we did this within hours after receiving the application from roche. >> reporter: roche is roche moleculard test to receive emergency authorization. it's a breakthrough because it speeds up the testing. >> what we can now expect is we're going to provide 400,000 tests in the coming days. so that will mean that we will make available about 1.5 million tests every month. >> reporter: how did roche pull it off? this footage was shared only with abc news of their teams working round the clock across the world. the test developed in just seven weeks. >> the challenge was the timeline. could we do it in six to seven weeks as we were being asked to do? >> we did something that usually takes 12 to 18 months. >> so we had to reinvent how we did things. it's really breathtaking. >> reporter: with the potential to have a significant yes, ma'am pact impact on covid-19 testing the roche factory went into overdrive. the thumbs up from the fda about midnight on friday, the tests rolled out over the weekend. this new jersey shipping team loading trucks, heading out to over 30 labs around the country. and

so from roche we want to thank the f.d.a. for their rapid approval of our coronavirus tast. we really appreciate the partnership with the c.d.c. and the f.d.a. to get that to market as fast as possible because it's critical for us to make that available to help patients in need and working with laboratories to get it up and going in the near future which will bring hundreds of thousands of tests available to patients in need in the united states so thank you. and you can do it you can do it the great company david pierre of signify significant health please thanks. thank you mr president we are the largest house call provider in the u.s. and we go to the homes of most vulnerable elderly and through our network and our logistics engine we stand ready to help and provide or our clinicians to be where they're needed whether they're in retail clinics or in the home and we're here to assist thank you very much thank you very much and we'll be changing a lot of the rules regulations for future should this happen in the future which we hope and never does but it will get somewhere

matt source, of roche. matt, thank you. you, so from roche, we want to thank the fda for their applewood rapid approval of the coronavirus task. we appreciate the... it is critical for us to make that available, to make help patients in need, and work with lavatories to get it up and going in the near future to help those in the united states. and you can do it. a great company. david pierre of signify health, please. thank you. we are the largest house—call provider in the largest house—call provider in the us, and we go to the homes of the us, and we go to the homes of the most vulnerable, elderly, and through our network and our logistics engine, we stand ready to help, and to provide our clinicians to be where they are needed, whether thatis to be where they are needed, whether that is in retail clinics or in the home, and we are here to assist. thank you very much. thank you, and we will be changing a lot of the rules and regulations for future, should this happen in the future, which we hope it never does, but it will

roche has been given emergency authorization by the fda to roll out its technology nationwide as soon as possible. >> we have, along with emergency use authorization, been manufacturing the test, and we have tests available to go this weekend, early next week out to a group of about 30 testing laboratories across the u.s. >> roche or brown, i should say, tells us roche has 400,000 tests ready to go nationwide as early as this weekend. >> there will be 400,000 more tests manufactured every week after that. smaller testing machines can process 385 tests in an eight-hour period, and bigger ones can process 960 in that time. >> brown says his company has been working non-stop on the technology since february 1st, compelled to respond to the staggering toll the virus was taking in parts of china. >>> meanwhile people are flooding costco stores to stock up on basic necessities. lines are out the door and parking lots are filled. abc 7 news reporter david louie is live in san jose with more. >> reporter: dan, i suspect we know what a lot of people are doing this weekend. if this is any indic

it can be run on the roche machine that have been installed in 100 laboratories throughout the country. donald trump highlighted the t roche's which application was approved. >> using federal emergency authorities the fda approved a new test for the virus. we did this within hours after receiving the applicationouou roche, a process that would normally take weeks, we expect half 1 million additional tests will be available early next week. we will be announcing locations probably sunday night. >> joining us tonight to take up this latest action by the trump administration, the director of the center for infection and unity at columbia university, invited by the chinese government to study the coronavirus and help them tackle the outbreak. great to have you back with us. this, i've never seen the president in my career talk about partnership with private companies and the medical community and the government and then demonstrate it as he did today. a remarkable moment. >> this is an extraordinary moment i agree. it is pivotal, turning point, the fact that we will be able to recognize wh

