and that is almost all growth in long island, from 15% to 22%. the shift is on -- officials have been asking why they are having a containment zone put up in muncie, new york. can you explain the rationale? gov. cuomo: have you heard about that? >> i haven't heard about that. thehen you talk about containment zone like what we did in westchester, that was about ending gatherings. we have now done that statewide. we will certainly reach out to people in rockland county to find out what more they want us to do. if there are more measures, we are all years. but when you talk about the containment zone, what we did in new rochelle we did statewide. city --hs in new york outside of new york city is still under a thousand. gov. cuomo: impressive. >> what did you want to do that did not get done? marijuana, gig economy were two of the more complicated initiatives we wanted to work through that we did not get a chance to do off the top of my head. to -- the session is effectively over? i think it is fair to say it is effectively over. they have a number

long island is the area that is growing. you see long island goes from 16% to 17%, to 19% to 22%. new york city is actually dropping, as the number of cases in long island increases as a percentage of cases within the state. for us, this is about tracking the virus and the spread of the virus, and then deploying as the numbers suggest. in terms of beds, the 2500 ed facility is going to make a major difference. that has to work. the white house agreed to make that a covid positive facility. originally, the center, the state convention center, we worked with the federal government, they constructed a 2500 bed facility and was supposed to be non-covid. i spoke to the president and transferred that with his intervention to a covid facility. the federal government will staff that in the federal government will equip that. that is a big deal, because that 2500 bed facility will relieve a lot of pressure on the downstate system. that is a significant number of beds, and that facility now has to make that transition quickly, and that is what we are focused on. it will be staff and equipme

we're going to begin with mola lenghi in long island, new york.a. >> reporter: well, norah, as you mentioned, another alarmingly high day of deaths across the state of new york. as this virus spreads outside of new york city to places like long island here, hospitals and towns are scrambling to do just this-- put up field hospitals and expand their ability to treat covid patients. a chilling view from above: freshly dug trenches on hart island, new york city's 150-year-old public cemetery, where once-a-week burials have turned into a five-day operation. among them, unclaimed victims of coronavirus. as the death tolls soars, morgue space is running low, forcing city officials to reduce the number of days bodies will be stored. >> we are cautiously optimistic that we are slowing the infection rate. >> reporter: for the first time are slowing the tk began, i.c.u. hospital admissions are down. so are the use of ventilators. and yet: >> the bad news is, we continue um lose a tremendous number of lives, and endure great pain as the state's 777 lives los

you look at where it is moving, you see the long island number is growing. it has been growing for the past 10 days. and, it has been growing steadily, so, interestingly, it is not moving north, it is moving east than it is north. and that is what those numbers say. again, is there a reason the state is not breaking it down by age, gender, race. new york city is doing that and some other places are doing it. some people are concerned. >> we can do that yes. >> you will provide that? trackertched covid-19 which breaks it down by county and in the following days we will add a drain and death by county so you get more precise information. it will be updated twice a day. it byuomo: for me, we get hospital, because those dots ons are just.s -- a map. if you look at where it is moving, and then deploying equipment like ahead of the fire , that is what we are doing. we can run the data however they have it. that there any indication the spread on long island because new york city residents have flat out east or seeking treatment there? gov. cuomo: i do not think we

long island is the area that is growing. and you see long island goes from 16% to 17% to 18% to 19 to 20 to 22%. new york city is actually dropping, as the number of cases in new york city -- in long island increases as a percentage of cases within the state. for us, this is about tracking the virus, tracking the spread of the virus and then deploying as the numbers suggest. in terms of beds the 2,500-bed facility at javits is going to make a major difference. that has to work. the white house agreed to make that a covid positive facility. remember, originally the javits center, which is a state convention center, we worked with the federal government, they constructed a 2,500 bed facility, it was supposed to be non-covid. i spoke to the president, transferred that with his intervention into a covid facility. the federal government will staff that and the federal government will equip that. that is a big deal. because that 2,500 bed facility will relieve a lot of pressure on the downstate system. that's a significant number

what's happened here on long island? >> i think part of what we have come to understand is, because there was a lack of testing, when we had our first confirmed case and then the cases thereafter, it became very clear that the virus had been here for some period of time. all of the cases were community transmissions. so we didn't know about those cases because there just wasn't testing available at that time. now the testing site that you're at at stony brook university, the tens of thousands of tests that have been don't have revealed the truth, and that is that this virus has spread everywhere, and we have to do continue to do everything we can to save people's lives. >> i was told shortly before we came on the air about one of the officials here at the testing site, that roughly 40% of the people who are tested here test positive. is that accurate, countywide? >> we have an overall 46% positive rate of the people being tested. so it is clear that you have a huge amount of transmission that is occurring. that's why it

