things will get worse before they get better. those words coming from dr. anthony fauci about where we spread with with coronavirus in the u.s. the director of infectious diseases says it could be several weeks or a few months until life returns to normal. >> i like to see people say you're over reacting. the dynamic and history of outbreaks is you're never where you think you are. you think you're in line with the outbreak, you're already three weeks behind.

you have to be almost over reacting a bit to keep up with it. >> 3,204 people in the u.s. have covid-19. washington state, colorado and massachusetts all in triple digits. across the country, 61 people have died. airports are seeing incredible delays. this is the scene at o'hare airport in chicago. no social distancing there as hundreds of passengers got off international flights waiting for hours for medical screenings. they expand the travel ban in the u.s. goes to ireland and the uk tomorrow might and midnight. the uk and hong kong advice citizens against non-essential travel to the united states. delta is slashing flights by 40%. american airlines is cutting international flights by 75%. millions of children will be home from school this week. 19 governors around the country have announced statewide public

school closures. the mayor in new jersey announced a city wide daily curfew between 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. new york is considering a lockdown. >> are you considering putting in place a lockdown in new york city or are you considering having restaurants and bars shut down in new york city? >> every option is on the table in a crisis that's one, we have never seen anything like this. this is a crisis that will be with us first of all. i believe at least six months. >> police driving down bower town street in new orleans enforcing the ban on large gatherings telling people to go home. bars are closed tonight. colorado's governor ordering all downhill ski resorts to shut down and the ackacad my of coun music awards is postponed.

walmart is closing for 7 hours per day to restock shelves. churches are live streaming and vatican announced all holy celebrations will be banned. gabby is the white house reporter for politico. thank you all so much for being here. doctor, we have heard a lot about social distancing and yet i do not believe that we can hear enough. make the case for us once again for why this is so critical in this moment, in the next 10 to 12 days. >> we know there's already community spread of coronavirus here in the u.s. there are probably hundreds, thousands, maybe tens of thousands of undiagnosed cases

here. we're about to see an exponential rise including in the number of patients who need intensive care unit. in intensive care unit bed and ventilators. our hospitals don't have that kind of capacity. the best way that we can prevent overwhelming our health care system and forcing doctors and no, sirs to ration health care is reduce the rate of the spread. there's something that each of us can do now in order to reduce the rate of transmission over the nec few weeks. that's where social distancing comes in. we need to stay at home. any of us who can and don't have to go to work should stay at home. we should avoid large gatherings and this does not apply only to those who are the most as a r e vulnerab vulnerable. this applies to all of us because we can all potentially transmit covid-19 to other people. therefore, our individual actions will make a big

difference in changing the trajectory of this disease. >> i'm still going to live my life exactly as before. if you have someone they're trying to persuade that they need to be a part of this effort, how do you approach them? >> be able to flatten that curve by everybody taking responsible. i think it's so important that each of us recognize that even if we're healthy, look, i love the fact that people have an attitude of wanting to preserve their normal life as much as possible. we can't continue the way that we normally are. i think that we have to respect the fact this is our new normal. at the same time try to live within means, when ever that's possible with exercise, movement, mindfulness, whatever we can do. >> vice president biden -- i'm sorry vice president pence is

going to be leading a press conference in less than an hour. do you have a sense of what we can expect to hear from the vice president? >> yes, we think they will probably be announcing, at least a couple of new initiatives from the white house podium. today having to do with availability of tests and certainly the vice president or president trump, if he makes an appearance and his twitter today suggests he might, they will get a lot of questions about the long lines and the congested conditions and the lack of planning involved for returnees at u.s. airports today. the pictures you showed a short while ago is the situation being replicated at dozen or more airports across the country. that will be a major focus for the white house reporters asking the president, the vice president and members of the task force why that happened and

