Government stimulus payments. Also new this morning, we hear from the doctor just out of medical school now joining the front lines at a New York Hospital. Her message this morning. Plus the states now seeing a spike in coronavirus cases. And one special gift from mo. Good monday morning, everyone. As we start a new week together, we do start with that breaking news. At least seven people are confirmed dead after Severe Weather across the south. The damage is being described as catastrophic in some areas. A series of easter tornados tore a path of destruction from louisiana to alabama forcing at least three states to declare emergencies overnight. And we have this new video just coming in from a new tornado emergency in tennessee where heavy damage and several injuries are reported east of chattanooga. Overnight, severe storms wreaking havoc across the south. Multiple tornados touched down. Got a funnel cloud right in front of me. Reporter leaving nearly half a Million People without power and forcing several states to declare emergencies. Everything just ripped off and everything was gone. It was gone. Reporter in mississippi, several people were killed including a sheriffs deputy and his wife. It was a major tragedy. Reporter the ferocity of the storm is evident in the aftermath. Trees, trucks, even tractortrailers were toppled by the wind. Residents were forced to ignore coronavirus protocols and huddle together at a shelter to stay safe. In neighboring Alabama Police shutting down an entire town late sunday. Going door to door after storms tore a trail of heavy damage across neighborhoods. Wow. Reporter earlier in the day victims were wheeled out on stretchers when a tornado caused this building to buckle. Lord, jesus, come on, move reporter and in louisiana oh, my god, look at my look at the house, yall, oh, my god, look reporter the path of destruction clear after a twister tore through the city of monroe. This is a terrible, terrible situation. Reporter some houses seemingly untouched, but just feet away houses completely gutted, roofs torn off leaving nothing but scaffolding and rubble. While planes in hangars of a nearby airport were sent flying, leaving behind a mangled mess. Hundreds of thousands of customers have lost power. We will take a closer look at your monday Weather Forecast in five minutes. We turn to the coronavirus emergency. Looking at the map, new york is reporting more than 9,000 deaths. New jersey has more than 2,000, followed by michigan, and then its louisiana, massachusetts and california. They each have between 600 and 900 deaths. Dr. Anthony fauci is in the spotlight this morning after suggesting that the governments initial response to the pandemic has cost american lives. President trump overnight retweeted a message that called for fauci to be fired. Meanwhile people wonder when theyll be able to return to work. One official with the Federal Reserve is urging americans to brace for 18 months of rolling shutdowns across the economy. New data shows the growing impact on nursing homes. More than 3,300 deaths from coronavirus have been confirmed at Senior LivingCenters Across the country. Abcs alex presha begins our coronavirus coverage this morning. Reporter this morning on the front lines the newest crop of medical workers are ready for battle. It wasnt an easy decision for everybody but for me its the right thing to do. Reporter rebecca noonan, now a doctor, chose to graduate from medical school one month early. I definitely am uncertain, a little anxious about starting work in such a, you know, crazy atmosphere, but i think ive been reminding myself that this is why i went into medicine. I want to help people. Reporter noonan will join the fight in new york city where the hospitalization rate is dropping, but the crisis is far from over. The coronavirus is killing nearly 800 People Per Day in new york state as patients who were put on ventilators earlier in the outbreak lose their fight. Its a plateau. It has been flattening but at a terribly high level. Reporter as new york tries to get a handle on the virus, other hot zones are emerging. In massachusetts the number of confirmed cases soaring by 21 in two days. In pennsylvania the governor predicting a surge of cases this week. Several governors have been critical of the federal governments response. In a tweet sunday President Trump suggesting the responsibility of reopening the country falls on the states, writing, governors, get your states Testing Programs and apparatus perfected. Be ready. Big things are happening. No excuses. The federal government is here to help. Also, gear up with face masks. The tweet comes one day after a New York Times report said the white house missed crucial signals about the spread of the virus. According to the times, in a february 21 meeting the White House Coronavirus task force decided they would soon need to move towards aggressive social distancing but the president did not issue stayathome guidance until more than three weeks later. During that time the number of known coronavirus cases in the u. S. Skyrocketed from 15 to more than 4,000. Dr. Anthony fauci acknowledges government inaction cost american lives. Obviously you could logically say that if you had a process that was ongoing and you started mitigation earlier you could have saved lives. Obviously