communities on long island. have you given any consideration to similar orders telling people not to go out to long island or the hamptons or places like that? gov. cuomo: i have not. i will take a look at the new jersey order. but i haven't heard any local officials raise concerns about that here. reporter: when you say you spoke with the muncie community, what does that mean? who did you talk to? did you talk to rabbis, did you talk to government officials? >> i spoke with the rabbis in the community. and there were some officials from the county on that call and conveyed the importance of what needs to be done to prevent the spread of this virus. reporter: [inaudible] >> there was a conversation with them. they heard what the concerns were. sure did. gov. cuomo: we work very closely with the community of muncie. and the orthodox community in rockland. i get the issue. also, they understand what happened in new rochelle. the new rochelle cluster, which is where we had that explosion. one person in a gathering.

patricia: una organizaciÓn de long island, en new york, estÁ llevando medicinas a las puertas de caso ahora quien necesita que le tienden una mano. ella y su esposo que es pintor fueron diagnosticados con covid-19. >> yo no querÍa ir al hospital por miedo. Él me mando, porque la fiebre no me salÍa, la tenía 100.5. peggy: la enfermedad mantiene a estos indocumentados aislados de la poblaciÓn de sus tres hijos, su abuela y de sus ingresos. por lo que un grupo de long island saliÓ a su rescate donÁndoles comida. >> es muy necesario, porque ya que no podemos salir a comprar... peggy: desde el 24 de marzo han ayudado a mÁs de 3000 personas y reparten vÍveres como estos, hasta 80 familias por dÍa. segÚn su formador, luis mÉndez, sus pacientes y otros que nos quieren abandonar la cuarentena solo tienen que llamar y ellos les dejan alimentos y medicinas en la puerta de su casa. >> de la forma con manejamos de productos para no tener contaminaciÓn con el pÚblico y nosotros, traemos esto, lo dejamos acÁ por dos dÍas y lo tocamos ya listo para empacar y ejercer al pÚblico. peggy: la organizaciÓn

we have long island hospitals. we have new york city hospitals. in totality, it is the health care systems. they are individual hospitals. they are accustomed to just doing business and managing their own affairs. that doesn't work. we have to balance the patient load among all of these hospitals. if one hospital starts to get high or has a protected high intake, we have to shift that patient load. that means some patients show up at the neighborhood hospital. they may be asked to transport you to another hospital, which is not in your neighborhood, but actually has more capacity. we have to adjust that patient load among all of the hospitals, which is a daily exercise and it is very am a very difficult. we are running short on supplies. all across the board. some hospitals happen to have a greater supply of one thing or another. one hospital has a greater supply of masks. one hospital has a greater supply of gowns. and we are talking about supply, hospitals are dealing with 60 day supply, 90 day supply. we are talking about two or three or four d

on long island and that has us very concerned. supplies, ppe, are in short supply, as they are across the country. we need companies to make the materials it is unbelievable to me that in new york state, in the united states of america, we cannot make these materials. and that we are all shopping china to try to get these materials and we are all competing against each other. these are not complex that heroes. we will work with new york manufacturers. we will finance the transition necessary to make these materials. we talk about them as if they are complicated. n-95 mask. it was $.70 before this started. it is now as high as seven dollars. this is all that it is. it is fabric. it is material. the fda has the specifications. and then it is two pieces of elastic cord. it cannot be that we cannot make these. this is a gallon. we call them downs. this is a gallon. a gown. s we call them gowns. there is sophisticated about the manufactured of this garment. there's nothing's vista get about the material. it cannot be the companies in t

