire, you know, words. sobering words saying there will be a lot of deaths. so how do you brace yourself for

that kind of warning? >> we compartmentalize. that's what we do. particularly those in the fields where we see patients die. we compartmentalize and tuck it away. we look at it as a number in order to keep it clinical. so it doesn't affect you too deeply in that moment. it's not the best psychological choice but it is the way we function. so when we look at those numbers, we try not to think of the tragedy right now. that's when we're at home. whenever we go into work, every individual patient at a time and managing an apartment, managing an icu, that's a more glan already area. dr. anthony fauci said this today about getting this disease under control.

listen. >> i will not say we have it under control. that would be a false at the same time. we are struggling to get it under control. that's the issue at hand now. the thing that is important is that what you see is increases in new cases which then start to flatten out, but the end result of that, you don't see for days or weeks down the pike. as the cases go down, then you get less hospitalizations, less intensive care, and less death. so even though you're getting an improvement in that the number of new cases are starten to flatten, the deaths will lag by one or two weeks or more. >> i mean, those are very enlightening words. you want doctor fauci, i think, we want dr. few chi to say there's a better read or handle on the virus now. you know, at least over the last three weeks.

he's not able to say that. is there, i guess, an explanation you might have as to why. what is missing? what information is missing for the medical or research community to say we know where this thing is going. we know, you know, how it will, you know, lose its strength and dissipate. >> right. well, we can look at two things. we look at historical outbreaks. you look at things like the major flu pandemics that happened over the last century. there was one in the '50s and '60s. we look at sars and mers and things like that. and, also, the modelling you hear so much about. particularly dr. burkes talks about the modelling. we can rely on the numbers to a degree to help us understand where things are going. what is difficult with the models they tend to look at the country as a whole. our country is enormous. and there are so many different areas with different population

densities and death health of people. so it's difficult to look at those mood ls and know how it's going to affect my locally. all disasters are local. right. so what is going to happen in d.c. is not going to be happening in new york, we hope, and probably not what is going to happen in still water, oklahoma. so it's difficult to look at the numbers we've got and know how it's going to affect us. but here in washington, d.c., just yesterday there was an open seafood market down on the war of that was packed full of people. so while we think we've got a good handle on things in some parts of the city, we see pictures that tell us people even with our mayors sort of good management and advice to people, there's people that disregard that and participate in the irresponsible behaviors that will continue to change things. so it's really difficult to predict. we can look at those models which look grim over the next two weeks. and we have to try to prepare ourselves for that psychologically. >> what about the discussions

about, you know, say the drug hydroxi and the effectiveness of fighting the disease. yesterday the president said try it. you know, do you think its use should be more wide spread as opposed to just the, you know, test cases there are now? >> i'm a physician. i'm a scientist. my job is to do no harm and to provide the best advice i can provide to my patients. in order to do that, we have to know the information and the safety of these medicines when they're being used for this particular purpose. there are ongoing studies around the world now to look at this. and those doctors and scientists are working hard to get us the right information and the right sort of information about safety. dozing. when do you dose it? we don't know those things. it's completely irresponsible to encourage people to do things that are not medically sound. and i'm afraid, you know, we have seen one person die in

arizona from misinterpreting that information and drinking fish tank cleaner. so people need the right information at the right time. but it has to be fed scientifically. the only person that should be at that microphone giving out medical advice is somebody with a medical license. >> dr. james philips, thank you so much. still ahead, a growing crisis in louisiana. the state could run out of life-saving equipment by the end of the week. the governor of louisiana talks to cnn next. at philadelphia, we know what makes the perfect schmear of cream cheese. the recipe we invented over 145 years ago and me...the world's best, and possibly only, schmelier.

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said the coroner's office and mortuaries have run out of space because of the coronavirus. the grim news coming as the governor of louisiana says the state could run out of life-saving medical equipment in just days. listen to what governor john bel edwards told cnn's jake tapper about the crisis on "state of the union" this morning. >> new orleans could reach 2500 new hospitalizations per day at its peak around the end of april. you said on friday you could theoretically run out of ventilators on tuesday. is louisiana really just 48 hours away from louisianans dying from coronavirus because you don't have enough ventilators? >> well, obviously, we already have louisianans dying. like every other state, we're modelling the growth of coronavirus cases and how many are going to need hospitalization and how many are going to need acute care beds, icu beds, ventilators.

