the original plan was to use javits -- javits is the state convention. it was retrofitted by the army corps of engineers to hold 2,500 people. the original plan was that it would not take covid patients, covid positive patients. it would take non-covid patients and would be an overflow for hospitals. as it turned out, we don't have non-covid people to any great extent in the hospitals. hospitals have now turned into effectively icu hospitals for covid patients. so we wanted to convert javits from non-covid to covid. it's federally run. frankly, the federal agencies were not eager to do that. fema was not eager to do that. i called the president. i spoke to him about it yesterday morning. that afternoon -- yesterday afternoon the president called me back and said he spoke to the task force, they would grant the request to transition the javits center to covid only. that adds 2,500 beds, so that is a very big deal. i thanked the president for doing it. he did it despite the fact that the federal agencies were not eager to do it. and he did it quickly. so i

people at the hospital transfer you here to javits.on't think, we haven't seen, much indication of the idea you'll walk into javits yourself. all part of what is governor is trying to do here. create a new hospital system across the state including new federally-run hospitals like the naval ship, here at javits and the existing state and public and private hospitals as well. >> thank you so much. from javits center. >>> the trump administration wants to use cell phone tracking data to help fight the coronavirus. now a pair of companies in the u.s. are trying to show through that system what it would look like by tracking data from thousands of spring breakers who ignored social distancing guidelines and then traveled back to different places across country. cnn's reporter joins me now with more on this. tell us about how this technology is going to track people? >> reporter: that's right, fred. we all remember those spring breakers a few weeks ago who would not leave the beaches of florida, despite all the warnings from officials aroun

evan mcmorris santoro, thank you so much at the javits center. let's turn to the white house. cnn's jeremy diamond is there. quite the about face from the white house. why now? >> reporter: that's right, fred, because it is not only that the white house and the cdc previously did not have a recommendation on face masks. it is that they previously recommended americans not wear them in public. now the cdc and the white house reversing course, recommending that all americans when they go out should be wearing some kind of a cloth facemask. not those medical grade face masks to not take them away from those medical workers. the surgeon general jerome adams explained that about face yesterday explaining that recent studies showed larger amounts of people infected may have no symptoms and that means that more of the spread of this virus could be driven by asymptomatic individuals. these new guidelines followed an internal debate inside this administration over the last week. some of that debate became very clear out in public yesterday. dr. debby birx the coordinator of the coronav

army-led facility there, the javits center? >> yes, they absolutely can get ready, but exactly as you were talking about, it's an all-in approach. and the way i think about it is normally health care has pretty predictable peaks and lulls during the year. it's like having waves on a beach, right. what happens with covid, because everybody gets sick at once, it's like a tsunami coming in and the crest of the wave is enormous. but the crest of the wave hits different parts of the country and different cities at different times. so as we think about how to move forward with this, if we can make sure that resources are deployed to wherever the wave is wresting at that moment. so initially it was seattle and portland and l.a., and it looks like we may have started hitting our crest and now if we have a little additional resources and like china has additional resources, we can redeploy the resources, whether it's ventilators, people or ppe to the places the wave is cresting next, like new york city. >> chrkristen holmes at the whi h

the original plan was to use javits -- javits is the state convention center. it was retrofitted by the army corps of engineers to hold 125 people. the original plan is it would not take covid-positive patients, it would take non-covid patients, and it would be an overflow for hospitals. as it turned out, we don't have non-covid people to any great extent in the hospitals. hospitals have now turned into, effectively, icu hospitals for covid patients. so we wanted to convert javits from non-covid to covid. the -- it's federally run. frankly, the federal agencies were not eager to do that. fema was not eager to do that. i called the president. i spoke to him about it yesterday morning. that afternoon, yesterday afternoon, the president called me back, said he spoke to the task force. they would grant the request to transition the javits center to covid only. that adds 2,500 beds. so that is a very big deal. and i thank the president for doing it. he did it despite the fact that the federal agencies were not eager to do it, and he did it quickly. so i thank him fo

the javits center where they set up four field hospitals with 250 beds each. they're going from a thousand bed and right now the javits center have fewer than 10 patients. why is that? tell me why the federal government decided neither of those facilities can have coronavirus patients. we start to get towards that math. this is developing story, swrwe have more on that coming up. we'll talk to the governor of washington state. washington state had to confront the nation's first case, the nation's first death and first large cluster of cases. there has recently positive noises of the case loads in washington state particularly in the seattle area potentially slowing down and flattening out in terms of how quickly it is spreading and how many people are getting infected. if those positive noises are accurate. if it does reflect as positive change in washington state, you should know it is painfully mixed picture there. washington state's rising number of cases is still a steeply rising number of cases as you can see here. and the governor of that state jay insle

