specifically edgewater, new jersey. edgewater, new jersey mayor mike mcpartland runs the town considered to be the gateway to new york city. the former nymex oil trader joins us on how he's holding down the fort. and we are bringing in the star of the netflix docuseries "pandemic," jacob glanville who has been working for years on a vaccine for a pandemic just like this one. he is extraordinarily close but there may be a real problem when it comes to timing at the moment because his operations are in san francisco. san francisco is on lockdown. we will talk to him in just a moment. >>> we have this breaking news. swiss ventilate or maker hamilton medical, the world's largest maker of face masks, says britain faces a massive shortfall of ventilators as the coronavirus advances. the ceo is saying quote, england is very poorly equipped. we also, unrelated, have this hitting the wires. i promise you throughout this hour, i will keep interrupting to get you anything we see when it comes to breaking news. regarding the census

distancing in edgewater. as you can see to my left, you've got groups of people working out and training together. you've got mothers with their infants, babies and toddlers, strolling them through out the neighborhood throughout the day. it's a big hang-out session here. >> reporter: you're seeing people doing these things right now? >> they have balcony parties. they're partying everywhere. >> reporter: we had video of a group of eight to ten people working out en masse at a plaza right over my shoulder. that's what that woman is referring to there. craig, i'll end with this. at this point the marching orders are these increased orders will go to the middle of april. that could be extended based on circumstances. craig. >> balcony parties. hard to get your head around that. >>> we continue to watch this live picture. this is a live look from albany, new york. that is where we expect to hear from new york governor andrew cuomo literally any moment now. we'll carry it live. also, tomorrow is april 1st. the re

live from edgewater, new jersey. we'll be right back. the dow, we are down at session lows again. anything could happen in the last hour as liz was telling you, as we go into the close. you never know. stay with us. we will see if the selling picks up. covid-19 has put the medical world into overdrive. gilead forced to limit emergency access to its antiviral drug, remdesivir, as demand surges due to this outbreak. then eli lily is halting enrollment in all medical trials to keep from wasting supplies. doctors need to focus on fighting this deadly disease. shares of both those companies are falling in today's selloff, as you can see. red arrows on your screen. now, this virus has forced eateries across the globe to go on lockdown but coming up next, we will talk to restaurant guru cameron mitchell on the pandemic survival plan. he's cooking it up for his dining empire. "the claman countdown" will be right back. sure, principal is a financial company. but think of us as a "protect your family as it grows" company. a "put enough away for college" company. and a "take care of your emp

>> edgewater, new jersey. he used to trade oil down at the nymex for many, many years. he is the mayor of the town known as the gateway to new york city. it has a ferry which is now shut down. it is, basically helmed between the george washington bridge and the lincoln tunnel. this is extraordinarily important point on the map here because they do have a couple cases, one of them a school teacher. so they told the entire lower school to shut down and to definitely hunker down in place. new jersey's mayor, phil murphy, just came out in the last hour and said that its cases spiked, now at 427. it was at 267 yesterday. so we'll talk to mike mcpartland what is happening with the businesses. you had mr. renzi on. you had mcdonald's, we have a target. we have a whole foods. we have a whole bunch of publicly-traded companies that have operations in edgewater, new jersey. we'll talk to him. we have former fortress hedge fund manager and leader, mike novagraph is not just something that happened at noon hour on our competitor cnbc where another hedge fund manager, bill ackman sa

we're fracking this crash on westbound 92 edgewater boulevard.g has been moved over to the shoulders. just slowing down speeds just a bit but 52 miles per hour. this is a look at your main travel times. 580 from 205 to 680, 38 minute drive. westbound 80 once you get past the crash, highway 4 to the macarthur maze, 23 minute drive. >>> ever everything has been in the green, but 101 is showing in the yellow from highway 85 to 680, 280 interchanges, a 12 minute drive for you. sam stamp bridge speaking up in the commute direction. you'll see a lot of brake lights there. once you get on that span, it looks like an 18 minute drive. the bay bridge toll plaza backed up, because the metering lights are on. once you get passed that area, an 11 minute drive across the span. here is weather with mary. >>> good wednesday morning. happy wednesday. halfway flew the workweek. we're doing it together. well, i want to slow you high def doppler because we had some very light showers push across the south bay. things have pretty much watched up. if you're heading ou

i know you have in west new york and possibly in edgewater, i have seen hovnanian homes there. i talked to my contractor today and he told me that he was getting calls from his lumberyard and his suppliers last night saying they are going to ban and we know they have now, they are going to ban construction workers from working. they don't want people out and about. they need to shut this thing down. first it starts today, then it was maybe this weekend. how do you put people to work if this starts to spread around the nation? >> first of all, most of our business, the overwhelming majority, are single family homes. we typically only have one or two, maybe three workers in a home. we are basically social distancing in our manufacturing. we are not like amazon. we don't have big ougautomotive plants. we are social distancing in a very different spectrum. liz: what about say on a smaller level, the home depots and lowe's of the world? my contractor said people are gathering at those places and you can't have people gathering. but on top of that, how do you pay your construction wo

there's a hit and run west 92 at edgewater at's blocking the right lane. so it's baing up traffic a bit toward the high rise. this is what it's looking like on the hayward side, the flat section crowded bunot bad 21 minutes total to the peninsula. and for ose be traveling on 6.80 have crews are earing a stall south 6.80 anand roddy that's been blocking the left lane. so that's why we have thatheavy traffic rolling south rusin all you can see it's backed up beyond 84. i was about you can see the whole stretch so from dublin to signal fremont and milpitas a 25 minutes for your total e drive me quick pe at 17 for those of you commuting through the santa cruz mountains this moing. we have a spinout we'll see a lot of that tay on the slick roads northbound 17 at the summit, this is still blocking the right lane so prepare for some northbound delays. you are looking at 39 minutes los gatos will check more slow downs coming p tanks are robin. thank you time now 6.17. >>happening today, th expanded travel ban from europe to the us will include the united kingdom a