kimberly, who was almost two hours away, raced to the house. >> i said, kevin, what happened?id, did he have a heart attack or something? and he said, no. somebody shot him. and i just started sobbing. and i started to go down to my knees in the road. >> investigator randy bolen was assigned to talk to her. >> she is crying and very, very, very emotional. so i immediately go and speak to her, but i give her some moments. >> but in the investigator's eyes, kimberly quickly went from grieving girlfriend to potential suspect. he asked for her phone. >> i said, okay. is there a reason why? you know, i just was kind of shocked. >> it turns out that keith had asked kimberly to join him at the educator's conference that weekend. she said they had never finalized the plan, but she had been mad at him for not returning her calls. >> she gets very upset in her text messages back, like, i can't believe you're not talking to me. you know, and they're half violent, like why are you not calling me? >> really flaming stuff. >> yeah. >> and something else, in keith's bedroom upstairs, crime s

i'm the other kimberly. kimberly ericson, the acting chief of staff, and i have to tell you that i'm humbled to be a part of this. thanks for having me here today. my supervisor had a very aggressive travel schedule, but he asked me to pass along his best and hopes to see you soon in this beautiful city of ours. on behalf of the director, i want to tell you how much we appreciate the celebration of black history month. i've worked in transportation for 20 years now. i know you can't tell, but it's been 20 years. so naturally, i loved spotlighting some of the highlights. i'm going to take us back and talk a little history. i'll start in 1893 in nationalville, tennessee. there -- nashville, tennessee. there, elton jackson patented a safety for street trolley to keep them from rolling downhill. keep streets clear in the era of horse drawn carriages was probably very important. much appreciated by the folks in 1896, right? now, they didn't stop there. brooks' design allowed for the truck's front brushes to be in

guys, we have kimberly and david still back with us here.ant to focus on this because this richard burr thing in particular is a burr under my saddle. you have burr at senate intel taking a bunch of private briefings, getting briefed in great detail about the threat of coronavirus. he writes an op-ed. a fox news op-ed february 7th. thankfully the united states is better prepared than ever before to face emerging public health threats like the coronavirus due to the senate health committee. congress and the trump administration. that's february 7th. so let's keep this in mind here. on february 27th, burr is doing a private briefing. let's play this sound. a private briefing where he says something slightly different. >> there's one thing i can tell you about this. it is much more aggressive in its transmissions than anything we have seen in recent history. it is probably more akin to the 1918 pandemic. >> so that, david jolly, is the public richard burr. everything is fine. and that's the private richard burr, we've got a real problem on our

kimberly the story coming out of the u.s. seems to be the issue of who is being tested or rather who isn't being tested. yeah absolutely even some members of congress saying they can't get a test despite the fact that they have been meeting with their constituents this raises the question for many in the united states about why there are such strict parameters and whether or not this is something that is keeping the numbers perhaps deliberately and artificially low now the numbers as they stack right now 1700 have been diagnosed in the united states across 45 states 41 dead but those numbers are expected to rise because right now there is this very strict testing parameter or criteria that some place but that is expected to change we are watching very carefully to see that that testing is broadened out and that could really spike up the numbers for now for his part of the u.s. president donald trump has been tweeting about all of this remarkably blaming the obama administration for making the veil ability of testing so low he

here is transatlantic team this hour kimberly how here in washington d.c. with a house of representatives is voting on a relief bill we'll be with you shortly kimberly want to start with jonah how with more from london jonah within what was it an hour of boris johnson saying that he had coronavirus you here the health secretary as well. that one called the health secretary has also tested positive with corona virus and he's also self isolating of course the 1st thought after receiving that news about boris johnson's. positive test result would have been the ministers closest to him in confronting the coronavirus crisis among them but hancock also the chancellor of the exchequer who of course lives next door in downing street rishi soon as he is not at this moment said to be self isolating that may change in due course also we're told that some stuff inside number 10 among those who weren't already working from home some staff of since gone into self isolation displaying mild symptoms no positive tests have come back yet no further positive tests that is we'

i would like to acknowledge that kimberly ackerman, who's here, the director of san francisco's h.r., she came in to us to create an action plan to change outcomes. director tomlin, what sealed the deal, when you asked us what you could do to seal the deal on this change?

