Keep up the great work. You too. Coming up, Cynthia Erivo is going to perform live. Well be right back. Learnethe government is e naon re trowing afy. Deere to dock. Breaking new developments for those two cruise ships stranded at sea with more than 200 sick passengers on board now off the coast of florida. Breaking overnight, the mayor of los angeles now urges everyone to wear Face Coverings in public as the cdc weighs making a new recommendation nationwide. How to make your own, to avoid taking supplies away from those who need them most. As families all across the country face this disease, the emergency hitting close to home. Georges wife ali announcing shes tested positive. So what started was i had a real tightness in my chest. The latest on alis condition this morning and her message to the gma family. Good morning, america. Its great to have you with us on this thursday morning. We have a lot of headlines to get to including one thats affecting the gma family. And, george, we are all, all thinking of you, ali and the kids, my friend. Thank you so much, michael. As i said yesterday, ali started to feel symptoms this week and yesterday afternoon she did find out that she had tested positive for covid. Shes resting pretty comfortably right now, but as you all know, it is tough. The symptoms are really tough. Shes getting through it. Were taking care of her. Shes isolating upstairs but she is so grateful for all the support she has received from all of you and everyone back home and she wants to share a message a little later in the show to talk about what shes been going through and to share her gratitude. But, george, how are you doing . How are you doing with all this . Okay, you know, were trying to manage everything. I do motivational speakingld. As you might imagine, im most in addition to the substitute teaching. Worried also about the girls. I honestly feel that thats my calling so far theyre fine as well. They started their homeschooling to give back to younger people. I think most adults will start realizing this week and they have really good attitudes, and they know they have to stay away from mom that they dont recall things as quickly as they used to right now. Or they dont remember things as vividly as they once did. They do even more facetime than ive been taking prevagen for about three years now. Normal with her right now. People say to me periodically, but were all doing okay and man, youve got a memory like an elephant. Really appreciate all the good its really, really helped me tremendously. Wishes. Well, hang in there. Its going to keep coming. Well talk a lot more about that. Prevagen. Healthier brain. Better life. Ali sharing a very Important Message with our viewers a little bit later this morning. Dr. Jen will join us as well. We begin with breaking news for our viewers in the west. A stunning report showing a record shattering 6 pntd 6 million americans filed for unemployment befs. Thats double last weeks report. Rebecca jarvis starts us off with the latest. Reporter good morning george. The most optimistic take away is americans are doing what theyve been told. Businesses are shuttered. People are staying indoors. More than 6 Million People laid off last week. 6. 6 million late off in a single week. Thats an equivalent of all of houston, all of phoenix, all of philadelphia, all of san jose. Every man, woman and child laid off in a single week. This morning a mind boggling report on lay offs. We are back and we are delighted to have tony, emmy, more than 6. 6 million americans grammy winner and twotime oscar filing new claims for nominee, Cynthia Erivo, joining us from atlanta. Unemployment insurance last week, the largest number in a you can see her right now on the single week ever. Hbo series the outsider. This morning shes here to two times as many as the week brighten everyones morning with before. With so many across the country a performance. Already struggling and out of work, phone lines and websites first, we got to catch up. To apply for unemployment love you, love you. Thank you. Insurance are jammed. Your posts on instagram, hearing this is probably going to be you sing, what is it, cynthia, about my 30th time calling about music that just soothes our souls especially in a time today. Like this . Welcome to the new york state what do you think that is . Department of labor unemployment i think there is a vulnerability in music and i insurance. Think if it comes from a genuine reporter julianna tried to file for unemployment the day place when people are singing you open yourself up to others and sort of allow people to come after she was laid off. I have been trying to file in and for me i feel like music for unemployment for about almost two weeks. Reporter as the epicenter of is one of the most amazing ways the coronavirus pandemic new york has seen telephone calls to the department of labor increase to communicate because you cant lie in it. Its really from the heart and from my heart particularly when 16,000 . Web traffic up by nearly 900 . I sing. So i think people just get to connect that way. The problems are prevalent its one language that everybody everywhere. I applied for unemployment. Understands. I havent heard back. Universal language. That is so true. Other coworkers the same story. How have you been . How was it for you to be at i guess theyre overloaded with home . Requests. When we were furloughed i immediately filed on their its ive been okay. You know, the last year or so website which took days to file. Has been very hectic and ive been running around and its even just to get texas workforc been frantic. So to sort of like im trying to take this time to rest and to regroup and to read and to Commission Just to see if we can get through. Create because thats the best reporter economists warn the thing we can do right now, just trying to feed myself and be well. Jobs picture will continue to worsen before it gets better. Yeah. We know the illness and the yes, hit that reset button. Contagion will get worse. We know the fatalities will get oh, my gosh, national geographic, the movie genius worse. Theres also fatalities on the aretha, youre playing aretha economy. Were