just one other note, in addition to the stafford act the president -- the stafford act and the president'sdeclaration of emergency, they are also likely working with the private sector to make tests more readily available and free from any more americans. the stafford act could speed along that process, so it is really the public-private partnership on a national emergency level that the president is trying to orchestrate. david: that is a great point. that would be a game changer. a lot of us are speculating about why we aren't doing more testing. thank you to bloomberg's chief washington correspondent kevin cirilli. up next, asian cities like singapore and hong kong have been able to slow down the number of new virus cases. we discussed how they did it and how we can learn in the united states. ons is "balance of power" bloomberg television and radio. ♪ ♪ david: from new york, this is "balance of power" on bloomberg television radio. for brumberg first word news we turn to ritika gupta. ritika: political enemies may form an alliance. nancy pelosi said she is close to a deal with the trum

detroit lions quarterback, matthew stafford, are expecting baby stafford number four due this summerether the stafford kids will continue as a girls squad or if little brother will enter the craziness until baby is here stafford's news is more joyous, considering it comes a year after removing a benign tumor resting on her cranial nerves. in an interview with our affiliate, stafford recalled the moment she first realized something was wrong. >> the room started spinning on me i was holding our newborn at that point and i kind of almost threw her to matthew, because i felt myself going down. >> reporter: the tumor, known as an acoustic neuroma, puts pressure on the inner ear to the brain, causing imbalance after a grueling operation, doctors successfully removed the tumor. and the next day, kelly was on her feet matthew, with her every step of the way. >> he never left my side i couldn't do anything he had to be by my side at every moment >> reporter: four months after the surgery, and battling extreme fatigue, kelly was in fighting shape and ready to take on the next challenge. >> i

in particular, it invokes the stafford act. it allows a female to tap into nearly $43 billion in disaster relief funds, directing federal aid to the states hit by disasters and health crises. it instructs state governments to set up emergency operations it allows the health and human services secretary to waive regulations that could hinder health professionals' response capabilities. how quickly does that money get to the states and localities? >> normally, and by the way, in this emergency, you can have public-health nonprofits may be entitled to a portion of that money. this, evennd all of though it is a national emergency, every state that has a serious problem will declare a state emergency, which is very, very important. fema to puten go to themselves in a situation to have additional funds sent into the state to cover work they do in responding to the coronavirus. the powers of governors where they declare these emergencies is extraordinary. it is important the president did it. he did it both under the so-called nationa

previous administrations have also utilize the stafford act.f you think back to bill clinton, he utilized it in order to combat the west nile virus. up on capitol hill, congress striking a tone of optimism from the staffers on both sides of the aisle. treasury secretary steven mnuchin has been working around the clock. his staff with house speaker nancy pelosi in the house of representatives. we do not have a clear timeline for when that economic stimulus will be voted on. .owever, it is expected the expectation is that it will happen rather quickly. finally, the issue of tests in the united states is an illustration of the public and private partnership. the administration has been relying on the private sector in order to access tests more quickly and readily accessible. the issue on capitol hill is the test should be free and that is becoming a rallying cry for lawmakers in both political parties. howd: how is this -- guy: is this playing politically? how is joe biden fitting into this narrative? how is bernie sanders fitting in? there is a

under the stafford act. there have actually been three health emergencies, national health emergencies that have been declared. one under the public health service act by the secretary for health and human services, alex azar, and then to buy the president. one is the stafford act and the other, the emergencies act. basically we are now living in chartered territory. -- in unchartered territory. three national emergencies. all 50 states have declared state emergencies. host: what does the stafford act give the president the flexibility to do? guest: it creates surge funding, enables him to waive technical rules and legal requirements, for example, around laboratories and testing. it can waive certain medicaid or medicare requirements. it gives a lot more flexibility and funding to the president. host: does it also clear people or protect them from liabilities? guest: yes, it can do, depending on what the president decides. it does have some of those flexibilities. host: focusing on the federal response of th