kimberly is working with united healthcare to watch the kids of medical professionals who have to be at work during all of this it feels great that we're able to help out and be a part of this and to know that. >>we're somewhere trying to help bring this crisis is you know out of existence. >>so it feels good about that kids r us is taking the situation day by day every parent and child that enters the building must wash their hands and have their temperature taken to ensure that everyone is healthy. >>next on kron 4 news at 6 a new efforts underway in the south bay to try to help the most vulnerable residents during there are certain groups that are considered at risk for coronavirus and one of those groups we may not realize is people with diabetes earlier today on kron on. >>we talked to doors hobbs a well-known bay area author and advocate for diabetes awareness. she explains why those living with the disease are more at risk. >>we have an auto immune disease so we already have something battling us you know no matter or light so the coronavirus just has more on to us stress for

. >> cnbc's kimberly brooks is here to show us who's getting involved. good morning, kimberly. >> good morning, mona and good morning, kenneth. many people right now feel like they have no control over their income, but fortunately many companies as you said are trying to help. while doctors are on the front lines working hard to save lives, major companies are working to save their anxious customers from the economic side effects of covid-19. mounting bills and no clear way to pay for them. thousands of workers already laid off. >> this is a complete shutdown of business activity in many parts of the country, and it looks like it's going to go on for a month, two, three, or four. the economy's struggling. we're in recession. it's going to be pretty severe. >> reporter: but the burden is now being lifted on everything from mortgages to utilities and internet service. giants like at&t and verizon are waiving late fees and promising no disconnections. and what about those credit cards? experian says the average american has four of them. companies like app

abc's kimberly brooks is here with that story. kimberly, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, kenneth. yeah, that's right. a lot of mixed feelings on this decision. state officials are calling it an unnecessary risk, but the school says its reasons are justified. colleges across the country have been telling students to close up shop. but this morning a different decision by the faith-based liberty university in lynchburg, virginia. with spring break now over, it's re-opening its doors in the middle of this deadly outbreak. the school now welcoming thousands of students back to campus. the school's president, jerry falwell jr., says there was no other choice. >> we have about 750 international students who have no alternative. they couldn't go back to their countries, and we have a lot of students who really had nowhere else to go but their dorm rooms. we've taken all the precautionary measures. >> reporter: one student tweeting, so proud to call liberty u my home. the unnecessary rage against liberty's administration in handl

. >> abc's kimberly brooks has the new details. good morning, kimberly. >> reporter: good morning, mona and kenneth. yeah, in this time of crisis state officials are frustrated. they're trying to make people understand that what you do versus what you don't do is literally a matter of life and death. this weekend crowded beaches in california. an ocean full of boat parties in miami. large gatherings in central park in new york. otherwise normal except for the global covid-19 pandemic, where americans have already been ordered to stay six feet apart. these scenes showing people are not practicing what the government is preaching. >> i was in these parks. you would not -- you would not know that anything was going on. this is just a mistake and it has to stop now. i am not kidding. >> reporter: new york's governor one of many officials infuriated at the lack of social distancing. >> generally, we think it's spread through close contact, short distances. coughing on one another. sharing the same drinks. touching the same surfaces. we

earlier this week i had the honor to interview author and civil rights activist margaret kimberly about her new. a book covering the history and relationships between every single u.s. president and black america presidential presidential today in the wake of the 2nd great. march a vote in the democratic primary i wanted to present to you the last part of my discussion with ms can really about her new book in this discussion we touch upon how both democrats republicans and all of our us presidents throughout our nation short history have benefited from large scale bolder disenfranchisement take list. one question through that i want to get to get to as well as is these limits on black voting and political power that you you point to during the rough 3rd behaviors administration actually your book presidents and parties have benefited from a large scale there's some french reisman at various points throughout history the tactics tragically are eerily similar to what we're seeing used today do you think that we will find a way to change this at the end of the day you know what what needs

