to you soon. still ahead, millions of americans suffering a loss of economic output now face a looming pile of bills as the new month approaches. and it is no longer just workers in the manufacturing or service sectors that are struggling. good morning, everyone. those stories driving your business day, next. and the clock could be ticking towards bad breath, it is monday, march 30th. we begin with the many receding gums and possibly tooth loss. fast-moving developments on the coronavirus. the trump administration now help turn back the clock on gingivitis with parodontax. extending its guidelines on leave bleeding gums behind. social distancing instead of the parodontax. president's goal of easter, the guidelines will now extend by more than two weeks, well into april. right now into april 30th. meanwhile, the death toll increasing rapidly by the day. now at nearly 2500. it took a month for the u.s. to go from 1 to 1,000 deaths. yet according to the nbc news count, the number of deaths from thursday to yesterday increased by more than 1200.

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don't want to do it sooner, then all of a sudden you go down and then you're coming up again because we discussed that can happen. we don't want that to happen. we've gone through too much. i didn't say easter. i said it would be a great thing if we could do it by easter. >> and as the coronavirus pandemic expands nationally, the coronavirus continues to former fda commissioner scott impact wall street this morning as global stocks point to another low open while crude oil gottlieb points to a rapidly prices are down. karen tso joins us from london. increasing spread that suggests what's the latest on wall street multiple epicenters. this morning? in particular, the city of >> good morning. chicago now accounts for almost we've had some volatility. 2,000 cases. the futures already suggesting while los angeles county it'll be another rough week on accounts for more than 2,000 of california's over 6,000 cases. wall street. and in addition to new orleans and detroit, another city to oil prices take us to $21.50. watch is miami. this morning, we slipped below miami-dade county accounts for $20 on the trade. almost 800 of florida's nearly 5,000 confirmed cases of the $23 handle in brent in session. coronavirus.

joining us now, health care despite pressure from washington editor for bloomberg, drew for the saudis to alter the price war with the russians, armstrong. they are not taking part in any good to have you with us this morning. let's look back over the weekend conversations, suggesting what we're seeing in the price action may continue for some time. and some of the comments made by dr. anthony fauci. meanwhile, it's the first of the month coming around, and it's a he gave a projection of 200,000 pinch and a punch when it comes to the invoices, the bills that are coming due. deaths. what are the numbers around the some will delay the rents that are due. don't forget, they can't afford country telling us where we stand with this stay at home a payment for some of the order if it is actually apartment rentals. also for cafes, as well. mitigating the number of cases? it'll be a problem for some soft companies to pay. are we having any kind of impact cheesecake factory, it is a on blunting this curve? multi-million dollar business, and they're not paying the bills >> so i think one of the things that's important to realize is in april. that it takes a really long time the question is how much bills will be delayed. for them to play out. the stimulus isn't coming soon. you're talking about new cases, it'll take weeks for that to deaths, the reality of this arrive where it is much-needed. if many of the bills are disease is that you have a long delayed, it means getting out of an economic crisis will take incubation period and the average is 5.1 days and then a much, much longer. long course of illness before meanti meantime, when it comes to companies deferring staff, some are trying to furlough to keep patients either hopefully recovery or in some cases die. the staff on board, and some are and so everything that we're watching right now is both a trying to cut pay to ensure those employees retain their

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country is if it gets out of under to make this decision to control, if there are so many extend the national social distancing guidelines and shut positive cases, not only will it down an extra month. kill a lot of people, but it it wasn't just his public health will put enormous strain on the national health service here which is already starting to officials, dr. fauci and dr. feel the strain. they're running out of emergency birx, but the governor pressure was immense. beds. a lot of convention centers have i interviewed larry hogan, been turned into makeshift republican governor in maryland. hospitals. and they fear if the sheer he is the chair of the national numbers just go way up, they governors' association. will collapse under the he is coordinating between the nationwide governors. pressure. so they don't want that to he is in a rare position because happen. that's the main thinking behind he can speak his mind. this. he's not up for re-election. every day, ayman, you see on he is a republican in a blue television here warnings from state, and he speaks for many health officials telling people when he says -- he said to me, not to go out, not to socialize quote, if trump had gone to his with each other. first and foremost because they don't want it to spread and the easter timeline, quote, it'd be second message is to protect the very harmful because we'd obviously not listen to that. national health service. and you have to remember, ayman, we'd obviously not listen to this is a huge turn around from that. he said on the record had trump what boris jounsan was doing gone through with that, he would have ignored it and followed the scientistic and doctor initially. he has coronavirus, as well, guidelines. he had been talking to white house officials over the weekend incidentally. before this all went into and last week. trump was faced with a dual lockdown in this country, he was telling people to go about doing situation. doctors were presenting