every day we get new information that forms our modelling. we think it's probably around the 9th of april before we exceed our ventilator capacity based on the current number on hand and we're a couple of days behind that on icu beds to possibly being exceeded. as we achieve success and slowing the rate of spread, we also push out that date and critically important is the number of people who will present to the hospital and not be able to get a vent or a bed is a smaller number. we're encouraging everyone in louisiana to take social distancing and the stay-at-home order seriously. that's how we're going to save people's lives at the end of the day. whatever time question buy ourselves, it gives us time to serve our medical capacity which is what we do now. this is is a tough emergency. it's not different here than it is elsewhere. it's a little more acute, i

think, than some places. this is a tough emergency, jake. >> governor, what day do you guys anticipate you'll run out of ventilators and people will not be able to get them, if they need them to live. >>well, the current date based on modelling is the 9th of april. then the bed capacity will be exceeded on about the 11th of april. and as i said, we continue to update our modelling every day based on the new cases in that region in the new orleans jefferson parish region. so we hope we can continue a downward trend on the rate of transmission of new cases. that buys us a little more time. as i mentioned, that brings a fewer number of people will present on any given day and not be given the opportunity to access a bed or a ventilator, should they need one. >> all right. that's thursday. that's still stunning. i want to ask you -- >> oh, this is serious.

>> yeah. >> yeah. president trump said on friday his team spoke with the ceos of the two largest health systems in new orleans and, quote, "they said they feel they currently have enough ventilators." i don't know if the word currently is doing a lot of work there. he seemed to be down playing the idea that ventilators are a problem. you're saying they're definitely a problem? >> oh, yeah. they're a problem. and i believe that the ceos were talking about the current capacity. they have the ventilators they need for the patients that they have now. >> yeah. but the decision was made the same day in washington by the task force to send 200 more ventilators from the strategic national stockpile. they did arrive yesterday, by the way. so i don't have any problem with what the ceos were saying. as we look out into the future, we definitely see we will exceed

our ventilator capacity, at some point. we're trying to push it as far to the future as possible. but even our modelling show we will do that. we're modelling for the entire population in louisiana and specifically the new orleans region. i think those hospital ceos were looking at their particular hospital and what they can do inside the walls of their hospital and not necessarily for the entire population. they were talking about currently. and i think that's the difference. >> the "washington post" reported that on february 9th, that's more than two weeks before mar i did -- mardi gras came to washington, d.c., and had a gala and met privately with dr. fauci and dr. redfield, the cdc director, even though the president was publicly down playing the outbreak, those experts fauci and redfield gave governors the same dire warning they're giving now. i know you were in washington for the gala.

did you meet with fauci and redfield? >> well, they actually spoke to a governors-only meeting. so all the governors who chose to attend that particular meeting were there. we had a briefing from them. we spoke generally about the coronavirus. i would say it is not accurate to say that they gave the same sort of information they're providing right now. i mean, they have learned an awful lot about the virus, about the disease it causes, and the rate of spread, and how to best stop it. we didn't get into anywhere near this level of detail back in february when we were there for the national governor's association meeting. that just didn't happen. >> governor edwards is urging residents to stay home saying the new orleans area is on course to require 2500 new hospitalizations per day by mid may, if people ignore social distancing guidelines.

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all right. soon queen elizabeth ii is expected to address the coronavirus pandemic in a rare televised speech. this as the uk reports more than 5900 new cases in more than 600 new deaths. cnn royal correspondent max foster joining me now from windsor where the queen pre-recorded the address. what is the message in her address? >> reporter: well, it's very rare, as you say. it only happened three or four times before. it's interesting that the government asked the queen to step in at this point. this is her head of nation as one of her less formal roles. she represents continuity and unity and it's clear the prime minister and the government feel it's needed in the uk now. they're also concerned about the

level in society. and we know she'll be thanking those following the official guidance to stay at home to protect the vulnerable. some concern that people are increasingly going outside and creating a risk of spreading this virus by gathering in groups. i was told by our producer today that people are out in london today. very concerning sign. getting together. some of the other specific things, i can tell you, she'll say speaking to at home and what i know is increasingly challenging time. a time of disruption. she'll talk about the financial difficulty many people are in and the enormous changes to the daily life of us all and trying to empathize with people. she's also in isolation, currently here in lockdown at windsor castle. she talks about how in the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to the challenge. she's appealing to the public to unify and do the best by the

nation. >> it sounds like letting them know it's, you know, going to be a lengthy journey, potentially. so now what about any potential update on the queen's eldest son, prince charles, who tested positive for coronavirus. >> so he was in isolation for seven days. he's now out of isolation. indeed, had his own public speech on friday from his home in scotland on video and he looked well, indeed. that was a moment to show you can recover from this. even if you're in your 70s. he's a fit person so he's well. that's an important message going out. i think one of the important messages is visual. they want to see how the queen is. we haven't been told whether or not she's testing. we know when it was filmed, only a camera man was allowed in the room in full ppe. he was a distance, as well. so all medical conditions taken into account, as well when filming this broadcast. it was pre-recorded but will be