>> ron allen on long island for us. let's go to ken dilanian.his new report that i mentioned at the top of the program, it's something that the administration has been defensive about saying there's no shortage. what are the key takeaways coming out of the government's own watchdog group? who is behind it and what did they find out? >> this is a new report, ayma, b by the inspector general. it's a trump administration document. this is a watchdog agency. they interviewed 324 hospital officials across 46 states and what they found was a dire -- confirming reporting that we have done and -- where he said the hospitals were thrilled with the level of support they were getting. to the contrary, this report depicts a number of shortages not just in the ventilators and masks that we heard about, but also in basic things like cleaning supplies and even thermometers. there was one incident with 7,000 staff and 2 thermometers. we interviewed the assistant inspector general and she seemed surprised and taken aback by what she and her team saw and heard. l

we had hurricane sandy, devastated long island.will learn how to do better infrastructure and we did, long island today is better for having gone through hurricane sandy as terrible as that was. we have to do the same thing here. how do we come back even better? so the long and short of it is thank you to all new yorkers for all the good work, to our healthcare workers. a special thank you to the police, the fire, to the transit workers. you know, the has not been closed down, right? all of the essential services are still functioning. you still can go to a grocery store and get food. lord knows you can go to a healthcare institution and get health care. the transportation work, the buses work. all of these people who kept everything working, we thank them from the bottom of my heart, our hearts, but also remember that we still have more to do, and new yorkers know that because new yorkers are tough but tough doesn't mean just tough, tough is easy. it's tough but smart but disciplined and unified and loving and that's who we are as

regionally, long island, new york 2211.seven and the rest of the state three.six basically this quantifies we have been saying anecdotally and what we have known putting some numbers to it basically upstate new york three.six about seven or 8 percent of the cases we had in the state we had an additional significant problem westchester had the largest and hardest at the time so literally someone in between new york city which again supports which we know anecdotally long island 647, it is not that far behind new york city. and it is significantly worse than westchester rockland we have been talking about that and nassau suffolk as one but there is a variation with the long island numbers. by race asians 11 percent african-american 22 latino and hispanic 22 percent multi- and not another 22 white is nine.1 percent this reflects more the regional breakdown african-americans and latinos in this survey are disproportionately from new york city and that is at 21 percent. the african-american number mit number is 22 percent but the upstate whites is three.six in the survey. by age, nothing extrao

long island is the one that's growing, like you said. the one to watch. athena jones, thank you so much. >>> later in the hour, senate minority leader and new york senator chuck schumer will join me with his thoughts on the response efforts both in new york and federally. you don't want to miss that. >>> with over a quarter million americans infected with coronavirus, republican senator bill cassidy of louisiana is now calling for a national registry to track the number of people who have recovered from the virus. cnn's paul vercammen joining me from california where a recovered patient is doing his part to help those still in the fight. paul, explain. >> good morning, fred. yes, those recovered patients are critical because they have these antibodies in their plasma that are rich and can help patients right now fight the coronavirus. so we'll tell you the story of jason garcia. he's 36 years old. he's an aerospace engineer. he had been traveling a bit. and at the end of his trip, he starts to feel like he has a shortness of breath. it turns out jason has

ron. >> reporter: ari, it's pretty intense out here in long island.n 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. the suffolk county executive told us there were no deaths out here in this country. now there are as many as 200 over that period of time which gives you some indication of how the numbers are spiking here. here at this facility, north shore medical in manhasset, the tents behind me are set up to accommodate more covid patients. so far, they're not using them. they hope they don't have to because the hospital has been converted. they've converted auditoriums, all into a hospital ward, essentially because of the anybody of cases, the number of patients who have been coming here. earlier, we spoke to the chief medical office, dr. michael gibman. here's how he described the situation. the hospital does have enough personal protective equipment because it's part of a large complex, they're part of a large health sy

that doesn't mean long island is out of the woods.uffolk county new york executive, joins us now. maybe you can give us the accurate skinny. where are things right now if you had to speak collectively in your area to an extension of long island itself? off the worst levels? you would would y how would you define it? >> we are still very much in the thick of this. the battle over the past week has really shifted to suffolk county in long island. we have always felt that we were anywhere from seven to 14 days behind where new york city was but we have more cases here in suffolk county on long island than any state in the country other than new york, of course, and new jersey. even to put it in a little more perspective, the 40,000 cases that we have on long island represents half of what they reported in all of mainland china from the start of the outbreak. our hospitalizations are going up, our infection rate is higher than in new york city and new york state, and sadly, we are continuing to see the death toll rise. we will surpass lik

communities on long island. have you told people not to go to the hamptons or place like that? >> i have not. i will look at the new jersey order. i have not. i have not heard any local officials raise concerns about that here. >> when you say you spoke to the muncie community, would you tell us what that means? what did you -- who did you talk to? did you talk to rabbis? government officials? >> i spoke with the rabbis in the community, and there was some government -- there was some officials from the county on that call and conveyed the importance of what needs to be done to prevent the spread of this virus. >> what was the response? >> it was just a conversation with them. they heard what the concerns were. >> they listened? >> sure did. >> we work very closely with the community of muncimuncie, and t orthodox community in rockland. i get the issue. they also understand what happened in new rochelle, the new rochelle cluster which is where we had that explosion. one person in a gathering, whatever the gather