no one is going to deny that, but what goes into those kinds of decisions is complicated. Reporter overnight the president continued to defend his response, calling the recent reports fake news. The president also retweeted a message critical of fauci. That message ended with the words, time to firefauci. In the meantime, the doctors and nurses back on the front lines at this New York Hospital are celebrating every patients recovery, sending each one off to journeys hit song dont stop believing. The white house responded to that New York Times report saying President Trump took bold action to protect americans and unleashed the full power of the federal government to curb the spread of this virus. Mona . Alex, thank you. And President Trump has lost a longtime friend to the coronavirus. New York Real Estate mogul Stanley Chera passed away this weekend at a New York Hospital. He was in his late 70s. A nurse who blew the whistle on conditions at a massachusetts nursing home where she worked has now died from the coronavirus. Maria krier quit her job as the virus spread through the facility. She said management had no experience with infectious disease. Theres no initiative to protect the workers and the patients. Ten residents at that nursing home have died and 75 workers were out sick. Krier said the staff was not tested as they had been promised. A Virus Outbreak has forced a major Meat Processing plant to shut down. The Smithfield Foods facility in south dakota produces about 5 of the u. S. Pork supply. Nearly 300 workers have tested positive for the coronavirus. Millions of americans are now turning to food banks for groceries. The irs confirms the first government stimulus payments were sent out this weekend. Most americans will get 1,200. All taxpayers who got refunds in direct deposits in recent years should get their money by wednesday. Others will have to use a government app. Back to the weather and the deadly storms on the move. Lets take a look at your monday forecast. Most of the east coast will see Severe Weather today. More tornados are possible in the south, especially in the carolinas and central virginia. Downpours are possible later in the northeast with wind gusts up to 65 Miles Per Hour expected. Checking todays high temperatures, 66 degrees in new york, 78 in washington d. C. , below freezing in denver, 67 in southern california, and a balmy 90 degrees in miami, 66 in new york, 59 in boston. Coming up, the new concern about drug shortages across the country including those affecting asthma patients. Also ahead, the creative new way people are buying groceries and saving time in the process. And later, love in the age of coronavirus. How two very busy hospital doctors still managed to get married. 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Gov. I want to thank the many nurses, men and women whose care has been so astonishing. And the reason, in the end, my body did start to get enough oxygen was because for every second of the night they were watching and they were thinking and they were caring and making the interventions i needed. Recovering from the coronavirus. Thats british Prime MinisterBoris Johnson thanking Health Care Workers after being released from the hospital. He said, quote, things could have gone either way for me. The need to contain the coronavirus appears to be causing drug shortages. Many hospitals say theyre now struggling to maintain their supply of asthma drugs. Some pain medications are also in high demand and some sedatives are now on a drug shortage list. Across the country and around the world people celebrated Easter Sunday like never before. Abcs andrea fujii takes a look. Reporter social distancing forcing millions of people to change the way they worship this easter. Welcome to church this sunday on Easter Sunday. Reporter some churches still opened their doors regardless of restrictions. The intent from the beginning was for those who didnt feel comfortable to stay home and for those who did feel comfortable, the doors would be open. Reporter this kansas pastor preaching in person despite the state Supreme Court upholding the governors order limiting religious gatherings to ten people. In Kentucky Police taking down license plates, warning them to quarantine for two weeks. In mississippi a jackson city councilman handing out masks to people headed in to worship. Amen. Amen. Reporter but a uniqu approach for many other churches, drivein services. Drivers honking in praise in bedford hills, new york. I like that. Reporter sitting safely d onother parking lottening to easter celebration. Its just a blessing that we can all get together and continue to worship even though we are in our cars. Reporter and surreal scenes across the globe. Pope francis addressing a nearly empty st. Peters basilica. In spain, bolivia, australia, striking images of empty pews. Parishioners watching live streams from the safety of their homes. Amazing grace and opera singer Andrea Bocelli holding a concert from an empty duomo in milan. The goal, he said, to hug this wounded earths pulsing heart. But now i see several lawsuits have been filed by state and local churches claiming these gathering bans are not being enforced equally and Church Services are being singled out. A department of justice official says theyre looking at several of these cases and a spokesperson for the attorney general says expect action this week. Kenneth and mona, back to you. Andrea, thank you. And coming up, a creative new way to buy groceries without the lines or delivery delays. Also ahead, your questions answered. Is it safe to go jogging outside and can the economy reopen next month . Our expert weighs in next. 