for relieve for families. good morning, welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm laura jarrett. thursday, march 19th, 5 a.m. in the yves. we start with this. an invisible enemy posing a very clear threat this morning. front line medical workers now reporting a dire shortage of materials to conduct teszs for coronavirus. with the virus spreading more rapidly by the day, experts say the u.s. health care system will be overwhelmed. consider this warning from president obama's ebola czar. >> we have hospitals that are going to start to break this weekend. not weeks from now, in the next few days. >> approaching 8900. 149 people have died. both those numbers essentially doubling in the last two days and they're going up. medical officials tell cnn to keep up they need more swabs and other materials even as commercial labs ramp up testing. >> we have gone through five

months, now six months worth of supplies in less than a week and we are scrambling. we're scrambling. even to the point where these are n-95 masks. we've got three days of supply of n-95 masks on hand. in order to preserve these and get them to last longer, we have a team of people sewing masks together. >> in some cases it's the appropriate swab. we're in the situation now where we don't have the reagents to do the extraction from the samples so that we can run the tests. >> there won't be enough resources especially in rural areas if the outbreak rose. that includes hospital beds, medical staff or equipment like ventilators. two automakers could play a role. gm and ford are examining whether they can manufacture ventilators at their facilities. the white house is pleading with young people to practice social distancing. scenes like this one on florida

beaches show basic safety and health recommendations are being ignored. >> new research shows young people are not as immune as once thought. >> there are concerning reports coming out of france and italy about some young people getting seriously ill and very seriously ill in the icus. >> the administration is in discussions with the tech industry, including facebook and google, about how to use american's cell phone data to track the spread of coronavirus. a coronavirus relief package has been signed into law by president trump. it includes free coronavirus testing and two weeks of emergency leave. 70 million people may not benefit at all. the senate is focusing on passing the next relief package. >> $500 billion of cash payments for americans, 300 billion for small businesses, 50 billion for

airlines and $150 billion for other affected sectors. small business owners in especially dire straits. >> 800 people total that we had prepared the food for. fundraisers to weddings primarily and some corporate things as well. just everything is shut down, everything. >> we've shut down our operation. we've closed our office. so everybody is out of work, you know, not getting paid. >> a trillion dollars sounds like a huge amount of money, but in the grand scheme, proposals so far do not approach the kind of mobilization that came in response to previous crises like world war ii or the great depression. cnn politics writer zach wolf has more. >> good morning, christine and laura. the question is is a trillion dollar stimulus package even going to be enough? the entire u.s. economy is essentially at a stand still. the problem that we have to

realize is that a lot of the things that governments usually do to deal with a crisis like this, thinking about tax cuts, or having interest rates near zero, the u.s. economy has had those things for years now so we don't have some of the tools that people normally associate with dealing with these kinds of problems. there's also the idea that essentially they're going to bail out the airline industry, which did stock buy backs, gouging people with airline fees. that's going to rub a lot of people the wrong way. then there's how do you deal with these thousand dollar payments that may or may not go out. should there be some kind of means testing for them? should they cut it off at $100,000? everybody below gets it. should you just flood the economy with money. finally, are people going to be able to spend this kind of money. if there's lockdown in the

houses through april, if they get a check, is that going to help? but with the u.s. economy at a stand still, the government has to do something. it has to do it fast. >> no one's talking about deficits this time around when they're talking about bailouts or stimulus. three years of stock market gains gone. it fell lower than when president trump took office. closing below 20,000 for the first time since february of 2017. the s&p 500 plunged 7% in a day and that triggered the fourth circuit breaker in a month. they stopped trading. it closed 5% lower. futures volatile all morning trying to find some footing. fears of a global recession are growing. deutsch bank thinks the collapse could be the biggest since world war ii. the economic fallout could claim 3 million jobs by the summer. ford, gm, fiat chrysler all

halting production. the factory workers can't work from home. uaw said workers will receive unemployment benefits. other industries are asking for billions of dollars in federal help. the nation's restaurants need $325 billion bailout. the national restaurant association needs help to support restaurants and a 15.6 million workers who depend on the industry for jobs. you'll start to see the numbers next week in weekly jobless data. you'll see the cascading effect. >> so many people telling workers to apply for unemployment benefits. that's being hit hard. for the first time since the outbreak, mainland china reports zero new cases. cnn has reports from shanghai, london, berlin and madrid. he's.

