jedediah: thank you all for joining us today we have a coronavirus pandemic special today at 1:00 eastern time you won't want to miss please, everyone, stay safe. pete: have a good saturday. todd: goodbye, everybody. >> welcome, everybody. a nation waits as a nation hungers down. about one out of five of us are tucked inside our homes, not necessarily cozy, but this will be a growing number, as a half a dozen states big states had that to urge their residents to find the safety of shelter as the number of cases in the united states continues to escalate. right now, in the united states, we are looking at cases that are growing exponentially by the day , across the world, 278,000 such cases, more than

11,000 deaths, stay at home orders in this country in effect now in new jersey, in new york, and california, connecticut, illinois, oregon, and a host of others that are going to add to that in just a few minutes maybe a few hours from now. updates expected from new jersey and new york. welcome everybody i'm neil cavuto, and this is cavuto live, today updating you on a virus that has spread and now, gotten to the point of being the third most effected country on the planet by these ongoing cases that seem to multiple and have randomness to it that strikes people as unusual, but not unprecedented. we're also going to be looking into the big sell-off at the corner of wall and broad today the dow lost more than 17% of its value in one week in case you're counting it has slid more than 35% from its highs and kind of back to where it was just only days after donald trump was elected president. now, the fact of the matter is though these markets are still waiting to see what progress is

made on the virus itself. because it is not responded any of the economic stimulus that government officials and the federal reserve have provided to address that virus we're going to get into the oddi ty of that and what to make of that and whether there is anything that will soon turn around on that front but first let's get the read from the white house and for that, we got mark meredith. >> neil, good morning the trump adminitration says it's working with americas governors to figure out exactly what new rules will be formulated to protect the public, the administration says we are expecting an update around noon today, and there have been several developments overnight since we last heard from the president on friday, starting here at the white house we learned since then that a member of the president's staff has tested positive i'm sorry the vice president's staff has tested positive for covid-19, however that person is not believed to have any close contact with either the president or the vice president. we've also learned that the administration has agreed to an emergency declaration for the state of new york. as we've been looking though at

the latest number of the cases worldwide those numbers, neil as you were just alluding to continue continuing on the rise, 278,000 cases worldwide, here in the united states, 19,000 and growing, by the hour, and the number of deaths here in the united states at 260 that number also expected to grow now several states including, neil as you mentioned where you are there in new york as well as in california now requiring residents to really stay home unless it's essential that they leave, a lot of people have wondered though if a federally- ordered curfew could be next and officials at the white house insist that's simply not happening. >> it is not something that's been discussed inside our task force meetings, it's not on the agenda today there are no plans for a nationwide quarantine. reporter: meantime today the senate is expected to resume negotiations on an emergency stimulus package, senior sources tell fox chad pergram that five partisan groups have made significant progress and that a deal could be, could be the keyword, could be reached soon we do expect to learn a lot more about what's in the bill and exactly what it would mean

for people so worried about paying for their mortgages or paying their rent, when help would arrive that is the big question so many are wondering we should get an update from lawmakers on that front later today and as i mentioned neil at the white house a briefing expected at noon. we expect fema officials as well as members of the public health service to be on here at the podium to take questions. neil? neil: mark, thank you very much my friend, mark meredith at the white house. now i told you a little bit about some half a dozen states right now but they are growing and in various way, shapes and forms they have urged people to stay home. the only difference is how severely they are enforcing that you're looking at an aerial shot of shopping mall around the garden state area. it's impossible to shop anywhere right now in the state because most of the malls are essentially shut down. that's because you can't go out. of anything, theaters, restaurants, not an option at all. lauren simonetti in the middle of that.

lauren? lauren: i can hardly hear you because it's loud here. there are a lot of people on the roads here in new jersey which is typically a busy shopping spot and people are awaiting an announcement from new jersey governor phil murphy expected three hours from now expected to announce more stringent social distancing policy perhaps along the lines of new york, california, illinois and some other states where you really need to lock down self-isolate and shelter-in-place so people are out and about getting the last minute items they think they need. take a look at the empty parking lot across the highway behind me that is the mall of westfield garden state plaza. they will not even let us in that mall parking lot right now. security, i showed every badge i have, will not let us in. there are restaurants there. i said sir, can people come in and order food and pick it up curbside. he said yes but not now. it's still early. everything is closed. i have never seen that parking lot look like the ghost town

behind me. we are seeing stores obviously still open, folks have to get their essentials, right? walmart, home improvement chains , they are open, but many of them are cutting their hours, closing early to sanitize, and also to restock their shelves. speaking of restocking take a look, right to the left of me, that truck is all bottled water and he is delivering water to thatb j's if you look at the parking lot completely full, a steady line of shopping carts and people moving in-n-out so what a contrast when you look at it. people getting exactly what they need for the next couple of days or weeks, to the left of me, and the empty retail parking lot behind me, neil. so we expect that announcement there have been 900 coronavirus in new jersey, 11 deaths those numbers expected to grow, neil. neil: lauren thank you very very much new jersey governor murphy

is addressing the media at 1:00 p.m. eastern about three hours from now to outline follow-up measures from the few that you heard outlined by lauren just now. we're told that this will include a lot more potential public venues that will no longer be public venues we'll get into that a little bit later and what the garden state governor is talking about here. new york governor cuomo is also going to add to his list of saying essentially that if you are not essential at work please just stay home from work but its already caused a bit of confusion here and a lot of people just want to know well how do i explain that to my boss, can you tell my boss? it's just a mess and what people are getting used to. we'll be exploring the impact of all of that not only on those directly impacted but on the economy and markets in just a second. in the meantime the people are caught in this when the very real virus catches up with them and with us is mayor francis suarez of beautiful miami.

he had urged residents to stay home, he has the coronavirus, i just want to check in first, mayor and see how you're feeling >> neil, thankfully i'm feeling fine. i'm in day nine, i feel much better. i had very very mild symptoms to almost no symptoms, so i've been in that large percentage of people that will experience very little symptoms. i've been blogging about it on my social media just to give people a sense of calm, a sense of reduction in their anxiety levels because a lot of people are focused on the curves and what do i do to get tested but i want people to understand that if you have it and i've had it the last few days, you know, it's not nothing to panic about so i'm hoping to come out of quarantine by mid next week. neil: i know you've discussed this in the media, sir, but you were at an event, was this the same event with the president and you shook

hands with someone who had the virus? explain how that all went down, how you knew you got it? >> so the delegation met with the president in mar-a-lago came to miami on monday after that weekend, and so i was with that delegation on monday for about an hour, and on tuesday, for about another hour, hosting them in the city of miami. i shook hands with all of the members of the delegation, i spoke with most likely the person who was infected and so it became very apparent to me that i had to quarantine when i saw a picture that i was in just a couple feet away from the person who had confirmed positive. the department of health from the state of florida reached out to me and asked me to come in and get tested. this was already a week ago which seems like a month ago for many people and i was the second person that tested positive in all of miami-dade county which is a population of 3 million people. so i was sort of patient zero in miami-dade county understanding that i'm the mayor of miami which had some significant ramifications, not only for myself personally, but for

the city that i live in. neil: mayor, the governor cracked down on those who were in large groups on the beaches, your city, your state is blessed with many of them. so what do people do now? they can't congregate in large numbers, but are they urged to stay off them entirely? what's the rule? >> the county has basically closed all beaches, the county has basically closed all businesses that are non- essential and what we're asking people to do is to stay home unless you have to do something essential. the idea here is that if we work together and we cooperate and collaborate, and we stay away from, maintain social distancing then we can get ahead of the curve as quickly as possible so we can all resume a normal life but we want to make sure people can go back to work safely as quickly as possible. obviously people are hurting. we understand that, how many people aren't going to be able to pay their rent or mortgages, and certainly that's something

that we're asking for the governor to potentially look at in terms of relief, for this period of time that people are out of work, but i think for now we all have to hun ker down, enjoy time with our families and hopefully get this behind us as quickly as possible. neil: mayor, good luck with the five days i guess remaining of your quarantine. take care of yourself your family, be well, sir, thank you. all right, the mayor of the miami francis suarez in the meantime its been one of those crazy weeks, about one of the worst weeks of the stock market since the big financial meltdown, remember that? it's very very different because the underlying economy itself is just fine. what happened? what happens now? after this.

