i think we ought to remember that they are putting themselves out there for all of us. that is it for this edition of "mediabuzz", i hope you will join us next week, will be back here next sunday, thank you for joining us. stay safe. ♪. eric: the u.s. seen a dramatic spike in coronavirus cases overnight, there are now more than 120,000 confirmed cases of covid-19 including over 2000 deaths in our country. this is the federal government issues new travel restrictions in the northeast, there are new warnings this morning about the spread across the nation and the potential death toll right here at home. welcome to "america's news headquarters", i am eric. arthel: i am arthel neville. the cdc advising most everyone living in new york, new jersey and connecticut to refrain from all nonessential domestic travel, this excludes people

whose jobs are being essential. president trump and said he was considering an enforceable quarantine of the states but later decided against it after pushback from new york governor andrew cuomo and other governors from the tri-state area, earlier today doctor anthony fauci said this is about the unpredictable nature of the deadly virus. >> whenever the models come in, they give a worst-case scenario in a best case scenario. generally the reality is somewhere in the middle. looking at what we are seeing now, i would say between 100000 - 200000 cases. i don't want to be held to tha that -- excuse me deaths, will have millions of cases but i don't think that we really need to make a projection when it is such a moving target that you can so easily be wrong and mislead people. arthel: mark meredith is live at the white house. i want to give you a heads up,

we may have to jump in and redirect to governor cuomo if he begins his press conference. but for now, take it away. reporter: we will start in new york because president trump was talking about the possibility of the quarantine yesterday and as you are talking about, we have the travel advisory out from the centered of disease control, this is what the cdc is saying overnight, they are urging residents of new york, new jersey and connecticut from refrain from nonessential domestic travel for 14 days effective immediately. this advisory does not apply to employees of critical infrastructure industries including but not limited to trucking, public health professionals, financial services and food supply. we heard treasury secretary steven mnuchin about this earlier today. >> the president wanted to consider all the options, he was obviously concerned of what was going on with new york. he spoke to the task force, and the governors and he was comfortable that people would take this advisory very seriously.

reporter: now to the economic crisis, the treasury secretary says with the stimulus checks now going into effect, they expect to get the deposited within the next three weeks or so, were told the system is being set up, the administration expects to roll out for small businesses, that is expected to get underway this week or the week ahead. but we heard from the treasury secretary about whether or not we are going to have a better idea of what the un-appointment ray is going to look like in the next couple of weeks. he says there is no way to know for sure. >> it is hard to predict these numbers because we have never had anything like this, we are very sympathetic to the people who do not have jobs and that's why the president was very clear that he wanted me too work with congress on a bipartisan basis to support those people. reporter: we expect the president to have an update on what is going on with supply chain throughout the country, meeting with distributors later on this afternoon.

there is also a briefing schedule on the coronavirus task force, that is. in a 5:00 p.m. today, so many questions about what the next week will look like because of 15 days to slow the spread is almost up, will you administration continue to keep the guidelines in place, will they change things up, that's what were looking to see from the president and experts later on this afternoon. arthel: we will take that breathing life when it does start. thank you very much. eric: coronavirus is sweeping the world, anthony fauci's prediction that millions can get at home and the death toll could reach 100 - 200000 of the extreme range, that is sobering and difficult time. joining is now exclusively in the investor to the united states kelli craft, her first u.s. television interview since taking up that position. thank you for joining us now. , this is a global threat. it has been unleashed, the international organization that was supposed to protect us and prevent us have seemingly failed, are they now up to the task of facing this virus and

what is to come? >> thank you, thank you for having me this afternoon. i think this is a global crisis which is going to require each country to come forward and have a constructive role during this time. i think it's very important that the leadership starts at home in president trump and secretary pompeo have shown us very strong leadership during this time and it is really each country's obligation and moral responsibility to work together with the united states and of course as you know more than anyone american taxpayers are most generous in the world and together we can try to mitigate this virus which this virus as you well know has no boundaries. eric: there has been a lot of criticism, some of the administration as well as the national organization, stay with us if you can. we need to break away now and listen to new york governor

andrew cuomo, he is holding a news conference, the daily conference on the coronavirus. here is governor andrew cuomo. >> we are not sure if it's westchester first or long island first, some suggest it's westchester because we had that cluster in westchester. and in upstate new york. we expect a curve in upstate new york also, it may not be as high obviously as new york city, westchester and long island, but there will be a curve, so if you are not in a highly affected health area now, that does not mean you are not going to have a real situation to deal with because these numbers are just going to continue to go up all across the state. so for the local health system, this is a new challenge, most health systems have public hospitals and then they have private hospitals or volunteer, voluntary hospitals.

