deborah birx, warning that no place will remain untouched. what they've done in new orleans for the first time since katrina. marcus moore is there. >> reporter: tonight, for the first time since hurricane katrina, the new orleans convention center transformed to deal with an unfolding catastrophe. this is the historic french quarter. it is shut down tonight. officials fear mardi gras, which brought thousands of people here to bourbon street may have helped to spread the highly contagious virus. over the weekend, cases in louisiana soaring from roughly 2,700 on friday to just over 4,000 today. but that didn't stop hundreds from flocking to sunday services at life tabernacle church outside baton rouge. >> they were all spread out, reporter: some of the 00 or s church's neighbors, outraged. >> we have a right, too. y'all need to shut that church down. >> reporter: in tampa, one megachurch pastor also defying stay at home orders. >> people have gone totally crazy. as the president said, he wants to get everybody back worshipping god come easter

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deborah birx: we know that we're asking americans to do a lot right now.e asking everyone to be selfless for others so that we can protect those who are most susceptible to this virus. dr. jerome adams: a question i often get asked is, "why should young people care about the spread of coronavirus?" well we know that people with underlying medical conditions over the age of 60 are at highest risk, but they've got to get it from somebody. dr. anthony fauci: social distancing is really physical separation of people. dr. deborah birx: it's what we refer to when we ask people to stay at least six feet apart. dr. anthony fauci: not going to bars, not going to restaurants, not going to theaters where there are a lot of people... it all just means physical separation so you have a space between you and others who might actually be infected or infect you. dr. jerome adams: we all have a role to play in preventing person-to-person spread of this disease which can be deadly for vulnerable groups. for more information on how you can social distance please go to corona

deborah birx: we know that we're asking americans to do a lot right now. so we're asking everyone to be selfless for others so that we susceptible to this virus.t dr. jerome adams: a question i often get asked is, "why should young people care about the spread of coronavirus?" well we know that people with underlying medical conditions over the age of 60 are at highest risk, but they've got to get it from somebody. physical separation of people. dr. deborah birx: not going to bars,r to so you have a space between you and others who might actually be infected or infect you. dr. jerome adams: we all have a role to play in preventing person-to-person spread of this disease which can be deadly for vulnerable groups. for more information on how you can social distance please go to coronavirus.gov 0 >>> well, it's never too early for some lynard skynard. thank you for the request. send me a song if you will. you can use our social media platforms. we're doing traffic jams every day of the week. use the hashtag "ktvu" on facebook, twitter, or instagram. . >>> i w

>>i'm a big fan of the deputy that they just appointed deborah birx.nel berks i has been rninghe pepfar program, the big aids program for 3 previous administration, she's first rate. >>burke says something of a legend in global health making her name over 3 decades of fighting hiv aids in developing vaccines. doctor anthony fnd she has become a leading voice for the administration in this crisis has known berks since the early 80's and gushed when she joined him on e task force she was actually a fellow in my program as a trainee and we knw she was a star then and now it has happened over the years, she's becomea superstar burks left the military after 20 years d joined the george w bush administration's aids relief program she took over in 2014 president barack obama named her and ambassador and getting aids coordinator in john erry's state department so for debbie. >>the last thing i'll say to you all is that the taking the fight aids is not simply a career that it really is a calling. >>unlike other obama officials burks was kept on by the trump adm

deborah birx: we know that we're asking americans to do a lot right now.asking everyone to be selfless for others so that we can protect those who are most susceptible to this virus. dr. jerome adams: a question i often get asked is, "why should young people care about the spread of coronavirus?" well we know that people with underlying medical conditions over the age of 60 are at highest risk, but they've got to get it from somebody. dr. anthony fauci: social distancing is really physical separation of people. dr. deborah birx: it's what we refer to when we ask people to stay at least six feet apart. dr. anthony fauci: not going to bars, not going to restaurants, not going to theaters where there are a lot of people... it all just means physical separation so you have a space between you and others who might actually be infected or infect you. dr. jerome adams: we all have a role to play in preventing person-to-person spread of this disease which can be deadly for vulnerable groups. for more information on how you can social distance please go to coronavi