neil: you know if you think about it, we have applied all sorts of stimulus proposed and factual and some in the works some that will be in the works shortly. trillions of dollars worth of federal government cuts in interest rates and buying mortgage backed securities corporate paper you name it, anything to get a lot of cash in the banking system to assure our leaders, corporate and otherwise that they've got the backing of the united states governor from the federal reserve, congress the executive branch behind them and yet nothing to show for it because the markets have tanked losing trillions the very trillions they've gotten to try to prevent those trillions from going in the first place. it's confusing, unusual and it's usually not the trajectory in the middle of a financial crisis but maybe that's because this isn't exactly a financial crisis, but because in address ing this virus it's very much become one. let's get the read on what we're in store for on monday, because

remember, on monday, all those floor traders on the new york stock exchange well they won't be around it'll all be done electronically so that could be a reassuring event depending if your love of computers holds true, over man kind, or it will complicate things let's get the read from jackie deangelis and we've got gary b. smith as well. guys, welcome to all of you. you know, jackie the big issue i guess on the big board will be without that added human element , it will be strange, i mean, the population of traders has shrunk to a precious few over the many decades, but it's still going to be a big deal, as the lights go up, that there aren't any people there. >> good morning, to you, neil that's exactly right and a lot of the traders were saying the reason the new york stock exchange chose to stay open for two days after it found out it had positive cases on the floor, and to close on monday, is because they wanted to make sure all the systems are

completely in place, and ready. look it will only add to the chaos if electronic trading goes down or it's not working properly. investors are looking for confidence right now. we've seen a market drop 30% from its highs, we're waiting for an unemployment report in april, that could potentially be disastrous, we're worried about gdp. this is unlike anything we've seen before. you talked about the financial crisis we've looked at what happened to the market after 9/11, specific industries were impacted here. in this case, with the coronavirus, it's really across-the-board, and nobody knows how long it's going to last, so wall street is also looking to see what is washington going to do about this? what is the situation with this trillion dollars stimulus bill, will it get money in the hands of consumers, will they spend that money, will it keep them afloat and will they keep companies from going bankrupt and that's really the main issue right now. neil: you know, gary b., i'm wondering if you buy the notions

, some of the major investment banks have come out with various views, the discussion is on as we speak that the quarter we're in right now is already a recession and that the next quarter will see a slide of 5% or more. that could all be in response to this frozen economic activity but if it's not responding to the promise of rescue on the way to the tune of trillions of dollars if you add in everything the fed is doing what will it respond to? >> the only thing it's going to respond to is two things. one, the most obvious one, is we found a cure and we can get it out in the next few weeks that seems unlikely at this point. the one that's probably not obvious is as usual, to do the exact opposite of what the federal government and state governments are doing and say look, we're going to be back in business, for all we know this could turn out and probably will turn out in my opinion, to

be no more fatal than the regular flu. at this point if the government wants to put us into a not a recession, neil, depression they are doing a very good job. if we close 50% of the economy for two months we've basically dropped the gdp by almost 4%. you can not bail out a $20 trillion economy with thousand dollar paychecks to the millions of people that are being employed. you have to get back to work. i know people are just nuts about shutting things down, singapore, hong kong have proved that the virus is no more virulent than it is here where we shut things down. neil: well, you know, expect medical minds can argue that point, gary but you do raise a good one. it is what it is right now and when i look at these development s i'm just wondering,

i notice markets moving more in response to a promising vaccine where a drug that treats some of the symptoms around this virus than it does any promise of economic help here even big cuts in interest rates, so i'm wondering if that will be the catalyst perhaps as it should be that people will come out of their homes, not for rebate checks and all of that, likely they will be grateful, but more for news that the disease is hunkering them down in their homes, improvement on that front that'll get them out of their homes. >> that was a really good point that you made, neil that this is whatever is going on right now, with the market is really driven by the fear of coronavirus, so exactly to your point, if there is an anecdote or a solution, of the virus so that i've been trying to think of my word here, something to just save us from this virus that's spreading, if

that were to actually come out to gary's point in the next couple weeks that be great but it's just not going to. my mother is a doctor and i was talking to her about this and i said oh, in two weeks we're going to be fine and she said hi tha, this is a pandemic, think three months to at least the end of the year that's when we're talking about in terms of getting drug tested, going through the trials, even getting some sort of anecdote from this , it's just not going to be the next two weeks or three weeks, so you're right. $1 trillion stimulus and $1,000 check to people is all great but at the same time, what's preventing people, what's really driving this is the fear. sure, we've talked about this before. retailers have beefed up their online, the ability to shop online. you're seeing stores like amazon and macy's and specifically walmart and target that really have the infrastructure that at the end of the day, people want to go out and they want to, it's

not just shopping it's also about the service industry. neil: we shall see , guys, thank you all very very much. i do want to leave you with a shot of times square right now. this is one of the busiest thoroughfares forget in new york , in the world, and it's a ghost town. why is that and what will change that we'll be hearing from the governor, shortly.

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thing. doctor, what do you think? >> well, i don't think the issue is fear as much as a rational approach to try to control this through social distancing which is all we have right now. there are a lot of people who work in many fronts globally, trying to improve the method by which we test so we can do them more quickly and we can get everybody we need to test and to find therapies that can be used to either prevent infection, or disease or treat people who have disease. but it's not going to be something that i can tell you is going to happen in the next two or three weeks. we're working as fast as we can. neil: so is it your sense then, doctor, that that obviously it doesn't happen in the next to or three weeks, this is something that could drag on for months but at least the process is along where we're readily being able to identify cases at a faster clip as well? >> there's no question but the testing has improved

dramatically. it's still not where we need to be. there's a lag between the time we receive the sample and the time we can present a report , but that is going to be getting shorter and shorter due to investments by the federal government as well as private industry. there's a very good collaboration going on between industry and the federal government and i'm confident we're going to get there but again, it's not a short-term solution. until we have either a drug which can prevent infection or rapidly treat people so they don't develop disease, or we have a vaccine we aren't going to get ahead of this except by doing what everybody is telling us to do, which is basically to stay home. i was in china in january, and i can tell you that this was enforced rigourously and at a level that i think we need to have here. it needs to be harmonized across the entire country, and if we do that, we can get ahead of this very very rapidly. i would say within a matter of weeks. the problem is that everything

is porous and people have to take this seriously and pictures of kids on the beach, you know, playing and so forth at spring break, is not inducing a lot of confidence. everybody needs to take this seriously. the sooner we do this the sooner we'll be out and sooner the economy will be back on track. neil: i think you're right, doctor and it's good word of advice. thank you for all you're doing on the frontlines you don't get a lot of thanks for it but thank you. >> thank you. bye-bye. neil: senator ben cardon of maryland joins us and senator one of the things that the good doctor pointed out here is that just stay home. just stay home. one out of five americans now better than 70 million with state crackdowns that have been added in new york, california, illinois, et cetera, new jersey expanding that, that's probably the best advice for the time being.