we don't have as many resources on long island and we see an increasing number of cases on long island, and that has us very concerned. supplies. ppe is in short supply as they are, of course, across the country. we need companies to make the materials. it is unbelievable to me that in new york state, in the united states of america, we can't make these materials and that we are all shopping china to try to get these materials, and we're all competing against each other. these are not complex materials. we will work with new york manufacturers, we'll finance the transition necessary to make these materials. we talk about them as if they're very complicated. this is an n95 mask. this is it. it was 70 cents before this started. it's now as high as $7. but this is all that an n95 mask is. it's fabric, it's material. the fda has the if he is fixes and then it's two pieces of elastic cord. it can't be that we can't make these. this is a gown. we call them gowns. this is a gown. it's -- there's nothing sophisticated about the manufacturing of this garment. there's sophisticated about the mat

spike in new cases there on long island as i understand it. ron? >> exactly, craig, the governor described this as lighting up on the map because there are so many new hospitalizations, new cases reported. and tragically more deaths reported. in suffolk county, for example, which is the farthest part out of long island, the biggest county in the state, three weeks ago there were no deaths. in the last couple of days there have been as many as 200 the county executive was telling us. that gives you an idea of the scale of what's been happening out here. and they're bracing for it. behind me you can see these blue tents, they're emergency tents. not using them yet but they're getting them ready for covid patients should the need arise. they've been trying to create as much capacity here on long island as possible, clearing out an auditorium to make space, using conference rooms to make space because, again, they're seeing an influx arise in the number of patients. earlier we spoke with laura kurn who is the chief executive of nassau county out h

on long island. that has us very concerned. supplies, ppe are in short supply as they are across the country. we need companies to make the materials. it is unbelievable to me that in new york state in the united states of america we can't make these materials and we are all shopping china to try to get these materials and we're all competing against each other. these are not complex materials, and we will work with new york manufacturers. we'll finance the transition necessary to make these materia materials. we talk about them as if they're very complicated. this is an n 95 mask. this is it. it was 70 cents before this started. it's now as high as $7.00. but this is all that an n95 mask is. it's fabr its fab trick and mat there's two pieces of elastic cord. it can't be that we can't make this. this is a gown. we call them gowns. this is a gown. there's nothing sophisticated about the manufacturing of this garme garment. there's nothing sophisticated about the material. it can't be that companies in

craig. >> kathy park for us there on long island, kathy, thank you. part of the story that seems to be changing dramatically, the number of covid-19 deaths in nursing homes and long-term care facilities. we've seen the numbers double in just the past week. our carry sanders is covering that part of the story there in ft. lauderdale, florida. kerry, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. the question that adult children are asking are our aging parents safe in these long-term care facilities. as you pointed out, the nbc investigative team of suzy kim and laura strickler looked specific toy get the data. they said of the 17 states that responded giving information about long-term care facilities, the number has doubled in the number of deaths and patients who have gotten covid-19 just in the last week, now more than 5,500. of the eight states that are actually giving specifics, telling which are the very nursing homes and adult living facilities where people have this, that information is useful. but so many states are not providing that informa

regionally, long island at 16.7, new york city at 21-point to, westchester, rockland, 11.7, rest of thestate 3.6. this basically quantifies what we haven't seen anecdotally and what we have known what it puts numbers to it. rest of the state is basically upstate new york, 3.6. it has been about seven, 8% of the cases that we had in the state and westchester rockland we had an initial significant problem and remember westchester had the largest hottest cluster at one time in the country and 11% so literally somewhere in between new york city 21 and which again, supports what we knew anecdotally and long island, 11.7 so not that far behind new york city and it is significantly worse than us just rockland. we been talking about westchester rockland and nassau suffolk is basically one but there is a variation with the long island numbers. by race, asians about 11.7%, african-americans 22%, latino hispanic, 22%. multiplan on their 22%, white 9.1% and this reflects more the regional breakdown. african-americans and latinos are in this survey disproportionately from new york city and new york