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to declare this an emergency under the stafford act. re- up the money of the $42 billion in disaster relief so that we can work on this issue right now dealing with it in a way that reflects the theory of the threat. the president should act today. second, we need widespread testing and affordable treatment for all. third, we need to increase the federal medicaid assistance percentage. this would increase the amount of federal dollars that go into medicaid immediately pumping more resources into the states to deal with this crisis. we did this during the great recession as a way to assist states and provide medical care. we should do it again. and i would be introducing legislation to accomplish that. fourth, we need to ensure paid sick leave for the workers. we need to pass senator patty legislation to provide additional 14 days sick leave in the result of any public-health emergency including the current coronavirus. fifth we need to enhance unemployment insurance and extended support programs like women and children in school inl lun

we have very strong emergency owers under the stafford act and we are -- i haven't memorize -- i have it memorized practically as to the powers. if i need to do something, i'll do it. i have a right to do a lot of things people don't even know about. reporter: will you do that today? president trump: i don't want to say but at some point, maybe some of the more minor things at this point. we're in great shape, compared to other places, we are in really good shape. we're going to keep it that way. that's why i did the ban with respect to europe. reporter: are there emergency actions you can take? president trump: i have a lot of emergency actions i can ake. reporter: what are you looking at to help american workers? president trump: we're looking at a lot of things including paid leave. we're looking at many things. also making sure they're going to get their salaries. we have other workers, people who work for tips and nobody thinks about them. we're including them in a lot of our schedules. we're also making sure that the companies which are good companies stay solvent, have the mone

with governor cuomo and it's the first time in our nation's history that a president's used the stafford act to declare a disaster. never happened before. considering other areas where we may or may not be doing that and working very closely with governor newsom, the governor of california, we may be doing the same thing with others. it's been unprecedented action

by letting certain funding, through the emergency act, the stafford act, and now the defense protection act, he is temping up infection of this. right now we have enough. but the numbers are going up, we know they're going to. they are going to continue to go up for the next several weeks. so we have to prepare. hospitals are already coming up with their own plans on how they're going to divvy that out. what we can do to make them last as long as we can until the reinforcements come. but it sounds like they are coming. >> melissa: carley, some of those number as we were hearing, he was saying that for 3m that they went up to full production in january. that they made 35 million mass in january and those will be directly sold to hospitals. so they will get them for people by them on amazon, basically. and saying that full capacity for some place like 3m is 420 million masks per year. i know he also talked to the

first, the president should immediately declare the coronavirus pandemic an emergency under the stafford act. that declaration would allow fema access to over $42 billion into disaster relief fund and support states and communities directly as they deal with the spread of this virus. i am officially calling on president trump to do that today, declare this an emergency under the stafford act. free up the fema money of $42 billion in disaster relief so that we can work on this issue right now, dealing with it in a way that reflects the seriousness of the threat. the -- the president should act today. second, we need widespread and free coronavirus testing and affordable treatment for all. third, we need to increase the federal medicaid percentage. this would increase the amount of federal dollars that go into medicaid, immediately pumping resources into states to deal with this health crisis. we did this during the great recession as a way to assist states and provide medical care. we should do it again, and i will be introducing legislation to accomplish that. fourth, we need to ensure p

stafford made the announcement on instagram.y're having daughter number four until the big day. a girl dad. >> wow. >> we just had that kobe story. now we've got this story. obviously when it comes to girl dads, they're very special, and so is his wife, battling brain tumor, and now going back to the hospital, we said, for a much happier occasion. >> what a wave of emotions, right? to be going back for this now. >> twin daughters chandler and sawyer turned 3 this month. daughter hunter is 1. that is so incredible. congratulations to the staffords there. >>> coming up, two sisters meet each other for the first time after nearly 60 years. >>> first the town that looks like it's transformed into narnia. what caused all that ice? >>> later in "the skinny," former democratic candidate tom steyer rocks out on stage backing that up. yeah, we're going to talk about that one. ♪ here's a razor that works differently. the gillette skinguard it has a guard between the blades that helps protect skin. the gillette skinguard. about the colonia

