unt on pampers. the health of your baby's skin starts with the pampers they're in. do not travel. global level 4 health advisory the state department wants americans abroad to come home now or prepare to stay out of the united states indefinitely >> the governor of california warns that 56% of the state's residents will likely get coronavirus over the next weeks. new york running dangerously low on hospital supplies >> and in italy now the most deaths than anywhere in the world. china for the first time reporting no new cases

should the extreme measures in china be used here in the u.s. >> we'll get the latest on the government bail out for everyday americans and when those checks will be in the mail. "early today" starts right now >> good morning on this friday, march 20th i'm cori coffin. >> i'm frances rivera. as testing becomes more widely available, america is getting a clearer picture of the scope of the coronavirus outbreak in california the governor warns that a model city planners are using shows that 56% of californians could be infected over eight weeks that's more than 25 million people the entire state has been issued a stay at home order and in florida where beaches have been packed over the past week the governor says party is over. he says every single beach will have to follow cdc guidelines of gatherings of no more than ten people some are closing beaches >> new york city had to be shut down after an employee tested

positive that person is receiving medical care and is under quarantine many americas are feeling the strain financially customers may be able to defer mortgage payments on a case by case basis health care workers are also under a lot of strain as they face the pandemic. carnival is offering use of their cruise ships the ships could be used for patients who do not have the virus so hospitals can free up beds and equipment now tv doctors are helping out shows like grey's anatomy are now providing masks, gloves and other supplies to hospitals in need >> burger king is offering its own form of relief they'll be giving away kid's meals. they'll be available with any purchase through the burger king app. wall street offering positive news as well.

150,000 new employees being hired to fill the new demand money will be used to give cash bonuses to current employees $150 for part timers extraordinary efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus. cases top 13,500 in the case with over 200 deaths the number of cases doubling since tuesday and what we thought we knew about the virus is shifting by the day >> reporter: inside intensive care units across the country, the cdc says nearly half of all coronavirus patients fighting for their lives are younger than 65 while often deadly for the elderly the virus is taking more lives of those who are not senior citizens. the young not only catching the illness at higher rates but also

spreading it >> on the worst day it was -- i mean, it was a ten it was rough. >> reporter: matt has had the virus for over a week. >> feels like my lungs have fluid in them. the air feels thin and it just feels heavy on my chest. >> reporter: as officials in washington state scramble to build a 200 bed hospital on a soccer field, the number of coronavirus cases nationwide is hitting yet another milestone climbing to over 13,000, more than half the cases in the country come from just ten counties across three states, new york, washington and california >> the number of test positives is increasing. >> yet the white house, a call for social media influences to warn the young about the virus, the governor of maryland with a more pointed message amid spring break scenes like these. >> if you are engaged in this type of activity you are in violation of state law and you are endangering the lives of

your fellow marylanders. >> with the state department making an unprecedented move telling americans not to travel abroad, carnival cruise lines is offering their ships to service floating hospitals to relieve stress on a burden on shore medical system now the first two members of congress have tested positive while in new jersey so have members of a family. cases in neighboring new york are skyrocketing >> nobody can tell you when this is going to end. nobody can say two months, four months, nine months, nobody. >> reporter: amid ghostly scenes like this as americans heed warnings to stay away from others the u.s. census is suspending field operations while the cd streaming funerals to avoid crowds the national guard now deployed to over half the country

>> with covid-19 it's like we have 54 separate hurricanes in every state, territory and the district of columbia >> fighting the virus and fear as both spread across the country. in a letter to the president, california's governor said over the next eight weeks he expects half of this state, 25.5 million people to become infected with the coronavirus. that is a staggering number and it could be followed by other states with similar projections. >> all right thank you. europe continues to be rocked by the coronavirus outbreak cases and deaths in hard hit italy have now surpassed china's. the grim milestone comes the same day that wuhan china claim to haved no ne this as other countries continue to close borders and shutter schools as well as essential businesses in an effort to stop the spread of the virus. for the latest we turn to

london good morning >> reporter: grizzly figures globally coronavirus virus deaths have now surpassed 100,000 and italy has the highest mortality rate 427 of the deaths just in the last 24 hours. compared to china which has 3,249 deaths and just to put that into some perspective of how bad the situation is in italy, their population is 20 times smaller than that of china's with around 6 omillion people in italy compared to about 1.2 billion in china new infections also shot up by 5 and a half thousand bringing the country's total to just over 41,000 that's more than half of the world's cases in italy alone and the country is struggling to cope inside the hardest hit hospital

the sheer number of people succumbing to the virus is overwhelming with so many deaths in italy the military is being called in to help transport coffins from one of the country's worst affected cities italy also marked these grim milestones as you said on the same day as wuhan, the epicenter of the virus recorded no new infections and throughout europe we're seeing an up tick. numbers in france crossed the threshold of 10,000 cases and here in the uk the death toll has passed 100 and all schools will shut until further notice >> thank you america's health care professionals are fighting on the front lines of the outbreak and hospitals are warning that supplies are running low the president is urging the fda to forge ahead

