And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Anchor reporting from new yor, the economic despair deepens. Almost 6 million americans file for unemploymentnearly 17 millit their jobs. Britains Prime Minister is out of the intensive care unit b h still pital. Boris johnson is an extremelygo spirits. Attaking selfisn to new heights. The crew ofon the interal space station may be in the face safest place to avoid coronavirus. For all of you watching around the globe, welcome. The coronavirus is marching through the American Economy and causindevastation. Another 6. 6 Million People u fid formployment last week as the economy shuts down. All o this is nearly 16,000 americans have now died. Here in new york, the state saw its highest death toll yet. The number of people going into hospital is slowing down. Reporter the sound of the sirens has become the sound of new yo. A ceaseless noise, for many a terrifying noise. The city under a form of siege. People here have become scared of ambulances and scared of the hospitals. To a city normally associated with hope and ambition, the coronavirus has brought an overriding sense of fear. The past 24 hours alone have suffered nearly 8000 deaths. Bereavement on a scale that has brought back all full memories. 1 9s supposed to be the darkest day in new york for a generation. We have done everything we can that it11 to make sure did not happen again. If we louvre lose these many lives, that is so shocking and painful and breathtaking. I dont even hav words. Reporter this famous cityscape has some new additions. The Military Hospital ship docked at the pier that used to welcome great lives. This isal cen park in spring. A Field Hospital in an open spacef they call the lungsw york. Those sirens again. You would normally hear the sound of childrens laughter. America is not justts facing Public Health crisis like the rest of the world, economically it is being hammered. The fear is not just of t recession bu a depression. In the past threereeeks alone, han 60 Million People across america have lost their jobs. That is the highest number recorded in two years of the great depression. The Federal Reserve is ready to pu in the illions of dollars in american relief. It is new yorks poorest districts, heavily populed with africanamericans and hispanics that are being hardest hit. These were food parcels bei t delivered in bronx. Whe you are in one of the poorest communities in the country, though small businesses, they cannot wait for the fed to help them. They needed today. What people are watching right now is what happens when you do not invest in addresng poverty. Reporter as it confrontshis invisible enemy, there is a Marshall Field to martial feel to life in the city. Eaamericas test ever peacetime challenge. Or an an alarming increase in jobless numbers. Many are struggling to get money in the bank. Systems across the country are overwhelmed by a tsunami of people laid off. R siness correspondence report. Reporter americas second epidemic, unemployment, is out 600 in extra benefits sent payments just two weeks after passed. El rescue package was many new yorkers are having difficulty signing up. I was oentour when it. The tour got the plug pulled. I went home and filed for unemployment. Reporter he is amongs million of americans having problems making a claim. I filed online, which is pretty easy, and then in order to complete my claim, they advised me to call this number. Reporter he was laid off from march. Sic industry job in early he went to the website to apply for benefits. He was instructed to call the state department of labor. Tha is when he hiadblock. One day i made 300 calls. Reporter and you did not get through . I still have not spoken to a reporter he is not the only one having isss. He is a chef and he filed unemployment three weeks ago and is still waiting. He has not beeroable to get h it all. Im the only one working rayna. I dont know if my job will be guaranteed. We need some kind of money coming i since we both have to pay rent and the bills. And scarystratin reporter the new York Department of laborking people to be patient. They usually get 50,000 calls a week. Recently, they almost got a million. Those in need say patients will not pay the bills. More americans have lost their job than in the entire 2 0082009 financial crisis. A Record Number of people across the country are filing for benefits. Confirmation from todays figures. The ranks of the unemployed continued to swell. Much of the country still under orders to stay home. Anchor for more on the gloomy u. S. Jobs picture and the effort to help out americans who are struggling, i am joined by katty kay. Nearly 70 million americans have lost their jobs. The scale of this is staggering. Katty when you think there are only 160 milon americans actually in the workforce, that 17 million figure puts into some kind of perspective. This is much worse than during the crash of 2008. You actually have to go back to the greadepression of the 1920s to find jobless figures like you are seeg at the moment. The number of people who are actually losing their jobs. U have the treasury secretary on television today that the u. S. Economy can hopefully start rebounding and may. Public Health Officials say that is optimistic at best. Anchor realistically, wont it take a long time for the economy to beebound . With so many pple struggling to file for unemployment katty that is staggering that it is taking people 700 calls to get through t andy still cannot get their money. People areg hav to make terrible choices between, do you feed your animals or do you p your bills . Those