do you agree with that? >> oh, absolutely, neil. first it's good to be on your show. you're absolutely right. do telecommuting the best you can, minimize your need for essentials and we have to hu nker down and the strategy is to prevent the surge of the virus and it would stretch our medical community that it's a matter of public health and a matter of yourself and members of your own staff staff that you do social distancing and you're absolutely right. neil: senator i'm curious about where measures stand these various measures, stimulus measures, that are being kicked around including one for free testing and there are a lot of things along the way. are the two parties in general agreement on the approach to take here, and when do you think this will be wrapped up?

>> yes, we are in general agreement. the first stimulus has showed staff immediately to deal with getting funds to nih, getting funds to our local government. the second stimulus package with other urgencies we need to get donald take care of people's needs and this third stimulus package that we're working on and we're working on today, will be over $1 trillion and for the medical needs and as i said there are facilities that can handle this virus, and for testing and capacity and deal with medical supplies that will clearly be also included but will have to deal with getting our economy back on track and the chairman of the small business committee and small business package, and it'll be very robust and bold

and we know they are in dire needed to and it will provide not only that so that they could get themselves out of this circumstance. we also will provide funds for the social safety nets, the unemployment, those types of issues are also up for consideration so we have a pretty good package we're working on today, tomorrow, and next week. neil: well you've been working hard senator many of your colleagues have you put a lot of politics aside it's not easy to do in your town so thank you for that. try to have a restful weekend we appreciate it, senator be well. >> thank you, neil. neil: all right, in the meantime , want to show you again what you're seeing across the country in some of the world 's busiest cities having the americas outside our offices here, but this one picture is more powerful than some of those images, a woman who wanted to show her grandpa she got engaged.

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neil: you know, sometimes we're so caught up in a story like this , where we can't be near each other, almost and then you have this young woman's story,

carlie boyd who wanted to show off her engagement ring to her grandfather staying at a nursing home and she did. i think these are the kind of photos that when pulitzer prizes not so much of the fact they are surfing fantastic photos and emotionally wrenching, but they put an entire crisis in perspective. carlie was kind enough to share those with us, as she was also kind enough to join us. carlie boyd, with us right now. carlie thank you for coming. >> hi. neil: what made you do this? >> well, i really wanted my grandfather to know that i was getting engaged. i didn't know how i was going to let him know and i didn't really want to just call him on the phone and tell him so when i went to the nursing facility to pick up some laundry and give him some money, the staff met me outside and they asked if i had told him yet and i said no and i didn't know how i would and they said well we can just take you around to the window and you can

talk to him that way. i was like really and they said of course and i said well yes i'd love to do that so that's how that whole moment happened and i just very grateful that i was able to do that. there was a lot of emotions there while i was talking with him and again i'm just very grateful the staff allowed me to do that. neil: has he met the guy? has he met your fiancee? >> yes, me and my fiancee have been together for two years and my grandfather hasn't been in the nursing home but for a few months. he only went in this past december, so he knows my fiancee well. neil: oh, okay. the family, the rest of the family, obviously this was a special moment for them as well. how is everyone handling all of this? >> everybody is happy. everybody is very happy for me, and they are excited to see me on tv and excited to see me

being able to share my story and show how something good can come out of this crisis that's going on in our world today. neil: you know, what i liked about it is we're told we have to shelter for people to maintain our distance but there are ways we can still find a special way to communicate to someone, i think the way you did with your grandpa shows what's possible. i saw a similar incident where family members were from a safe distance, wishing a grandma happy 100th birthday so you see more of this stuff at a time like this. it does a lot of good for a lot of people beyond your family, i hope you know that. >> yeah, i'm very, i've seen a bunch of other people going to the window and i'm just glad that i was able to help give people ideas to remember to go see their loved ones because some people forget that they are

stuck in there and you can't see them, i mean, they can't see you like they normally do so i'm glad my story is don't forget about your loved ones in a nursing facility because a lot of times they don't know what's going on in the outside world and they need you there to be there for them to help them get through this as well. neil: well it says a lot about you. we've had a week where a lot of young people were playing on the beach and not thinking of the potential harm that could be to older folks here. you took everything aside to think of your grandfather and to share good news with them and that's not a bad story at a very bad time so thanks for that carlie, thank you very much. >> thank you. thank you. neil: you're welcome. all right, by the way, when is the big day? >> i'm thinking some time next

december of 2021 because i need to finish nursing school so that i can get a job and pay for it, so that's the plan. neil: [laughter] i don't think you'll have any difficulty. well good luck with all of that and thanks for listening we needed that carlie. >> thank you. neil: we have more coming up including words -- no thank you i apologize for that delay, i have one here and she has one. we'll be hearing from new york governor cuomo on handling all of this. i think of that grandfather and that the news was, i guess he liked the guy. he should. right? more after this. hot! hot!

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isn't a country on the planet that is going through what italy is going through now because the entire country, not some of it, all of it, is under this mandatory lockdown and some are responding to that better than others. in florence right now, amy kellogg. amy? reporter: yeah, a lot of hard ship and families around about this time, neil. i think even the happiest families are feeling stretched to the limits but people who are okay and dealing with such problems are frankly the lucky ones, as we know at this point. we had hoped that the peak of infections would happen here this weekend, but that is not the case apparently. yesterday, saw the highest daily death toll since the pandemic hit here, over 600 people died yesterday, neil, and we had the highest daily increase in infections for a total now of over 47,000 recorded cases of coronavirus here in italy.

military trucks have had to take some of the bodies, the coffins out of the hardest-hit city, tradition in italy is to dress the dead as nicely as you can and lay them out foreclose family and friends to say goodbye but the inability to say this proper goodbye under these particular circumstances just has been increasing the distress and dozens more coffins were taken out of town today. there was also a suggestion today that the death toll in ber gamo from coronavirus may be much higher than statistics reflect in other words some older people, particularly, getting sick at home or in hospice with majority known yeah and dying never having had a test for the coronavirus. the overall death toll in bergamo has been four to five times higher than the same period last year but covid-19 was not attributed to all of them, in fact it was only attributed according to the mayor to a quarter of those

deaths so that is very puzzling, and concerning. nurses and doctors have been putting out heart-felt appeals for help. you see their exhaustion and their faces in these images, from constantly wearing goggles and other protective gear. cuba, meanwhile, is sending doctors to help out in northern italy to cope with the outbreak. state television in cuba today said 35 are on their way today, to northern italy which is quite extraordinary, if you think about it, neil, china also has sent a lot of equipment and a lot of doctors and samaritan's purse the u.s. ngo charity has sent a whole field hospital over here which has been greatly appreciated. they got it up and running in like 36 hours, and there's been a lot of talk, neil, that europe hasn't been doing enough to help italy. this whole european union project and solidarity and what not seems to have fallen short

at least on the one hand. on the other hand you can argue that europe is holding on to its own doctors and supplies for their own peaks which are clearly coming down the pike. spain is in great difficulty now , and france and germany are getting ready, bracing for the worst, but in terms of some good news out of the eu, those rules have just been lifted which means that governments are free. neil: all right, i apologize for that feed freeze to let you know what amy was getting at this money that has been loosen ed up-tick harry reedily from germany about 357 million euros i think that's about $385 billion worth of emergency relief to handle the coronavirus not only there but it helps out everywhere, whether some of that is allocated to italy is anyone 's guess but it's a sense that the european community seem s to feel what hits one hits

us all so we might as well help each other a little more after this.

