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>> washington state has declareg a state of ecy... >> o'brien: ...the first governor to do so. >> theernor declaring ame state ofency... >> o'brien: but like many here, he was increasingly concerned that presidentrump was continuing to downplay the threat. >> it's going to all work out. everyby has to be calm. it's all going to work out. >> o'brien: inslee, a democrat and former presidential candidate, tweeted that thera adminion should stick to science and tell the truth. it would ignite an escalatin r of words. >> o'brien: during a visit to the cdc, trump fired back. >> that vernor is a snake. okay. inslee. t me just tell you, we have a lot of problems with the governor and... the governor of washington, that's where you have many of your problems. i said, no matter how nice you are, he's no good. that's theay i feel. >> o'brien: at that point, did governor and the state ofu as washington was sort of on theirw and the federal cavalry was not coming? >> yes, t we didn't ever depend on that leadership coming out of the white house, so it's not something that we were surprised by. we a

governor jay inslee, a democrat, announced sunday that washington state will be returning more than 400 ventilators that it received from the strategic national stockpile so they can then be transferred to other states. on saturday, oregon's governor kate brown announced that her state can afford to share 140 ventilators with new york. >> president trump: you look at most places, you could call it the bump or the hill or the mountain or whatever you want to do but it's very flat. they have a couple of tough ones. new jersey has been very tough and new york has been very tough. look at so many of the states and how well they are doing.

this is still washington state. this yellow. so they have been able to, for a long time of measuring cases not have a spike. so it's possible and we're watching very closely to make sure it doesn't have a spike. but that's what the people in washington state are doing. this is what every community -- so washington state early, about two weeks before new york or new jersey. california a week before new york or new jersey. really talked to their communities and decided to mitigate before they started seeing this number of cases and now we know that makes a big difference. early, as dr. fauci said, if you wait until you see it, it is too late. reporter: you have a demographic breakdown, dr. birx, where these deaths may occur? >> there is a demographic breakdown that we've discussed before related to mortality and it is as we're seeing in new york exactly what we saw in italy. very low mortality not to say, that young people under 30 or young people under 40 are not getting ill, they are, but most of them are recovering. so profile

that would be states like washington, california, where they implemented it early. the longest would be the states that have not implemented them or have delayed implementation of these social distancing measures. we know social distancing measures work. >> because i know at the same time, and your study makes this clear, you're warning of a potential rebound in infections if the social distancing guidelines are relaxed too soon. what do states need to do to reopen safely? >> so right now, again, we're not out of danger, even though we're saying some states can open early in may, we have to be very careful, because this virus is still circulating, we're susceptible. we need to test and keep monitoring people as they go back to work, trace the contacts of cases, in order to make sure that the virus is not circulating again in these places. we sacrificed a lot, wolf, and many people paid with their lives. we should not give up what we succeeded in doing so far. we need to be patient a little more. >> right now there are 34,000 confirmed deaths from the coronavirus here

about who gets experimental treatments >>> on the front lines tonight, health care workers in washington state beginning to turn the tide in their coronavirus battle stephanie gosk on what they did right and what other states can learn. >> reporter: washington state got hit first in early march the governor issuing a stark warning to those who didn't social distance. >> the penalties are you might be killing your grand dad if you don't do it. >> reporter: now health officials say they have done what every other state hopes to do, flatten the curve. >> i will say the last few days we've been able to take our first breaths. >> reporter: inside uw medical northwest, a look at how far they have come in a short period of time. today they have 29 covid patients, at the peak it was 41. >> we're in the hot zone and have about 20 patients on this floor. >> reporter: infectious disease doctor giving us a tour using the hospital's camera. >> we converted this entire ward into a covid ward so it's taken a lot of work to get to this point. >> reporter: the hospital has transformed. the nursing station is w

