delia gallagher is in rome, and we are in madrid, but we start with jim bittermann, who is there liveparis. jim, france has put in place new measures to combat this pandemic. what's the latest on that? >> well, what we're seeing this morning all over france is a lot of road blocks, check a points, as the police go over the paperwork that people are supposed to fill out. you're supposed to download a form from the internet, explain why you're moving about, and then show it to the police when they stop you. so far, at least, i guess they've handed out some fines this morning. the fines go up to about $150, 135 euros. and so, it's enough, hopefully, to dissuade people from going out. people are supposed to be on lockdown. other fronts here, there's a lot of interesting, different developments overnight. the foreign minister said that he is urging all of the french who are overseas to come home. he has a problem with the fact that there aren't many flights flying into france right now. a lot of airlines have canceled their flights, and they have, for example, 7,000 french who are estimate

jim bittermann, cnn, charles de gaulle airport. >>> and in a televised speech, the prime minister of spain says his country is facing difficult week ahead. but the people of spain would stop the virus together. al goodman is joining us from madrid. we learned that spain had more than 1200 new cases bringing the total to more than 4200. and that is an alarming spike. >> reporter: that's right, and in his speech to the nation, the prime minister warned spaniards that next week in the space of the few days, the number of cases could more than double to 10,000. this is dramatic change from just last week when spain only had hundreds of cases. just a week ago spain was behind germany and france in the number of people infected with the coronavirus. and now that has shot up dramatically which prompted the government to take this emergency action. of those 4200 cases across spain, more than half of them are right here in the capital city of madrid. of the 120 deaths so far, more than half are right here in the city. and so the government is now trying to get a handle on will, it is co just

cnn's jim bittermann.t was just a few days ago when the president emmanuel macron was scolding the population for not taking this viral outbreak seriously enough. what's happening now? >> reporter: well, now they are taking it seriously because in fact the real measures, the real lockdown measures took effect yesterday at noon and the fines if you're out and about without this special form that you're supposed to be carrying at all times, the fines start today. the police are going to start enforcing it. 100,000 police across france have been mobilized for this. one of the things that's interesting this morning, john, is our sister network bfn has done a poll just to see how the french are feeling these days about coronavirus and 81%, that's to say up 20% from just five days ago, 81% feel that it's a very serious problem and they're worried about it. and even more importantly, 93% say they are in favor of the kind of lockdown measures that are being talked about and are now in place. so it is amazing sort