broadcast on for this thursday night. on behalf of all of our colleagues at the networks of nbc news, good night from our temporary field headquarters. good morning, everyone. it is friday, march 27th. we begin with another unfortunate milestone as the u.s. now overtakes china as the country with the most number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus. the u.s. now has more than 85,000 cases with more than 17,000 reported just in the last 24 hours. as the country sets records for new cases just about every day now, president trump continues his push for guidelines on self-distancing to be relaxed. the administration is now planning to issue new guidelines that would identify certain

counties by risk level, high, medium or low, hoping that some parts of the country can get back to work sooner aern others. meanwhile, members of the house are racing back to washington to vote on that massive economic welcome back, everyone. rescue package. leaders had hoped to pass it by attorney general william barr directed the federal bureau of voice vote, but feared at least prisons yesterday to expand the one member would demand a use of home confinement for some recorded vote. if he or any other member forces a roll call, the house would inmates. need a majority of the chamber according to the "new york times," barr wrote a memo to the present to proceed with the vote. if at least 260 members don't agency saying to prioritize home show up, the vote will be confinement to inmates who were delayed until a quorum is met. convicted of low level crimes, have shown good conduct behind as for the urgency of the bars and have planned for matter, look no further that release that won't put them and this morning's "new york times" with a record number of jobless claims sprawled across the others at greater risk for entire front page. contracting the virus. they urged the justice the death toll in new york continues to take a turn for the department to consider releasing more prisoners after the bureau worse with the state reporting received criticism for its response to the outbreak. 50 new deaths overnight for a total of more than 430. the bureau announced this week, meanwhile, coronavirus infections have sharply spiked

up 40% in a single day, edging health expert say it is almost closer to 40,000 cases. impossible to keep inmates in new york city alone, 85 completely safe in facilities people yesterday perished from the virus, bringing the total to 365. by contrast, the number of people murdered in this city all where they share tight spaces. of last year was 319. davenny, what do you make of attorney general william barr's governor andrew cuomo says the directive to increase the use of home confinement for inmates? surge in coronavirus patient deaths is due to those spending weeks on a vend later. >>. >> it's a great step. prisons, no matter where they are in the united states anywhere are a hot bed for any more than 350 nypd employees have tested positive for the viral infection. they've been a place where illness can spread very, very quickly. the bop completely controls the lives of its inmates, more so disease. meanwhile, there is a serious than the judge who sentenced strain on first responders who them and more so arguably than the prosecutor who prosecuted are encouraging residents to

them. so the bop needs this guidance. call only in the event of an emergency. 3.28 million americans applied for unemployment last week, the bob still retains making it the largest one-week considerable power to decide who spike in this country's history. is released and who is not released and it still will these new numbers are nearly a 3 quarantine them for at least 14 days before releasing them out million jump from the week into the community. before when nearly 282,000 and they'll use a very complex people aemployed for risk assessment tool to decide whether or not these people are minimum security. >> talk to us about what happens to some of the older inmates who are serving a sentence for a more serious crime and who at the same time would be somewhat unemployment. >> i just think these numbers vulnerable to the coronavirus. right now are not relevant. would they be extended the same there are people who have jobless claims. the good thing about this bill privilege due to their advanced age? >> age is just one factor under is the president is protecting these people. what is called the pattern now with these plans, small businesses will hopefully be score. it's a risk assessment tool that able to hire back a lot of those

people. >> joining me now, peggy was recently developed. they take into consideration a lot of different factors. one of the biggest driving collins. good to have you with us this morning. let's talk about the spike that factors is gender, male versus we saw yesterday and americans applying for unemployment. what does it really mean on the female. other factors include age, of u.s. economy and what it's going course. science and studies show the through right now? sage of an offender has a tremendous impact on whether or we saw states like pennsylvania not they will reoffense. that is what this is all about, report an incredible surge, but really, we saw increases in the calculating whether or not the number of people filing for offender is likely to reoffend unemployment insurance across in the future. all 50 states yet. it was a record 3.3 million so anyone who is above a minimum score, even if they are an elderly offender who may be more people. that surge is unpress tented. susceptible to the virus, if we're expecting more and more their other pattern scores are high, they're likely to people to file as we have this reoffend, they're in for a bad gap between now and when people crime of violence, then even may get the economic stimulus bill. >> from the bill as it stands that older inmate may not be