calling for a national emergency under the stafford act would free up a lot of the resources to help states and localities. why he hasn't done it is a mystery. we need him to do it, and do it now. so many of the president's statements were inaccurate and required fewer than three corrections by the white house in the hours after. mthe president wasn't accurate n describing the ban on travel from europe to the u.s. if it didn't apply to u.s. citizens or the car go. the president's claim that health insurance had agreed to the containment for the coronavirus treatment was also apparently inaccurate. one would think the president could give a speech that has the facts right and that there would be healthcare and focus. i don't bring this up to play gotcha. it's still serious. many americans watch the president may not have seen the speech and as a result, many got bad of confusing information. this is very, very unfortunate. at all times especially during the time of crisis the president must be clear and accurate about the policies and guidance. we need leadership that is steady and co

it is the first time in our nation's history that the president used a stafford act to declare a major disaster in response to a public health crisis. never happened before. >> the president encouraged people to stay at home during this difficult time. how best to practice social distancing or can a business be open during a shelter at home order? hayward fire said it can help clarify things. they implemented a call center during the fires. now they are doing the same amid the covid-19 crisis. >> we want to make sure that we get accurate, timely information out to the residents of hayward. and we want to make sure it's coming from a source that they can trust. and then part of this, too, is when people need information, a lot of times they may try to call 911. so we want to make sure that we can take some of the burden off our 911 emergency system. >> mr. the call center will be open the next two to three weeks. if you're interested in getting in touch with them, we will put a link on nbcbayarea.com. speaking of our website, stay up to date with the very latest on the coronavirus with

important part, he didn't ask the mathematicians from m.i.t., he didn't ask the mathematicians from stafford or harvard. he asked the brilliant mathematician from west virginia state university to calculate my trajectory and make sure i get home safely. that says a lot about what katherine was to not only nasa but what she meant to the individuals that she worked with. they relied on her. they put their lives in her hands. so what she meant to nasa was that we won the space race and katherine johnson played a very significant role in that. you know, katherine is from a small town about two hours from west virginia state university. it's called white sulfur springs. and we had the privilege before the rest of the world fell in love with katherine johnson, we had the privilege to have her little beautiful face on our campus at the tender age of 10. because she was unable to go to high school in her hometown because of the hue of her skin. so she and her family had to pack up and travel two hours to come to west virginia state university. we had then an elementary and high school that was a par

he's not specifying what he's talking about there but he might invoke pieces of the stafford act. not clear which pieces he's talking about. this is a president who doesn't want to over react to this crisis he's taken some heat for that. he's being consistent today here in suggesting he might do some of the more minor actions but not the broad sweeping action that some people are calling for. >> i'm not and i don't know whether you're familiar with this stafford act. what kinds of powers or emergency abilities does he have under that >> reporter: the main thing is it would free up about $40 billion worth of federal disaster funds immediately it would put the fema folks in the fight effectively right now. the president's talked a lot about having the states do this rather than the federal government but fema has a role to play here fema does a lot of things like disaster recovery, debris removal that won't be needed here there is an unemployment piece of fema though that could be something that might be key here if a lot of workers aren't able to get to the office and take a financ

will be invoking the defense production act last week i signed an emergency declaration under the stafford act. which as you know we invoke previously and which activated favors national response coordination center famer in hours fully engaged. at the highest levels. today famous activated in every region we are at level one level one being the highest level. which we will. work with and we've been working with fame i've done a lot of work with the aim of their incredible it's always been on hurricanes or tornadoes they're right now in tennessee a large group working in tennessee have been incredible it was tragic event. alabama last year also a tornado and then obviously the the numerous hurricanes in different locations that were there some cases very devastating and in every case fema came through and this is a very different kind of oak work for fame of what they will come through as they always do we have tremendous people tremendous talent and fema we're sending. upon request the 2 hospital ships are being prepared right now the massive ships there the big white ships with the red c