they basically exist on a day-to-day basis as two different systems. so you have public hospitals and then you have the private hospital system. and for all intensive purposes, and normal operating procedures, they operate as to systems, very little interaction. there is also very little interaction among individual hospitals sometimes even with their own system. so you have public hospitals that are part of a public hospital system, each hospital basically operates on its own, it has its own identity. certainly true on the private side where you have individual hospitals and they operate on their own. we have to change the mentality, we have to change the mentality quickly. no hospital is an island, no hospital in this situation can

exist unto themselves. we really have to have a new mentality in a new culture of hospitals working with one another, both within the public system as well as a private system and we need to think about the public system working with the private system in a way they never have before. there is an artificial wall most between the two systems right now. that wall has to come down, that theory has to come down. this will be all hands on deck, this is everybody helping everyone else. one hospital gets overwhelmed, the other hospitals have to flex to help the hospital and vice versa. we have elmhurst hospital in new york city that is under stress, the number of cases at elmhurst

hospital is high, with a number of cases is high, the stress on the staff is high, i was just meeting with the doctor about this, you do this for two, three, four weeks, the level of stress is very intense. elmhurst hospital is part of the public health system of about 11 hospitals in new york city that system has to work together in those hospitals have to work together, the 11 health and hospital in new york city, the public system. i'm then asked mayor de blasio to pull the stringer to take a look at the system and figure out how we can get that system to work better together as a unified system. this is not going to get better soon. so elmhurst is under stress right now. , that stress does not abate for

the foreseeable short-term future. so how do we make that system work better together? and what recommendations do we have two improve h&h? we will also be meeting with the private hospitals in new york city that are organized through the greater new york hospital association, i will meet with them tomorrow to talk about having those hospitals also organized, act as one, get out of the silos, get out of their identities to work together. and then overall, you have local health systems, the states role which we have never really done before is to get the health systems to work with one another so we talked about if new york city gets overwhelmed, we will ask the upstate systems to be a relief for the downstate health

system. which has never happened before to any scale. and also vice versa. there will be a time where the upstate hospitals will be struggling. when the upstate hospita hospitl be struggling, then we want the downstate hospitals to be able to take over and relieve those hospitals. that is actually the advantage of the rolling curve that they are projecting. if it does happen that way, theoretically, i almost think of it as a high tide mark, high tide comes first in new york city, then the tide is on the way down and then it's high tide in upstate new york. okay, if the tide is dropping downstate, then you have some relief for the upstate hospitals, we put in place the new york pause program, today i am going to extend it to april 15, the directive of the

nonessential state workforce continue to work from home. we are doing in two week intervals because every day is a new day and we will see what happens day today but i think it is not even questionable today that we will need two more weeks of nonessential workers. the good news, while worth has developed a new york state department of health has developed a less intrusive saliva and short nasal swab test. i'm not exactly sure what a short nasal swab test but it would not apply to me. it can be administered in the presence of healthcare workers, it requires less ppe, less healthcare workers, to self administer it. so kudos to the department of health on that. it also helps them limit the exposure for healthcare workers and it should start as soon as

next week. people ask when is this over, i think the testing, you tell me when they come up with an inexpensive home test or point-of-care test that can be brought to value, i think that is probably when you see a real return to normalcy in the workforce. in other words, we are talking about the curve, flatten the curve, at what point on the other side of the curve do you go back to work? there is no answer. i think the answer is going to be in testing, dr. fauci who i think we are so blessed to have him here at this time. he talks about faster, easier testing. if you contest millions of people, if you contest today millions of people, you can send them to work tomorrow.

so the development of the test i think are very important and instructive. tomorrow the u.s. and s is coming and it's about 1000 bed capacity, it is staffed with federal officials, federal medical professionals, it is not for coban patients but is to take the backfill from hospitals. current stockpile is still working to purchase equipment all across the globe, we have a whole team working seven days a week, unfortunately we are competing against every other state in the united states for the same things. so it is very hard but we are making progress. in terms of finding staff, that is going very well, the voluntarism of new yorkers, where up to 76000 healthcare workers who have volunteered.

