Good evening.

Tonight the impact of President Trump's decision to declare the coronavirus pandemic a national

emergency.

We'll look at what it means to people in communities seeking not just help from the federal government

but also access to testing, which, as you know, has emerged as possibly the single biggest

challenge to this country getting into arms around the outbreak.

There's that, and there's what else the president said, refusing to take responsibility

for a significant part of the crisis.

Here we'll play it in just a moment for you and talk about it later in the hour.

In a somewhat related vein, there's the question the president's personal conduct in

the face of this, because he's already come to contact with one and maybe more people

who have tested positive for the virus, direct contact.

The man right there at the president's Trump's left, the press secretary to the president

of Brazil, tested positive.

This picture was taken in Mar-a-Lago just this past weekend.

And there's late reporting that another person who visited Mar-a-Lago at the same time has

also tested positive.

First though, some of what the president said today about the big decision he made.

To unleash the full power of the federal government that this effort today, I am officially

declaring a national emergency to very big words.

The action I am taking will open up access to up to $50 billion of very importantly, very

important and a large amount of money for states and territories and localities in our

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