getting hit on every side. Reporter time for many like franklin. Now it has to be postponed julianna is running out. Because of the coronavirus. What is it like to play the i have decided to start queen of soul, Aretha Franklin . Weighing in the possibility to its both daunting and an applying to a local food store. Honor. Im accessing places in my voice i would prefer to stay at home just as were advised. That i didnt know i had. So im having to learn every some of us dont have the luxury day, which is something that thats what i love about my of waiting for a check to come work, that nothing is ever old to me. In. Im definitely one of those people. Reporter given todays its always im always having numbers we know over the last to relearn and learn new things. Two weeks more than 10 million this is incredible to learn about her and really sort of dig into who she was. Americans were laid off. Its awesome. Even if you look at the data, its awesome. Those unemployment claims, we know that a lot of people as you well, its been postponed, cae of issues with the e to file the production, but i know its going to be the release will be worth the wait with you in it. Youre not going to make us wait any longer. System. They havent been able to get we are so glad you agreed to through on those Unemployment Insurance websites and through join us and perform one of your the call lines. Favorite songs and one of mine we know there are more people too, somewhere over the rainbow. Cynthia, take it away. Than thoseeflect looking for help. Heres what you need to know. You have to apply for that Unemployment Insurance in order to get it. Somewhere over the rainbow way unlike the stimulus checks, the up high 1,200 checks which should be going out in the next coming weeks, you have to go through theres a land that i heard of the websites, through the phone lines to get it. A lot of states have been once in a lullaby building up and improving their somewhere over the rainbow systems in order to make it more accessible for people. They never anticipated such an skies are blue influx of new people needing that relief so quickly. Thats whats really bogged down the system. They are making improvements. The most important thing if you and the dreams that you dare are unemployed, the insurance is to dream really do com there. Be patient. Keep those applications coming. Finally, you will get those stimulus checks, the 1,200 stimulus check automatically someday ill wish upon a star deposited into your bank and wake up where the clouds are account. A lot of people what to know what the new normal looks like far behind me on the other side. Where troubles melt like lemon when will those jobs come back . The key question is what does drops high above the chimney top the economy look like on the other side of this. A lot of people are in pain thats where youll find me right now. Theyre feeling this right now. There are also a lot of businesses that are rising to somewhere over the rainbow the occasion, rising to the challenge, doing what they can for their plemployees. Bluebirds fly they plan to hire these people birds fly over the rainbow why back. Traffic might be down in the near term. In the longer term, businesses then, oh, why cant i believe those employees will come back. George . Thanks rebecca. If happy little bluebirds fly this comes as cases of coronavirus climbing over 200,000 in the u. S. Hospitals are pushed to the brink. Beyond the rainbow why, oh, why cant i whit johnson starts us off near that Field Hospital in central park where theyre now seeing patients. Good morning, whit. Why, oh, why cant i reporter good morning to you. For many new yorkers these are images in the pandemic that will be tough to forget. Their beloved central park, the ooh. Urban escape now being used to treat patients with covid19. We know of at least nine patients who spent the night here in those white heated tents behind me. That number only expected to beautiful. Rise as hospitals run out of space. Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful. This morning, the mounting death toll in new york state alone cynthia, thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thankful thursday. Topping 2,200, jumping by more than 650 in just 24 hours. Hmm, have a blessed day, everybody. Do you hear that . Doctors on the frontlines of pandemic warning hospitals are increasingly overwhelmed. This is our e. D. You can see all the rooms are filled. Usually these halls are very neat and empty and now you can see theres patients everywhere because of this. It makes it very hard to work and were trying our best to treat everyone we can. Reporter in this video provy mt. Sinai dr. Matthew bai taking us inside his emergency room showing the overflow of patients, medical workers doing everything they can. All these patients here sitting out in the hallways because we are full. All these patients in the hallway have all been seen. Even though were overflowing, they need. Reporter First Responders also bearing a heavy burden. Abc news obtaining this alarming copy of new cardiac emergency guidelines given to public and private ems teams in the new york city area telling crews if they cant get a pulse on their own, they should not transport the patient to the hospital. The state now bracing for the possibility that the fight could continue into summer. People say, well, when is it over . Two weeks, three weeks, four weeks . This model projects youre going to have a high death rate through july. If this model is correct, this could go through the summer. Nt stockpile of medical equipment available is almost out. Were sending it directly to hospitals. We dont want it to come to the stockpile because then we have to take it. Reporter according to the new york times, fema has sent out about 7,000 ventilators across the country but some states like california claiming dozens of those ventilators are arriving broken. The critical machines in short supply are keeping people alive. At new yorkpresbyterian hospitals nearly 27 of their coronavirus patients are on ventilators. And now a new concern, some hospitals reporting they are facing a shortage of oxygen because covid19 patients