as a disaster for the purpose of the stafford act. right now, fema could do what you suggested if you saw another hurricane in your state or an earthquake or a fire, but epidemics are not a natural disaster under the stafford act and to go back to the question congressman censhaw asked, that's a zero cost, but the kind of thing we should be doing to get prepared. whether this one or another one, someday, we will face an epidemic that is a fema triggering disaster and the stafford act should catch up with that. >> thank you. and to the former chairman when i got here, mr. king, from new york, one of the last recommendations that we still have not adopted from the 9/11 commission is to put all of the jurisdiction to responding to natural disasters and others and putting the stafford act back under homeland so weekend -- so we could coordinate and i think now may be the time for us to raise that issue in a bipartisan manner to get homeland the jurisdiction it should have. >> i agree. it's long overdue and i appreciate the gentleman raisi

i would say the stafford act is not designed for this.not surprising to you we have analyzed it for this purpose sort backwards and forwards. so you are seeing even those teams are typically be deployed alongside hhs here and in support of them, and hhs would reimburse us. that's of the budget would work for their deployment, just as it are for thefo pink fema team tht is supporting them right now. >> thank you. >> real quick, i really need to close this out pretty quick, but dr. kadlec, who is in control of the strategic stockpile? >> the secretary is really the overall if you will, i was a incident manager but he's a person in charge at hhs. >> so how many items are inventoried in the stucco? >> it's about $80 billion enterprise. >> eight or 80?ri >> eight. >> how many items? >> hundreds of vaccines, therapeutics come all kinds of supplies, masks. >> so who and how are the inventory levels set? >> we have requirements that are set that are based on requirements process. some of it has been fixated on the basis of what can we buy our wha

some sort of a power grab by the federal government with this declaration it would come under the stafford act the u.s. president was asked about this on thursday and he said that there was a lot of different powers in the stafford act he said apparently he has it memorized and he's prepared to use them if he sees it is necessary so all of that coming up in the next 2 hours thanks very much with the latest from the white house ed thank you kimberly meanwhile canada has suspended parliament and advised against non-essential travel for citizens in an effort to slow the spread of the virus prime minister justin trudeau says he will be in isolation for 2 weeks off to his wife tested positive. i want to be clear i have those symptoms and i'm feeling good and technology allows me to work from home of course it's an inconvenience and somewhat frustrating we are all social beings after all but we have to do this because we have to protect our neighbors and our friends especially our more vulnerable seniors and people with preexisting conditions. and with al-jazeera live from london much more still

my guess is that there are pieces of the stafford act and if i amma that apply to unemployment if peopleand not returning to work, that would be one of the pieces that would apply here remember, the president promised a plan he has not rolled that out yet offering backup to various industries and sectors he has not indicated which industry he will do that for this is very much a work in progress >> thank you for being with us this morning continuing with the hard work. we count on your updates >>> checking u.s. futures and see how things are going we are implied to see the dow jones up to the tune of 665 points the s&p up 78 points global sebt ral banks it in to take action to try to counter the impact of the coronavirus as well norway moving today cutting its key interest rate. that follows the fed which injected more cash into the system yesterday to help keep it going. the fed and others have to do more tepper saying the fed should launch targeted measures such as buying mortgages and treasuries to relieve some of the stress. going to our guest with more. >> getting the bones, the plu

under the stafford act.here have actually been three health emergencies, national health emergencies that have been declared. one of the public health service act by the secretary for health and human services, alex a czar, andanother the stafford act the other the emergencies act. living inwe are now uncharted territory. three national emergencies. all 50 states have declared state emergencies. what does the stafford act give the president the flexibility to do? it creates surge funding, enables him to weigh technical -- wave technical rules and legal requirements around laboratories and testing. they can waive certain medicaid or medicare requirements. it gives a lot more flexibility and funding to the president. host: does it also clear people or protect them from liabilities? yes, it can do, depending what the president decides. it does have those possibilities. host: focusing on the coronavirus epidemic pandemic, we go to lawrence. myler: thanks for taking call. you answered my original question earlier