was it medically necessary. >> gabby, pick up where ann left off. the president tweeted saying we're doing very precise medical screenings at our airports. pardon the interruptions and delays. we're moving as quickly as possible. it is very important that we be vigilant and careful. we must get it right. safety first. do you have a sense of the answers you're going to hear from this administration about why we are seeing those images? >> it's extremely difficult to anticipate what they will say in response to this partly because the images that we're seeing out of a number of airports, primarily o'hare and airport in chicago last night, are a direct result of the policies that this administration has put in place to respond to this viral outbreak. the president annoyancing suddenly that all u.s. travelers coming in from europe would either be banned or have to face screening as they enter the u.s. and that's what led to those lengthy lines at customs and at

baggage claims at the airports last night. i do think that will have to give answers as to what ann was talking about as the whether or not this is posing a public health risk to americans and for foreigners in these airports in these crowded conditions. i think that's one of the answers we're hoping to hear. how they are addressing this problem and implement some type of social distancing to the degree that they can at a number of u.s. airports to minimize the risk to americans. >> when you have new york's governor writing an op-ed urging the president to mobilize the military to set up temporary medical centers. your take. >> we know we're going to be over capacity in our hospitals. i'm hearing from my colleagues all around the country that their e.r.s are being crowded with the worried well. people who don't need emergency care but are there because they are concerned about coronavirus.

please do not go to the e.r. unless you really need emergency care. we need to save those e.r. beds and hospital beds for people who are truly ill. still, we're going to run out of space. be more we can build up capacity in the hospitals, the better but there are things that each of us can do right now to prevent the transmission of the disease to others. >> there's a lot of concerns over the economy here because people are scared to go out. i will just say one of the things you can do, if you're healthy, you and your family, it's a great time to go out and go to a local restaurant. likely you can get in easily. it does not hurt the working people in this country. >> is that messaging dangerous? >> very much so. it's exactly the opposite of what we should be doing right now. we should be staying at home.

hunki ieering down. we should be preventing the spread of this disease. it's spread from person to person. if we stop the transmission, person to person, that's how we're going to curve this illness. we're also going to see a large escalation in this country. >> i have to pick up there and say a new nbc poll out today says that 60% of americans feel that the worst is yet to come, but there is a clear partisan divide with that number being 79 for democrats and 40% for republicans. how does that reality play out in what we see from the white house on capitol hill in this coming week? >> i think you're seeing something here that we haven't had to deal with in past public health crises. disease is not partisan issue. you can get it whatever political party you support. whether you believe president trump is doing a good job or

not. you can still get it. the fact that the white house is not sort of getting ahead of that and the president, although he is actually out there talking just about every day about ways that the administration is trying to confront this crisis, we don't see from the president, the vice president directly messaging to the most loyal trump supporters saying, look, you actually do need to listen to nbc news. you need to read the washington post. you need to pay attention to reliable national reporting that tells you exactly how widespread this disease is and ways to keep yourself safe. we have a story today and it was disspiriting to see people in conservative parts of the country say they think they should go out and go to church

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the coronavirus bill passed by the house on friday provides paid leave to some american workers in an effort to cushion the coming economic blow. the legislation still has to get through the senate and it contains some big holes. as the new york times points out the bill guarantees sick leave only to about 20% of american workers. big employers like mcdonald's and amazon are not required f d

provide paid sick leave. i'd like to bring in democratic congressman of florida. great to see you. >> lovely to see you. >> i'd love to hear your take on this aid legislation. >> look, the house democrats have been moving very quickly. if you remember, last week we passed a funding bill, $8.3 billion to address the spread of the coronavirus and this pandemic. a lot of that funding will go to support small businesses. immediately when we came back to washington we started working on the families first bill. on thursday morning, we had a bill that we sent to house republicans that included universal paid leave for anyone that was affected by the virus that had to stay home. of course, the white house and republicans were really blocking any attempt by us, by the house democrats to include universal paid sick leave which is why we