to long island. upstate new york is basically flat. grows, theand percentage of cases in new york city has reduced. for those people who look at the a -- you have all of these projection models. what has been infuriating to me is the models have been so different that it is hard to plan when models shift all of the time. difference ofa opinion on what happens at the apex. all of the models say you go up and then you go down. then, there is a difference of is the apex a point or is the apex a plateau? andou go up, hit the high immediately drop? or, do you go up and then there is a plateau, where the number of cases stays high for a period of time and then drops. there is a difference in opinion. so, you have to think of that when you think about what you are seeing in the numbers. you could argue that you are seeing a slight plateauing in the data. which, obviously, would be good news. it means you are plateauing for a period of time and then you start to come down. we are feeling our way through this and we have the best minds in the c

long island is the area that is growing.nd gog from 16% to 17% to 18%, to 19 to 20 to 22%. new york city is actually dropping as the number of cases in new york city -- in long island increases, as a percentage of cases within the state. for us, this is about tracking the virus, tracking the spread of the virus, and then deploy ing as the numbers suggest. the -- the white house agreed to make that a covid positive facility. remember, originally the javits center, a stay convention center, we worked with the federal government. they constructed a 2500-bed facility. it was supposed to be non-covid. i spoke to the president, transferred that with his intervention to a covid facility. the federal government will staff that, and the federal government with equip that. that is a big deal. because that 2500 bed facility will relieve a lot of pressure on the downstate system as a significant number of beds. that facility has to make that transition quickly, and that's what we're focused on the theory is the best we can to relieve th

new york city, long island, i'm in both places.time i go to a grocery store, they are packed. the guys stocking the shelves are there and i talked to one guy two weeks ago and i said please put your mask on, thanks for all you're doing, he didn't have his mask on, i said you got to, put it on. he did, probably sick of wearing it like everybody. the point is, new york would starve if people didn't work. those guys stocking the shelves, they are on the front lines, all the health workers of the heroes of all of this come all the manufacturers that stayed open too, they are supplying the medical supplies that saved new york, new york wasn't prepared for anything. >> donald trump saved new york's ass. they are now the king of ventilators, he sent a ship -- andrew cuomo did a good job but he would be the first one to tell you honestly that donald trump was there every time new york needed donald trump to be there. the governor of california said that donald trump has been on the phone every time i needed him to be on the phone. we are g

a third of food pantries in new york city and long island have closed. the need, the demand for food and those food pantries has shot up by 30%. eric: thank you so much. in the next hour, we will talk to masks for docs. one of the groups we highlight here in the fox news channel every weekend, people can help get the mass and vital material to our frontline workers. thank you. arthel: thank you. millions of catholics around the world to celebrate easter from the isolation of their homes. pope francis delivering a message of hope and solidarity. holding mass as italy is reeling from the devastating effects of covid-19 pandemic. live in florence italy with mark. amy. >> pope spoke about hope being a sort of pandemic, a contagion he put it. spreading heart-to-heart, he hit hard on that message of hope today because in this very difficult period, people more than ever seen hungry for stories of encouragement and support, particularly those who lost loved ones so often times referred losing them without getting a chance to say goodbye, losing jobs and losing

there is a shift to long island. upstate new york is basically flat. and as long island grows, the percentage of cases in new york city has reduced. this is for those people who look at the data. there is a -- you have all these projection models, and what's infuriating to me is the models are so different that it's very hard to plan when these models shift all the time. but there's also a difference of opinion on what happens at the apex, right? everybody, all the models state you go up until you go down. thank you very much. then there's a difference of is the apex a point, or is the apex a plateau. in other words, do you go up, hit the high and then immediately drop, or do you go up and then there's a plateau where the number of cases stays high for a period of time and then drops. there's a difference of opinion. so you have to think of that when you think about what you're seeing in the numbers, because you could argue that you're seeing a slight plateauing in the data which, obviously, would be good news because it means you plateau for a period

the first time after the disastrous battle of long island, glover and his men rode 9,000 men, horses,gage across the lower east river from brooklyn into what is the modern day downtown brooklyn into lower manhattan. and saved washington's army from being encircled by the british. and then again at pels point when wallace was planning to, he sailed up the east river out to the long island sound and he was planning to march across the north bronx and trap washington in manhattan. glover once again with 700 men held off 4,000 british troops. he took about 22 casualties. the british took about somewhere between 7 h00 and 800. that gave washington time to escape from manhattan. then we fast forward to the 22nd of december. glover marches into this area and he camps up the hill where washington headquarters were. he tells him what he wants to do. he crossed 800 feet of a rocky ice strewn river under the cover of darkness. by the way, the barometer is falling. could be looking at some weather. and glover and he says it's impossible. washington says to glover, colonel glover, i did not ask yo