right now, beggy, is there anything in there that released to home confinement. still ahead, concerning new substantials what steve mnuchin numbers coming out of boston where more than 160 hospital said that it's offering these small businesses to turn around and hire some of these very same workers have tested positive for the coronavirus. people that they had just laid yes. the first word to any adventure. off a week ago? but when allergies and congestion strike, take allegra-d... a non-drowsy antihistamine plus a powerful decongestant. >> there are things in there for so you can always say "yes" businesses both small and large. to putting your true colors on display. say "yes" to allegra-d. we have the federal reserve trying to bridge the gap for to putting your true colors how do you gaveeno® happy 24/7? businesses between now and with prebiotic oat. hopefully when the vie husband will abate. it hydrates and softens skin. so it looks like this. and you have the direct checks and you feel like this. aveeno® daily moisturizer get skin healthy™ that there in are are are in there for individuals and i often see them have teeth families. sensitivity as well as gum issues. but the question is, how soon does it worry me? absolutely. will this money get to they are both very much hand in hand. businesses and to families? so you should really be focusing on both and definitely at the same time. the new sensodyne sensitivity & gum >> peggy collins, i appreciate gives us the dual action effect it, as always. that really takes care of both our teeth sensitivity as well as our gum issues. and governor andrew cuomo

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th that, too, is a pretty grim picture. what is the latest there? >> that's right. the death toll here ras risk with over 11,5,000 confirmed welcome back. major hospitals in boston are patients. a senior medical figure seeing a large spike in infected health care workers with the referring to it not as a wave, but a tsunami, putting the number doubling to more than 160 national health service under in the past two days. enormous strain as they're begin "the boston globe" reports the to go run out of intensive care rise in infections among staff are raising alarms about the ability of the health care beds, forcing authorities to system to handle the large turn convention centers into hospitals .and in a moment of influx of potential covid-19 patients. infections are multiplying at an recognition, last night, people alarming rate with the number of cases at massachusetts general hospital quadrupling from cross the country took part in a earlier in the week. boston's major health care national applause thanking the systems are reporting the health care workers. infections aren't clustered to people were hanging out of their one area of the hospital and windows and door fronts, clapping for a good 10, 15 officials believe community minutes last night which was spread was involved as opposed to contact with infected

very heart warming to see. and also, at the daily press patients. when staff members are affected, it causes a workload in the briefing yesterday, there was a glimmer of hope. hospital putting staff members more at risk. the deputy chief minister offered some positive news out of the uk. she said the coronavirus outbreak was starting to move in the right direct. other countries who have been let's switch gears now and talk seeing a steep curve in the to bill karins. number of new cases and have risen by a third every day, but this has to be an alarm bell. the trajectory in the uk is nowhere near that steep. >> yeah. so we have to see if that curve continues in the right direction here in the uk. obviously, we passed china and italy as the most cases. we are now the epicenter in the world. in the last seven days, we've >>. >> what is the latest in how the gone from 250 fatalities to now country continues to deal with that crisis? approaching 1500. as far as the total number of cases go, we went from about five days ago 25,000 to over >> the situation continues to be dire in iran. 85,000. it's not like everyone is like,

things continue to get worse there as iranians struggle to woeb it's mostly new york city, it's not any more. contain and fight this virus we have 15 states that now have effectively essentially on their a thousand plus cases. own. the number of cases and deaths we added tennessee and keeps ticking up every day. connecticut to that list the death toll is up and they're yesterday. and bef nine states now that have 2,000 plus cases, including approaching nearly 35,000 cases. louisiana, washington has 3,000 leaving folks there encompassed cases, california has 000. new jersey is going to hit 7,000 at home between the government and sanctions from abroad. early this morning and, of it's resulted in a lack of course, new york has 39,000. leadership and a lack of so obviously new york is still resources. people i'm speaking to there are the huge number, but i mean, 15 states with a thousand plus fed up, they're frustrated, and cases. we are watching a rapid growth unfortunately, some people in many areas. aren't helping themselves, we're going to have some severe weather problems. either. missouri, later on today, authorities there have warned of isolated tornados near kansas city. this is the beginning of a stormy weekend. a second round of outbreaks. a lot of people doing the social distancing. you don't want to get stuck inside if possible for a whole day. but we have a dangerous day in checkpoints haven't been areas of northern illinois anywhere from st. louis to enforced very stringently in the chicago and especially the quad past. let's hope they are this time.