local media in washington state reporting that an inmate advocate group, called columbia legal servicesing for the state of washington to release an enormous 2/3 of its prison inmates into the community. but that included serial killers and capital murders as well as rapists, all to reduce the spread and exposure of covid-19 in the prison system. washington state supreme court ruled against that in a narrow 5-4 decision. your reaction to that story? >> it is horrifying that it came that close. reality, coronavirus is a crisis that is leaving a lot of people worried but for the health reasons and also the economic damage it has done across the country. with that worry, paralyzing so many people in fear, really the response is to add on top of that the release of prisoners including violent criminals from prison into society? this is like a script out after batman movie where the villains decide once society fully locked in chaos we'll open the prison cells and release the prisoners. it is not kind of thing about public policymakers who think about the well-being of their prisoners would

the upstate of new york but it will also extend well into the heartland, to iowa, nebraska, washington state if you're talking about coffee. so the reopening of some states and not others, what is the expectation for how that's going to work? is everything fine in your state if your state is reopened alone and not others? >> well, i think this is a situation where if you extend it internationally, i mean you can say that internationally and if you accept that kind of premise, that means the whole world has to open up on the same day. it's just not going to work that way. we think on a state by state basis it makes sense. look, the governors, you know, in my state, i'm constitutionally given the responsibility to care for the state of washington. and i have a constitutional ability to maintain shutdown order as long as is appropriate in the state of washington and the president of the united states cannot counter man that. i saw some tweets suggesting he can. but he simply cannot do that. we're hopeful we can reach a ca calmity and we think the states are in different places right now. look,

and the governor of washington state has accused u.s. president of amending domestic rebellion that's often he took to twitter encouraging people to protest against lockdown measures in several democratic states. now there's concern in hong kong that beijing could be escalating a campaign to limit the region's autonomy china's central government office in the city said on friday that it's not bound by laws preventing beijing from interfering in hong kong's affairs this was followed by a wave of arrests at least 14 pro-democracy politicians and activists have been taken away by police reportedly for their role in last year's mass protests hollande is in hong kong for us she says the people who've been arrested are very well known. these are very high profile figures in hong kong's pro-democracy movement and they clued martin lee's known as a founding father of hong kong's democratic movement he's 81 years old he was one of the architects of the basic law that's hong kong many constitution which is written to safeguard hong kong's autonomy

this is all just here are these of the top stories the governor of washington state has accused the us president of fomenting domestic rebellion that's after donald trump took to twitter encouraging americans to protest against lockdown measures in several states the u.s. has the highest number of cases and deaths. india's communist state of cattle is being hailed for its fight against the spread of the virus analysts say the southern state has managed to control the spread with aggressive testing contact tracing as well as long periods of quarantine. a lockdown has been announced in sudan's capital khartoum that set to be in place for the next 3 weeks the decision was made as the health ministry announced a sharp increase in people who've contracted covert 19 that reported 30 new cases in the last day bringing the total number of those infected to 6610 people there have died the army has been briefly deployed on the streets of lists with his capital and the prime minister of the southern african nation says the move was aimed at restoring peace and order forces from livia's u.n. recog

we all remember washington state, it was a month ago when they started to have the issues in washington state, but the brought together their communities and health care providers and they put in strong mitigation methods and testing, and you can see the resultant washington state and california. but without the continuation for the next 30 days, anything could change. next slide. i am sure you are interested in seeing all of the states, though on this slide is all 50 states and the district of columbia, but i think it shows a stark reality, the difference between new york and new jersey and other states with similar populations and urban areas. our goal over the next 30 days is to ensure the states that you see, the 48 across the bottom, maintain this lower level of new cases, with the hope that we do not have significant outbreaks in other states and other metro areas. as the community comes together to work together and ensure that the health care providers around the globe and in the united states are strengthened by our resolve to continue to mitigate community by community. this i

only one closed in washington state, and it was close enough to others, so we didn't -- so with did noteave residence residents without. this has put them all in a tough place. this is making it even tougher. washington has a moratorium, as many states do, on elective surgeries and procedures, which are the bread and butter. people are going to emergency officetelemedicine, visits, their income has dried up. they are gearing up for the new epidemic. host: there was an important point in your article. a feeling in moral parts of america that this is a problem otherw york, for metropolitan areas, that it is not going to happen in small communities. eric: it is a natural feeling. is aided and abetted by media -- was aided and abetted by media. areas that don't have good internet access depend more on those broadcast medias. presidentraged by a who has much higher support, thanally, in rural in urban areas. that has changed pretty quickly since the virus arrived. rural places have seen cases not. the highest rate by far in the a metropolitan area, a -- but 100,000, but has is a very large a