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travel restrict shuns are expanding globally. countries on every continent except antarctica have border closures or travel bans to stop the spread. overnight australia banned all citizens from traveling there. americans stranded around the world after transportation shutdowns and border closures are struggling to get help from the state department. italy is weeks into the crisis. 4200 in italy. the country has 35,000 cases. it could be a warning sign for the u.s. statistics show the united states case growth numbers are on the same track as italy. developing overnight, a major milestone for china where the coronavirus outbreak first began. cnn's david culver with the very latest from shanghai. david? >> christine, normally when we get the numbers they break it down in two parts, hubei province and the rest of

mainland china. for the first time we see both of those numbers at zero. no new daily confirmed cases reported in the past 24 hours. that is significant but at the same time they're not making it easy here. in fact, complacency is the greatest risk. you've got this beat. so health officials are also citing that there are 34 new cases. what do i mean by that? those are imported cases. those are cases coming in from other countries according to chinese officials. it's interesting to see travel bans having now been put in effect around the world against china. china is concerned there are folks coming in from other countries into the people's republic. what they are doing in places like beijing, for example, they have designated that every international passenger who's arriving be put through a screening process and put into government designated quarantine facilities. they're taking no chance there. it's 14 days they will be

screened, monitored, allow to continue on with their travels to beijing or other parts of china. they're also, christine, interestingly enough continuing to increase hospital capacity and so we've talked about some of the tracing of some of this in china and hospital capacity's another big aspect to all of this in knowing that it's not over yet, that the resurgence or the second wave as some have called it could happen at any moment. so they're watching that quite closely. >> david culver for us in shanghai. thank you, david. cnn has learned london could face a partial lockdown in an effort to slow coronavirus. there's concern people are not taking the advice of british leaders to stay home. matthew chance is live in lon n london. in london, how much notice? >> reporter: i think the government have talked about the possibility of giving people plenty of notice, 24 hours notice perhaps, but the word is

at the moment, it's not been announced by the government yet, it's in the newspapers, cnn has been briefed by various government officials as well, is that this kind of lockdown on london, the british capitol, which is the epicenter of this virus outbreak in brittain at the moment, could take force as early as this weekend. i think the expectation is people will be preparing for that. it's a big turn around. they've been criticized. boris johnson been criticized particularly in europe for not doing more to stem the flow of the virus. he was always saying, look, we're following scientific advice. we're doing what we can. we're using a very measured paced response to this. that scientific evidence seems to have changed during the course of the recent days. the statistics have gotten more concerning. the cases of coronavirus have become much greater than were anticipated. that's forced the government to in some ways change tact and be

much more draconian. first of all, they've stopped schools for the first time in brittain across the country from operating. that will take place and that's thrown a lot of children, parents, families into all sorts of concern about what they can do with their children. they've been canceled at this stage. it's into the clear how people will move on. there are big social issues here. boris johnson saying this may not be the end of it and more could be done. take a listen. >> we don't tend to impose those sorts of restrictions on people in this country, but i have to tell you, we will rule nothing out. >> reporter: rule nothing out. what he's talking about is the stringent measures being imposed

in italy, france where law enforcement officials have been out on the streets preventing people from going out of their houses. up until now, there's been a sense it's unbritish. not something that would even be considered. the fact is, laura, that this virus is now spreading so aggressively that things that were frankly unthinkable 24 hours ago are now being actively considered in the british government. >> that's a good way to put it. certainly around the world. matthew chance in london. thanks so much. join anderson cooper and dr. sanjay gupta for another town hall. coronavirus facts and fears in partnership with facebook. 8 p.m. eastern only on cnn. why are so many nba players getting tested for coronavirus while some people are struggling to get tested themselves? andy scholls has the bleacher report next. memory support brand. you can find it in the vitamin aisle in stores everywhere.

