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walking to the subway or getting in and over or lift, people are like thank you so much, you are awesome. >> dana: let me add my chairs for you, liz, thank you, thanks for joining us, everybody, i am a dana perino, here's bill hemmer. >> bill: hey, dana, thank you, i am bill hemmer, it's monday, the united states bracing for what could be a pivotal week against the coronavirus. the surgeon general warning it could be one of the darkest chapters in american history. here's where we stand at this hour. there are more than 1.3 million covid-19 cases around the world. about 26% of those are here at home, with the number of deaths now topping 10,000. also, as of this hour, nearly 19,000 americans have recovered from the virus. former cdc director tom frieden is our lead guest here, welcome to our guest. also president and ceo of resolve to save lives which
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helps countries get ready for epidemics. go through a couple things here, initially, what appears to be clear, doctor, we need to know where the virus is and where it is not. and we cannot do that until we have a test. isn't that at the heart of where we are today, sir? >> there are a few things that we urgently have to do, and everyone has a really important role to play. testing is crucially important, and we are seeing testing come up with commercial companies like abbott coming into the game and getting test kits out there. we are seeing hospital laboratories develop their own tests now that the fda has allowed them to do so, and the cdc test kit is working in every state, and at cdc. but it's not quick enough and wide enough yet. in places like new york city where we are having so many cases, our advice to people is if you are just mildly ill, don't try to get a test, don't come in right now, there aren't
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enough health workers, nurses, doctors, there aren't enough test kits and tests and swabs and personal protective equipment. if you come in and you test positive, you're just going to be told to go home and isolate yourself. >> bill: here's what i'm trying to figure out, doctor, when the day comes where we get the green light, you run a restaurant, let say. in order for you to know whether or not it's safe coming have to have a test so you can check the coke, and the busboy, and the waiter, and perhaps those who would like to dine at your restaurant. and until we get to that point, that restaurant cannot open. is that a fair statement? >> i don't know if that's the way we are going. i think we have to think of this very clearly. on the one hand, we are staying home so the virus recedes and we don't have such an explosion of cases. on the other hand, we have to get ready for the next phase, when we gradually emerge in stages, opening the cap gradually, not opening a
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floodgate, protecting people more vulnerable, and seeing to make sure that we can identify cases when they first occur, find all of the contacts get them isolated and quarantined so we stop the spread of this infection. right now, even in new york city, we are not seeing huge rates of infection. probably less than one in ten or one in 20 people are infected at most. so you're not going to be able to ge get a test and no it is se to go out. so far, we don't even know whether antibodies will mean that you are protected. we hope they well, but were not sure of that yet. we don't want to put anyone in harm's way. that's what we have to work together to flatten the curve by staying home, but also get ready for the next stage would be gradually open the cabin. >> bill: two more things, he wrote a piece in "usa today" about a week ago, a headline on the cdc virus testing, what went wrong and how we proceed. half the tests from the cdc actually worked in mid-february. how different with the situation be today, doctor?
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>> we would be in better shape, but not very different. because the cdc test was never intended for the whole country, it was a public health department, public health laboratories, the other things that had to happen where the fda had to let the private hospitals come up with their own advanced test, and that only happened a month later. and the private sector, like abbott and other companies had to get into the game, and that only happened about six weeks later. so i would say all three legs of that stool didn't function as they should have, and that put us all behind. but let's look forward, what we have to do now is continue to ramp up testing, get ready for contact tracing so that we warn people that they've been exposed so that they can isolate and quarantined themselves. >> bill: we can agree that the initial failure was at the cdc, and we can hash that out down the road. bill gates was on fox news sunday. bill gates hasn't been given a lot of credit for the speech he gave five years ago. looking back at the speech he gave, he was right about everything he warned about. however, even on sunday with
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chris wallace, he admitted the following, doctor. >> even having predicted that as a risk, i am really stunned at how tough it is to go through this. the medical cost, the economic cost, the psychologic cost. everybody's lives have been completely upended and that's not just the united states, it's almost the entire world. >> bill: the nama cost, the medical cost, the psychologic cost. that's what he was referring to. you reflect on that doctor. >> i think we have all recognized that the worst-case scenario scenario is a pandemic of a respiratory virus like influenza or this one. and, although this is not as bad as the 1918 pandemic that killed tens of millions of people around the world, this is the most serious health event in a century. and all of us have to work together so that we can save lives and begin to steadily and safely reopen our economy.
