their rent or their mortgage or even put food on the table. this reality makes it clear to me that congress must address this unprecedented crisis in an unprecedented way that protects the health and economic well-being of the working families of our country, not just powerful special interests. as a member of the democratic leadership in the united states senate and as a senator from the state of vermont, this is something that i intend to intensely be involved in over the next number of months, and that will require an enormous amount of work, which takes me to the state of our presidential campaign. i wish i could give you better news, but i think you know the truth, and that is that we are now some 300 delegates behind vice president biden, and the

path toward victory is virtually impossible. so while we are winning the ideological battle, and while we are winning the support of so many young people and working people throughout the country, i have concluded that this battle for the democratic nomination will not be successful. and so, today i am announcing the suspension of my campaign. please know that i do not make this decision lightly. in fact, it has been a very difficult and painful decision. over the past few weeks, jane and i in consultation with top staff and many of our prominent supporters have made an honest assessment of the prospects for victory. if i believed we had a feasible path to the nomination, i would certainly continue the campaign, but it's just not there. i know that there may be some in our movement who disagree with this decision, who would like us to fight on to the last ballot cast at the democratic convention. i understand that position.

but as i see the crisis gripping the nation, exasperated by a president unable or unwilling to provide any leadership in the work that needs to be done to protect people in this most desperate hour, i cannot in good conscience continue to mount a campaign that cannot win and which would interfere with the important work required of all of us in this difficult hour. but let me say this very emphatically. as you all know, we have never been just a campaign. we are a grassroots, multiracial, multigenerational movement which has always believed that real change never comes from the top on down but always from the bottom on up. we have taken on wall street, the insurance companies, the drug companies, the fossil fuel industry, the military industrial complex, the prison

industrial complex, and the greed of the entire corporate elite. that struggle continues. while this campaign is coming to an end, our movement is not. dr. martin luther king jr. reminded us that "the arc of a moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." the fight for justice is what our campaign has been about. the fight for justice is what our movement remains about. today i congratulate joe biden, a very decent man who i will work with to move our progressive ideas forward. on a practical note, let me also say this. i will stay on the ballot in all remaining states and continue to gather delegates, but vice president biden will be the nominee. we must continue working to assemble as many delegates as

possible at the democratic convention, where we will be able to exert significant influence over the party platform and other functions. then together, standing united, we will go forward to defeat donald trump, the most dangerous president in modern american history, and we will fight to elect strong progressives at every level of government, from congress to the school board. as i hope all of you know, this race has never been about me. i ran for the presidency because i believe that as a president, i could accelerate and institutionalize the progressive changes that we are all building together. and if we keep organizing and fighting, i have no doubt but that that is exactly what will happen. while the path may be slower now, we will change this nation. and with like-minded friends around the globe, change the entire world. on a very personal note,

speaking for jane, myself, and our entire family, we will always carry in our hearts the memory of the extraordinary people we have met across this country. we often hear about the beauty of america, and this country is incredibly beautiful. but to me, the beauty i will remember most is in the faces of the people we have met from one corner of this nation to the other, the compassion, love, and decency i have seen in them makes me so hopeful for our future. it also makes me more determined than ever to work to create a nation that reflects those values and lifts up all of our people. please stay in this fight with me. let us go forward together. the struggle continues. thank you all very much. >> senator bernie sanders there. a live stream from his home in

burlington, vermont, announcing he is suspending his 2020 presidential campaign, bowing out of the democratic presidential race, making clear he thinks it is critical to beat president trump. senator sanders, as he says good-bye to his second presidential campaign, 2016 and now 2020, saying he believes that his and his supporters are winning the ideological war within the democratic party and within the country. he said, though, he wants to continue to keep his delegates and amass as many delegates as possible, even as he's now out of the race, for leverage at the democratic convention. ryan nobles is with us, our political director david chalian, chief political correspondent dana bash. dana bash, to you first. what struck me the most there is senator sanders, in saying good-bye, did acknowledge that joe biden had an insurmountable lead, but he didn't say anything nice about joe biden. he did not say spoken to, he did not say he would work with him. he said it was imperative to beat trez president trump, but there was no big embrace for joe biden. he said nicer things during the democratic debates than he did