arehe decisions people are faced with. A third of employees work for themselves. State systems are nse eve up to try to give those people money who are selfemployed. What i am starting to here is a real concern about the lomeerterm. Willcans be prepared even when the economy gets back up and open again to spend in the way they were doing. To do the kinds of things they were dng before. Will they be confident to get on an airplane to travel. To go to conferences. How will they feel about going to restaurants or cito watch a movie. Their habits have changed because of this, that you hava ngterm drag on the economy that is really going to take over until there is a texting that vaccine is at least a year away. Anchor ho does the white have a plan for how to reopen the economy . Very interesting cationsg some with people on the Public Health side, both republicans and democrats who have been dealing with this pandemic. Ocpeople areing on theplan. Medical side of this. They say the health and economy cannote fighting against eachr. Ot if the economy opens up too quickly, people will go back into the streets and you will have those numbers start to spike againnd everything will have to be shut down. People are focusing on a test that can reliably test whether people have developed immunity. N so far that do exist. We need more data and more studies from his aces places that are hotspots. No one is very confident that this will happen at the end of ril which is currently with the white house is saying. Reporter thank you for that. Lets take a closer look at the state of the ecomic outbreak. Thank you for being with us. Nearly 800,000 died here in new york state. We are seeing the rate of hospitalization is going down. Death is always a lagging indicator. Cases and hospitalizations going down is a good sign. At the samee, timew york is undercounting a lot of deaths. Home deaths used to be 25 per day. Now there are over 250. We have increased tenfd. Those are not dropping. Those e likely covid cases. New york will be updating those numbers. New york has not been doing the kiin of tethat iceland or south korea has. It is mainly testing people who have come to hospitals. They are not doing the frontier testing of new cases. Until we have sufficient cases tests for new cases as they emerge, we will not have the ll idea of the scope. Anchor there is one widelyd watcdel which suggests the peak day for deaths here in the u. S. Could be this weekend. Do u ofha the models and assumptions are based on what we can measure. My concern is that the model does not capture what weave not measured. The cdc says potentially 20 percent of all cases will never be picked up because they are asymptomatic. In iceland, they are saying that is closer to 50 . If there are so many cases that are spreading without testing, models can never fullyre the extent. Right now they models in new york are based on the cases we because they have severepital respiratory. That is not a reliable model. We could still have a second wave of additional cases. Anchor nearly 16,000 america was this avoidable . Absolutely. The u. S. Had discovered their first case the same day that south korea did. South korea went ver aggressive. Thousands of tests per day. The u. S. Was stuck with 500 total tests cumulatively for three weeks. It was not until mid february that whistleblowers tested fagainsteral law that they discovered all of these cases. Late. Swas too little, too they did not ramp up testing. Now we are faced with a csis. Anchor could we open up the country in early may . I think you will start to plateau in may. But i will not be sure if we will bring it up down to zero. E u. S. Is a big country. It is not like italy. The epidemic is in 50 states. I am very nervous. If you take your foot off theul brakes, there be another resurgence. Anchor thank you for being with us. Moved out of intensive care,been where he was being treated. We are outside st. Thomas hospital in london where he is being treated. Reporter ro a statement downing street said earlier this evening that the Prime Minister has been moved from intensive care back to the ward where he will receive close monitoring during the early phase of his recovery. He is an extremely good spirits. He was brought to this hospil last sunday after suffering the effects of coronavirus or 10 days. There was great shock when theno cement came that he had been brought into intensive care. In the runup to that,tue have seen ps of him really not looking well. He posted a selfie video where to any observers he looked like he was suffering. The statementhat has come from downing street is that the Prime Minister has been moved from intensive care ba into the ward where he will receive most monitoring during the early phase of the recovery. The keord and there is covery. He is on the road. Things going in the right direction. But this is the early phase. Clearly some way to go before he makes a full recovery. Some reaction has come from the white house. President trump has said great news. He ended his tweet by saying it well, boris. Anchor spains Prime Minister says the country as close to the beginning of a decline in the iahe told the nations pant the fire is starting to come under control. The number of daily dthths slowed osday after two days of increases. Spain has more confirmed cases than any country in europe. The head of the imf has warned the world faces its worst economic crisis since the great depression. She says we will only see a partial recovery next year. Many economiesn the world have restrictions have shuttered businesses. In yemen, a ceasefire has come into force. It