Awaiting White House coronavirus briefing; Trump: over one million Americans have been tested;

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

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3.2 • 866 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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New one-day record with 486 United States deaths reported today, total dead nearing 3,000; Sources: Trump extended social distancing after health experts dire prediction, surge in deaths at New York City hospital; Navy hospital ship comfort arrives in New York; New York City mayor: 1,200 staff, 750 beds from comfort to be put into play immediately; Dr. Fauci stands by estimate 100,000 United States deaths possible; Trump extends social distancing guidelines until April 30, concedes United States death toll could be 100,000 or more; Trump: United States should reach "bottom of the hill" of outbreak by June 1; Governors tell Trump about lack of supplies including PPE and testing capabilities;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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0:42.7	I'm Will Flitzer in the situation room.
0:45.0	We're following breaking news.
0:46.5	We're also standing by for a briefing over at the White House.
0:49.6	You're looking at the live pictures from the White House Rose Garden,
0:52.3	the coronavirus task force that's scheduled to be getting. the It's been the deadliest day of the outbreak so far here in the United States.
1:05.0	Get this, at least 486 new deaths pushing the total to nearly 3,000 dead here in the United States in the total number of cases to more than 158,000.
1:17.3	The rising numbers and dire warnings from public health officials prompted President
1:22.1	Trump to extend social distancing guidelines
1:25.0	until at least at least April 30th and back away from his earlier call
1:30.0	to reopen the nation by Easter Sunday April 12th which he now says those goals were
1:35.8	in his word aspirational in New York City meanwhile that's the epicenter of the
1:40.9	crisis in the US. The USNS Comfort arrived at Port today
1:44.8	where officials hope the floating hospital will relieve the burden on the
1:49.4	city's health care system. Let's go to see and that's Nick Watt.
1:53.7	He's joining us with more on today's coronavirus developments and there have been some very
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