in saying good-bye. >> it was really noteworthy that that was not part of his message at all. in fact, it's funny you say that. as he was speaking, i was texting to people in and around joe biden asked if he had gotten a phone call, because it was so glaringly absent from bernie sanders' speech. but it was very clear, sort of understanding bernie sanders, covering him for years, as all of us here have, that he wanted to make this about his accomplishments, about the accomplishments of the movement, to use ryan nobles' term, that he, rightly so, is very proud of building. and i think it's also in keeping with the understanding that he has of that movement and that if he did right out of the bat, as he's letting them down, a big, warm embrace of joe biden, it might be counterproductive in the ultimate goal that he has, which is getting donald trump out of the white house, and that means helping joe biden.

so, that seems to be i think probably a big part of why bernie sanders didn't do that big, warm embrace. the other quick thing i want to say, another point, is that now things are different in a lot of ways. yes, this was assumed for a long time, but one of the big things that we might see very soon is barack obama and michelle obama, who have been very loudly on the sidelines saying, we're going to let joe biden do this on their own. it would be counterproductive if we jump in. now they can jump in. and likely will. and that could and should make a big difference for joe biden as he goes forward from now until november. >> that's an excellent point, both from a party unity standpoint, both from an african-american base standpoint, which clinton campaign had some issues with in turnout. we are turning a page. we're turning a big page in the presidential campaign at an odd time, in the middle of the coronavirus fight. ryan nobles, as someone who's covered the sanders campaign, i note the fact that he was not

terribly warm and fuzzy there in talking about joe biden, just clinical in saying the math is the math and joe biden is going to be your nominee, saying i want to keep all of my delegates to have leverage and build more delegates, if he can, to have leverage at the convention. some in the biden campaign might think that's a bit of a brushback pitch. i want to get to point that what he does tomorrow, next day and next week will decide how this chapter continues. he's a very proud man. he's a very stubborn man, and i say that as a compliment, to run in presidential politics, to have the tenacity he's had in two campaigns. seems they've made a calculated choice, we're going to make this about us, about our supporters, about what we will have accomplished. and if we have to do an olive branch and more of a hug, we'll do that later. >> and i think that's strategic, john. i don't think that's just bernie sanders' pride. first of all, he's not a very warm person under any circumstances, even with a presidential campaign. but i do think that this offers his supporters, especially if you're a bernie sanders supporter and you're in a state that hasn't been able to cast a ballot yet, and you're passionately behind his campaign

and you were dreaming of the idea of being able to vote for him. sanders is still giving that group of supporters an opportunity here. and like we talked about before, i think there is a serious effort here by the sanders campaign to make sure their supporters know that they're leaving it all out on the table. and if they go into that convention with "x" amount of delegates, that gives them leverage in the platform committee, gives them a prominent speaking position during the convention, if the convention goes off in any sort of traditional fashion. that is all part of a longer and bigger strategy to make sure that these sanders supporters get behind joe biden. and if at any point there's a sense that he's just kind of handing anything over to joe biden, i think that's where you start to see somewhat of a revolt from the progressive movement. you know, i think the other thing that i wouldn't downplay here as well is that there is a little bit of an anticipation building setup here, right? he hasn't come out with a full-throated endorsement yet and maybe they wait until after the convention when they can do something a little bit more