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>> bill: tom frieden, thank you, we will speak again very soon, thank you doctor, for coming today. >> the total number of hospitalizations are down. the icu admissions are down. and of the daily intimations are down. those are all good signs. again, would suggest a possible flattening of the curve. >> bill: 's of the new york governor from earlier today. this is a little bit of what he was talking about. this is on the national level, the daily change. this was a brutal last four days, okay, six days, really. back to the 31st of march. nearly 70% of all deaths in the united states have occurred in the last six days. the numbers are staggering. the white house told us yesterday the numbers are going to get even worse as we go into this coming week, and perhaps the next week beyond. these are the new york state cases, this is the glimmer of hope that many are holding onto as of today.
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the past four days have been somewhat consistent in the number of deaths. 562, 6:30 three, maybe were starting to see the flat line which is really the headline from earlier today. i'll show you one more chart, new york state, now, hospitalization line starting to flatten out. that was a major headline, so too is the icu number in new york state also. the commissioner of new york city emergency management, department, thank you for your time today, let's get a read on the ground, we heard the governor reported that numbers are down, almost across the board. what does that tell us? >> yeah, so i really think it is too early to make that claim, right now, while we might see a couple of numbers stabilizing, what we have seen is that it can be in a different kind of pattern. as you have heard others talk about, we are really bracing for this week which we think could be a potentially really bad week. i think, once we get through this week, and we don't see dramatic inclines again, and i think maybe we can serve to have that conversation but i really
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think it is too early to say that. >> bill: noted on that, let's see whether or not you are right or the governor is right. let me show you something nationally, you can react to this as well. this is another graph we put together. what we are showing viewers at home, i'm not sure if you can see it, deeann, but i'll explain it to you. i've got you. right here, between april and may, this is right in the middle of the month of april, on a national level, that's where we believe the death peak will occur. i'll put it one more time, this is the 16th of april, we are ten days away from that, and they project 30,130 deaths on the 16th of april, and then we will start to level off after that. are you seeing any sort of reflection on this based on the numeric numbers that would tell us that that is where we are headed here? >> so, i can see the chart, but the way i understand you saying it, yeah, i think we have always been planning on our peak to be somewhere between the middle of april, towards the end
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of april. and so, those numbers would reflect kind of what we are monitoring right here as well. >> bill: i am very curious about the ventilator issue. and it is hard to get numbers on this, i believe, 4,000 are in use across the state right now, the governor had said 30000-40000 are needed. do we think, as we are having this conversation today, that that is the number? are we going to go to 30,000? or was that an early statement we can go when things were different seven days ago? >> now, i mean, we had originally anticipated that our peak, in the city, we would need about 15,000 ventilators. the numbers, as we are watching them grow every day have been in line with our model that we have had. so i think there is still a possibility that we are going to get to that number as we get into the middle of april and towards the end. >> bill: 's are not backing off of that? 30,000 ventilators, 40,000 ventilators in new york? >> 15,000 in new york city,
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that's what i monitoring, i'm not monitoring the whole state. but 15,000 hearing or exiting. >> bill: okay, how far away from having that supply? >> so, we are getting some and little by little every day. the stuff that comes in, the state of oregon donated some ventilators. all that makes a difference. i think, right now, the number that we have is somewhere around 5,000. still have a ways to go if that's number that we think. >> bill: was looking in the calendar, think about three weeks ago, think about march 16th, monday in new york, that was really damp separation. the order had gone out on the friday previous, on march 13th. but it appears now, if the governor's numbers are right, and we come back tomorrow, and we're still looking at a flat line, the social distancing that was put into place in new york may have been critical, three weeks ago to slowing the spread. your feeling on that? >> i think social distancing was absolutely the critical step that needed to make a difference. and slowing the spread were
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flattening the curve, as we've heard. the most important piece of that is for most of us that our healthy individuals, it is not an impact, but it's really protecting those that are the most vulnerable. right now, our numbers are still showing that 97%, approximately, that are dying from this disease, or this virus have those underlying conditions, or are part of that vulnerable population, and we need to protect them. >> bill: thank you so much for your time. i'm trying to get good news today. i think i heard two hours from the governor, i hope he's right, i'm trying to get it from you, will you go there yet? i'm not hearing it. >> i just want to monitor it for a few more days. i don't want to get too optimistic yet. >> bill: i will observe your caution, thanks for coming in, deeann criswell here in new york. thank you. in the meantime, breaking news out of south carolina, situation on that infected aircraft carrier, the fire captain who sounded the alarm. the acting navy secretary calling his actions stupid and
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>> entering from louisiana, a number of covid-19 deaths rises again. more than 14,000. in texas, at least 140 deaths. live in arlington, texas, kc. >> good afternoon. emergency officials on the ground in louisiana painting a very grim picture. they say they are running out of refrigerated trucks and preachers to store the dead. just for context and perspective with the latest numbers released in a 2 24-hour period of time, that states saw more than a 1500% increase. 1800% in just a 24-hour period.