we did this within hours after receiving the application from roche.cess that would normally takes weeks. we expect up to a half a million additional tests will be available early next week. we'll be announcing locations probably sunday night. i want to thank roche, great company, for their incredible work. i'd like to thank thermo fisher. the fda's goal is to have it go out within 24 hours. it's going very quickly. which will bring additionally 1.4 million tests on board next week and five million within a month. i doubt we'll need that. but at the same time, we've been in discussions with pharmacies and retailers to make drive-thru tests available in the critical locations identify by public health professionals. the goal is for individuals to be able to drive up and be swabbed without having to leave your car. i want to thank google. google is helping to develop a website that will be very quickly done unlike websites of the past to determine whether a test is warranted and facilitate testing at a nearby convenient location. we have many, many locat

president. >> thank you very much and matt from roche. thank you, matt. >> thank you, mr.resident. so from roche, we want to thank the fda for their rapid approval of our coronavirus test. we really appreciate the partnership with the cdc to get that to market. because it's critical to make us that available to help patients in need and working with laboratories to get it up and going in the near future which will brings tests available to patients in need in the united states. thank you. >> you can do it. you did it. great company. >>> david pierre of signify health. >> thank you, mr. president. we go to homes of the most vulnerable, elderly and through a network and our logistics we stand ready to help and pride our clinicians to be where they're needed whether they're in retail clinics or in the home. we're here to assist. >> we'll be changing lot of the rules, regulations for future should this happen in the future which we hope it never does, but it will, i guess, somewhere out there, some bad ones over the years and i guess that will continue to an extent. we hope it

it's manufactured by the swiss company roche. it will speed up the ability to test patients, providing drive-thru testing in retail parking lots at walmart, target, walgreens and cvs stores across the country. the coronavirus killed 47 americans. 22 of those deaths associated with that nursing home outside seattle, washington. both the house and senate remaining in session tonight. house speaker nancy pelosi and treasury secretary steve mnuchin have been negotiating throughout the day. the speaker saying she has reached agreement with the trump administration on a coronavirus response bill which would provide free testing for all americans, expanding paid emergency family paid medical leave expanding food programs including snap and wick. steve mnuchin has been in constant contact with the speaker. he's at this moment in the white house speaking with the president. a deal in his opinion mass not been reached despite what the speaker has said. we'll have the latest from the treasury secretary here tonight. he will join us as soon

i want to thank roche for their incredible work.uy: joining us from switzerland is the ceo of roche. octor, the president talking as if this is happening quickly. your tests are being brought in as quickly as humanly possible. you must be frustrated. it has been clear this virus will travel to europe and the united states. how frustrated are you this did not happen earlier? >> i am quite proud of what we have achieved, not only as a company but also in an excellent collaboration with the fda. we started to develop this test for hyper platforms in january. we developed the test in record time. due to a very good cooperation with the fda we got emergency approval on friday. we have shipped the product and the tests are now available in labs across the u.s. not you are saying it could have happened any faster? >> we started right away and we developed this test. there are other tests available in the market. there is an enormous demand for tests. we cannot yet meet supply. i am very glad we could make a big difference with his new test

amid news the far suit cal company roche received approval for a covid-19 testing kit that's 10 types faster than anything -- 10 times faster than anything on the market. reporter: it accelerates our capacity to test for the coronavirus. it will bring 1.4 tests on board next week. and 5 million in a month. i don't think we'll need anything like that. trish: the state of new york thanks to governor cuomo is becoming a template on how to test setting up drive-by stops. the president praising co-more's efforts -- the president praising cuomo's efforts. this is the bipartisanship we need. president trump: i just spoke with governor cuomo *. we had a good conversation. we are working strongly with many states including new york. trish: governor cuomo doing the same. >> i want to thank the president and vice president for their receptivity to the idea. and i want to thank them for their quick turnaround. rib * it's an important step. it's critical we know who has this. we must test for the virus to stop the threat of it. south korea helped stop the spread of the virus by discovering who had