>> i think it's very clear they are casting gary locke, two-term governor of washington state and secretary of commerce under president obama is a chinese leader. and that's flatout wrong, on so many levels. the ad is trying to distract from trump's epic mismanagement of the coronavirus that has cost us two months of being able to identify patients, and trace their contacts. instead, we have wound up in our homes, trying to mitigate the spread. it's cost our economy trillions of dollars. cost our families thousands of lives. cost us millions of jobs. and so he is trying to distract from that. and, unfortunately, this ad is consistent with him calling

and in washington state we have these districts for you to get your ballot and washington state house of representatives, position one, position to. that is not in the state constitution. that was invented in olympia 1966. i can tell you the whole story behind it but i don't want to burn up time. for example we could have a system, using existing districts from 2011, and you could give your voters to have two seats, a proportional system. looking at eastern washington justice he of fred legislators. mike 35 or 40 percent of voters then they never elect anybody. so with this system you get one vote in the top to vote getters when. and then to that by on - - that delegation but that would be six in search of two democrats. instead of another party active in seattle. and that will be elected to the legislature. and the state redistricting commission. i watch it closely in 2011. you are right. i agree 100 percent every state needs to have independent redistricting commission to draw lines on every level but they can only go so far. and the commission. and in 2011 i was not happy at all an

so the state of washington's done very well. they won't be needing some of the ventilators that have been sent, about 400, that's a lot, and we appreciate that he's able to give them back. he feels confident that they are in good shape, for the coming weeks, until we can declare a final victory. in the days ahead, america will endure the peak of this terrible pandemic. our warriors in this life and death battle are the incredible doctors and nurses and healthcare workers on the front line of the fight. we pledge to them our eternal gratitude and everlasting support. they make all of us very proud. our country is very proud. we have people, they love our country. the world loves our country, most of it. probably all of it, they just don't say it. i can report today that the united states has now tested and given results -- gotten results of 1.67 million people. that's far more than any other country's been able to do. and you remember, we inherited a broken system, so a lot of this has been developed. by tuesday 1200 brand new ra

birx will describe, we are not only seeing remarkable progress in washington state and in california where the numbers remain low and steady. that's a great trip you to the people of both of those states and to all of their dedicated health care workers. but we are also beginning, we are beginning to see a leveling just the very beginning. she will reflect on those in just a few moments. a couple quick updates. at the present moment, the president has approved 50 major disaster declarations and will likely announce one from the state of minnesota by the end of the day. we've distributed $4.1 billion to states and right after our incredible health care workers, we couldn't be more proud of more than 21,000 national guard that have been activated. and working in states all across the country. during my conference call today, i learned that governor brian kemp is actually using the georgia national guard to sanitize and cleanup nursing homes. the national guard are being deployed in a variety of ways all across the country and to them and the families of all these citizen soldiers, you h

in washington state, the choir practice that has turned deadly. in georgia, two dozen family members who attended a funeral are sick. and in texas, 28 students testing positive after a trip. >>> tonight, the captain of an aircraft carrier pleading for help. already 70 sailors onboard testing positive. >>> and dr. jen ashton back tonight, answering your questions. >>> good evening. it's great to have you with us on this tuesday night. and as we come on the air tonight, we've just heard from president trump at the white house with perhaps his most somber message yet. calling on americans to brace for a very tough two weeks. with members of his team, the scientists and doctors, right there with him. saying americans should be prepared for more than 100,000 deaths before we get through this. at one point, they said the current projections show even if we all adhere to the social distancing guidelines, the number could still be even higher. as many as 240,000 dead according to the models they're looking at right now. all of this as the number of cases