neil: all right, welcome back everybody. you are watching cavuto live, i am neil cavuto and that is the shot on the left there that's times square in manhattan and that's considered one of the busiest thoroughfares not only in the city but in the state and dare isiah cross-country and the world, that sort of the roadway and the connection to everything that is, you know, exciting, bubbling society. right now, frozen in its place here, as people try to honor the government officials to stay home and you have to go out and you limit that time out, and if you're not vital in your business you stay home from your

business, check with your boss, see what's important and what you can do at home and leave it at that but a lot of americans are in this sort of twilight zone that apparently is going to be expanding. 70 million are in that position as we speak, and that number could grow as the number of state governors and local and other officials are going to be hitting the microphone the next few hours including new york governor andrew cuomo to outline additional measures that are going to be taken his neighbor, new jersey governor is also going to be outlining a lot of the same things to sort of say what we can do to try to keep people away from crowded places. what we do not know is governor murphy is set to do will extend to other locations beyond just urgent people, not to go to a barber or a beauty salon good luck with that because they've all been shut down, go out to eat good luck with that because dining-in has ended can't do that, pickup take out only so in

this environment, what does the federal government do to help out and what does fema have the where with all to make that good? let's get the read on all of this right now with someone whose been there and done that, michael brown, was in that role trying to get us through katrina and i'm always regret when we have to talk about to each other during a disaster here or fear of a disaster but this is a very different type of disaster isn't it? it's entirely different, neil. one it's good to see you again. two, i would say that it's very different in this regard too. even though post-9/11, fema and the entire federal apparatus started planning for a kind of bio attack because we didn't know what the next terrorist attack might be so we started planning for all of these kinds of things so well now some 19 years later even though this isn't a a bio attack the response is still the same so fema has activated the national response coordination center, they've

activated the national business emergency operation center, and now fema is acting as the coordinator on behalf of the white house, coronavirus task force, so they are now doing what fema does best and that's coordinating a response to a disaster, in this case, it happens to be a virus. neil: so who has the call in a given state? each state governor is announcing these plans, the shelter at home plans, the lockdown plans that seem to considered now certainly in california, who makes those calls, how are they coordinated with fema? >> well, the governors of each state have the power to do that under existing statutes and court rulings, so every governor makes that decision on their own , but when they're making that decision they reach out to fema and the white house coronavirus task force just so that everybody, here is the most important thing that everybody

can do. it's just make sure they communicate with each other so that the white house task force and the fema op center all knows what each of these individual governors are deciding to do, because when they decide to do that, that may spark something that fema needs to do to help them do it, and under the staff ford act and under the defense production act which the president has invoked that allows fema to then coordinate and say to governors, this is what i'm doing this is what i may need, so the way it's working now is fema is responding and fema's covering 75% of the cost of say operating a emergency operations center. they are covering 75% of the cost for example, maybe national guard deployment, or if fire or police departments are having to backfill and they are paying overtime, fema is paying 75% of that. i want to emphasize to people that it's just like a natural disaster, it's just that in this case, it's nationwide, and

it happens to be a virus. that's the big difference. neil: yeah and it could drag on a lot longer, right? >> i'm sorry what? neil: it could drag on a lot longer potentially. >> oh, yes, it could drag out much longer and i think that's why the president was smart in turning to the stafford act declaring a national emergency because that takes the pressure off the white house, it takes the pressure off say hhs, so they can focus as subject matter experts and then all of the coordination, all of the financial arrangements, everything else can now be done through fema, which is precisely what fema is good at. the other thing i would add as long as you and i are talking , if people want to understand everything that fema is doing, they have a great website up right now, fema.gov/ coronavirus. it talks about rumors, talks about what they're doing and the

kinds of assistance. neil: it does, i'm jumping on you my friend because we'll go to a break but again that site is up there. some of the responsibilities of fema, and the government and your governors, there too. more after this. hey whoa, pop, pop... your shoe's untied. ♪ ensure he's well taken care of, even as you build your own plans for retirement. see how lincoln can help. ...

>> all right, welcome back, everybody. we're continuing to monitoring fast moving developments on this saturday here. a white house briefing is coming up at the top of the hour and we're also going to be hearing from new york governor cuomo as a national sequestering at least getting everyone in their cozy homes and not on the streets is the way to go. 70 million americans are going to do that, just about a fifth of the united states population and could expand with additional beefed up measures expected not only in places like new york and new jersey, but additional states. and this is the rigger de jour

right now, and c.d.c. in atlanta and some of the measures they're taking and how they're trying to get it under control. easier said than done. >> that's right. and you said the big news, 70 million people restricted to go out only for food, medicine or exercise and that number is likely to grow, likely to go into effect for monday in california, new york, and illinois. a tough decision for governors to make. here is the governor of illinois. >> if there are actions that i can take that will save lives in the midst of this pandemic no matter how difficult, i have an obligation to take these actions. >> one positive note has been a real up-tick in testing as of this morning, 150,000 tests given. that's up 42% in just the past two days. the same time, a number of medical personnel warning over

shortages of personal protection gear and some workers asked to sanitize or reuse gear that were supposed to be disposable. and others asked to make their own ask. and the u.s. air force bringing back 89 americans, two flights from honduras including a woman's football team and they were trapped overseas in another country when borders shut down and all flights were canceled. neil, back to you. neil: all right, steve, thank you very, very much. as we continue to monitor these developments, a lot of people are wondering what we're going to get out of the white house briefing and what can come of that and what measures are being taken. more on that from washington, leland. >> kind of got a preview what we might hear from the president an hour ago from his twitter account, hydroxychloroquine, and

the f.d.a. moved mountains and hopefully they'll-- h plus a, referring to the drugs and god bless. the thing to watch for, the president has continued to strike positive tones and we saw it on thursday. almost immediately after, and anthony fauci the head of the f.d.a. or somebody on his safe, these are clinical trials, we're far, far from having a miracle cure. >> i'd like him to go back to the state department or as they call it, the deep state department, you don't mind i'd like him to go back and do his job. >> mr. secretary-- >> and that was dr. anthony fauci sort of referring, you saw the body language, neil, we don't need to classify it in terms of his response to some of

the president's thoughts from the podium. so you probably want to watch for the body language during this briefing, and you haven't seen something like that where you have the president and his team kind of overt body language in terms of some of the president's responses. >> you know, leland, the psa out right now talks about how you have a people distance, in other words, six feet between people and yet when they have these briefings, they're sandwiched together and i'm not being piciaune about it, but the whole point was to illustrate that people question them and reporters and every others and wonder why they continue to do the briefings, obviously you want the big guns out i get that, but spread out more. >> it's a great question and our mark meredith who is going to be in the briefing may ask exactly that. we do know that everybody who comes in contact with the