herd immunity. he was one of the last people in europe to close the shops, bars, modeling, kwhich he referenced. restaurants, and schools and now 2.2 million people could die if this country is in a very, very this got out of hand. this was essential for saving tight lockdown. lives. he was also getting pressure parliament has passed from dpovr knogovernors saying, legislation here to be able to you tell everyone to do this, give the government new powers we're going to ignore you to enforce some very, very anyway. >> let me get your thoughts on strict rules. so all of a sudden they've had the new reporting you have coming out over the weekend, moved from this step by step that the united states saw the start of what could be the approach to a cart downan rules largest government-led air lift of emergency medical supplies. on lockdown toes try and protect what more can you tell us about the national health service and where they're getting all this stuff from? >> it is an incredible effort. the country at large so they i interviewed a rear admiral. don't lose control of the the first flight came in from coronavirus. the heir to the throne, prince shanghai saturday, flew into jfk charles, has the coronavirus. sunday morning. the prime minister has it and surgical gloves, gowns, et the health secretary has it. cetera, et cetera. so they have to take a vastly they're working with existing different approach to the one that they had taken a few weeks medical supply distributors, but the federal government is buying ago. this country has only been in lockdown for a week now. these. the first load is being flooded >> and quickly, what is the latest from italy? into the new york tristate area there has been a brutal few days because it needs it.

of death tolls now surpassing the supply chain has been a complete disaster, and the government is way behind. this is an effort to catch up. 10,000. >> that's right. a staggering 10,000, over 10,800 >> yeah. to that point, i know the rear deaths there. admiral is now in charge of fixing america's coronavirus 97,000 cases in italy as they're supply chain. struggling to cope with the what is he saying needs to happen? virus there. >> you can't buy your way out. in spain, it's not much better, it is a combination of things. one, they have to do preservation, sterilizing and either. 7,000 people have died in spain. reusing existing equipment, then you have other things like that makes up for about half of working with u.s. manufacturers the deaths around the world to speed up production. right now. >> incredible. this is another part of it, which is, working to bring in and we will be getting a live extra equipment from overseas. report from rome just a moment it is actually a multi-front from now. ali, stay healthy. thing. he said, he literally said on still ahead, president trump wastes no time pushing ba on the record, we can't buy our way out of this. >> you probably think all the oversight of the $500 billion countries around the world are and bailing out money for big doing the same. businesses. the measure he says his how competitive is it to get the administration will not comply with, next. hello, son. supplies oversea overseas. jonathan swan, stay safe and healthy. >> you, too. >> sign up at signup.axios.com. that does it for me on this monday morning.

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roughly $2 trillion coronavirus relief package into law over the weekend. the bill extends aid to many struggling americans to direct payments that expanded unemployment insurance that should be exact. the package provides loans and grants to businesses and sends additional resources to health care providers. "the wall street journal" notes trump has told people he wants his signature on the direct payment checks that would go out to american stimulus. notify congress immediately if the administration unreasonably withholds information. the white house called it a violation of executive branch authority. joining us now, danny sovalis. what do you make of president trump's defiance of the oversight clause in the relief bill? can he claim executive authority

about that right away? >> presidents have been issuing signing statements since andrew jackson in 1830 who signed a federal law saying that he understood it as not extending the federal road beyond detroit, michigan. so presidents have been signing these statements along with legislation to voice their concern with a bill of even their possible defiance of a bill. this is nothing new. it's been around for centuries. the president is arguing that any requirement that an executive foishlg be beholden to congress or anything else without presidential supervision is a violation of powers. he's not indicating that he's going to defy it, but that his interpretation is it doesn't take away from the powers inskrefted in the president by the constitution. >> let's discuss the reports

that trump wants his signature on the checks being sent out to americans. that is not usually how it happens in this country. it's not the president's name that's on the check that we get. >> ordinarily, treasury checks are signed locally by whoever is in charge of that particular agency head. but in this case, and what i can see, and i may live to eat my words, there doesn't appear to be any bar to the president ordering his checks or the -- i'm sorry, the treasury check toes be emblazoned with his signature. now, procedurally, it may cause additional costs because there's already a system in place for essentially rubber stamping these checks because no one human could sign them all. so there may be additional costs. and look for folks to, you know, on the democratic side to make noise about the fact that this could add an additional cost to issuing these checks, which may already be a considerable cost to begin with. >> all right. danny, thank you, my friend.