roche labs in pleasanton has developed a new coronavirus test, and the fda gave the company the green light to ship it out to the bay area and across the u.s. >> we already have 400,000 tests available. we've started already to ship over the weekend and through the next few days to these laboratories. and then over the course of the coming weeks, we expect to be able to supply another 400,000 tests per week. >> reporter: the highly automated molecular testing system can process as many as 960 tests in eight hours, flow vieding the volume needed during this pandemic. >> the beauty of now having our coronavirus test, they can run on these instruments, and we hope that that's going to have a significant impact on being able to contain and manage the outbreak of the virus. >> reporter: roche is now ramping up and hopes to provide 1.5 million tests every month in the near future. reporting live in pleasanton, marianne favro, nbc bay area news. >>> a bay area congressman wants to know if there are health and safety hazards at travis air force base. north bay representative john garamendi sa

roche. thank you, matt. >> thank you, mr. president.we want to thank the fda for their rapid approval of our coronavirus test. we really appreciate the partnership with the cdc and fda to get that to market as fast as possible because it's critical for us to make that available to help patients in need and working with laboratories to get it up and going in the near future, which will bring hundreds of thousands of tests available to patients in need in the united states. thank you. >> you can do it. you can do it. great company. david pierre of signify health. please. >> thank you, mr. president. we are the largest house call provider in the u.s. and we go to the homes of the most vulnerable elderly and through our network and our logistics engine, we stand ready to help, and provide our clinicians to be where they're needed, whether they're in retail clinics or in the home. we're here to assist. thank you very much. >> thank you very much. and we'll be changing a lot of the rules, regulations for future, should this happen in the futu

i'm here at roche labs in pleasanton. not only did this company develop a new coronavirus test, but it can deliver results in just 3 1/2 hours. this is the first commercially available coronavirus test to receive emergency authorization from the fda. those tests can be run on roche's fully automated machines, which are already installed in hospitals and labs across the u.s. and around the world. and those tests are headed to bay area and state labs right now. >> we already have 400,000 tests available. we've started already to ship over the weekend and through the next few days to these laboratories, and then over the course of the coming weeks, we expect to be able to supply another 400,000 tests per week. >> reporter: ultimately the company hopes to provide 1.5 million tests a month. the tests run on roche's molecular testing system, and one of the machines is capable of running 960 tests in just an eight-hour period. this is so critical because if someone who may not have major symptoms can take a test and learn that t

it's manufactured by the swiss company roche. it will speed up the ability to test patients, providing drive-thru testing in retail parking lots at walmart, target, walgreens and cvs stores across the country. the coronavirus killed 47 americans. 22 of those deaths associated with that nursing home outside seattle, washington. both the house and senate remaining in session tonight. house speaker nancy pelosi and treasury secretary steve mnuchin have been negotiating throughout the day. the speaker saying she has reached agreement with the trump administration on a coronavirus response bill which would provide free testing for all americans, expanding paid emergency family paid medical leave expanding food programs including snap and wick. steve mnuchin has been in constant contact with the speaker. he's at this moment in the white house speaking with the president. a deal in his opinion mass not been reached despite what the speaker has said. we'll have the latest from the treasury secretary here tonight. he will join us as soon

and matt of roche. matt, thank you. match. matt: thank you, mr. president. so from roche, we want to thank the fda for their rapid approval of our coronavirus test. we really appreciate the partnership with the cdc and fda to get that to market as fast as possible because it is critical for us to make that available to help patients in need and working with laboratories to get it up and going in the near future which will bring hundreds of thousands of tests available to patients in need in the united states. so thank you. mr. trump: you can do it. you can do it. great company. david pierre of signify, signify health. david thank you, mr. president. : we are the largest house call provider in the united states. we go through the homes of the most multiple, elderly and through our and logistics engine we stand ready to help and provide our clinicians to be where they are needed whether they are in retail clinics or in the home and we are here to assist. thank you very much. mr. trump: thank you very much. we will be changing a lot of the rules and relations f

we have a look inside roche.a swiss health care company this is its commercial lab here in pleasanton. the company received emergency approval by the u.s. government. it will be the first to introduce commercial tests for coronavirus. the company showed us its testing machine just yesterday. >> these instruments are very efficient, highly automated. you put a sample in and then you get the results out of the other end. there's no manual intervention. there's no messing with a sample once it's loaded. >> wow. those new machines can process more than 1,000 samples and have results in less than 12 hours. roche tells us it has 400,000 tests ready and is shipping them to multiple laboratories throughout the united states. >>> a bay area congressman wants to know if there are health and safety hazards at travis air force base. in a letter to the federal government north bay representative says he has several health concerns for people who are being quarantined at the air base outside of fairfield. he alleges problems w