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welcome back. nba commissioner adam silver defending the fact that many nba players have been tested for coronavirus. andy scholls has more on this morning's bleacher report. andy. >> the nba has come under fire for being able to get testing for all of the players it needed to while the general public still struggling to receive those tests. new york city mayor bill de blasio saying that. they said in statements yesterday they used private labs to get their testing. nba commissioner adam silver telling espn that they have just been following the recommendations of public health officials. >> the utah jazz did not ask to

be tested. the oklahoma public health official there on the spot not only required that they be tested but they weren't allowed to leave their locker room. we then had an additional positive test the next day. the protocol then followed that we were -- that we then followed with, again, health officials and doctor's recommendations that we then looked at essentially that group of teams that were most proximate to the initial team that had tested positive and then the circle expanded from there. >> commissioner silver also said he hopes to be able to salvage this nba season and everything is still on the table resuming with fans, resuming without fans. when the nba returns, silver said it's up to public health officials. the league may look to hold a one game charity all-star game to give fans something during this period. the usc, meanwhile, was the

last league to hold fight night in brazil. they have postponed the next three events. they'll try to start up as soon as possible. >> in times like these people need to be entertained. people need to feel some sort of normalness going on and, you know, if i could still figure out ways to run the ufc and do it safely and not put any of my people in harm, then we were going to do it. >> this is going to warm your heart. 82-year-old super mets fan cathly sealey was diagnosed with lung cancer two weeks ago. kathleen can't watch her mets right now but she got a special message from superstar peter lonza. >> i hope this coronavirus passes very, very soon and we can get back to playing. it's all good. i appreciate your lifelong

support. >> oh, my god. lonzo, you have no idea what this has done for me. you have no idea. >> kathleen's daughter reached out to the mets to tell them about her. manager on the phone with her right there. he called her to tell her that the team was thinking about her. they also invited her out to see the team if and when they do resume play. so here's hoping that that can happen. >> you know those are the kind of sports stories i love the best. thanks. laura, what's coming up. christine, health care systems could be overwhelmed as the coronavirus case count rose rapidly. hear from doctors trying to keep people alive. jackson hewitt. say goodbye to your old tax service and get $100 when you file with jackson hewitt. plus, you'll get our lifetime accuracy guarantee. so maybe it's more like 101 reasons. get your coupon code at jacksonhewitt.com and get $100 today.

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a new barrier in the fight to slow coronavirus. the health care systems could be overwhelmed as the case count grows rapidly. the president signs a bill providing some emergency relief for families. a trillion dollar stimulus plan is next. will it be enough for small businesses struggling to survive right now? good morning, this is early start. i'm laura jarrett. >> i'm christine romans. 30 minutes past the hour. an invisible enemy posing a clear threat. front line medical workers across the country now report a dire shortage of materials to conduct tests for coronavirus. with the virus spreading more rapidly, experts say the u.s. health care system will be overwhelmed. consider this warning from president obama's ebola czar. >> we have hospitals that are going to start to break this weekend, not weeks from now, not months from now, in the next few days. >> the case count in the u.s.

approaching 8900, and those are just the ones that we know about. 149 people have died. both those numbers essentially doubling in the last two days and are only going up. medical officials tell cnn to keep up they need more swabs and other materials even as commercial labs ramp up testing. >> we have gone through 5 months, now 6 months worth of supplies in less than a week and we are scrambling. we're scrambling. even to the point where these are n-95 masks. we've got three days of supply of n-95 masks on hand. in order to preserve these and get them to last longer, we have a team of people sewing masks together. >> in certain cases it's just the availability of the appropriate swab in order to take the sample. >> we don't have the reagents to do the extraction from the samples to run the test. >> there won't be enough resources especially in rural