ended up with bill that excludes these larger companies. at this point i just want to emphasize that we did include free testing for anyone that need a test, a coronavirus test. if you're feeling those symptoms, you'll be able to get tested without cost. it also covers over 80 million americans if they have to stay home for those companies with employees of 500 or less. if you have to stay home, if you have a sick one at home that you need the take care of, it provides three months of paid family leave. this bill is not perfect but we had to act very swiftly. we sent it to the senate. i expect the senate to act just as fast as we did. >> you talked about small businesses. i want to read you this tweet from the senator from your state. marco rubio. the senate small business committee has a bipartisan plan to protect workers from layoffs and help businesses provide the goods and services we need to

deal with covid-19. i hope we can add it. do you think the senate should pass this legislation as is or tinker with it? >> well, i haven't seen the language that the senator is referring to. i'm curious to see what he wants to include there. i think this bill is a bipartisan bill which is why it's not perfect. we had to make some compromises. it's ready to go. let's not delay any further. providing relief to families, to millions of americans, including right here in south florida. people are getting laid off. i'm getting calls by constitu t constituents worried about their businesses and employees. we should not wait and add more things to this bill. this is just the beginning. we're going to have to work closely together. the senate and the house to provide an additional supplement bill. this just the second bill we're passing. our main concern, especially here in south florida is making sure we contain the spread of the virus. i'm worried this morning we now

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the presidential primary calendar is changing dramatically. the race for the democratic nominee has narrowed to a two-man rice between ger knbern sanders and joe biden, every delegate count. so far primaries have been theyed. wyoming is switching from an

inperson kcaucus to mail in onl. election officials have announced over a third of polling locations in maricopa county will be closed. we are seeing changes in a variety of states. you have in chicago, the chicago tribune reporting that election judges are dropping out and poll places are closing. what type of accommodations are you making in florida to mitigate these realities? >> on wednesday, the governor at the urging of democratic and republican legislatures held a press conference where he outlined resolutions and methods to ensure our voters are safe. they included sanitizing and upping cleaning polling places, implementing social distancing in lines to ensure those that turn out actually have a safe experience. he also called for closures of senior -- polling places at

senior centers at nursing homes so we don't put our most at risk populations a more risk. the issue we're having in florida is while the governor called for the closures on wednesday and i think those were prudent actions for him to take and applaud them, he is still not provided a list of polling sites that have been affected for the florida democratic party or other organizations. we want to do our part. we want to be good partners here. we want to do what we do best which is call in our hundred plus staff and thousands of volunteers across the state to phone bank and text those voters that may be in affected precincts. until the governor provides the list, we're unable to do so. in order for our democracy to work, everybody needs to pitch in. the state division of elections, the governor need to uphold their end of the responsibility and provide the information that voters need to vote. >> we have a new nbc news wall street journal poll and shows an overwhelming number of democrats, 79% feel that the

worst is yet to come when it comes to co virvid-19 compared 40% of republican who is feel that way. does that concern you when you think about the type of turn out you want to see on tuesday? >> in early we had early voting and vote by mail going on for some time. a few million people have cast their ballots. over one million have cast their ballots. looks like on tuesday we'll have a safe and fair election. yeah, looking forward, that does concern me and we should all be looking at the fact that our democracy is founded on the very premise of one person, one vote. we need to -- the new norm in this country is that the unknown unknowns are becoming more and more common. we need to be looking at ways to protect the vote to mitigate soc some of these unknowns.

we should expand election hours and early vote sites so we don't have long lines that may put people at risk. there are measures we can take in this state and akroscross th country to address risks and unknowns like covid-19. we need to act now and we're calling on our governor as well as our state legislature to make some of those aemmendments. >> thank you for joining us. >> we miss you in miami. congrats on the new show. >> i miss miami. skooms ha schools have been closing to stop the spread of coronavirus. there's an inkries eincreased po close schools but they remain open. the president of the american federation of teachers. since you have been out onset, the mayor will be making an announcement at 5:00.