out into javits to reduce the load on the various hospitals. that is happening today. it will accelerate this afternoon and it will go on again tomorrow and over the course of the week. and that will help the hospitals enormously, so it's a good thing. i wish it had happened a week ago, but it's better late than never. so it's a good idea and we're doing it today and tomorrow, going forward. >> i'm glad you are able to get the team in there to make that happen. michael dowling, thank you very muc much. >>> the fight to flatten the curve to keep the number of cases from growing, not completely overwhelming the health care system. dr. sanjay gupta is with me once more. can you walk us through where you think we are now? >> well, that solid line going into the dotted line, that inflection point right now where we are, but as you know, i mean, that shaded area, anderson, as we talked about is the sort of variation in terms of the models here, and very much, you know, you think about storms and how unpredictable they are, it's the same sort of thing

army and operations officer for the javits center. major pete, good afternoon, thank you so much for your time, give us a status update, how's it going inside? >> hey, bill, thanks for having me. inside the javits center, we are continuing to work across the government through all agencies, fema, health and human services to continue to increase the capacity and the capability here at the javits center, like you said, there is a 3,000 bed capacity and we are doing our utmost to increase that as much as we can. as time goes on to provide an offshoot for the city in new york to provide patients to come here, and give them a little bit of relief, and do it we can for the country. >> bill: you are doing god's work, too, just so you know major, screen left is our q rv vehicle, our quick response vehicle, it is moving throughout manhattan, a moment ago you saw go through central park. pretty nice day here in the northeast, temperatures bond to the 60s. that is a good, positive note that we've got here, at least weather-wise. major, how do y

much like the one that opened this week in new york city at the javits convention center there. here's one important difference between the facility in l.a. and the one in new york. the new york one, according to the federal government, will only be used for housing non-coronavirus patients. the governor of new york said he had asked for the javits center to be set up in a way that it could house coronavirus patients. the federal government said no. that said, the l.a. convention center's a different story. l.a.'s mayor, eric garcetti, said this week that their convention center medical buildout will be done in such a way that it may end up housing coronavirus patients, people who have symptoms that are not severe enough to require full hospitalization. we're seeing the same kind of planning in detroit, michigan. the convention center there being converted into a facility to care for up to 1,000 coronavirus patients. the u.s. army corps of engineers doing a lot of this work. they say that plans have already been drafted for a 3,000-bed coronavirus hospital in chicago. the chicag

the javits and comfort can do whatever the military allows them to. i understand on the comfort they don't want to bring in covid patients because that's an entire ship. how do you disinfect the ship afterwards and that's a complicated situation. javits you could convert to a covid facility. it would require the federal government to allow it. i don't know what kind of medical staff, covid verses non-covid. >> and the non-covid patients depend on their medical conditions and those individuals would have to be in relatively stable condition. >> reporting out of china that the coronavirus cases and deaths may not be accurate. i am just wondering if that's true and if you have any impact on the models and the projections we are using in the united states? >> it is an interesting question. part of what -- we do not do the model in-house. we review the models, we don't do the models. we have mckenzie does the models and cornell. the modelers will tell you they use wuhan's data especially when they're trying to calibrate the rate of spread. but they also ha

the javits certain nter is a co only and what's up with the comfort? >> the javits will accept covid patients. initially they did not want to. the governor said the federal government, fema did not want to take those patients, those covid patient patients. that's what the new york hospitals need right now. they need relief for covid patients. the governor went to president trump and said i need help and i need you to allow and put pressure on the government to do this. the president did it. now because of that, because of the governor going to the president, the javits center is going to be taking covid patients. the ship which is behind me, they're not expected to take covid patients. about 20 people on that ship right now being treated. the military does not cannot covid patients on there because it is going to be difficult to disinfect the ship. the doctors in this town and nurse and medical town, they need relief from covid patients. there are a number of covid patients in hospitals that are not on ventilators. to focus on those that are on ventila