i would say the stafford act is not really designed for this. and not surprising to you, we have analyzed it for these purposes sort of backwards and forwards. so you are seeing, even those imat teams would typically be deployed alongside hhs. and in support of them hhs would reimburse us for the deployment just for the fema team that's supporting them. >> thanks. i really need to close it out here pretty quick. but dr. kadlec, who is in control of the strategic stockpile? >> operational control and the secretary is the overall if you will, i won't say incident manager but he's the person at charge at hhs so manage this event. >> how many items are inventoried? >> it's about an $80 billion -- >> 8 or 80? >> $8 billion. >> how many items? >> hundreds of vaccines, therapeutics, all kinds of supplies, masks. >> so who and how is -- are the inventory levels set? >> we have requirements set based on a requirements process. some of it has been fix youated on the basis, what can we afford to buy as much as what we need. >> how close are we to actually

of five years ago i said a piece of congress could amends a staffer that that could ender the stafford ac disasters and the staffer that if you saw anotherer your state fourth earthquake ort fire, but epidemics are not a natural disaster under thee sho stafford act and to go back to the questions, i think that is a zero cost, not ultimately zero cost, but the kind of thing that we should be doing to get whether itstaffo is this one or another one, someday we're going to face an epidemic that really is a fema triggering disaster and the stafford action should catch up with that. kinm new>> >> thank you. and to the chairman, when fro it here, mr. king, from new york, one of the last recommendations that we still have not adopted from the 9/1111juri commission is to putl of the jurisdiction to under ho responding to natural disasters and others and putting the stafford act backd i under homeland so that we could coordinate and i think now may be the time for us to raise that issue in a bipartisan manner to get homeland the jurisdiction it should have. >> it's long overdue and i appreciate

not only that, he used the stafford act which gave us the funds to do so. this gives me a lot more ease, and behind that he brought in the private sector which i have been waiting to happen because we live in an incredible country that is based on capitalism, i was waiting for the private sector to come in and that is what happened. i had a feeling this was going on going on behind-the-scenes, and just needed to be announced and today it was. it should have absolutely given people the comfort they need to know we are moving forward. these drive-through chests, that is so important. we can't have people in the emergency department. >> sean: we expect a rapid rise in the number of people who have contracted the virus, even those who have no symptoms whatsoever or mild symptoms. knowing the media as well as i think i know them, it will be shocking and alarming and fearmongering and scary. what we witnessed in china in particular, china is not on my list of favorite country right now, they did the world a disservice. i will get to that later. but, we expected t

usually when you talk about the federal emergency management agency or the stafford act which they aren charge of administering you are really talking about something that is mostly a state response. for example, terrible hurricanes, wild fires, tornadoes, when you have a public health emergency it calls into play not only the emergency management side of government but the public health side of government. those two aspects of government have to work in harness. comfortable that as we speak now the federal government has gotten the chain of command in order. the other thing i would emphasize, the president declared a national emergency march 4. that is an unusual thing to do. usually what happens is emergencies are declared state-by-state and that may still happen. in fact, it will still happen but the fact the federal government declared this a national emergency makes it much easier for states to get the president to agree with their assessment that they are dealing with a emergency or disaster within the state. the states, whatever the federal government does and what the federal g

one is the national emergencies act and the other is under the stafford act. under the stafford act, what the president can do is tap the disaster relief fund at fema, which stands in balance about $42 billion. some money of that has already been allocated. so he's got about $35 billion there with which he can do an awful lot and then under the national emergencies act, that will waive certain requirement that hhs has with medicare, medicaid and the s chip plan to allow really what this is all aimed at increasing hospital capacity, making it easier or for people to get care, for example, if a medicaid funded hospital needs to increase the number of beds temporarily. they can do that without losing funding. if a hospital needs to shift patients to another hospital, it cuts through the red tape and the ability to do that. the same thing with children who are under the s chip program. so a lot of money to be tapped under fema, trace and cutting through the bureaucratic red tape in terms of the response to the coronavirus when it comes to the federal programs of m

