Special Edition: Joe Biden speaks to CNN about coronavirus pandemic; Gov. Cuomo: 25K cases in NY, rate doubling every three days; Senate negotiators close to massive, $2-trillion stimulus plan;

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 24 March 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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W.H.O. says U.S. has potential to be next epicenter; NY Gov to FEMA: You pick the people who will die because you didn't send enough ventilators; Trump: Want the U.S. "opened up and just raring to go by Easter"; White House Officials looking for ways to "open" U.S. economy without causing health catastrophe; Biden: I have not been tested for coronavirus, have no symptoms; NY to test coronavirus treatment with blood from recovered patients; NY Gov: Need 30,000 ventilators, FEMA only sent 400; Former Goldman Sachs exec makes plea for "lower risk" Americans to return to work; Coronavirus killing significantly more men than women; Nearly a third of the world's population under lockdowns; Child dies of coronavirus in Los Angeles county; Italy reports 743 deaths in one day; Spain turns ice rink into makeshift morgue, death toll at least 2,696; Pregnant women to deliver babies without partners in delivery room at two NYC hospitals;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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0:00.0	This is CNN breaking news.
0:04.0	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper.
0:06.0	In just minutes, I'm going to speak with Democratic presidential candidate,
0:09.0	former Vice President Joe Biden about the coronavirus pandemic
0:12.0	and his bid to try to replace President Trump
0:14.7	as the World Health Organization issues a scary warning today now saying that the
0:20.0	United States has the potential to be the next epicenter of the pandemic.
0:25.0	The numbers reflect the horrific situation, the death toll in the United States now is shocking
0:28.9	646, meaning in just the last 24 hours since I was on air last more than 100 people
0:35.3	146 more people have died from the coronavirus. I want to take just a second
0:40.9	here to think about that so it's not just a number to you or to me.
0:45.1	646, each one of those numbers, someone's son or daughter, someone's mother or father,
0:52.3	their brother or sister, whether young or old, there are
0:56.1	oceans of pain and suffering surrounding each addition to this grim toll. A week ago, there were just over 6,000 confirmed cases. Now we've
1:06.0	crossed the threshold of 50,000 and the calls for supplies from doctors and nurses
1:10.4	on the front lines are getting even more dire.
1:13.1	The messages from the White House on forcing industry to manufacture these needed
1:17.1	supplies continue to be somewhat contradictory and confusing, but today the head of FEMA told CNN that his team is using the Defense Production
1:25.2	Act for the first time to secure more testing kits.
1:28.9	New York Governor Andrew Cuomo ripped apart the response from the federal government this afternoon,
1:33.0	arguing in a scathing news conference
1:35.0	that he thinks it's inexplicable
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