deborah birx deborah birx also alerting americans to prepare for a spike in the infection numbers but only because a backlog of tests will now be run through a high-speed system. >> we will see the number of people diagnosed dramatically increase over the next four to five days. >> several times a day president trump referred to coronavirus as the chinese virus, he made no apologies insisting he's only talking about where it came from and denied any racial overtones. >> is not racist at all. it comes from accurate. as you know, china tried to say at one point, maybe they stopped now, that it was caused by american soldiers. that can't happen, it's not going to happen, not as long as i'm president. it comes from china. >> the white house defendant the president on twitter, spanish flu, west nile virus, ebola, and zeke i were all named for places. officials say they don't know if coronavirus will follow the typical seasonality pattern although they are encouraged by a tail off in places like china and south korea. >> bret: john roberts live on the north lawn. the dow hemorrhaged 1300 po

deborah birx was correlating the white house coronavirus task force. she continues to stressed the parts of millennials. one of the largest generation cohorts saying that this is the core group who will stop this virus. because we all know some people feel bulletproof, and their life will be eternal. many times they don't understand that they're just as mortal as the rest of us. because these younger individuals are at lower risk, from the virus, they think it's fine to continue with their normal routines as long as they are not experiencing symptoms. but if they are infected they could still transmit the virus to others, especially the older more vulnerable people in their community. dr. birx pointed out that we often talk about the greatest generation that is the world war ii generation of people like my mom and dad, those answer the call to serve and fought for our freedoms. but now is the time for the younger generation, the millennials, to answer a different call and take the necessary precautions to protect that greatest generation, which is amon

deborah birx, warning that no state will remain untouched. here's marcus moore from new orleans. >> reporter: tonight, for the first time since hurricane katrina, the new orleans convention center transformed to deal with an unfolding catastrophe. and the usually vibrant city is bracing. this is the historic french quarter. it is shut down tonight. health officials fear that mardi gras may have helped to spread this highly contagious various. over the weekend, cases in louisiana soaring from roughly 2,700 on friday to just over 4,000 today. >> we still have an awful lot of work to do to try to flatten the curve. >> reporter: but that didn't stop hundreds from flocking to sunday services at life tabernacle church outside baton rouge. >> they were all spread out, probably, you know, 1,200 or so. >> reporter: some of the church's neighbors, outraged. >> we have a right, too. y'all need to shut that church down. >> reporter: in tampa, one megachurch pastor also defying stay at home orders. >> people have gone totally crazy. as the president said,

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deborah birx. birth to her eldest daughter she suffered severe blood loss. at the time she just read a report about an unmoney deadly disease that made blood transfusions were risky. before she passed out from the pain she screamed do not let them give me blood. her husband turned down transfusion. good thing de. the hospital later found out the blood she would have been given was contaminated by hiv. that's a story that was told by secretary kerry when she was named as an ambassador in the obama administration. aids, of course, was a disease that would come to define her career, perhaps, john, until now. >> that's an unbelievable story. we'll need her. we're going to need her strength. we need her knowledge over the next months if not years. so really there are two things we're going to need to get through this crisis. one is science. the other is hope. more on that next. like, quitting every monday hard. quitting feels so big. so try making it smaller, and you'll be surprised at how easily starti

this is the president taking the advice of tony fauci and deborah birx. advice that obviously is startling when you look at the numbers and you hear that sound bite from dr. deborah birx, saying if we as a country do everything perfectly the be 100. those are massive numbers when you think of an average flu year. so this is significant. by all accounts, they went to the oval office, put the date dn the desk and said, "this is the deal, what do you want to do cannot" and the president said, "i agree, extended to april 30th" and that june 1st is the outlier. let's hope. >> harris: you know it's interesting, the president talks in the nation every day. hill's news conferences, he takes a flurry of questions. on the president has indicated that he may throw an easter date, that he is flexible. his team getting that out. kellyanne conway, bret, told me on this program that the president was even in discussions about a face 4 of stimulus. keeping that flexibility. we talk about the american public being resilient. how much do you think the kind of flow of conve

