monday evening. on behalf of all of my he colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night from our temporary field headquarters. good morning, everyone. it is tuesday, march 24th. we have lots of new developments on the coronavirus front from the fight to stop the spread to the economic fallout to the battle on capitol hill over how to provide financial relief to millions of americans. plus, live reports from rome, london and iceland as countries around the world continue to battle this pandemic. in fact, the world health organization says the spread of the coronavirus is picking up pace. it took 67 days from the first reported case to reach 100,000. just 11 days for a second 100,000 and four days for a third. here in the united states, the numbers continue to surge with

nearly 10,000 new cases reported within the last 24 hours. still, with no bend in the curve in sight, president trump is calling for a quick end to the most effective tool that currently exists to combat the virus, social distancing. >> we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself. we're not going to let the cure be worse than the problem. at the end of the 15-day period, we'll make a decision as to which way we want to go, the timing and essentially we're referring to the timing of the opening. essentially the opening of our country. >> you said it will likely be weeks, not months before you suggest using these guidelines you put out. have any of the doctors on your team told you that's the right path to pursue? >> we spoke to them today. the doctors, if it was up to the doctors, they would say let's shut down the entire world.

again, you're up to 150 countries. when we shut it down, that would be wonderful. >>. >> oh, the tests -- >> we have a task force? >> we have a task force. >> does he agree with you about the need to reopen the economy soon? >> he doesn't not agree. and he understands. there's a tremendous cost to our country. you know, you have 160, almost 160 million jobs in this country now. the most ever, by far, by far the most ever. the number of jobs, almost 160 million. there will be tremendous repercussions. there will be tremendous deaths from that. death. probably more death from that than anything that we're talking about with respect to the virus.

>> now that 15-day period, recommended by government health experts ends next month. however, that's not stopping more and more governors from issuing stay at home orders as hawaii, new mexico, washington state, michigan, wisconsin, oregon, west virginia, massachusetts and indiana join eight other states in ordering residents and nonessential workers to stay inside. here in new york, the state continues to take the top stop of the coronavirus outbreak. inching closer this morning to hitting nearly 21,000 cases. that number accounts for nearly 47% of the nation's total. governor andrew cuomo contributed the state's skyrocketing numbers to testing at least 16,000 per day so far. he issued an emergency order for hospitals to boost their capacity and toured new york city convention center as a field hospital for the influx of

expected patients. >> to all hospitals, you must increase your capacity by 50%. you must. mandatory directive from the state. find more beds, use more rooms, you must increase your capacity 50%. we would ask you to try to increase your capacity 100%. okay? so we now have 53,000 beds. we need 110,000 beds. >> and in new york city itself, the virus has infected nearly one in 700 residents. the mayor said the city received 400 ventilators from the government yesterday. as critical supplies continue to dwindle. meanwhile, more than 100% of the new york police department have now tested positive for the coronavirus. joining me now, daniel lippman. always a pleasure to talk to you. president trump pushing for a return to normalcy as coronavirus cases continue to

rise. give us a sense of what you're hearing. how is this administration in particular, you know, how are they being received, their response in all of this? >> not very well. even from some of his top allies like senator lindsey graham who say we should follow the social distancing recommendations by dr. fauci and other officials. so the meg community is pretty united against any relaxation just now. they say we have to keep it in place for more time. >> so my question to you is how is president trump changing tone on this? because it hasn't been long. and you can kind of see the

chorus of his supporters, whether it be online or in right wing media begin to echo this line that the cure can't be more costly than the disease, something that is quite abstract. how is it affecting public confidence in all of this? >> i think it would be a return to what we saw before when trump and his allies were saying this is a hoax and we shouldn't take this too seriously and then they got on board for the last week that this is something that is very serious, indeed, that this is a pandemic and we have to do anything we can to stop it. now we're seeing them kind of trourn that first mentality which is, hey, this might be, you know, this could back fire on trump and this could hurt his re-election, as well. that is at the tip top of their