conventional, where they can be arm in arm, where there can be a big crowd and all of the pomp and circumstance. a lot of this is just theater, right? it's just the strategic effort of maximizing this support from sanders to biden. but what you heard there in that, even though it wasn't a full-throated endorsement, he made it very clear that he is going to support joe biden in his campaign for president, that they are going to all unite together with a very specific goal of beating donald trump in the fall, and this is something that he said from the very beginning, and he is being very consistent in that message. and you know, i think that these die-hard sanders supporters, these social cues are something that are very important to them. they want the ability to be able to cast that vote for sanders. and i think that's what his goal here is by saying that he's going to stay on the ballot, at least until the convention. >> big, breaking political news in the middle of this global pandemic. ryan nobles, dana bash, david, appreciate it. elizabeth warren tweeted "thank you, bernie sanders, for fighting so relentlessly. we'll continue that fight in the

senate." president donald trump also weighing in as he likes to do. "bernie sanders is out. thank you to elizabeth warren. if not for her, bernie would have won almost every state on super tuesday. just like the dnc wanted," suggesting something is crooked. it's called democracy. joe biden won by racking up primaries and delegates. nothing crooked about that. we'll be back with our pandemic coverage. new york governor cuomo just minutesway from his daily update. ♪

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we're standing by to hear from the new york governor andrew cuomo moments from now. we will get our daily coronavirus update from him, the governor of the state hardest hit, that amid some news that is less discouraging. hard to call anything encouraging, but less discouraging news about the coronavirus pandemic. the u.s. now has nearly 400,000 cases. nearly 13,000 americans have died. but the prediction models are shifting. the university of washington model now projects the u.s.

deaths will hit about 60,000 by august. that is down from the 82,000 deaths that were projected in a previous model released just in the last day or two. emily gurley is an infectious disease epidemiologist with the john hopkins school of public health. thank you for being with us. why is it your sense that the projections, i can't find the words, are less discouraging. despite the fact that 60,000 americans may pass, is by no means better news. >> well, there are certain things you have to understand about models. one is that there's a lot of uncertainty in the estimates. so the estimates we're seeing today are still going to change. they're going to be updated based on what we continue to learn about the virus, but also what we continue to do. so, these models are tools for action and we're acting. so, we should see updates to the models based on what we have done.

but there are important assumptions here that are also good to remember. the assumptions of these estimates are that states that have not implemented strict social distancing measures will do so very quickly and that we're all going to maintain these through the beginning of june. so, i don't know anyone who is committed to that yet, but those are the assumptions under this current prediction. >> that's a very important point you make, because the current white house guidelines are in effect through the end of the month. some states are mostly on the same page. some states have gone ahead and canceled school through the rest of the year, but the american people -- we asked this question in our new poll. i wanted to get medical numbers first, but you raised this point. it's very important. would you feel comfortable returning to routine if social distancing ends at the end of the month, on april 30th? 37% of americans said, yes, they would feel comfortable. six in ten americans said, no, they would not feel comfortable. that tells me that a good majority, a healthy majority of americans are paying attention to the experts like you who are warning them, if you give up too

soon, if you let your guard down too soon, this will come surging back. but from the political leadership, you do feel the pressure, the president himself ambitiously saying we need to get the country open as soon as possible. you think that would be a tragic mistake. >> i think that we have to go with what the evidence says. there's a lot of pressure. there's a lot of sacrifices being made right now for these stay-at-home measures. but what we can see from the projections is that they work. and until we have something better in place nationally to track infections and stop the spread, we've got to stick with what works, even though it's a huge sacrifice. >> and so, help the lay people out there. you have a science mind. so, when you look at some of these stats -- i just want to show you the daily increases state to state in cases and deaths. this is monday to tuesday. you look at georgia, the cases up 21%, the deaths up 44%. connecticut up 13% in cases, 35% in deaths. michigan up 10% in cases, 16% in