and i'm grateful that ambassador deborah birx also dr.y been contributing significantly to our discussion. dr. b i rx serves as the u.s. government leader today for combatting hiv/aids global and she is a scientist, a physician, someone with three decades of public health expertise and virulent diseases, vaccines and vast experience of interagency coordination. and dr. birx and i have talked about the importance of bringing the various entities together to bring about president trump's vision for a whole of government response to the coronavirus. so with that, i'd like to recognize dr. deborah birx for a few introductory and welcome remarks and thank you for stepping up one more time to serve our country. >> thank you. thank you, mr. vice president. it is a lpleasure to be here. i arrived from south africa last night. i had computer and phone in record time. it really shows the level of e frns sy and expertise here to get moving quickly. it is clear that the early work of the president with travel restrictions and the ability to quarantin

deborah birx will do in a scum of the surgeon general.et their input as to where we are now, with the vice president describing a moment ago this 15-day slow the spread plan that started really about nine days ago. so we are well into that now. you will get a sense as to, from the experts, what they are feeling and hearing, and based on the data and numbers. not just here at home but around the world. in the meantime, chief white house correspondent john roberts' life here from the north lawn, the other side of the house here, so to speak. john, good afternoon to you. >> bill, we can almost hear from the white house driveway. one of the big topics of conversation, is on that last hour with governor andrew cuomo of new york and with the president yesterday. i'm sorry you side, the vice president mentioned it. how do you start to reopen parts of the american economy? you got the health part of this, the white house and many states believe they are making good progress on that in terms of ramping up testing, getting medical supplies in the p

deborah birx: it's what we refer to when we ask people to stay at least six feet apart. dr. fauci: not going to bars, not going to restaurants, not going to theaters where there are a lot of people... it all just means physical separation so you have a space between you and others who might actually be infected or infect you. dr. jerome adams: we all have a role to play in preventing person-to-person spread of this disease which can be deadly for vulnerable groups. for more information on how you can social distance please go to coronavirus.gov [ fast-paced drumming ] david: object wall street stocks closed quite a bit lower. the dow lost 913 points. the nasdaq dropped 271 points. 9 billion shares is the largest volume day of this year. stocks having their worst week since 2008. s & p lost 15%. the nasdaq fell 13%. crude oil down 8%. gold finishing at $1,500. tax day is being pushed back until july 15 while the nation copes with the covid-19. listen to lou's reports three types a day coast to coast on the salem radio network. more church services are going online. houses of

deborah birx good to have you with us. >> good morning.d morning. >> we've heard this news now from the white house recommending that social distancing, what people should be doing, staying home, has expanded now for another month the initial 15 days would have expired today, i believe so what led to this change what's the situation on the ground that requires this? >> you know, we get data every day from around the globe. but more importantly from the united states. i think everyone understands now you can go from 5 to 50 to 500 to 5,000 cases very quickly. we see this in many metropolitan areas. we're very worried about every city in the united states and the potential for this virus to get out of control we really believe that americans with the right information will stay home. >> and the president had said a couple weeks ago he was hopeful, aspirational we would be back in business on easter sunday. obviously that has changed now he's talking about june 1st being the time when america could return to normal where are you on that time

deborah birx: it's what we refer to when we ask people to stay at least six feet apart. dr.o restaurants, not going to theaters where there are a lot of people... it all just means physical separation so you have a space between you and others who might actually be infected or infect you. dr. jerome adams: we all have a role to play in preventing person-to-person spread of this disease which can be deadly for vulnerable groups. for more information on how you can social distance please go to coronavirus.gov ♪all i'm askin' is for a little respect♪ excuse me ma'am, would you like to have my seat? ♪r-e-s-p-e-c-t ♪find out what it means to me♪ ♪r-e-s-p-e-c-t ♪take care. tcb, oh from anyone else. so why accept it from your allergy pills? flonase relieves your worst symptoms which most pills don't. get all-in-one allergy relief for 24 hours, with flonase. david: in our poll last night we asked if president trump should create a presidential commission to investigate china's coronavirus cover-up. 87% said yes. president trump vowing to win the war against the virus. president trum

