America this morning. Good friday morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. We begin with a new statement this morning from dr. Anthony fauci. He says he doesnt understand why every state in the country hasnt issued a stay at home order yet. He made that statement overnight as the coronavirus spreads across the country. More than 6,000 people have now died in the u. S. New york is reporting more than 2,400 of those deaths. New jersey, michigan and louisiana are each reporting between 300 and 600 deaths. Meanwhile, as americans across the country wonder when things can return to normal, the state of washington is now extending its stay at home order through may 4th. Back in new york, 250 ambulances from across the country have been lining up at the bronx zoo ready to provide relief for First Responders. The city is now setting up 45 of these makeshift morgues to help hospitals store more bodies. This morning, an urgent new appeal for help in new york city. If a person comes in and needs a ventilator and you dont have a ventilator, the person dies. Thats the blunt equation here. Reporter with more than 10,000 patients now overwhelming hospitals in the city intensive care units say theyre running dangerously low on supplies. Right now we have a burn rate that would suggest we have about six days in the stockpile. Reporter it comes amid growing concern that many ventilators provided by the federal government are not working. And here another sign of the urgent need. This makeshift hospital recently built for noncoronavirus Convention Center has now been approved to take virus patients. Doctors say a Navy Hospital ship that arrived in new york this week has not been much of a help taking only 20 patients of thursday night. They say transferring patients to the ship is proving to be cumbersome. Still, doctors say even if theyre able to get more ventilators, theres still other equipment in short supply. Were going to go in to intubate a patient and at this time we need to be fully prepared with our ppe, face shield cover, n95 mask with another mask on top, impermeable gown, gloves, double gloves. Reporter meanwhile a new move to stop the spread of the virus. New york is following los angeles urging people to wear nonmedical masks or face coverings in public. We dont want you to use the kinds of masks that our First Responders need that our Health Care Workers need. Reporter and soon the white house is expected to issue similar guidance for more americans. With masks in growing demand t crackdown on people hoarding supplies. In brooklyn agents seized nearly a million masks, gloves and gowns from a man accused of price gouging doctors and nurse. There is a black market, which you have described where were having people bid against each other. Reporter the government now vowing to stop people trying to make big money by sending supplies overseas. We are going to crack down unmercifully. I would say to the hoarders out there, the brokers that are trying to make money off the misery of people in this country around the world, thats got t stop. Overnight President Trump called out mask manufacturer, 3m. Hes now using the law ordering the company to produce more masks for americans who need them. 3m did not immediately comment. Now to the front lines. Hospital workers are pleading for help saying the lack of equipment is putting them in danger. Nursing homes across the country also demanding more help. Please, help us. We need your help. Reporter this morning, pleas for help from the front lines where Health Care Workers say the lack of protective gear is putting their lives at risk. Why are we asking nurses to enter rooms with reused masks . Reporter doctors and nurses in new york say theyre being told to reuse not only critical masks but everyday supplies like gowns. Every day when i go to work i feel like a sheep going to slaughter. My colleagues and i are writing our last will and testament. Reporter and its not just hospital workers dealing with massive shortages. The Union Representing 400,000 nursing home employees across the country has issued a plea for federal help saying longterm living facilities are not getting the same attention as hospitals calling themselves the forgotten front lines. A nursing home worker north of chicago who wished to stay anonymous tells abc news, quote, we dont have anything, not even hand sanitizer. Were told that if we want to wear masks, we had to bring our own. In georgia, the state is investigating possible outbreaks at 47 Nursing Homes. The National Guard is now cleaning facilities near atlanta. In colorado where ten Nursing Homes are reporting an outbreak Gretchen Gordon says wearing a mask can sometimes make her job more difficult, especially when treating patients with dementia. So this is an interesting shift for me because sometimes the wife forgets that the coronavirus is a thing, and shell, you know, freak out that i have a mask on. It makes her uncomfortable. Reporter back in new york the hospital workers already facing dire shortages sharing this warning. Our front lines care givers are sick and dying. There wont be anyone left to take care of the public. Heres an encouraging number. New yorks governor says 20,000 people have volunteered in the last two days to help provide relief for Health Care Workers here in new york. Two cruise ships which carried hundreds of sick passengers at sea have now docked in ft. Lauderdale, florida. The most critically ill passengers were taken off on stretchers and rushed to hospitals. Four passengers died at sea. Dozens with virus symptoms will stay quarantined on board. Now to the Economic Impact of the crisis. The Trump Administration is making a new promise to people waiting for those 1200 checks. Abcs ines de la cuetara reports. Reporter this morning, the whituse promisin pviously said take us three weeks. Im pleased to report that within two weeks the first payments will be direct deposit into taxpayers accounts. Reporter it comes as unemployment soars. A record 6. 6 Million People laid off last week alone. In just two weeks, nearly 10 Million People in this country filed new claims for Unemployment Insurance and those direct deposit checks just one part of a multifaceted plan to keep the economy going during the pandemic. The government also promising mortgage relief, paid sick leave and Small Business loans which are said to be ready starting today. Please bring your workers back to work if youve let them go. This is a very important program. Reporter but as the Administration Promises a new life line for Small Businesses, major banks say they arent ready to loan money to anybody who walks in. Chase, for example, is restricting loans to customers who opened an account in early february, meanwhile amid the potential loss of Health Insurance for millions, trump has decided not to reopen romet to get an image of how many people are out of work right now, if everybody lined up standing six feet apart to avoid spreading the virus, the unemployment line would stretch across the country three times. Kenneth and mona. Just incredible and sobering details there. Thank you, ines. More coronavirus coverage ahead but right now