and then we added 2500 and javits. we added the other temporary facilities, so we are probably up to must be 80,000 beds. >> if you have 17,000 people hospitalized with it, are you going to need that come are you going to move -- gov. cuomo: what it did was it flipped. nobody expected the need of equipment that we have. nobody diagnosed or suggested ppe shortages. so you have to adjust. we were focused on beds early on. we scrambled on the beds, but now it turns out it is ppe and masks and ventilators. >> you were sued by the nra. legal expect more challenges to come challenging or executive order? been sued by have the nra it must be a dozen times. i did not even know i was sued this time. you become lawsuit immune. don't you wish you could become immune to this virus way i become immune to nra lawsuits? as i said the other day, it is a slow day if i don't get sued five times. the state is a great target. -- haveh care workers any of them and sent out to different hospitals? jim will answer. remember, we collect the u

javits has beds, but more importantly federal staff and federal equipment. and i called the president this morning, and i explained the situation to him. and to his credit, to his credit, rachel, in one day he turned around and he called me this afternoon and said, we're going to use javits for covid patients, which is a big deal. it's 2,500 additional beds. the military apparently doesn't want to use the ship for non-covid because of a protocol on how they would then disinfect the ship, which i don't really understand frankly. but the ship was never supposed to be for covid patients. the original understanding was non-covid patients. >> there is this alarming report today from the entity that manages new york city hospitals that if you're in cardiac arrest somewhere in new york city and emts show up and they can't revive you on-site, there's now a change in protocol where they are not taking you to a hospital to try to revive you there because the hospitals are so overwhelmed. it does seem like having that hospital ship in new york harbor with no coronaviru

that javits center is going to be a relief out. second, the comfort, the original plan that was for non-covid people. it would also be a relief for our hospitals but not for covid people that are taking all the non-covid patients if you will from the hospital. that was the plan. as it turned out there is not a lot of non-covid people in the hospital system which is a separate story. it happens to be a good news story. a by product of shutting everything down is if you have a your car accident going down and few ter trauma cases so there i not a non-covid case in the hospital. i am going to ask the president to shift the non-covid to covid. then we'll have the ship comfort and the javits as a relief. it could serve as a relief out for the whole hospital system. that's the only way we sustain this level of intensity in the hospital system. i understand what the plan was with the comfort. i understand there is no preordained strategy here. you have to feel it out day-to-day and you have to adjust with the facts and we don't need the c

javits is going to be converted to a covert facility the original plan was to use javits javits is a state convention center it was retrofitted by the army corps of engineers to hold 2500 people the original plan was that it would not take covert patients covert positive patients it would take non covert patients and it would be an overflow for hospitals as it turns out we don't have non cope with people to any great extent in the hospitals. hospitals have now turned into affectively i.c.u. hospitals for covert patients so we wanted to convert javits from non covert to cove it. the it's federally run. frankly the federal agencies were not eager to do that fema was not eager to do that i called the president i spoke to him about it yesterday morning that afternoon yesterday afternoon the president called me back said he spoke to the task force they would grant the request to transition the coal javits center to probate only that is and it's 2500 beds so that is a very big deal and i thank the president for doing it he did it despite the fact that the federal agencies were not eager to

inside javits.p the number of covid-19 ready beds in javits by the end of the week. >> this week is to get up to 700 and then after that we have some equipment and staffing issues that have to be worked through. the state is working that really hard to make sure they have additional providers and equipment in place to provide that higher-level of care. >> meantime there was some confusion this weekend aboard the u.s. naval hospital ship comfort docked in manhattan. after multiple covid-19 patients, less than 5, boarded the comfort by mistake. the ship is only supposed to be taken non-covid-19 patients. first reported by lucas tomlinson. the patients were screened before boarding and showed no symptoms. once on board they showed symptoms, tested and put in isolation on board and since transported off the ship. there are only a couple dozen patients on board right now. yesterday president trump said the comfort could soon begin treating covid-19 patients. >> president trump: it looks like more and mor

but that javits center is going to be a major relief valve. second, the united states navy ship "comfort," the original plan was that that would come in for non-covid people. the original plan was, it would also be a relief valve on the hospitals, but not for covid people, that it would take all of the non-covid patients, if you will, from the hospital system. that was the plan. as it turned out, there's not a lot of non-covid people in the hospital system, which is a separate story. it happens to be a good news story. a by-product of shutting everything down is you have fewer car accidents, crime rate is way down, fewer trauma cases, so there's not -- there is not a and ask him to population in shift the "comfort" from non-covid to covid. then we would have javits and the ship "comfort" as a relief valve. that's 2,500 beds and 1,000 beds. that's 3,500 beds, which could serve as a relief valve for the whole downstate hospital system. that is the only way we sustain this level of intensity in the hospital system. and i understand what the origi