deborah birx: so we're asking everyone to be selfless for others so that we can protect those who are bars, not going to restaurants, it all just means physical separation, so that you have a space between you and others. dr. jerome adams: for more information on how you can social distance please go to coronavirus.gov david: house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff fighting to keep his impeachment subpoenas secret. it led to the release of several private phone records including trump attorney rudy giuliani and journalist john solomon. schiff claiming in court papers that he has sovereign immunity. joining me is john solomon. the editor-in-chief of his new media outlet, just the "america's news headquarters." apparently you shouldn't be concerned that schiff has your phone records. he subpoenaed somebody else's phone records. we believe it was rudy giuliani. they extracted my records from that and released it to the public without knowing the nature of the calls. while we are dealing with the coronavirus, there were other issues that ailed our nation. david: as dysfunctional

per deborah birx. and what' what's next. ♪ [spoken] ♪ >> trace: well, president trump indicated he wants to get the country back up and running by easter, but with some hot spots like new york seeing a tremendous amount of new cases, the curve of new infections are planted enough to even think about getting things back to normal? layer enough, martha maccallum anchor of "the story" spoke with white house response creditor of the task force deborah birx and here's what she had to say. >> martha: do you think the end in 15 days, the goal has been a accomplished a flattening the curve and what happens on day 16? >> that's a very good question thank you and i'm happy to join you tonight. you know, we can see in washington state that they have very aggressively methods to flatten their curves, and the curve never got to the highest level that you see in new york city. so every single cluster will have a different curve and every single community around the united states has to focus on ensuring that they ar

deborah birx.o if all the restrictions were relaxed as many as 2 million people could die and that president repeated that figure 16 times at yesterday's presser. >> dana: he was really trying to drive that home for people. i also wonder about the offhand to spitball income of the brainstorming, like maybe we will do this or maybe we will do that, like the idea of the shut down a new york, connecticut and new jersey. it turned out not to be the case but people are listening to every single word that he said. >> you know, and i thought maybe i have to get out, and i can't go visit family elsewhere, and that sort of thing. folks felt blindsided because they had just talked that day and then in the end the president didn't do it so that underscores your point about how worried about we are in this environment. howie kurtz, thank you so much. >> good to see you. >> dana: up next, the latest on the conditions and the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the united states. and as the city of wuhan op

deborah birx was right there but dr. anthony fauci curiously was not. with saying the president listening to his advisors now and will be again in seven or eight days' time when the president makes the decision about whether or not to re-implement this 15 guidelines for begin the process of tearing things back. >> dana: i noted that today dr. fauci was quoted saying he is asking the media to stop trying to drive a wedge between him and the president, of course nobody wants that. thank you so much, john roberts. let's bring in special report anchor bret baier. any president has an awesome responsibility. he is not the nation's doctor, we have the doctors that are there. he has to think about all of the different factors and so this question about when could we reopen, i'm not sure if he meant he walked into that town hall knowing he was going to say easter. i know he's been thinking about at the end of this 15 days reassessing but now he has said at that easter could be the day when america that he would like to target america getting back to work. >> ex

deborah birx says, there is reason to worry that some younger people aren't taking the virus seriously and they're getting sick as a result of. . >> there are concerning reports coming out of france and italy about some young people getting seriously ill and very seriously ill in the icus. we think part of this may be that people leaded the early data coming out of china and coming out of south korea that the elderly or those with pre-existing conditions were those with a particular risk. it may have been that the millennial generation, our largest generation, our future generation, that will carry us through for the next multiple decades, there may be disproportional number of infections among group. >> and with the concern that people aren't taking it seriously with shortages of tests, masks and medical equipment. the president who has been down playing the virus for months comparing it to the flu says he's doing a really good job. >> you have said you give yourself a 10 in terms of handling this crisis. how do you reassure americans at home who don't trust to you handle a crisis of