death. and you go down here. one of my questions -- and you hear this from members of the president's team is that, you know, so you say -- and we're going to hear from governor cuomo in a minute -- new york may have reached its peak and maybe now is in a period of plateau. but we have 50 states and some of them are in a different timetable, if you will. as you watch these things, how worried are you that they're going to be -- you know, we go through the first wave, which is new york, new jersey, louisiana, but there will be another wave and another wave and another wave? >> absolutely. we expect that. and our fates are linked together as a country, but each of these outbreaks is happening on its own timeline. and again, part of that is driven by when states are taking measures to prevent infections. so, we're going to see it play out in different time frames across the country, that's for sure. >> and as we do -- i'm sorry. >> we know the states coming

behind us can learn from other places. sorry. >> my fault. technical issues are a part of our new normal here. to that point, the projected peaks in deaths by states -- i can't believe i'm speaking these sentences, but the projected peaks in deaths by state -- new york this week on friday, michigan on friday, new jersey on sunday, illinois on sunday, then california on april 15th. so, that gets you to the projected peak in deaths. then you start to come down the slope on the other side. but to the point where you would feel comfortable, where are we from a testing paradigm in place, where you would feel comfortable that as we start to come down, that we have enough data to at least start having the conversation about relaxing? >> we're not even close. and so, we need a number of things. one is improved testing, increased testing for everybody who's symptomatic. right now testing is only going to the most severely ill. so we need the capacity to test everyone who is symptomatic. we need the human resources to

follow up with those cases and identify their contacts and quarantine them. those are -- that's basic public health measures that can help keep this under control. but right now we don't have the resources to do that. we also need tests to understand who's been infected already. those have not been rolled out at all in the united states. it would be great to see a national effort about getting together these basic testing and public health measures tool kit so that we can start to think about opening up again. but right now we don't have them. >> right now we don't have them part. when you hear that day after day after day after day, and you don't have a sense of clear progress, it gets pretty frustrating. emily gurley, i appreciate your insights and expertise as we try to wander through this. >> my pleasure. >> thank you very much. >> stay home. up next for us, a majority of americans now say the federal government has done a poor job fighting this pandemic. new cnn poll numbers, just ahead. ta-da!

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joe biden reacting just moments ago to news his democratic rival, bernie sanders, now suspending his presidential bid. sanders, in his live-stream address from vermont, called biden a decent man, said he now wants to work to prove our progressive ideas forward. biden tweeting just moments ago, praising anders and his political revolution, saying "he hasn't just run a campaign, he's created a movement."

make no mistake about it, the vice president says "i believe it is a movement that is as powerful today as it was yesterday. it's a great thing for our future," from joe biden, now the presumptive democratic nominee. today an assessment of what the americans think of the government's fight in the coronavirus, a clear shift that the president's not going to like. let's look at our poll numbers. number one, how is the president doing in preventing the coronavirus spread? nearly six in ten say a poor job. four in ten say the president is doing a good job. what about the president personally? the president's handling of the coronavirus outbreak. you see the purple over here, a majority, 54% disapprove of the president's handling of the coronavirus outbreak. 44% say they approve of the president's performance. let's take a closer look at the president's approval. polarization, even in a pandemic. look at these numbers. 88% of republicans approve of the president's handling of the

coronavirus outbreak. 85% of democrats disapprove. among independents, a majority, just a bare majority, 52% disapprove, 45% approve of the president. but you just see the polarization in our politics carries over into the president's handling of this pandemic. let's look a little bit closer at the views of the president. is he doing everything he can to fight the outbreak? 42% of registered voters say yes. 56% say he could be doing more. again, look at the partisan breakdown. 79% of republicans say president trump is doing everything he can here in this fight. 84% of democrats say he could be doing more. among independents, more of a split, but a majority, 54% say the president could be doing more. so, the poll numbers trending away from the president, if you will, when it comes to the politics of the coronavirus. to listen to the president, though, he says he and his team are on top of this. >> this is a monster we're fighting, but signs are that our strategy is totally working. every american has a role to play in winning this war.