76000. 76000 people who volunteer to go to these hospitals at any time. just think about that. on the total people tested, we have 60000 last night, a total of 172 tested, that's the highest in the state, highest in the country. positive cases, 7000 last night, total cases 59000. the virus continues his march across the state of new york, only two counties now that do not have cases. these are the overall numbers, 59000 people tested positive, 8000 currently hospitalized, 2000 icu patients, 3500 patients discharged. nobody really points to these numbers, but this is good news, 846 people came out of hospitals

yesterday, discharged after being treated for covid doctrin, people get it, 80% have suffered or have symptoms at home, 20% going to the hospital, majority get treated and leave. if the acutely ill by in large are the vulnerable population, that's what were seeing more and more, that went from 728 - 965. what is happening now, i mentioned yesterday, people on the ventilator longer and longer, the longer you are on a ventilator the less of a chance of ever getting off the ventilator. that is what we are seeing. we will continue to see the number of deaths increase. in terms of most impacted states, again, new york is still number one, total new

hospitalizations, these are the charts that we look at every night. the numbers up 1175, it was 847 the night before, these bounce night tonight, anyone night data could have a number of variables in it, what hospitals actually reported when they reported it, how accurate they were, the more you look for a trendline or than anything else, there are trendlines. if you look early on, the hospitalization rate was doubling every two days. then it doubled every three days, then it doubled every four days, now it is doubling every six days. so you have almost a dichotomy, the doubling rate is slowing, that is good news. both the number of cases are

still going up, you are still going up towards an apex but the rate of the doubling is slowing. which is good news. change in daily icu admissions, you see a tick up in the icu emissions but again you see the trendline among those columns more than individual columns. a change in daily interventions, we don't normally run this chart but these are the people that are most seriously affected. again you see a trendline in that commie see some aberration, march 26, 290, but you see a trend line and that is what we are watching. you also see a trendline and people being discharged. okay, this is a dramatic trendline. so, people came in, they started

to get treated, on march 18, were only talking about ten days, they started to get treated, a few of them got out early, a few more, a few more, a few more, a few more and now you are seeing the discharge number trend way up because that is what is going to happen. people going to the hospital, get treated, they leave. those that are acutely ill get put on a ventilator and then it's the inverse. the longer there on the integrator, the longer they're intubated, the longer you're on the ventilator, the higher the mortality rate. again, perspective, these are the numbers from day one since china started. also, we should also keep in

mind, we lost the first responders that go out there, the 76000 people who volunteered and help medical professionals, being a first responder today, being a public health official, working in the hospital, working with senior citizens, this is an act of love and courage, we lost detective, 48 years old, 32nd 23 year veteran, could have retired. so we wish him and his family piece, we lost a nurse, we lost a couple of other nurses, carlos kelli, 48 years old who was the assistant nurse manager at mount sinai west, we wishes family the best. these public people -- i don't even have the words to express

my admiration for them. fdr always had words, courage is not the absence of fear but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear. to me, that says it all, everyone is afraid, everyone is afraid, do you think these police officers are not afraid to leave their house? do you think these nurses are not afraid to go to the hospital? they are afraid. but something is more important than their fear which is their passion, their commitment, the public service and helping others. their passion and believe in helping others. that overcomes their fear. and that makes them in my book, truly amazing, outstanding human beings. i wish them and their families all the best. the president and the cdc

ordered a travel advisory for people of new york, new jersey, connecticut, this happened last night, this is not a lockdown, it's a travel advisory to be implemented by the states and essence. it is nothing that we have not been doing. right, nonessential people should stay at home, so it's totally consistent with everything that we are doing. and i support what the president did because it affirms what we have been doing and it also affirms what new york, new jersey and connecticut have been doing. rhode island issued an executive order, new york license plates would be theoretically stopped at the border for mandatory quarantine for some . . . that executive order has been repealed by the state of rhode island and we think that for their cooperation.