minds, as well. >> and it will be interesting to see how this all plays out. daniel lippman, thank you very much. i'll talk to you again in just a little bit. and, doctors are warn to go be leary of new coronavirus symptoms. the "new york times" reports the loss of a sense of smell and diminished sense of taste have emerged as telltale signs of covid-19. citing globally available data, doctors have called on adults who lose these sense toes isolate themselves for seven days even if they have no other symptoms to slow the disease's infection rate. joining me live from london, ali arruzi. also with us from iceland, willam marks. ali, over in the uk, prime minister boris johnson was coming under criticism for not ordering the uk to stay at home. he now has reversed course. he's going full force ahead with

getting everyone to stay in, but some of the images i've seen online are showing people not abiding by that. how is it playing out so far? >> that is right. even yesterday, there were large numbers of people in public spaces which was quite shocking to see considering the only thing you have to do to help out is sit at home and watch tv. the prime minister has now put the country down into essentially a police enforced lockdown with strict curbs. people are only allowed to leave home to exercise once a day, to travel to and from work when absolutely necessary, to shop for essential items and to fulfill medical needs. shops selling nonessential goods have been told to shut. gatherings in public spaces of

more than two people have been prohibited. the police can fine you and move you on if they see you there. these measures will last at least two weeks, perhaps longer. there is already enormous controversy about whether boris johnson acted fast enough. now we have to see in the coming days if people abide by them. this morning, it's still fairley early here, but the streets seem emptier than they have been yesterday and the day before and all the shops around us are closed and it doesn't seem like they have any plans of opening up. >> all right. stay with us. let's cross over to iceland right now where willem is. large scale testing is under way in that country. a significant story there. what could other countries learn from what iceland is going through right now?

>> well, on this tiny island, 364,000 souls. they've already as of sunday night tested more than 10,300 people. that doesn't sound like a large number. you know well that number is nowhere near being reaped so far. what they're doing here is they're not just testing people exhibiting symptoms of covid-19. they're also testing thousands of ordinary people from the general population exhibiting no symptoms whatsoever. they found in that high risk population, there's an 18% prevalence of the virus. but even among ordinary people, 1% are carrying this virus unknowingly, unwittingly and that might be useful information for health care officials as they seek to allocate finite

resources, figure out how many betts are needed, what their staffing requirements are and when as they build out their predictive models. one other thing they're doing here is sequencing the sample of every single sample of this virus. they're looking at versions that have come here from italy versus those that have come from the u.s., and they're hoping to understand how the virus mutates and with that information, they're hoping they can better understand where the virus travels and whether in the future it will become more virulent. >> thank you both very much. still ahead, president trump has announced a freeze on foreclosures and evictions, but will the move provide real help? plus, senate negotiators say they are close to reach ago deal on a stimulus package. what lawmakers are saying about that, still ahead. how do you get skin happy 24/7?

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people in their homes during the coronavirus pandemic, the trump administration recently announced a freeze of foreclosures and evictions. but now housing advocates are saying this may fall short of providing real help. the freeze applies to those with mortgages ensured by the federal housing administration. but while the freeze may be helpful for homeowners, a renter's advocate organization says coronavirus outbreak will be a big problem for renters. danny, always a pleasure to have you with us. let's talk about trump's construction eviction freeze. and how they vary from state to

tate. there is no question this is a patchwork quilt because many state governors are freezing evictions and then you have the federal government doing its, as well. but it's important to recognize the framers of our constitution perceived government interference with contracts a great evil and, in fact, they particularly did not like government interference with debt relief. so they inserted into the constitution the contracts clause which prohibits government or legislative interference with private contracts. the language is absolute. there is no modifier like excessive interference or reasonable interference. and yet, over the years, courts have interpreted this to be a balancing test, that the government can interfere with private contracts as long as there's a significant enough public interest and suspension of evictions is exactly that. it is an interference with

contracts. the question is whether or not the interference is justified given the public interest. and a court would likely conclude that the rental market, the rental industry, the real estate industry is already a highly regulated industry. for example, we have things like rent control in new york city. that's a direct government interference with the power of private contracts. in other words, to set rent at whatever you want to set rent as a landlord. yet that is a constitutional right of private power. >> i know you know some attorneys who are planning to challenge evictions on behalf of landlords. walk us through a little bit of that little thinking. >> it would be what you call a section 1987, a civil rights by

landlords arguing that this suspension of their right to evict tenants interferes with their private rights to contracts. the reality is the government interferes with contracts all the time. arguably, every state and federal tax interferes with a contract because it disincentivizes by charging people a tariff by entering into a contract. so this is an argument that has been often tried over the years, but rarely successful and particularly unsuccessful in the real estate/landlord/tenant arena. courts generally hold that state governments and federal governments do have the power to regulate landlord and tenant