and we're going to be winning it, and we're going to be winning is powerfully. we're down to numbers that are incredible. and as we wage medical war on the virus, we're also speeding economic relief to our people. it's incredible. well, we want to open up. we want to get it open soon. that's why i think maybe we're getting to the very top of the curve. >> joining me with some expertise and analysis, margie omero, a democratic pollster and principal with the firm gbao and neil newhouse. neil, i want to start with you, the republican in the conversation. you see, you know, a majority of americans disapprove of the president here. you have written some memos to republican candidates out there, who you work for, talking about the delegate balance here with what the president is doing and how it could impact republican campaigns. explain. >> it's kind of somewhat dated

now, but the early data as of a month ago or three weeks ago indicated that republican voters were not taking the kinds of precautions that other voters were taking with respect to, you know, protecting themselves from the spread of the virus. and my concern is that the more we downplay the seriousness of the virus, the more that republican voters, you know, may not take it as seriously, and that's dangerous. that's -- i mean, we're putting people's lives at risk. and so, i just -- i wrote that -- i put that piece together yesterday to remind people that our voters, you know, should be concerned about this just like everybody else should be. >> and margie, you're the democrat. i bring you into the conversation. i'm reluctant to have many political conversations at all at this moment. most people watching are anxious about their lives, anxious about their children, anxious about whether they might -- whether they can get state unemployment benefits, if that's where they are. but when you see this playing out and sanders dropping out today reminds us, we are living through this in the middle of a

presidential election year. when you see the numbers about approval of the president or whether people thinking that the federal government could do more, what does that tell you? >> well, it tells me that people are crying out for leadership and answers, and they're not really getting that from the president. you see more people trust in the polling that we've done for navigator research. more people trust their state governor and their state government rather than the president. people don't feel that they can trust the information that they're getting from the president. a majority don't feel the president is being honest about the pandemic. and this is consistent across all of the different polls that you've seen, the cnn poll, the poll we've done, other polls that have come out. the president's numbers overall and beneath the surface are troubling. and it shouldn't be -- i mean, to neil's point, it shouldn't be a partisan viewpoint on how you feel about this health crisis. it's a health crisis that will affect everybody. the coronavirus is agnostic on

people's political party and what state they living in. it's something that will affect us all. so, it's really a tragedy that voters are having to decide for themselves how they feel since they're not really getting consistent advice and guidance from the president. >> and people are -- we see this in our poll, we see this in other ways to judge the metrics -- people are paying incredibly close attention to this. and we asked in our poll question, do you believe the worst is behind us or yet to come? neil, 82% say the worst is yet to come. if that is public opinion, how do you balance that if you're advising a, whether it's a congressman, a senator, or president of the united states -- in this case the president -- who understandably, it's part of his job to plan for the day when you can get the american people out of their house and back to work, and yet, it's also part of his job to be very careful in when he decides we are at that moment. if people think the worst is yet to come, how do you balance that? i'm sorry, i need interrupt the conversation. governor of new york, andrew

cuomo, giving his daily coronavirus briefing. let's go to the briefing. sorry, margie and neil. >> these are stressful, emotional times, as we know. and today is a day in the state of new york with very mixed emotions based on two very different pieces of information we have. i'm trying to work through mixed emotions from myself, so i'll just present the facts and then we'll go from there. there is good news in what we're seeing, that what we have done and what we are doing is actually working and is making a difference. we took dramatic actions in this state. new york pause program to close down schools, businesses, social distancing, and it's working. it is flattening the curve, and

we see that again today. so far, meaning what? meaning that curve is flattening because we are flattening the curve by what we are doing. if we stop what we are doing, you will see that curve change. that curve is purely a function of what we do day in and day out. but right now it's flattening, the number of patients hospitalized is down. and again, we don't look at just day-to-day data. you look at the three-day trend, but that number is down. the three-day average trend is also down. anecdotally, the individual hospitals, the larger systems are reporting that some of them are actually releasing more people than are coming in, so they're net down. so, we see the quote/unquote

flattening of the curve. we have more capacity in the hospital system than ever before, so we've had more capacity in that system to absorb more people. the sharing of equipment which has been really one of the beautiful, cooperative, generous acts among different partners in the health care system, is work. if the hospitalization rate keeps decreasing the way it is now, then the system should stabilize over these next couple of weeks, which will minimize the need for overflow on the system that we have built in at javits and that the "usns comfort." so, that is all good news. there is a big caution sign.