. >> doctor deborah birx was on the "today" show this morning.he offered a very grim assessment of what's to come. take a listen to this. >> we're very worried about every city in the united states and the potential for this virus to get out of control. if we do things together well, almost perfectly, we could get in the range of 100,000 to 200,000 fatalities. >> that is going to scare a lot of americans to hear that this morning. let me get your reaction to those numbers. does that sound too high or too low from where you sit? >> weeks ago i wrote that we would have somewhere up to 1.6 million deaths in the u.s. but we can control that number by how urgently we act. in the past 24 reporting hours in the new york city, there were 104 deaths from coronavirus. on an average day, there are a total of 147 deaths in new york city. it's an increase of 60% in the number of people dying per day and that number has been increasing. new york city is an early adopter, it's one of the bellwethers and i think every city, not just in the u.s. but the world, ne

deborah birx. i will be listening to them and others that are doing a really good job. >> laura: in the end, it is the president who is the one tasked with making the tough calls, that is why he was elected. in peacetime and war time, he has the same responsibility. he gets a lot of input, he convenes a lot of meetings with a lot of smart people and he looks at the data and projections, but the final decision always rests with him. now, we all know that in life there are inherent risks. we live with those every day when we step into our cars, frankly just walk out the front door. it is always a balancing act, and life and in politics between freedom and security. liberty and safety. the president is never going to please everybody, never. but america at some point soon, he said, weeks, not months, will have to function again. we have to be a country together again. and a safe. at times like this, we need more, not less input from really smart people. and at times like this, think of preiraq war. it

deborah birx. watching the ec continued to expand in italy, germany, france, and switzerland, throughout the european countries but we are beginning to see real hope from south korea and china. they move through the worst of their epidemic and that's why the president was so aggressive with the guidance of the american people, it's modeled after china and south korea and the models show it can have an impact. >> do you believe the chinese report that there are no transmissions in the wuhan province, no local transmissions today? >> if you watch the trendlines over time and you line them up with south korea, they are very similar. at this point, at this moment, we would believe those data. i think everyone is still concerned about why we weren't alerted earlier. >> bret: you mentioned three states today and we will put up the map. three states with 57.7% of the cases -- new york, california, and washington. the governor of california wrote a letter asking for that hospital ship and he said we projec

deborah birx, members of the coronavirus task force presented models that showed 100,000 or more people could die from disease. >> we're going to have millions of cases. what we do know is we have a serious problem in new york. we have a serious problem in new orleans and we'll be developing serious problems in other areas. >> as state leaders watch the cases spike in new york, they're streamlining the distribution of critical supplies. >> we have a desperate need for the testing kits. >> my role is to get every person personal pro tech equipment every piece i can get into the state of michigan. we need some assistance. we're going to need thousands of ventilators. >> we obviously have a spread growing faster than we would like to see. the first real issue is going to be ventilators. >> new york city's mayor warning, it's not just ventilators his hospital will need. >> personnel is more and more the issue. we need to get them relief. >> on the fields of central park, an emergency hospital is under construction adding to a growing number of satellite locations in the city to take care of

deborah birx, she joins us from the north one of the white house. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> bret: the biggest question i get, over and over, is how long will this last? we are three days into the 15 day guidelines. what is your assessment tonight? >> well, we are getting data every day. data from every country around the world. we are watching the epidemic as it continues to expand in italy, and in germany, and france, switzerland, and throughout the european countries. we are beginning to see real hope from south korea and china. it looks like they have moved through the worst of their epidemic. so, we are looking and that is why the president i think was so aggressive with the guidance to the american people because it is modeled after very much what china and south korea have done. >> bret: do you believe the chinese report that there are no new transmissions in wuhan province? no local transmissions today? >> if you watch the trendlines over time, and lined them up with south korea they are very similar. at this point, at this m

deborah birx: it's what we refer to when we ask people to stay at least six feet apart. dr.nthony fauci: not going to bars, not going to restaurants, not going to theaters where there are a lot of people... it all just means physical separation so you have a space between you and others who might actually be infected or infect you. dr. jerome adams: we all have a role to play in preventing person-to-person spread of this disease which can be deadly for vulnerable groups. for more information on how you can social distance please go to coronavirus.gov >>> welcome back. it's now 4:15 here on mornings on 2. ucsf skeping personal donations. the public can drop off items at these facilities. ucsf mission center and benihoff children's hospital. unopened packages of gloves, hand sanitizers and new goggles. . >> any supplies that we get to help fill those gaps that we may have in the future is extremely helpful and the community has been so generalous donating big, small, any amounts that they have with that equipment. so we're hopeful >>> in the first few hours of the donation dri