. >>> roche is one of the companies that saw its stock pot.s been working around the clock for coronavirus test kits. 400,000 tests are being manufactured each week. dan ashleigh has the details. >> we therefore expect up to half a million additional tests ekll be available earlyt i want to thank roche, great company, for their incredible work. >> reporter: that incredible work trump is speaking of is happening in pleasanton where roche has been developing a rapid test for coronavirus. the first batch of 400,000 test kits will be available within days. >> we have tests available to go this weekend, early next week out to a group of about 30 testing laboratories across the u.s. >> reporter: paul brown oversees it all. his company was given emergency,000 by the federal government to scale up production. what should have taken 12 months happened in six weeks. >> it's based on the nobel prize winning technology of pcr, here in pleasanton. we have some of the world's experts in pcr, which we've of applied to this problem. that's why we've been able

. >>> roche is one of the companies that saw its stock pop. working around the clock to develop the urgently needed coronavirus test kits. 4,000 tests are being manufactured every week. the first ones will be used as early as today. >> we, therefore, expect up to half a million additional tests will be made available early next week. i want to thank roche, great company, for their incredible work. >> reporter: that incredible work president trump is speaking of is happening in pleasanton where pharmaceutical giant roche has been developing a rapid test for coronavirus, first batch of 400,000 test kits will be available within days. >> we have tests available to go this weekend, early next week out to a group of about 30 testing laboratories across the u.s. >> reporter: paul brown oversees it all. his company was given emergency authorization by the federal government to scale up production. what should have taken 12 months happened in six weeks. >> it's based on the nobel prize winning technology of pcr. here in pleasanton we have some of the

we did this within hours after receiving the application from roche. >> roche molecular solutions and private biotech company, thermofisher, received emergency fda authorization for tests. breakthroughs because of the speed. patients no longer have to wait days for results. now just 3 1/2 hours. >> what we can now expect is that we're going to provide 400,000 tests in the coming days, so that will mean that we will make available about 1.5 million tests every month. >> how did roche pull it off? >> the challenge was the timeline. could we do it in six to seven weeks, as we were being asked to do? >> we did something that usually takes 12 to 18 months. >> so we had to reinvent how we did things. >> with the potential to be a covid-19 game-changer, the roche factory went into overdrive. with the thumbs-up from the fda around midnight on friday, the tests rolled out over the weekend. this shipping team loading trucks heading out to over 30 labs across the country. and today, in chicago, kathleen bevis of the university of chicago put the new test through one of its first runs this aftern

president trump: matt of roche ? thank you, matt. >> thank you, mr. president. from roche, we want to thank the fda for the rapid approval of our coronavirus test. we appreciate the partnership to get that to market as fast as possible because it is critical for us to make that available to help patients in need and work with laboratories to get it up and going in the near future, which will bring hundreds of thousands of tests available to patients in need in the united states. president trump: and you can do it. great company. david of signify health. >> we are the largest house call provider in the u.s. and go to the homes of the most vulnerable and elderly and through our network and logistics engine, we stand ready to help and provide our clinicians to be where they are needed. we are here to assist. thank you very much. president trump: we will be changing a lot of the rules and regulations should this happen in the future, which we hope it never does. there are some bad ones over the years and i guess that will continue to an extent. but we hope it never

roche says companies need to test more people for coronavirus.ld be tested, regardless of age peer to on friday, roche won an itsgency organization for new high-speed corona test. >> other tests available in the enormoushere is an demand. we cannot yet meet supply. but i am very glad that we could make a big difference with this new test, which was actually approved in record time. that is the first word news update. matt? matt: leaders are preparing their nations for unprecedented curbs on life, or in some cases leaders are not preparing their citizens for those unprecedented curbs on life. but still, ordering them into action. governments scramble to keep citizens from exposure as global infections are close to 180,000 and cases in italy rose 13%. governments rolled out a series of public addresses on the need for further restrictions after g-7 nations held a conference call monday. trump: avoid discretionary travel and avoid eating and raking in bars, restaurants, and andic -- and avoid eating drinking in bars, restaurants, and public places.