the original plan was to use javits, javits is a state convention center. it was retrofitted by the army corps of engineers to hold 2500 people. the original plan was that it would not take covid patients, covid 19 positive patients. it would take non-covid patients and it would be an overflow for hospitals. as it turned out, we do not have non-covid people to any great extent in the hospitals. intotals have now turned effectively icu hospitals for covid patients. so we wanted to convert javits from non-covid to covid. it is federally run, the federal agencies were not eager to do that. fema was not eager to do that. i called the president, i spoke to him about it yesterday morning. that afternoon, yesterday afternoon, the president called me back, said he spoke to the task force and they would grant the request to transition the javits center covid only. that is, that adds a 2500 beds so that is a very big deal. and i think the president for doing it. he did it despite the fact that the federal agencies were not eager to do it. and he did it quickly. so i

covid patients now being taken to the makeshift hospital with 2,500 beds at the javits center. the nypd losing another member, a 26-year veteran and a school safety agent. new jersey's governor saying his state has now lost 100 more people than it did on 9/11. tonight, one of the president's top health advisers warning the three hottest area in the u.s., new york, detroit, and louisiana, will reach their apex in the next seven days. trevor ault leads us off. >> reporter: tonight, president trump warning the nation. >> this week will be the toughest week, between this week and next week, and there will be a lot of death, unfortunately. >> reporter: and telling americans there will soon be more covid-19 hot spots. >> they come, and they hit you like you got hit by a club. >> reporter: already getting hit, new york. the empire state bracing for the worst. governor andrew cuomo now saying the apex of coronavirus cases is likely seven days away, and warning his state is not prepared. >> it's good we are not at the apex because we are not yet ready for the apex either. we're not yet

between javits and the comfort, that is 3000 beds. it is a welcome overload relief to the hospital system which is already stressed. i spoke to general shaughnessy today. the department of defense has been fantastic and the number of military personnel and how quickly they have set up here and this is a tough assignment to run facilities this long and to be handling this many covid patients in a new startup emergency facility. this is a really difficult undertaking and they have really been fantastic. i want to think the president from moving as quickly as he did. we are working on a tri-state cooperative. i mentioned i spoke to the governor of new jersey and the governor of connecticut. we coordinated the shutting down when we did because this really operates as a tri-state area. a lot of people who live in new jersey work in new york or live in new york or connecticut so we talk about the tri-state area and we try to operate the best we can as that regional collaboration and that has been working well for us. we have to start planni

at the javits center we have a lower acuity. we can bring covid patients there, covid convalescence. recently, it'll be ioc today, we're bringing in 48 icu beds as well. so we can take a higher end covid patient as well. the concept is we're going high end to the lower end medical needs and plugging into the new york city and new york state broader system. we're open for business, ready for them to bring in the patients even at the higher level. we want to be part of a relief valve that we know new york needs right now. >> you talked about how the military will be helping localities and medical professionals. how will the military protect its own? we know that often quarters are close and sometimes the job requires personal interaction. so how will you prioritize the social distancing and the protection of the service members? >> i'll break that down to two areas. one on is our medical professionals are out there doing heroic work like so many civilian health care workers. we're focussed on having the ppe, making sure they're fo

cnn's evan mcmorris santoro is there outside the javits center in new york. we heard from governor cuomo earlier today that he is very eager to have this makeshift hospital ready to go. he says it will change the numbers dramatically. >> reporter: that's right, ana. i'm here at the javits center and originally when this was conceived the idea was put a thousand or more beds in here, use the beds to take people out of the existing hospital system who have covid freeing up the other hospital beds for covid patients. that plan has changed. on monday this javits center hospital, more than 2500 beds as you mentioned, will be home to covid patients and the more important part about it is there is also personnel to man and operate the beds. that is the main issue going forward the governor says is personnel and equipment. as you mentioned, new york state is the epicenter of the pandemic in the united states and new york city where i'm standing is the epicenter of that epicenter but the governor said today he is concerned about a new area nearby just in the east wher

