Awaiting White House coronavirus briefing; Health workers tell of increasingly dangerous situation; 129 coronavirus deaths reported today, deadliest day so far in United States; Trump: Aiming for Easter to reopen country, decision will be based on "hard f

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Los Angeles county reports first known child death from coronavirus in the United States; New York Governor: "What are we going to do with 400 ventilators when we need 30,000?"; World Health Organization: United States may be next epicenter of pandemic; Trump wants United States to reopen by Easter, says packed churches "would be a beautiful thing"; New York Governor: numbers of ill to spike higher and sooner than thought; New York Governor to FEMA: You pick the people who will die because you didn't send enough ventilators; Joint Chiefs CHMN: Crisis may last until June or July; Trump: "would love" to have United States reopen by Easter on April 12; Trump wants United States to reopen by Easter despite warnings by health officials; Trump: You can destroy a country by shutting it down; Nearly half United States population will be ordered to stay at home by midweek; New York Governor to Trump administration: "you pick the 26,000 people who are going to die because you only sent 400 ventilators"; Source close to coronavirus task force: rush to reopen country could result in shut down again; Trump wants United States to reopen by Easter, churches full; Trump: "This cure is worse than the problem"; Navy hospital ship mercy on its way to Los Angeles; Dangerous conditions; Finding a test; White House coronavirus task force briefing;To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:42.8	I'm Wolf Littler in the Situation Room.
0:44.6	We're following breaking news.
0:46.2	We're standing by for a White House briefing on the coronavirus pandemic
0:51.5	as the number of known cases in the United States now tops 51,000 with more than
0:56.6	650 deaths. Globally more than 414,000 cases and 18,000 deaths are being reported.
1:05.0	Also breaking, Los Angeles County is just reported,
1:08.0	the first known death from coronavirus
1:11.0	of a person in the United States under the age of 18.
1:15.0	Meanwhile, New York now the hardest hit US state, pleading for health.
1:19.2	The Governor Andrew Cuomo blasting the administration's response response saying the state needs 30,000
1:24.8	ventilators far more than the government is offering. As the number of
1:29.1	American cases grows, the World Health Organization is now warning that the United States could be the
1:34.8	next epicenter of the pandemic. But President Trump is increasingly anxious about the economic
1:40.7	toll of the unprecedented nationwide shutdown and now talking
1:44.8	about having businesses reopen by Easter Sunday and he says he wants churches
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