amid news the far suit cal company roche received approval for a covid-19 testing kit that's 10 types faster than anything -- 10 times faster than anything on the market. reporter: it accelerates our capacity to test for the coronavirus. will bring 1.4 tests on board next week. and 5 million in a month. i don't think we'll need anything like that. trish: the state of new york thanks to governor cuomo is becoming a template on how to test setting up drive-by stops. the president praising co-more's efforts -- the president praising cuomo's efforts. this is the bipartisanship we need. president trump: i just spoke with governor cuomo *. we had a good conversation. we are working strongly with many states including new york. trish: governor cuomo doing the same. >> i want to thank the president and vice president for their receptivity to the idea. and i want to thank them for their quick turnaround. rib * it's an important step. it's critical we know who has this. we must test for the virus to stop the threat of it. south korea helped stop the spread of the virus by discovering who had it

we did this within hours after receiving the application from roche. >> reporter: roche molecular solutionsa private health care firm which the fda says is the first commercially distributed test to receive emergency authorization. it's a breakthrough because it speeds up the testing. >> what we can now expect is that we're going to provide 400,000 tests in the coming days. so that will mean that we will make available about 1.5 million tests every month. >> reporter: how did roche pull it off? this footage was shared only with abc news of their teams working round the clock across the world. the test developed in just seven weeks. >> the challenge was the timeline. could we do it in six to seven weeks as we were being asked to do? >> we did something that usually takes 12 to 18 months. >> so we had to reinvent how we did things. it's really breathtaking. >> reporter: with the potential to have a significant impact on covid-19 testing, the roche factory went into overdrive. the thumbs-up from the fda about midnight on friday, the tests rolled out over the weekend. this new jersey shipping t

. >>> roche is one of the companies that saw its stock popped up. the bay-area lab has been working around the clock to develop urgently needed krfb test kits. the first ones will be used as early as today. dan ashley has the details. >> we, therefore, expect up to half a million additional tests will be available early next week. i want to thank roche, great company, for their incredible work. >> reporter: that incredible work president trump is speakig of is happening in pleasanton where pharmaceutical giant, roche, has been developing a rapid test for coronavirus, first batch of 400,000 test kits will be available in days. >> we have tests available to go this weekend, early next week out to a group of about 30 testing laboratories across the u.s. >> reporter: paul brown oversees it all. his company was given emergency authorization by the federal government to scale up production. what should have taken 12 months happened in six weeks. >> it's based on the nobel prize winning technology of pcrpolymer chain reaction. here we have some of the worl

it's manufactured by the swiss company roche. it will speed up the ability to test patients, providing drive-thru testing in retail parking lots at walmart, target, walgreens and cvs stores across the country. the coronavirus killed 47 americans. 22 of those deaths associated with that nursing home outside seattle, washington. both the house and senate remaining in session tonight. house speaker nancy pelosi and treasury secretary steve mnuchin have been negotiating throughout the day. the speaker saying she has reached agreement with the trump administration on a coronavirus response bill which would provide free testing for all americans, expanding paid emergency family paid medical leave expanding food programs including snap and wick. steve mnuchin has been in constant contact with the speaker. he's at this moment in the white house speaking with the president. a deal in his opinion mass not been reached despite what the speaker has said. we'll have the latest from the treasury secretary here tonight. he will join us as soon

she is promoting raymonde de la roche's legacy.we don't have enough female role models in aviation. but in fact, we do have many throughout history. and she was a first, so we need to recognise, if we are to even have a chance to recognise any more women throughout the history of aviation. you yourself are quite the role model, as well. you've been flying for 30 years. how has a history changed in your experience, in your time within it? well, it is becoming more and more intimidating on the technical side of things. so oui’ technical side of things. so our roles as pilots has very much changed from people who manipulate controls to people who completely control the aircraft through their mind and know what they are doing. and it is no longer such a physical job, it is more of a brainjob, really. how has it changed for women? is easier to get into it, are you seeing more women breaking through? it is easier in the sense that since the 19705, it is not legal to discriminate against women. so they are able to basically do anything th