president and before they go into the oval office, about of they go into the briefing room, like all the reporters in the room they're having temperatures taken as well and we also know, neil, in the past couple of days, they've started rotating people through in terms of who on the coronavirus task force is actually on the podium and who is not. dr. fauci took a couple of days off and he said he was back at nih. one can imagine if they're not taking distance at the podium they're at least taking distance in their everyday lives. >> yeah, but i've had people tell me, forget about six feet. i'd make it six miles with you. but i did notice that and i wanted your read on whether that was-- they're breaking their own policy. great seeing you again. thank you very much. >> great point. good to see you. neil: all right. leland vittert, i did wonder about that. they're talking maintaining a safe distance and they're packed in there. and senator martha mcsally is

here. senator, let me ask you something. you're working on, actually a multi-state deal for aid and health and stimulus and the rest. but what do you think of that distance rule? do you wonder that yourself, staff members, when, you know, gathering for events in washington, do you take that? what do you think? >> absolutely. we need to all take these precautions. i have a small number of staff coming in to support our efforts, the rest of tele-working, but we all need to set that example by washing our hands and keeping our distance. look, in arizona we had our first death yesterday, neil, our prayers are with the families of those who are fighting for their lives right now and i also want to say, you know, i served in the military. people are used to saying thank you for your service. right now our nurses and our doctors and our first responders, they need to hear that from all of us. we're the rear guard. we're the supporters and what we do-- >> senator, thank you very much.

i'm interrupting you rudely-- interrupting for a good reason. andrew cuomo is addressing what he's doing in new york. >> which is for the vulnerable population, senior citizens and people with compromised immune systems and underlying illnesses, that was very specific. and i mentioned named for my mother matilda because i went through this with my own siblings, how do we help mom, where do we bring mom? there was a difference of opinion. the best health professionals put together guidelines not only helping senior citizens, but their families trying to deal with this. i know it was helpful to my family and the question among siblings, these laws and guidelines answered. i don't want to mention which sibling, but turns out that he was wrong. the personal conduct rules and regulations are also very

helpful. i want to thank dr. fauci who is really an extraordinary american and has given me great guidance and help and assistance in putting together these policies. so i'd like to thank him, and we're doing those. we're working on every level, every piston is firing, everything that can be done is being done. new yorkers are lucky, we have a very experienced team that's doing this. this is not their first rodeo. they've been through a number of emergencies on a number of levels, increasing hospital capacity. we want to get the capacity of 50,000 up to a minimum of 75,000. we told the hospitals we're going to be ending elective surgeries. we are now working with hospitals to reconfigure the space in the hospital to get more beds and to find more staff to manage those beds.

we're working on building new beds. we're going to go out and review a number of sites today. i'd like to get a finalist to the federal government and the army corps of engineers, we're looking at javits. >> stony brook, westchester convention center and i'm going to go out and take a look at those sites today or the ones i can get to. that would give us a regional distribution and a real capacity if we can get them up quickly enough. and then increasing supplies, which is one of the most critical activities. we are literally scouring the globe looking for medical supplies. we've identified two million n95 masks, which are the high protection masks. we have apparel companies that are converting to mask

manufacturing companies in the state of new york. and also, it's a creative configurations and i want to thank them. i put out a plea yesterday to ask them for help and we've been on the phone with all sorts of companies who are really doing great work. we're also exploring the state of new york manufacturing masks ourselves. we are going to send one million n95 masks to new york city today. that's been a priority for new york city. and 1 million masks won't get us through the crisis, but it will make a significant contribution to new york city's mask issue. and i want to thank mayor deblasio for working in partnership. we're sending 500,000 n95 masks to long island. we've been working with county executive laurel curran and the

deputy, and ventilators, the ventilators, the most important piece of equipment and the piece of equipment that's most scarce. we're gathering them from different health care facilities across the state and then we're going to use those in the most critical areas. we also identified 6,000 new ventilators that we can actually purchase so that's a big deal. the-- from the federal government's point of view, i've spoken to the president a number of times. i've spoke to the vice-president a number of times, they've issued a federal disaster declaration which is technical acts by the federal government, but what it basically does, it allows the federal emergency management agency called fema to step in and assist financially. by that declaration, fema would pay 75% of the cost of a disaster, new york city would pay 25--

new york state pay 25% of the costs. the federal government can waive the 25% of the cost. i'm asking them to waive that 25% in this situation. i've worked on many disasters, fema has waived the 25%. if there's any situation where fema should waive the 25%, this is the situation. we're also working with the federal government. we're asking four field hospitals at $250 capacity each. that would give us 1,000 field hospital beds. we're going to be looking at javits at a location for those field hospitals. we're also requesting four army corps of engineers temporary hospitals, those are the sites i mentioned earlier i'm going to take a look at. the stony brook wesbury, western

convention center and also javits. javits is so big it could take a hospital and an arm corps of engineer hospital. and medical supplies, which has been a very big topic of conversation all across the country and we're also asking our federal congressional delegation to fix a law that was passed on the coronavirus federal aid. because of a technical issue, the way the bill was written, new york state does not qualify for aid. that's over $6 billion, that's a lot of money. and we need the federal delegation to mix that bill, otherwise new york state gets nothing. new york state gets more coronavirus cases than any state in the united states of america that we should not be included in the bill.

obviously, makes no sense. we're also going to conduct immediately trials for the new drug therapy which we have been discussing. i spoke to dr. zucker about it. there's a theory that the drug treatment could be helpful. we have people who are in serious condition and dr. zucker feels comfortable as well as a number of other health professionals that in a situation where a person is in dire circumstance, try what you can. the f.d.a. is going to accelerate to new york 10,000 doses as soon as we do we'll work with hospitals, doctors and families on using those drugs and see where we get. the president, i spoke to-- he spoke to this drug therapy in

his press conference yesterday. i spoke to him afterwards. i said that new york would be interested. again, we have the most number of cases and health professionals have all recommended to me that we dry it. so we will try it. we're working on a number of other drug therapies and antibody therapy possible vaccines, we have a company here in new york called regeneron that is showing promising results. i've exempted them from the no work order because they could possibly have a really significant achievement for us. the new numbers, the more tests you take, the more positives you find and i -- i give this caution because i think people misinterpret the number of new

cases. they take that number of new cases as if it is reflective of the number of new cases, the spread. it is not. the number of new cases is only reflective of the number of cases you are taking, right? where our goal is to find the positive cases because if we find a positive case, we can isolate that person and that stops the spread. so we're actually looking for positives. the more tests you take, the more positives you will find. we are taking more tests in new york than anyplace else. we're taking more tests per capita than china or south korea. we're also taking more tests than any state in the united states of america. that is actually a great accomplishment. because if you remember, back

two weeks, which seems like a lifetime now, the whole question was, coming up the scale on tests. how do we get the number of tests up and how do we get it up quickly? i spoke to the president and the vice-president and i said, decentralized the testing and let the states do it. i have 200 labs. i can mobilize quickly, and let us do the tests. they agreed, we're doing more tests than any state. so, for example, we've done 45,000 tests. california has done 23,000, washington has done 23,000. so you see how many more tests we are doing. and again, i credit the team that's working here because this is exactly what the mandate was, perform as many tests as quickly as you can. and that's the drive-thru

