A Navy hospital ship is headed to NY Harbor. NEW YORK - President Trump is going to deploy a Navy hospital ship to New York.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday morning said the USNS Comfort will probably anchor in the New York Harbor in mid-April. He said the ship had approximately 1,000 beds and also has operating rooms.
The ship's exact arrival is unknown because it is docked in Norfolk, Virginia, for maintenance and won't be ready to leave for "a little while," Jonathan Rath Hoffman, a Defense Department spokesman, said at a news conference at the Pentagon.
He added that the Navy is being asked to "expedite" the maintenance. Hoffman said the military will be sending the USNS Comfort and the USNS Mercy, its sister ship,to locations where