>> reporter: triage tents now help manage the people fearing they've got covid-19 any needing hospitalization are isolated a hospital in boston has set aside a full protective wing >> we're spending up to two hours at a time with all the equipment on you can't really breathe that well and it's very hot so you get very exhausted wearing it. >> reporter: the american hospital association says it needs $100 billion immediately to deal with the emergency as med centers nationwide tell staff to conserve masks. >> in some cases where it's as safe as possible to do so actually reusing those and then for other things like respirator hoods and goggles we are being told the save those so they can be cleaned and reused later. >> the government promises more are coming as the cdc lrecommens

making masks out of scarves and bandanas chloroquine and remdesivir but the drugs are not yet approved for covid-19 and may not work remdesivir may work better on coronavirus. chris kaine was put on the experimental drug and says he saw fast results >> within 48 hours i was feeling a lot better but i got a five-day dose of it and then i got home from the hospital over the weekend. so -- >> reporter: the good news, most people will have mild to moderate symptoms and can treat themselves at home >> it's not much more than getting rest, staying hydrated, you know, if you have a fever, you know, maybe taking medication for the fever like

acetaminophen, but the most important thing is really to practice social distancing >> meanwhile with young people ignoring pleas to stay inside the resident physicians at the hospital in minneapolis have their own message. >> we stay at work. >> for you >> you stay at home for us >> the massachusetts medical society says the situation there is dire, not enough protective equipment for doctors, nurses and technicians on the front lines of the pandemic. >> we're hearing and thinking about that more and more >> let's get our first check of the weather with bill karins >> good friday morning rough conditions overnight in areas of southern missouri and now kentucky and portions of indiana. we do have one tornado warning so keep an eye on that and with the flash flooding we've had a lot of rain overnight. southern indiana, you could experience some flash flooding

this morning that rain will slide into the northeast. the severe weather threat will go away. 82 in washington, d.c. but look how cold it is back in the central plains and the northern plains some areas like fargo will be like 10, 13 degrees. so saturday is pretty quiet around the country but here comes our next storm once again in texas it seems like it rains every other da digits there's that warmth in the mid-atlant mid-atlantic >> typical march day with some areas hot and others frigid. >> and today is the first official day of spring cashed before the crash. senators come under fire for dumping stocks before the

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welcome back let's update you on the numbers from yesterday of course with the exponential curve the numbers are really skyrocketing now we had almost 5,000 new cases yesterday. a lot of those were coming out of the new york city area. we saw a jump of about 2,000 all by itself. the red region is the northeast which dominates the number of cases that came in the midwest so how are we doing on the curve? the administration says it's going to be very alarming because of the number of new testing and the number of new cases will have a dramatic upswing. it could be a little exaggerated because of the backlog so instead look at unfortunately the fatality curve this has nothing to do with the testing. this is the number of people that we've seen that have died from the virus we had 11 people on march 4th. yesterday we went up to 204. that's that's a growth of about 23% that is alarming

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it has been nine days since covid-19 was declared a global pandemic and the response of the united states is drastically ramping up senate republicans have unveiled their coronavirus stimulus plan to put money straight into your pocket we're joined by chris pollone now and what can you tell us because there are so many details and so many questions people have. >> that's right and with unemployment claims already starting to skyrocket in the u.s., all eyes obviously are on congress to pass a stimulus bill quickly, but the white house says it wants a vote on monday,

but criticism is already mounting over the republicans' plan in california, a drastic and unprecedented move >> as a recognition of our interdependence that requires of this moment that we direct a statewide order for people to stay at home >> reporter: 40 million people told not to go anywhere, to slow the spread of coronavirus. >> let's bend the curve together >> reporter: with infections rising. >> i'm officially introducing dr. >> reporter: senate republicans represent their plans for economic stick lus it provides emergency loans for businesses and the trillion dollar plan would have the government send checks to some taxpayers as low as $600 up to 2,400 depending on income plus extra payments for children. >> this legislation takes bold action on four major priorities. >> reporter: democrats already dismissing it claiming the plan puts corporations ahead of workers. >> we don't want these industries to go under

but we certainly don't want the dollars that are put there to go to corporate executives or shareholders. >> reporter: the pentagon says it could take days or weeking for navy hospital ships and their thousand beds to reach ports in new york and either california or washington also today the white house is under mounting pressure to help states acquire equipment for medical workers. >> we have to win this war, it's very important >> president trump resisting calls to use federal law to force companies to manufacture critical supplies. >> and today key senators will be meeting with white house officials on capitol hill to discuss this stimulus package but it's unclear at this point whether any democrats will attend one democratic aid told nbc news that the meeting was a waste and nothing more than a photo op >> all right thank you. and we thank you for being with us today and throughout the week a tough week for a lot of us

i'm frances rivera >> i'm cori coffin to leave you with this on this friday we want to leave you with this nightly sing along in boston it's inspired by the singing neighbors in italy a pair started it to help

a very good friday morning. thank you for joining us on the first morning of the statewide shutdown. i'm laura garcia. marcus washington has the day off. mike and kari are joining us from their homes. we're social distancing as well amid this growing coronavirus pandemic. let's get a look at the weekend weather with kari. we'll have traffic with mike in just a moment. good morning, guys. good morning. and we have started out with just a few clouds moving in. >> first, gavin newsom after the statewide historic mandate.