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president trump in recent days has reported to using his coronavirus news briefings as a substitute for his campaign rallies. but the president hopes this won't be the case for very long as he has begun planning to get back on the campaign trail. the "new york times" is reporting the trump campaign is discussing the possibility of a rally-style event in late april. however, one adviser told the times these discussions are preliminary. trump, in the meantime, has taken on the persona of a wartime president which in turn as the times notes has given him a bump in the polls with his approval rating creeping towards 50%. republican officials tell the times that it has been harder to raise money without events featuring the president. on "meet the press" yesterday former vice president joe biden

criticized trump's slow response to the virus saying we must be ahead of the curve. >> the coronavirus sdmis not th president's fault, but the slow response, the inability to do the things that needed to be done quickly, those are the things that can't continue. we're going to go through another phase of this and we have to be ahead of the curve, not behind the curve. >> your campaign put out a critique of president trump saying if he doesn't do these things, he could cost lives. do you think there is blood on the president's hands, considering the slow response, or is that too harsh of a criticism? >> i think that's a little too harsh. i think what's happening is failure to -- as i watched a prelim to your show where someone said that dpsh used the phrase that the president just thinks out loud. he should stop thinking out loud and start thinking deeply. he should start listening to the scientists before he speaks.

>> here is the ad that chuck todd referenced from the biden campaign suggesting trump's ego could cost lives. >> i say, mike, don't call the governor of washington. you're wasting your time with him. >> hear in washington state tonight, 175 people have now died. 3700 more are sick. >> don't wall the woman in michigan. >> governor gretchen wittmer officially calling on president trump for a major disaster declaration in michigan. >> governor of washington -- >> no, you know what i said? if they don't treat you right, i don't call. >> a brutal political ad there. let's bridge in meteorologist bill karins. he's been diving into the growth rate numbers every morning. a pretty tough weekend, not just overseas, but here at home. >> especially saturday.

interesting in the trends on the numbers, yesterday was a sunday so the reporting may have been lower. we'll wait and see what happens today. but last sunday, it was also a little lower. first on saturday, we went over 500 in one day and sunday, yesterday, we had about over 250 new reports of fatalities. now our number has jumped up close to about 2,500. it was only five days ago that we went to 1,000. so yes, the death race has been jumping. every three to four days, we've been doubling that number. as far as the new cases go, about 140,000 now. it was only march 27th, three days ago, that we hit 100,000 cases and you can see towards the beginning of the month how small those numbers were. this is doubling about every three to four days. so that would tell you that by the end of this week, we'll be somewhere close to 300,000 cases nlsz we really see a change in the curve. these are linear graphs.

so we're seeing that number go left to right. east to west. it's not going to go down because this is a total number of cases, but we want to see it flatten out. we just haven't seen that yesterday. a lot of that growth is now happening across the country. let's get into some of the forecast maps. we still have some of these whether. we could get some serious weather this time of year. today, isolated strong storms, louisiana, north texas, oklahoma. tuesday, it's more of a widespread severe weather threat. we're watching our friends in southern georgia, the panhandle of florida, the mobile areas included. that is tuesday for your forecast. what a gloomy, miserable weekend it was in the northeast. today, still from new york city northward, a lot of clouds, chilly, damp weather. better from new york city southward. but ayman, when you get those cloudy, rainy, dreary weekend and everyone is stuck inside, it makes it that much worse.