and kimberly they've been tussling so are they not close. according to nancy pelosi the house speaker the very close she said that several hours ago she has not changed her projections hoping that this is something that will calm the markets that have been jittery over the last few weeks and to say the very least losing most of their gains since donald trump took the oval office in 2017 so this is something they've been working very hard on that and there has been some criticism from republicans that the democrats have injected almost everything including the kitchen sink in terms of their wish list into this almost 2 trillion dollars legislative package and the on the other side there has been the argument from democrats that republicans have been writing blank checks to big business with little oversight and few limits and the ordinary american is getting hurt as a result the truth probably somewhere in the middle and this is something that the white house has been watching very carefully in fact donald trump is holding a virtual town hall

average american not just those on wall street can really help with the latest from the white house kimberly as always thank you. well kept out as a ministry of public health has registered 238 new confirmed cases of corona virus the infections were confirmed in foreign workers who live in one that residential complex and who had been quarantined as a precautionary measure after coming into contact with 3 other people who had the virus that are now has a total of 262 cases. while a surge of new cases in south korea has reversed 4 consecutive days of the client the discovery on wednesday of a large cluster of infections has that matched hopes that the country had its outbreak under control scott hartnell reports. despite ongoing disinfection efforts throughout south korea there's been a reverse in the downward trend of corona virus cases the largest cluster yet discovered in the capital seoul at least 90 workers at a call center tested positive they worked in a building near a transportation hub in the southwest of the city home to 10000000 koreans. only just and so city officials are conduct

a lot to talk about we will get the latest developments from the united states in a moment with kimberly help in washington starting though with lawrence lee in london not often we would follow a u.k. budget quite this closely lawrence but given coronaviruses happening right now what is the british government promising. well foreign money assets you know this seems to be the response certainly across europe the u.k. it's early as you mentioned the european union more broadly setting aside very large amounts of money because they're just desperately concerned that everybody's going to go into recession and there's a keep saying this is obviously contradiction between trying to make the good or the conditions right for business while parades while simultaneously signs of people of the probably going to stay at home the 2 things just don't work together and you heard the british isles the rich assume that it's all in very confident about the health services ability to cope when very very many people think that it's really creaking badly already and in the event of a big way of cases basical

correspondent kimberly at k doctoatkins. staff writer at the new yorker sheila. she is the author of the book "black edge." inside information and quest to bring down the most wanted man on wall street. welcome to all of you. thank you for joining us. natalie, let me start with you. where in your evaluation, because there is so much information that has been coming in over the last 24 hours. where are we in the infection and the fight against it? >> well, ali, it is almost impossible to answer. the scope is astonishing. i had a conversation that we were scrambling to report old first case and here we are where we are. things are moving at rapid fire pace at my institution with changi changing guidelines with limited and reuse of personal equipment. capacity has changed in 24 hours where we are no longer doing outpatient services anymore starting at the end of the week hospitalized patients. the demand for testing and for personal protective equipment has far outpaced the supply in spite of the reassurance. it isn't going anywhere that i can see. >> kimberly, yest

lot of funding requests hitting congress right now coming up at 9 15 in the morning in washington kimberlywhat's on the president's agenda today when can we expect to hear from him. yeah a little bit curious we had a tweet from him about an hour ago where he said he's having a news conference to discuss the chinese virus couple things in that tweet their number one there's no news conference on the daily schedule except the sort of regular coronavirus task force briefing we think that's what the president is talking about but no clarification just the usual kind of morning confusion here in washington the other thing that's really important is he's calling the crown a virus the chinese virus and that is very deliberate that's something the president is defending he's very angry that he says china blamed the u.s. military on the spread of the virus so he is not only defending the use of the this name but also saying he'll continue to do it because he says that's where the virus came from in the midst of all of this i should tell you just very quickly here in the united states we now have al

white house and donald trump's effort to hang onto it yes so that's an interesting point you make kimberly so who then is the biggest challenge of this point. well right now there seems to be as allan pointed out a lot of coal lessing around the so-called establishment candidate joe biden but you have to remember now as well as we saw in 2016 the man who was packing stadiums sort of similar to donald trump was bernie sanders and now the white house has said repeatedly donald trump a said repeatedly he would like to take on either of those candidates already have seen the sharpening of swords by republicans for both those individuals in when during the impeachment situation that was happening on capitol hill many weeks ago the biden's name came up repeatedly not just joe biden but also his son hunter biden there are certainly some mud that has been slung there that the republicans in this country would love to bring back up and then when it comes to bernie sanders just the fact that he is a self professed democratic socialist is almost a dirty word among conservative circles so they're look

