hello everybody and thank you for
joining us on the day president Trump
has declared a national emergency in
connection with the corona virus
pandemic we're broadcasting today from
my kitchen where we have been ever since
inside edition's studios and offices
were closed for deep cleaning this after
a CBS employee who works on a different
floor tested positive for corona virus
for millions of Americans around the
country life today is anything but
normal the pandemic has thrown virtually
every aspect of everyday life into
turmoil its pandemic panic millions of
lives are being turned upside down today
as America hunkers down in the face of
the corona virus seems like this in a
New York City store are being played out
in cities across America supermarket
shelves are being cleared of basic items
like bread canned food and toilet paper
as fast as they can be filled in a wave
of panic buying check out this new york
city block it is jammed with boxes of
items ready to be restocked like fresh
fruit fresh vegetables paper towels baby
formula there's baby food diapers
because it almost seems like
supermarkets just can't keep up when
you've got lines like this extending way
out the door buying mushrooms parents
they don't spoil that quickly and look
every shopping cart at this Costco is
being wiped down with disinfectant to
guard against the virus as shoppers walk
into the store normal life has come to a
screeching halt the front page headline
of the New York Post says of America's
largest city sorry we're closed and the
back page the day the sports world
stopped sports in America has been shut
down at this point and where do we
usually go guys in difficult times scary
times in this country sports is an
escape every one of Broadway's 31
theaters has closed in response to the
coronavirus crisis at an estimated cost
of 100 million dollars in lost revenue
right here at the booth theater where
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is
playing an usher has tested positive for
the virus that usher also worked at
another
Theatre where a new musical was set to
open and may have come into contact with
hundreds of theater goers this woman and
her daughter came to New York from
Roanoke Virginia to see four shows only
to find Broadway shut down we were
actually on the train here when they
announced they were canceling everything
so it was too late for us to cancel the
trip we are coming to see shows that we
got for Christmas present I was very
disappointed I was very sad I almost
cried actually because I was really
looking forward to this and I learned
all the soundtracks and everything a
national emergency two very big words
President Trump declared the coronavirus
crisis a national emergency and instead
of a handshake a health company
executive shared Trump's first elbow
bomb