cities. we could see tornados, maybe still ahead, attorney even significant large tornados. general william barr is hoping this is saturday afternoon into to keep coronavirus from saturday evening. spreading through america's so keep that in mind if you're in that area. prison environment. plus, what dr. anthony fauci so it is summer in the south. has to say about president trump's timeline for opening up 80s to 90s from texas to florida. it looks like a decent day in the country back does she excuse the northeast. but this weekend, we'll be me, opening the country back up stormy in many areas of the by easter. those stores and a check on northeast. so keep that in mind. whether when we come right back. still ahead, house lawmakers are rushing back to washington, d.c. to vote on the new stimulus package today and house speaker nancy pelosi says even more help could be on the way. plus, the number of coronavirus cases in italy, still on the rise, but doctors say the pace is starting to slow down. we are going to head to italy and get a live report from rome, coming up next. still fresh... ♪

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there's a couple of handfuls of vaccines at different stages of development. but they're all following the same course. and the course is you first go into a phase one trial to see if it's safe and you have very few people, 45 people within a certain age group all healthy, none at really any great risk of getting infected. and the reason you do that, because you want to make sure that it's safe. and then the next thick you do -- and that takes about three months, easily, maybe more. so that will bring us into the beginning or middle of the summer. then you go to a phase two trial or what we say two three, which means we're going to put a lot of people in there. we hope there aren't a lot of people getting infected, but it is likely there will be somewhere in the world where that is going on.

so it's likely that we will get what is called an efficacy signal and we will know whether or not it actually works. if, in fact, it does, we hope to rush it to be able to have some impact on recycling in the next season. and like i said, that could be a year to a year and a half. i'm not changing any of the dates that i mentioned. >> so dr. anthony fauci yesterday describing the complicated timeline of creating vaccine for the deadly coronavirus and the risks that have to be taken into consideration before releasing it to the public. welcome back, everyone. we begin this half hour with more than 500,000 people infected worldwide. china, where all of this began, where authorities resorted to some of the strictest measures to tame the outbreak has halted more international flights into the country, barring all foreigners including those with chinese residencies and visas

preventing a second wave of infections. south africa begins a lockdown today. army and police have been deployed to enforce the measure. the united kingdom has reported more than 100 deaths in a day for the first time as the death toll there rose the 578. and france has converted a high speed train to evacuate critically ill coronavirus patients to an area in the country where there are more hospital beds. french authorities reported over 230 deaths in one day. cases continue to rise in itsly, particularly in the country's northern region of lombardy as the number of cases jumped. italy's death toll, though, the highest in the world now stands at just over 8,200 as more than 700 people died in the past 24 hours. spain extended its lockdown as the country's budget minister

said it's fighting a real war to get medical supplies. in the americas, brazil's president exempted churches from lockdown orders, classifying religious activity as an essential service. and mexico's president has urged mexicans living in the u.s. to avoid visiting mexico. joining me now from rome, italy, matt. good to speak to you as always. the number of u.s. cases has surpassed italy, but the death toll there is still more than double that of china. what is it about italy's response that might be a contributing factor? what is it that countries around the world could be watching italy and say, here is what we want to do, here is what we want to avoid? >>. nobody seems to know. everybody is confused.

all the doctors had that same question, why italy? one thing everybody keeps saying is the warning. it was in china and then it came to italy. this was one of the first countries where there was a massive outbreak outside of asia. and so a lot of people here were like a lot of americans. they didn't take it seriously and they didn't see what was coming. america has well surpassed italy in terms of case load. twice as many people have died here in italy than in china. we could see those numbers catch up with the united states. another reason why this is so widespread here in italy is because of the age of the population. this is the second oldest country in the world in terms of

the demographics. now, the problem is with that logic is that japan has the elder -- the oldest population of anywhere in the world. it has the most elderly. and japan so far seems to have avoided the punishing affect of this virus and many scientists are now saying that japan might not have actually had their outbreak yet. and that is why we're not seeing those numbers in japan. they're not entirely sure why the outbreak here has been so terribly ferocious. another big question, why is it that this was so geographical lopsided? why is the outbreak so much fiercer in the north of the country than the south of the country? where i was here, in rome and the region around rome, there are about as many cases here as there are in suffolk county, long island, which is a fairley suburban almost rural part of

long island. this area around rome is not that bad, nothing compared to lombardy and areas around the region. there are a lot of questions. i think we're going to have to wait until this is all over before scientists can come and pars out exactly what went wrong here. >> stay safe, stay healthy, my friend. president trump went after three democratic governors that have been critical to the response to the coronavirus in the united states. most notably, trump questioned cuomo's statement about how many ventilators new york needs. >> new york is a bigger deal, but it's going to go, also. but i have a feeling that a lot of the numbers being said in some areas are bigger than there are going to be. i don't believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators. you go into major hospitals sometimes they'll have two ventilators.