. >> reporter: it would be the president declaring an emergency declaration under the stafford act. with the national emergency, that's when you saw the president do when he wanted to use the funds to build the border wall. this activates fema and unlock resources that states don't have right now. that's something we heard him going through the vetting process. they are figuring out all the details of that. we are hearing that's something the president will do today. he says tg sms he stafford act something he had memorized because they have been looking at it so much. they did not have a great day yesterday because not only was the president making criticisms for the omission and errors he made during the short speech. and the brazilian aid tested positive for coronavirus, someone who spent time at mar-a-lago. the president was unhappy of his speech how to do more to smooth the market. they're trying to do things of the political fallout they have experiencing the last few days. something the president have not been able to do so far. >> i wonder because he was exposed to the coron

i would note the stafford act isn't really designed for this kind of situation, but there are analysis of that going on. >> the chair recognizes for five minutes the gentlewoman from new mexico. >> thank you madam chair and thank you for being here. i want to pick up on the string of coordination with state and local governments because as you know state and local governments are at the front lines of the crisis right now and it's my understanding it is the standard to notify state officials if individuals from their state were on board is expected corona virus infected ship, can you comment on that? >> it depends on the setting and the volume that we are working with to identify who would actually do that notification. >> and in a setting would you not notify a state if there was a -- >> contacting the individuals is a different story. >> i appreciate that. we learned to individuals in the district who were on a cruise ship tested positive. it's my understanding the individuals returned to their local community for over a week before the cdc notified the state of new mexico. what are

. >> across stafford shir. it is clear the a. and e is a vital service. does the prime minister that the a and e units are essential to the future delivery of care? >> mr. speaker, the health secretary, my right honorable say that yes, a and e yes. >> resignation of an experienced civil servant. >> with this government, it seems the allegations of bullying or just being incompetent get you promoted where it is standing up to it, you lose your job. what does this say about this prime minister? >> mr. speaker, i loathe bullying but i'm not taking any lessons from a party that is presided over system attic bullying and discrimination against those who stick up for the jewish community and israel. and we still have yet to hear an apology from the labour party for what they have done. renewed their has attacks and peace deal which could see the release of thousands of prisoners and thousands of exports. does my friend share my concerns that no peace deal in the afghan government and we will stand shoulder to shoulder with afghan women who have lost their lives

if he declares a national disaster or emergency under the stafford act, what that does is it frees up the fema disaster relief fund that would normally be applicable to things like hurricanes, earthquakes, other natural disasters. they've raised currently about $42 billion in that account that could be tapped. the amount might be a little lower because they currently have some obligations through until the end of the fiscal year 2020. now, if he declares an emergency under the national emergencies act, that would apply to health and human services and would allow the secretary of health and human services, alex azar, to waive certain guidelines in order to fight the coronavirus. were not sure exactly what those guidelines are that would be waived waive but that would be the net effect of the disaster or emergency decorations. one of the other things we are following is what is going on with brazil's president, jair bolsonaro, and with the real story is there. president trump spent a number of hours with bolsonaro at mar-a-lago last saturday night. they had dinner, you see them standin

we have very strong emergency powers under the stafford act. i have it memorized as to the powers in that act if i need to do something, im do it i have the right to do a lot of things that people don't even know about it may be some of the more minor things at this point but we're in great shape compared to other places, we are in really good shape. we want to keep it that way. that's why i did the ban with respect to europe. i have a lot of emergency actions that i can take. >> are you looking at american workers? >> we're looking a t a lot of things we're looking at paid leave. we have other workers too. those are people that work for tips and nobody thinks about them we're including them in a lot of our schedules. we're also making sure the companies that are good companies stay solvent and have the money necessary to keep functioning. we have a lot of things we're working on with financial markets and it's going to work out fine you have to remember the stock market is much higher. it's taken a big hit it's going to all bounce back and it'

very strong emergency powers under the stafford act i have it memmemorized exactly as to the powers under that act. i have the right to do a lot of the things people don't know about. >> are you going to do it today? >> i don't want to do that. >> former vice president joe biden and former top contender for the presidency criticizing the president's response today. >> banning all travel from europe or any other part of the world may slow it, but as we have seen, it will not stop it. and travel restrictions based on favoritism and politics, rather than risk will be counter productive. this disease could impact every nation and any person on the planet. we need a plan about how we are going to aggressively manage here at home. >> trace: over in congress lawmakers are now trying to push through an emergency spending bill but now we are hearing that senators are planning to leave town and won't deal with that bill until next week. we have complete fox coverage this hour beginning with the chief white house correspondent john roberts. john? >> john: trace, good afternoon to you. president trum