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so that hot zone up activity has forced the governor of texas here to take some action, prompting him to order control of the border that we share with louisiana. troopers now patrolling the interstate 10 area. taking temperatures, trying to cross into texas. they must self quarantined for 14 days. this is the first temporary field hospital opens today in new orleans. emergency officials tell us, the convention center there now turn to mobile hospital capable of holding up to 1,000 beds, or flow from hospitals filled to the brim say that they are working to add another 1,000 beds. >> i think, for our community, the next three weeks are incredibly critical. and when we look at the curve, the pace going up, and we try model out what the duration is going to be.
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>> emergency officials are holding a press conference, we are monitoring that. >> bill: for texas, what is the latest in your state? >> at the same thing is happening at the dallas convention center, the army corps of engineers is working very hard they're converting facility also into one of these pop-up hospitals. it's pretty large, and it can serve as overflow medical centers. the number of cases here in relw when you consider how large and how populous this state is. 140 total deaths recorded here. a little more than 7200 total confirmed cases. the army corps of engineers say they can have at hospital up and running within 48 hours once they are given notice. >> bill: thank you, arlington, texas, on that. from overseas, and london.
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he's in good spirits at the hospital but still suffering from covid-19 symptoms. he tweeted that he went to the hospital last night for "routine tasks." this on the advice of his doctor. the prime minister is the first known a world leader to come down with a virus, but that hospitalization came just a day after the queen gave a rare televised speech urging her nation to state united and resolute against the pandemic. we will watch both the elements from london. from italy today seeing a drop in its number of covid-19 cases. people should not drop their guard. the number of deaths in one day he jumped back up to more than 680. this after showing signs of slowing down. the coronavirus has killed more than 16,000 in italy. it is affected more than 130,000 others. it's one of the world's worst hot spots to date. in a moment, we have leaked audio from the active
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>> bill: mention just a moment ago, no one update from london, the associated press reporting the british prime minister has been taken into intensive care after being diagnosed with covid-19. remember, he went to the hospital yesterday, it was announced on twitter, he put on a statement, as we mentioned a moment ago. the queen made an address to the country last night from windsor castle. and now, moments ago, confirmation that boris johnson has now gone into intensive care. so we will follow that quite closely from london. meantime come on board that navy
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ship, the navy secretary you file the onboard the uss roosevelt. apparently described him as being too stupid or naive for the job. he made the comments over the ship's p.a. system, and jennifer griffin has lead story now from the pentagon. what happened jennifer? >> well, bill, the acting navy secretary thomas modly flew out to quan without a public affairs team and delivered a blistering, profanity laden speech chastising the sailors on board the uss roosevelt and mocking captain brett crozier's decision to put in writing my he thought most of the sailors on board the aircraft carrier needed to be removed from the ship in guam as a number of covid cases on board exploded. >> he didn't think that information was going to get out into the public. in this information age that we live in, he was either too naive or too stupid. >> as thomas modly spoke over the ship's intercom system, many of the same sailors who cheered for their captain as he left the ship after the acting navy
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secretary fired him for ignoring the chain of command expressed stunned disbelief when thomas modly describes the captain's actions as a betrayal of them in the navy. brett crozier himself has since tested positive for covid-19. >> not to complain. everyone is scared about this thing. but i will tell you something, if the ship was in combat and they were hypersonic missiles coming at it, you would be pretty [bleep]ing scared too. but you do your job. that's it i expect you to do, that's what i specked everyone on the ship to do, to do your job. >> thomas modly issued a statement moments ago explaining why he was profanity expressing that is how sailors talk. 173 sailors on the ship have tested positive. nearly 2,000 have been removed from the ship. many wonder whether the acting secretary will also fire the navy leaders who took the decision to make a five-day port call in to vietnam in march.