that was repealed last night, personal opinion, gratuitous, this is disorienting, it is frightening, it is disturbing, your whole life is turned upside down overnight. to the best you can, you find a way to create joy. you try to find a silverlining in all of this, how do you break up the monotony, what do you do, how do you bring a smile to people space. i come from an italian american family, sunday was a family day, we had the big family dinner like you have in the afternoons, it was confusing it was a lunch, late lunch they called dinner. and it was spaghetti and meatballs and sausages and my

family would all get together, it was a beautiful time, i did not appreciate it as a kid but it was beautiful because they all came together and the grandparents were there and they would start to eat at 2:00 o'clock and it was like a marathon session. the food was really just the attraction to get people together. everybody talks about how the italians love the food. that is true but really they love bringing the family together and the food was the way that people came together. and you sat at the table and it was a 2 - 3 hour affair. my mother and father did it also. not to the same extent my grandparents did it but we had the same sunday dinner around the table. i tried to continue it as a father with my kids, i was

divorced so i'm not really the best cook, to say the least but we would have on sundays, i would actually go to the eye and italian specialty start and i would buy the meatballs, sauces and i would put on the stove and the sauce would sit there all day and it would simmer and you can smell it all throughout the house and then i would make them sit down and then we would have spaghetti and meatballs and sausage on sundays. and my daughter is in the back, they would never eat the sausage in the meatballs. they would pick up the pasta because they knew i did not know how to cook so they knew the meatballs and sausage was suspect. i never said that i bought at the specialty store because that would ruin the whole tradition anyway. so they would not eat it, we

would go for chinese food afterwards. that convening was something special. and today we are going to have our family dinner, we are missing one daughter, we will get mariah on skype and grandma will be on the telephone and we will sit around the table and we are going to have that kind of coming together, a little different, skype telephones but you know what, with everything going on, family, we are here, we are together we are healthy, that is 98%. so find ways to make a little joy. also for new yorkers, i know we feel under attacked, i had a lot of phone calls yesterday when the president first suggested some form of quarantine, what does that mean, quarantine, am i

going to be allowed to leave the house, or my parents were supposed to be coming back once a year -- i know we feel under attacked. , rhode island, you cannot drive into rhode island, will pull you over with the police, yes new york is the epicenter, and these are different times in many people are frightened, some of the reactions that you get from individuals, even from the government are frightening and suggesting that they will take abrupt actions against new york. but look, this is new york and we are going to make it through this, we have made it through far greater things, we are going to be okay. we specialized in stamina and

strength and instability and that is just what we are doing now. we are strong, we have endurance and we have stability. and we know what we are doing, we have a plan, we are executing the plan, anything, any obstacle that we come across, we will manage the obstacle. and we have. i cannot sit here and say to anyone, you will not see people pass away, you will. that is the nature of what we are dealing with and that is beyond any of our control. but, new york is going to have what it needs and no one is going to attack new york unfairly and i went is going to deprive new york of what it

needs. that is why i am here, that is why we have a staple of very talented professional people. so a deep breath on all of that. and we are doing exactly what we need to do. there is no state in the nation that is better prepared or better mobilized than what we are doing. and i feel that deeply and having studied everything that every other state has done, federal officials have even remarked to me that they are surprised how quickly estate is being in complicated as new york being so mobilized. i feel good about that. there are two great new york expressions that i use all the time, anything i build in new york always has to expressions on it, one, excelsior says it

all, ever upwards, aspirational, we can be better, we will be better, we will aim higher, we will improve herself, excelsior, state matters on the seal behind me, and the other. [speaking in foreign language] out of many one. unity, you put those two things together, and says it all. aim high, do better, believe you can do better, be optimistic in the way you get there is through unity. and togetherness. and cooperation in mutuality and community. those two expressions, i say to my daughters if you remember nothing else when i am gone, if you walk up to the box and have nothing else to remember. you can be better, it will be better, we can make it better,