the technology from pharmaceutical company roche will speed up the process ten fold. clock on the new test compelled to respond to what they recognized in late january as looming global emergency. >> normally this would -- >> now, 400,000 tests will be ready to go out nationwide as early as this weekend. there will be 400,000 more tests manufactured every week after that. smaller testing machine process 385 tests in an eight-hour period and bigger ones can process 960 in that time. >> president trump also announced on twitter tonight cruise companies, carnival, royal caribbean, norwegian and nsc cruises have agreed to suspend friendships trt u.s. effective midnight. the most recent ship hit by coronavirus, the "grand princess" we talked about is still docked at the port of oakland. today princess said 1400 international passengers still on the ship waiting to be transported to their home countries. some americans who got off earlier are making progress. >> americans that needed treatment are receiving it. i spoke to the governor of iowa today. some of those who now ha

sometimes when you put an early platform out when the high speed was roche, people get dependent on that and don't see there is availability of other tests. right now there is half a million tests sitting not being utilized. we are trying to figure out how do we inform tests where these are and how do we work through every laboratory association and how do we raise awareness so people realize there is point of care, fisher, abbott and roche. there are millions. they are not even being used. that's what we are working on. [ question inaudible ] >> because when people get used to a single platform, they keep se sending it back to that lab. they send to roche rather than maybe another laboratory that has different capacity. >> admiral is figuring it out to create a visual so every governor can see capacity in their state county by county so they know where they are. we pushed a lot of tests out, but they are not being utilized. >> dr. birx explained it very well. i want to get back to your question. it is logical when you look at the number, you want to know what the demography will be. thi

paul brown is the head of roche molecular solutions, doctor this is wonderful news. it doesn't come a moment to soon how many tests are ready new for distribution? >> good morning. it is wonderful news indeed. we're delighted that we have the authorization to start to distribute the test to the laboratories offering the testing. as we speak, we have 400,000 tests available and they are starting to ship out immediately over the coming days to the network of testing laboratories around the country. david: well who gets them first would this be er's around the country and hospitals and such? >> so we've worked with the cdc and some of the national reference laboratories and the commercial testing laboratories and there are about 32 designated laboratories that will be the first to get those tests. the important thing for viewers to know is that of course the testing is very important, but you also have to have the instrumentation, the machines to run the test, so the laboratories that have been selected as the first laborator ies already have the instruments and the cap

of roche. >> from roche, we want to thank the fda for their rapid approval of our coronavirus tests. we really appreciate the partnership to get that to market as fast as possible, because it is critical for us to make that available to help patients in need and working with laboratories to get it up and going in the near future which will bring hundreds of thousands of tests available to patients in need in the united date. so, thank you. trump: and you can do it. great company. health -- david of zignify health. >> we are the largest house call provider in the u.s. and we go to the homes of the most vulnerable elderly and throughout network and our logistics, we stand ready to help and provide our clinicians to be where they are needed, whether they are in retail clinics or in the home, and we are here to assist. thank you very much. trump: and we will be changing a lot of the rules and regulations for the future should this happen in the future, which we hope it never does, but it will somewhere out there, some bad ones over the years. i guess that will continue to an extent, but

this out in six months it's coming back maybe we have something for it when it does something better, roche is texting a stroke judge that could work against covid created lumps in the lungs it could beat it and allow everyone to go back to work. my money is on regeneron of course, the clock is ticking, $2.2 trillion economic life support package will help millions of people get through the next month the provision that allows employers to get loan forgiveness if they keep their employees on the rolles is genius it's going to help the small business person and the people who work there but we need some insurance we need something big that will help working people, especially health care workers. that's why we need to spend a lot more money issue a massive 30-year covid war bond if we have to treasuries currently yield next to nothing the bond market's desperate to give our government money. the market would lap up a $500 billion beat the covid bond with a decent coupon. come on, mr. secretary mnuchin, pew it up. the main thing is the federal government needs to spend. i know we're hearing a