we are creating our own field hospital to help with the javits center. all of our hospital systems are creating beds and icu beds out of areas that weren't as used as icus before which puts a tremendous stress on the system, tremendous stress on the number of ventilators that we need. >> we've talked about beds. we've talked about ventilators. we've talked about the infrastructure of the system. let's talk about those front line workers, your doctors, your nurses, your health care providers. how are they doing? how are they holding up? >> remarkably well. and the morale is terrific. it's a can do attitude throughout the city but they are very stressed. this is really tough stuff. you're seeing people die at all ages. they are working long hours. it's very stressful work. these patients are very sick. they're putting themselves in harm's way. the courage of our staff is just remarkable. our environmental service workers, our nutritionists, our doctors, our nurses, our respiratory therapists. it's just humbling to be in charge of this hospital system given

the javits center and the comfort you're talking about? javits and comfort -- well, there's two separate situations. when i say we have about 90,000-bed capacity, we brought online additional beds, right? two ways. number one, every hospital had to increase capacity by 50% with a goal of 100%. every hospital has increased capacity by 50%. that's why you see hospital beds in conference rooms, lobbies, et cetera. second, we built temporary emergency facilities, primarily around downstate new york. they may or may not be used depending on whether or not we need the beds. the javits and the comfort we are using and they're ramping up now. i'm going to go speak to the hospitals. thank you. >> -- any plans on how to address grocery store workers and their safety. >> grocery store workers, transit workers, first responders, police officers, these are here rows oes -- >> governor cuomo wrapping it up there. this is the third ambulance we've seen pull up to this naval ship in the past hour and a half or so. we heard governor cuomo talk about this h

we'll also go to the javits center. we've got some new numbers for the javits center.e're in and around new york city over the next two weeks because as you've been reporting throughout the course of the morning, this is supposed to be, over the next few days, this is going to be the epicenter. we are, according to the surgeon general yesterday, expecting quite the uptick in icu cases and hospitalizations and unfortunately deaths as well. we'll be spending the next two weeks in and around new york city, places like this, hot spots and the battle against covid-19, ayman. >> thank you to you and all the other reporters putting a spotlight on this. stay safe and healthy out there. we're going to be talking to you again throughout the course of this week. be well, my friend. >>> british prime minister boris johnson remains in the hospital being treated for the coronavirus. we're live in london where what he is saying today about his condition. >>> first, the state of wisconsin is moving ahead with its presidential primary scheduled for tomorrow, believe it or not. mayors a

javits center we have to think about, because the javits center is in the javits convention center. it has 2,500 beds so it is a great facility, but it's also in the convention center. you can't reopen the convention center, obviously, with the hospital beds in it. westchester county center the same issue. it's also the westchester convention center, so question mark on those facilities, when we take them down or how we take them down. i'm going to speak to the county executive in westchester county, george latimer, about that. but javits will be on hold for both those facilities now until we decide. but again, anticipate an issue in the future and make sure we're ready. but i want to thank, again, the army corps of engineers did a fantastic job. and president trump got it done, and he got it done very quickly. so those facilities -- javits, over 1,000 people went through javits. we didn't need the whole facility, but a thousand people is a large number of people. on saturday, as you know, we expanded our diagnostic testing criteria for front line workers, essential workers, et cete

also to relieve pressure on the hospital system the javits coming on line is a very big deal that is the relief valve for the entire downstate system. the 1100 military personnel started to come in 300 were sent to new york city public hospitals to help the new york city public hospital system the h. and h. system which has been under stress the rest will be going to javits to bring that up and running to full capacity that transition is happening now. that is a covert center now started it is non covert it's now a covert center the majority of the military personnel will be coming in tomorrow and the next day but that jabot center is going to be a major relief valve 2nd the united states navy ship comfort the original plan was that that would come in for non coded people the original plan was it would also be a relief valve on the hospitals but not for covert people that it would take all the non coded patients if you will from the hospital system that was the plan as it turned out there's not a lot of non colleville people in the hospital system which is a separate story happens to

the rest will be going to javits to make that run to full capacity. that transition is happening n now. that is a covid center now. it started as noncovid, it's not a covid center. the majority of the military personnel will be coming in tomorrow and the next day, but that javits center is going to be a major relief valve. second, the united states navy ship comfort. the original plan was that it would come in for noncovid people. the original plan was it would also be a relief valve on the hospitals. not for covid people, that it would take all the noncovid patients, if you will, from the hospital system. that was the plan. as it turned out, there's not a lot of noncovid people in the hospital system, which is a separate story. happens to be a good news story. a byproduct of shutting everything down is you have fewer car accidents, the crime rate is way down, fewer trauma cases. so there is not a large noncovid population in the hospitals. i'm going to call the president this after to shift the comfort from noncovid to covid. then we would have javit