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that decision was not made by captain brett crozier i am told. bill. >> bill: thank you jennifer, jennifer griffin from the pentagon on that story. those getting off cruise ships in the u.s. will not be given permission to board a commercial airline flights. also the cdc is recommending a 14 day quarantine for everyone on board. the coral princess cruise ship docked in miami over the weekend. three passengers are on board have died. keaton picks up the story back in miami today, phil. >> good afternoon, bill, just embarking the coral princess is taking time, going slower than anticipated. far slower than desired. must shove that because of new regulation imposed by the federl government. we are now in the third day since the ship pulled into port here in miami. people are still on the ship, passengers and crew, however, slowly they are getting off. one convoy of buses departed here in front of us today. men and women who should've been home to and half weeks ago.
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though still waiting to leave are continuing to do what they've been doing. kill the time isolated in their cabins. about 14 passengers on the ship tested positive with covid-19, three of them have now died after countries in south america denied the ship from porting. the ship eventually made its way north toward florida, finally miami this past weekend. the cdc department of homeland security now say all cruise passengers honest ship with confirmed coronavirus cases should not fly commercial to get home, only on charter planes, and only with people from the ship. last night, the cruise line flew passengers to california, australia, and the united kingdom. those who can't drive can. but everyone driving or flying has been supposed to do it to a quarantine at home. nobody is allowed to leave the ship if they are still sick. in out, and uplifting scene and all of this, involving the coral princess passengers. on their way home to australia,
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they applauded the united airlines crew for doing their jobs, and to help get their vacation nightmare over. last week, holland america's trip in fort lauderdale or came short on thursday, those passengers had been essentially stranded out at sea for a couple of weeks after the coronavirus pandemic led countries to bar them from coming ashore. now, this story is going to continue, because there are still cruise ships out in the ocean sailing who departed the ports before the whole coronavirus happened. now they are out, stuck in limbo, they still haven't come back to shore, still, the destination is unknown for their ships. to be on thank you phil, phil keating on that for miami. back to london now fox news alert, british prime minister boris johnson is now in the intensive care unit at a hospital in london. this breaking news, we'll get
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you live in london, will get the fault in a moment on that. meanwhile, back at home, americans hunkering down for a chemical weekend medical crisis, also dealing with a significant economic crisis. president trump saying that he wants the country to bounce back like a rocket, his team is planning on that. and what one american company is doing to help the hungry and stop the hoarding so everyone has enough. ts you easily refinance to a lower rate? one call to newday can save you $2000 a year. with newday's va streamline refi there's no income verification, no home appraisal, and no out of pocket costs. it's the quickest and easiest refi they've ever offered. call newday now.