aimed at increasing virus screening to try to contain this outbreak shares of roche rising on the newsance says the outbreak is creating uncertainty. >>> the pga is the latest to cancel events. this weekend's player's championship in florida will not be played. following moves by nba and delaying the season of the mlb >> lawmakers in the senate will be sticking around a bit longer after mitch mcconnell announced they were delaying their reverse. handing out a massive coronavirus aid package. something elizabeth warren was criticizing. >> it disproportionately goes to people with more money we all know in a crisis, when you are trying to boost the economy, putting more money into the pockets into the hands of people with money does not increase the number of pizzas they are buying. we'll go now to capitol hill what can you tell us about this? >> it does feel like they are getting closer to a deal lawmakers signaling signs of progress not clear where that president's signature will go. that payroll tax cut seems to be something of a dead letter pushing to get priorities on this bill. the

new developments in the race for virus test kits, roche is shipping the first 400,000 test kits across the country after the fda granted emergency use of tests originally used for the sars virus originally used to increase testing capacity by, quote, thousands per day. in the last two hours, goldman sach cut q 1 gdp on china to 9%. slashing growth from 5.5% to 3%. yesterday's china's factory rate plunged as the pandemic brought the world's second largest economy to a virtual stand still. >>> checking the global market action we have matt taylor standing by for the early trade in europe. matt, i'll go to you first >> it was a really patchy picture for the asian markets. we had some markets moving higher some lower by the close. the only trend was that we did see some markets improve through the futures japan ending modestly high the government saying it will offset tax cuts no trade in the philippines. that market closed indefinitely in response to the virus take a look at the china markets. the hang seng and the hong kong ended higher shanghai down around a third of 1% hong kong saying

roche is been incredible in the testing job they've done and they're ramping up exponentially it's up up up up and you should be saying congratulations on stead of asking a really snarky question because i know exactly what you mean by that you should be saying. congratulations to the men and women who have done this who have inherited a broken test exist and and who have made it great and if you don't say it i'll say it i want to congratulate all of the people you have done a fantastic job and we will see you all tomorrow thank you very much thank you. so you were listening to the u.s. president donald trump alongside his white house corona task force giving their daily briefing and he was just answering some of the questions put to him by reporters over at the white house let's bring in rob runnels he's joining us from los angeles via skype rob i mean you were listening to the whole thing from when the president started speaking up until this point he's answering questions by reporters let's just focus on what the news lines were what did we take away from this briefing. i think the

sometimes you put early platform out, the first plat orme out high speed was roche, you put that out, people get dependent on that, don't see there is availability of tests, right now half a million tests sitting capacity, not being utilized. we're trying to figure out how do we inform states about where these all are? how do we work through every laboratory association so they're aware? how do we raise awareness so people know there is point of care, there is thermofisher, there is abbott testing and there is roche, and if you add those together that is millions of test as week. reporter: not being reported. >> they're not being reported. >> or not even being used. that is what is really, what we're working on? reporter: [inaudible] >> because when people get used to have a single platform they keep sending it back to that lab, away to get on a roche machine, rather being moved to the other lab that may have abbott capacity. they're all on in different laboratories. reporter: how do you -- >> admiral girard is spying figuring it out to create some kind of visual, every governor and h

adams and roche went on and on about their fear about the pennsylvania constitution. the pennsylvania constitution had one house. you could throughout the chief executive. you could get rid of the supreme court. it also had a test for religion. you had the original pennsylvania constitution, which roche got voted out of the continental congress after signing the declaration, you had to swear an oath to jesus, and you had to say the old and new testament were 100% accurate. the irony for benjamin rush is that benjamin rush believed that personally, but thought codifying a religious test in any constitution, there was great fear at the constitutional convention, that the pennsylvania constitution would hold some sway. i am glad it didn't. >> you are a good custodian of these very important buildings in early america, the old state house on the old south meeting house. what can you tell us about these places? and what kinds of divisions were within them, and our people able to solve these divisions? >> our organization cares for the old statehouse, the seat of provincial

one is swiss company, roche, which uses these machines already in many hospitals across the country toamount of people who can be tested at once. the other is thermo fisher which uses its applied biosystem pcr instruments. the company aims to produce 5 million tests for these machines by early april. but it's notjust big companies getting involved in testing efforts. in west london, a community of open source scientists, engineers and microbiologists working out of shipping containers in the open cell bio—village are trying to help. there are 70 shipping containers here with labs looking at a range of biotech challenges, from personalised medicine and dna sequencing, to bioelectronics and biomaterials. it's shared molecular biology lab has been transformed to experiment with expanding testing capacity while also designing a portable lab solution built out of a shipping container that could be easily transported. we're trying to use these automative methods to speed up the testing kit because in order to test large populations, we need millions of covid—19 testing kits. us company, open