on this from our white house correspondent complete halted he's standing by and we are expecting kimberly sort of coronavirus time to be speaking shortly what can we expect from them today. yeah that's right this is expected to happen that briefing in the white house briefing room in the next hour or so and that stimulus package that you talked about there certainly one of the questions it's a bit controversial already we've had a bill passed in the house that would allow for paid sick leave also emergency food for children and the elderly this now moves to the senate but in the discussions between the congress and this white house there is an effort to really pad out this legislation if you will adding that $850000000000.00 which essentially to a payroll tax cut the white house hopes would flood the u.s. economy with cash in order to sort of combat some of the downturn that has occurred as a result of coronavirus what's controversal about this is it could include some bailouts for the cruise industry as well as the airline industry that of course have been very hard hit so we special que

we go 1st to our white house correspondent kimberly how kits she is there kimberly so president trump has been talking about the democratic party not liking. trying to oust bernie sanders what was his strategy then going forward. if there's a reason the u.s. president donald trump continues to promote what many see as the infighting among the democrats because his strategy essentially is as long as he can keep democrats fighting amongst themselves they're not focusing their attention and fighting him so we saw this strategy of full display on the eve of super tuesday donald trump held his own sort of preset were tuesday rally in charlotte north carolina where he continued to talk about how he believes the democratic party is treating bernie sanders it's a wound that he sort of picked the scab off if you well because this brings up sort of some painful memories from 2016 when the president pointed out what many people in the united states believe is that bernie sanders got a bit of a raw deal and felt that the establishment kind of over ran his attempts that had to see in favor of hill

press conference thank you kimberly how could the white house and while we're talking numbers let's see what's happening on wall street at the moment go to what a different story that is the market up 2.8 percent of opened i believe 5 percent higher so a very different story on the markets today christine salumi is there for us scotia must be like calm down there today kristen i know there's still obviously been days of losses but at least to pick some of it back. yeah stocks are up a bit recovering some of their losses from yesterday's historic slide that was the worst since the black market black monday crash of 1987 as you mention the major indices are up a better around 3 percent on news that u.s. leaders are moving closer perhaps to a relief package u.s. treasury secretary steve minutia and attempting to calm the public and common vester earlier today talking about putting more liquidity into affected industries that so having a calming effect we're seeing oil prices up a bit for the 1st time in days as wow also central banks around the world have been taking action to calm things

helpful had we and to kimberly's point, the has been that tru consistent about is misrepresenting the gravity of ais threat. i went backually in my reportinghis week and looked at the evolution of his statements. on the same day in south korea, we had ourirst diagnosis here. so you actually- it's a perfect parallel. what we did differently was that we had a president who was completely downplaying the risk. whs the south koreans were. mobilizi now, it's true, fauci said we have a very different system here. we're dependent on huggi the ivate sector. whereas the government there was able to martial all of its resources. but to come out and tell the american people that we are doing great things and we're really ahead of the curve is al just fac false. robert: let's stick with that point. when you're talking to your top sources in both parties, do they have confidence in the institutions, in the government, in the coming two weeks,or will eryone from home, and schools are closed, to come through?>> no. i think there's a lot of uncertainty. i think that's one reason the maets are going c

kimberly brooks joins us now with the details. >> yes. stressed out. but fortunately we are seeing companies saying that they want to help and they are putting their money where their mouth is. while doctors are on the frontlines working hard to save lives major companies are working to save their anxious customers from the side-effects of covid-19. mounting bills and no way to pay for them. thousands of workers already laid off. >> a complete shutdown of business activity and it looks like it will go on for a month, two, three, four. it will be pretty severe. >> but the burden is now being lifted on everything from mortgages to utilities and internet service. giants like at&t and verizon are waiving late fees and promising no disconnections. credit cards, the average american has four of them. apple and barclays are now allowing customers to skip a monthly payment and others like citi and capital one are extending deadlines, waiving fees and in some cases increasing credit lines, but you have to call. check in on the car payments. there

