President Trump Delivers Remarks At Naval Station Norfolk Send Off For USNS Comfort Before It Sets Sail To New York

Daily Mail: Trump salutes the US Navy Comfort as the hospital ship begins its journey to New York where Gov. Cuomo says he will welcome it with 'open arms' despite a rift with the president over a state-wide quarantine

* The US Navy Ship Comfort departed for New York on Saturday
* Trump called the hospital ship a 'message of hope' for New Yorkers
* The ship will provide 1,000 extra beds and 1,200 medical staff to the city
* It is expected to dock in Manhattan on Monday
* The situation in New York is dramatically escalating the cases jumped by iver 7,000 to 52,318 on Saturday
* The death toll in the state is now at 728
* Earlier on Saturday, Trump claimed he would quarantine New York
* Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushed back saying 'I don’t like the sound of it'

President Donald Trump sent a 'message of hope' to the people of New York on Saturday as he sent off Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort to begin its journey to the city stricken with drastically increasing coronavirus cases.

The ship, traveling from the naval station in Norfolk, Virginia, will supply the city at the epicenter of the country's coronavirus crisis with 1,000 extra beds as well as 1,200 medical staff.

Deaths in the state rose by 209 on Saturday to a death toll of 728 people as cases in the city alone hit over 29,000.

Trump told the struggling New York 'we're here for you', despite earlier causing tension with the state's governor Andrew Cuomo for revealing his plans to quarantine New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

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WNU Editor: Impressive ship that I am sure is going to help a lot of people.

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