we make it better together. that is it. that is what we are doing. questions? [inaudible question] >> when will you funnel patients into jo javits. it will be coming online this week. i'lalso, we are building capaciy and assembling supplies for the apex, you hear these people say you do not need this today, i know i do not need it today because i know where we are on the trajectory, i have to prepare for the apex, the curve, that's right need the beds and the supplies et cetera. that's why i say get ahead of the thing, the virus has been ahead of us, i want to get ahead of the virus, i want to get ahead of the virus before the virus gets to the apex.

it will be coming online this week. when we actually utilize it is when we need it. >> i mentioned family a moment ago, obviously the stay-at-home order for april 15, and passover so that means people cannot go to church, cannot have dinners, what advice you give them? >> that is hard. but on the flipside, look at what happened, those gatherings that brought people together were religious gatherings are brought hundreds of people together which was beautiful but it made many, many people ill. and density is the enemy here. for this particular time, you worship the way that you can but the gatherings are just not a

good idea. >> by the way, the patient 0 in westchester, who is very sick for a very long time, he has actually gone home. my correct? >> he is out of the hospital. >> have you spoken to the governor of rhode island and if so how do you convince her to take back the travel issue. >> i spoke to the governor of rhode island yesterday and we had a conversation, i don't think the order was called for. i do not believe it was legal, i don't believe it was neighborly, i understood the point, but i thought there was different ways to do it in the governor of rhode island was very receptive and i think her very much for reconsidering her position. >> there were 237 deaths of last 24 hours in new york 222 new

york city, what are your projections showing in terms of what it might look like in terms of fo fatalities, are we talking hundreds, thousands, what are you seeing? >> there are many different projections were looking at, it does seem that were ready at 965, we do see in the thousands, again these are models and we have to plan for what the model may show. >> are we talking hundreds of deaths a day, thousands of deaths a day. >> it goes back to the numbers, weird he said the 80% of individuals get better, we said the other 20%, summoned up in the hospital in a small percentage unfortunately died, that percentage as were looking, the numbers are hovering around one or less than 1%, it is determined by how many people.

>> is it not data-driven, i don't see how you look at those numbers and conclude anything less than thousands of people will pass away. remember who it's attacking, it is attacking the vulnerable, underlying illness, et cetera. i do not see how you get past that curve without seeing thousands of people pass away. i hope it is wrong. >> as of friday the coronavirus test in new york city, what work can you speak along that issue. >> nursing homes are about a fourth of the coronavirus deaths, frankly we are lucky that it is only one quarter, coronavirus in a nursing home is a toxic mix, we said that from day one. we saw that in washington state. this virus preys on the

vulnerable, and preys on senio seniors, and preys on people with compromised immune systems and underlying illnesses. an coronavirus in a nursing home is like fire through dry grass. the state has put in different precautions, were not even allowing visitors into nursing homes now. which is really harsh, frankly. unless there are circumstances where the person is in a desperate situation and then the family comes to see you then. the staff is being tested before they come in. we are doing everything that we can. this is truly a terrible virus to stop in that combination is lethal. coronavirus in a nursing home is lethal, the only question is, how many people are dying.

>> all nonessential workers -- [inaudible question] >> obviously were testing at a very large rate and getting a lot of positives compared to other jurisdictions, what numbers are you looking at, do you look at the rate of icu, the data seems to be saying different things. >> you look at all the numbers, you look at the trends, it's very important as the governor mentioned, it is a trend that we need to follow with the intubation, icu and how we look at the case fertility rate which is the number of people that died, the number over the larger number of people tested. new york has tested many people, more than anyone else. >> if i can add on that, the question is basically what numbers you look at to make a projection. as a doctor said, you look at