governor cuomo pointing to the fact that javits, the javits convention center behind me is opening its doors to covid-19 patients, starting today, and that is very important, because as governor cuomo said, that will represent a big operational shift, if this works as they hope and think it will, it will make a dramatic change and coming at a time when the city desperately needs it, because of the huge surge of patients sick patients with covid who are showing up at new york hospitals and really overwhelming the system. that is the hope here that this convention center's 2,500 beds will help relieve that pressure quite a bit. one thing i should point out, a hospital administrator said he's relieved that the javits center is now going to be housing these covid patients saying it was unrealistic to think it wouldn't be, because for all practical, as a practical matter, the patients that new york hospitals are seeing almost to a "t" are covid patients and i'm hearing this from my reporting as well, i spoke with an emergency room doctor at a hospital in brooklyn who told me, look, even the

the bulk of them will go to the javits center. as of late yesterday, we agreed 11deploy a few hundred to new york city hospitals that are seeing a deficiency when it comes to medical staff. what is interesting is we will be taking over the javits center, a 2500 bed capacity. to show you how all in we are, united states military will be running the largest hospital in the united states. that shows you our commitment. >> cnn reported that the pentagon has not

the rest will go to javits to bring that up and running to full capacity. that is happening now. that is a covid center now, it started as non-covid, now it is a covid center. the majority of the military personnel will be coming tomorrow and the next day, but that javits center will be a major release valve. second, the u.s. navy ship comfort, the original plan was it would come in for non-covid people. the original plan was it would also be a relief valve on the hospitals, that it would take all of the non-covid patients, if you will, from the hospital system. that was the plan, but as it turned out there is not a lot of non-covid people in the hospital system. which is a separate story. it happens to be a good news story. a byproduct of shutting everything down is you have if car accidents, crime rates are way down, fewer trauma cases, so there is not a large non-covid population in the hospitals. i'm going to call the president this afternoon and ask him to shift at comfort from non-covid to covid. then we would have javits and the ship comfort as a relief valve, 3500 beds th

military is deployed throughout the city and the 2500 bed javits convention center is the largest in the country but they say there could be a glimmer of hope. while deaths in new york state continue to rise, the increase has slowed over the last two days. >> and again, would suggest a possible flattening of the curve. >> reporter: daily hospitalizations and intubations are down. >> we are plateauing at a very high level and tremendous stress on the health care system. >> reporter: governor andrew cuomo is warning new yorkers not to let their guard down doubling the fine for not social distancing to $1,000 and said president trump agreed to his request that coronavirus patients be treated on the "usns comfort". >> we're just, you know, not there yet. >> reporter: dr. derrick from a colombia university medical center had the virus and been

go to jason carroll outside the javits center. jason, the governor says the state could be eight days away from seeing the peak. >> reporter: that's right, victor. and that's why the governor says it's key to get this javits center up and operational. as soon as possible. and, in fact, he called it a top operational priority for the city. the javits center is going to be able to take some 2,500 patients here when it's up and fully operational. you can imagine how that's going to put a great deal of relief on other hospitals in the city when this is operation and ready to go. again, the apex still several days away. new york city's mayor bill de blasio has said repeatedly the city is still not ready in terms of staffing, in terms of bed and in equipment. >> we think at some point next week we could have 5,000 people on ventilators. we're going to need 45,000 durss, nurses, respiratory therapists, et cetera. we need to add 60,000 more beds in the course of the next month or so. >> reporter: victor, new york's governor has also echoe

javits center, we have to think about, because it is in the javits congressional center, it has 2500 beds. it is a great facility. but it is also in a commercial center. we can't reopen the commotion center -- we can't reopen the convention center. rochester county center is also a convention center, same issue. question mark on those facilities, when we take them down or how we take them down. i will speak to the county executive in westchester county about that. but javits will be on hold for thos both those facilities untie decide. but again, anticipate an issue in the future and make sure we are ready. to thank again, the army corps of engineers did a fantastic job. president trump got it done and he got it done very quickly. -- javits, over javits.ple went through we didn't need the whole facility, but 1000 people is a large number of people. on saturday, as you know, we extended our diagnostic testing criteria for frontline workers and essential workers. we be opening additional drive-thru testing sites for those people this week. can't just show up at a drive-thru testing cent