now they're saying can we order 30,000 ventilators. your governor of michigan, i mean, she's not stepping up. i don't know if she knows what's going on, but all she does is sit there and blame the federal government. she doesn't get it done. and we sent her a lot. now she wants a declaration of emergency and, you know, we'll have to make a decision on that. but michigan is a very important state. i love the people of michigan. what they do. i'm the one, i'm bringing back many, many car factories in michigan. she is a new governor and it's not been pleasant. we have people like governor incidencely, he should be doing more. he shouldn't be relying on the federal government. he was a failed presidential candidate and he's always complaining. >> and the "washington post" reports incidencely clashed with trump during a conference call with governors yesterday pleading with him to take more dramatic action to secure medical supplies for its state as it suffers medical supplies

from the pandemic. trump told governors his administration was ready to be the back yuch for states in crisis. incidencely spoke up and said, quote, we don't need a backup, we need a tom brady. a reference to the quarterback who has been friendly with the president. >> somebody in the fake news said that one of the governors said, oh, we need tom brady. i said, yeah, he meant that in a positive way. he said we need tom brady. we're going to do great and he meant it very positively. but they took it differently. they think tom brady should be leading the effort. that is only fake news. and i like tom brady. spoke to him the other day. he's a great guy. meanwhile, the white house canceled a joint venture between general motors and ventech light systems to produce ventilators. the federal government was set

to foot the bill to refit the plant in indiana to produce as many as 80,000 of the life-saving machines. the decision came, though, after the federal emergency management agency said they needed more time to assess whether the estimated cost $1 billion was prohibitive. while the deal still may happen, officials told the paper that an initial promise had dropped to 7500 and even that number was in doubt. some government officials are concerned about being left with an expensive surplus of machines that cost $18,000 each. here now is dr. anthony fauci during an interview on cnn last night addressing president trump's aim to have the u.s. open for business by easter sunday. >> well, i think the president was making an aspirational projection to give people home, but he's listening to us when we say we have to re-evaluate it in realtime and any decision we make has to be based on the

data. when you have a situation, when the cases today compared to tomorrow is increased dramatically and the next day has increased dramatically, that is no time to pull back. mitigate, mitigate, mitigate, get the people taken care of. that is what you have to concentrate on. you have to go with the data. >> and house speaker nancy pelosi says she is confident the house will past another bill today. the third proposal would give up to $1200 to qualified individuals and $24 hurn to couples which starts to phase out for people making more than $75,000. pelosi said house democrats plan to take the lead on the fourth coronavirus bill which would include economic health care

relief. she highlighted free coronavirus testing and treating, more money for state and local health care grants, food assistance and help for front line workers. the speaker added any negotiations should include the gop leadership in the house and the senate. still ahead, the white house coronavirus task force has identified two new potential hot spots in the u.s. plus, as nationwide shortages force health care workers to reuse or protect their own ppe, a stockpile of masks sits unused in a government warehouse. is faced with adversity,

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three days. now at more than 2500. 75% of the state's cases are from cook county. 45% from chicago alone. the waulg post reports nearly 1.5 million n95 masks are sitting unused in a u.s. government warehouse in indiana, according to multiple sources. the emergency stockpile is being held by the u.s. customs and border protection and have not been used because they are past their expiration date. this comes despite the cdc guidelines ruling that they are safe during the outbreak. there are no plans to offer the masks to heart hit hospitals or hand them over to fema. bill karins has a check on the numbers and the weather for the weekend. >> what happens as we went

through yesterday, we had the record number for new cases reported in one day in our country. we had over 16,000 cases reported yesterday. and what was interesting is that now they're kind of more divided. earlier this week, a lot of it was dominant with all the new cases around the new york city area. now we're watching the midwest, northeast, the south and the west. all of the growth rate similar about every 2 1/2 to 3 days, a doubling of the number of cases, now it's kind of equally spread. that's why we're starting to hear about new hot spots. look at this march calendar. right now we're seeing it at 85,000. when we're here with you this time on monday, remember, we're doubling this every 2 1/2 to 3 days. if it doesn't slow down rapidly, we should be around 150,000s cases in the country come monday with a 20% roughly hospitalization rate. that is roughly 30,000 americans in hospitals because of covid-19. the math is so against us on this. hopefully the social distancing

will start to show up in these numbers. as of now, it's not. let me get to your weekend forecast. these soaring temperatures have been crazy in the south. this feels like may or june. this is still march. and we have 80s all the way heading up into areas like nashville and oklahoma city. we hit 101 in oklahoma yesterday. this incredible warmth goes into areas of the southeast as we go into saturday. even into areas of washington, d.c. has a chance of getting into the 80s as we go through saturday into sunday. the only issue is that we're going to have severe weather to deal with on saturday. even tornados possible in illinois. a rainy sunday in areas of the northeast, especially in new york city northwards. the south is dry, but still on the warmside. as we go throughout the weekend and into the evening next week, we'll have watch these new hot spots popping up. >> a troubling sign. bill, thank you very much for that update, as always. still ahead, u.s. market