there is thermofisher, there is abbott testing and there is roche? and if you add those together, that's millions of tests a week. >> not being reported. >> or they're not even being used. so that's what's really -- that's what we're working on. >> what's the reason? >> because when people get used to a single platform, they keep sending it back to that lab. so it's getting an acute way to get on a roche machine rather than being moved to this other lab that may have abbott capacity, because they're all in different laboratories. admiral giroir is figuring it out to create some kind of visual so every governor and health commissioner can see all of the capacities in their states, county by county so that they know where the tests are. so we pushed a lot of tests out, but they're not all being utilized. >> and it's up to the people they don't send them back. they use them, they don't send them back. doctor, go ahead. >> dr. birx explained it very, very well. i just want to get back, john, to your question. it's a logical question when you look at the

one is swiss company roche, which uses its clovis machines already in many hospitals across the countryease the amount of people who can be tested at once. the other is thermo fisher which uses its applied by a system pcr insurance. the company aims to produce 5 million tests for these machines by early april. but it is notjust big companies getting involved in testing efforts. in west london, a community of open source scientists, engineers and microbiologists working out of shipping containers in the open cell bio—village are trying to help. there are 70 shipping containers here with labs looking at a range of biotech challenges from personalised medicine to dna sequencing, to bio—electronics and biomaterials. it's shared molecular biology lab has been transformed to experiment with expanding testing capacity while also designing a portable lab solution built out of a shipping container that could be easily transported. were trying to use these alternate methods to speed up the testing kit because in order to test large populations, we need to be millions of covid—i9 testing kits. a u

the cleveland clinic, the roche -- >> sure. i have faith in our scientists i think dr.a tremendous job there's trillions of dollars on the sideline waiting they got what they've been waiting for. they've got the opportunity that they've said no to how can you not start buying here unless you just are so fearful. that's when warren buffett says you must buy he bought in world war ii and it looked like we would lose the war. >> sternlich is coming up. >> i like barry. and i think mnuchin will say some good stuff. >> joining us to talk about the violent market we've seen this week, barry sternlich, ceo of starwood capital group, which has 60 billion under management and chairman of sh hotels and resorts. i know when our people talk to you, i think you intimated that you would like to calm things down a little. >> yeah. >> after this morning, looks better how are you feeling? you have a lot of businesses >> when i agreed to come on last night and i saw the futures down 700, i was a little worried about coming on. this thing started in china, too bad it incident start in wes

we heard the president talk about roche late last week. we are going to see a series of these machines getting up and running very quickly. the question is, how quickly? effort goingf this to be ramped up in the united states? drew: that is an excellent question. they have talked about being able to do this very rapidly. i think the question more fundamentally, does that matter at this point? remember, we don't have an effective known and proved treatment for this illness. orve already enacted recommended in this country that people all over the u.s. engage in social distancing. schools have been canceled, large gatherings band. , the idea ofpoint specific testing to identify cases matters far less than broader mitigation efforts. it is encouraging that they do finally have large testing coming on scale, but i think it is a fair question to ask whether or not it is too late to effectively matter. guy: we are going to leave it there. thanks for the updates. bloombergs drew armstrong joining us. quick look at the markets to give you an idea

there's a story that just broke about a roche drug that's an arthritis drug that the chinese have turned to here i'm talking about actemra and the chinese are using it which is very powerful for lung problems a site i have usually not reacted to and mentioned on air but china's national health commission is using it maybe this is the breakthrough that's happening right now so i'm looking at everything but again someone could say you're not an epidemiologist but you have to do everything you can to find out what is the roche drug doing maybe that's hopeful. >> but that's still a long way away, isn't it >> well, david, that depends on what your definition is. that's being tested right now. >> all the things that we hear about potential closings, if you do close schools somewhere, when do you reopen them when do you know the coast is clear? how do you differentiate or is it now we just accept that this is going to be widespread. >> you readjust. >> the vast, vast majority of people are going to be just fine >> again, you come back to what is stay at home. there was a conference call yesterd

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