we have 2,500 beds at javits. we have a thousand beds on the naval ship, comfort. beds we can find, not easy, but we can find them. the harder components are the staff and the supplies, which is what we've been talking about. on the staff, we're continuing to shift staff from the upstate hospitals that are less impacted o downstate hospitals. we've requested out-of-state healthcare workers. god bless america. 21,000 people have volunteered from out of state to come into new york state. i thank them. i thank their atriotism. i thank their dedication and passion to their mission of public health. these are beautiful, generous people. and new yorkers will return the favor. new yorkers will return the favor. this is going to affect every place in this country. e are, in some ways, the first major encounter. we're learning. we'll get the experience and we will return the favor. when your community needs help, new yorkers will be there. and you have my personal word on that. and it's also the new york tradition. when there's been a hurricane or there's been a flood or hu

and the rest of those military members will be coming here to the javits center.oth of them will be arriving some time tomorrow. also at the press conference, we got an update on the "usns comfort" two miles away from where we are, docked at pier 90. right now, they're not taking any covid patients, however, governor cuomo says he's going to make a call to president trump this afternoon. and ask that they shift the purpose of this vessel to take the coronavirus patients to once again alleviate some of these strained hospitals, ari. >> kathy park there at the javits city. thank you. in long island, the virus spreading alarmingly creating basic a little new hot spot in the new york steer. between nassau and suffolk counties, 27,000 couases, that' more than all the counties in the united states. joining me now is ron allen. ron. >> reporter: ari, it's pretty intense out here in long island. in his briefing, governor cuomo said that the numbers continue to spike. the number of cases continue to rise and the number of deaths out here, as we understand it, also rising.

to the general today, who we spoke through the comfort and javits. the department of defense has been fantastic. the number of military personnel that they have sent up here quickly. it is a tough assignment. handling this many new start ups in a emergency facility, it is a really difficult undertaking. they have really been fantastic. i want to thank them all. i want to thank the president from moving as quickly as he did. tri-stateking on a cooperative. i spoke to governor from the state of connecticut. downordinated the shutting when we did, schools, businesses , because it really operates as a tri-state area. a lot of people who live in new jersey work in new york, or live in new york and work in new jersey, or connecticut. we try to operate to the best we can as their regional collaboration. that has been working well for us on schools, the economy, health care issues. we have to start planning restarting life. we are not there yet. but this is not a light switch we can just flick one day and everything goes back to normal. we will have to resta

that's what the javits center is. usually a convention center and now a massive hospital with more than 2500 beds. they are looking to take patients out of the new york hospital system and bring them here to create more bed space. the governor again today talking about how hard he is trying to get ventilators. >> remember we ordered 17,000 ventilators. to give you an idea, the federal stockpile was about 10,000 ventilators for the nation. we ordered 17,000 just for the state of new york. when we ordered the ventilators we were paying for the ventilators, so, trust me, the financial situation of the state, we were not looking to spend a penny that we didn't have to spend. we placed that order for the ventilators and were paying for that order. >> wolf, we have talked about this for a couple of weekends. weekends is when politics comes out to play. that was comeau taking a shot at the white house for the continued claims that comeau is asking for too many ventilators and the white house firing back we don't think you ne

in the javits center, beds ta taking coronavirus patients. and the governor of new york asking for a change, and president trump saying patients can be treated there from both new york and new jersey. several hot spots, michigan,louisiana, florida, temporary hospitals going up. and the worsening conditions of the british prime minister. he's asked the foreign secretary to step in where needed. we'll guide you through it all. first, we begin with what we could be seeing in the numbers in new york. are we nearing a plateau of sorts? the governor cautioning it's still dire. we begin with tom llamas, right here in new york. >> reporter: tonight, a look inside the cavernous javits convention center in manhattan, now the largest hospital in the nation. teams of military doctors taking in patients, checking temperatures, monitoring ventilators. but new york governor andrew cuomo says even this will not be enough. he's calling for the navy hospital ship the comfort to start accepting covid cases. today there are only about 40 patients of any kind on

we didn't do this in javits initially but we came in and put oxygen. so instead of having to have little oxygen tanks where everybody's bed, we actually brought in central piping with oxygen to be able to modify that center. so every single time we build one, we have a standard design. you and i talked about that. and then we continue to modify the standard design and then site adapt it, power it down and be able to have decentralized execution at the point in need. so it's been a very, very evolving concept. but as a result, we're getting better and better capabilities. >> that's fascinating. i was thinking exactly about that conversation that you and i had 11 days ago about the javits center. you explained here on our air that it was exliplicitly for non-covid patients. you said it was very hard to take an arena capability like the javits center and make it covid compliant. now not only have you done it in lots of arenas, you have been able to change course to make that javits center covid compliant as well. it sounds like you've exceeded your own ex