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>> so that was president trump during yesterday's coronavirus news briefing saying he is looking forward and not back when asked if he has any regrets about his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. with that, let's switch gierls and bring in bill karins. he has been looking at the numbers for us to see how that curve is going and whether or not we have had in the success trying to flatten it. good mortgagning, bill. >> yesterday was a brutal case. we added more cases than any day we have going back and we added more cases yesterday in our country than any other country out there with the exception of china in one day. more than italy had in their worst day. remember, flattening the curve. we want to avoid the area of red and overwhelming the health care system. in my county here, out of new york city, i have a friend that works in the er. when he got home, he said, bill, please help if you can.

he's asking me, an er doctor in icu because he knows they are getting close to having to decide who goes on the ventilators and who doesn't. that is the point we're -- we're mentioned this in italy about 7 to 10 days ago. that's the direction that we're heading in and we're about to make those decisions in our country of who lives and who dies based on who gets the ventilator or not. so now let's go and show you what happened yesterday. we have up to 46,000, a little over 500 cases. in two days, we more than doubled the number of cases. we're not even close to flattening this curve right now. what much mas it exactly is the total number of deaths. we went on march 20th from 250 fatalities to 582. as of yesterday. you can see how rapidly we've increased the curve. we haven't flattened it yet. we hope by the end of this week

we start to see some signs of it. but by both of these measures, the total deaths has nothing to do with the number of testing. and you notice both of those curves match up perfectly. so let's get into your forecast for today. yesterday, we had that storm going through the northeast. i know we had significant snow. we're going to do some shoveling through albany, southern vermont, new hampshire and portions of maine got it pretty good, too. but now we have the next storm right behind it. a rough morning. that next storm is heading to you, tulsa. as far as severe weather goes today, washout in emphasis, tupelo, and eventually these storms will roll through areas of northern mississippi and into north georgia, even the atlanta area could get some storms later today. around 90 in san antonio. so i know we've been saying all along, i'll keep updating these numbers and these graphs. eventually we will flatten the curve. but right now, we are

skyrocketing up this curve. we are doubling our number of cases about every two to three days. and for the deaths, we are doubling it about every two to three days. still ahead, country is around the world are race to go contain the coronavirus outbreak, but there may be a bit of good news coming out of the one of the hardest hit areas, italy. we'll get a live report from rome, next. plus the latest from capitol hill as bickering breaks out about a stimulus package. 300 miles an hour,

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welcome back, everybody. we begin this half hour with the announcement from chinese officials that the lockdown on wuhan, the city where the coronavirus originated will april on april 8th. while more than one in five people around the world are now under some form of lockdown as nations race to contain the outbreak, the united kingdom announced strict measures allowing people to leave home only once a day to exercise, to shop for essential items, to meet medical needs and to travel to and from work while banning any gatherings of more than two people who do not live or work together. officials caution that it might be too early to tell if italy has turned a corner. italy reported a little over 600 deaths yesterday. a decline in the daily death toll for the second straight day. now, to combat the pandemic, the u.n. secretary general called for an immediate cease-fire all over the world saying, quote, it

is time to put armed conflict on lockdown and focus together on the true fight of our lives. joining us now from rome, italy, matt bradley. matt, good to have you with us. you've been there now longer than anyone, so you have the perspective of how things are unfolding in italy. what is the latest situation there right now? does it seem like the strict lockdown measures are start to go work when you look at these back sxo back days and the numbers they've produced? >> yeah. you know, we don't really talk about good news here. that's not a term we're bandying about. 600 people is not the world record setting high that we saw on saturday. that was a dizzying height. 793 dead in one day on saturday. and, yes, so yesterday we saw 600 dead. that is less, but that's not necessarily good news. not just because i don't want to instill false hope in people, but because that number could very easily go up once again. before we reach that 793 number,