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welcome back, everyone. the coordinator of the white house coronavirus response dr. birx warned no states would be

left unaffected. >> no states, no metro area will be spared and the sooner we react and ensure they've put in full mitigation at the same time understanding exactly what their hospitals need, then we'll be able to moved forward together and protect the most americans. >> louisiana reported news cases yesterday bringing that state's cases to 3,500 cases with over 150 deaths. in michigan, more than 800 news cases yesterday puts that states total at almost 5 a 500 confirmed with 132 deaths. the city of detroit confirming almost 1400 cases. and more than 2,000 cases in new jersey leads the state with over 13,000 confirmed coronavirus cases and 161 deaths. the governors of those states spoke yesterday about what they're dealing with. >> we're still way short. we have a long way to go. i'd say, martha, the big

headline for us right now are ventilators. we had a very specific conversation with the white house last night about ventilators. that's our number one ask, it's our number one need, and that's the one that we are focused most on right now. >> we have hospitals already at capacity. we're running out of ppe, as well. i'm grateful we got a shipment from fema yesterday for 112,095 masks, but, you know, we're going to be in dire straights again in a number of days. >> we know if we don't flatten the curve, we're on a trajectory currently to exceed our capacity in the new orleans area for ventilators by april 4th and all beds available in hospitals by about april 10th. so we're doing everything we can to surge capacity. it is very difficult. we did get some ppe yesterday. we've allocated about 100,000 masks just yet to the hospitals. ventilators are the short-term

really big pressing issue that we're trying to solve for. very difficult because every state is looking for these. there are only so many to be had. and so we're trying to get the public to slow the spread by following the mitigation measures while we ramp up our medical capacity. this is a very challenging public health emergency. >> following yet another catastrophic weekend in the empire state with more than 100 deaths in one day, the total number of lives lost to coronavirus is now amassed to 1,000 in the city of new york alone. this is a new grim reality. new york city straets lined up with fridge rated trucks acting as makeshift morgues. one registered nurse in manhattan told buzzfeed, quote, maybe as a jew i relate to all of the holocaust footage because

i've never seen anything like it. >> meanwhile, a paramedic told the "new york times," quote, i'm terrified. i honestly don't know if i'm going to survive. joining us now, drew armstrong. good to talk to you again. new york city as we've just showed there facing a shortage and critical supplies, some horrifying accounts there from some of those on the front line. but in particular, there's a shortage of ventilators. as shipments come in, the city facing another growing concern. who will operate the equipment? what are you hearing about the redundancy capabilities of health care workers as they begin to go down for their own medical needs? >> you bring up an important point. not only do you need lots and lots of masks, not only do you need ventilators which patients need to be on for weeks at a

time. it can be a long-term situation. but you need people to run all of this stuff. so one of the things that we've seen around the state and around the entire u.s. is call for retired nurses and, doctors to come back into the workforce. we've seen medical schools graduating people early so they can come in, hospitals that have shut down, elected procedures asking doctors to come and basically get crash trained on how to be a pulmonary specialist and operate a ventilators since those folks now have a lower workload. there is a wholesale repurposing of the medical workforce right now and an attempt to grow it back, folks who have been off the front lines to have enough people. these are the people who are most exposed to this illness and the folks who are in many cases because of the lack of ppe and even with it, some of the most likely to end up getting sick. so those are the people where you need even more human

capacity to supplement some of the human capacity you might have. >> over the weekend, president trump said he was considering a forced quarantine of the new york area. the cdc did issue a travel advisory in the new york area. this late in the game, is it even an issue? are people still traveling in large numbers? >> you do have people leaving the new york area, and quite understandably in some cases. i certainly have friends who i know have thought about doing so. i think people who have the ability to leave, many folks have certainly thought about that and gone to stay with family or just trying to get out of the area because there are

cases where grocery stores don't have tons of food, you're worried about the virus. but at the same time, people carried this virus, and you want to stop them from spreading it to other places. one on of our reporters saw in rhode island the state police there actually stopping new york plates and having conversations with those folks. there have been other reports that people in that state have been asked to do a 14-day self-quarantine. so you do meaningfully worry about people spreading this disease from areas to other cities that don't necessarily have it yet or don't necessarily have the same volume of cases. it is a concern and you do want people to limit their travel the same way that we did limit travel from some other countries that have significant outbreaks. >> all right. drew armstrong, good to talk to you again.

