richard preston, bbc news.ed the uk in the weekly national applause for britain's carers and key workers. it's the fifth week in a row that people have come out on the streets all over britain to say thank you, as jon kay reports. applause. standing together... ..while standing apart. another thursday night... ..in the uk. it is a little tiny thing i can do, to you know, make some noise, just to say thank you. every week. every week? yes. not missed one? not yet. and we won't. on this street, like so many others, it is personal. sarah, at number", is on the front line. she's a healthcare assistant at the birmingham hospital trust, that has had more than 600 covid—i9 deaths. does this help you get through? yes, massively, 100% helps me. every thursday. it is like a release. it is a release. i come out and they are all clapping, it is another week coming to an end. just amazing. just fantastic, i can't believe it. 0h... at precisely 8:00, for the fifth week in a row, it felt like the whole of the uk erupted. # le

. >>> we have a huge lineup of squawk newsmakers including mohamed el erian, richard preston and dr. scott gottlieb starting in a few minutes. andrew >> thanks, becky hope everybody had a great weekend. let's bring everybody an update on the pandemic. of course, the number of confirmed cases in the united states now more than 557,000 and the death toll is more than 22,000 there are 190,000 cases in new york state with more than 9300 deaths that means new york alone has reported more cases than any foreign country, to put it in perspective. a sign of hope, though, in new york city the number of daily icu admissions and intubations showed a downward trend using a three-day average. new york mayor de blasio said saturday that public schools would stay closed for the remainder of the academic year, but shortly after, a sort of back and forth with the -- with governor cuomo, new york governor cuomo said the announcement was bill de blas blasio's opinion and there was no official decision yet cuomo said new york may close public schools but it would do that in cooperation with other locali

richard preston, bbc news. 84 tonnes of personal protective equipment are due to arrive in the uk todayrkey, including hundreds of thousands of clinical gowns. national health service providers have warned that some hospital trusts could run out of these items due to supply problems. the number of people who have died from covid—19 in the uk jumped again yesterday, by nearly 900 people. and there are further suggestions that far more people may have died from coronavirus—related conditions in care homes across the uk than has been officially recorded. here's our correspondent john mcmanus. the faces change daily, so to the stories. but the heartbreak is the same. john coker, a detective constable for the british transport police, who's left behind a wife and three children. retired paediatrician judith darmady, awarded an 0be after founding a children's charity. just two of the thousands of victims of the coronavirus in the uk. and the numbers continue to grow. yesterday, it was confirmed another 888 people had died in hospital from the virus, bringing the total to 15,464. but those sta

richard preston, no doubt you will be giving us more reaction as it comes throughout the night.u can find analysis on the coronavirus and in—depth pieces, including a link to focus was's piece from the hospital. to send a message if you are awake and on twitter. i would love to hear from you. hello. the warmth of the weekend was replaced by something a little bit fresher through the day on monday, but many of us were able to enjoy a bit of blue sky and a bit of sunshine from our windows and our gardens too. a bit more of the same on tuesday, things are looking mostly dry after a chilly and a misty start. but high—pressure very much dominating our weather through the day on tuesday, and into wednesday too. things are going to turn a little bit warmer over the next few days. because, as you can see, the blue colours, the colder air that's been with us gets pushed away, and these yellow colours, the warmer air, starts to move in from the south. but for the here and now, tuesday dawns on quite a chilly note, touch of frost, and some mist and fog patches, particularly across england

richard preston, bbc news.ering replacing his secretary of health and human services, alex azar, because of early missteps in the handling of the coronavirus pandemic. the white house has denied the story. david joins us. these stories surfaced at the weekend, and they have appeared in a couple of places. what is he supposed to have done wrong? it's actually an indication that the white house has long been mad at azar. he has been fighting with a fellow trump appointee. the main thing azar seems to have done wrong is to warn trump injanuary that this was going to be a very serious pandemic, and to have leaked that to the media in an attempt to make him self looked like a hero. intron's eyes, you don't want to get ahead of the bass and be seen as a cla i rvoya nt voice ahead of the bass and be seen as a clairvoyant voice and —— in trompe's eyes. it's interesting, in terms of the context of this, he may go. we have the acting secretary of the navy having to resign because of his handling of covid—19 in the case o

we'll talk about the pandemic with richard preston, the authority of the best selling book "hot zone." that is from the book about an out break. we'll talk about the small business emergency loan program supposed to start today. we'll talk about what the jobs report will and won't tell us later today. back in two minutes. we cannot do all the good that the world needs. but right now, the world needs all the good that we can do. to everyone working to keep america strong, thank you. yeah. this moving thing never gets any easier. well, xfinity makes moving super easy. i can transfer my internet and tv service in about a minute. wow, that is easy. almost as easy as having those guys help you move. we are those guys. that's you? the truck adds 10 pounds. in the arms. -okay... transfer your service online in a few easy steps. now that's simple, easy, awesome. transfer your service in minutes, making moving with xfinity a breeze. visit xfinity.com/moving today. >>> welcome back it is jobs friday. layoffs are happening so quickly, they won't be fully represented in today's report. joining us

with the latest on the impact of the pandemic across europe, here is richard preston.orm. bell tolls its death toll has passed 10,000. it's only reported its first coronavirus case at the end of january. this is all happened in little over ten weeks. an increasingly tight state of lockdown has now come to this — in paris, a ban on all outdoor exercise in daytime after a sunny weekend saw hundreds take to the city's open spaces. while it remains the country hardest hit by coronavirus, the infection rate in italy is continuing to slow. medical staff in the northern region of lombardy have criticised officials for how they handled the pandemic, saying too little protective equipment was available. spain is following a similar pattern, its infection rate also slowing down. the total death toll is over 13,500. elsewhere, resistance to a move to limit the spread of coronavirus by tracking people's mobile phones, a technique widely credited for helping reduce the spread of infection across several asian countries, but now facing a backlash in croatia. 0pposition say it violat

bill clinton in the 1990s read richard preston's novels, "the cobra effect" and "the hot spot."e met with preston and pulled together a team of pandemic experts and built up the u.s. stockpile in the '90s. really, the cupboard that's bare, that donald trump kept referring to, was not bare when bill clinton was president. he took the idea of bioterror attacks and a pandemic seriously. i think in the future now, a crisis like this builds an opportunity where we need to have a brand-new public works health project. we're going to need a secretary of, you know, bioterror. we'll need to continue to work in innovative, new ways with the universities, fortune 500 companies, and the government. one good thing that's come out of this is all of the governors, by and large, have been doing a pretty good job. >> hey, doug, it's willie. your new book, "american mo moonshot," uses a term that was literal but now where the country resources minds and power to do something big. when coronavirus hit, a lot of americans were perhaps surprised, definitely disappointed, that the country wasn't bett