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>> bill: back to the alert from london, live look at hospital where prime minister boris johnson is now in intensive care. that is a st. thomas hospital. at the british prime minister was taken there after severe coronavirus symptoms had increased. now, remember, johnson was admitted to the hospital on sunday for what downing street called routine tests. because his condition had not improved over a period of about ten days after he had tested positive. downing street is saying this "johnson remains conscious, was moved she in the icu as precaution in case a ventilator
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is needed." benjamin hall picks up the reporting now from london with more on this developing story. ben. >> this is moving very quickly, indeed. just three hours ago, there is a press conference in downing street in which dominic raab the foreign secretary said that boris johnson was doing well, he was just there for precautionary tests, and that he was still very much in charge of the country. so in the space of three hours we have seen apparently, his health deteriorated light rapidly. he is now moved into the icu. we are hearing reports from the british media that dominic raab, the foreign secretary has been asked to deputize for him. that's something they have been announced in the past would be the case. as the moment, it appears that boris johnson is unable to continue as prime minister in the icu. just as a reminder, about how quickly coronavirus can take hold. boris johnson has been surrounded by some of the finest doctors, he would've been surrounded by them in downing street, but nevertheless, it has got a hold of him. for ten days, now, we have heard
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that he has been able to shake those symptoms, when others around him, the health minister, number of aids client coronavirus as well, they bounce back quite quickly, he has not been able to. he's been effectively barricaded in downing street, very much trying to put on a brave face showing himself every two days on twitter, releasing videos, but it has to be said, for some days now, people have said, those videos he appears pretty weak in those. he doesn't appear to be looking well, there are reports of him coughing and sputtering his way through cabinet meetings. this morning was the first time he didn't share his own cabinet meetings, again, it is they were deputize to dominic raab. it is unclear what the situation is at this point, just that he has been moved to the icu, but he is handed over control, for the time being, to dominic raab. but he is conscious. it will be said that his fiancee, karen simmons, who is pregnant with his baby is also showing symptoms, some concern for her. we are seeing very quickly, people across the put a call
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establishment here in the u.k., opposition and otherwise, rallying behind him, as is the whole country. he was hospitalized yesterday, just two hours after the queen gave this rousing speech, calling for unity, calling for help, that there was a way through coronavirus. and then, the sudden news that johnson had been hospitalized. so was a roller coaster yesterday. and this now, taking it up another level, were trying to get as much details we can. >> bill: let me train fire a few questions. you say for the past ten days he's been in downing street? is that where he has stayed to receive square for the past week? >> that's right. his private apartments are actually next-door at 11 downing street, he's been upstairs there, trying to continue running the government via video link, he's held all as of cabinet meetings by video link. cut down his staff to a skeleton crew, using contact with only couple of people. but he has been there and just moved to hospital. >> bill: benjamin, tell me about st. thomas hospital, central london, what you know better? >> it is just across the river
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from westminster. from downing street it would be only a five-minute drive for the prime minister. it is a big research center, a very well-regarded, it certainly will have some of the finest facilities in the u.k. it has a major icu unit, they have ventilators there, they haven't said yet if he will need a ventilator, he hasn't yet online, but certainly, he will be getting the finest care. >> bill: so the british prime minister is 55 years old. generally speaking, what would you say his grade of health has been? >> you know, he started pushing towards running for prime minister, we psalm out and about a lot more often. he picked it up, he was running a lot, he made a point of getting out there. we never saw that previously in his career. he did write an article a couple of years ago in which he referenced his weight, i can't remember the number off the top of my head, but that weight was shown to be in the obese category, so that is the only underlying health issue that we
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know of. he may have said that since then, but no significant underlying health issues that we are aware of, other than that. certainly, we are looking into it. >> bill: quite a statement from the queen, to the men and women of the u.k. thank you, benjamin hall, reporting on that from london. we will monitor the developments on boris johnson from here. back here at home now, president trump now pushing for an infrastructure build a healthy economy, and one that might send more checks to millions of americans. blake burman has that strain washington now. like. >> hi, there, bill, senior officials i been talking to over the last handful of days say that their biggest goal right now, by far, is implanting this massive $2.2 trillion phase three relief package, however, i am also being told by a senior administration official at this point, there are some within the white house who are kicking up their own ideas if they need other tools down the line. this was described to me, though, as "super preliminary" but here are some of the ideas
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that i'm told are being bounced around within the white house. that would include building out the payroll tax cut, reducing capital gains taxes, giving businesses a liability waiver should an employeeec sick, and producing a 50 year treasury. it now earlier today, larry kudlow acknowledge that last idea saying there has been some discussion about what would essentially amount to an "covid were bond" watch. >> we have kick this around before. we've talked to secretaries, the president, others talked about you know, selling long term paper, let's see where it leads. again, we have to execute what we have got on the table, it is a massive package. >> bill, one senior administration official made the point to me that at this point, president trump himself is largely talking about infrastructure, about changing the tax code, potentially, so that businesses would be allowed to deduct entertainment, that would help the restaurant industry, and as well,
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potentially giving money to the small business loan program if it needs it. bottom line, here, bill, there's a whole lot of ideas out there, including from within the white house, but at this point, they are just focusing straight ahead unable mensing this. >> bill: nice to see you, blake burman washington, across the country now, grocery store workers among those still going to work during the pandemic. the head of the giant company says it is taking steps to keep workers in it's a is safe, also raising a lot of money for the food banks. the president of the giant company, nick bertram is with me now, next, how you doing? we went looking for great american companies doing great american things, you are one of them. $1 million for all hungry people. tell me about it. >> thanks bill, it has been an amazing company, a great team to represent, everyone's working really hard to do their part, and the giant company is obviously honored to do that as well. getting food on the shelf, for customers, also just giving confidence of the supply chain really is a strong. >> bill: well, you need that.