last week i signed emergency declaration under the stafford act, which as you know we invoked previously. it activated fema's national response coordination center. fema is now fully engaged at the highest levels. today fema activated in every region. we are at level 1, the highest level, which we will work with and have been working with. i have done a lot of work with fema. they are incredible. it has always been on hurricanes and tornadoes. they have a large crew working in tennessee and have been incredible at that tragic event. alabama last year. also a tornado. and the numerous hurricanes and different locations that were in some cases very devastated. in every case fema came through. this is a very different type of work for fema but they will come through as they always do. we have to admit his people and tremendous talent and fema. -- we have tremendous people answer minutes talent in fema. hospital ships are being prepared right now. the big white ships with the red cross on the sides. one is called the mercy and other -- and the other is called the comfort. they are in tip top

minnesota new hampshire new mexico, if you look just at mexico new mexico and minnesota, he said one staffordcolorado because we think we are going to, would this time we're talk about tens of millions of more stuff on the ground, then the entire 2015 ground getting. we already have them in those states. also we only lost minnesota by small amount. if we are looking at latinos crowns across the country, that they're coming out huge numbers. >> let me try to leave this together a little bit, the rnc was involved with us in the training, the first day, of cpac was training, because we don't just want to talk at you we, want to work together worth with you, so we can all go home and be better activists. including online activists, if you don't want cpac in minnesota, we're gonna do another see back there, we have cpac west, reno nevada, if you're from the states you're welcome to cheer, for going to be back in nevada for another cpac west, everyone has a role to play to take back this country. >> as it can still continue to move toward big socialist ideas, they've looked they're saying that they

we have very strong emergency powers under the stafford act.- we -- i have it memorized practically as to the powers of the act. if i need to do something, i will do it. i have the right to do a lot of things people don't even know about. >> is it too late today? >> i don't want to say that. at some point it may be more minor things at this point. but we're in great shape, compared to other places, we're in good shape and want to keep it that way. that's why i did the ban with respect to europe. >> do you have emergency actions that you -- >> i have a lot of emergency actions. >> the workers, what are you doing to help workers? >> we're looking at a lot of things, including paid leave. we're also going to make sure they get their salaries. we have other workers too. people who work for tips and nobody thinks about them. we're including them in a lot of our schedules. we're also making sure the companies, which are good companies, stay solvent, have the money necessary to keep functioning. we have a lot of things we're working on with the financ

last week, i find an emergency declaration under the stafford act. we invoked it previously which activated fema's national response. fema is fully engaged at the highest levels. inay, fema is activated every region. we are at level one d the highest level. -- being the highest level. we have been working with fema. i have done a lot of work with fema, they are incredible. tennessee and have a large group working in tennessee. alabama last year also a tornado and obviously the numerous hurricanes in different locations that were very devastating and in every case, fema came through. this is different work for fema, but they will come through as they always do. we have tremendous talent in fema. request theng upon two hospital ships being prepared. they are massive ships. the big white ships with the red cross on the side. one is called mercy and the other is called comfort. they are in tip top shape. they are getting ready to come up to new york. i spoke with governor cuomo about it. he is excited. we have not made the final determinations on where i

last week, i signed an emergency declaration under the stafford act, which as you know, we invoked previously. and which activated fema's national response coordination center. fema is engaged at the highest levels. today, fema is activated in every region. we are at level one, level one being the highest level, which we will work with. we have been working with fema. i have done a lot of work with fema. they are incredible. it has always been on hurricanes and tornadoes. they are right now in tennessee. year.a last also a tornado. then obviously, the numerous hurricanes in different locations that were in some cases very devastating and in every case, fema came through. this is a different kind of work for fema, but they will come through as they always do. we have tremendous people. tremendous talent in fema. sending two, we are hospital ships. they are being prepared right now. they are the big white ships with the red cross on the sides. one is called the mercy. the other is called the comfort. they are in tip top shape. they are getting ready to come up to new york. i spoke with governor