areas if the outbreak grows at the current pace. that includes hospital beds, medical staff or equipment like vent lators. two automakers could play a role. gm and ford are examining whether they can manufacture ventilators at their facilities. >> the white house also pleading with young people to please, please practice social distancing. scenes like this on the beaches of florida right there show basic health and safety recommendations being completely ignored. new research shows young people are not as immune as once thought. >> there are concerning reports coming out of france and italy about some young people getting seriously ill and very seriously ill in the icus. >> the administration is in discussions with the tech industry, including facebook and google, about how to use american's cell phone data location tracking. >> coronavirus relief package has been signed into law by president trump. it includes free covid-19 testing, expanded unemployment benefits and two weeks of

emergency leave with some caps on pay. but large companies are exempt and small companies can apply to be so 70 million people may not benefit. now the senate is focused on passing the next relief package, a trillion dollar stimulus for a $20 trillion economy. the plan provides $500 billion for cash payments to americans, 300 billion for small businesses, 50 billion to bailout the airlines and another 150 billion for other affected sectors. small business owners especially in especially dire straits. >> 800 people total that we had prepared the food for, fundraisers to weddings primarily and some corporate things as well, but just everything is just shut down, everything. >> we've shut down our operation. we've closed our office. so everybody's out of work, you know, not getting paid. >> the trump administration is making contingency plans for a pandemic that lasts a year and a

half or longer. 18 months. that doesn't mean the government is expecting it to last that long, but a 100 page planning document from the white house accounts for multiple waves of the virus. president trump is taking new steps to limit the virus's spread but it may take some time to see the effects. here's white house correspondent caitlyn collins. >> yeah, laura and christine. the president came out to the briefing room yesterday and announced several new measures his administration is taking, though there's a little bit of fine print on some of them. one of them being the president said he signed the defense production act. he's directing private companies to accelerate supplies that they believe are needed to help protect the national defense. usually it's used for things like military equipment n. this situation what's on everyone's mind is medical supplies that hospitals say they are in desperately short supply of. however, the president tweeted a short while later saying that he was only signing the dpa, he was

not actually invoking it at this time. instead, saving that for a worst case scenario. that seems to surprise some people including lawmakers who were praising the president for signing it and hopefully in their opinions invoking it. two other things we want to note, the president did say they were going to deploy two u.s. navy ships to both coasts. they are not going to be treating coronavirus patients but will serve as relief to hospitals nearby. they can treat people like trauma patients, things of that nature. they told jake tapper that it's several weeks before they can make it to one coast and a week and a half, two weeks before the other makes it to another coast. the president is viewing all of this through the lens of a war time president, he says. he says they're going to be taking measures you haven't seen since world war ii. now he believes he's on war time footing in this situation. >> kayla, thank you for that. three years of stock market gains gone in weeks. the dow fell to levels not seen since president trump took

office. it inched up before the close, but that didn't do much. look at that. it still closed below 20,000 for the first time since february 2017. huge 6% slide. trading so volatile the s&p 500 plunged 7% midday triggering the fourth circuit breaker in a month. it closed 5% lower. taking a look at futures, they've been all over the place this morning. trying to find some footing, but overall it is fears of a global recession driving things here. deutsch bank thinks the collapse of the global economy could be the biggest since world war ii. the economic policy says it could claim up to 3 million jobs by summer. ford, general mow torsion and fiat chrysler all halting production. factory workers can't work remotely from home. they will receive unemployment insurance and pay which will add up to their pay. others are asking for billions of dollars of help.

the nation's restaurants wanted 325 dld. >> the other is 15.6 million workers -- restaurants for jobs, that's just a slice of what's going to hit the national labor market in the days ahead. two members of congress have tested positive for coronavirus. mario diaz vallart and ben mcadams of utah. the capital physician is in contact with other house members who may have been exposesd as well. >> 40% of hospitalized patients are age 25 to 54. >> a lot of millennials thought they were immune and they're not. for the first time since the outbreak mainland china reports zero new cases. cnn live around the world next. ♪ work now, play later.