number-- the drive-thrus we put in place, the hospital management, et cetera. so our numbers should be higher. and they are. the total number of positive cases now is up to 10,000. the number of new cases has increased by 3,000. let's go back in case you can't read as fast, because i can't read-- 6,000 in new york city, 1300 in west when isster, 1200 in nassau. you see the westchester area is slowing. we did a new rochelle area containment. and i feel good about that. and you see nassau increasing and suffolk increasing and that's the widespread increase that we have been anticipating, but our hot spot of westchester is now slowing and that's very good news. new york city, it is the most

dense environment. this virus spreads in density, right? and that's what you're seeing in new york city. new york city, obviously, has many more people than any other specific location in the state. number of counties are increasing. you see the blue. i said to you early on, that blue is going to take over the whole state, just the way every state in the united states has now been covered. most impacted states, you look at the number of cases in new york is 10,000, washington, california, 1,000 each. does that mean we have ten times the number of cases as california or westchester? or does that mean we're doing more tests than california or westchester? the truth is somewhere in the middle and nobody can tell you. total number of people tested, we're up to 45,000.

number of new tests, this is a rate that we watch. what is the rate of hospitalization? again, because this is all about hospital capacity, right? 1600 out of 10,000, that's roughly 15% of the cases, it's been running about 14, 15. it's gone as high as 20%, 21%. so actually, 15% rate of hospitalization is not a bad number. it's actually down from where it was. the more refined the number is of those who are hospitalized, how many require the ventilators because the ventilators are the piece of equipment that is most scarce. that's the next refinement of these numbers that we have to do. and again, the context on the numbers is important.

we're talking 10,000, et cetera. you look at any world health organization or the nih or whatever, any of the other countries are saying, you have to expect that at the end of the day, 40% through 80% of the population is going to be infected. so the only question is how fast is the rate to that 40% to 80% and can you slow that rate so your hospital system can deal with it. that's all we're talking about here. if you look at the 40 to 80%, that means between 7.8 million and 15 million new yorkers will be affected at the end of the day. we're just trying to postpone the end of the day. so we can deal with the capacity. again, perspective, johns hopkins, this is not a science fiction movie. you don't have to wait until the end of the movie to find out

what happens. johns hopkins has studied every case since it started, 284,000, 11,000 deaths, almost 90,000 recoveries, 183,000 still pending. which tracks everything we know in the state of new york. our first case, first case, health care worker, 39-year-old female who was in iran, she went home, she never went to a hospital, she recovered. she's now negative. you get sick, you get symptoms, you recover. that is true for the overwhelming number of people. again, context. people who died in the flu, from the flu in 2018-2019. 34,000 americans. 34,000. so when you hear those numbers

of deaths, keep it in perspective. 34,000 people died of the flu. over 65, 74% of the people are over 65. 25% were under 65. so if you have an underlying illness, you catch the flu, you can die. it's more likely if you have an underlying illness, senior citizens, et cetera, but not necessarily. you have 25% under 65 years old die from the flu. also, in terms of context perspective. don't lisp to -- listen to rumors. you have such wild rumors out there and people call me with the craziest theories. just, i understand is anxiety and stress, but let's remember some basic context and facts.

society functions. everything works. there's going to be food in the grocery stores. there's no reason to buy a hundred rolls of toilet paper. there isn't. and by the way, where do you even put a hundred rolls of toilet paper. the transportation system functions, pharmacy system functions, these things are all going to work, nonessential workers stay home, but the essential workers are staying home, especially the health care workers, there is not going to be any roadblock when you wake up in the morning that says you can't leave this place, or you can't leave that place, right? so if you have a real question because you think there's a real concern from a credible source, contact my team.

we have a special website, coronavirus.health.ny.gov. ask the question and you'll get a real truthful, factual response. i have not -- i have not hidden anything from the people of this state. i have not tilted facts. franklin delano roosevelt, the american people deserve the truth, they can handle the truth, give them the truth. when they don't get the truth and if you don't get the facts, that's when people should get anxious. if i think i'm being deceived or theres' something you're not telling me, or you're shading the truth, now i'm anxious. everything i know i've told you and i will continue to tell you and these are facts and you hear a rumor and you want to check it out. go to that website, these are

people who work for me directly and you will have the truth. we do have an issue with younger people who are not complying and i mentioned this before, but it has not gotten better. you know, you can have your own opinion. you cannot have your own facts, okay? you want to have an opinion, have an opinion, but you can't have your own facts. well, young people don't get this disease. you are wrong. that is not a fact. 89 to 49 years old are 54% of the cases in new york state. 54%. 18 to 49 years old. so if you're not superman and you're not superwoman, you can get this virus and you can transfer the virus and you can wind up hurting someone who you

love or hurting someone wholly inadd ver tennantly. social distancing works and you need social distancing everywhere. there's a significant amount of noncompliance, especially in new york city, especially in the parks. i'm going to go down there today. i want to see what the situation is myself. but it has to be stopped because you are endangering people and if it's because of misinformation, if it's because of noncompliance, i don't care, frankly. this is a public health issue and you cannot endanger other people's heatment you shouldn't be endangering your known, but you have no right to endanger someone else's.

this is my personal opinion, this is not a fact. you know, to me it's very important, especially in a situation like this, tell me the facts and then tell me your opinion. this is my opinion. we talk about social responsibilities, especially young people talk about social responsibilities and they should. we passed a lot of legislation in this building, ground breaking legislation, national firsts on economic rights, first highest minimum wage in the united states of america, human rights, first state to pass marriage equality which i believe was a human rights issue. we talked about environmental ability and has the most aggressive laws in the united states of america and i am proud of it, but i also want people to think about the social responsibility when it comes to public health. we haven't talked about it before. it's not really a feel and it's not an issue and it's not a hash

tag. social responsibility applies to public health, just as it applies to human rights and economic rights and environmental rights, public health, especially in a moment like this, is probably most critical. so let's think about that and let's act on that. in this crisis, think of ourselves, we're all first responders. we are all first responders. your actions can either safe or endanger a life. so we're all first responders. what's going to happen, we're going to get through this. if we don't know how long it is going to take us to get through this. the fact is, we're trying to slop the spread of the united states to a number of months so

the health care system can deal with it, so therefore by definition it's going to be a number of months. i know people want to hear. it's only going to be a matter of members and everything is going to be fine. i don't believe it's going to be a matter of weeks, i believe it's going to be a matter of months, but we are going to get through it, and how long and how well it takes us to get through it is up to us. it depends on what we do. you know, when you're sick and you say to the doctor, well, how long until i get better and the doctor says well, it depends on what you do. if you follow the advice, you'll get healthy faster, but it depends on what you do. this depends on what we do. china is now reporting no new cases. let's assume that's true. look at that trajectory and look at that turn around. look at what they did, right?