lets check your weather for this friday morning. A mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain is moving into the western great lakes today and theres plenty of rain from wisconsin to missouri. Its also rainy in the northeast from new york city to boston with cooler temperatures. But its dry from philadelphia to washington, d. C. Looking at todays high temperatures to carry into the weekend, only 45 in boston, 56 degrees in detroit but warming up in miami, 83. Cool in the rockies. But 71 degrees in Southern California today. Io shoppome big changes at costco and target ahead. Also ahead, new information on the coronavirus hot spots across the country and which states may be next. Plus, reaction this morning after a Navy Commander is relieved of his duty after sounding the alarm about the Virus Outbreak on his every day its getting closer going faster than a roller coaster a love like yours will surely come my way hey, hey, hey every day its getting closer going faster than a roller coaster a love like yours will surely come my way hey, hey, hey babies arent fully developed until at least 39 weeks, which means babies born even a few weeks early can have breathing, feeding, and learning problems. If your pregnancy is healthy, wait for labor to begin on its own. A healthy baby is worth the wait. Back now with the change at costco. The company will now limit the number of shoppers who can enter the store on one membership card. From now on only two shoppers will be allowed per card. And target is making a change. The company says when necessary it will limit the number of customers in the store to promote social distancing. The navy fired the captain of the uss Theodore Roosevelt after a letter was leaked to the media about the virus on board. Captain Brett Crozier requested most of his sailors be removed from the ship but the navy said crozier did not go through the chain of command and showed poor judgment. Former Vice President joe biden is among those criticizing the firing. He calls crozier a courageous officer trying to protect his sailors. We have new video from connecticut showing the National Guard converting a sports arena into a hospital. Its one of many states bracing for an increase in coronavirus cases. Abcs Kimberly Brooks reports on the states in other parts of the country that could be next. Reporter new york is no doubt the epicenter of covid19 in the u. S. , but as each day passes a new reality, more hot spots emerging. What changes the curve is a a new detroit, a new chicago, a new new orleans, a new colorado. Were watching very carefully because we see that you can go from this to this very quickly. Reporter why the spikes . It comes down to who was still moving around in recent days. This New York Times map shows the country color coded by who was allowed to travel just last week. The gray areas are where stayathome orders were already in place, but those areas of red business as usual from, state officials late to restrict travel. Georgia finally issued its stayathome order wednesday. The governor making this shocking statement yesterday. What weve been telling people from directives from the cdc for weeks now, that if you start feeling bad, stay home. Those individuals could have been infecting people before they ever felt bad. We didnt know that until the last 24 hours. Reporter but the cdc warned about that risk months ago. One rural area of georgia is erupting with cases. It just shows you, you know, youre not safe in rural america, small urban, this isnt just for the big cities, its for all of the united states. Reporter and in louisiana, this sobering chart showing cases soaring to nearly 10,000, a 42 jump in one day. In volusia county, florida, northeast of orlando, beaches were still open until last night. Florida has reported a 27 increase in its death toll in one day. And growing concern in colorado. The governor writing a letter to Vice President pence saying, the crisis is far worse than he imagined and saying colorados death rate is rising faster than any other state. And experts are also closely watching texas. Houston in particular is reporting a spike in the number of patients needing ventilators. Kenneth, mona. Thank you, kimberly, for that report. And coming up, some encouraging news about a possible treatment for the coronavirus. 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Thats because the fda has just approved an experimental treatment in which the donated blood would be given to virus patients in critical condition. Doctors say blood from those who have recovered is rich in antibodies, which could help fight the virus. What were doing is were taking the plasma from the people that have just recovered from coronavirus but no longer have the virus and then transfusing it into people who currently have the virus but havent made enough antibodies to defeat the illness yet in hopes that that will help them to kind of get over the hump and start getting better. However, she adds that the emergency treatment will only be used for the sickest patients. A new Study Suggests the virus could spread just by talking or breathing. Earlier i spoke with dr. David eisenman from ucla. I asked him about the study and whether we should all be wearing a mask. The study shows first that we know that many people can spread the virus even without having symptoms or before they have symptoms. And we also have found studies now that show that normal speaking generates lots of small spit droplets, really too small for the eye to see, and the virus is contained in that saliva thats disbursed when we talk. So this may partially explain how people without symptoms are spreading the disease in those studies, and it appears that a mask or even a cloth covering your mouth can stop this emission. When it comes to testing, the president says he took a second test. It was much more pleasant. It was much faster. In his words. Yesterday detroit became the first u. S. City to use whats called rapid test on First Responders, medical professionals and city workers. What do we need to know about the new testing . There is a few things. One is that we dont really know how accurate it is. The current tests that take a lot longer to get back give falsely negative results about 30 of the time. So we want to see if this does better than that. But any kind of testing as long as its reasonably good accuracy is really important thing to have out there. What kind of disparities are we seeing become the wealthy and low income or poor when it comes to testing . We think were seeing disparities for sure. Health care in this country, theres two types of health care systems, one for the rich and one for the poor, and theres no reason to think this is going to be any different than that. So were seeing in many cities that the wealthy neighborhoods with the big wealthy hospitals are getting a lot more testing out. I can tell you here in los angeles, the west side of los angeles where we have major first class academic institutions, theres a lot more testing than on the east side of l. A. And the south side of l. A. Where those institutions dont exist. 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