an eerie scene at the view a sea of
empty seats in the audience for the
first time ever as you can see if you
looked around we made the decision not
to have a studio audience and this is
unprecedented this has never happened
the mood was also somber at live with
Kelly and Ryan given the developing
situation in New York with the
coronavirus the decision was made to
suspend audiences from our show their
audience replaced with a smattering of
show staffers Wendy Williams also
recruited her staff as a makeshift
audience these are the people who
support me and this entire production
every day Rachael Ray did the same dr.
Phil is also producing his show without
an audience it's very important for us
to be responsible enough to send a
message to all of our viewers that we
take very seriously the need to respond
to this in a way that says take this
seriously don't panic bucking the trend
The Bachelor live finale went ahead last
night with a big audience but before
being allowed in each person was asked
if they traveled overseas in the last
three weeks
supermodel Naomi Campbell a well-known
germaphobe actually wore hazmat suit for
her flight out of Los Angeles today
another famous germaphobe Howie Mandel
arrived on the set of America's Got
Talent in a protective suit and gas mask
while he may have been goofing around
the corona crisis is no joke this is the
one-mile containment zone in New
Rochelle New York the nation's largest
coronavirus cluster we launched a drone
from the epicenter the young Israel of
New Rochelle synagogue it's a leafy an
affluent suburb 26 miles from New York
City with an exclusive Country Club
inside the zone are nine schools
attended by 8,000 students this is the
edge of the containment zone there are
no borders or checkpoints residents are
free
to come and go but all public gatherings
at churches synagogues community centers
are forbidden
starting tomorrow there will be a deep
cleaning of those public spaces by 500
National Guard soldiers it's an all-out
effort to contain this deadly outbreak
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