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measures come into effect from the federal reserve in the last week also from congress with the u.s. senate agreeing on this rescue package. so we are looking at some relief coming through to really buffer the impact of these -- the coronavirus and the lockdown on the employment market. now, investors accordingly really shrugged off the numbers yesterday and u.s. stocks rallied. the third straight day of gains for the dow and the s&p 500. we are on pace to see the biggest weekly gain since the 1930s. so massive rally coming together here and a lot of that is on the expectation that the stimulus measures will soften the blow from the coronavirus outbreak and investors are still cautious. many parts of the world are still shut down, so it's not -- you know, it's not incredibly clear where we go from here but markets did take the jobless numbers in stride yesterday. >> let's talk about general

motors because they made some financial changes amid all of this as companies continue to struggle. what can their employees expect with these changes? >> so general motors has come out and said they're temporarily cutting pay by 20% for nearly 70,000 of their salaried workers on the back of this coronavirus pandemic. the reduced pay will be repaid in a lump sum with interest no later than march 15th of next year. they're not the auto company being affected of course by the coronavirus pandemic. ford motor said earlier yesterday that 300 executives will defer 20% to 50% of their salary, so a number of measures coming into effect and the expectation is that these stimulus measures put through by the senate and hopefully by the house later today will help alleviate some of the pain that those employees will be feeling on the back of these measures. >> all right, julianna

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deadline and the top officials said that trump is sort of impatient about this and the way we see that and the way he talks about coronavirus and in his daily press briefings with his task force and we see the way he has been giving himself wiggle room to get out of the easter deadline because he knows it might not be a possibility to get the country up and running again. >> i know speaking of politics and politicians joe biden is talking like he has a playbook for battling the coronavirus. what does axios know about his plans and what he's trying to do to stay in this conversation? >> you know, joe biden has really kind of figuring it out in realtime how to run a presidential campaign in the age of coronavirus. in an age when they're held online and in teletown halls and he had the team put in a fully functioning tv center in his

recreational room so he's not being forgotten on the american people as they're focused on coronavirus and seeing president trump giving the daily press briefings and like the fox news town hall which don't have the equal time rules. so biden is trying to talk to people as much as he can and he's put his own fully detailed coronavirus plan to show how he would handle this differently compared to how president trump is handling it. >> let me get your thoughts on if at all how the coronavirus has helped to position biden in the primary race or has the virus made it harder for him, in being a presence in conversation dominated by the hard hit areas of the crisis.

like the white house or andrew cuomo who is on the air every day talking about this? >> i think it's an important point. i think it's incredibly difficult to break through the news cycle right now. it's difficult to break through the 24 hour news cycle and now add on top of that the coronavirus and look at the ways that the coronavirus is dominating the news cycle. that was borne out to me the other night when i did an event and they hadn't heard joe biden saying anything about coronavirus. while that's not a statistical sample but eight people are eight people you want to meet. so the things they're doing are reaching as many people as possible, but of course it's early so they're figuring everything out but there's a question about whether or not you're breaking through and coming through the noise of the

moment so it's all worth it. >> compounding that you have the states changing their primary dates as well. alexi, thanks so much. thank you. we'll be reading axios a.m. in a bit. you can sign up for the newsletter at signup.axios.com. that's it for me. i'm ayman mohyeldin. you had a 9:00 p.m. call with president xi of china. how did that go? >> because of you i made it at 10:30 so that just shows that you have the number one rated show on television i better change things around. >> the worst case scenario is a very realistic picture if we keep going down the road which is a hospital that's now resource poor. let care professionals are sick and that patient mildly sick and those that are dying are coming in overwhelming the resources and we have to make decisions

about who we can help. >> donald trump at the white house and an e.r. doctor on the front lines in new york guy. good morning and welcome to "morning joe." friday, march 27th. jonathan lemire is joining us and nbc news correspond heidi przybyla and vice pro voes from the university of pennsylvania dr. ezekiel emanuel. and