we do have date that that we can follow. how long it's going to take and depends how support we are and how diligent we are. you tell me the compliance and intelligence and compliance on social distancing, et cetera, i'll tell you how long it takes to get through it. also, something that people aren't really talking about, but i think we should start talking about, we talk about the economic consequences of this situation. and they are going to be significant and we're going to have to deal with it and new york will be right on top of it and as aggressive as we are with everything else, but economic consequences come second, right? first is dealing with this crisis. and we talk about the economic

consequences about you we also need to talk about the social consequences and it's hard to gauge and it's hard to measure because there is no dow jones index that we can watch on the screen that is measuring the social consequences and the social decline, but the stress, the anxiety, the emotions that are provoked by this crisis are truly significant and people are struggling with emotions as much as they're struggling with the economics and this state wants to start to address that. i'm asking psychiatrists, psychologists, therapists who were willing to volunteer their time to contact the state and if this works out, i would like to set up a voluntary network where people can go for mental health

assistance, where they can contact a professional to talk through how they're dealing about this. how they're feeling about this. they're nervous, anxious, isolated. it can bring all kind of emotions and feelings with the surface. when you're isolated you don't have people to talk to, so i'm asking the professional mental health establishment to contact us, let us know if you're willing to volunteer time. it would obviously be all electronic, it wouldn't be in person, it would be over the telephone and skype et cetera and i would ask you to seriously consider this, many people are doing extraordinary things during this public health crisis. i'd ask the mental health community, many are looking for a way to participate. this is a way to sparp and if we

get enough mental health professionals to give their time i'll let up an electronic health center and we'll talk about that in the next few days. what happens, besides how long, what happens? the bigger question to me is what do woo we turnabout ourselves through this. as a society they've never gone through this, thank god we haven't gone through a world war. we haven't gone through any great social crisis here in new york. we went through 9/11, which i think is relevant in terms of some feelings that are now -- people are experiencing. 9/11 transformed society. i was there, i was part of it. you were never the game after 9/11. you had you had a sense of

vulnerability that you never had before which i feel to this day there was a trauma to 9/11, but as the society, as a country, we've been blessed in that we haven't gone through something as disruptive as this. so what have we learned about ourselves? and i think what we're seeing already is a crisis really brings out the truth about ourselves, first of all, and about others. and you see people's strength and you see people's weaknesses. you see society's strengths and you see society's weaknesses. you see both the beauty and the vulnerability. you see the best in people and you see the worst in people. you see people rise to the occasion and you see people fall

from the burden of the emotion. so i think it's -- you take a step back. first, there are people who are doing extraordinary work who deserve our thanks and when you see a health care worker on the way to work, when you see a grocer who has been working with double shift trying to demand with the deal in these stores. you see a pharmacists overwhelmed with the long lines. when you see a driver, they're out there doing their job. they're happening doors. they don't know who is on the other side of the day and walking up to-- >> would you do that? what kind of selflessness.

you talk about public service, what does public service mean? this is public service on stereo and on steroids. and these are people stepping up. when you see them say thank you, the bus drivers, the subway drivers, the public transit workers, these are people who are showing up, they're leading their family, they're just as nervous as you are, but they're doing their job. child care workers who are watching people's children so they can go work in a hospital or do their essential function. they deserve our thanks and i think understanding what they do in some ways gives us a perspective on how beautiful people can be. and how courageous people can be. and how great americans can be. my last point is, practice

humanity. we don't talk about practicing humanity. but now, if ever, there's a time to practice humanity, the time is now. the time is now to show some kindness, show some compassion to people. show some gentility. even as a new yorker, it's a dense environment, but it can also be the most supportive, courageous community you've ever seen and this is time for a little genility. it's time for a smile when you're walking past someone. it's a time for a nod. it's a time to say hole low. it's a time for patients and don't let the little thin get y

annoy annoyed. and this is after 9/11, yes, we will deal with it, yes, we will overcome it, but let's find our better selves in doing it and let new york lead the way in finding their better selves and demonstrating their better selves that's the new york destiny and new york legacy and that's why i'm proud to be a new yorker. that's why i'm proud to be the governor of this great state and we're going to do it like we've always done it before. questions. >> governor, on the 6,000 ventilators where were those located and how soon could they be in new york? >> they were located in places across the globe. they will be coming in over the next several weeks. we're also looking, by the way, at technology that would allow you to use one ventilator for

multiple patients. we're one ventilator, for example, could serve patients. so we're getting as aggressive as we can. >> and this he could go with new york and-- they'd go where the cases are. >> an emotional doctors tells me they're out of hospital gowns, they're out of masks, they're reusing hospital gowns that could potentially could have been exposed to a patient with covid-19 and without covid-19. the message to them. >> look, this is a national problem. the medical supplies. states are scrambling all across the board. i'm proud of everything this state has done and the extraordinary efforts, as i told you, we have people on the

ground in china. i'm calling people all across the world for these supplies. we have apparel companies that will go into the gown manufacturing business. we have to secure the material which we're trying to do now. we're working on getting the new york state, new york state also manufactures uniforms. if i can get the material, we'll make them in the state. i have companies in the-- in new york where we're dying a quick minute -- and not just albany, it's worse than that, it's a gown shortage statewide. we're doing better with masks. we're doing better with ventilators. nowhere need where we need to be

with ventilators, we need 30,000 ventilators so we're 6,000. at least we got to 6,000. the masks, the medical community has told me over and over again, the masks are the priority for the covid-19. so we've made progress on masks. gowns are also very important, no doubt, but we have not been success vld -- successful as of yet for gowns, but we're searching high and low. >> the number of masks, two million, and some are going fot city and the other numbers you're saying, what about staying here in upstate new york. >> we have enough masks to handle upstate new york. >> what does that mean? >> the numbers are different between abney and new york city. new york city, westchester,

nassau, suffolk, that's the local of the problems. masks for upstate hospitals, we can address that. we can feed that need as of now. >> a couple of questions. i'm testing, first of all, people are wondering have you been tested? >> no. >> why not? >> because i've not been expose today anyone who is positive. i don't have a fever. i don't have any symptoms and i don't want to waste a test. >> the albany, they're not going to be able to test the citizens, is that a concern? >> the hospital, we're testing by the same protocol across the sedate, karen. if you immediate that protocol, then you get a chance and it's on the website if you have been

exposed to someone hoft if you're showing symptoms. if you meet the protocol, you get a test. we're testing more than any other state in america. we're testing more per capita than china or korea, so, yes, no state, no country can give everybody a test who wants a test, but that shouldn't be the goal either. this is not just i want a test to make myself feel better. by the way, it won't make you feel better. okay, you tested negative at 10 a.m. but then you went and you talked to six people. maybe you're positive again, you know? you'll never solve that neurosis, right, that anxiety, but anybody who fits that protocol can get a test and more people are getting tests in this state than anywhere else and that's good news.

look, i'm very proud of what we did. we were all starting at the same place and for us to come up to scale at that quickly and up to scale where we're doing more than anyone else, that's great. >> governor, you mentioned the (inaudible), have you figured out how many people recovered and what the current status is. >> we can get you those numbers. i don't have them. >> the technical issue, what do you mean by that? is that a --. >> the house bill that passed, this is a little weedy, but the house bill that's passed said for a state to get the federal money, it can't make any changes in the medicaid procedures. in this state, since january, i announced the mrt, medicaid

redesign people. they issued their report. that changes procedures in the medicaid program. i've been doing that since january. we can't do a change, there's a lot of waste and inefficiencine it's not funny, but in effect you cry or yolaugh. >> and we've been changing procedures since january. >> and the hospitals you're talking about, are those essentially outdoor m.a.s.h. units? what would they look like. >> you have four field hospital. they said don't use -- the field

hospitals are done by fema. they are equipped hospitals that would be 250 people each. they're basically a tent configuration with beds, with medical equipment, with staff and they come in 250 bed capacities. we requested four of those, so a thousand. the army corps of engineers, they basically do a tent-like facility, they can do it in a gymnasium, to the westbound con essential saturday. she climbing. that's more a tense structure without the beds, without the medical equipment, without the staff. so the field hospitals would be set up where?

