Hey I'm Brian Stelter and this is reliable sources. Welcome to our viewers in the

United States and all around the world. We are awaiting a press briefing. We

expect sometime later today by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo as soon as we get a better

sense of the timing we will let you know but when that happens we will bring it to you

President Trump is expected to have a briefing at 5 p.m. Eastern time today

coming up this hour my exclusive interview with Amazon's top

spokesman Jay Carney now that Amazon is more essential and more scrutinized than

ever. He's coming up in a moment plus best-selling author Stephen King on the real life horror that's

unfolding he has some choice words for how this is all being handled and later New Yorker

editor David Remnick and many more but first how can the media convey the depth, the scope of this

international pandemic? I want to take you on a tour of the United States first

using some of the nation's front pages, some of the local papers that are doing the important

work covering what's happening at the hospitals.

Let's start here in San Diego, where the Union Tribune notes this grim milestone, 2,000 dead in the U.S, a number that doubled in just two days.

Now to St Louis, the post-dispatch reporting on how hospitals are rationing protective

gear.

And now to Baltimore, where the sun's banner headline foreshadows much more to come. The headline says

bracing for the surge. This crisis does conjure up a hurricane with warnings about

the surge. In Montgomery Alabama here the advertiser newspaper says hospitals are bracing for impact.

This moment also conjures up a war with reports from the front lines, and that's what this front

page says here, the front lines are expecting the unknown.

All across the United States, from Honolulu to Waterloo,

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