i'm on long island. we're in suffolk county, near suffolk county university hospital.because this has become a coronavirus hot spot. suffolk county seeing about 1,000 new cases every day. we're at one of those drive-through testing facilities here. i want to show you exactly what we're looking at here. we're told roughly 1,000 people every day, separated into two lanes. you can see a sign there -- i believe you can see it, covid testing, left lane, right lane. the right lane are folks tested by a national guardsman. the right side is folks tested by someone from the nearby hospital. you cannot come here without an appointment. officials here want me to stress that. you can't just show up here because you have symptoms. you have to have an appointment, getting that through your doctor or the new york state public health hotline. you can al

in the meantime, let's go over to long island. ron, officials out there are concerned that long island could be the next new york city. tell me what are they attributing this surge to and what are you hearing out there? >> they're attributing it to proximity, nassau county borders new york city. it's a dense suburb as subgo. when you put those two things together and have people going back and forth from nassau and suffolk county commuting, you get the virus spreading. so the fact of the numbers are spiking here, it happened over the past number of days. and again today according to the governor's latest briefing is no surprise to the officials out here. and they, like everyone else, is trying -- are trying to scramble to get as much personal protection equipment to expand hospital capacity and to deal with. this and to give the emts a break as much as possible as well. the county executive for suffolk county said three weeks ago there were no fatalities reported out here. now there are as many as 200. and that's in the county of

long island now has become a hot spot.need it very badly. so we are getting that out on an emergency basis. should be there tomorrow. brian: yeah. suffolk county, new york. home to long island, deemed a coronavirus hot spot as you just heard. cases surged over 13,000. 175 have lost their lives. joining us now with what's being done to contain is suffolk county executive steve bologna. steve, you have your hands full. are you surprised in new york it was up until a few days ago 15% of the cases were long island-related now 22% of the cases are happening -- people are testing positive in long island. why? >> good morning. well, suffolk county really is at the center of the fight against the coronavirus now. we have more cases here than just about any o any other state in the country. just in this county and on long island alone. actually, three weeks ago we didn't have a single death related to the covid-19 virus that number stands at more than 200 and rising. governor cuomo, who, i think, has done an outstanding job leading

devastated long island. i was governor. i didn't say we want to replace. i said we are going to learn how to do a new grid system. we're going to learn how to do better infrastructure. and we did. long island today is better for having gone through hurricane sandy, as terrible as that was. we have to do the same thing here. how do we come back even better? so, the long and the short of it is thank you to all new yorkers for all the good work, to our health care workers, a special thank you to the police, the fire, to the transit workers. the economy has not been closed down. right? all the essential services have still been functioning. you still could go to a grocery store and get food. lord knows you could go to a health care institution and get health care. the transportation work, the buses work, all these people who kept everything working, we thank them from the bottom of our hearts. but also remember, we still have more to do. and new yorkers know that because new yorkers are tough. but tough doesn't mean just tough. tough is easy. it's tough but sm

number of cases on long island and that has this very concerned supplies p. p. e. r. in short supply as they are of course the country we need companies to make the materials it is it is unbelievable to me that in new york state in the united states of america we can't make these materials and that we are all shopping china to try to get these materials and we're all competing against each other these are not complex materials and we will work with new york manufacturers will finance the transition necessary to make these materials i mean we talk about them as if they're very complicated this is an end 95 maps this is it. it was $0.70 before the start it's now as high as $7.00 but this is all that in and $95.00 mask is. it's fabric it's material the f.d.a. has the specifications and then it's 2 pieces of the last the court it can't be that we can't make these this is a gown we call them down because this is a gallon. that. there's nothing sophisticated about the manufacturer of this garment. not that the growth of the gone is not the sophisticated about the m

so ron, governor cuomo warned that the next hot spot could be long island. tell me are hospitals on that area prepared for this? do they have the ventilators? do they have the ppe? do they have the beds? >> today yes, tomorrow, maybe is the best answer. that's how everyone feels out here. they are bracing for this. it's no surprise the cases are spiking out here. we're just on the suburbs of outside new york city. the numbers here have been 2,000 cases a a day over the past few days. so it's the ripple effect they are calling it from being so close to new york city people commute back and forth. it's almost an extension of what's happening here. the hospital here now they have the tent behind me. it's in anticipation of more case ace arriving. they have been trying to make a hospital ward. they have done the same thing with a conference room.egion be trying to increase capacity by 50 to 100%. and so that's what's happening. they are trying to do that. in terms of supplies east of where we are now, the county executive warned over the weekend he had run out o