what do you expect to hear from him? are you getting those school closures that you want? >> it is an agonizing choice and this is and for somebody like the mayor, you're the biggest city in america, it's going to speak volumes. it's not an easy choice because of what we do to protect kids every single day in schools. schools are the center of communities. we feed kids. we have homeless kids. there are kids whose parents are doing essential services. they need child care. this is not an easy choice. having said all that, the health and safety of our communities come first and we believe that schools need to be closed. i'm hopeful that the mayor will make that determination tonight and that we will spend, and i was just at the uft offices a

and we have spending the entire day and entire weekend trying to figure out what the contingency plan should be. i'm hopeful that mayor will send a message to the whole city that schools need to be closed. this is the most important thing i can say and one of the reasons that many of us are very angry with the federal government. we needed to have tests. if you don't have tests to know who has the virus, who is carrying the virus because it's so highly contagious, a single case can create a community cluster. if you have thousands of kids going on the subways, going from place to place, home to school, back and forth, that is what could potentially create even more clusters. >> we have talked a lot about whether or not this is our new normal and how long we have to settle in for the realities that we're facing now. how long is long enough?

>> this is now or new normal for a period of time. we have never been through a health emergency like this. i speak from someone who is through 9/11 and sandy and h1n1 and ebola and mers and sars. we've never seen this. even though we have millions of people who get through. theeds a these are the same symptoms. since we don't have adequate testing and vaccine, people are really panicked. when the doctors tell us these are the things that we should be doing, we should listen. do we know how long? no we don't know how long? >> it al means you don't know the circumstances. >> we hopefully if you look at china and look at south korea and you see that because of what they have done, including a lot of quarantining, you see the cases are ebbing now.

that's good news. the cdc just said if schools close, they should close from four to eight weeks. do we know when -- we are right now in a situation like italy, like spain, like france, where the cycle is going upwards. the most important thing is to create a way that people feel healthy and safe. that we protect our front line health care workers who are going to be the front lines in this and that we do, like what nan scy lopelosi that we do thek to buffer the economic problems. whether it's the extension of unemployment or sick leave, we're going to have to do something to help the economy. first and foremost it's health and safety of people, including trying to reduce the panic.

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the bieden and sanders campaigns are findi ining themss scrambling. they will make their case for a debate without an audience. it promises to have a more somber tone. it will provide the final opportunity for bernie sanders to make headway in case where his path is narrowing. phillip, great to see you. i want to get your take on something that happened moments before we came to air. vice president biden announcing he is going to adopt senator sanders proposal to make public colleges and universities tuition free for all students whose family income are below $125,000. your response. >> we welcome vice president biden to the year 2020. i think tonight we're going to see a contrast between two candidates.

one in senator sanders who had a vision before coronavirus that a lot of people are adopting. it's based on the demands of black americans for generations and we have a candidate in senator biden who is bereft of a vision that animates people. we have to candidate in vice president biden who has sought to gut social security over and over. we have a candidate tonight we're see in senator sanders who wants to end the war on drugs. who wants to make sure the wrongs committed against black communities in the crime bill are righted and we have a candidate in vice president bide whon was t en who was the architect of the crime bill. we vice president joe biden to the year 2020. we'll see that senator sanders has the vision that animates, has the movement, excitement to take on donald trump that moves

young people in this country because you can't move without them and vice president biden, you don't see any of those things. >> i said tonight's debate will have a more somber tone but what i'm hearing from you is also going to have very contrast. given what the country is dealing with right now, does the approach change? does the message change? >> well, i think what we've got to look at is where candidates were before coronavirus and after coronavirus. we are in an existential moment of crisis where black people will be on the front lines of whatever happens with this disease. a lot of people say when america catches a cold, black americans catch the flu. americans are catching a virus and black americans are going to catch hell. i don't think anything switches. what we do is talk about where we were before this virus happened. we have been talking about those heft left behind. those people behind bars will be

left behind in the moment of crisis. we have been talking about expanding voting rights and not restricting them. we should be talking about for black american or anybody watching the debate, where was the candidate before coronavirus and where are they now. we will continue to talk about the consistency that this campaign has had in centering the most affected by these disease and crisis and that's black people, poor people, working people, women, across this country. >> i want to draw your attention to some new polling from nbc news. it shows biden leading sanders by a margin of two to one among democratic primary voters in this new poll. what does your campaign see as the path forward? >> the path forward is the path that it always has been. we need to continue to animate the future of the democratic party and that is young people. i've said it before, polls cannot measure the power of this movement. i can't tell you how many people i've heard from in the last few days that text me -- >> which state dwrous ss do you