that's if we continue doing what we're doing, if we continue doing what we are doing. we're flattening the curve because we are rigorous about social distancing, et cetera. so, if we continue doing what we're doing, then we believe the curve will continue to flat. but it's not a time to get complacent. it's not a time to do anything different than we have been doing. remember what happened in italy, when the entire health care system became overrun? so, we have to remain diligent. we have to remain disciplined going forward. but there's no doubt that we are now bending the curve and there's no doubt that we can't stop doing what we're doing. that's the good news. the bad news isn't just bad. the bad news is actually terrible. highest single-day death total yet, 779 people. when you look at the numbers on the death toll, it has been going steadily up, and it

reached the new height yesterday. the number of deaths, the number of deaths will continue to rise as those hospitalized for a longer period of time pass away. the longer you are on a ventilator, the less likely you will come off the ventilator. dr. fauci spoke to me about this, and he was 100% right. the quote/unquote lagging indicator between hospitalizations and deaths -- the hospitalizations can start to drop, but the deaths actually increase, because the people who have been in the hospital for 11 days, 14 days, 17 days, pass away. that's what we're seeing, hospitalizations drop and the death toll rises.

i understand the science of it. i understand the facts and the logic of it. but it is still incredibly difficult to deal with. every number is a face, right? and that's been painfully obvious to me every day. but we have lost people, many of them frontline workers, many of them health care workers, many of them people who were doing the essential functions that we all needed for society to go on, and they were putting themselves at risk, and they knew they were. many of them vulnerable people who, this vicious predator of a virus targeted from day one. this virus attacked the

vulnerable and attacked the weak. and it's our job as a society to protect those vulnerable, and that's what this has always been about from day one. and it still is about. be responsible. not just for yourself, but to protect the vulnerable. be responsible, because the life you risk may not be your own. those people who walk into an emergency room every day and put themselves at peril, don't make their situation worse. don't infect yourself or infect someone else or their situation becomes more dangerous. just to put perspective on this. 9/11, which so many of us lived through in this state and in this nation -- 2,753 lives lost.

this crisis, we lost 6,268 new yorkers. i'm going to direct all flags to be flown at half-mast in honor of those who we have lost to this virus. big question from everyone, my daughters, i'm sure around most people's dinner table -- when will things go back to the way they were? i don't think it's about going back. i don't think it's ever about going back. i think the question is always about going forward, and that's what we have to deal with here. it's about learning from what we've experienced, and it's about growing and it's about moving forward. well, when will we return to normal? i don't think we return to normal. i don't think we return to yesterday, where we were. i think if we are smart, we achieve a new normal.

the way we are understanding a new normal when it comes to the economy and a new normal when it comes to the environment. now we understand the new normal in terms of health and public health. and we have to learn just the way we've been learning about the new normal in other aspects of society. we have to learn what it means -- global pandemic. how small the world has actually gotten. someone sneezes in asia today, you catch a cold tomorrow. whatever happens in any country on this globe can get on an airplane and be here literally overnight. and understanding this phenomenon and having a new appreciation for it, how our public health system has to be prepared and the scale to which we need a public health system. look at the way we're scrambling

right now to make this work. we have to learn from that. i think we've also learned positive lessons. we've found ways to use technology that we never explored before. you have a new york state court system that that basically judges with a virtual online court system, which has all sorts of possible benefits going forward, using technology for health care, using technology work from home, using technology for education. i think these are all positives that we can learn. testing capacity. which we still have to develop. that is going to be the bridge from where we are today to the new economy, in my opinion. it's going to be a tessing-informed transition to the new economy, where people who have the antibodies, people who are negative, people who have been exposed and now are

