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  • now to the questions surrounding our ability to test and trace the Corona virus.

  • Days after trading shots at each other, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called his meeting with President Trump yesterday productive and says testing will soon double in his state.

  • It comes as a police department in neighboring Connecticut starts using drones to monitor people's health.

  • NBC's Alex Boucher joins us with more Alex Good morning, Kenneth.

  • Good morning.

  • The FDA has just approved the first at home test for the Corona virus.

  • On the same day, President Trump made a controversial claim, saying that widespread testing is not necessary to reopen the country.

  • This morning, President Trump facing more questions about a promise his administration made six weeks ago about the pace of Corona virus testing.

  • As you know now, six weeks later, we still aren't at four million.

  • I don't want what with the test back on March 10th Vice president Pence said more than four million tests would be distributed by the end of that week.

  • But as of today, the country has conducted just over four million test total four million tests and we're way ready again.

  • We've tested more than every country in the world even put together.

  • So that's all I can say.

  • As far as Mike, he'll answer your question.

  • Experts say testing needs to double or triple before the country can safely reopen.

  • And some governors report major problems with a testing supply chain, including New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who met with the president Tuesday, days after describing him as King Trump.

  • Do you know not everybody wants to do such significant testing.

  • Testing is good in some cases, and in some cases it's not.

  • But way had a very good meeting today.

  • The governor and I had a very good governor.

  • Cuomo calls the meeting productive, saying the president pledged to help New York ramp up testing.

  • We now do on average of about 20,000 tests for day, our goal, which is very aggressive and ambitious but said it high on then try.

  • Our goal is to double the 20,000 to get the 40,000 tests per day.

  • Massachusetts governor says testing also needs to dramatically increase in his state, where the death toll is approaching 2000 with more than 41,000 confirmed cases, the third highest in the country.

  • The crisis taking a toll on first responders in Boston.

  • It's been a long day.

  • Exhausted.

  • There's no sugar coating this stuff drained.

  • Can't compare this anything.

  • Everyone's at a higher stress level right now.

  • Illinois's governor now says it could be mid May before cases peak in his state.

  • Chicago's mayor says the stay at home order could extend into June as some states try to safely open society.

  • One police department in Connecticut is using cutting edge technology, launching drones that can monitor people's temperatures from 190 feet away.

  • The drones can also detect sneezing, coughing and even people's heart rates.

  • There shouldn't be a police chief for anybody who's sitting in my seat right now with everything that's going on, not looking for a way to do things differently.

  • As for privacy concerns, the company behind that so called pandemic drone says the technology doesn't identify people, just gathers health data.

  • Kenneth.

  • All right.

  • Thank you so much.

  • Hi, everyone.

  • George Stephanopoulos here.

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