stay healthy. in italy, the total death toll from the coronavirus reached a grim milestone over the weekend surpassing 10,000 now more than a third of all deaths worldwide. on friday alone, over 900 people died from the virus. reaching a record high that has since fallen for two straight days. by sunday, the daily death rate declined to 756. italy's measures were set to expire on april 3rd, but there are signs that the country's lockdown is expected to continue. joining us now from rome, italy, nbc news correspondent claudio levango. good to speak to you this morning. what do the latest numbers coming out of italy suggest for that country? is this a real slowdown? do officials there feel they're getting the situation under any kind of control? >> good morning, ayman. those numbers that you mentioned, these bring some bad news and some good news. the bad news is that a lot of people, hundreds of italians are still dieing every day from the

coronavirus. it was more than 700 yet that brought the total to more than 10,000. and then, of course, thousands of italians are getting infected every day. by today, we may brake the 100,000 mark of the people who have been infected with coronavirus here. the good news, if you can call it that is that the rate of the people getting infect odd a daily basis has slowed down. at the beginning of march before the introduction of the lockdown, the rate of increase on a daily basis was in the double digits. at some point, it was 33% on march 1st. and that means every day, 33% more italians would get infected. yesterday, waits 5.9%. that is a very good sign, a good indication that the contagion is slowing down.

and it could be a reassuring sign also for americans and everywhere else in the world that the lockdown works, ayman. >> yeah. it will obviously be a big test to see if the italian model works here, as well. what is the mood weeks into this lockdown in italy? has the government given any indication of when it might be lifted? and i'm curious to get your thoughts quickly. is italy going through the same kind of economic struggle that we here in the u.s. are going through? >> the government is saying even though there are indications that the rate of contagion is slowing down, this isn't the time to lower the guard because we haven't reached the peak yet. also, they say it will take weeks if not months before that curve will go down to zero. so people can just go out and walk about without a worry. that is why they are saying most likely they're going to extend the deadline of april 3rd by at

least two weeks. maybe more. in terms of how are people reacting, there is the indication that some italians are starting to lose their nerve. on saturday, police checked 200,000 people walking around in the country. 5,000 of them, a report number since the start of the lockdown were fined because they could not prove that they had a real emergency which is by decree and by law. 50 of them were positive from coronavirus, which means that they should have stayed home in self-quarantine for about two weeks. and now those that were fined, the 5,000 that were fined and couldn't give a reason to be out, they will be fined for anything between $500 to more than $3,000. but those 50 who were positive, now they risk to be charged with causing a pandemic and that brings a sentence of up to 12 years in prison.

while italy is a much worse than the u.s. in trms of how it starts the pandemic, in terms of how healthy the economy of italy is. italy was still lagging behind the rest of europe in terms of the economy and is still recovering from the previous recession from ten years ago. and there are some real worries about how this corona badly -- the lockdown and the fact that most businesses across the country have been closed now for weeks, including the fact that there are no tourists and there won't be for several weeks, it will be a long road ahead. >> thank you so much, my friend. still ahead, new reporting exposes what caused the delay in testing that put the u.s. behind the ball in its response to the coronavirus outbreak.

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at an alarming rate, it is being reported that if the u.s. had reacted earlier at the stage of the outbreak, it might have affected the united states less. imperative skill testing was prevented during to lack of leadership at multiple levels. the result was a lost month when the world's richest country armed with some capability was not actually able to do it. of the highly most trained scientists and infectious disease specialists squandered its best chance of reacting to the pandemic. the report says that the start of the crucial lost month, the president was distracted by impeachment and dismissive of the threat to the public's health. by the end of the month, trump claimed the virus was able to

dissiptate in the united states. by early march after federal officials announced changes to expanded testing, it was too late. last month, president trump asked south korea's president to send as many test kits possible. public health experts reacted positively to the increased capacity, but still questions loomed as to why the u.s. did not respond sooner when it might have helped reduce the toll of the pandemic. meanwhile, the death toll is increasi increasi increasing rapidly now. let's bridge in bill carin wes a check of the numbers and a check on the weather. >> i want to show you our case by case daily. yesterday it was a little number with the total number of new cases. we had 18,000. we had more than that on saturday and on friday. but was saturday the peak of this pandemic for new daily

cases? we don't know yet. you notice it's not exactly jumping every single day. there are little discrepancies. here is the new cases broken up by state. obviously, the new york area, northern new jersey, but look at illinois. over 1,000 new cases yesterday. florida had 900 news cases yesterday. michigan 800 and massachusetts 700. detroit, chicago, boston included in that list. so as far as the monthly march calendar goes, march 2nd, 400. last week, 46,000 at this time. and later on this week, we'll probably go over about 300,000. and yesterday, on saturday, we had this horrific tornado that went through arkansas. this is some of the footage of it. they're saying the reason no one got killed was because people were doing social distancing, businesses were closed and

people were home. we would have lost a lot of lives, dollar general was oh blefated when that went through