better, those are the people who can go to work, and you know who they are because you can do testing. but that, we've all developed a sense of scale over the past few weeks in dealing with this. there are also lessons to be learned. why are more african-americans and latinos affected? we're seeing this around the world. now, the numbers in new york are not as bad as disparities we see in other places across the country, but there still are apparently disparities. why? well, co-morbidity. i understand that, but i think there's something more to it. you know, it always seems that the poorest people pay the highest price. why is that? why is that? whatever the situation is,

natural disaster, hurricane katrina, the people standing on those rooftops were not rich, white people. why? why is it that the poorest people always pay the highest price? but let's figure it out. let's do the work. let's do the research. let's learn from this moment and let's learn these lessons and let's do it now. we're going to do more testing in minority communities, but not just testing for the virus. let's actually get research and data that can inform us as to why are we having more people in minority communities, more people in certain neighborhoods, why do they have higher rates of infection? i get the comorbidity. i get the underlying illness issue. but what else is at play? are more public workers latino

and african-american? who don't have a choice, frankly, but to go out there every day and drive the bus and drive the train and show up for work and wind up subjecting themselves to, in this case, the virus, whereas many other people who had the option just absented themselves. they live in more dense communities, more urban environments. but what is it? and let's learn from that and let's do it now. i'm going to ask our suny albany chief, dr. rodriguez, to head an effort, to do it right now. we'll do more testing in minority communities now. with more data research done now. so, let's learn now. department of health will be doing it along with northwell.

but let's learn these lessons now. we're also going to make an additional $600 payment to all unemployed new yorkers. the federal government says they will reimburse us for it, but people need money now in their pocket. so, new york will be doing that immediately. we're also extending the period covered by unemployment benefits for an additional 13 weeks, 26 weeks to 39 weeks, so that should be a relief. on voting, i've seen lines of people on television voting in other states. this is totally nonsensical. god bless them for having such diligence for their civic duty that they would go stand on a line to vote. but people shouldn't have to

make that choice. and we're by executive order, all new yorkers can vote absentee on june 23rd primaries coming up. i want to say thank you to the many places and people who are working with the state of new york. mercury medical donated 2,400 bipap machines. bipap machines are technically not ventilators, but they can be modified to effectively ventilate, even though they're not ventilators, and we're using them. they were brought up from florida. thank you very much, jetblue, for doing that. i also want to thank oregon and washington state and california for freeing up ventilators. i want to thank the direct care workers who are doing a fantastic job, and they're doing it every day. i want to thank the state workers who are showing up and doing a great job every day. every first responder. this has been a long battle, and

it's going to go on, but i want them to know how thankful we all are of them for what they're doing. i want people to remember that we're flattening that curve. and if anything, we doubled down now on our diligence. we're going to start a social media campaign. who are you staying home for? right? it's not about staying home for yourself. stay home for others. stay home for the vulnerable people who, if they get this virus, are in a really bad place in life. stay home for the health care worker who's in the emergency room because you don't want to infect anybody else, who then puts another greater load on our health care system. so, who are you staying home for? i'm staying home for my mother. but everyone -- it's not about

just you. it's about all of us. so, who are you staying home for, and we'll start a social media campaign that does that. but thank you to all of the new yorkers for all they've done. and we still have more to do. we are by no means out of the woods. and do not misread what you're seeing in that data and on those charts. that is a pure product of our actions and behavior. if we behave differently, you will see those numbers change. i just doubled the fine on disobeying the social distancing rules. why? because if anything, we have to get more diligent, not less diligent. and we have more to do. and that's new york tough. but tough is more than just tough. tough is smart and disciplined