the governor of washington state has accused u.s. president donald trump of cement in domestic rebellion that's after he took to twitter encouraging people to protest against a lockdown measures in several democratic states. and police in hong kong have confirmed the arrest of 14 pro-democracy politicians and activists in connection with last year's mass protest china's government office in hong kong said on friday it's not bound by laws preventing beijing from interfering. india's communist state of carolina is being hailed for its fight against the spread of the corona virus analysts say the southern state has managed to flatten the curve with aggressive testing contact tracing as well as long periods of coron teen now it was carola who confirmed the 1st 1000 case in india back in late january the coastal state has around 400 cases and 3 deaths but it's reported a 30 percent drop in the fast week of april so let's speak to t.m. thomas isaac he's the finance minister in kerala and joins us now from drum mr isaac carola saw as we said

so the state of washington's done very well. they won't be needing some of the ventilators that have been sent, about 400, that's a lot, and we appreciate that he's able to give them back. he feels confident that they are in good shape, for the coming weeks, until we can declare a final victory. in the days ahead, america will endure the peak of this terrible pandemic. our warriors in this life and death battle are the incredible doctors and nurses and healthcare workers on the front line of the fight. we pledge to them our eternal gratitude and everlasting support. they make all of us very proud. our country is very proud. we have people, they love our country. the world loves our country, most of it. probably all of it, they just don't say it. i can report today that the united states has now tested and given results -- gotten results of 1.67 million people. that's far more than any other country's been able to do. and you remember, we inherited a broken system, so a lot of this has been developed. by tuesday 1200 brand new ra

many have spoken out, but in washington state, one doctor has been fired after expressing his concernshe washington state nurses association has criticised the decision at a time when retired health care professionals are being asked to return to the profession to help in the fight. the nurses association said in a statement: i've been speaking to sally watkins, executive director of the washington state nurses association. i asked her how medical staff are feeling about this firing. everyone is very traumatised by it actually, just shocked that this is something that could happen, that a physician during this period of time, especially an emergency room physician, could be terminated for speaking out. we are hearing all across the country that there is retaliation and other nurses and healthcare workers are experiencing a similar threat that if they speak out they may be terminated. the mantra in american hospitals is supposed to be, if you see something, say something, that that is the way to ensure patient safety is copy absolutely, and we have worked hard as you have in your countr

amazon and microsoft of the competition for the cloud then boeing let you get back to work at a washington state factory but it is far from that this is usual. for you today so let's go and dive right in. the crown a virus has infected more than 2400000 people globally it's taken more than 160000 lives while some countries are seeing a flattening curve others are still seeing a surge in new cases coppa 19 has infected more than 766000 americans while that's in the u.s. have topped 40000 new york state which is finally seeing a drop in new cases announced that it's going to begin aggressive statewide antibody testing this week protests continue across the u.s. over shelter in place orders amid pressure on governors to reopen local economies at sunday's briefing president said that he'll use the defense production act to increase manufacturing of testing swabs while working with governors to reopen their economies with the governors doing a better job than others. the robust capacity that we've brought online will empower governors to deploy sophisticated strategies so they can safely reopen their

at the same time governor inslee we appreciate this as washington state returned 400 ventilators can be deployed elsewhere in our country. so to say that washington have done very well, they won't be needing some of the ventilators, 400 is a lot. we appreciate he'll be able to giver them back. he feels confident they are in good shape until we can declare a finally victory. america will endure the peak of in terrible pandemic. our warriors of this life or death battle are incredible doctors and nurses and healthcare workers on the front line of the fight. we pledge to them our eternal gratitude and everlasting support. we love our country. the world loves our country, most of it. probably all of it, they don't say it. i can report that the united states has now tested and given results, gotten results of 1.6 million people, that's far more than any countries have been able to do. we inherited a broken system. a lot of this has been developed by tuesday, 1,200 brand new rapid point of care testing kits have been produced by abbott laboratory. great company. they'll be distributing to o