kimberly atkins, senior washington correspondent for wbur, boston's npr news station. and ian bremmer is back with us, the founder and president of the eurasia group. his expertise in global affairs with a particular eye on the relationship between political risk and financial markets. he also happens to be the host of g zero world on pbs. good evening and welcome to you all. kimberly, i'd like to begin with you. a week ago tonight the nba season was canceled. a week ago today people were wondering, almost a parlor game, wonder which celebrity will possibly come down with coronavirus. the virus was -- impressed us all when it started at the top of the chain when we learned tom hanks and rita wilson were in quarantine in australia, that is to say, a week has passed. should congress have passed what they did faster? >> congress should be working as fast as humanly possible. the one thing that this variety and the fact that people are staying away from each other, social distancing, is that congress -- members of congress, many members, have opened up virtual town halls a

kimberly, in the sense this is so isolating, families are told to stay apart.when people get sick, you can't necessarily see them if they're being treated or when they're home self-quarantining. how does that factor into the pain here? >> it's really devastating for our family because we are such a close-knit family. we literally visit each other several times a week. so to not be able to be there for jazmond during those final moments or her mother or be there for each other during this time, it's been very, very dismal. >> i know you can't answer some of the questions here. americans around the country are dealing, and it's different in different places, about having interactions with the health care system right now, having interactions to desperately try to get information. do you have questions and issues there, or are you just in the wake -- in the immediate wake of the loss dealing with that first before you try to get answers to your questions? >> right now we are just still dealing with the loss. >> yeah. >> still dealing with the loss. take me more th

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kimberly, your thoughts how this is shaping up. the health of the country, concern about, you know, the health aspect of things and obviously the economic aspect as we are seeing these shutdowns affect small businesses in particular across the country. >> yeah. i mean i think what we are beginning to see now and we are starting to have this debate is that we began this by saying, you know, listen to the doctors, listen to the science. and they have been giving their absolute best estimates of you who you handle this and their best advice on how to contain and get us ahead of the curve a little bit. flatten that curve and ramp up for what may come. but at a certain point you also have to have somebody thinking about the economy and that overall balance. and i think people are beginning to look at this and say, you know those 14 days, maybe we need to start getting ready for what comes after it. maybe more aggressive use of drugs. maybe more isolating those most vulnerable. but, the current situation from an economic perspective is s

americans as well as industry you know be interesting to see what comes out of that for the moment kimberly how kind of the white house thank you and a cruise ship that's been forced to stay off the coast of california for the past 4 days has just been allowed to dock in oakland at least 21 people on board the grand princess cruise the coronavirus the ship is carrying more than 3 and a half 1000 people and was barred from returning to port in san francisco because of the infections fences surround the oakland ports and buses have been lined up to take passengers into medical care or quarantine crew members will be quarantined and treated on board. well still to come in this half hour after opening turkey's border with greece for refugees and migrants turkey's president heads to brussels to push the e.u. to share the burden and in a fight for their lives women across latin america stopped work to demand the full rights and more action against gender based violence. had other sells more all the west and windy weather heading out across the northwest and indeed across into northern europe at t

kimberly atkins, and anthony scaramucci. he was former white house communications director in the trump administration. adam, you were in the room last night when mayor pete delivered the speech. take us inside. >> well, it was really a full circle moment for the mayor. last time i was in that room was in february when he launched his memoir "shortest way home." it was a fascinating scene. at that time last february, there were a few local reporters and me were there. last night, you saw more. he built a national presence and national organization in just a year. in the room last night, supporters were tear filled, shaking hands, celebrating, but it was really one of the most emotional speeches i've heard buttigieg give. one of the most fiery speeches i heard him give. >> what a year he's had. not long ago, he was mayor of the 363rd largest city in the u.s.. >> he is impossible not to like, you talk leadership, that was a leadership moment for him. looking at the landscape, he doesn't want bernie sanders to get the plurality

let's get more from our white house correspondent kimberly how kimberly was more measures did the president announce. those are the big headlines the fact that the u.s. president is pushing forward the use of these comfort ships and that's a bad sign because what it means is they're ramping up the capacity in the hospitals in terms of bed space and they know they don't have enough so as the number of coronavirus cases continues to spiral in the united states every day it is a new and higher number and now in all 50 states this is action that is being taken because the signs are alarming adding to that the invocation of the defense production act this is a sign that things are already a little troublesome in terms of the 1st responders and the supplies that they need what this sort of $950.00 s. era law does is it allows for increased production but also frees up some of the reserves that are in place the defense secretary telling reporters at the white house briefing today that that means up to a 1000000 masks that these 1st responders need will be put into the market so that they can use t

