L.

A's mayor predicting this could be the week of a massive surge.

Governor Gavin Newsom, Like so many others in desperate need of ventilators, he says 170 arrived broken in a recent shipment.

Governor News I'm telling us the state is now reaching out to famous billionaires for help.

NBC's chief national correspondent, Matt Gutman, is in California tonight, major cities in America bracing for that onslaught of patients in California.

The number of I.

C.

U patients more than doubling over the past 48 hours.

The number of cases surging in the nation's most popular state past 5000 along with the lag time in test results average right now of our commercial lab seven days yesterday average our scene some as many as 12 days.

That's unacceptable.

Los Angeles The epicenter With more than 1800 cases and more than 30 deaths, the mayor warning L.

A could look like New York within days.

Here in Silicon Valley, a herculean effort to get mothballed ventilators from the federal government stockpile up in running this hive of activity.

See, behind me, every one of these technicians is actually fixing one of these faulty ventilators.

The governor calling in every favor to secure protective here, where your sourcing 100 and one around the world.

And how are you getting them here?

Because everybody's having selecting around Richard Branson, taking a 7 47 from Hong Kong coming into the Bay Area, we've got even must that was able to get 1200 ventilators for us in 72 hours from overseas.

I've already distributed 31.7 million and 95 mass just in the state.

I ordered not making this up way have on order.

We wrote a check for 101 million at the start of the crisis.

The federal stockpile on Lee had 13 million such masks.

Texas Tonight reporting a dramatic spike in cases 500 in the last 24 hours, the governor announcing major travel restrictions for anyone arriving from several cities, including New York, New Orleans at Miami and Washington, the first state to grapple with the growing number of dead.

Still, without sufficient supplies, we have a desperate need for the testing kids.

We have got to mobilize the entire manufacturing the base of the United States like we did in World War Two for things as simple as these testing kits.

And tonight the Army brought in to convert the cavernous convention center outside Seahawks Stadium, normally home to car shows, into an overflow hospital for non covert 19 patients.

All right, Matt Gutman joins us now from Los Angeles, and Matt, I know you have an update on Louisiana.

But also California's governor says the state is on a war footing and is reaching out to get more medical professionals to the front lines.

That's right.

Time is calling this a wartime mentality, he says.

There are thousands of icy you beds in the state, but not enough doctors and nurses to tend to them.

So they're graduating doctors and nurses early.

They're changing the job descriptions of some there retraining others into that sliver of good news out of Louisiana.

The governor there saying they're seeing a decrease in the rate of infections.

Still, he says, the state is playing catch up with the virus.

Tom, we will take any good news when we can get it.

All right, Matt.

Thank you.

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