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make sure you catch a cnn special report tonight. we take you inside an emergency room where doctors are on the front lines in the battle against coronavirus. miguel marquez is joining me now. miguel, this is a rare inside look and what are you hoping people will learn from it? >> yeah, look. we went to suny down state in brooklyn, near prospect park

there, and, look, the doctors and administrators there want the world to see what they're dealing with and they want, especially people in the rest of the u.s. to know what is coming their way. this is the second emergency room, and the second hospital -- into this week. and in both cases, it is just shocking to see the number of patients that they're already dealing with. we hear these numbers. it's a statistical sort of game and today in new york city it's a beautiful spring day. what they are fighting there is an all-out war against coronavirus. we will have that tonight. a full hour at 9:00 p.m. eastern time on just what those doctors at suny down state are dealing with and are they prepared. they are mentally prepared. this is what they studied for. this is what they work for. now it's on. while they are -- they believe they're ready, there are certainly a lot of questions

before we get there. >> yeah. perhaps you heard my conversation with dr. philips earlier. he talks about how they have to com compartmentalize. how about the protections, if you're able to reveal the kind of protections you all had to take in order to do this kind of, you know, first-hand look. >> so we as journalists had good protection. we the proper tie-back body suits. the jumpers with the head down to the feet, basically, covered. it resists microbes and goggles and we had n-95 masks and gloves and putting it on and taking off are the tricks. you want to stay sterile while you're doing that. at suny down state, they certainly had all the protective gear they need. you know, we talked to the president and he said, look, we have what we need today. i'm not sure what we have what we need for next week.

that's what a lot of these hospitals are dealing with is looking for a week or so down the way. there's 225 beds right now at this hospital. that takes about 2,000 people total to run. so you multiply that out by the amount of ppe you need every day. it is stagger staggering. coronavirus-only hospitals, in the process of transition. it has every feel of a field hospital essentially. parts of it as they try to ramp up and get that hospital ready. they've even opened a hospital that was closed in bay ridge that will start taking patients as well. it is all-hands on deck prepared to do everything they can for what they spreerp tprepare for coming in the next two, three

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dressing regimen. hoods, tubes, gas, gowns just to enter a patient's room. >> greatest-risk for health care workers removing things they infect themselves. >> reporter: they have to adapt to new realities and new shortages. >> packer hoses that hook up to these machines that filter air. >> hook it up to the back of the hood. >> get clean inside and out to be re-used. the way they were built was for one-time use, but that's not the way, if we did that we would already be out. >> wow. >> reporter: they have completely revamped two intensive care units. >> so this whole unit was meant to be for people with brain injuries and strokes and so forth. we have to move all of them someplace else. >> all the people with brain injuries were moved and this turneden into a covid-19 icu unit? >> correct. >> reporter: all to help

coronavirus patients live, isolate them from others and keep the staff safe, too. >> so i am not wearing the full personal protection equipment, because in these rooms where the actual covid-19 patients are, these are considered negative pressure rooms. that means that we are considered in a safe space, not wearing full personal protection. patients are being cared for, but we don't need to wear the full apparatus, unless you're a doctor or a nurse who has to go in to the room to care for the patient. >> reporter: inside the rooms, patients are hooked up to a shocking number of tubes. using those precious vent lat s ventilators, the only thing keeping them breathing. >> they get very sick and stay sick very long. requires a ventilator for weeks at time. that's the big issue. >> reporter: across just for hospitals 60 coronavirus patients hospitalized last week.

already this week it's at least 100. for each one a delegate dance to keep patients and workers alive it is just coming in here and seeing those, the work being done and seeing the patients being cared for, it's stressful. it's -- i'm scared for their families as well, and so as you walk through and you see the hard-working people doing everything they need to take care of patients, it's awe didn didnawe-inspiring considering t are putting themselves in harm's way. >> reporter: outside the hospital, a tent to rest and test coronavirus patients and happening before the anticipated surge here. >> i feel dread and fear and i'm not working on the front line. what are you feeling dealing with all of these covid-19

patients? >> a sense of anxiety for certain. right now we're kind of wondering what it's going to be like when that peak comance and peop comes. >> reporter: while the numbers in washington are slowing down, there's a growing sense they haven't seen the worst of it yet. >> what they do every day is heroic. going and taking care of patients without protection is not acceptable. >> reporter: sara sidner, cnn, seattle. >> amazing inside look. firefighters in florida surprised one of their own who is recovering from the coronavirus. on friday morning a crew with miami-dade fire rescue drove to the hospital in their fire truck. raised the ladder to the hospital's fourth floor window and then held up "get well soon" cards, and a sign that read "your new fire house." while gasping for air he record add video to thank his colleagues. >> and they're all going to come up and say hi.

this is love. this is -- this is the only kind of love you can get from the brother and sisterhood at the firehouse. >> a real family. the firefighter has not been named, but it is great to see how his co-workers came together to brighten his day. all right. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me on this palm sunday. i'm fredricka whitfield. we begin with a dire warning from the white house in the midst of the coronavirus outbreak. this morning the u.s. surgeon general compared this coming week to some of america's greatest tragedies telling americans to be prepared as the death toll continues to rise. >> this is going to be the hardest and saddest week of most americans' lives, quite frankly. this is going to be our pearl habbor moment,