at the javits convention center, where teams of doctors are taking in coronavirus patients. and the governor who said today he asked the president if the navy ship comfort could now take patients with the virus. the president just addressing this and we'll have it. all of this after the surgeon general warned that in this country, the next two weeks will be the hardest yet. that this is going to be our pearl harbor, our 9/11 moment. >>> we have new reporting as we come on the air. british prime minister boris johnson, late today we learned he's been moved to the icu. his condition worsening. 10 downing street saying the prime minister has asked the foreign secretary to step in where needed. >>> in this country, several hot spots emerging. now more than 700 dead in michigan. the bus driver in detroit who spoke out about passengers not covering when they cough. the driver dying several days later after getting the virus. tonight, the emotional plea from his wife to stay home. a louisiana church holding palm sunday services. more than 1,200 attending. nine states with no stay a

temp service they called the bullpen and today they literally deployed from the ship and from the javits center 75 medical personnel to relieve a dedicated health care workers within the hospital system in the city of new york and we'll continue to do that when to make sure those federal temporary hospital in javits center is fully staffed will make sure the u.s. and his comfort is staffed but but the physicians those military personnel. are going to be also be deployed across the city to bring much needed relief. to our health care workers in our system from the v.a. standpoint we've opened up a v.a. facilities in new york city east orange new jersey detroit michigan and we are opening up the v.a. facility but there coronavirus patients in shreveport louisiana. finally i mention that today we exceeded more than 2000000 tests that have been performed across the country and also literally working with the u.s. public health service states around the country have stood up hundreds of drive through testing sites and just this week fame and the u.s. public health service announced that we wi

. >> the bulk of them will go to the javits center and as of late yesterday, we agreed to deploy a few hundred of them to 11 new york city hospitals that are also seeing a deficiency when it comes to medical staff. >> reporter: with the heightened public health emergency, the javits center has shifted to treating covid positive cases and the department of defense is laying the risk of taking on coronavirus patients on hospital shifts, including the u.s.n.s. comfort, which has been nearly empty a week. >> that's why we opened up the javits center and expanded hospitals around the country for coronavirus. we are prepared to leverage the mercy and cold front to do that installations facilities and property must now wear face covering in other turn, a defense official saying captain brett crozier will remain in quarantine at naval base qualm for 14 days. fhelarm on a coronavirus outbreak on the uss theodore roosevelt the "new york times" shows he tested positive for the virus. the navy would not confirm this information. earlier this week, mayor bill de blasio warned the city would run out

that's why you need a place like the javits center.ital add straig minu administrators and doctors, it only make sense to make javits covid-19 center. one emergency doctor i spoke to over the weekend, even people coming in for strokes and when they are admitted, all of those x-rays show of pneumonia and tale tell sign of infection. a couple of things i want to mention is the supplies, making sure that hospitals in each state and city have the supplies and personnel when they need it. we heard from mayor bi mayor bilmayor bill d mayor bill de blasio, he's calling on doctors and dunurses and supplies. send those doctors and nurses and medical personals where they need to go when they are needed. california is now going to be giving 500 ventilators that does not need right now to the national strategic stockpile. that's an example of the kind of shifts that's going on along with 600,000 n-95 respiratory masks are due to arrive here in new york today. athena jones, thank you. >> we'll bring you that live report. appreciate that reporting.

i hope javits is empty. there are several hundred people in javits. but ideally we never needed a bed in javits, on the u.s. navy ships comfort, and overflow bed -- an overflow bed in the field hospitals. mark levine noted: that the number of hospitalizations in new york city is because they are at capacity -- gov. cuomo: that is not true. no. we do a daily call with hospitals and we get updates from them and there is no reported that. reporter: -- we are using all the hospital capacity in the system. we are managing that process. if there's a problem that one facility, we move them to another. are monitoring this on an hour-by-hour basis. no one is being turned away. i think he realized that now. we have been talking to his staff to make sure they understand where we are in the process. gov. cuomo: also it defies all logic, right? the high point of hospitalizations was to weeks two-- was 22 weeks ago -- weeks ago. we have been on the down slide for a while now. not -- wepitals are have empty beds right now over the past couple of days. they would not