Hey, business, worthlessness, you're about to hear a preview of into America, a new podcast from NBC News and MSNBC. It's a show about politics, about policy and about the power that both having shaping the lies with the american people each week host remain Lee helps everyday american share their stories. As together we face a health crisis, unprecedented in the modern era. He joined by a team of NBC News journalists to make sense of this extraordinary moment in american life. As your listening to the preview search for. Into America on Apple podcast or wherever your listing right now to subscribe, and here the rest of this week's episode, new episodes. Premier every Thursday, yours tonight. Americans on flights were locked down the slowness of the car a single moment, your whole concept of life

and society can be shaken. We really want people to be separated at this time this week, American woke up to a new reality. Little as off table in terms of controlling the cove at nineteen pandemic, to unleash the full power of the federal government that this effort today, I am officially declaring a national emergency to very big words aspect. Across the country rush defined testing sites, hospitals are being forced to their limit. Already by what we ve seen today, New York scavenger sounded the alarm over a shortage of lifesaving ventilators layers. Please cooperate It will go down in the history books as one those moments of true crisis and fusion and chaos. Schools, closed performances, went

We don't know how long this crisis will last. These guidelines are very specific. They will only work if every American takes this together to heart the numbers are still going on. No matter what you do, it's, how much up they go. That is the issue. Americans are now revising their normal lives and daily routines and may be worst of all set facing a sense of community. It is how respond to that challenge. That's going to determine what the ultimate end point is gonna, be employees were told to work from home. Some were told there would be no work at all. There are currently more than nine thousand cases of corona virus across the. U S device now reached or fifty states result.

In more than one hundred and fifty deaths and the death toll is shorter, climb Public health experts are sounding the alarm that this pandemic is escalating so quickly it could overwhelm the nations, hospitals and caregivers. This is all unfolding, and the country is also preparing for a major present election. So, let's begin with the most important issue right now: the corona virus, and what you would do as president. In the face of it, Sundays Democratic debate hosted by sea and in was hill without an audience. Joe Biden in Bernie Sanders Red Podium six feet apart. They didn't shake hands, and the virus stole to show this is bigger than any one of us. This is calls for a national rallying to everybody move together. We need to move aggressively to make sure that the tests are out there, that the event relate as around Now the icy you units are out there that the medical personnel are out there this week.

Arizona Florida in Illinois he'll primaries, but with an increase in drop off in absentee balance and a decrease in in person turnout and last Friday, Louisiana became the first date to announce that it would be postponing its primary to guard against spread the corona virus. Today I have certified that a state of emergency exists and requested that the governor issue and executive order postponing the elections this spring in Ohio respite the first part this week, a fighter rubbed it at the highest levels of government over whether to push back the election. In the end, the governor defied a court ruling and ordered porn sites shut down. What do they morning? I stood outside of the Fairfax

creation center in Cleveland, and it was completely quite- There- was no one there for more work out, no kids playing ball and certainly no voting as a journalist. The only other time I've experienced anything like it was in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in Orleans, when the silence that fell across the city was deafening but the city was left a ghost town and so much uncertainty hung the air for every one. It has been a confusing and chaotic weak and because of this virus, democracy will be delayed. Actually, this is into America podcast about politics, about policy in the past.

They both have in shaping the lives of the american people, Today we are against the intersection of politics and a pandemic to understand how the spread of corona virus is changing. Twenty twenty primary season. Why some states are too, extraordinary steps and what it means for voters were playing to go to the polls. This is going to attack I think a lot of people's determination on who is gonna sit in an oval office, not just in this next election, but from now on Thanks for joining us, if you enjoy this preview search for into America, where were you listen right now to hear the rest of the episode and subscribe? Episodes drop on Thursdays.