putting into play for you? >> i'm here in florida. we have people on the front line offense the climate crisis, gentrification and damage of education across our state. we see the path in florida, illinois and arizona and these states that will vote to continue to animate and move old people and young people alike. if you're going to win against donald trump, you need excitement, energy and young people nap will be our path to victory. we're not going leave behind our older black folks. when i talk to my grandparents i remind them that if you want to see a word that's better for your grandchildren then that vote is for senator sanders because he has the policy and energy to take on donald trump. >> thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> let's bring in simone sanders. she's a senior adviser to the joe biden campaign. i want to start with you where i started with phil is your candidate, vice president biden announcing he will adopt senator sanders proposal to make public

colleges and universities tuition free for families income below $120,000. i think phil called that a lack of vision. your response. >> one, i'm happy to be here today. we announced that vice president biden is adopting a couple policies. one of which is senator sanders and congresswoman kamila bill, pardon me. i have allergies. senator sanders and congresswoman bill, which a portion of that bill, the college for all act of 2017 does a lot for making public colleges and universities completely free for students who are families who are making $125,000 or less. this tracks where vice president biden has been. he has long since believed that education should be affordable. it should not be a barrier for anyone given their economic status. believes in universal pre-k but

believes education up through 16 years should be taken care of. that's ha ywhat you see in this updated policy. he's been a champion for making public community colleges and community colleges free. this is an update and we're building on that progress. we're glad to join senator sanders. this is not only good politics but really good policy. >> i'm sure you saw this headline noting the sanders campaign is betting on biden stumbling at the debate tonight. what type of prep are you doing with your candidate to make sure that's not the case tonight? >> i encourage people to take a look back at the vice president shl debate in 2012 between paul ryan.

this debate comes in the backdrop of a crisis we're facing not just as nation as americans but flglobal citizens acod. viewer will be looking to see who can lead in a time of crisis. i think from the beginning of this race, vice president biden has demonstrated his ability to lead. >> i want you to respond to a tweet from president trump. the usa was never set up for this. look at the ka at tcatastrophe swine flu. it soon will be. great decision to close our china and other borders early. riddled with errors there. starting with the u.s. was never set up for this.

of course, the vice president was not in charge of that effort. what is your response and what does it tell you that you have president trump swinging at vice president biden in that way? >> it's clear that president trump and it's unfortunate throughout this crisis that americans and folks abroad are facing, the president has trafficked misinformation and disinformation. if you would like to point to the h1n1 flu, the crisis, more than one million people were tested. the reality is the united states has lagged behind other countries as it comes to testing. what we are facing in america with the covid-19 crisis is a crisis of confidence and competence. confidence that the united states government led by president trump is doing what's in the best interest of the people and competence in that is president trump competent enough to carry out the duties to do what needs to be done in able to

con b combat this crisis. he's failed. folks are questioning what's coming out of the white house. they are questioning what's coming from the press conferences and the briefings that president trump and vice president pence are doing. this coronavirus doesn't care if you're democrat, a republican. it doesn't care if you're african-american, latino, white, native american, asian-american. it doesn't care if you're independent or green party. it doesn't care if you're young or old. if you are a millennial or a gen z. this sfasing au ins facing all . we need leadership and president trump has failed on that. the debate will be somber in the beginning. it will be real conversation around what is happening in this country from school closures to is it safe to vote in elections. i would say you can expect to hear vice president biden articulate his vision as it comes to combatting the coronavirus but you can also

expect him to speak out about how important our democracy is. there are elections on tuesday in this country and through wartimes our democracy has rolled on. there was a great new york times story just earlier this week that talked about states like ohio and florida and illinois. how they are ready and believe in the safety of their election. i just hope that folks are committed to exercising their right to vote on tuesday or if they early voted. >> thanks so much. >> thank you. social distancing is not an option if you're in federal detention. there's a growing concern about migrants being held in facile tills near the southern border. we'll talk about the issues they are facing, next. about the issy are facing, next introducing ore-ida potato pay. where ore-ida golden crinkles are your crispy currency to pay for bites of this... ...with this. when kids won't eat dinner, potato pay them to. ore-ida. win at mealtime.