all of them, i would not look at the testing numbers, i would not overweight, the testing numbers because they are not random. the testing numbers are selected, these are people who you are testing because they are suspect of being positive. and we do not do the projections ourselves, we have the medical center that does projections, the cdc does projections, we have mckenzie company that we hired to do projections, there are a number of firms that do these projection models and they go back to study in china, south korea and everything else. and they have models, some of the models are all over the place. so we do the best that we can to pick a reasonable model, not the highest, not the lowest, a

reasonable model, plan for the model, plan for the apex, that's where we've been from day one, 140,000 hospital beds, 40000 icu beds, that's from the model at the apex. what you don't need 140,000 hospital beds today, of course not. we need them at the apex. but that's where we got the original projections. then you have actuality which is what you're pointing to, you can see the day today, hominy come in and how many go out, the discharge rate to death rate, that is what we are applauding, then they take every day and put it against their projection, but you still only have a projection, they cannot tell yoe slowing of the number of cases. and when you see the number of cases, the increase in the number of cases slowing, then you are theoretically reaching the apex. and otherwise, you just watch it day today.

>> did you talk to the governor about stopping new york at the border. >> i did not hear that. >> were you talking to him, and others clear restrictions in florida for people coming from new york. >> i don't know what florida did but i will look into it. >> a three-part question, you get two parts. take the first of second part and put them together. >> moving forward, what is your plan for plan that might be considered by the experts that might break the standing and as people are cooped up together, domestic violence is expected to rise and then do you get crime reports in the crime rates now? >> good questions. doctor d want to comment and tell us about the mental health program. >> it's a volunteer program, we

have 12000 mental health experts and profession to have signed up to offer services to new yorkers either by telephone or skype or other things. that program is going quite well of psychologist and psychiatrist in the mental health experts to help without. we are tracking criminal justice. >> are you expected to do something that is more for new york state as opposed to the national mental health experts around the country to offer sites. >> people are scraping because we want to limit distance and we want people to distance from one another so many of those volunteers are new yorkers who are just getting their time and expertise to help new yorkers in need right now. >> the domestic violence question that i asked about --

>> howard d want to take that? >> we have been tracking that, it is tough to tell how it is emerging, we have seen how there some insistence of domestic violence issues in the department of health and other government agencies have trying to provide services where possible. >> as jim said were working with the different agencies across the state on this issue of mental health and all the other agencies and i also reached out to some of the professionals and the private sector to ask the recommendations they may have. >> i appreciate it, can you speak to the warnings before coronavirus at the new york shores that there should be large gathering should be banned, there should be large workplace restrictions, why did you not shutdown the state sooner? >> i think we shut it down -- i

think we were one of the first to shut it down, shutting it down is not without criticism either. you are trying to balances, you not having a conversation of when you're bringing the economy back, when you bring open it up, shutting it down is a very drastic measure. , i think we were one of the first, also you want to do in a way that does not create more fear and more panic, you are fighting two things, were still fighting to thanks, last night we were fighting two things, you're fighting the virus and the fear, i cannot tell you how many people called all night long about the mandatory quarantine, that the president made as he was getting into a helicopter which was inconclusive by the way. even if you heard his comment, it was not conclusive in his comment. but people are so on edge, they really panic people. they were going to leave the city last night.

you need to manage that fear in the panic in you also need to deal with a virus. we were one of the first, i never used the term shelter in place because i believe that was an inflammatory term and incorrect by the way. they still use it. nobody has to shelter in place policy. shelter in place was from the nuclear war threat, go to a room in the middle of your home that has no windows and stay there until you get the all clear sign. modern times was for an active shooter concept or in schools, that is not what this was. but when you say that, nuclear war, active shooter, that's how you do it, we were one of the first to do it. >> do you regret not placing

more restrictions sooner, closing schools -- >> i think we were the muster maddock at basically the first point. >> can you tell me how many, do you know hominy medical professionals in new york or first responders have tested positive or in hospitals or other folk. >> we don't know how many first responders tested positive. >> they said you are rejecting 5 billion coronavirus because you're not willing to delay until the federal funding runs out -- >> i say to senator schumer it would be nice if you passed a piece of legislation would help new york. the piece of legislation that he passed stopped the state from a process that was happening for

six months which was redesigning the medicaid program to make it more efficient and more effective. it was called the medicaid redesign team. i announced it back in january, the second time that we did it and it takes waste and fraud and inefficiency out of the system. that was going on since january. the legislation that he passed said you cannot redesign medicaid for what reason i have no idea. so it disqualified the state from funding. and he knew that when he passed it. >> you had a choice, you could take the additional 6 billion or the mrt which is two and half billion. it sound like you're going to push ahead. >> i have no choice -- i will tell you.