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new travel restrictions around the world to contain the coronavirus pandemic. countries on every continent except antarctica have ordered closures or travel bans. australia banned all non-citizens from traveling there. >> italy is already weeks into the crisis and just announced the largest single day rise in cases. 4200. they have 39,000 cases. that could be a warning sign for the u.s. statistics show the united states case growth numbers are on the same track as italy. the case count worldwide now over 208,000. 8600 people have died. developing overnight, a major milestone for china where

the coronavirus outbreak first began. cnn's david culver is live in shanghai. an economist i follow sent a note to his clients this is proof that covid-19 can be beaten. >> reporter: looking at these numbers, it's remarkable, christine. yeah, a lot of folks are paying attention at what's happening here. what's interesting, you go back a few weeks and the rest of the world was concerned about people traveling from china. now it's folks in china worried about folks traveling into the mainland. that's something that's echoed in their actions particularly in beijing capital airport. they're taking any international traveller and they're putting them through intense screening and then they're requiring that they spend 14 days in a government designated quarantine. that is how stringent they are about anyone who would be an imported case. let's differentiate the two cases they're looking at. you have community

transmissions. part of the daily reported that are now down to zero for the first time since the outbreak, not only from the epicenter, across mainland china. no new reported cases in the community transmissions. there have been 42 imported cases which is why we're seeing the actions taken from the government to essentially strengthen their borders when it comes to potential exposures coming back in. they're continuing to move forward with the lockdown efforts that are still in place within wuhan and hubei. you look particularly within wuhan, if it's now at zero, why would you continue with such extreme and some have considered to be brutal lockdowns. the argument is, christine, they want 14 straight days of these zero counts of the new daily reported cases and then they'll evaluate easing. >> david culver in shanghai. thank you. new numbers from germany in the just last few minutes. 11,000 cases, 20 deaths. angela merkel says solidarity has not been this critical since

world war ii. let's go live to berlin and bring in cnn's fred pleitgen. fred, merkel pleading with citizens, take this seriously. >> reporter: yeah, she certainly was really pleading with german citizens in a way that i personally have almost never seen before. really a very emotional address to the german people. i think one of the things the german government has noticed is maybe some folks here in germany aren't taking social distancing measures as seriously as many folks in the government would like to take them. you see here in the streets of berlin, it's pretty empty. there are people out and the german government wants to bring that number down. therefore, angela merkel in her address was saying yesterday, make no mistake. every single citizen counts. everybody has to go along with the measures and then kbegerman can slow down the spread of the disease. the exact opposite of what's going on in china with a lot of new reported cases coming in pretty much every day.

germany, number five in the world as far as reported cases concerned. angela merkel saying this country has not faced a challenge like this since world war ii. let's listen in. >> translator: so let me say this is serious. take it seriously, too. since german unification -- no, since the second world war there has not been a challenge to our country that has relied so much on our joint action in solidarity. >> reporter: the other giant concern here in germany, of course, laura is the economy. this is one of the biggest industrial economies in the world and so dependent on international trade. the german government has announced a flurry of measures. angela merkel making clear the german government will do everything in its power to make sure that the economic impact is as small as possible. guys? >> fred pleitgen, thanks so much. to spain where coronavirus cases are rising sharply and protective gear is in very short

supply. al goodman live in madrid outside a hotel which is going to be used as a hospital for i guess overflow, auxiliary. tell us about it. >> reporter: hi, christine. this hotel has been closed, like so many others, because of the coronavirus pandemic. no clients. but it's reopening this day as a hospital, auxiliary hospital, for the main one that's just up the road. all of this in my neighborhood. this is the area i live in madr madrid. we've been out talking to people about the impact of the whole crisis. here's what they've told us. it's kind of difficult to recognize my neighborhood these days. everything has changed because of coronavirus. this is the bar where i have my morning coffee. but like almost everything else in this country, it's closed. how are you? this is my friend santiago.

i've been buying office supplies from him for a decade. his printing shop is also closed and debts are mounting. i owe $10,000 to suppliers, he says, but i can't pay them right now because the little i have must be for my family. small businesses need an urgent injection of cash. this coronavirus safety warning for the doctors and nurses at the hospital across the street was his last printing job. the people out of their homes going food shopping or to the pharmacy. sales are down 50%, he says, but they have to stay open because they're an essential service. we have to be very careful, he sa says. we don't have enough gloves for every day. we don't know when this is going to end. that's just in my neighborhood. across spain similar stories are told.