the numbers were going up and down. so to read into what's happening on the ground just based on iterations of numbers and mathematics, it's really not enough. it's not scientific. so that is why, you know, we can't really necessarily say that this lockdown has necessarily shown itself in the figures. now, in terms of transmissions, that's also kind of a faulty number because it depends on the number of people who have been tested. so whether or not a certain number of people test positive, that is also dependent on just how many people come in and get tested and that kind of thing. but scientists here, world health organization officials on the ground in italy, they say that the lockdown, the unprecedented comprehensive nationwide lockdown is working, it is showing itself in the figures and that that has shown by the lower percentage rate of increase of the number of cases. now, that, again, could change at any moment. but as you mentioned, wuhan,

which has already been the experiment, italy has been the canary in the coal mine when it comes to western democracies and how to impose a comprehensive lockdowns on countries where the government doesn't have a habit or a history of intruding so much in people's lives. so we can look at wuhan and say after months or weeks of a comprehensive lockdown things are start to go change and things, you know, might be that lockdown might be lifted. but here in italy, policy measures are not saying that that is necessarily -- we're necessarily seeing the light at the end of the tunnel here. i spoke yesterday with the mayor of the hardest hit city in the world right now, bergamo. he said, you know, the number of deaths he speculated could be three to four times as high as are officially reported. that's obviously a terrible thing to say, but it's because a lot of these people are dieing at home alone and a lot of these deaths came before we had a comprehensive testing facility

here that determined whether or not people were sick with this disease or if they were elderly and dieing of natural causes or just pneumonia. so all of these numbers we can't hang on the day-to-day figures. >> matt bradley with that realistic update. always appreciate it. thanks. senate leaders in the trump administration appear to be closing in on an agreement for nearly $2 trillion stimulus package to help offset the economic damage cause bid the outbreak. after a series of meetings last night and a phone call with the president, minority leader chuck schumer and treasury secretary steve mnuchin told reporters hopefully after midnight a deal will be reached sometime today raising the possibility of a senate vote. now, lawmakers have spent four days negotiating the deal, including two procedural votes that were both blocked by democrats. as "the washington post" points out, one of the sticking points has been this $500 billion funding program that republicans want to create for loans and loan guarantees.

some democrats argue that it would be a slush furniture that lacks any oversight. on the senate floor, lawmakers went after each other on those delays. >> is this package perfect? no. but that's why negotiations are still going on. this is disgraceful. we do not have time. >> yes, we are worried about the fact that this is going to make rich people much richer and at the same time not actually stopping the public health crisis. >> you know what the american people are thinking right now, mr. president? they're thinking that this country was founded by geniuses. but it's being run by a bunch of idiots. >> take a deep breath. the emotions that we've seen on the floor on both sides of the aisle are reflected in homes across america. >> all right. joining me now, white house and washington reporter for politico, daniel lippman.

good to have you back with us. >> thanks, ayman. >> i would say a lot of tension among the senators on both sides. you saw dick durbin try to cool things down a little bit. what is the status of the coronavirus stimulus bill today? are we likely to see some kind of traction? >> yeah. i think all sides say that today is the day that they're going to reach a final deal. democrats did not want to give in and give the trump administration a blank check for hundreds of billions of dollars of money that would go to corporations in that fund. they saw how -- their base and how the american people reacted to the 2008 and '9stimulus packages where even though there was oversight, people still felt like companies were getting the better side of the bargain, better end of the bargain than regular people. and so democrats did not like that statement from trump. i will be the oversight.

they don't trust him to manage this program properly. >> so how soon do you think we can see the senate actually reach a deal today in terms of -- you're saying today might be the day and they may have hammered out some kind of oversight over this $500 billion fund. but how quickly can we see from this vote to the day that americans actually get relief? how quickly can that time be? that's ultimately what this is all about. when will americans and companies and businesses get the relief they need to go forward? >> i think we're likely to see a vote in the senate today and then it goes to the house. whether the house will actually come back to washington is an open question. whether they could do it by a remote voting, that's something that many congressmen want to be looked at. and then it just takes a while for kind of check toes be put in the mail to millions of americans so we're looking at, you know, probably early april, mid april for some of those checks. >> all right. hopefully that gets to those people sooner than later.

daniel lippman live in d.c., always a pleasure. thanks. still ahead, president trump is reportedly losing patience with medical experts who contradict his statements about the coronavirus. as one arizona man died after his wife says the couple was following the president's advice. your first look at "morning joe" is back in a moment. hey allergy muddlers... achoo! ...do your sneezes turn heads? try zyrtec... ...it starts working hard at hour one... and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day.