the upstate is separate, long island is separate. shouldn't you have planned a comprehensive system? yes. barriers toercial that, the political barriers to that if you intense didn't have a disaster, an emergency, you couldn't break through them. a conversation i had with hospital leaders yesterday in that room, if it was not for the coronavirus, i would have never made it out of that room. what i was saying was so antithetical to the foundation of the business of health care is ais state, which multibillion-dollar business. it was common sense. sometimes, you need the emergency to force change that would be very difficult. specific efforts to shore up the health care system to handle non-coronavirus related emergencies? >> the health care system is working on all of those other areas regularly, pretty much every day i have spoken to doctors and nurses on the front lines. and all of those other patients, whether with a heart attack, stroke, the system continues to move forward. the system is stress, but the patients are getting cared

. >> yadhira tenÍa 34 semanas cuando llegÓ al hospital en long island, con pulmonÍa, causada por el viruses >> que salvaran al bebÉ, que lo salvaran a Él y que podÍan salvarme a mÍ que lo hicieran >> la madre ahora de 4 hijos dice que es un milagro poder estar junto a su familia, poder tener a su pequeÑa walter en sus brazos >> la verdad estoy muy agradecida con dios primeramente, despuÉs con todos los doctores porque ellos mismos dicen que no lo pueden creer que soy una sobreviviente. >> el bebÉ walter, dio negativo al coronavirus y pese a que naciÓ prematuro aquÍ en este hospital, su madre nos dice que Él es normal que se porta muy bien y que la deja dormir, en long island, marÍa vargas-pion noticias telemundo >> mientras, los asilos siguen siendo un foco muy peligroso, 39 estados reportan contagios en los hogares para adultos mayores, y las muertes se han duplicado desde la semana pasada a mÁs de 5600, mas de la mitad han ocurrido en nueva york mientras un asilo de chicago confirma el fallecimiento de 22 residentes y un empleado, los pacientes que han dado negativo han sido llevados a

. >>> hospitals on long island, new york preparing for a surge in coronavirus patients.e're going to talk to a county executive there, how she's responding to what she expects to be the coronavirus apex this week. >>> but first the white house coronavirus task force is warning that the washington, d.c., area, could be the next hot spot in this pandemic. nbc's ally vitale is live in the nation's capital this morning. ally? >> reporter: that's right, eamon. you hear officials alarming about the d.c., maryland and virginia region. d.c. is getting some attention here because of the numbers we've seen in recent days over the last week we've seen 100 new coronavirus cases added every day. yesterday alone 200 new cases reported. as much as there have been proactive measures here, it has been like plugging the holes in the dam. a few weeks ago when we saw hundreds of tourists showing up to the cherry blossoms, d.c. officials clamped down on that, blocked off that area, made sure that people couldn't go there anymore. over the weekend then, we saw at the fish market here, the wha

we saw these patients coming in not just on long island but queens and so easy to access the railwayon but we felt we were a step ahead, converting to patient care areas in icu and patient areas, opening up the tent, turning it into a patient care district so even though we saw so many i didn't feel we were at the breaking point but we had two steps ahead of what we could do. jillian: that is great to hear. if you look at these numbers the new york state daily case, if you look at the new york state daily deaths with the number of deaths under 500 for a second straight day in new york state which was phenomenal does that give you any hope we are going in the right direction? we could be in the clear at some point in the near future? >> it does. even though there is a decline, something we never want to say out loud because we are terrified the opposite will happen but we are optimistic it is starting to get better. hopefully we can start to live our lives again. rob: that is great stuff, thank you for joining us. you guys are doing great work. a tremendous effort from all the people