deborah birx, the whiru house coronacoordinator, said about 56% of the cases in e u.s.re coming out of the new york metro area. s also, los angeunty confirmed the death of what ma be the first person under 18 years old to die from the virus in the.s. the los angeles times reported the teen died of septic shock as a result of covid-19. in tokyo wednesday morning, stoxx opened up about 5% higher following wa street gains tuesday. in the u.s. presidential race, democratic front runner joe biden said he still supports holding the national convention in july amid the coronavirus pandemic. in a tv interview, he was asked about party leaders sticking with it for now. >> i think we ought toe able to conduct our democratic processes as well as to deal with this issue. but that decision we made is the state of the nation at the moment, butk i don't tht should be called off and i don't think we should call if any of the elections. wi thijust have to move forward. stephanie: some of the nation's best-known national parks closed today, citing the pandemic. yellowstone, grand teton,

also ambassador deborah birx is coming, is there. here comes the president and the vice president. open up with a statement. >> thank you very much. it's been a very busy day. i want to thank the american people for the incredible sacrifices that they're making on behalf of our nation. and i want to encourage everyone to keep following our guidelines on social distancing, avoiding large gatherings and hand washing and all of the other things that everybody knows they're supposed to be doing. ultimately the goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up to very large sections of our country as we near the end of our historic battle with the invisible enemy. it's been going for a while, but we'll win, we'll win. i said earlier today that i hope we can do this by easter. i think that would be a great thing for our country and we're all working very hard to make that a reality. we'll be meeting with a lot of people to see if it can be done. easter is a very special day for many reasons. me, for a lot of our friends, that's a very special day. and what a great timeline this would be.

deborah birx at today's press conference talking about how more young people are becoming seriously ill >> there are concerning reports coming out of france and italy about some young people getting seriously oil and very seriously ill in the icus. >> what's your message to the young people out there who think they're invincible? >> look, we're dealing with a novel virus. a lot of what we initially heard out of china, very early data, was that this was primarily something that affected older people. as more and more people have been infected around the world a clearer picture of this virus and what it does is emerging. for example, some of the young people who contracted the virus in china recovered. now they're being examined a month, two months later and they're finding in some of those patients they have 20 to 30% decreased lung function, they have evidence of scarring in the lungs, a more permanent form of damage. they are listed as recovered. it's true, they recovered, but it's definitely left its toll on some of these young people as well. recovery doesn't mean they didn't get sic

deborah birx and dr. anthony fauci got through to the president on sunday. i think there's just no other way around it. when they showed him the modeling, explained to him how, you know, we can see 100,000 deaths in this country before this is all said and done, according to dr. deborah birx, even if we do everything perfectly, i think that got the president's attention. he had been saying he was focused on the economy. but now, i think he understands this is what some of the health experts have been telling us and even members of the coronavirus task force is that the economy is very much tied to the response. and if the administration can't get the response right, the economy is not coming back anytime soon. anderson. >> did the president, today, at all respond to new york governor andrew cuomo? because governor cuomo was asked earlier today about the president' -- that maybe ventilators and supplies were disappearing through the back doors of hospitals. and who knows where they were ending up. kind of implying that there's some sort of conspiracy to hide

deborah birx, the white house coronavirus response coordinator, says there's reason to worry that some younger people aren't taking the virus seriously. and they are getting sick as a result of that. >> there are concerning reports coming out of france and italy about some young people getting seriously ill. and very seriously ill, in the icus. we think part of this may be that people heeded the early data coming out of china and coming out of south korea. that the elderly or those with pre-existing medical conditions were at particular risk. it may have been that the millennial generation, our largest generation, our future generation, that will carry us through for the next multiple decades. there may be disproportional number of infections among that group. >> and with his own task force concerned that people aren't taking the virus seriously, with shortages of tests, masks, and medical equipment, the president, who has been downplaying the virus for months, comparing it to the flu, says he's doing a really good job. >> you have said that you give yourself a ten in terms of handling