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it. and now trump's patience has started to wear thing. similar reported notes that trump is losing his patience not just with fauci, but with the medical professionals who have made the case day after day that the only way to prevent a catastrophic loss of life is to essentially shut down the country. an arizona man has died after taking chloroquine phosphate believing it would protect him and his wife. can the couple decided to mix a small amount of it with liquid and drink it as a way to prevent the virus. they did not take the form used to treat malaria patients. within 20 minutes, both became extremely ill and the man started to experience respiratory problems. he died shortly after the couple arrived in a hospital. his wife, who is now in stable condition, told nbc news that she and her husband decided to take the toxic ingredient after watching president trump talk about its potential benefits during a televised white house briefings.

>> now, a drug called chloroquine, and some people would add to it hydroxy chloroquine, this is a common malaysia drug. it's shown very encouraging, very, very encouraging early results. and we're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately. >> the food and drug administration has not approved chloroquine as a treatment for coronavirus. although some early research suggests it may be a useful therapy. the arizona woman who requested that nbc not use her name in order to protect the family's privacy warned against listening to trump's advice, adding, quote, don't take anything. be so careful and call your doctor and added that this is a heartache she will never get

over. let's switch gears and bring in bill karins back with a look at the numbers for us. >> yesterday was a staggering day. march 19th, we had 13,000 total cases here in our country. we had that many cases yesterday reported alone. let me show you the graph. and it's just -- you know, we've been showing this as we go throughout this event. the numbers on the left keep increasing. yesterday we were almost 13,000 new cases. the areas in red is the northeast. a lot of that being the new york city area. and, you know, the reason that these aren't maybe uniform is it has to do with the testing. we'll show you the calendar. what a month of march. anyone even remember what it was like three months ago? we had -- three weeks ago, i should say. three weeks ago right now, we only had 124 cases in the country. today, we are going to go over 50,000 cases. the pace we're at right now, we will hit 100,000 cases by the time we get to friday.

we may even have a chance to get in there by thursday if we continue at this rate. so let me update you on the forecast. i want my friends in tulsa on the know you have about a half an hour until that nasty line of storms. you could have wind gusts 60 to 70 miles per hour and people could lose power as that line of storms moves on through. as we go throughout the day today, rain moves into areas of kentucky, through areas of north carolina and south carolina and eventually this will be a good soaking rain through washington, d.c., philadelphia, new jersey, areas south of new york city as we go throughout your wednesday. but today is the dry day in the areas of the mid-atlantic. tomorrow is when that rain moves on through. we might have some flooding especially along the tennessee border and portions of alabama. charlotte to columbia will pick up a good 1 to 2 inches of rain. you really appreciate the weather when you get those nice, beautiful days when everyone is in containment and you want to go out for a walk. you get days like yesterday where it's rainy and ugly.

>> you start to go stir crazy, can't even open a window. bill, thank you very much. i appreciate that. still ahead, u.s. market futures point to a positive open following action by the fed and as senate negotiators near a deal on an economic stimulus package. but the imf warns that it is expecting a global recession this year that will be at least as bad as the 2008 financial crisis. the stories driving your business day, straight ahead.

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things are looking up from wall street this morning as a move from the fed to buy unlimited bonds and a stimulus package in the senate point to more protection from the u.s. economy. juliana joins us while the futures look positive this morning. are we likely to see that stay through the day? >> that's right. after a stormy session yesterday, u.s. stocks are poised to rise at the open today. this comes after some pretty

substantial stim use husband measures initiated by the federal reserve yesterday. one of the most prominent of those measures, their open-ended commitment to continue buying bonds under their asset under te program and they said they will be buying corporate bonds for the first time. pretty substantial measure there. they've announced programs to help with small business lending and to keep the credit flow going. a lot of positive news from the federal reserve. investors are awaiting finalization of that coronavirus stimulus package from congress. investors i would say waiting with baited breath on that front. experts are trying to estimate what the coronavirus crisis is going to mean for a global economic growth. yesterday we heard from the international monetary fund that they expect the global recession this year to be at least as bad as what we saw on the back of the global financial crisis.

