Thanks very much.

Good evening, everybody.

Some cautiously optimistic news for this evening.

The White House force is talking about glimmers of hope.

Social distancing, they say, is working and lowering the projections for the number dead

and hospitalized, even as New York announced its highest death count for a single day.

We're going to talk about the new projections in a moment.

We'll also talk about how a reopening of the country, when it occurs, might occur.

The president, who was far more measured in his comments during the press briefing today,

said this evening, he wants to reopen the country as quickly as possible, but would rely a lot

on his medical experts in terms of how and when to do it.

We have a new report on how the reopening of Wuhan in China, the source of the virus,

how that has been going.

ABC News is out with a new report that quotes a source who says US intelligence was warning

as far back as November that the virus posed a danger, analysts reportedly compiled a report

that included it could be a quote, cataclysmic event.

Now, the same source tells ABC the top members of the Defense Department as well as the White

House were briefed and it was included as well in the president's daily briefing early

January.

The president's first comment on the disease that was in an interview with CNBC on January

22nd.

This is what he said.

...