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Selling these provision items is a great way to give back to the neighborhood that maybe cant leave their house or doesnt want to leave their house. While theyre ordering food from us theyre able to tack on a lot of grocery items. Its giving us a little bit more of a base that we can send product to without customers requiring to come to farmers markets. So that works out good for us and them. Now their options include direct shipments of produce and Meal Kit Services like blue apron. Now to your questions about the coronavirus. Everyone wants to know when the economy can reopen. Dr. Anthony fauci is urging a slow return to normal. Earlier i spoke with dr. Alok patel about the changes we need to make first. I think the way we have to really think about this is in phases and phase one being slowing the spread of where were at right now. Phase two being reopening. Were going to have to have the testing and the surveillance. Heres the thing, even when we have that strategic reopening, that isnt opening everything at once. Thats looking at schools, universities, essential businesses and looking to see how we can reopen them, how we can still maintain physical distancing in those vicinities. Can we make sure the public is using masks. Do we have Hand Sanitizer for everyone. Probably up at the top of list of importance is will our hospitals be able to handle the reopening. We cant have shortages in equipment, staffing or beds. Dr. Patel, the New York Times reports that the number of health and government officials wanted to impose social distancing back in february but was pushed back from the white house. President trump has called the report false. Taking the politics out of it, just looking at the response, how much would social distancing that early on have made . I think its common sense to think that if we would have all just completely social distanced and stayed at home in february, lives could have been saved. And thats something that we all humbly say. We underestimated the real impact of this virus. And dr. Fauci admitted it himself, saying that is a purely health and scientific recommendation. But you have a lot of other factors to take into account and none of us really know what happened in those meetings. And none of us know, you know, how the economy would have ave followed . His and wou h bui thinkhadiffert tce. People have been home for et outatea oe a day for so many others want to. They are going stir crazy inside but also have major questions like, is it safe to go outside and exercise . We have to make sure that what were doing is responsible. 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Lets talk about some warm weather that will make everybody happy, even warmer than what we had over the weekend. Live doppler 7 showing you it is dry. The only thing you need the umbrella for is to shade you from the sunshine. Fog to contend with for our earlier essential commuters. In novato and heading up towards santa rosa. Temperatures running in the 40s up there and the rest of us in the low to mid 50s and this is where we end up this afternoon. Sunshine and warmer temperatures. 70 away from the bay which is the mis at the coast. Kumas kumasi. Thank you, mike. A new report is suggesting that the coronavirus could have been here long before officials started looking for it. Julian glover is live with more on this. Goodern morning, julian. The article from l. A. Times is startling when you see how long the cases of coronavirus are being traced back in the bay area. Covid19 could have been here in the bay area and circulating since late 2019 in december. Early detection of the virus lagged because of the severe flu season we were already having here in the bay area with the symptoms of coronavirus being so similar to the flu. Then there were the guidelines that only members of the community who had recently traveled to wuhan, china, should be screened and by that point it was spreading within the community. By late february when doctors finally decided to test a hospitalized woman who was sick for weeks she became the first case of the virus and from there every positive test pointed to local spread. When the Public Health officials tried to track down the start of the disease, we were not able to find specifically a contact, that means the virus in the Community Already not as we suspected by the cdc as only in china and being spread in china. That was dr. Smith cited in l. A. Times. A late start to Community Surveillance of coronavirus in general which led to us not catching the Community Spread of the illness earlier. Now, researchers looking at blood banks in l. A. And in San Francisco among other large cities to try to see what they might have missed and what could have been detected earlier. For now reporting from home, julian glover, abc7 news. The bay area topped at least 5,000 confirmed coronavirus cases as officials began to suggest that there are some