two and a half billion per year recurring is worth more than 6 billion one-shot. i would rather have 2.5, 2.5, 2.5 then 6 billion today. and i called every congressional representative and told them why would you want to stop a medicaid redesign that has been going on since january. i don't know what their political calculus was but that's all it was, political calculus. there was no good government reason to say why you would want to stop a medicaid redesign headed by dennis rivera, michael dowling, top healthcare professional in the united states, passed by the assembly and the senate, a state passed

medicaid redesign efforts. why would you ever want to stop that. i don't know whose politics they are playing but they do not represent the people the state. >> maybe they could do that next year, take the money they are offering now if you need it and designing next year. >> the numbers here are important, the 6 billion number, we cannot get to that number no matter how you estimate those numbers, it's closer to about $4 billion and that assumes that the emergency is in place for a full year, there is nothing in the bill that says it will last for a year, and it will end as soon as the president declares the emergency is over. that could happen at any time, the 4 billion number is reduced if it's half-year, it is two and a significant portion of that money does not come to the state, it goes to local governments. and you're left with a number that is under $2 billion potentially, if at most.

then you basically say take a one-shot of the funds, don't reform to medicaid system and spend the money inefficiently on a system that unanimously everyone understood was not working properly and wasting the money. the choices are waste the money that way or doable that provides funding to new york state, that bill does not even give us a fraction of the amount of money that is needed. >> i think this is a sticking point to the budget, can you offer an update. >> that is not a sticking point for the budget. just so you have the facts, it is 2 billion, take 2 billion for sure, take door a, 2 billion or door be for 2.6 billion. i picked the door with 2.6 billion, not because i like the b but i like 2.6 billion. the new question, why would you

do that to the state of new york, why would you say stop a medicaid redesign that saves taxpayers money that has to be passed by the assembly and has to be passed by the senate. why would a federal government say i am going to trample the states right to redesign its medicaid program that it runs. that saves money, what -- i don't even know what the political interest is that they are trying to protect. but to billion versus 2.6, i picked 2.6. second, the problem with the budget is the numbers. why, the federal government, were just talking about the previous bill, two bills ago, the bill that just passed, we

get 1.9% of our state budget by $5 billion, which is 1.9% of our budget only to use for coronavirus expenses. $5 billion, 1.9% of our budget, only for coronavirus expenses. the first point, you have states that have 10% of their budget, 20% of their budget and coronavirus expenses that do not even have coronavirus cases. some states have four cases, we have more cases than anyone else, we have the lowest level of reimbursement in the bill. what happened to funding need. second, the federal bill had no funding for the fact that states have lost revenue.

and speaker pelosi, god bless her was asked today, how about governor cuomo's point that it did not do anything to help the states. the speaker said, yeah we have to come back and pass another bill. so we have a $10 billion, 15 billion-dollar revenue hold, that the federal government did nothing to help on. now i have to do a state budget, now i say to the state of sibley, by the way we have a ten, 15 billion-dollar hold, they do not want to hear it. nobody wants to hear it, i don't want to hear it, unfortunately you have to live with it. but how do you do a budget with that big of a hold. and remember the great heartbreak was we were all waiting for the last federal piece of legislation because we believe it was going to have money to help us with our revenue shortfall.