deborah birx and dr. anthony fauci, the two doctors on his coronavirus task force. well, dr. fauci told reporters earlier this evening that the president and the administration need to be very flexible, as he put it, in terms of this easter timeline. anderson, we also have not gotten any kind of sense as to what the battle plan is, which parts of the country are going to be opened up first. which states is he leaning towards in terms of opening up those states being back to normal once again. one other thing, anderson, i think we need to reflect on, and that is something i heard from a source close to the coronavirus task force earlier today, and that is we could be in a situation, anderson, where we open things back up and find cases spiking and then have to shut things back down. in the words of this source close to the coronavirus task force, that would certainly complicate things. anderson? >> i mean, even the few scientists who are talking about a more surgical way to do this and maybe letting younger people go back to work, even those people are saying we don't have eno

deborah birx. we cover all the briefings live on the c-span networks and post them on the web at c-span.org. joining us from her district in washington's seventh congressional district is representative, via zoom. congresswoman, thank you for being with us. guest: it is great to be with you. host: how are you personally dealing with this and what you hearing from constituents? guest: this has been a very hard time for our state as is the case for others as well. we were the place where the first case was diagnosed. andow have over 3200 cases 147 fatalities. so, this has been very challenging for us. we have seen the effects of it probably before others have seen some of what we are seeing. we are getting a field hospital which will help tremendously so that will come into my district and centurylink field will have beds, fema iseds150 hospital being deployed here. the army corps of engineers is doing work right now. we are struggling. we need more ppe. we need more ventilators. we need more icu bet

that's back and forth with his medical advisor tony fauci and deborah birx about the possibility with the data that would go into that decision. talk of reopening many businesses and schools and other institutions, plus expected passage of a massive stimulus bill as was just referenced fair led to a big rally on wall street today. the biggest single day point gain in the history of the doubt. speaking of numbers, the president has tied his all-time best approval mark. 49% in the new gallup poll. his approval for handling this coronavirus crisis is at 60% and even 60% among independents polled in that gallup poll. as for the coronavirus right now in the u.s., 696 deaths tonight. more than 53,000 infections and a death rate of 1.3%. chief whit white house correspot john roberts joins us. >> clearly there was an enormous amount of concern in the business community about what will happen to the american economy if the shutdown as it is now continues on. the president said earlier today in our fox news town hall that america wasn't built to have its economy shut down and he is clearly eage

deborah birx.le, this evening, the president had a chance to chat with china's president, xi jinping. the two men upset to have previous confessions about the coronavirus pandemic, that along with trade were expected to be a major part of this evening's conversation. as soon as i do get a read outcome i promised to pass that along to you, shannon. usually we get those a few minutes after they are wrapped up and we get that cleared through the white house. i should also point out, we are also following a story that is breaking over on capitol hill. one that may actually force members to scramble back to washington. let me just explain it. you may have heard of this planned a voice vote to get the stimulus package over the finish line, that could actually be postponed if a member makes a point of order and suggests they are lacking a quorum. that would mean house members have to wrestle up 216 fellow members in order to have enough people to make that vote go forward. now, there is a rumor out there

deborah birx: we know that we're asking americans to do a lot right now.e asking everyone to be selfless for others so that we can protect those who are most susceptible to this virus. dr. jerome adams: a question i often get asked is, "why should young people care about the spread of coronavirus?" well we know that people with underlying medical conditions over the age of 60 are at highest risk, but they've got to get it from somebody. dr. anthony fauci: social distancing is really physical separation of people. dr. deborah birx: it's what we refer to when we ask people to stay at least six feet apart. dr. anthony fauci: not going to bars, not going to restaurants, not going to theaters where there are a lot of people... it all just means physical separation so you have a space between you and others who might actually be infected or infect you. dr. jerome adams: we all have a role to play in preventing person-to-person spread of this disease which can be deadly for vulnerable groups. for more information on how you can social distance please go to corona