so this hotel/hospital will take the early/late stage coronavirus patients who don't need to be in intensive care but they can't go home. across madrid, some 40 hotels have offered to be part of this program. that would be 9,000 beds if the authorities take them up on it. it gives you an idea of the kinds of numbers they're talking about. christine? >> al, good news for us in madrid. thank you for that. let's take a look at markets around the world. asian shares fell -- this is futures right now. you can see they're mixed here. this has really been a tough attempt to bounce back this morning so we'll see what happens here. lack, your leading indicator, three years of stock market gains gone. the dow closed down losing all gains in the dow since president trump took office. we'll be right back. dad, we need to talk about something important.

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welcome back. more than 42 million kids are now home from school nationwide. that's about 80% of students. virtual learning becoming the new normal during the coronavirus pandemic. >> we'll be assigned work and then we either have to take a picture of it and send it to them or we have to do it on google drive and then that's when we send it to them. >> these teachers say they've had to deal with growing pains like communication issues with families and kids and getting comfortable with tech. restaurants may wish they had a landlord like this one in jonesboro, arkansas. joe clay young got a call from one of his restaurant owner

tenants saying he didn't think he could pay the april rent. young said, skip it. >> i said, you have hourly employees, you have single moms. we're going to get through this together. i said, let's just do april on one condition, that you -- that you take care of your employees and take care of your family. >> young is waiving the april rent for all five of his restaurant tenants. a construction company is doe nating a lot of supplies in lieu certain county, pennsylvania. they're giving more than 1,000 masks and 95 respirators. >> the flood of 2011, we used them during the cleanup recovery process. we started ripping through our inventory and found we had a plethora of masks. so we felt it was the right thing to do. >> the county manager says the donation saves taxpayer dollars and keeps hospital staff and elderly caseworkers safe. a chicago area eatery taking

community series to the next level. they're offering free meals to seniors forced to stay home. the owner says the response has been overwhelming. >> 75,000 responses kind of caught us not off guard but didn't think it was going to go like that on the first day. >> yesterday i met a wonderful lady, her name is dorothy. i hope she calls today. >> they plan to give the meals as long as is necessary. >> a man dressed as mr. incredible running through a colorado neighborhood and dropping roses on people's front porches. the video was posted to instagram during such a strange time it was the perfect thing. i cannot stop smiling at how ridiculous and sweet it was. >> at a safe distance. a therapy dog in texas is still making the rounds at a senior center even though the facility isn't accepting visitors during the pandemic. tonka and his great dane are

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>> trump, meanwhile, has a catchy little nickname for the coronavirus. he now calls it the chinese virus every chance he gets. you know the saying, a great way to prevent a virus spreading is to name it something racist. that way people keep it on the down low. >> i'm here to assure you there are many things around the house you can use instead of toilet paper that work just as well. for example, cvs receipts. cvs receipts are long. this was for just six tick tacks i bought. i never throw them away. i knew this day would come. >> you can now stream the movie cats online. you guys remember cats. this is when movie theaters were empty before the virus. >> his kids are so cute. >> so much good stuff on twitter, facebook. everyone has decided to do their part. >> thanks for joining us. i'm christine romans. >> i'm laura jarrett. "new day" starts right now.

this is a work in motion. it's evolving. every day we learn more and more. >> a signed into law by president trump. we have tremendous numbers of ventilators. there's never been an instance like this. no matter what, it's not enough. >> he's consistently late. >> very marginal in what he does. >> there are so many different problems to deal w we can't be partisan, we can't be timid. >> announcer: this is new day. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and all around the world. this is new day. it is thursday, march 19th. 6:00 here in new york. hospitals and health care providers are bracing for the worst this morning as the number of coronavirus cases spikes. here are the numbers for you. there are nearly 9,000 confirmed cases in the u.s. that's