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| It's Monday, Daily Briefing readers. Let's kick it off with a quick recap of the biggest news you missed while you were social distancing this weekend: |
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| It's N'dea and here's what you need to know today. |
US to deploy 1,000 military personnel to NYC to battle coronavirus |
| President Donald Trump said the U.S. is deploying 1,000 military medical personnel to New York City to help battle the coronavirus . At a White House briefing on Saturday, Trump said they will be sent Sunday and Monday to New York, "where they're needed most." Personnel to be deployed will include doctors, nurses, respiratory specialists and others, Trump announced. The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S. has now topped 337,000, and over 9,600 deaths have been reported. Worldwide, more than 1.2 million cases have been confirmed and over 69,000 deaths reported. |
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Ellen and Wendy return with fresh shows |
| Ellen DeGeneres and Wendy Williams are returning to their regularly scheduled TV shows ... remotely. "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" will be filmed from the comedian's home with guest appearances, like other talk shows, via video chat. Jennifer Lopez, Chrissy Teigen and John Legend are all scheduled to appear on episodes that will begin airing April 6. "The Wendy Williams Show" is also expected to return to TV April 6 with new episodes from the talk show host's home in New York City that will include her well known segments "Hot Topics," "Ask Wendy" and celebrity interviews. The hosts are far from alone. Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Al Roker and Savannah Guthrie are all working from home, too. |
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Want more coronavirus news? Here's the latest: |
| With the number of coronavirus deaths increasing by the hundreds and soon to reach 10,000 in the U.S., and with financial uncertainty set to resume as Wall Street opens for another week, Surgeon General Jerome Adams said the country would soon reach "our Pearl Harbor moment," a reference to the 1941 Japanese airstrike that resulted in the U.S.' entry into World War II. |
| There are more than 337,600 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the U.S., with 9,643 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University data dashboard. |
| I'll be rounding up the biggest updates related to coronavirus every day in the newsletter so you can stay informed. Want daily coronavirus updates in your inbox? Sign up here. |
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GM turns gutted, shuttered plant into face mask supplier |
| General Motors will start making face masks on Monday at its once-shuttered Warren Transmission plant to offset a severe shortage of masks caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Once production is at full scale, GM will make 50,000 masks a day, or up to 1.5 million a month. The masks are level one, meaning they cannot be worn in surgery, but rather are worn by delivery people and others who keep the hospital and communities running. |
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You can help a small business survive |
| Restaurants, bars and small businesses across the country after closing due to coronavirus pandemic. We are asking our readers to join us in supporting the local businesses that our communities rely on. You can help save a local business by buying a gift card through Gannett's new Support Local platform . Simply search for a local business in your community, add a business if you can't find it, and purchase a gift card to use now, or later. We can get through this together. |
LeBron James' 'I Promise' documentary series debuts on new streaming service Quibi |
| Quibi, an app-based streaming service hoping to establish itself in the world of Netflix, Hulu and Disney+ with a torrent of star-studded, bite-sized programming, launches Monday. Designed exclusively for mobile phones, Quibi plans to release 175 original shows and 8,500 "quick bites" of content in its first year. The streaming service will feature a wide range of stars, including LeBron James, whose "I Promise" documentary series makes its debut Monday. Quibi will showcase 15 episodes capturing the varying successes and challenges James, teachers and students have faced since the opening of the "I Promise School" in 2018 in James' hometown of Akron, Ohio. Monthly subscriptions will cost $4.99 with advertising and $7.99 for an ad-free version. |
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Need a break from coronavirus news? We've got you covered |
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Elton John's 'Living Room Concert for America' performance to re-air |
| The Elton John-led, star-studded benefit concert that raised more than $10 million to battle the coronavirus will be re-aired Monday on Fox. Billie Eilish, Mariah Carey and Alicia Keys performed from their homes on "Fox Presents the iHeart Living Room Concert for America," a virtual concert to help fight the spread of coronavirus that originally premiered last Sunday on Fox and iHeartMedia radio station. The money raised during the airings will go to Feeding America and First Responders Children's Foundation. |
In better news: When people are away, animals will play 🐶🐧🐋🐟🦎 |
| With stay-at-home orders throughout the nation and nonessential businesses being shut down during the coronavirus pandemic, most aquariums throughout the United States have also been closed. |
| But there is one silver lining to this: Zoos and aquariums being closed to human guests means that animals can be visited by other animals. Nationwide, animals are meeting different types of animals — and sometimes it's for the first time, given their priceless reactions. |
| Here are seven images of the cutest cross-animal interactions at zoos and aquariums. |
 | | The Georgia Aquarium, closed amid the coronavirus pandemic, opened its doors for two adorable puppies from the Atlanta Humane Society to explore. | | Atlanta Humane Society | |
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