and kimberly on this reopening of the economy you can see why the president would want to do it but one wonders whether or not it's prudent. yes there's no question that that is a lot of controversy generating a lot of controversy here in the united states because just as americans are still being sent whole or being ordered to stay in place even with the national guard activated at least 3 states the u.s. president is already talking about getting back to work one of those tweets this morning congress must approve this stimulus feel that they're talking about about 3 blocks from where i'm standing without all the nonsense today the longer it takes the harder it will be to start up our coffee our workers will be hurt he really wants to see americans get back to work and he's angry at a lot of republicans are feeling this way that this is a stimulus bill that they hope will flood the economy with cash and get things going again has been stalled because the republicans accuse the democrats of injecting things like money for performing arts centers or dressing climate change now democrats

kimberly legislating in the time of coronavirus is an unusual thing how is the vote going to happen. yeah it's getting more unusual now that there is at least one republican member that seems to be insisting that this vote go by roll call and that's a problem there are members on both sides democrats and republicans that were hoping they could push this through very quickly with a voice vote in other words everyone saying i getting it to the president's desk signed into law because both democrats and republicans really want to see not only help for ordinary americans but also an influx of cash into the u.s. economy which is essentially collapsing as a result of this social distancing staying sheltering in place as they try to blunt the curve of coronavirus cases now the problem is that it doesn't appear there are enough potentially members in washington right now in order to do this roll call vote their 435 members in the house of representatives they need at least 216 right now when they opened up this morning they had about 50 and they were all sort of spread apart social distancin

president seems to have backed away from his plan to have the economy up and running by easter time kimberly. yeah there's no question about of the headline coming out of the latest from the virus test for free flowing was the fact that the social distancing guidelines have been extended to april 30th and the reason is the numbers are just not looking good in the united states depending on which model you look at the number of confirmed cases in the u.s. the neighborhood of 153-215-5000 people confirmed and 2800 deaths and that number is climbing but we're knowing from the public health officials is in fact that the peak of cases in the united states is not expected to hit for another 2 weeks now part of the reason they're concerned is that these numbers are telling us the complete picture not only has there been a problem with testing in the united states but the test results take a long time to get to the doctors in the public health officials who need them despite the fact that there is this promise of a faster test result coming it's not here yet so in the midst of all of this there are

and 200 people have died white house correspondent kimberly hulk it now reports. well thank you very much it was great having. us president donald trump visited the federal emergency management agency or fema to speak to the nation's governors a few struggles to project he's managing the corona virus outbreak. the president has been eager to promote any positive news at his briefing earlier in the day trump announced he was pushing the food and drug administration to fast track treatments for coronavirus patients including making available and anti-malarial drug they've gone through the approval process it's been approved and they did it they took it down from many many months to. the media so we're going to be able to make that drug available by prescription but minutes later the food and drug administration commissioner tamp down on trump's message telling reporters the malaria drug was not yet ready to treat culbut 19 it's already approved as the president said for the treatment of malaria as well as an arthritis condition that's a drug that the president has d

payments to individuals as individuals and let's get more now from our white house correspondents kimberly how kids can believe the bill has finally passed and that will come as a relief to many. yeah because it almost did there was a little bit of drama in the final moments because what this was was a bill that was supposed to be passed through a voice vote it was a rare moment of unity between democrats and republicans in the house of representatives but there was one republican member that decided that he wanted a roll call vote and there is a bit of a problem with that you need a quorum you need 216 of the 435 members and there wasn't that number in the chamber because they had been in recess and also because of coronavirus not only were they trying to social distance but in fact there are some that are in self isolation because they have come into contact they believe with someone with crime of iris 2 members democrat and republican have even tested positive so this was an issue and it was really frustrating for both sides who wanted to see this push through they wanted it last monday