hospitalized in respiratory distress often require supplemental oxygen for breathing support. The problem with oxygen at this point with the covid19 pandemic is that instead of having 20 patients in an icu, hospitals now have 300 patients all on ventilators that are consuming oxygen 24 7. This is a demand that weve never seen before. Throughout the United States or throughout the world. Reporter on wednesday, an emergency Field Hospital with 14 tents and 68 hospital beds in the middle of the citys iconic central park began seeing patients. Weve responded internationally to ebola. Weve been outside of a war zone in iraq. This feels very surreal to be on our own soil to be here in the u. S. To see such a beautiful city impacted by this. But it doesnt change at all the need and our ability to help. Reporter the nypd reports about 17 of their uniformed members have called out sick. New yorks Governor Cuomo says in a worst Case Scenario they can bring in state police and officers from upstate to help fill that void if needed. Michael . All right, whit, thank you. Hopefully seeing those images will let everyone serious this is and how important it is to stay home and make sure you socially distance yourself from others. Now we turn to the new concerns about dr. Faucis safety. This morning, the government pi faces threats. Our chief justice correspondent pierre t good morning, pierre. Reporter michael, good morning. Dr. Fauci has been the subject of online conspiracies claiming that hes fear mongering and overstating the threat of coronavirus. One primary complaint that hes intentionally trying to undermine the president , something im sure dr. Fauci would flatly deny. Its unclear if dr. Fauci had any specific death threat, but apparently the u. S. Marshals and other Security Officials have seen enough. The recommendation for his security detail came after a request from the department of health and human services. Dr. Fauci is going to get it, if he doesnt have it, a security detail of more than a half dozen federal agents. Yes, these are the type of people in black suburbans heavily armed. These are crazy times and im sure with all the pressure, dr. Fauci is under, security is the last thing he needs to worry about, so these agents are going to do it for him, michael. Pierre, how fearful is Law Enforcement . Reporter michael, these are now yourr surreal times and theres a feeling that unstable people hatefilled people will do crazy iag toeanomecal things. Just yesterday they charged a train engineer at the port of los angeles with intentionally derailing a train near the u. S. This is a recommendation from the mayor. It comes the same day the state department of Public Health navy ship mercy. Announced masks may be helpful he was, quote, suspicious of when combined with other measures. The mercy claiming it had an the cdc is reviewing guidelines alternate purpose related to covid19 for a government for who needs to wear one. Takeover. You cant take chances with now we check in with mike people like that out there. Michael. With a look at our forecast. You definitely cant, pierre. Thank you so much. Good morning. George . Okay, michael. Good morning. If you run on sunshine, get it today. To a lesser extent tomorrow. Thanks. We turn to the cruise ship good days to be outside. Nightmare. Hundreds of people are trapped stay in your neighborhood. On that, and its sister ship. Its just off the coast of lets talk about whats going on florida waiting for confirmation that they can dock, but even if they do theres no guarantee temperature wise. Mid to upper 60s inland. That the passengers will be able to disembark. Gio benitez has the latest with that. Good morning, gio. Close to average. Look what happens over the reporter hey, george, good morning. Weekend. We go from light to moderate yeah, the cruise line says it rain to stormy conditions. Temperatures will drop into the has a plan to get healthy passengers off those ships. Thanks, mike. Now hundreds of people are its time for live with waiting for approval in kelly and ryan. International waters. This morning, passengers aboard we will be back at 11 00. Join us then. Two Holland America ships off the coast of florida are desperate to dock. Broward county and the state of florida open up your doors announcer its live with kelly and ryan and let these poor ships in. We have been through so much. Today, awardwinning recording reporter Florida Governor ron desantis saying he will artist, michael buble. And greys anatomy star, kim raver. Allow the 49 florida residents on board to debark. And our friend, steve patterson. Clearly, were going to be willing to accept any floridians who are on board. My understanding is most of the plus, we continue our passengers are foreign nationals. Lives virtual fitness with a slide and glide core workout. Reporter but more than 250 other americans are on those ships, along with more than a thousand foreign travelers. Plus, we will meet another one of our amazing working heroes. 233 people reporting flulike symptoms, four passengers have all next on live and now, here are kelly ripa and died including american jeffrey Ryan Seacrest haggandor. These are human beings. Reporter his niece speaking with us overnight. Kelly hi. Good morning there, sunshine. Her widowed aunt still on board. Shes super isolated. It is april 2nd, 2020. I misunderstood the assignment. You cant properly grieve until you can hug your daughter and i thought we were wearing your son and, you know, start workout clothes this ek the process. Reporter the passengers have been at sea for nearly a month, starting in argentina, and denied entry at every port. Now overnight, Holland America telling us its proposed a plan saying, guests fit for travel would transfer straight from the ship to charter flights, but those unfit to travel at this time will continue to isolate on board until recovered. Florida officials have not yet approved that plan, but passengers say enough is enough. Lives are at risk here on the ships. We dont want any more fatalities. Reporter and, again, Holland America telling us that it plans to keep sick passengers on board isolated in their rooms until they recover,