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as the number of coronavirus cases escalate, immigration advocates are ringing the alarm about the potentially devastati devastating impact this could have in the detention centers. in a series of letters sent last week, the aclu of southern california called on i.c.e. to develop a plan of action for detention centers. it points out that people in detention are highly vulnerable to outbreaks of contagious illnesses because they're living in close quarters and are often

in bad health. wi thank you for joining me. we talked about it in the intro, but i'd love for you to talk through it with us. what are the risks these making rants are facing? >> thanks so much for having me. the risks that detainees have, individuals and families being forced at the border, the concerns and health risks are great. we have seen at the detention facilities, the conditions have always been substandard there. people are being housed in masses at the facility itself where they hold 2,000 individuals, people are placed in barracks of over 100 people. and medical facilities at these i.c.e. facilities, detention facilities have always been substandard. they've not been able to provide

adequate care. in the last year alone there have been several times people have been put into quarantine due to the spread of infectious diseases. with covid-19 quarantining mass people is not an option. detention facilities are not adequately to be able to respond to this threat. >> what would it look like to proactively begin to address these challenges? >> as you stated yerlier, the aclu along with others, we are calling upon i.c.e. demanding they release detainees. it's just a public health crisis waiting to happen. housing these individuals, keeping them there, waiting for the covid-19 to spread at these facilities is a huge threat that the public safety cannot -- should not have to undertake. >> at the same time, despite this pandemic you still have many migrants being forced to show up to court hearings.

how does that complicate this equation? >> that's exactly right. one thing we need to be asking ourselves and this administration is, what is more important in this time? is it the sanctity of our public health? or is it immigration enforcement? the fact that imgraegs court proceedings are continuing, the removal of individuals is continuing, that they are not suspending these hearings, tells thaw clearly for this administration, they still don't think that this is a crisis that deserves us responding and protecting the public's health. >> we've talked about those in detention facilities, we've talked about those at our border. let's talk about undocumented members of our community. what needs to be done in order for them to feel safe enough to be tested for this virus? >> immediately i.c.e. must come out and say that they are suspending enforcement activities until covid-19 we have it under control. unless and until they can do

that, i could almost guarantee you that immigrant families, especially those undocumented are going to be forced to go underground, because they're too scared to seek out help and assistance, and we can't afford that. >> thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. that wraps it up. in just a few minutes we expect a live briefing from the coronavirus task force from the white house. we'll bring it to you live. the reverend al sharpton takes over at the top of the hour with "politicsnation." r with "politicsnation. want to brain better? unlike ordinary memory supplements-neuriva

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good evening and welcome to "politicsnation." we begin with breaking news at the white house. where any minute now we expect to hear from vice president mike pence and members of the coronavirus task force. for an update following a meeting with president trump. they had that meeting this afternoon. we will take you there as soon as it starts. but first, let's go now to nbc's hans nicols at the white house. >> good afternoon, rev al. we're waiting for news from the white house. the vice president is going give us potentially an update about what we know about the test and how it's getting out there.

the white house needs to clarify this. they've given information on how the drive-through tests will be. how they're interacting with private companies like google, alphabet, develop a questionnaire to triage this a little bit. let's listen to what the vice president has to say. it will be interesting to say what they say in the task force about the broader economy. >> hans, let me ask you while i have you, do we expect the president may come in and be part of this briefing? he's supposed to be in the white house. he came yesterday. do you expect an unannounced appearance by the president? >> potentially. i think when the president makes an appearance in the briefing room, we can all be shocked but never surprised. yesterday was the case you sort of got a hint he might be coming. there are a few tells always out there. there's no seal up. yesterday there wasn't. sometimes you see the

president's