halkett is with us kimberly how are americans dealing with the prospect of having to drastically change well at least their routines if not their entire lifestyles. yeah life as most americans know it has come to an abrupt and it is in every facet of society now right now i can tell you in more than 30 states adrian children are staying home from school some of them are doing distance learning others are simply taking an early spring break government workers are now tell a working for the most part and those who do not have the luxury of being able to stay home and collect a paycheck are finding that they are not able to work those so-called giga commie and are facing the prospect of wondering how they're going to pay their bills so what we're seeing is social distancing that is taking place where people if they are going out to a store if it is even open that they're staying 6 feet apart from the person next to them and the discouraging information for so many americans is coming from the centers for disease control the recommendation that for the next 8 weeks that gatherings of 50 peo

thank you for that update from washington well you heard kimberly mentioning markets a moments ago and they did rally during president trump's announcement the dow jones industrial average closed up 9.3 percent after trading around 3 percent up for most of the day thursday saw the greatest losses since the black monday crash of 1987 in london the footsie 100 initially surged 8 percent but again subsided enough to noon trading to close just 2.4 percent up it suffered its biggest weekly loss of more than 30 years and in asia markets plunged in morning trade but managed to call back initial losses in hong kong the hang seng index closed down 1 point one percent let's get an update from kristen salumi joining us from new york so how did the markets react to what president trying to say. it was really interesting during this press conference was timed shortly before the markets close less than an hour before markets closed president trump made his remarks pushing all 3 of the major stock indices up over 9 percent regaining most of what they lost on thursday i think there were a couple thing

but, really, the president of the united states should be leading here. >> kimberly, give us a sense of how the federal government is working with state and local officials. >> well, i've been hearing from local officials, i and my colleagues and health care officials that the slow federal response is hamstringing efforts to get the needed equipment where it needs to be. you have some place like massachusetts where there's been over 100 confirms cased. in massachusetts, 200 people have been tested as of this morning, according to wbur. that means that half of the symptomatic people who sought testing, more than half, were actually tested positive. and the state only has capacity to test about 5,000 people. there are 7 million people in massachusetts. and that's the fear there that we will still have an undercount of actual confirmed cases without needed action to get more tests places. it's also been difficult for state and local officials to act and respond. the state asks for the strategic national stockpile which is where there are reserves of personal protective equipment and oth

kimberly halkett with the latest there from just outside the white house kimberly thank you meanwhile a cruise ship that's been forced to stay off the coast of california for the past 4 days has just been allowed to dock in oakland at least 21 people on board the grand princess cruise have the coronavirus the ship is carrying more than 3500 people and was barred from returning to port in san francisco because of the infections fences now surround oakland poor time buses have been lined up to take passengers into medical care or quarantine crew members will be quarantined and treated on board. israel has become the 1st country to enforce a mandatory 2 week quarantine for all new arrivals as it tries to limit the spread of the virus the decision applies to both citizens and tourists. they mostly do not good to have complex discussions we reached a decision everyone who comes to israel from a brood will be put on the 14 day quote unseen this is necessary to protect public health public health comes before everything else this decision will be valid for 2 weeks at the same time we are mak

chris does leave the thoughts joining us from new york let's cross over toward the correspondent kimberly is at the white house and kimberly just a few days ago we had the president trying to allay the american public see is that the crisis as far as the coronavirus virus was concerned was under control and nothing to panic about but now it's hitting the economic market said i'm sure the president will have something to say about it. you're watching very carefully the president remains at a fundraiser down in the state of florida he is expected back at the white house in the coming hours but he has not changed his tune with regard to trying to downplay the threat of corona virus to ordinary americans even as there is this continuing nervousness in the financial markets in fact the latest tweet from the u.s. president you want to follow along with me last year 37000 americans died from the common flu it averages between 27070000 cases per year nothing is shut down the life in the economy go on at this moment there are $546.00 confirmed cases of chronic virus with 22 deaths think about that

to what's going on in the new york stock exchange through the coming hours that school save it's kimberly how it's all correspondent in washington d.c. you've heard of the what had to be with the sort of new york stock exchange stopping and starting it's rattling the business world kimberly and i'm sure the president will be taking note of exactly what's going on. that's right the u.s. president is not only watching very carefully but he is tweeting about all of this he is expected to return to the white house later today scurrilously in palm beach florida where the air force one is standing by to bring him back to washington d.c. but in the midst of this in the midst of the rattled financial news the u.s. president trying to project calm his administration is responding aggressively to the concerns the rising concerns about coronavirus take a look at the 1st tweet as paraphrase some of this the u.s. president tweeting great job by the vice president and chroma virus task force thank you another one is defending his decision early on to close the borders to some travelers from china he wr

