Audio: NCC Newsbrief Tuesday, March 31, 2020NCC Newsbrief March 31, 2020
The latest news...in a flash
By
Kyle Loughran
Reporter: Here’s the latest national and international news from NCC News. I’m Kyle Loughran. New York City has reported its first death for someone under the age of 18 to coronavirus. The exact information of the person has not been disclosed. The city’s death toll has risen above 900 and NYC paramedic Jack Chapman says he thinks the pandemic caught 9-1-1 services off-guard.
Jack Chapman: I don’t think we were really prepared for how widely this has spread.
Reporter: Meanwhile, NYC officials have announced a plan to bring 500 more medical personnel to help treat COVID-19 a day after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers just completed turning the Javits Center in Manhattan into a 3,000 bed medical facility. Lieutenant General Todd Semonite says the core will continue helping nationwide.
Lieutenant General Todd Semonite: We are looking right now at around 341 different facilities across all of the United States, very similar to the Javits Center.
Reporter: And on Wall Street, stocks have opened calmly today with little movement. With the first quarter closing today, it is still likely to be the market’s worst quarter since 2008. That’s the news at this hour. Kyle Loughran, NCC News.
NCC News anchor Kyle Loughran tells us what’s happening around the nation in today’s NCC Newsbrief.
New York paramedics were caught off-guard by the spread of COVID-19, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has begun opening makeshift medical facilities to treat the virus, and the stock market is poised to close out its worst quarter since 2008.