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i understand this donation can deliver 10 million meals. that's a lot. >> yeah, it really is. but it's not enough. in a situation like this, re donating to food banks, but with all of the common you know, the buying that is happening, the panic buying, there's not enough to donate. we all just trying to do our part to help food banks, help those that are insecure right now. >> bill: next, how to keep people from buying too much? that's a hard thing to do when you're thinking about everything that's facing people. >> yeah, no retailer has probably ever said that. what we have done is just try to point out that we need to have more for all. we actually communicated directly with our 3.5 million households via social media campaign to point out that you don't have to hoard, you don't have to be in panic. america's food supply chain is really, really strong. the building behind me right now is full, all of these trucks will be full and going out very soon. so there's not a need to panic. there's enough for everyone. >> bill: nick, how can we help? >> i think, getting that message
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out that the american supply chain is very strong, the food supply chain is working overtime, #moreforall is a great social media campaign that can help up the whole country, not just here in pennsylvania. >> bill: thank you, and carlyle pla, nick bertram. thank you nick. from pennsylvania to ohio, that state now is that to rule out more rules for those living there. i talked to the governor mike to whine about that live when we come back after this. i love? that must be why you're always so late. i do not speed. and that's saving me cash with drivewise. my son, he did say that you were the safe option. and that's the nicest thing you ever said to me. so get allstate. stop bossing. where good drivers save 40% for avoiding mayhem, like me. this is my son's favorite color, you should try it. [mayhem] you always drive like an old lady? [tina] you're an old lady. we make aspirin to help save lives during a heart attack...
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>> bill: we just got in official statement from 10 downing street, here's part of what it says about boris johnson. the line that sticks out is this, "the prime minister remains conscious at this time. he has been moved to the icu as a precaution should he require ventilation to aid his recovery."
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each 55, the prime minister moved to st. thomas hospital, we're watching that for development. meanwhile in ohio back in this country, the governor sending in the national guard to help a prison where the virus has killed already three inmates. the virus has had more than hundred 40, infected more than 4,000. mike dewine has had a sensible, on top of this from the very beginning. you have new regulations agon effect tonight at midnight, crowded gathering, unless essential, i don't know how we define that, you measures will limit the number of customers inside at one time, a new mandate for anyone entering the state has to be quarantined for 14 days. how do you do that? >> governor dewine: well, bil bill, retail companies have already started to do it. we start to do with this renewal, we were renewing the issue before, making some tweaks, try to deal with some problems that we had seen. in one of those, we got a lot of complaints about big-box stores,
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some grocery stores, there were too many people in there, and that the patrons did not feel safe, they were coming into closer contact. we also got, friendly, some complaints about people who are working, some people who are working there. so we came up with what we thought was common sense, that each retail business needs to post how many people can be safely and there, and then they need to abide by it. we had one store, i think it was walmart, they actually created a one-way aisle, one way this sale, the next lu come back the other way. it's just common sense to kind of deal with it, distain business, continue to serve customers, let people get their groceries. but let everybody feel a lot safer. >> bill: governor, sans interview you did over the weekend. he said let's get through the summer months move on. i agree with you on that, however, what is the plan post quarantined? when do you see a moment when you can have sporting events? or live events, or live music events again in the state of
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ohio? you have to have inability to forecast that, so when you see it? >> governor dewine: not really sure when that's going to happen. a lot's going to depend on how well we do, if we continue to, have everybody stay home, that keeps this thing down. that certainly is very important. another variable is testing. as more testing comes online, more ability to do the quick test, that's going to really help us get people back to work, because the testing is important now, i wish we had more of it, but it's going to be really important as we try to come out of this and the countries that have done that have been able to test and you know, the blood test, it will also be very significant, if that is online. so a lot of this, as were trying to get the testing income and upgrade that. and up the numbers of tests were able to do. >> bill: based on the first part of the answer, doesn't there seem to be a point that's in place for ohio as to when you can get moving again?