i think but so lots of uncertainty lots of concerns going forward in those major industries that kimberly was talking about that have been suffering the most like hotels and airlines those stocks all remain down oil prices remain down and. people are waiting to see exactly what kind of a bailout the government will come up with for these major industries the airlines we here in the united states airlines are asking for some $50000000000.00 which would be more than they received after 911 but money that they say they desperately need so still a lot of uncertainty indeed thank you from new york kristen salumi well in on the developments in the u.s. 3 states are holding democratic primaries on tuesday despite health officials encouraging people to stay at home. to vote but polling stations have opened in a florida illinois and arizona election officials say they've done enough to safeguard the health of voters bunny saunders and joe biden are fighting for the party's nomination to take on donald trump in november. you're watching al-jazeera life from london much more still ahead and alasia s

at our white house correspondent is covering this so kimberly what do we know about what the what the white house is trying to do with what the president's comments in the last few weeks to say the least and they've been mixed messages the president says something is medical experts say something else he says something else on twitter what can we expect in the next couple of hours from him. well i know that most americans are hoping for clarity whether or not they can expect that based on so many of the mixed messages in recent weeks leaves many americans doubting they're going to get that but remaining cautiously optimistic even this address was a bit of a surprise we didn't know about it until the u.s. president was meeting with wall street executives here at the white house to discuss some economic proposals to try and help deal with and mitigate some of the fall out from the rattled markets with regard to coronavirus it was then that the president was asked about travel restrictions whether or not there would be any sort of public health declarations made and it was then that the

that the number of cases of credit virus in the united states is going to continue to climb and kimberly home necessary use this injection of cash alstrom to all people how strapped all the ordinary americans if you like and and businesses in the. it is necessary and there are nearly $46000000.00 americans and a population of roughly $330000000.00 who are unemployed or found themselves without a job almost overnight why this legislation helps those workers is for the 1st time we're going to see a lot of unemployment insurance benefits that would be extended to people that normally wouldn't receive it under the old system for example the freelance work or the gig economy worker and also it'll be a 100 percent of benefits which is something that is new in other words 100 percent of your paycheck will be a part of that benefit that wasn't the case before right now in washington d.c. new york state los angeles number of major cities the only stores that are open right now are the grocery stores in the drug stores everything else is closed so a lot of americans really hard hit trying to cope

state of colorado and nevada kimberly health at al-jazeera the white house we're going to weather update next. welcome to day 26 of the woman pointing the finger in quarantine of patients in self isolation hoping to reassure others. in taxing times i'll tell you what ignited pharmacy anger in argentina. the ng as. we got the usual distribution of showers across southeast asia some lively one serving 2 central possibly taken in malaysia seeing some life back into the philippines more sunshine than showers here was a chance of the odd one in the heat of the day but nothing much to speak of in that china was so quiet thailand looking good what it is shows that just around. into somalia. was that you know just popping up across more than possible border for a time as usual russia shows the intricate part of indonesia and that was a series of very heavy showers recently that he says sort of australia loss a cloud showing up there and under this particular system to cool cycling it's likely to develop here and bring some further showers longer spells of rain in from the coral sea with the risk

president right kimberly donald trump is been talking about the united states shake you know the impacts of coronavirus by easter also i mean parts of it and he would be saying that this deal will help the process of getting the country back to work . yeah that's a pretty controversial position the president has taken the and some say overly optimistic as well he's talking about trying to get the economy essentially back into where it was by easter and that is really the middle of april it's not much time considering the numbers of crossfire cases in the united states only continuing to climb we've been told this is going to be one of the worst weeks yet it seems a bit ambitious still the president points out that there are some counties in the united states where there isn't a single coronavirus case and he'd like to see those counties being able to get back to work so this is something that the president is pushing we expect to hear more about it as he briefs with his coronavirus task force that will be taking place at $21.00 g.m.t. and we also now know now the president tomorrow thurs