case in washington state.mple of that person's blood and sent it to galveston at the national virus repository and they will able to distributed to people around the country to work on it. >> bill: so now you start the screening of thousands possibly come up thousands of drugs to see if they work. how do you figure out that answer? >> now we got the system working efficiently and it's a rather easy process. we have some robotics that have been donated by some great companies around the country and we can pour into this, the robot plates that have little holes in them and have the cells growing on them. we put the drug and the virus in there and we get the answer a few days later. >> bill: a couple more questions, i'm very curious about this. we've heard a lot about hydroxychloroquine and a lot about z packs. is this the kind of medication you apply to this? >> completely. those drugs will be tested and many others. anything that people may be taken for treating blood pressure or maybe even things for other com

you're watching al-jazeera with me said the reminder of our top stories now the governor of washington state has accused the president of amending domestic rebellion that's after donald trump took to twitter encouraging americans to protest against lockdown measures in several states the u.s. has the highest number of cases and it's. the u.k. government says it's doing its best to source more personal protective equipment for doctors and nurses and that's after coming under growing pressure following new guidelines to tell medical workers to reuse some p.p. . soldiers in the suit to have now returned to their barracks after the prime minister ordered them on to the streets to in his words restore peace and order tamas them barney is under pressure to step down of allegations that he was involved in his a strange wife's murder. to north africa where forces from libya's un recognized government have killed 8 fighters loyal to warlord khalifa haftar they've also captured 4 of have to supporters while advancing on his largest stronghold in the west of the country the city of the who is the targe

the governor of washington state has accused u.s. president on trial of fomenting domestic rebellion that's after he tweeted encouraging people to protest against lockdown measures in several democratic states. and pakistan are stepping up measures to contain the spread of the virus before ramadan as cases there past 7000 a virtual meeting is underway between the government and religious leaders over ways to observe social distancing nations. well moving to some of the news now and pro-democracy supporters in hong kong say at least 14 leading politicians and activists have been arrested that move is linked to widespread anti-government protests last year and comes after renewed concerns about the chinese territories autonomy on friday beijing's top office in hong kong said it's not bound by it all is preventing the central government from interfering in local affairs well let's now speak to david apart and he joins us live from hong kong these were some quite prominent names who've been taken in talk us through he's been arrested. tha

in washington state, we have these house districts so you'll get your ballot here and it says, washington state house of representatives, position one, position two. and they're separate races. that's not in the state constitution. that was invented by olympia in 1966. i could tell you the whole story behind it but i don't warn to burn up the time, but, for example, we could have a system using existing districts from 2011, okay, and you could give voters one vote to elect two seats. proportional system. right? so if you look at eastern washington, just a sea of red legislator which is kind of redundant. they're districts where there's 35-40% of voters vote democrat and never elect anybody. so, with this system, which i call top two pro, you get one vote and the top two vote getters would win. so, every seat in the state dish mean every house district in the state would have two -- would have a bipartisan delegation to legitimate. except for six. by my last time -- a few years ago -- have to run the numbers again for recent elects but six seats in seattle which would have either two democ

the governor of washington state has accused u.s. president donald trump of fermenting domestic rebellion that's after he took to twitter encouraging people to protest against measures in several democratic states . and pro-democracy supporters in hong kong say beast 14 politicians and activists have been arrested in connection with mass protests last year china's government office in hong kong said on friday it's not bound by laws preventing beijing from interfering. brazil's president has defended his decision to fire the health minister who disagreed with his policies to tackle the coronavirus they also are always defying his critics by doubling down on plans to lift restrictions to restart south america's largest economy and tory occasionally reports a swearing in ceremony for brazil's new health minister nelson time the president jaya both sonora used the occasion to defend his controversial handling of the coronavirus pandemic not least his decision to fire his previous health minister louis debtor he refused to play down the ri