and then it did not. so that shock was just two or three days ago, now we have to do the budget next week, the help we were waiting for from washington never came, now we have to make drastic cuts to the budget like you have never seen. >> let me ask about the travel advisory, how do envision on travel, this is trouble for many people is considered essential, you are the financial sector, it's important, how do you imagine that and are you asking people not to come to new york to do business. >> no same definitions as we have, nonessential, if you are nonessential worker, you should not be leaving your home, if you are a essential worker, then you

can take a bus, train, car or plane. >> specific to the travel advisory, should people be traveling to new york. >> same roles, their essential business travelers, yes. >> it looks like you can find savings without shifting off the county, what would be the impact across the board that they are looking at that are possible at a time of a public health crisis. >> the question is how do we fund the healthcare costs. the federal government did provide healthcare fund, i have $5 billion in the bill for coronavirus funding but every hospital now has coronavirus expenses. so we have $5 billion for healthcare and hospitals. ironically, our last problem in some ways is the healthcare budget because we received $5 billion in the hospitals have received a lot of money. the big problem is, how do you fund the schools because the schools are the second-biggest expense after healthcare and

that is where we have $0. [inaudible question] >> couldn't we do short-term borrowing, the issue is we will not have revenue in the first quarter of this year as a result of the delay in the tax filing date from april to july 15. so no revenue coming in is a federal decision, we will have to bar resources to bridge the gap. that is different than the revenue actual shortfall which is a result of having only essential businesses open and that revenue not coming in. to bridge the gap we will do short-term borrowing, we still have a 10 billion-dollar revenue shortfall. >> the essential problem, so were clear, when you have that big of a hold that has to be closed, there is two things you can do, you can paper over it and come up with expectations.

well, we believe the next federal bill will actually deliver money to the state of new york. yeah, you can say that and you can say i believe that santa claus is real but i am not comfortable doing that. especially since the federal government just passed the bill and that's what we were hoping for and they did the exact opposite and handed us a goose egg. well, we expect the economy will rebound in nine months and it will be of the curve, it was a quick down in a quick cup and in nine months all the revenues will keep on trying keep flooding back so we will be fine. that's another way of papering over the hold. i do not want to do that either. because i do not believe it. and i don't believe anyone will believe it and i don't believe credit agencies are going to believe it. and i believe postponing a

problem in government, in life, you make it worse. you make it worse. let's not deceive ourselves, you are not going to get saved by the federal government, if they were going to do it they would've done it. they played the wrong politics. shocker. this is not going to be a quick down, quick cup. you are looking at weeks or months and i don't know how quick the recovery and it will be complicated and everybody says that. i am not quick to say to the people of the state that there is a theory of economics that i do not believe. i believe we have to actually deal with the numbers that are presented, by the way and like every family in the state has to deal with the numbers. everybody's income is down. and they don't get to make up numbers or make up a rationale. i'm going to buy a new car because i think i will get

rehired and i think will get rehired at a job that pays more. so i will buy a new car. i am not doing it. they cannot do it, i will not do it, i know it's politically hard for the legislature, i know that legislative bodies want to make friends by giving a lot of money, we've been successful in being very prudent economically, our spending rate went up less than any administration in modern history. our budgets have passed and they have been right. i know it's difficult for them. i'm not going to do it otherwise, i'm not going to pass or sign a phony budget, period. the same policy issues we've been discussing all along, the main policy objections, they

object to a policy proposal that i put in which would be a bill that is meant to fight against anti-semitism. abilitanti-semitism has been a r problem in this state. right now we have coronavirus and that eclipses everything, we tend to be myopic. we've had dozens and dozens of anti-semetic attacks all across this state. i've been there with families who have been attacked. i was there the morning after the first night of hanukkah when a rabbi's home was attacked. not to address anti-semitism in this state i think is a terrible mistake and it's not just anti-semitism, it's what i call domestic terrorism. it's repugnant to the concept of new york and america to attack someone based on their race, color, creed. if you try to kill someone -- if you kill someone in an attempt

to kill several people, based on their race, color or creed, how is that not a terrorist act? you kill someone and you were attempting to kill multiple people based on their race, color, creed. they don't want to pass that bill. and there's objections to the surrogacy bill which would help infer tile women who can't have a child, can't carry a child biologically from having a surrogate so they can have a child. it was stopped. lgbtq couples stopped from having a child which is wholly ironic to me as this is the state that first passed marriage equality. now you say that couple, who you said you can get married, but you can't have a family because you can't have a