and unified, and tough is loving. the toughest guys are tough enough to love, right? last point. our brothers and sisters in the jewish community celebrate passover tonight. we wish them all a happy passover. the jewish community has had a long and difficult year, besides any of this. the number of incidents of anti-semitism across this country, the violence that they have seen, even in this state of new york that has such a large jewish population. so we wish them all well on passover. and the message of passover i know helps me today, and i offer it to others to consider. passover says, we remember the past, we learn from the past, we remember the lessons of the past, we teach a new generation those lessons, but there's also

a message of hope in passover. next year in jerusalem -- next year in jerusalem, next year the promised land, next year will be better. and yes, this has been a difficult month. we'll learn a lot. we'll move forward and we'll be better for it. questions? >> governor, new york city, 75% of frontline workers are black and latino. you're talking about grocery store clerks, people who work in public transit, child care work. is it time to scale back some of these grocery stores that are open or some of these businesses that are still open at this point to try to bridge that gap? >> yeah, question is, many of the essential workers, public workforce, tends to be african-american and latino. i think that's probably right. i don't know the statistics, but i think that's probably right. i also believe the frontline workers do have a greater

exposure than most people. i think that's one of the things we'll find when we do this research on why is the infection rate higher with the african-american community and the latino community? again, the disparity that we're seeing in new york is nothing like what you see in other places across the country. but i think it is something that we have to understand. i don't think we can reduce the essential services. you know, we're down to basically food, pharmacy, basic transportation, which, frankly, is more for our essential workers to get where they're going. if you didn't have public transportation, you couldn't have those health care workers showing up, you couldn't have the grocery workers showing up. so, i don't think we're in a position to say eat less or use less drugs or use less health care. i think we have to get through

this now and then learn from it and see what changes we can make in the future. >> governor, do you think the state was very slow -- >> excuse me, one second, karen. just bernadette -- >> sorry. was the state slow to shut everything down? did new york pause come too late? do you guys wish that you had started -- >> the governor of new york, andrew cuomo, giving his daily coronavirus briefing, saying he does so on this day of, quote, mixed emotions. some good news. he says new york is proving through social distancing to be flattening its curve. the number of hospitalizations down. the number of intensive care unit beds down. the governor saying that is the good news as he flattens the curve. he also then, though, talked about the vicious predator of a virus, the coronavirus, as he shared just stunning numbers. this is just the state of new york -- 6,268 new yorkers killed by the coronavirus so far, 779 increase from yesterday to today. that, again, is the new york state setting another record as it deals with the deaths of the coronavirus. the governor making a number of promises there, including some

new testing. says he needs to ramp up testing. he's now considering when the moment will come to turn back on the new york economy, but he says first you need a better testing system. also promises a new task force to study the racial disparities in the coronavirus infection and death rates. thank you for joining us today through this. anderson cooper picks up our coverage after a quick break. have a good afternoon. won't be a new thing. and it won't be their first experience with social distancing. overcoming challenges is what defines the military community. usaa has been standing with them, for nearly a hundred years. and we'll be here to serve for a hundred more.

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complacent and continue with social distancing. moments ago, he announced his state posted its highest single-day death toll with 779 people dying in one day. that number part of an overall death toll that continues to climb. nearly 13,000 people have now lost their lives to covid-19, and there are currently more than 400,000 cases in the nation. in a significant shift, one prominent model cited often by the white house is projecting fewer overall deaths from the coronavirus. that's according to the institute for health metrics and evaluation, which now estimates it will be roughly 60,000 u.s. deaths, down from 81,000 just a few days ago. all of that as a new cnn poll shows that a majority of americans, 55%, say the federal government has done a poor job in stopping the virus' spread. our shimon prokupecz is joining me now. the governor in new york saying deaths are up, but how are the hospitals doing? >> reporter: so, the hospitals are still obviously very, very busy. there's a lot of sick people still in the hospitals, a