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because you certainly find yourself in this debate, now, about how the medical community took page to the .1 economic class about how you're supposed to conduct business. where do you fall in that debate as of the moment? >> governor dewine: these are my decisions, so i'm not going to pass the buck to the medical community or anybody else. i take advice, i take the information i can get, but just as we put together a group of doctors to help us through this, we've also put together a group of ceos around the state, small businesses, midsize, and big and they're advising us, frankly, one of the things they are advising is on is how we get back to work. we know ohioans want to get back to work. we know we need to move forward. we've got to get through this. these are not mutually exclusive goals. these are goals that are sequential. we've got to do everything we need to do to get through this, keep people alive. then we fought to roll out. so, when we can do that, i don't
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think anybody knows that. but, we're getting ready for that. >> bill: when you look at the number of cases in detroit and michigan, do you feel like you jumped on it early enough to keep it away from affecting most people in ohio? >> governor dewine: well, i don't know. we jumped on it early, about as early as anybody did. we closed the classic, before anybody else shutting anybody event down, a columbus, ohio, event where we had 60,000 spectators coming into town for four days, from 80 different countries, so we shut that down. we moved very early, the first state to announce the closing of schools. were not patting ourselves on the back. but we think that that has helped, we think that will continue to help as long as we continue to stay home and do we need to do. >> bill: just 15 seconds or less, how do you view the events here new york? it appeared that there was a
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glimmer of good news today, how do you reflect on that in columbus, ohio? >> governor dewine: well, were happy to hear that. it leveled off, we hope that continues day after day. you look at new york, and we think, it's a horrible nightmare, and what i've been telling the people of ohio, we have to do everything we can every single day so we don't see that on our local tv so that our medical folks aren't overwhelmed. so we have to stay at home, but we also have got to increase the amount of ppe, personal protection equipment for our doctors at our first responders, and our nurses. >> bill: governor, i appreciate you coming on, i hope we can touch base again in the week. we see we how we go week by week. see 14 back in columbus. back in the news on boris johnson and his condition right after the break.
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>> bill: the prime minister, boris johnson has been moved to
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the hospital. we will have access to the intensive care unit. we are told the ventilator is not required at the moment, but it is accessible to him if necessary. age 55, being treated and being tended to for the past ten days. he tested positive. he seemed to be pulling out of it until a statement went out late on sunday new york time where he had been admitted to the hospital. and the condition for the prime minister had "worsened." age 55, page up and hall detailed for us about 30 minutes ago during his campaign, boris johnson was running more and more active. his long-standing health is still outstanding at the moment. world leaders watching the story with great interest. we have the president at the white house. a report from the north lawn n now. reaction initially off-the-cuff.
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>> nothing yet from president trump. he will almost certainly talk about it. i would expected to be the very first thing that he says when he steps up at the next white house coronavirus task force meeting which is set for 5:00 p.m. tod today. president trump talked about his friend, boris johnson. he wished him a speedy recovery and thought he would do just fine. call them "my friend." now, today, where did that he is in the intensive care unit. it has to be a blow to his ally, to president trump. the news is probably hitting him quite hard. it will be interesting to see what he says. you have to think about all the precautions that have been put in place to keep president trump and top administration officials safe at the white house. >> bill: an hour away, the coronavirus task force briefing. we will cover it live. a statement about boris johnson's health. he had been receiving excellent
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care. the prime minister has been under the care of doctors at st. for the moment, he has not kicked this. updates coming from london and washington, d.c., as well. i'm bill hemmer in new york, here's neil, now. >> neil: all right, bill, thank you very much. the british prime minister is in intensive care in a london hospital. he has been battling the coronavirus and was admitted to the hospital with some weariness pains and discovered we were told and moved to the icu just a couple of hours ago. there was no need for oxygen at the time being, but it's being made readily available for him just in case. dramatic term of events for the 55-year-old leader. they've already taken steps and measures to have an interim prime minister in they are doing the duties just in case. it let's get right

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