flow of ventilators he says is being shifted from state to state basically some states such as washington state going ahead of the curve it would appear at this particular stage they've got some ventilators that they can release to other states so this logistical supply chain going on but once again little detail there in terms of anything from president we did hear from the scientists the scientists pointing out the foundry in particular stating once again that mitigation is the only way to fight this saying how difficult it is pointing out as well that apex is yet to come in many places in many areas of the united states the apex is the time it which the most amount of deaths are occurring because of infection from the virus we heard from the governor of new york state early on today saying the apex in that particular area in that particular state could be from anything from 7 to 14 days and that is the critical point the governor of new york state said in a briefing that had a bit more detail. then we had from the white house right now and insisting that the state has got to be ready at the

furcash gada, a surgeon at multi-care tacoma general hospital in washington state. watch. >> here i am back to work, with covid-19, just want to let the world know and my health care providers when you're on the other side of this, you will have a lot less anxiety, a lot less fear, and you'll feel like you're invincible because you can deal with this crisis, without anybody having to worry. and for my patients out there, for the people with fear, know that no matter what happens, you can work from home, the lights are on, babies are being born, bones are being set, this hospital, this profession, we're in a league of our own. we'll take care of you. >> that was dr. furkash gada, in tacoma, a surgeon in tacoma washington and i hear he was yesterday in the operating room. >> this is dr. gada, in the midst of all of the covid craziness we're still in the operating room taking care of really sick patients that really can't wait, being very careful about conservations of ppe, we're using masks, reusing masks and some occasions gowns and sometimes not leaving the operatin

we were able to rush a two the state of washington. i think governor inslee gets credit for what he was able to do by taking it seriously immediately. as you can see the situation seems to have plateaued in the state of washington. seems to have plateaued in the state of california. i think governor cuomo has done a pretty good job in the state of new york on this. andso think governor dewine the house of representatives and in the united state senate, the governor of ohio. he has responded appropriately as well. much of the responsibility here in terms of resources has to come from the federal government. we're are the only ones with the capacity to respond to this crisis. but administration frequently will fall into the hands of the governors. others have all been able to meet the moment. rep. neal: it's interesting that you mentioned the governors. what more can the federal government do? handling ite there in a patchwork way. some governors are more vocal than others in obtaining ppe. a coalition of governors has banded together --

these two patients died on for very six and 17, weeks before the reported first death in washington state. we report that this suggests the virus was far more widespread than first thought. >> reporter: the new information shows that in late january and early february when everyone was focused on limiting travel from china and cruise ships that the virus was here already and spreading in this community. >> the information i can share -- truck she revealed new details on what are now the first two fatal the rooms of the coronavirus in the united states. they are a 57-year-old woman who died on february 6 and a 69- year-old man who died on february 17 and both died in their homes. a 70-year-old man who died on march 6 was also added to the new victim list. >> none of these cases had a significant travel history. we presume that each of them represent community transmission and there was some significant level of virus circulating in our community in early february. >> reporter: that is about one month before california's previously first death and three weeks before the nation's first fatal

not just the detainees but the people working. >> another protest breaking out at a prison in washington state as dozens of inmates posting up in the yard with a night as a number of men tested positive for covid 19 and some states like new york and california have began releasing nonviolent inmates in response to the number of cases while other states continue to resist the idea of releasing incarcerated populations. in washington i'm kevin cork fox news. >>> now let's check out the weather and the great steve paulson is back in the forecast sounds great as well.>> thank you.>> the one and only. >> and pam right back at you, thanks you too. a is cloudy it rain in the south and 56, mph but yeah rainfall over this past 24 hours, santa clara valley mainly, coyote reservoir, altamonte pass, mount hamilton and los gatos. i should add even brentwood had a .01, it wasn't just confined to the south but mainly. boy we had a big load, this low will go down in the books because it is providing copious amounts of rain to san diego and a lot in the mountains. that line stretched all the way from nevada to