. >> new york governor is now turning towards new york's long island as yet the latest hot spot. there are over 30,000 cases of the coronavirus there right now. joining us now is nbc news correspondent ron allen, who is at stonybrook hospital on long island. ron, are the hospitals ready for the influx? >> they're doing everything they can to get ready. and they are not taking their foot off the gas. that's the thing that we've heard, every official that we've talked to today say. because there are some numbers that are a plateauing in other parts of the state, and they don't want complacency. across suffolk county out in eastern long island, the numbers have been going up, the number of deaths and new cases. at this testing center that we're at, they are testing about a thousand people a day who are driving up for appointments and they're having a rate of about 40 to 50% positive. so the numbers we see going up right here. here at this hospital, they have been trying to increase capacity. it started out as a 600 bed facility and have made it into about a thousand beds. there is a

is catching up. >> long island is the area that is growing >> reporter: after calls for additional personal protective equipment the medical workers help is coming today the governor is counting on 80,000 volunteers plus 1,000 ventilators arriving from china oregon has committed to sending 140. >> we're all in the same battle here, and the battle is stopping the spread of the virus. >> reporter: on the federal level, president trump announcing today 1,000 military members are deploying to new york city. medical support of the usns comfort is expanding with pier side screening where patients will no longer require a negative test. the javits center turned temporary hospital now updating its original plan, now treating covid-19 patients. the first patient arrived last night. this week the new york city mayor promoted a national enlistment effort for medical staff. >> then i can see us getting these numbers to actually align in realtime. and again when our process is over moving those folks onto where they're needed most >> reporter: meanwhile behind the scenes a fight on the front lines offer

we seek these concentrations on long island. are there other places where you haven't seen cases, do you foresee opening schools? gov. cuomo: you haven't seen these cases yet, jimmy. tense, and be of careful of counting our chickens before they are hatched. we have not seen cases yet, we are in the midst of this. don't start doing the retrospective like it's over because that is the attitude we have to avoid. you will see more cases in upstate new york. i will bet you whatever you want to that. you will see more cases on long island. i'll bet you whatever you want to bet right now. so we are not through. it's not over. we are in the midst of it. we have some good news in that what we are doing is working and by the way, we have all been killing ourselves, right, one way or the other, isolation, the work of the health-care system has been phenomenal, people working 24 hours per day and people exposing themselves but the good news is that's showing a benefit and flattened the curve at a lower rate than almost any of the models tha

my parents, they drove from staten island to long island to deliver me groceries. jimmy: wow. you know they love you if they'll drive from staten island to long island. that is true love. and your parents contracted the virus as well. your husband contracted the virus. is everyone okay now? >> yeah. everyone's good. so we all got through it with no problem. >> jimmy: so we did a little bit of research on you. and we looked into some of your likes. and i know you're a music fan. >> yes. jrp >> jimmy: i'd like to introduce you to somebody, t.j. his name is dave. dave, say hello to t.j. >> [ bleep ]! dave! i'm a huge fan. huge fan. my friend will be so jealous. huge! >> how are you doing? how are you? >> i'm going a little out of my mind currently now. i feel like i'm having a coronavirus dream. this is crazy. >> jimmy: dave, you gave him a relapse. >> that's the effect i have on most people, i think. yeah. >> jimmy: we both very much appreciate what you're doing there, t.j. so our friends at life is good apparel company want to send you $10,000 to spend however you l

i went from long island, like roosevelt field through staten island university.er that in about 35 minutes. traffic has been great. that's a help. i pick it up 11:30. i'm about 12:05 or 12:10, just in time for lots. >> neil: i know that route you're taking. they would easily beat 90 minutes in the old traffic we used to have. what kind of reaction do you get? >> people are so thankful and grateful. and, you know, we still do pictures, but it 6 feet apart. i wound up taking pictures for everybody. >> neil: are you partial to italian restaurants? you open it up? a lot of great fish restaurants. or do you care, whoever wants to sign up and help, sign-up and help? >> i try to spread it around to the restaurants in my neighborhood. added italian a few times. i'm thinking about doing some greek and maybe some mexican. so, just to give them a little variation. >> neil: how are you holding up through this? your family, and this sheltering in place for a lot of folks is driving them nuts. how about you? >> you know, i have been getting out. i wear my mask and my gloves. i

they're also all over long island. hospitals are trying to build up their capacity.hey're still trying to increase it by 50% to 100%. here at stonybrook they've essentially closed -- moved their emergency room out here to the parking lot on the campus and they have converted the 600-bed hospital into a 1,000-bed hospital by expanding the emergency room and by using other space that was available. and they're still working on a 1,000-bed field hospital the u.s. army corps of engineers is building on the campus as well. this is one of the major sites in the state. like the javits center there in manhattan that the governor first tasked with trying to become a center for dealing with this virus. so we also keep hearing more equipment, more ppe, and the other thing we're hearing now is more staff because the staff at hospitals are working overtime it's now getting week after week of this relentless surge of patients. and so the bottom line, though, again is yes, there are these glimmers, there is this plateauing perhaps, but the last thing that they want to see out here