adjacent to the-- >> we're talking the field offices, 1,000 beds in javits, if it works, this is all prim preliminary. a thousand beds in javits and we don't have a number yet in those other four location. >> excuse me one second. >> governor. >> where is garrett, is that all correct? >> yes. >> okay. >> governor you had a point, people who are vulnerable, if they get infected it may spread like wildfire. >> if we're watching that situation very closely, i don't have a significant issue get of spread in the ms. seem. we have taken precautions and stopped certain visitor-- but if we have a problem we'll address it.

>> wait down there and see what happens. >> right, if we have a problem, then we'll address it. >> (inaudible) >> no, those are two million that we are requiring. how many-- how many new n95's have we identified to buy? >> most of the stocks and we've been at this for weeks and yesterday of course we had so many people reaching out and we're starting more to guy bulk and get as much as we can. >> the two million are those we have identified to buy. >> even that little bit of caution. these are companies who say, i have the masks, i will sell you the rafmasks. >> and by this date. you know what's going on. masks that cost 80 cents are now $4. these are 95 masks.

but look, it's price gouging with you we need them and most of these are coming from overseas. but so far, two million new masks we've identified. >> how are you determining with i hospitals or-- >> there's a trade association called the greater new york hospital association, that's what ken rasski runs. so between the voluntary hospital and the public hospitals, they'll be distribut distributed. >> regarding the consequences to the state negotiate. i agree that you probably felt this job more of course. i grew up here thinking about something that mario cuomo said. >> which suny campus do you want

me to close? and the days of wine and roses are over. >> and when it comes to the climate some of the press release. they haven't fully adopted-- adapted to this new reality. it's time to reboot as far as expectations for the towns, cities, groups relying on funding. do we need a-- which in part has to do. but going forward are we going to see some very heavy duty measures. >> thank you for remembering my father. my father governed at a time where frankly you could be a little more candid and blunt and he was. he also didn't have a lot of tolerance for frivolity, for-- or nonsense. look, the advocacy community,

their job is to ask for more money, every budget, more money. while i'm giving you 100% more. it's not enough. i'm giving you 200% more, it's not enough. what number would be enough? no number because i get paid to say i want more, right? and advocacy organization by definition can never say it's enough because then they p themselves out of business. to be advocating, we did a budget proposal very rich to begin with. to be advocating for more state funding in this situation is beyond the pale of a claim, right? the state is broke to use a term, the revenues are devastating. we're money out of health care at an alarming rate.

so, yeah, it's chilly, privatal. i've never had patients for the petty politics, i never have. that's not why i'm here. it's not what i respect. i don't have at patience for petty politics. i'm here to make changes, real issue, so i don't even take those press releases seriously in the first place, to tell you the truth. >> can you talk about whether they'll suspend trials. >> i can't really, can anyone. >> we signed days ago, the courts were shut down, if we didn't do that cases could be dismissed, and we did the same

thing after hurricane sandy, but the court is not so-- >> and the mortgage, are those mandatory or-- >> mandatory. >> there was a circular letter and they struck an agreement with the banks, trying to do that in a way where we're not fixating on them. and tracking and affirmative order today. >> itle be man tri. neil: we're going to continue to monitor this. one of the startling ideas from governor cuomo, they're looking at excess of 10,000 cases in the state. if you're keeping on top of that, that's about half the number of the coronavirus cases across the country so new york, with this crackdown on making sure that folks who aren't vital to their business stay home, this is part of a response to that. new york, new jersey,

california, connecticut, illinois, oregon are among those states that these stay at home directiv directives. they're of varying degrees of the severity, if you don't have to go out, don't. if you don't have to be on the road, don't. we're expecting to hear the governor of new jersey who is going to up the ante on that, we don't know if it's an executive order in the state, but it's a trend for a lot of those running states has proven to be. and steve scalise has is joining me now, the house minority whip. we're ahead of the white house briefing that's coming up in a few minutes from now. and essentially what the governor is saying, we think it's best for our folks to stay home, period, end of story. what do you think of that? >> well, clearly, you're seeing each governor handle it a little differently, but they're all following the direction from the

c.d.c. and the c.d.c. guidelines which have been driving a lot of the decisions that governors have been making so that's where those decisions have been coming from, but you know, in the end it's trying to work through and hold the things together so that families have something to come back to. and we're working on a big relief package to try to ensure for both families and businesses that they can come back. neil: i'm curious, i mean, we're going to get more details of the next rounds much stimulus and multiple ones coming up to discuss, i know, in the capitol, but i've heard figures now topping $2 trillion. is it getting that high? higher still? what do you think? >> well, it's hard to say on the numbers because there are a lot that have been negotiated, not agreed to and we're trying to finalize that in the next day or two and clearly there are big pieces to it. and a lot of what you're looking

at, too, on the business side is to try to get the businesses to hold their work forces together. we've seen large layoffs, but a lot of companies trying to make a decision, maybe they've got a bank note in the next few days and they also want to keep as much of their work force, we're trying to get some regulatory relief something we did after katrina was up to 90 days forebearance, and when you didn't have the cash flow. there are a lot of banks that would like that without being penalized by the regulator and work with local small business. they could say, we know you have no revenue, you can push it off for three months and the same thing for families with metropolitans --

mortgages. >> i'm curious what you make of a lot of the measures, they're meant to reassure businesses as much as the federal reserve and cut its interest rate to zero is meant to reassure the markets. the markets as you know, congressman have been collapsing. one of our worst weeks certainly going back to the financial crisis, are you worried that this, financially, at least, is getting out of control? >> i'm very worried about how it's having an impact, both short-term and long-term. and i think the biggest uncertainty you're seeing in the markets, they don't know when things come back. we're going to come back, whether it's weeks and some people are wondering if it's longer than that. i hope it's not. and i think once you have a clear idea and others talk about the spike and you don't want the hospital system overwhelmed, but weem want -- want to know if it going to be a few more weeks.

a lot of them think is this going to be months? and we could address it on the front end and get to a point when it's time to get back open there are businesses and jobs and that's what we've got to focus on this relief package. neil: very good hearing you. and a lot of this goes back to when you were shot and both parties, a lot of way that that. and this goodwill seems to be hanging on and we'll see if it lasts as well. so much more on the impact of that with steve scalise. in the meantime, one of the things we're getting on this, the notion that what started here, is not going to end that.

that they're expanding beyond what the reserve has done and what the government has proposed. we talked about it with lots of businesses and lots of americans. . >> from the white house we're awaiting a briefing. we're awaiting a coronavirus briefing task force, vice-president pence. we're here and i'm leland vittert. we're in different offices. >> practicing the distance. we're going to turn to mark meredith standing by at the white house.