but they expect recovery in 2021, assuming that we prioritize containment of the virus. we need to strengthen our health systems everywhere they said. there is some hope at the end. but a lot of that hinges on what happens now in terms of combatting the coronavirus. ayman? >> let me ask you quickly, cvs health is looking to fill that 50,000 jobs to fill coronavirus demands. what more can you tell us about this? >> cvs said it needs more customer service professionals because pharmacies are staying open while other businesses close. they're going to try to find these candidates through virtual job fairs, interviews, tech-enabled job tryouts. they're looking to hire laid off employees, furloughed employees from marriott and hilton. they can look for opportunities

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bring out the bold™ joining us now wialexis. >> good morning to you. thank god for technology, right? >> i was going to say. where would we be without this? >> exactly. the one big thing is about coronavirus. we have our second installment of our coronavirus index which

shows we lived through the week america changed. there have been massive shifts in the way we socialize, work, take care of ourselves and our families in a time like this. now, one of the more interesting breakdowns to me on the numbers showed that partisan divisions about the seriousness of coronavirus have collapsed. if you remember last week when we had this conversation about the first installment of our axios poll and survey, we talked about the democrats and republicans in the way they viewed the seriousness of our virus. there was a 21-point gap between democrats and republicans. now that gap has shrunk 11 points. we're seeing a way in which americans are shifting the way they think about this virus and approach this virus and take it seriously as they're learning more information and hearing more from the president and seeing the effects and ramifications of this global

pandemic. >> let's talk about that. how is it and what is axios reporting about how the coronavirus is affecting the mental and the emotional health of americans? that is something that is obviously -- you can see it's taking a toll on the country's well-being. >> yeah, it really is. even just anecdotally, talking with friends and family about the why they're feeling emotionally, mentally. but our coronavirus survey showed that there's been a massive increase between last week and this week in terms of who feels like their mental health has gotten worse since all of this has started. it's around 43% of people who say their mental health has gotten worse since coronavirus has happened and that's true among the folks who tell us they're working from home now. that's a huge change in and of itself if they are individuals who live alone. imagine if you have a family and suddenly your work-life balance is thrown into this situation where you're dealing with work

in addition to the family duties that you have to do. >> i can confirm that with having two kids at home. one of the nicer things about all of this is the ability just to face time more and more with friends, friends i've gone without speaking to for months. i can check in on them regularly. let me ask you this, with hollywood and sports on pause, americans limited to what they can tune into on television. it's something we take for granted. what is axios reporting on what americans are watching. >> it's good news for folks like you and i, because axios is reporting that americans are watching more tv news than ever. and that's exactly to your point, ayman. without live sports and looking at the fact that hollywood production is on pause, when consumers are looking for new quality content that is produced daily, the only thing they can

get right now is news and we're all concentrated around this massive story of coronavirus, really for the first time in a long time. we know how fractured the media cycle it can be filled with multiple stories a day. this is one of the times where we're focusing on the same story and everyone is forced to watch the news, whether they like it or not because what's going on is so important and also because to your point, there's not a lot else competing for their time and attention. >> shout-out to all those working behind the scenes to make that possible. we're going to be reading axios a.m. in just a bit. you can sign up for that newsletter. that does it for me on this tuesday morning. i'm ayman mohyeldin. "morning joe" starts right now. >> who is going to hold treasury accountable for this rescue fund? >> we need that to help all of these companies that have a chance of not being companies anymore. we'll have stock for america. we'll take back stock for the united states. at the same time most importantly, we'll keep those

companies healthy. but we could also make incredible deals for the country so that number will increase. >> the lack of oversight. treasury has this authority to do dole out all of this money. >> i'll be the oversight. we're going to make good deals. >> president trump is volunteering to personally oversee a $500 billion fund intended to help hard-hit businesses and state and local governments. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it's tuesday, march 24th. the world health organization says the spread of the coronavirus is picking up pace. it took 6 seven days from the first reported case to each 100,000, 11 days for a second