deaths were in washington state. these were not cruise ship passengers. we knew about the outbreak on cruise ships there off of california. these were not travelers who had just returned from china. they had no known travel history. and, sanjay, i brought this up before, i remember that morning we were all on the air and i think it was february 26th we first heard the term, john and i, community spread. you, of course, knew it, but this is community spread then, weeks earlier than we knew it existed. >> yeah, alisyn. this is very significant. and perhaps not surprising to your point. i think for some time as dan said, dan simon, we suspected that there may be earlier cases. did we really think we happened to catch the very first patient in the united states or were there patients that we were missing even before january 21st when that first patient was diagnosed in washington state. i think we long suspected that there were probably earlier cases. i think the fact that these patients not only had contracted the virus

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just to give you some comparison, washington state has more than 13,000 confirmed cases and 749 deaths states realize they had an outbreak on their hands right around the same time. why is there such a dramatic difference in the numbers in these two states? a lot comes down to communication and listening to the experts. consider this from this incredible piece in new yorker print edition called the pandemic protocol. the former cdc director has estimated if new york had started implementing stay at home orders ten days earlier than it did, it might have reduced by 20% to 80% and the author joins me now. washington state discovered how fast it was spreading but that defied cdc rules. how so? >> well, seattle is very lucky that it is, for reasons of chance, in the epicenter in one of the largest creations of epidemiologists on earth. and some were doing the seattle flu study, going around and taking swabs from people, almost at random, to figure out how quickly influenza was spreading through the community and once the coronavirus started breaking out, the outbreaks began, they thought,

seems to be working according to the vice president. >> not only seeing remarkable progress in washington state and california where the numbers remain low and steady, a great tribute to the people of both of those states and all of their dedicated healthcare workers, we are beginning to see a leveling, just at the very beginning. >> more positive developments in louisiana where the governor said he is hopeful they are beginning to see a flattening of the curve there, the state is no longer on track to run out of hospital beds and ventilators this weekend in new york the governor announcing hospitalization, icu admissions and daily intubation all down. a flattening of the curve there as well. this graph shows daily cases falling slightly and somewhat leveling off over the past few days but the battle is far from won the pentagon announcing 1500 military medical personnel will arrive in new york city by wednesday, many deployed to hospitals to help the city's overwhelmed medical staff. the pentagon also planning to build a field hospital at the miami beach convention center which just two months

he's a surgeon at multi-care tacoma general hospital in washington state.tor, i know you're working more than full-time right now. thanks for making time to talk to us. >> well, thank you, rachel, for featuring this and me. this is an incredible amount of effort that was put into having me up here, so i appreciate it. >> well, sure. i'm happy to do it. tell me, doctor, there's a lot of different things i want to ask you about. but first because you're practicing and working right now in tacoma and because the whole country has been watching washington state deal with early cases, deal with large numbers of patients coming in, let me just ask how things are in your hospital and what your daily workload is like these days. >> so that's a great question. if there's any silver lining from the tragedy in the nursing home up in kirkland, it's that it allowed our local state and local leaders as well as our health care administrators to prepare for the pandemic better or earlier than the rest of the country. it allowed us -- sort of raised our awareness not just a

strategy of testing and robust contact tracing when we get the number down low enough >> erin, washington statelooking at antibody testing. what about other states >> reporter: that's right, jose. the university of washington is expected to begin its antibody testing early next week joining testing efforts in colorado, california, and florida. really seeing it's critical to understand the spread of this disease. jose >> erin mclaughlin in los angeles, thank you >>> the economic ripple effects of coronavirus have been hitting millions of americans. now struggling to simply put food on the family table. morgan chesky tonight with the challenges of feeding america. >> reporter: tonight in the growing fate facing millions of americans. lines stretching from coast to coast from families trying to find their next meal >> thank you have a good day. >> reporter: in fort worth texas, elizabeth lewis hernandez went through this line for the first time the fresh food a blessing for her family after being laid off as a waitress. if you didn't have a place like this, what would you do >> i don't know. i've