deborah birx: so we're asking everyone to be selfless for others so that we can protect those who areeptible. dr. anthony fauci: not going to bars, not going to restaurants, it all just means physical separation, so that you have a space between you and others. dr. jerome adams: for more information on how you can social distance please go to coronavirus.gov i'm back with michael straight. were talking about a $2 trillion support package for the economy. that's about 10% of u.s. gross domestic product. on top of a deficit that's already about 5%, is this just no limit to the debt the u.s. government can take on, do you think this will have no consequences? >> i think this underscores the need to get our financial situation under control. we should be going in a downward trajectory and reforming our programs, now is not the time to do those things. we need to borrow money to support the economy right now, but this underscores the need to have a balance sheet in healthy times so when the prices arise that we can act. we shouldn't go into this with the trillion dollar deficit but we did

deborah birx: it's what we refer to when we ask people to stay at least six feet apart. dr.g to bars, not going to restaurants, not going to theaters where there are a lot of people... it all just means physical separation so you have a space between you and others who might actually be infected or infect you. dr. jerome adams: we all have a role to play in preventing person-to-person spread of this disease which can be deadly for vulnerable groups. for more information on how you can social distance please go to coronavirus.gov as the nation has grappled with the coronavirus epidemic there's been an increasingly heated debate about how we should balance the imperative to save lives with the need to keep the economy from total collapse. president trump has said he wants to get the country back to some kind of normal by easter. that's in two weeks. in his words, we cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself. now others say it's way too soon to be talking about reopening businesses until we've suppressed the transmission of the virus we must remain in lockdown. that'

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deborah birx. >> dr. debbie birx and i went into the oval office and leaned over the desk and said, here are the data, take a look. he looked at the data, he understood them. he shook his head and said, i guess we're going to have to do it. >> reporter: the deaths are projected to skyrocket to at least 100,000. >> if we do things well, almost perfectly, we could get in the range of 100,000 to 200,000 fatalities. >> reporter: but the president is still making excuses, suggesting that hospitals are hoarding crucial medical supplies without offering any evidence. >> where are the masks going? are they going out the back door? how do you go from 10,000 to 300,000? and we have that in a lot of different places. so somebody should probably look into that because i just don't see from a practical standpoint how that's possible to go from that to that. >> reporter: that's leaving officials in new york puzzled. >> i don't know what that means, i don't know what he's trying to say. if he wants to make an accusation

deborah birx if we're winning this fight. >> desperate measures.ew york city hospitals are overrun. makeshift hospitals are being built in central park and at a convention center. only on "cbs this morning" we'll tour a new army facility opening today. >> a promising treatment. how survivors of the virus could help save the lives of those currently affected. >> and james corden returns with a star-studded special. he'll telluous social distancing should not keep us apart. >>> first, here's today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> the peak. the highest point of death rates. remember this is likely to hit in two weeks. >> no state, no metro area will be spared. >> president trump extending social distancing guidelines through april. >> his denial at the beginning was deadly. his delay in getting equipment to where it's needed is deadly. >> the virus has just torn through new york city and its suburbs with frightening speed. most of the deaths have happened in the span of just a few days. >> april will be worse than march. may will likely be

deborah birx walking out as well. we've got the rear admiral there who is handling some of this. fauci is present for this meeting. just trying to make out who some of the others are. the president is not there yet. we have others taking their seats, which means the president is going to be out there momentarily. so, again, the requests that the president has in the last 24 hours, he was talking about a quarantine of the tri-state area. that's not happening. but he has asked the cdc to impose travel restrictions, which means non-essential travel between new york, new jersey, pennsylvania, and other states around them is restricted to people the department of homeland security has declared to be essential workers. there is a whole list of people that are said to be essential to infrastructure. that's number one. number two, the president has tweeted out a little while ago that hospitals should stop hoarding ventilators. we don't have detail on what he is talking about or what hospitals, but the vice president, mike pence, has sent a letter out to hospitals just a couple of hours a