will put a halt to military operations against rebels. Space for the sta of you andte brokered peace talks. The rebels have yet to respond still to come, irans death toll is rising. The official figures tell one story but there are fears the actual number is higher. Have a special repor the world bank is projecting that subsaharan aica will go into repression depression fo the first time in 25 years. Economies could contract up 5 . Our deputy african editor has reporter e Food Security is big issue. There are fears thatecause countries have closed borders, farmers are not able to impo rtilizers. Food production will be severely hampered. Prices are up. Global prices are going up. That will affect countries here in africa. The world bank and imf has recommended to lenders to put a freeze on debt repayment. That would free about 35 billion to go into the economy. They are also recommendingo distribution tthe poor. Anchor iran is the epicenter of the outbreak in the middle east. The official death toll is 4000. Cothererns the figure could be higher. We have been looking into this. This report contains distressing reporter gearing up to treat the dead. These men are studying to be clerics. They have volunteered to do a job that professiols are reluctant to do. Cleansing the bodies of coronavirusms vico they can be burd according to islamic tradition. It is not just fear that is causing a shortage. It is the sheercale of death the country is facing. Theses. Re the dead bod the numbers are so huge. All of these are corona victims. Reporter some of the bies had been there for five days. He was later arreste lfor spreadinies. Look at this. These volunteers drafted in to clean the dead. Since the start of the coronavirus epidemic, unofficial reports and anecdotal evidence have raised questions about irans ofcial figures. Some estimate the o numbe deaths and infections to be higher. Much higher. Official statistics say that just overac 50,000 have cond the virus and around 4000 have died. But a group of uranian researchers in t u. S. Are skeptical iranian researchers in the u. S. Are skeptical. They estimate the number of infections could have been closer to one million. More than 15,000 people have lost their lives. This is just one study. We may never know the true extent of the crisis and iran. The science of the scale are dug into the earth. Instead of individual graves, bodiesef multiplictims are being placeds sidebyide in long, trench like areas unheard of in this part of the world. Anchor irans agony and anguish. We have all been seeking safety. If you really want to get away, a new crew blasted off to the International Spe station. One of the cosmonauts said right now it is the safest place to be. Reporter with a pandemic sweeping the world, heres an idea. A russian soy use rocket blasts into space. Soyuz rocket blasts into space. Inside, cosmonauts and a nasa astronaut. International space station. Coronavirus had affected preflight preparations. The three men have been in tight quarantine. Contact kept to a bare minimum. Ntthat mo family members present for liftoff. We would love to have our families here with us. Reporter you dont want to come down with covid19 appear. Up here. Assuming they stay healthy the crew will be well away from the although spaceflight always carries risk, we understand for the next few month International Space station will ly be the safest place. Reporter selfisolation come a naturally to spaceman. No popping to the shops or jogging to the park. 0 miles above the surface of the earth, the crew will be setting an example to us all. They will be staying home for the next six months. Anchor that is one way of getting out of lockdown. Lets recap our top stories. 6. 6 million americans filed for unemployment last week. The Federal Reserve will relo these release more than 2. 3 trillion. The british Prime Minister has been moved out of intensive care. Boris johnson is an extremely good spirits and will receive close monitoring. We started the programou talking new york and we will end tonight with what has become an uplifting ritual. People take aen m in the evening tolap and cheer for the medical staffnd essential workers on the front lines. In a city that is eerily quiet apart from the wailing of sirenp , thause is a welcome soundtrack. [applause] tit happens every night 7 00 p. M. A certainty in these precarious times. New yorkers lean outhe windows, stand of the fire escapes, eager to share their applause forrkhe essential s. It is a collective chorus for a city otherwise punctuated by isolation. Those who are pulling us through these tough times. I look forward to clapping tonight along with everyone else. You can find much more on our website. Do make sure to check uste out n tw thank you so much. Take care and have a good night. Narrator funding for this presentati of rogram is provided by. Language specialists teaching spanish, french and more. Ymond james. The freeman foundation. 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On the newshour tonight, the official u. S. Death toll passes 16,000, as 10 of the u. S. Workforce files for unemployment, ripping a hole in an already wounded economy. I speak with former chair of the federal e, janet yellen, on how we might recover. And, hearing from americans across all industries, on how theyre coping with new unemployment amid the countrys nancial tailspin. Plus, a closer look at housing. Ter nearly one third of renters couldnt make their payments last week, a core component of the u. S. Economy is at risk of falling apart. That can then lead to unraveling of property tax, revenu insurance proceeds,